Paris, February 16, 2013 - Ok, thank you very much, but I actually think you are thanking my wife for letting me have time to help you.

I am very grateful that the mayor was here with us to welcome us and to lend his prestige to this meeting. I reminded the mayor that in the House of Representatives, we have only two paintings, very large ones on the floor of House of Representatives. There are two people who are depicted in the United States Congress; one of course is George Washington, the father of our country when we had our revolution, and the other painting is of Lafayette, who came to help us in our struggle for freedom.

Paris, February 16, 2013 - Thanks you very much! Madam President, I bring you greetings from Texas. Howdy?

I also give you my personal opinions about the situation for which we are all here. It is important to you, to the Iranian people throughout the world, and especially the Iranians in Iran and camp Liberty that we do  not let in Camp Liberty, the light of liberty be extinguished by anyone.

Paris, February 16, 2013 - Well, I am going to be very, very brief.

I do have to respond to judge Poe, talking about people from the desert because I am from California which is all desert, at least my area and a lot of people do not realize that I retired from United States’ Marin Corp at a base in a desert where we trained to fight primarily desert warfare and now I am in a different environment.

Paris, February 16, 2013 - Thank you very much, Thank you Judge Poe, Madam President, we are honoured to be here, in a briefing before this gathering.

Iranian dissidents must be moved out of Camp Liberty and Martin Kobler sacked and replaced with an 'impartial' representative in Iraq, a European Parliament’s vice-president has told the UN's Security Council.

And pending the transfer, Iraq must return medical equipment and bullet proof vests, helmets and blast-proof T-walls to protect vulnerable Camp Liberty residents from further attacks, Dr Alejo Vidal Quadras demanded in a strongly-worded letter to world leaders at the United Nations.

He also blamed Martin Kobler's collaboration with the Iranian regime through the Iraqi government for blocking a safe solution to the crisis, and for preventing all but a very few dissidents from being transferred to safety in Albania.

Paris, March 9, 2013 - Iranian Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi has laid out her vision of complete social, political and cultural equality for women in Iran - which she called the 'absolute opposite' of the sexist and misogynist dogma of the ruling regime.

She issued her call for a new freedom for women across the Arab world in an inspirational speech in Paris at conference to mark International Women's Day..And she branded Iran's extremist clerics as 'demagogues' who considered violence against women to be a virtue.

Mrs Rajavi told the conference: "Since day one, the Iranian Resistance has warned of this regime's sinister aspirations, and has risen up against it with all its might. Both in its political platform and in its cultural and ideological world-view, this movement has been and remains today the antithesis of the clerical regime."

Press Release 27 February 2013 - Switzerland, Geneva and the relevant international organizations based there must defend the residents of Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, as they are protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention.   The Mayor of Geneva, Mr. Remy Pagani, as well as the President of the Municipal Council, Mr. Jean-Charles Rielle, welcomed Mrs Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Iranian Resistance, on Wednesday 27 February and condemned the rocket attack on last 9 February against Camp Liberty.

The Mayor of Geneva declared:  "This deadly attack is a blow to the 1949 and 1951 Geneva Conventions, because all the residents of Liberty, including the 7 victims killed during this attack and the hundred wounded, are refugees who should be protected within the framework of international humanitarian law."   Explaining that the Geneva Conventions were signed in the Alabama Room of the Canton of Geneva, Mr. Pagani went on:  Geneva and Switzerland are the guardians of the Geneva Conventions and cannot remain silent before the fate of the residents of Ashraf and Liberty and the crimes from which they suffer.   It is now five years since thousands of protected persons suffer constant pressure, killings and psychological tortures.   Up to today, 56 people have lost their lives and 1,300 have been wounded.

Geneva, February 28,2013 - In an international conference in Geneva, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance Maryam Rajavi stipulated that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is responsible for the protection of Camp Liberty residents and it is imperative that it immediately puts on its agenda the initiative of returning residents to Ashraf as a place with relative protection until residents’ transfer to third countries.

Mrs. Rajavi warned that the clerical regime facing irreversible crises would spare no effort to commit a massacre of a much larger scale than the February 9 attack against the defenseless residents. Residents’ urgent protection and security requires that United States that is responsible for their protection, either transfers all of them to that country or if this is impractical, then they should all immediately return to Ashraf with transfer to third countries taking place from there.

Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Allow me to underline what is the most striking or interesting feature on this terrorist attack. The Iraqi Chapter of Hezbollah has not refrained from no effort to claim that they did orchestrated and did this attack under the instructions dictated by the supreme leader of Iran.

This is very peculiar because as you all know, Hezbollah, either in Lebanon, Iraq or other countries normally do not associate themselves with such terrorist attacks. But this time, they actually made the effort to announce to the international community that they did commit this crime. Of course, nobody doubts their claim, but by doing so, they are trying to keep the fiction that Nouri al Maleki is not responsible for this attack.

Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Thank you Mr President. Thank you Madam President.  It was really a painful experience for me, three years and a half I spent in Iraq, a very injuring experience. My sister next to me (Ms. Zanjani) was one of the victims that I was there personally, in Ashraf, to persuade her to leave and to go look after herself in Canada. And she firmly refused my offer to help sending her for treatment in Canada. But my job in Iraq as chief of human rights was to promote and protect human rights. My job in Iraq, as advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) is to advise him on the right path for finding a dignified way for the Ashrafis to get out of that situation and I must admit that I think I failed in both missions, because I did not protect and I did not really change much on the ground in Ashraf. But the reality is that I witnessed a lot and I could tell you that the experience I went through, it is extremely difficult to summarize it in a few minutes but I'll make sure that I won't be too long

Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Thank you very much Mr. President and Madam Rajavi. This morning, here in the Palais de Nations the Deputy Foreign Minister for Iran, Mr. Mohammad Mehdi Akhundzadeh made a speech in which he said: Iran’s commitment to the protection of and promotion of human rights is steadfast. Tell that to these people, hanging from cranes in public executions. Tell it to the people who have suffered lapidation, rape, amputations, floggings, and torture.

Mr. Akhundzadeh, the Deputy Foreign Minister from Iran knows Geneva well. He was sent here by the mullahs in 1990 as part of a team who assassinated Dr. Kazem Rajavi, the brother-in-law of Mrs. Rajavi. And the police have his name on records here. They want to interrogate him about that offense, and he returns here disgracefully today, rewarded for his service to the mullahs by being given a ministerial office and coming to Geneva to lecture us about human rights. This is an outrage.

Geneva, February 28, 2013 - Good afternoon my dear friends. I am happy to be with you again this afternoon and despite the sadness and the sorrow I feel for the victims of that murderous rocket attack, I’m nevertheless encouraged by the fact that you, the representative of the democratic opposition in Iran, and in my view, the true representatives of the people of Iran, are more committed than ever to continue the struggle for justice and freedom and for democratic change in Iran.

And this strong commitment and strong inspirit is the result of the leadership of President Rajavi that I appreciate highly and highly admire. My friends, last time when we met us in Paris, I was more optimistic than today. The decision that our American friends would remove MEK from their blacklist was imminent, we knew it was coming; it was something like a visible silver lining, and we believed that perhaps a solution could be found for the safety and protection of the Ashrafis.