Iran Will Be Free: Speech by Maryam Rajavi
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National Council of Resistance of Iran - U.S. Representative Office.
The Regimes Overthrow Is Certain, Iran Will Be Free: Speech by Maryam Rajavi
1. Iran. 2. Democracy. 3. Human rights. 4. Women rights. 5. Religion
First Edition: September 2018
Printed in the United States of America
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Table of Contents
Introduction
On Saturday, June 30, 2018, the Iranian Resistances grand gathering was held in Villepinte, near Paris, France. Delegations from various countries including prominent politicians, members of parliaments, mayors, elected representatives, and international experts on Iran and the Middle East attended the event.
The speakers declared their support for the Iranian peoples uprising and the democratic alternative, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, delivered the keynote speech. This manuscript contains the full text of Mrs. Rajavis remarks.
Maryam Rajavis
Speech
2.1. Greetings
My fellow compatriots,
Dear friends,
Elected representatives, honorable dignitaries from around the world,
Greetings to all of you and to my dear compatriots in Iran and all over the world. The first thing that must be said today is that the flames of the auspicious and liberating uprising are again rising in Tehran and across Iran: Once again in Mashhad and Shiraz, Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, Karaj and Kermanshah, Shahriar, Islamshahr, Kashan, Arak, Isfahan, Ram Hormuz, and many other towns and cities.
Indeed, the flames of the protests cannot be extinguished and they will continue to soar without respite, indicating a constantly expanding and deepening uprising.
The thunderous voices of rebellious youths in various cities represent the beating heart of a nation immersed in the euphoria of a free Iran.
Once again, I salute my fellow compatriots in Khorramshahr, who are thirsting for clean drinking water and for freedom. You unequivocally told the mullahs that their prayers are not acceptable in the eyes of God.
I have come here on behalf of a Resistance movement which has offered its entire existence to secure victory for the Iran uprising, and for Irans freedom, pride, and magnificence.
I have come here to reiterate what you seek: The time has come for the regimes overthrow. Victory is certain and Iran will be free.
We salute the Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) members in Ashraf 3, the home of the passionate (in Albania). Congratulations for constructing it with your own hands.
Onwards with the 1,000 Ashrafs (resistance units) in our occupied homeland.
2.2. The leverage
for overthrow
Since the January uprising, the peak of the volcano of change and the regimes overthrow in Iran has emerged. The triumph of Irans democratic revolution, without sheikhs or shahs, is now looming on the horizon. Through their uprisings and relying on resistance units, the Iranian people are employing the leverage they need to topple this regime.
How and where can we discover these realities?
First, owing to the presence of the Resistance movement, the charade billed as the existence of a solution within the religious fascism has been debunked.
First, owing to the presence of the Resistance movement, the charade billed as the existence of a solution within the religious fascism has been debunked.
The rebellious population and youth have rejected both factions of the regime. These are the same fearless youth who have chosen the path of fighting on, going on the maximum offensive, and waging resistance regardless of the cost.
2.3. The persistence
of the uprising and
the protest movement
despite maximum
suppression
The second sign that the era of the regimes overthrow has arrived is that for the past six months the Iranian people have waged an uprising and a protest movement despite the imposition of maximum suppression, despite the so-called suicides of the detainees in the mullahs prisons and despite daily arrests and executions designed to intimidate the public.
The workers at Haft-Tapeh sugar cane factory resumed their uprising. Then, the workers at Ahvaz steel factory, and farmers in Isfahan rose up. Worshipers in Isfahan turned their backs on Khameneis Friday prayer leader and chanted: My back to the enemy and face to the nation.
Isfahan Province was still on edge when our Arab compatriots in Khuzestan, especially in Ahvaz, rose up. Then came Kurdistan as the lengthy strike in Baneh aroused everyones admiration. Then, on the roadmap to overthrow, a new role model emerged: Kazerun, the city of uprising, fire and blood, with audacious women, who alongside their brothers and rocks in hand, repelled the heavily-armed enemy forces, imitating the resistance we saw at Camp Ashraf.
The second sign that the era of the regimes overthrow has arrived is that for the past six months the Iranian people have waged an uprising and a protest movement despite the imposition of maximum suppression...
At that moment, the uprising accelerated. The strike by toiling truck drivers and owners in 285 cities and in 31 provinces shook the regime to its foundation for 12 days.
Teachers, retirees, defrauded investors, and workers of hundreds of manufacturing units rose up day after day. And last week, the Tehran bazaar rose up and ignited an uprising in Tehran and other cities.
Iran revolted once again, with all its children, with all its nationalities and ethnicities.
Truly, what is the destination? The answer is: A free Iran, through the eradication of all the facets of dictatorship and plundering policies, and by bringing down Khamenei from power.
2.4. An explosive and
irreversible situation
The third sign of the inevitable overthrow of the ruling religious fascism is that social tensions and economic crises, especially high prices, unemployment, poverty, and inequality have reached a critical mass.
Everyone senses the explosive state of society. And the mullahs can offer neither a solution nor are willing or able to resolve the problems.
The velayat-e faqih
