The EU has been savaged as “weak and silent” in the face of a continued wave of atrocities inside Iran which were continuing today. In an address at the European Parliament leading dissident Marayam Rajavi told MEPs of a brutal escalation in executions of opponents of the Ayatollah's regime and a rise in violent street-level internal repression. The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran declared that the real conflict shaping Iran’s future was not Donald Trump’s “foreign war”, but a “destiny-making” struggle on the ground between the Iranian people and the religious dictatorship over which the EU must not stay silent.

In an uncompromising speech she added 16 political prisoners - opponents of the regime - have been executed within a month, while another detainee died under torture, and said unwillingness to speak out against the horrors being perpetrated was effectively complicity.

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She said: “The silence ofEuropean Unionleaders and member states in the face of this wave of political executions in Iran is unjustifiable. Such silence not only emboldens the regime to continue executions, but also signals weakness, encouraging it to persist in nuclear weapons development and terrorist meddling in the region.

“It does not view foreign war as its main threat, but rather the anger of the people and the organized resistance. Since Khamenei’s death, the regime has deployed all its forces in the streets to prevent a new uprising.

“We maintain that the halt in executions, demanded by the Iranian people, must be included as a fundamental condition in any international agreement with the mullahs.”

Monday saw the execution of two members of the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, identified as Hamed Validi and Mohammad Massoum Shahi. On Tuesday, another young protester linked to January’s nationwide unrest was also executed.

Rajavi’s NCRI movement is demanding a democratic republic, the separation of religion and state, autonomy for oppressed nationalities, and the active and equal participation of women in the leadership of society.

Source: Daily Express :: World Feed