Scots Tory to speak against Iran at Berlin demonstration

The Scotsman: A SCOTS Conservative MEP is to address a gathering of 40,000 exiled Iranians in Germany at a demonstration against the fundamentalist regime in Tehran.
Struan Stevenson will tell the crowd at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today that “the days of the brutal fascist regime are numbered”.
The demonstration has been organised by the National Council for Resistance in Iran. The Scotsman

JOHN INNES

A SCOTS Conservative MEP is to address a gathering of 40,000 exiled Iranians in Germany at a demonstration against the fundamentalist regime in Tehran.

Struan Stevenson will tell the crowd at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today that “the days of the brutal fascist regime are numbered”.

The demonstration has been organised by the National Council for Resistance in Iran.

The organisation’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, was recently controversially invited to the European Parliament in Strasbourg by Mr Stevenson.

The mullahs who rule Iran consider Mrs Rajavi a terrorist and protested over her invitation to address MEPs.

But Mr Stevenson, who is the co-chairman of the Friends of Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament, said it is Tehran’s rulers who are the real terrorists.

He will say: “The mullahs have executed 120,000 supporters of the resistance movement since they came to power.

“They routinely execute pregnant women, hang children in public, stone women to death, amputate arms and legs of offenders and condone torture.

“Now, in open defiance of the West, the clerical regime in Tehran is pursuing its relentless quest to construct a nuclear weapon.”

Mr Stevenson will tell the crowd that only the Iranian resistance can overthrow the regime and bring democracy to the people of Iran.

Two days ago, the Tehran government offered an olive branch to the United States, claiming it wanted to resolve decades of differences.