Free Iran 2024 World Summit - Iranian Community in Belgium

Today, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, the Free Iran World Summit 2024: Onward a Democratic Republic will convene in Paris, France. Simultaneously, thousands of Iranians abroad will gather in Berlin to support the Iran Uprising for a democratic Republic, separation of religion and state, and the Ten-Point Plan of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

The Iran World Summit, along with the Free Iran Rally 2024, will showcase prominent speakers who will address key topics such as the sham presidential election in Iran, the threats posed by the existing regime, the viable alternative, and the imperative of adopting the right policies to foster a prosperous future for Iran.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

In her speech Mrs. Maryam Rajavi hailed the Iranian people and the Iranian women’s struggle for freedom, stressing: “Your massive rally today in Berlin represents a continuation of the Iranian people’s triumph in the nationwide boycott of (Iran’s supreme leader Ali) Khamenei’s elections.”

Mrs. Rajavi said: “The sham elections are the outcome of the impasse and the major failures that plague the regime because the people of Iran have repeatedly and clearly declared, “Our vote is to overthrow the regime; there is no place for elections in this regime. It’s time for revolution! The next incoming President represents the continuation of the mullahs’ supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s strategy. He is a Basij member steeped in four decades of suppression and war, a follower of the 1988 executioner Ebrahim Raisi, a representative of the criminals known as Ansar-Hezbollah, and a loyal servant to Khamenei’s bomb-making agenda.”

Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States

As we gather today, though, there is one champion for freedom who is not with us, a man who served with distinction for nearly a quarter century in the United States Senate. He’s been mentioned from this podium already once and honored today. He was a man who never hesitated to stand for freedom, to stand for America’s alliances around the world, and he never hesitated to stand with the people of Iran. And when the day comes when Iran is once again free, we will remember and be grateful for the life and work of Senator Joe Lieberman.

Stephen Harper, Former Canadian Prime Minister

What exactly do these Western governments fear would happen if the Iranian regime collapsed? Do they really believe that what comes next could be worse than the status quo? How could it be worse than a theocratic state with an apocalyptic vision and a relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons, openly listing the countries it wants to wage war against? How could it be worse than a regime that, at great expense and at the suffering of its own people, funds terrorism and war from Syria to Lebanon and from Iraq to Yemen, that is trying to sink ships in the Red Sea, that has started a war in Gaza, that is supporting a war against Ukraine and is attempting to start a war in Lebanon. How exactly could it get worse than that?

The government of Iran is a global cancer and the only cure is regime change by the Iranian people themselves in free and open elections, and in those elections, this organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, will be ready to put forth a fully viable alternative. It is one with a long-standing organization and deep social roots. It has an active network inside and outside of Iran and capable leadership. Its plans are based on clear principles, things that it has advocated tirelessly for many years: a commitment to free elections, the rejection of the present and past forms of dictatorship, freedom of assembly and expression, pluralism and the rule of law, human rights and gender equality, the separation of religion and state, the acceptance of Iran’s religious and ethnic diversity, and most importantly for the international community, a non-nuclear state at peace with the world.

Kathleen Depoorter, Belgian MP

The release of Assadi was a big mistake, but we did something right in Belgium. As did our colleagues, we signed this joint statement, a joint statement that has also been signed by our presidents of the parties. And with this statement, we want to express our support to Mrs. Rajavi and her 10-point plan. We also want to express our support for these many brave Resistance Units in Iran who are fighting against this repressive apparatus of the IRGC, and we reject the absurd actions of the regime against 104 members of the Iranian opposition who are now political refugees in Europe.

Guy Verhofstadt, Former Belgian Prime Minister and Member of the European Parliament

I have one clear message to the new leadership of the European Union. I want to give an urgent appeal to the new leadership to change the EU strategy toward Iran and the mullahs in Iran. The strategy of the EU toward Iran has been a failure in the last decade. It has been a strategy of appeasement and complacency, and it has failed. The mullahs continue their criminal activities against their own people and across the world.

So my message is that we need a new strategy that is bolder, more courageous, and more effective, one that is as courageous as the people of Iran. It means a strategy based on four pillars:

First, recognize the IRGC as a terrorist organization.

Second, stop trying to revive the nuclear deal. The regime can’t be trusted.

Third, we need a new strategy in the EU to liberate the hostages, because what is happening is outrageous. Individual deals done with the regime are outrageous. We need a collective approach that sanctions the regime and increases the sanctions if hostages are not released every month.

Finally, the fourth pillar of the strategy must be the recognition and cooperation with the only opposition, the NCRI. It is outrageous that we are not capable of doing so. The regime has no legitimacy. 88% boycotted the elections in Iran, which is very similar to the parliamentary elections.

Mike Pompeo, 70th US Secretary of State

The people of Iran deserve to determine their own future and they need the support of everyone in this room and those in this room who have taken another path. It is never too late to join in the effort to help the people of Iran overthrow this illegitimate regime.

Their alternative? The ruling class will tell us otherwise. They tell us that there is no alternative to the existing regime. But every week in hundreds of cities and townships across Iran, we can see that there is an alternative. The MEK provides a solution to so many problems, not only for Iran but for the broader Middle East as well. There is an alternative.

I’m convinced that you all in your lifetime will get to celebrate that very moment when the regime in Iran collapses.

Madam Rajavi, the 10-point plan you have put forward is the solution. It is the answer. That day will come when it will shatter the theocracy, it will break them to the very core, and the very leaders who are inflicting so much pain on the Iranian people today will be held accountable for all that they have done. This platform is grounded in this self-evident truth upon which American democracy was founded.