{"id":9808,"date":"2019-02-12T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2022-06-29T20:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:31:18","slug":"alternative-leadership-mek-maryam-rajavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/02\/alternative-leadership-mek-maryam-rajavi\/9808\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Resistance: Recognize the Only Viable Alternative and Its Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the president-elect of the NCRI<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s revolution in 1979<\/a> was hijacked. Khomeini was the culprit. Thus, a revolution which could result in, and be the source of peace, stability, and tranquility in the region, and a democratic government for its people went astray. The determining factor was \u201cthe leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now on the eve of Warsaw Summit<\/a>, once again the world is focusing on Iran, facing another historic choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn our lessons from history, this summit must focus on \u201cthe leadership\u201d for Iran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty years ago the true leaders of the revolution, Mr. Massoud Rajavi,<\/a> and other revolutionaries were enchained by the Shah\u2019s regime so Khomeini got the opportunity to hijack the revolution bringing so much devastation to the world. But now the true leader of Iran\u2019s new revolution which has paid the price of her honesty and has proved herself and her resistance to being candid and loyal to people and to peace and stability of the region, not in words but in courts<\/a>, is at hand: Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a> and the coalition of NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a>) that she leads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROSCRIBED ORGANISATIONS APPEAL COMMISSION<\/a> (POAC) ordered that the Secretary of State lay before Parliament the draft of an Order under section 3(3)(b) of the 2000 Act removing the PMOI from the list of proscribed organizations in Schedule 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 12, 2006, the court said the EU\u2019s designation of the MEK (PMOI) as a terrorist group was unlawful<\/a> because the Council had failed to substantiate its allegations of terrorism against the resistance organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 16, 2014, the French prosecuting judges also dropped all charges against Iranian dissidents after the 11-year probe<\/a>
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\u201cThe Secretary of State has decided, consistent with the law, to revoke the designation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and its aliases as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under the Immigration and Nationality Act and to delist the MEK as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224. These actions are effective today. Property and interests in property in the United States or within the possession or control of U.S. persons will no longer be blocked, and U.S. entities may engage in transactions with the MEK without obtaining a license. These actions will be published in the Federal Register.\u201d
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finally, on September 28, 2012, BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM AND COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM<\/a> announced <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


The MEK (PMOI) should never have been designated a terrorist organization<\/a> and was listed as a FTO not because of any evidence, but as a means to curry favor with Iran\u2019s clerical regime. Prior to the US delisting in 2012, the UK, France and European Union had removed the PMOI from their terrorist lists.
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Why should the Warsaw Summit recognize this leadership? If you don\u2019t know her and her resistance, just refer to the regime\u2019s officials and hear them. In all their words, they admit that their true adversary is Madam Rajavi and her resistance.
Ali Khorram, the Iranian regime\u2019s former UN ambassador, warns about an international consensus taking shape and expresses his concern about Iran\u2019s isolation at a global level: \u201cIf Mike Pompeo succeeds in transforming the propaganda summit of Poland into a political summit, it will be the prelude for a military coalition against Iran. All the involved parties are swiftly putting aside their opposition to US on this issue and are turning to an enemy of Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 19, Mardom Salari newspaper, close to Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani\u2019s faction, showed the regime\u2019s fear of PMOI becoming involved in\u00a0the \u00a0Poland (Warsaw) summit<\/strong>\u00a0and wrote: \u201cPMOI becoming active isn\u2019t a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to state-run ISNA news agency, a few days earlier, Alaeddin Borujerdi, member of the security commission in the Iranian regime\u2019s Majlis (Parliament), drew a connection between Poland (Warsaw) summit and the PMOI<\/a> and said: \u201cRecently, among anti-[Iranian] regime policies by European countries under U.S. pressure, we\u2019ve witnessed the transport of PMOI to Albania and some other scenarios by European countries, that show these U.S. policies is supposed to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Arman newspaper on January 19, Fereydoon Majlesi, a former Iranian diplomat, also says: \u201cJohn Bolton, [U.S. President Donald] Trump\u2019s National Security Advisor, and [Mike] Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, have also said that the sanctions against the [Iranian] regime must continue to the point where this country [Iran] is crushed! They\u2019ve used a term that\u2019s not usual in diplomatic parlance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you turn to the people, the growth of the Resistance Units, the members of the MEK\/PMOI networks inside Iran<\/a>, the revelations of regime\u2019s atomic ambitions and its destructive missile program<\/a> and \u2026 well shows the support that this resistance and its leadership is enjoying inside Iran.

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