Maryam Rajavi (photo), co-leader of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, called Monday for more UN sanctions to be imposed on the Islamic Republic. She said the current wave of protests should be supported by economic sanctions. “It’s time to adopt very firm, global sanctions,” she told Reuters in a telephone interview. “There needs to be a firm policy to cut economic and political relations because the Iranian people have taken to the streets. They have to be helped. The United States and Europe must act.” She also said the street protests are calling for the same thing the Mojahedin have been calling for: an end to clerical rule. “They don’t want reform or a more moderate approach from the regime,” she said “They want the overthrow of the mullahs. They want a secular republic to replace religious dictatorship.”
