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Maryam Rajavi, Face of Iran to Be

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Maryam Rajavi is the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a coalition of some 500 Iranian opposition groups and personalities, committed to a democratic, secular and non-nuclear republic in Iran.

Maryam Rajavi presents a 10 point plan for Free Iran:

In Maryam Rajavi's view, the ballot box is the only criterion for legitimacy. Accordingly, she seeks a republic based on universal suffrage.

Maryam Rajavi wants a pluralist system, freedom of parties and assembly. She respects all individual freedoms. Maryam Rajavi underscores complete freedom of expression and of the media and unconditional access by all to the internet.

Maryam Rajavi supports and is committed to the abolition of death penalty.

Maryam Rajavi committed to the separation of Church and State. She rejects any form of discrimination against the followers of other religions and denominations.

Maryam Rajavi believes in complete gender equality in political, social and economic arenas. She is also committed to equal participation of women in political leadership. Maryam Rajavi announced any form of discrimination against women will be abolished. In Maryam Rajavi's view women will enjoy the right to freely choose their clothing. Maryam Rajavi believes women must be free in marriage, divorce, education and employment rights.

Maryam Rajavi believes in the rule of law and justice. She wants to set up a modern judicial system based on the principles of presumption of innocence, the right to defense, effective judicial protection and the right to be tried in a public court. Maryam Rajavi also seeks the total independence of judges. Maryam Rajavi believes the mullahs’ Sharia law must be abolished.

Maryam Rajavi is committed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and international covenants and conventions, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture, and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Maryam Rajavi is committed to the equality of all nationalities. She underscores the plan for the autonomy of Iranian Kurdistan, adopted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. In Maryam Rajavi's view the language and culture of Iranians from whatever nationality, is among the nation’s human resources and must spread and be promulgated in tomorrow’s Iran.

Maryam Rajavi recognizes private property, private investment and the market economy. In Maryam Rajavi believes all Iranian people must enjoy equal opportunity in employment and in business ventures. 
Maryam Rajavi's foreign policy will be based on peaceful coexistence, international and regional peace and cooperation, as well as respect for the United Nations Charter.

Maryam Rajavi announced that she wants a non-nuclear Iran, free of weapons of mass destruction.

Maryam Rajavi wins hearts and minds of Iranian diaspora

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By Elaheh Azimfar

In three days' time, the world will witness the largest annual gathering of Iranian exiles in Le Bourget, Paris, with Maryam Rajavi as the keynote speaker.

Iranians of all walks of life as well as hundreds of politicians and personalities from five continents will converge in Le Bourget to declare their support for Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance and their struggle to overthrow the regime ruling Iran and establish freedom and democracy in their country. But who is Maryam Rajavi?

Maryam Rajavi, a devout Muslim woman, has led the opposition to Tehran's fundamentalist regime for the past three decades. Maryam Rajavi espouses a tolerant and democratic interpretation of Islam and calls for unity of all democratic forces to confront terrorism and extremism emanating from the clerical regime in Iran, as the most dangerous threat of our time to global peace and security.  

Maryam Rajavi's ten-point plan offers a democratic alternative to the ongoing savagery of the ruling regime in Iran.

Maryam Rajavi calls for abolition of the death penalty, separation of the Mosque and State, and equal participation of women in political leadership. Maryam Rajavi also calls for a non-nuclear Iran that lives in peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.

Maryam Rajavi believes that women's equality is essential to democratic progress in today's world, in any country and in any organization. So, it was all the more essential to the struggle against the misogynous fundamentalist extremists ruling Iran.

One of the major achievements of Maryam Rajavi has been the involvement of the Resistance's women in the most crucial positions of responsibility in the movement. The idea of women's equal participation in political leadership, economic and management roles, has been realized in Maryam Rajavi's movement. This is especially important because this phenomenon is not limited to a few talented and intelligent women, but embraces a generation of women with diverse backgrounds.

Maryam Rajavi's achievement was made possible by rejection of all forms of discrimination against women in her movement and providing a just and equal opportunity for everyone, proving the fact that any human being can exercise her/his talents and intelligence once given an equal opportunity for education and occupation.

Maryam Rajavi is recognized for her strength, resolve and leadership qualities. Maryam Rajavi is admired for her tireless leadership and struggle against the ruthless mullahs of Iran. Maryam Rajavi has demonstrated amazing strength in the face of numerous difficulties facing her movement.

Maryam Rajavi's motto is we can and we must. Maryam Rajavi believes that by being realistic, devoting enough energy and time to any task, human beings can decide their own fate and break through any impasse. That is how Maryam Rajavi has succeeded in leading her movement through a tortuous path over the years, towards imminent victory.

Iranians believe that with Maryam Rajavi pledging regime change in Iran, they would enjoy their inalienable, equal human rights in a free Iran.

Elaheh Azimfar is the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s representative for international organizations

Dr. Anouar Malek: Mullahs’ regime of Iran behind all conflicts in the M.E.

