Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Let me start by paying tribute to Dr. Taher Boumedra for his courage. I am very impressed that you have the courage to stand up against the leadership of UNAMI and testified at US congress afterwards. It was a great pleasure to watch your testimony in front of the members of US congress. Thank you for what you did.

Madam Rajavi, ladies and gentlemen, We are on historic ground here not only because the Geneva conventions were born here but also because of the idea of promoting human rights and peace in Europe after WW2 was born in Switzerland.

When Winston Churchill came to Switzerland after WW2, he said we needed a United States of Europe and the result was the council of Europe, the European declaration of human rights which later became the international convention of human rights.

Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Madam Rajavi just spoke so eloquently about the legacy of what brings us here today. She spoke about her personal legacy, that of her family members who have been part of the struggle to free the people of Iran from this brutal dictatorship. She talked about what brings us to Geneva, the legacy of human rights, the legacy of protecting refugees. In a sense, we are all heir to that legacy if we believe that there is an alternative to violence. Today in the world the international community thinks that the only final option to the intransigent of the Iranian mullahs to suspend their nuclear ambition is a military option; today in Geneva we commit ourselves to a different option; we commit ourselves to a non-violent option; a political option and that is to recognize and support the main Iranian Resistance to the mullahs in Tehran, the PMOI/MEK as the legitimate future.

Geneva, February 27, 2013 - Thank you Madame President.   In fact, I was not expected to talk to you because I have not prepared a paper.

But I just want to read today what has been said by everybody and I want to underline the fact that everything that happened in Ashraf and Liberty, they’re not secret to the United Nations.

We have planned very carefully the procedure of evicting Ashraf, which is there for 26 years to a prison-like which is camp Liberty.  In doing so, the United Nations, UNAMI in particular, knows exactly the consequences.  But I could tell you that the consequences were premeditated and the clans that took place, particularly recently in camp Liberty were, premeditated under the person who should be held accountable, is quite well-known.

Paris, February 20, 2013 - Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for the honour of being here today. 100 years after the faithful days of August 1914 we are reminded of how often France has been on the front line to fight for Liberty and how great the sacrifice has been. And now you are there again.

I am proud that our countries have led the effort to stop the mullahs from obtaining nuclear weapons. And it would be a good policy if the only weapon that Iran threatened the world with was the atomic weapon, and it would be a good policy if the only threat was in the future. But the fact is that Iran is waging war against the world every day and it is not waiting for nuclear weapons. It has waged war against its own people, consuming thousands of lives, for thirty years. It is waging war against the people of Syria, innocent people in Africa, it has consumed thousands of lives in Iraq. Iran is at war with the civilised world, every single day.

Text of Address by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi,

President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Paris, 2 February 2013 - Dear Friends, Distinguished Guests,

I salute you and the honorable personalities joining us today from the United States, France, Spain, Estonia, Egypt and other countries.  On the eve of the anniversary of the anti-monarchic revolution, we honor that usurped revolution and renew our pledge to overthrow the ruling regime in its entirety. When I chose to walk in the path of freedom. I decided to sacrifice my life for freedom

In the stormy seas

The guardian of tyranny

Adeptly fights it out

With the God of Freedom

Indeed, we are committed to bring the current phase, the overthrowing of the ruling theocracy, to a victorious end by relying on our enlightened and courageous people. And it shall be so.

In a few days, we will celebrate the anniversary of February 8, 1982, which is a glorious peak in the history of Iran’s freedom.

Hail to Ashraf Rajavi and Moussa Khiabani and their comrades who fought valiantly on that day and made the ultimate sacrifice. Their perseverance against the religious fascism earned them eternal praise from our nation.

Dear Friends,

Three decades after the murderous and fundamentalist regime came to power in Iran, extremists are roaming free in the four corners of the world, from Indonesia on the shores of the Pacific to Central Asia and to West Africa.

Let me begin by asking these questions:

Was the spread of fundamentalism in such dimensions not containable?

Was the result of the Arab Spring inevitable? And if not, what is the solution?

How did Islamic fundamentalism assume power in Iran?

Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Thank you. Thank you very much. We meet here today as five permanent members of the security council and Germany have just finished two days of negotiations with the representatives of the regime in Tehran over the regime’s nuclear weapons program and we are in the middle of I am afraid a potentially catastrophic mistake in a proposal that was offered to the regime that would give it relief from the economic sanctions that was imposed on the regime and legitimize its nuclear weapons program. I hope this is not going to happen because it would represent both the strengthening of the regime and the likelihood of bringing nuclear weapons into its hands.

I want today to focus on the situation of the refuges in camp Liberty. Many people around the world wonder why the United Nations is so unpopular in the United States I am going to explain why using camp Liberty and the treatment of the Iranian refuges in Iraq as a case study and a scientific study on how UN does things wrong. What we are seeing now in respect to the treatment of the people in camp Liberty is the systemic failure of the United Nations and its entire system the UN assistance mission in Iraq acts as a paid agent of the Al Maliki government in Baghdad. UN High Commissioner for refugees and the under secretary general for coordinating humanitarian assistance in New York are failing to uphold their mandates and the UN system as a whole is once again being discredited. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon someone whom I have known personally for 20 years I think is not fully informed about what is happening but in any event is making a huge mistake on his own behalf and on behalf of the UN if he does not correct matters instantly.

Thank you very much, Ambassador.  That film of course was very difficult to watch but if that doesn't get you angry and get you outraged then you have no sense of justice. You have no sense of fairness or a sense of decency.

The seven people you see here these are all human lives. Those are some of the bodies you saw laying there. None of these people had to die. This did not have to happen. It should not have happened. This was totally preventable.  And these people were killed not by some accident or by some misfortune. These people were killed because of very very wrong decisions that were made by the United Nations and the United States.  And for that I really am ashamed.

