TEHRAN THE EPICENTER OF SECTARIAN WARS IN

THE MIDDLE EAST

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Filed Under: News, Politics | Posted: 07/29/2014 at 10:51PM
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Maryam Rajavi Leader of Iranian Opposition
PARIS, July 26, 2014 Iran was declared the epicenter of sectarian wars in the Middle East at
a conference attended by political and religious personalities from various countries from four
continents.
Led by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, speakers made three
primary points:
They condemned the bombing of Palestinian people and said that the massacre of civilians in
Gaza distracts attentions from Iraq and Syria, benefits the Iranian regime, and should be ceased
immediately.
They charged that the Iranian regimes sending weapons to Iraq and Syria is a violation of the
Security Council resolutions and that the int
ernational community should stop the mullahs from sending weapons.
They called cooperation between the U.S. and the Iranian regime in Iraq a horrendous mistake
and said that the sole way out of Iraqs crisis is the removal of Maliki, eviction of the Iranian
regime, and establishment of an inclusive nationalistic government
The speakers stressed that by supporting Maliki and closing their eyes to his atrocities, and by
abstaining from actively supporting the Syrian democratic opposition, Western countries have
played a major role in the growth of extremism and terrorism.
At the conference entitled Religious dictatorship in Iran epicenter of sectarian wars in the
Middle East, Mrs. Rajavi called the system of Velayat-e faqih in Iran under the banner of Islam
promotes extremism and is the principal element in the calamities and crises imposed on the
Islamic world in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and elsewhere in the region.
Rajavi described the eviction of the Iranian regime as the best solution to achieve peace,
tolerance, and democracy in the region. Concerning regional developments, she emphasized that:
1. We condemn the bombing of the defenseless people of Palestine by Israel and call for
immediate action by the international community to stop the carnage and attacks against the
civilians. We support the efforts of President Mahmoud Abbas to reach an immediate ceasefire.
These attacks, which divert international attention from the crises in Iraq and Syria, serve, first
and foremost, the interests of the Iranian regime and disrupt the process of ending the partition of
Palestine and the formation of a national unity government, about which the regime is extremely
annoyed.
2. Iranian regimes dispatch of weapons, equipment and war planes to Iraq and Syria to preserve
Maliki and Assad dictatorships is a violation of Security Council Resolutions. The world
community must end its silence in this regard and force the clerical regime to stop sending
weapons.
3. The U.S. government must not fall into the trap of taking sides and cooperating with the
Iranian regime by providing support for a regime in Iraq which the mullahs are trying to prop up.
This would be another major blunder in Iraq and will have no outcome other than plunging Iraq
into civil war.


Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria
4. Fabrications by the Iranian regime about the Mujahedin-e Khalq supporting and having links
with ISIS are absolutely false. The purpose of these lies is nothing but setting the stage for the
massacre of the Mujahedin and a repeat of the humanitarian catastrophes.
5. The P5+1 appeasement of the Iranian regime regarding the nuclear issue and allowing itself to
be dragged into the endless marathon of talks will bear no fruit other than giving this regime the
opportunity to engage in further deception. The international community must demand the full
implementation of Security Council resolutions, specifically a complete halt to enrichment.
Nuclear talks must be coupled with holding the religious dictatorship to account as regards the
flagrant violations of human rights in Iran, and the genocides in Syria and Iraq. Nuclear
concealment, the abuse of human rights, and the export of fundamentalism and terrorism are
three indispensable attributes of the regime.
In another part of her speech Rajavi said that the Iranian regime and its Iraqi puppets are trying
to exploit the current situation in Iraq to set up the stage for suppressive and criminal actions
against Iranian dissidents there. Under such circumstances, the United Nations and the United
States must immediately transfer all of them either to Europe or to the U.S. consistent with their
commitments and international law. And until then, they must undertake urgent measures to
ensure their protection at Camp Liberty by stationing a unit of the Blue Helmets there.
Other speakers to the conference were Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria;
Dr. Badr Jamous, vice President of the Syrian Coalition; Dr. Nazir Hakim al-Merfaq, Secretariat
of this coalition; Mohamed Elorabi, former Foreign Minister of Egypt; Sheik Khalil Meroun,
head of Evry Mosque in France; from Jordan Ms. Naayem al-Alajarameh, Chair of
Parliamentary Committee on Women and Family, and Maddallah Altarawneh, legislator and
leader of Allameh Party; from Morocco Najimeh Taytay, former Minister of Education and
Youths, and Naima Bushareb, parliamentarian; from France Bernard Kouchner, former Foreign
Minister, and Rama Yade, former Minister on Human Rights; Walid Phares, Middle East expert;
Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco; Sabah Almokhtar, Iawyer from Iraq;
Zahed Orouge, parliamentarian from Azerbaijan; Amal al-DubeI, Yemenis Judge; Jalal Ganjei,
chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Religion of the National Council of Resistance of
Iran; personalities and delegations from Imams of mosques and Muslim committees of France;
and the representatives of a number of Iranian associations and societies.

Paris Conference Urges International Action at Camp Liberty and Ashraf
Messages of solidarity also were read from Dr. Tareq Hashemi, former vice-president of Iraq;
Colonel Riaz al-Assad, one of the founders of the Free Syrian Army; as well as from
dozens of generals and senior officers of the Free Syrian Army and many legislators and political
activists from Arab and Muslim countries.