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The outcome of an appeasement policy


French newspaper
June 28th, 2005

Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, shares her views on the presidential elections in her country, from the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Auvers-Sur-Oise Oise
The wife of the founder of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Massoud Rajavi, predicts that the Iranian regime becoming more conservative will accelerate the it's downfall, whether west helps or not.

(Q): How do you explain the failure of the reformists in the elections?
(A): What is referred to as reform, in fact, is only an eight year process from religious fascism to religious fascism. Those who supported Khatami wrongfully called him a religious democrat. Iranians people, by large, boycott the Friday's elections. Widespread rigging was reported by the foreign correspondents in Iran. Boycott is a historic "No" to the mullah's regime and a "Yes" to democratic change in Iran. Iranian people proved that they would not demand any thing less than overthrow of the religious dictatorship and its replacement with the government of people.

(Q): Can the election of an extremist accelerate the regime's down fall?
(A): I believe it will accelerate it. This is undoubtedly an irreversible milestone.

(Q) With the United States' help?
(A) Disappointed masses and increased repression will accelerate this process. Of course, by adopting a decisive policy, the US and Europe can help the Iranian people. Unfortunately, their appeasement policies have slowed down and impeded this process so far. As we observe, the total dominance of the most barbaric factions of the mullah's regime is the direct result of West's appeasement towards this regime. Such policy aimed to help the reformists but in contrary resulted in an opposite outcome. Today we see a member of the Revolutionary Guards [Pasdar] at the top. This is the result of a policy lead by France in Europe. Appeasement must end.

(Q) Should we be concern about escalation of Iran's nuclear activities?
(A) They have already announced that they will restart their nuclear activities, so would repression inside the country and terrorism abroad. Last Sunday, Ahmadinejad, Warned the Europeans to come down off your ivory towers and asked them to adopt themselves to his policies. This is an indication of higher expectations from Europeans.

(Q) Your movement is accused of being a cult ...
(A) There were first accusations of terrorism against us, in the absence of any evidence to justify their campaign of lies they have turned those accusations into labeling us a "cult". Any one who knows the definition of the word "cult", realizes that the activities of our movements are far from that. Very clearly we are struggling for a social goal. As a popular resistance with more than two hundred representative offices around the world, we are a movement with open doors to reporters and support of more than 1000 political dignitaries, and parliamentarians across the world. In our gathering on June 18th in Cergy-France, more than 20,000 Iranians participated along with French friends, and political personalities such as Allen Vivian, who chairs the governments commission against cults. The support of such prestigious characters is indicative that the cult accusation against our movement is baseless.