Let me tell you some of the background of this. Some of you know it in great detail and some of you don't know it at all.  The attack on Feb 9th occurred just as we were about to have a session in Washington discussing this.  We were all shocked to find out about this but I can't say we were all surprised because this has been coming for some time. The possibility of this has been coming for some time.  All of these people have been in Iraq for some time at Camp Ashraf, which was a camp that developed over some 20 year plus period.  It was a camp that was a decent place to live. Mostly made decent by them; by their own work, their own money.  It was a place that wasn't entirely safe; there had been two attacks by the Iraqi military at the behest of the Iranian government.  There have been two attacks on the facility and people have been killed.  But because it was a large space and because there were permanent structures, there had been places built to protect against bombings. It was difficult for people to be killed in camp Ashraf. In fact the only way to invade camp Ashraf with Iraqi troops and have them mow the people down in the streets. Something that can be photographed, something that can be seen.  And something that the Iraqi government had to pay a very very heavy price for. So instead of having these people remain there, being allowed to remain there, while they were being hopefully sent to other places under the auspices of the United Nations, the Iraqi government and the UN and the US Department of State required that they be moved from that facility to what you saw, something called camp liberty.

Conference emphasizes need to adopt resolute policy toward clerical regime, recognize Iranian Resistance, support 10-point plan of Maryam Rajavi, return Liberty residents to Ashraf

On Saturday, February 2, on the eve of the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Anti-Monarchy revolution in Iran, on the invitation of the French Committee for a Free Iran, an international conference was held in Paris, titled “Anniversary of Revolution, Change in 2013”, where many prominent dignitaries from France, Europe, United States and parliamentary delegations from Egypt, Spain, Czech Republic and Estonia participated and offered speeches.

Reporter: US vice-president? Joe Biden? says he is prepared to engage in direct talks with Iran over its contentious nuclear program but only if Iranian were serious. Meanwhile in Paris? dignitaries from across the world have been meeting to discuss regime change in Iran. Howard Dean is there. He is the former chairman of US democratic national committee and he ran for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination. I asked him first about Mr. Biden’s comments.

Howard Dean: It is always a good thing to talk? but I will be very much against lifting any of the sanctions? I think the sanctions got to be stronger. Talking with Iran in the past has provided absolutely nothing. So? while I am always willing to talk? I think we have to assume that they are going to talk in bad shape as they have in the past.

Paris, February 2, 2013 - Dear Madame Rajavi, members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, members of the French Committee for Democratic Iran, ladies and gentlemen, dear Iranian friends, many nice words and wise words have already been said, and it is difficult to add.  Iran as a country and Iranian people as a nation among others have a great and rich culture.  The great history and the dignity of Iranian people are well known and admired.  As other civilized nations, Iranian people have the full right to free self-determination, peace, freedom, rights and civil liberties, legitimate democratic government established by popular vote.  Things which are so evident and natural for a majority of world nations are unfortunately not available for present day Iranian people.  If people are murdered and executed, there is no right to life.  If people are tortured, inhumanely treated, corporally punished and mutilated, if they are prosecuted for their religion and convictions, freedom of expression there is no freedom.  No equality, no civil society, no democracy.  No nation merits such conditions and treatment.  These medieval violations of human rights accompanied with nuclear threats to outside world must not continue.  Those who are responsible must be brought to justice.

Paris, February 2, 2013 - Dear Madame Rajavi, dear colleagues, dear women and men of the Iranian nation, let me politely greet you on behalf of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.  I am coming from the country of Vaclav Havel so thank you dear colleagues for many beautiful words about Vaclav Havel.  Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia in the past, knows the time of the totalitarian regime [0:00:39].  We remember hundreds of deaths, tortured and jailed people in the Czechoslovakia.  We know the statement that (at present) state regime which is repressing the human rights of hundreds of thousands of its citizens.  We are the bearer of what these are capable of.  Citizens of my country lived in such a state almost half a century.  Several members of my family were imprisoned.  Even one of them died in a consequence of the jail.  We have been living in a free country, Czech Republic, since more than 20 years.  We do belong in a united Europe which is bringing the (sureness) of peace and cooperation.  Yes, we create the rules together.  These rules and regulations are not accepted with pleasure sometimes, but still in a way of the democratic rules and respect to the human rights, rule of law, and independent justice.  We are proud of the Nobel Prize for Peace that the European Union received.

Paris, February 2, 2013 - Thank you.  Thank you very much.  Thank you.  [French and Spanish]  That's all I know in both languages.  I want to just a personal note, I have been attending these events for two years and I have seen the growth not just in terms of numbers and intensity of the support and the crowds and the leadership.  It's my honor to be with so many distinguished political leaders from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the United States, Republican party, Democratic party, presidential candidates, Madame Rajavi.  I also note the enormous strength of your movement and how stronger it has become in the last two years and the intensity and strength of the crowds.  And I have noticed that the women are the loudest and the most passionate.  [applause]

I want to make six points.  Because the issues relating to humanitarian factors and Camp Liberty and Camp Ashraf there are more experts that are able to speak about those conditions and the role of the United Nations.  And I think we need to listen to that humanitarian component, and in particular I want to thank Colonel Wes martin who keeps us all every day informed, almost every day [applause] of what is happening.  I also want to thank Colonel Martin—he's from my state of New Mexico, and we're different political parties but when I was attacked in my state who came to the rescue but Colonel Martin.  And Wes, I appreciate that.  It shows the strength of the movement, thank you. [applause]  As well my thanks for the staff of Madame Rajavi, both here in Paris and [0:03:05] who helped me in Washington.  I love to say his name.  [applause]