Mullahs' Supreme Leader's frustration over Ashraf residents' perseverance, delisting of PMOI

Mullahs' Supreme Leader's frustration over Ashraf residents' perseverance, delisting of PMOI



Sunday, 01 March 2009
NCRI - The clerical regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, frustrated by persistence of Ashraf residents, members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), acknowledged for the first time that there was a mutual agreement between the Iranian regime and the Iraqi government to expel the PMOI members from Iraq. In a meeting with the Iraqi President in Tehran, Khamenei said, “The mutual agreement regarding the expulsion of the Mojahedin from Iraq…must be implemented and we are waiting for it.”
Khamenei, who cannot still accept, after 40 days, the fact that the PMOI is removed from EU’s terrorist list and his regime’s investment over the years to blacklist the PMOI has gone with the wind, said, “The Mojahedin are the source of trouble and corruption” and added, “the EU’s decision [to remove the PMOI from the terror list] showed that being a terrorist or not in the view of the West, is an arbitrary matter and does not correlate with the realities.” He complained that the European countries did not agree with the transfer of Ashraf residents to Europe (State-run Radio and Television, media and news agencies, February 28, 2009).
The pressing demand by the regime’s Supreme Leader to close down Ashraf and his expression of regrets for the removal of the PMOI from EU’s terrorist list, especially subsequent to courageous uprisings by university students in Iran and recently in Polytechnic University of Tehran, chanting slogans used by Ashraf residents, are clear indications of the faltering regime’s fear of growing support by Iranian youth and students for the nationwide resistance.
Khamenei and other leaders of the regime are trying in vain to turn the clock back and prevent the explosion of Iranian people’s anger and wrath against tyranny, poverty and corruption.
The Iranian Resistance considers pressures on the Iraqi government to expel the PMOI from Iraq as a flagrant and shameful interference in the affairs of this country and a violation of international rules and conventions which requires international condemnations. It also calls on the President of the United States, the United Nations Secretary General and the Security Council as well as all international human rights organizations to take immediate measures to guarantee Ashraf residents’ protection and fundamental rights.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of IranMarch 1, 2009