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Arab Parliamentarians, international actors, and prominent civil society leaders have announced their support for the major “Free Iran” gathering organized by the Iranian Resistance in Paris on July 9th. Dr. Anouar Malek, a prominent writer and former Syrian correspondent in the Arab Union, denounced the mullahs' regime in Iran for its mass executions, export of terrorism and its complicity with Bashar al-Assad in the killing of Syrian people.
He addressed his concerns through a message broadcasted this week on the Iranian opposition satellite channel Simay-e Azadi (INTV). In his message, Dr. Malek honored the Iranian Resistance and the Syrian people and he called for freedom, self-determination and an end to tyranny. Moreover, Dr. Malek stated 'behind the existing conflict in the Middle East, there stands the mullahs' regime, and one must not blame the Iranian people for this issue. Undoubtedly, the mullahs' regime is the main cause of the crisis. The presence of the mullahs in Iran is a crisis in itself. I believe that the presence of this regime is not only a danger for all people in the region, but it’s also a danger to all humanity and the world. The mullahs’ regime puts the world in danger.'
He added: 'I do not think there is any force in the world that can bring the revolution of Syria to the brink of defeat. There is no force to defeat human will, perseverance, and the need for freedom; no matter which nationality. There is no force to defeat a human who determines his or her own fate and will. This principal is true also for the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI or MEK) who have not been defeated all these years although the mullahs' regime has always tried to repress, murder, harass and imprison them. This is why defeating the will of freedom is absolutely impossible.'
Dr. Malek also stressed to the participants of the major gathering on July 9th that 'the participants must continue their work; contribute and cooperate with each other in all matters so that the mullahs' regime of Iran will be under siege.”
“I also call on other nations to support the Iranian people who are suffering from tyranny, oppression and dictatorship. This dictatorship that has inflicted its tyranny and injustices on other nations will also harm the whole world one day. We must all stay in solidarity with each other so that on July 9th, we will gather for the liberation day of the Iranian people. The freedom of the Iranian people means the elimination of terrorism that has cast its dominance on the whole region.'

 

A Message from Paris Both Republicans and Democrats Should Heed

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Okay. Let’s face it. The two presidential nominees have effectively been chosen.  The Democratic and Republican National Conventions are ahead of us, and the U.S. is on the precipice of a highly contentious several months of campaigning.
Discord between the two major parties is always evident in American politics, but almost never more so than in the run-up to national elections. It would not be surprising if Washington lawmakers and the vast majority of their constituents all found it very difficult to identify common ground on anything in this political climate.
But there are some things that almost all Americans can agree on. There are more situations than you might realize in which Democrats and Republicans want to achieve the same goals, although we struggle to find a shared perspective on working toward them.
There is perhaps no better example than the universal imperative to confront the threat of Islamic extremism. There has been well-publicized discord over issues like the growth of the Islamic State, the response to home-grown terrorism, and attempts to stabilize the Middle East.  But this only goes to show that both parties are preoccupied with pinning down a solution.
It may not seem so, but Republicans and Democrats absolutely can find common ground on this area of policy. In a very meaningful sense, some already have. If you look to Paris just about a week prior to the Cleveland RNC, you will see Republican and Democratic policymakers, including officials from several presidential administrations, standing side-by-side to show common cause in the fight against Islamic terrorism.
On July 9, they will take part in the convention (ironically bigger in size than either the RNC or DNC) organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the democratic Iranian opposition. The “Free Iran” gathering in Paris will host a bipartisan American delegation, along with delegations from the EU and various nations of the world.
The consistently broad appeal of the NCRI goes a long way toward demonstrating that the fight against Islamic terrorism and extremism – and the effort to enlist allies in that fight – is in no way a partisan issue. Success will depend strongly upon the principle of coalition building. No one president, no one political party – not even one nation – can take on a global phenomenon like Islamic terrorism on its own.
Whoever occupies the White House next year will need help from both inside and outside his or her own administration to do all that will be necessary to undermine fundamentalism –like standing up to the egregious conduct of the Iranian regime, fighting the Islamic State, facilitating the removal of embattled regional dictators like Bashar al-Assad, and making sure that the peoples of that region have strong, recognizable alternatives to the extremist groups currently vying for dominance.
As the Republican and Democratic Parties prepare speeches on global affairs and foreign policy ahead of their conventions, they could learn a thing or two from the NCRI’s rally, in particular from NCRI President Maryam Rajavi, a devout and profoundly anti-fundamentalist Muslim woman leader. With a clear understanding of Islamic extremism, she has maintained that moderate democratic Islam is the antidote to the violent conduct of extremists under the cloak of Islam.
And her movement has paid a heavy price for it. Some 120,000 of the activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), the main constituent of the NCRI have been executed in Iran in the past three decades for standing up to Islamic extremists ruling in Iran.
The Democratic and Republican presence at that rally means that there will be people from each party who are prepared to convey her perspective to their colleagues regarding the prospects for moderate Muslims in the Middle East; the destructive role of Iran, Assad and Iraqi Shiite militias in the spread of extremism throughout the region; and the means by which that spread can be halted.
Clearly, the NCRI knows a thing or two about bringing people together in common cause. Last year’s rally drew 100,000 people from across the world. Now, as then, the rally will include not just Iranians but also representatives of the moderate Syrian opposition and other anti-Islamist movements.
The ten-point plan of the NCRI includes the establishment of truly democratic governance in the Middle East, the separation of religion and state, an end to institutional misogyny, and the promotion of other principles that hold equally obvious appeal for all Americans, and indeed for all civilized peoples of the world.
Here’s hoping that coming so close on the heels of the NCRI rally, the Republican and Democratic National Conventions will put more focus on these principles that can bring us together in such an important common cause. The message from Paris is one that both conventions would be wise to heed.
Ken Blackwell is the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.