From Iran News Update: Maryam Rajavi: At least 1200 executions during Rouhani's presidency so far

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Dec 10, 2014, 05:25 ET

BRUSSELS, Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi said that the number of executions in Iran during President Hassan Rouhani's first year in office was more than any other year in the past quarter century.

Rajavi was addressing a major conference at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels on December 10, on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights.

Dozens of members of the European Parliament, including senior members from various political groups addressed the conference.

While condemning the egregious human rights violations in Iran by the clerical regime, the speakers urged the EU and in particular Ms. Federica Mogherini, the new EU foreign policy chief to urgently adopt specific steps to address the human rights crisis in Iran.

Gov. Howard Dean, former US Presidential candidate and former Democratic Party Chairman travelled to Brussels to address the event.

Maryam Rajavi detailed various aspects of the human rights situation in Iran that have deteriorated during Rouhani's tenure and said: "There is no such thing as human rights in Iran."

Mrs. Rajavi said that in order to stop Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear bomb, the West needs to show resolve. She scolded the Western countries for offering unwarranted concessions to the ayatollahs in the talks and for remaining silent regarding the tragedy of domestic suppression in Iran.

"The nuclear talks with the mullahs in the past year continued in parallel with the rise in executions in Iran," she said. "To ensure the success of the talks, Europe and the United States not only remained silent vis-à-vis the human rights tragedy in Iran; they also offered further unjustified concessions to the regime. Despite all these, the negotiations failed and left the world living in fear of a barbaric fundamentalist regime obtaining a nuclear bomb."

According to Rajavi, "This regime has no capacity to accept a deal which would guarantee abandoning the nuclear bomb. The regime is facing an impasse. It wants to end the international sanctions but at the same time it fears the consequences of abandoning its means of survival…The mullahs agreed to negotiate due to mounting pressure. They stalled on signing an agreement due to concessions. The only way forward is more pressure and more sanctions."

The Iranian opposition leader warned, "There is no light at the end of the tunnel of marathon of talks. There is a nuclear bomb at the end of the tunnel."

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