At a rally in Paris this weekend in support of a free Iran, numerous leading figures have called for the world to act now to defeat the threat posed by the Islamic Republic.
It was organised by the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), which has accused Iran of exporting and funding Islamic terror across the globe.
The PMOI is the largest and most active opposition movement in Iran that supports a totally secular political system in the country.
The organisation was also the first to expose the very existence of Iran’s nuclear programme two decades ago.
Ex-Scottish Conservative MEP and Iranian expert, Struan Stevenson, accused Iran of being the “godfather” of terror.
Speaking in Paris, he said: “When the Soviet Union was at its powerful, communists around the world were split into dozens of different factions – you had the the Trotskyists, the Leninists, the Marxists, the Maoists – they all hated each other, they all fought like cats in a sack, but they all looked to Moscow as the godfather of international communism.
“The same I believe is happening with fundamentalist Islam. You have Daesh (ISIS), the Taliban, al-Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, Hezbollah – they all have difficulties with each other, yet we categorise it in the West as a Sunni/Shiite conflict. It is not.
“All of these different [factions] who also fight like cats in a sack, they look to Tehran as the godfather of international Islamic fundamentalism.
“And in the same way as when the Soviet Union collapsed, we saw communism fade away. There were a few pockets left, like North Korea, Cuba, perhaps Venezuela, but it has almost faded from the international picture.
“And if we achieve a regime change in Iran, I believe the same fate will occur to fundamentalist Islam – I think it will slide off the international agenda.”http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/626689/iran-terrorism-isis-paris-mek-pmoi-struan-stevenson-jack-keane-terror
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