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Movement's Coordinator speaks of the letter to US Congress in VOA interview

SMCCDI (information Service)
Mar 15, 2004

http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4149.shtml

"Voice of America" (VOA) re-broadcasted, this morning, an interview made with Aryo Pirouznia of SMCCDI. The interview was initially broadcasted on Sunday evening for Iran.

In this interview and in response to VOA's Persian service anchor Behrooz Abassi, the Movement's Coordinator cheered the Iranian resistance and especially the imprisoned students and scholars while explaining the reasons of the public letter addressed, by SMCCDI, to the 108th U.S. Congress.

Wishing a Happy Persian New Year, starting on March 21st, to all the students and freedom lovers of Iran and expressing the firm conviction that the country's freedom is just around the corner, Pirouznia stated: " The letter was issued in order to focus the attention of the US Legislative body on the plight and aspirations of the Iranian Nation..

...The Committee which was, since its formation, one of the first entities to call for a political solution to the situation, via a monitored Referendum, judged opportune to seize the existing favorable International context in order to request for a public and legifered support of the Iranian Nation by US Congressmen...

... We hope to have made our people's voice heard by publishing this letter in the Washington Times. As you know, this well reputed newspaper had a big impact in addressing the Eastern bloc's issues and contributed greatly to alerting the US opinion on the aspirations of all people placed under the repressive rule of communism...

... In this letter, we have pointed to the impressionant struggle of Iranians against the Islamic regime and we have called on the US to help us the same way by supporting our nation in its noble endeavor. We have reminded the formidable expressed force of the Iranians and their committment to gain freedom and democracy while reminding that a US help do not require any military intervention....

... We have stated that just as like as the S. African freedom process, the end of dictatorship in Iran in very near and inevitable...

.... We have asked as well from the U.S. to study the possibility of having its appointed observers the day the referendum will take place as we do not trust those countries which have backed the ruling theocracy..."

The full version of this interview can be listened by visiting:

http://www.voanews.com/mediastore/Abbassi14Mar04.ra
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