Protest planned against Iran's mullahs in Paris

The French Committee for a Democratic Iran has called for staging demonstrations on February 8th against human rights violations perpetrated by the mullahs' regime in Iran as well as the terrorist operations ordered by the regime to be staged on European territories.

The committee said in a statement that the European Union had unanimously labeled the Iranian intelligence service as a "terrorist organization".

It said European states did this after holding the Iranian intelligence responsible for a terrorist plot against a gathering of the Iranian political organization, People's Mujahedin of Iran. The plot was foiled on June 30, 2018.

The mullahs has stifled the aspirations of the major Iranian revolution for independence, freedom and founding the republic, the committee said.

It said the mullahs also imposed a new type of religious despotism by using the revolution against the Shah.

The committee, which released its statement on the anniversary of the downfall of the Shah regime in Iran in 1979, noted that the planned demonstration would aim to express support to Iranians now protesting inside the Islamic Republic to demand freedom.

It said the demonstration would also deliver a message of support to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, describing the council as a viable alternative to the current regime in Iran.

A number of municipality heads in Paris, the committee said, would back the planned demonstration, along with a host of human rights advocates.