Posted on 12/04/2003 4:14:43 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
A panel composed by selected Iranian activists. from inside and outside Iran, reached, this morning, tens of American think tanks during an unprecedented meeting held at the famous "American Enterprise Institute" (AEI).
The panel was composed by Mandana Zand-Karimi; Ramin Parham; Roozbeeh Farahanipoor and Aryo Pirouznia, of SMCCDI, and was broadcasted live worldwide by the famous Los Angeles based KRSI which had placed Saeed Ghaem Maghami, its famous anchor, as the moderator and special reporter. Several female and male activists were joined in duplex from Iran and exposed as well their views and aspirations for an audiance shocked about the degree of the popular rejection of the Islamic republic regime and the Iranians exasperation ready to die in order to gain Freedom and Democracy.
Aryo Pirouznia, speaking on behalf of the Movement, qualified the Islamic regime as ideological and un-reformable system and qualified it as the main craddle of tension, tyranny and terrorism in the region. While he blasted the regime's lobbyists in the US, such as, the self called "American Iranian Council" (AIC) and the "National Iranian American Council" (NIAC), (which its head was present as observer in the meeting), Pirouznia requested, from all Freedom Lovers the moral and financial support of Iranian opponents living inside which have been depraved from basic living standard for their opposition to the mullahs.
The SMCCDI's coordinator stated that Iranians have found, at this time, their separate identity than their forcible rulers. "Now its a matter of "us" and "them" and such psycological gain was necessary to be reach" he stated while along with all other panelists, he predicted the general boycott of regime's future sham elections by the Iranian People who are intending to deprive the regime from any possibility to simulate legitimacy.
Pirouznia continued:"After nearly 25 years of Theocracy and 7 years of sham reforms, Iranians have become well aware that the 2 noptions of Democracy and Islam can't result in something good for their nation and their only goal is to establish a secularly democratic regime following the Freedom of Iran.
On the Atomic issue, Pirouznia defended the right of the Iranian "Nation" to use for civilian purposes the Atomic energy while he reminded that a future accountable regime will not need to obtain Nuclear weapons.
The complete recording of this 2- 1/2 hour meeting will soon be available on the website of the Movement.
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