On Thursday, October 31, Iranian Resistance supporters gathered outside the Iranian regime’s embassy in Berlin and consulate in Hamburg, demanding the closure of all of the regime’s diplomatic facilities. They chanted, “The Iranian regime’s embassy, this nest of spies, must be shut down.”
This demonstration took place after Iranian consulates in three German cities had already been shut down. The German newspaper Bild reported the German government is closing all of the Iranian regime’s consulates, and the decision “affects 32 Iranian consular officials who will lose their right of residence and have to leave the country unless they also have German citizenship… With this measure, the federal government is reducing diplomatic relations with Iran to a minimum.”
Javad Dabiran, spokesperson for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Germany, said: “For decades, the Iranian regime has held the foreign policy of the European Union and its member states hostage through various means, including terrorism and hostage-taking…. Obviously, the EU policy has resulted in disaster. Time has come to adopt a decisive and comprehensive policy that the Iranian Resistance has always underscored.”
The representative office of the National Council of Resistance of #Iran (#NCRI) in Berlin welcomes the closure of the three consulates of the Iranian regime in Germany by the German Foreign Minister, @ABaerbock .
This is a necessary step that must be followed by other European…— Javad Dabiran (@JavadDabiran) October 31, 2024
While the Iranian consulates have justifiably—but belatedly—been closed, a critical question persists: Why does the primary center of espionage and terrorism, the regime’s embassy, remain open? And why do Iranian regime opponents still need to call for an end to the policy of appeasement and demand the closure of the Iranian regime’s embassy?
In an article wrote in Tagesspiegel on October 3, former European Parliament Vice President Professor Alejo Vidal-Quadras warned about the destructive impact of the policy of appeasement toward Iran’s regime. Vidal-Quadras, who has been the target of an assassination attempt allegedly from Iran’s regime: “The planned bombing [against the Iranian opposition rally in 2018] should have triggered immediate political changes to combat the Iranian terrorist threat, but those responsible probably did not take this threat seriously enough because of the appeasement policy that has characterized Europe’s strategy for three decades… This shows how deeply rooted appeasement is in Europe’s relations with the Islamic Republic. This appeasement has put my life and that of countless other staunch opponents of the Iranian regime in danger.”
Vidal-Quadras also strongly criticized foreign policy officials in the European Union, who “have so far refused to classify the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization, despite calls for this by the majority of the European Parliament and the national parliaments of several member states.” He also noted other measures needed to end the policy of appeasement with the Iranian regime, calling for European government to “formally recognize the right of the Iranian people and their resistance to defend themselves against the repressive measures of their tyrannical government.”
I strongly condemn the abduction and execution of #Jamshid_Sharmahd.
While denouncing the actions of the bloodthirsty Iranian regime in abducting and executing individuals, I urge the governments of Germany, Sweden, and France to immediately bring this issue to the United Nations…— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) October 28, 2024
On October 29, NCRI president-elect Maryam Rajavi condemned the abductions and executions carried out by the Iranian regime and urged the governments of Germany, Sweden, and France to promptly present these three cases of abduction leading to execution before the United Nations Security Council and demand accountability for the Iranian regime.
Rajavi stressed, “The regime’s leaders and officials should be prosecuted and brought to justice for numerous kidnappings and assassinations outside Iran,” and continued, ” if there is delay in this important matter and if it is limited to only verbal condemnations, the regime will become more emboldened in kidnapping and hostage-taking. The gifting of terrorist diplomat-bomber Assadollah Assadi and Hamid Noury to this regime by the Belgian and Swedish governments has made it much more brazen in terrorism and committing crimes. The mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) must be placed on the terrorist list. The agents and mercenaries of the MOIS and the IRGC must be expelled from Europe and EU countries, and the regime’s embassies, which are centers of terrorism, espionage, and bombing, must be closed.”