Why do I support "Free Iran Global Summit" Iran Rising Up for Freedom? By Anna Rita Canone
The desperate Iranian
situation is explained by the economist Hossein Raghfar: in an interview on
Iran's state-run TV he talks about the widely spread corruption among powerful
figures of the regime; they get fat while 2/3 of Iranians live in complete
poverty.
This is one of the reasons for the annual “Free Iran” grand
gathering, supported by the main
Iranian opposition, PMOI or MEK (respectively, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and
Mojahedin-e Khalq).
A foreign citizen may wonder: “What do I have to do/share with it? I live
abroad”. Well, last year the event has been in Ashraf-3 in Albania and there have been hundreds of international authorities,
from 47 nations, former USA and UE prime ministers, foreign ministers,
diplomats and so on: their presence shows that the Iranian diaspora is not only
an Iranian matter, we have to remember that the regime exports terrorism and it
has its own nuclear program.
Iranian activists are suffering the clerical regime from 41 years, Iran has
changed from a country with international standards of living to a Western
“medieval” Country. Torture and massive killing have become usual: the regime
has executed, as NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran) reports,
over 120,000 people: MEK members, human rights activists, journalists, and so
on, not to forget the 30,000 political prisoners during the summer of
1998.
What are the purposes of the annual gathering? First of all, the need of
regime change, offering a democratic alternative. MEK's job, for years, had
been to show abroad the brutality of the regime: now the situation is widely
known, thanks to new technologies.
In this contest, the leader of Iranian Resistance's President, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, represents a breaking point: she is Muslim but she fights for women's
rights, education, and democracy.
Her long battle has made her known by the Western Countries: last month, on
June 17th, the US House of
Representatives has
recognized the Iranian right to live in a democratic republic, in which
religion and state are not the same.
Is it possible for a new Iran?
The answer is yes, Rajavi pointed out 10 steps:
Maryam Rajavi - Ten-Point plan
for future of Iran
1.People's power with universal suffrage.
2.Freedom of speech, press, internet, parties, assemblies; dissolution of
all the terrorist forces, patrols and institutions in cities, villages,
universities and so on.
3.Individual and social freedoms according to Universal Declaration of
Human Rights; dissolution of all censoring and inquisition agencies, the symbol
of the worst regime; justice for massacred political prisoners;
abolishment of torture and death penalty.
4.Separation of religion and state; freedom of religions and faith.
5.Complete gender equality in the society: right of education, to choose
one's clothing, to marriage, to divorce, employment and all basic rights that
are usual for a Western woman.
6.Independent judiciary and legal system according to international
standards: right of appeal, right of defense; abolishment of Sharia law;
dissolution of revolutionary courts.
7.The autonomy of Iranian Kurdistan according to NCRI's plan
8.Free market economy and new justice and equal opportunities for Iranian
people, restoration of dignity and rights of blue-collar workers, white-collar
workers, retirees.
9.Protection and restoration of the environment, as it has become a global
matter.
10.No to nuclear and mass destruction weapons, but rather yes to peace,
co-existence, and international (and regional) cooperation.
The wind of change is rising and spreading, Iranian people reject religious
tyranny and oppose it, fighting for democracy.
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