Eminent Iraqi personalities support the People's Mojahedin of Iran

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Wednesday, 08 August 2006

NCRI - Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad al-Moussawi-ol-Qasemi, the founder of the Islamic Alliance Party, said in an interview with Iran National Television (INTV – Iranian Resistance), "The plan which Mr. [Abdol Aziz] Hakim has introduced (against the PMOI), was first published in an Iranian daily, Resalat… Why has he mentioned the PMOI?, I think, it has something to do with intelligence and obeying (the Iranian regime’s) orders… These problems have come about from an original plan which was concocted in Iran… More than half of the people of Iraq approve of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and support it."

Ms. Amireh Abdol-al-Karim al-Aqabi, the Women's Affairs Committee Chair of the Union of Democratic Workers of Iraq said to INTV, "PMOI members have lived in Iraq for the past 20 years. They have in this time never engaged in terrorist activities and have done nothing to harm the people of Iraq - not even under the former regime in Iraq. … They are political refugees according to known international norms. … We stand in solidarity with Ashraf and the PMOI. This organization has studiously stood up to expose the plots of the mullahs' regime in Iraq. … My message to the Iranian Mojahedin sisters in Ashraf is to continue to sacrifice more and to increase their endeavors to secure their rights in the future."

At the end of her interview with INTV, Ms. al-Aqabi pledged her support for PMOI members and said, "We stand by the Mojahedin. They are our brothers and sisters in faith and we have a common enemy."

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 8, 2006