Spring of freedom

MARYAM RAJAVI Madam Maryam Rajavi is the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI). She has dedicated her life to restore democracy and freedom in Iran. Ms. Rajavi was born on December 4, 1953, in Tehran. She earned a B.S. Degree in Metallurgy from the Sharif University of Technology. She helped organize the student movement against the Shah while attending the university. Ms. Rajavi’s older sister, Massoumeh, was executed by Shah’s regime. Her younger sister, Massoumeh, was wounded and detained when Revolutionary Guards attacked her home in Tehran in 1981. She was tortured to death while pregnant.  Her husband was also killed. Ms. Rajavi joined the PMOI after the revolution, working as a social section official. She ran for a seat in the first Majlis (parliament) in February 1980, but the mullahs prevented her from winning by manipulating the voting, as they did with all of the PMOI candidates. Ms. Rajavi fled Iran and beca...

Hundreds of senior former officials, lawmakers, and prominent personalities from 5 Continents attend The grand gathering of Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance was held in Paris on Saturday, July 1 st , in which hundreds of senior former officials, lawmakers, and prominent personalities from more than 50 countries in five continents participated. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was the keynote speaker. She emphasized that the only way to liberate the Iranian people from religious tyranny and to establish peace and tranquility in the region is to overthrow the velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule) . She underscored that the overthrow of this regime is indispensable, feasible, and within reach, and that a democratic alternative and an organized resistance exists to topple it. Mrs. Rajavi added that this democratic alternative is working to establish freedom and democracy in Iran; it will bring harmony to various...

In a meeting in Paris, Jan. 19, 2018, former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed his support for the Iranian people’s uprising and for the organized resistance under the NCRI The prominent Republican and former presidential candidate was addressing a meeting with representatives of Iranian communities from Europe, which was held at the  NCRI  ’s headquarters in a northern suburb of Paris. Maryam Rajavi  , the President-elect of the NCRI, addressed the meeting, titled “Regime change in Iran.” The meeting took place in the wake of a popular uprising that erupted in Iran on December 28. According to the network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), the NCRI’s main constituent group, the protests rapidly spread to 142 cities across the country. The MEK network reported that some 50 protesters were killed and at least 8,000 were detained. A growing number of are found to have been tortured to death. In his speech on January 9, Iran’s Supreme ...

National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Rajavi  : Realization of Iranian people’s desire for regime change is essential to human rights in Iran, peace in region and the world A major demonstration was held in Paris on December 11, to observe the International Human Rights Day (December 10) against the mullahs’ bloodletting regime and executions and torture in Iran.  The  NCRI  President-elect Maryam Rajavi sent a message to the demonstration which coincided with the One Plannet Summit in Paris. She said, 'Saving human rights and environment in Iran hinges on regime change.” She added: The clerical regime and its IRGC continuously destroy Iran’s environmental capacities for their military and security plans, missile program and malign objectives. To contain domestic crises and their own instability, they have resorted to war and slaughter of the peoples of the region. Therefore, realization of the Iranian people’s urgent demand to bring down the ...

Free Iran Gathering in Paris, 2016 EU Reporter, June 26, 2017  - Several hundred European parliamentarians and dignitaries from two dozen countries will attend the #FreeIran grand gathering in Paris on July 1. The event is also expected to attract tens of thousands of Iranian expatriates and their supporters. The participants will condemn the ongoing human rights violations in Iran, as well as Tehran’s meddlesome role in the conflict-torn region. Considering the recent events in Europe and elsewhere, the Iranian government’s role in training foreign fighters for terrorist attacks abroad, as well as its drive to acquire nuclear weapons will certainly be denounced. The lawmakers represent a mix of political parties and viewpoints, but share a common view that Iran’s clerical regime has such disregard for human rights and democracy that regime change is indispensable to freedom in Iran and stability in the region. They will endorse the opposition movement spearheaded by ...