Maryam Rajavi called on international community to expel Iranian regime from <br /> <br />region <br /> <br />World can be free of fundamentalism only when the clerical regime in Iran as the <br /> <br />epicenter of fundamentalism is overthrown <br /> <br />In a gathering of French supporters of the Iranian Resistance celebrating the <br /> <br />New Year, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi expressed her <br /> <br />regrets over bitter incidents of 2015 which made the world suffer especially in <br /> <br />France and in the Middle East. <br /> <br />She pointed out: The more France and the world focus on the source of <br /> <br />fundamentalism, i.e. the Tehran regime and its allies, the closer they would get to <br /> <br />peace and security. <br /> <br />The gathering was held at the headquarters of the Iranian Resistance in Auvers- <br /> <br />sur-Oise. Mrs. Rajavi noted the persistence of bloodbaths in Syria and Iraq as <br /> <br />well as in other countries in the Middle East, and the displacement of millions of <br /> <br />oppressed people in this part of the world. <br /> <br />She asserted: DAESH (ISIS or ISIL) can be conquered. The first step in doing so, <br /> <br />however, is to defeat the Assad dictatorship that fosters DAESH with the backing <br /> <br />of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). <br /> <br />Mrs. Rajavi called on the world community and France to adopt a decisive policy <br /> <br />to expel the Iranian regime from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. <br /> <br />She also described 2015 as a year when repression escalated in Iran with <br /> <br />stepped up executions and crackdown on women and adherents of other <br /> <br />religions and faiths, adding: In the past year alone, some 1000 people were <br /> <br />executed under Rouhani who claims to be a "moderate". Also, 88 rockets were <br /> <br />fired at PMOI members in Camp Liberty under the command and at the behest of <br /> <br />the clerical regime which led to the deaths of 24 residents and wounding of <br /> <br />dozens more. <br /> <br />The Iranian Resistance's President-elect reiterated: The world can free itself <br /> <br />from fundamentalism only when the clerical regime in Iran that is the epicenter <br /> <br />of fundamentalism, is overthrown. Therefore, we call on the world community to <br /> <br />respect the Iranian people’s struggle for the overthrow of the mullahs. <br /> <br />Other speakers addressed the gathering of hundreds of French supporters of the <br /> <br />Iranian Resistance, including Bishop Jacques Gaillot; Anissa Boumediene, former <br /> <br />First Lady of Algeria and scholar on Islam; Jean-Pierre Brard, former member of <br /> <br />the French National Assembly; Khalil Merroun, prayer leader and head of the <br /> <br />mosque in Evry; Renée Le Mignot, co-president of the Movement Against Racism <br /> <br />and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP). <br /> <br />NCRI members Mohammad Shams, composer and conductor, and Hamidreza <br /> <br />Taherzadeh, musician, as well as Ms. Gisoo Shakeri, renowned singer, also <br /> <br />performed in the gathering.
