Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras: Dear Mrs. President, Maryam Rajavi, dear friends, let me say one thing very clearly from the very beginning of my words to you today. The international community, and in particular the Government of the United States, the United Nations, European Commission, the Member States of the European Union are in part responsible for the suppressive measures at Camp Ashraf and Liberty who led to the loss of 136 lives.
While the Government of the United States is sending 300 advisors to Iraq, it no longer has any excuse not to prevent another attack on Liberty. The Iraqi people’s uprising has destroyed the Iranian’s regime eleven-year plots in meddling in Iraq. Maliki under the Mullahs’ influence ruthlessly eliminated his opponents especially the Sunnis. But the Iraqi people rose up and Maliki’s army is melted…
The 3 main forces involved in the uprising are:
The General Military Council, a patriotic force comprise of professional officers who are waging a military campaign in a conventional manner,
The Council of Tribes and its military forces and their association of Moslem scholars led by a moderate Sunni cleric,
And the third fact is that these groups have repeatedly declared that the people that have risen up against the oppression have nothing to do with the ISIS. They want a government chosen by the people, a government of the people and for the people. In these positions are consistent with democratic standards and if the aim is to weaken the terrorism, they must be supported.
And I want to remind now some elements related to Camp Liberty. While the monitoring of Camp Liberty was supposed to be 24 hours a day and 7 days of the week, UNHCR since June 12th and UNAMI since June 15th have left Camp Liberty and have not returned, with the residents left to the wolves. It is over 10 days now that the Iraqi forces, supposed to protect the camp, have turned their machine guns towards the residents. At the request of the Iranian regime, there is a plan that when the tribes approach Baghdad, Camp Liberty residents are to be attacked. Logistics and force have been prepared for this purpose. The Iraqi Government has made an absurd allegation that residents are busy digging a tunnel to get out of Camp Liberty. This allegation to be used as a pretext is absolutely false and we invite the United Nations and the United States to come and visit the camp.
As Mrs. Rajavi has repeatedly stated, Iraq is Iran’s most important springboard to the Islamic world. Democracy in Iraq triggers the elimination of fundamentalism. This is a historic test for the West to either help the cause of democracy in the Middle East by helping Iraqi people, or keep silent and help Maliki and allow the Mullahs of Iran to drag the world in to crisis and work the Iraq to disaster.
Let me finish with a message to Ayatollah Khamenei and his president Rouhani, I want to tell them that their end is near and that we will not rest till we topple the 2 dictatorships in Tehran and in Baghdad. The Iranian Resistance under the leadership of Mrs. Rajavi and the full and unyielding support of their many friends in democracies all around the world so well represented here today, will emerge as the reference for a tolerant and democratic Islam in the Middle East.
