More than 1,220 City Council members from 270 cities across the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement voicing their support for the Iranian people’s anti-regime uprising and the ten-point plan of Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi for a free and democratic republic in Iran.
The signatories emphasized on their solidarity with the Iranian people and standing shoulder to shoulder with them in their struggle for a democratic republic based on separation of religion and state, in which no individual enjoys privileges over others based on family relations or religion.
This statement supports the Iranian people’s demand of establishing a democratic republic in Iran and reiterates the fact that the Iranian people, in the slogans voiced in their recent uprising, reject any and all forms of dictatorship, including the ousted Shah’s regime and the current religious tyranny ruling Iran. The Iranian people also reject any ties with these two dictatorships.
The signatories of this statement condemn the crackdown against Iranian protesters that led to the killing of over 750 demonstrators and the apprehension of over 30,000 others and demand a complete halt in the killing of demonstrators.
The ten-point plan of NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), announced over two decades, acknowledges and respects the same values that the people of democratic countries defend, the signatories highlighted.
The Iranian people’s brave uprising is a result of the country’s explosive circumstances due to expanding poverty and the regime’s crackdown, corruption, and segregation on the one hand, and an organized anti-regime resistance movement that has spread across the country for more than four decades.
In the summer of 1988 alone more than 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were MEK members and supporters, were massacred in barbaric fashion, the statement adds. The signatories also condemn the continued meddling of the religious despotism ruling Iran in regional countries and Europe, including the mullahs’ recent terror plots and cyberattacks in Albania.
The statement calls on the international community to stand alongside the Iranian people in their effort to bring about change in Iran, and adopt firm measures against the current regime, including designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization and holding the regime accountable for its crimes against humanity.
