Iran close to nuclear deal
Tense: the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, talks with
the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Geneva,
during talks on the future of Iran's nuclear programme, at the end
of last month
Tense: the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, talks with
the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Geneva,
during talks on the fu...
WITH two weeks to go until the deadline for a nuclear deal
between Iran and the Western powers, 100,000 activists met in Paris
earlier this month to call for the overthrow of the current
regime.
Addressing Western leaders on 13 June, in front of supporters
from 69 countries, the President-elect of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi, said: "If you do not want
a nuclear-armed fundamentalist regime, stop appeasing it. Do not
bargain over the human rights of the Iranian people, and recognise
their organised resistance which is striving for freedom."
The NCRI, the parliament-in-exile of the Iranian Resistance, is
a coalition of five opposition groups, of which the largest is the
People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), which helped to overthrow the
Shah in 1979, before being forced into exile. Thousands of members
of the PMOI remain in Camp Liberty, in Iraq, which the NCRI
describes as being under siege by the Iraqi security forces.
The deadline for an agreement between the Western powers and
Iran is 30 June.
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