Iran-Speech by Maryam Rajavi on the anniversary of the massacre in Ashraf

#MaryamRajavi: #Iran Regime Has Failed, to Annihilate #PMOI to Guarantee Its Survival

On the fourth anniversary of the massacre of 52 PMOI members residing in Ashraf, Iraq, who were assassinated at the behest of the Iranian regime by the puppet governemt of Iraq and its agents, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi said: The mass execution of PMOI members was the hidden half of the regime’s retreat in the nuclear talks and the JCPOA. Before the start of the talks with P5+1 and signing of an agreement in November 2013, the regime resorted to the massacre in Ashraf. Following Khamenei’s approval of the JCPOA in October 2015, Camp Liberty was attacked by rockets. All the stages of the nuclear agreement, starting from secret talks to the signing of JCPOA, were accompanied by attacks on and slaughter of Ashraf residents. The regime needs to annihilate its most important existential threat, namely the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, to guarantee its survival.

In a ceremony in the presence of a number of international personalities and a large group of PMOI members in Tirana, Mrs. Rajavi said the massacre in Ashraf, however, does not fade in the past. Like the 1988 massacre, it is directly tied to the Resistance, and freedom and human rights in Iran. The dossier on Ashraf must be opened, and Khamenei, Maliki and others involved in this massacre must face justice.
Likewise, it must be cleared why the US turned its back on its obvious and undeniable commitments for the protection of the residents of camps Ashraf and Liberty and did not take any action against such a great crime. This is part of the policy of appeasement, particularly in the past eight years, which helped secure windfall gains for the mullahs. The overwhelming portion of the disasters caused by the regime in the Middle East were enabled by reliance on this policy.
Pointing to the 600 million dollars’ worth of PMOI’s property in Iraq, Mrs. Rajavi reiterated that the US and UN had repeatedly made written and verbal commitments over the past years to resolve the problem of the PMOI’s properties in Ashraf and Liberty. She called on the US and UN to oblige the government of Iraq to reimburse the PMOI for its assets and properties, particularly that both Ashraf and Liberty, and all the properties of the PMOI in these two camps are at the disposal of organs of the Iraqi government.

Mrs. Rajavi lauded the hunger strike of political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison in Iran and said: The resistance of these brave prisoners has drawn extensive solidarity from people all across the country and around the world. She urged the international community to censure the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and hold it accountable to end the torture and persecution of political prisoners.
In another part of her speech, Mrs. Rajavi said: Four years have passed since the mass executions of PMOI members in Ashraf, but the regime’s consecutive schemes to annihilate the PMOI have failed and the sacrifice of their victims have inspired and motivated greater protests and social readiness. Two years after signing of the JCPOA, the mullahs have neither pulled the country’s economy out of bankruptcy, nor have they responded to the demands of Iran’s defiant society. They have not found any way out of the quagmire in Syria and the schism at the top of their ominous regime is becoming increasingly wider.
The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 1, 2017

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NCRI WOMEN COMMITTEE, 07 April 2018-- One of the most epic confrontations in the world's history of nationalist wars and liberation movements took place on April 8, 2011

, in Ashraf, Iraq, the seat of the Iranian opposition movement which is spearheaded by 1000 heroines.

The PMOI freedom fighters stood up to a column of ten armored, infantry, mechanized brigades and battalions of the Iraqi forces affiliated with Tehran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who attacked Ashraf City at the behest of the Iranian regime to massacre all of its defenseless residents, destroy the city and annihilate the opposition.

The freedom fighters, women and men, young and old, were empty handed without any shields. Their heads and hearts were targeted by snipers. At least 22 people were ran over by armored vehicles. Residential units were shelled. Iraqi troops did not allow the wounded to be taken to hospital.

The shooting of heavy armored vehicles and snipers continued incessantly for six hours. The plan was to massacre all the residents of Ashraf. 180 people were shot directly. A number of hostages died in captivity. Some 300 people were wounded.

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Maryam Rajavi: 

At the 2th anniversary of massacre at camp Ashraf I salute 52 heroic martyrs specially their commander Zohreh Ghaemi.

52 heroic martyrs of Ashraf massacre stood up against supreme leader are the source of inspiration for Iran ‘s youths to end tyranny.

We shall never forget that 7 PMOI members were taken hostage during Ashraf massacre and UN and western goverments did not take action.

Women have become indispensable to the Iranian opposition movement in its struggle for regime change and democracy in Iran. So, at every crucial juncture women are seen playing their crucial role in the movement. One such watershed moment took place on September 1, 2013, in Ashraf.
On September 1, 2013, as the Iranian regime was preparing to sit at the negotiating table in Geneva over its nuclear program, hit men massacred 52 unarmed, innocent, and legally protected civilians at Camp Ashraf, the 30-year seat of the Iranian opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, in Iraq.
The assault began at 5 a.m. and lasted until late afternoon. Iraqi special forces and Iranian commandos machine gunned unarmed and defenseless people while their hands were tied behind their backs and shot them in the head; a big crime against humanity by all standards.

Of the 13-woman camp leadership, six were murdered and six were abducted and taken hostage. The 52 individuals killed were part of the one-hundred people who remained in Ashraf according to a quad-lateral agreement between Ashraf residents, the United States, the United Nations, and the Iraqi government to protect residents’ properties. All of them were protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and classified as “persons of concern” who enjoy “international protection” by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and they had stayed in the camp based on assurances given by the U.N., the U.S., and the Iraqi government.

The Iranian regime sought to deal a heavy blow to its main existential threat, the PMOI/MEK, prior to the negotiations in Geneva where it had to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting of crippling sanctions. Three months earlier, Hassan Rouhani took office, a sign of the regime's weakness inside Iran. In Iraq and Syria, the governments backed by the Iranian regime faced popular protests and international censures for chemical bombing of innocent people, respectively. The cowardly attack on defenseless people in Ashraf was therefore launched to overshadow the regime's weaknesses at a crucial juncture.

On the anniversary of this tragic massacre, let us remember the great women – the equal human beings-- who gave their lives to set an example of strength, steadfastness and devotion to the cause of freedom despite all its hardships and dangers.
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