STATEMENT ON IRAN
LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF IRANIAN PEOPLE
The Iranian people, like any other civilized nation, want freedom, democracy and gender equality. They want jobs, houses and a minimum of livelihood. They want a prosperous life instead of their wealth being spent on nuclear or missile programmes while many people are living under the poverty line.
Since the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was agreed in 2015, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has never stopped the brutal suppression inside Iran; hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured in the November 2019 uprising. It has continued to carry out terrorist plots against its opponents; examples of which have happened in recent years in France, Albania, Denmark and the Netherlands leading to the expulsion of seven diplomats of the regime and the trial of one diplomat and a number of its terrorists in Europe.
The Iranian regime has actively been involved in war-mongering activities in the region. It is refusing to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the JCPOA and is clearly violating many clauses of the JCPOA and the Resolution 2231 of the UN Security Council including the degree of Uranium enrichment, its accumulation and the number of centrifuges.
Iranian people have repeatedly cried out in street protests that they need their national wealth to be spent on the people’s welfare and basic public services particularly at present in confronting Covid-19. They do not need Uranium enrichment facilities, they do not favour ballistic missile programmes, and they denounce expenditure of their money for war-mongering activities and meddling in the Middle East.
Therefore, in accordance with the desire of the Iranian people and for the sake of world peace and security we, the undersigned, call on all our governments to:
- Take every necessary measure to maintain an arms embargo on Iran. No country should sell weapons to Iran, and the Iranian regime should not be allowed to sell or send arms to anyone;
- Re-impose the UN Security Council resolutions against the Iranian regime;
- Support the call by the leader of the Iranian Resistance that the country does not need two armies. The IRGC must be disbanded and the money allocated to the IRGC and its destructive programmes must be spent to improve people’s lives.
