Riyadh Daily, Dec. 12, 2017 – On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day and on the eve of the Climate Summit in Paris, Iranians in large numbers protested against gross violations of human rights in Iran as well as Tehran’s meddling in the Middle East and its ballistic missile program. The rally was held at the historical square, Les Invalids, near the French National Assembly and the French Foreign Ministry.
The protestors condemned the destruction of the environment in Iran by the theocratic regime, in particular by the entities affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The Iranians, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), marched for several hours in streets of central Paris and carrying pictures of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Iranian resistance.
Scores of dignitaries from France, and other European countries and from the Arab world addressed a vociferous and colorful rally that preceded the march. The speakers including scores of French mayors and other elected officials denounced the Iranian regime’s record and conduct on various areas and urged a firm and principled policy by the European Union in General and the French government in particular, and called on the world community, to stand up to Tehran’s ballistic missile program and the IRGC meddling in the affairs of countries in the Middle East and stop appeasing the mullahs and to recognize the Iranian people’s resistance for human rights, freedom and overthrowing the clerical regime.
In her message to the demonstration, Maryam Rajavi underscored that the mullahs have demolished Iran’s environment in the past 38 years and the clerical regime and its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), need to stone Iran’s human rights to continue their reign. They need to incessantly damage Iran’s environmental capacities for their military and security plans, including their missile program, to advance their malign objectives. To contain domestic crises and their own instability, they have resorted to war and slaughter of the peoples of the region.
The Iranian opposition leader stressed the Iranian people’s urgent demand is to bring down the ruling religious dictatorship not only to revive freedom, human rights, justice and the environment in Iran but as a requirement to establish peace and security in the region and around the world.
Maryam Rajavi urged the international community to condemn the clerical regime’s relentless aggression on Iran’s environment and to undertake binding measures to stop the regime’s missile program and drive out the IRGC and its militias from countries in the region. She called on the international community to recognize the Iranian people’s desire and will for regime change in Iran.
More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the summer of 1988 in Iran, the overwhelming majority of the activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), the principal Iranian opposition movement.
Protesters urged the member states taking part in the OnePlant summit in Paris, that is scheduled to start on December 12 to condemn the Iranian regime’s destructive attitude towards the Iranian environment and urged the Western governments to reconsider their relations with Tehran since it exploits any profit from its relations with the West to advance its ominous policy of suppression at home and regional belligerence.
