Bob Blackman, British MP, addressed at the 2nd Day of The Free Iran World Summit on July 11, 2021.
Madame Rajavi, honorable colleagues, people of Iran, ladies and gentlemen, it’s great to be with you today, at least virtually. And an honor to join parliamentarians and Iranians from all around the world for this international gathering to support the people of Iran and the resistance movement, which calls for justice, and a free Iran.
In September 2016, my colleagues and I, tabled a parliamentary motion with regard to the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, which were killed in Iran’s prisons in the summer of 1988, including women and children, and all political prisoners, who supported the opposition movement of the PMOI.
This motion was one of the most supported parliamentary motions during the 2016-2017 session, which urged the United Kingdom Government to recognize and condemn this brutal massacre as a crime against humanity, and ask the United Nations to order an investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Similarly, in July 2018, my colleagues and I tabled another parliamentary motion, condemning the attempted bombing of the gathering of the Iranian opposition in Paris, for free Iran, the alternative. I was one of those representatives at the conference, and indeed, had the terrorist plot succeeded, I had many other colleagues in the UK Parliament, and parliamentarians from across the world, including, sad to say, the leaders of the free Iran movement would have been killed.
Even worse, we now know, of course, that that was held and that terrorist attempt was made by an Iranian diplomat using the diplomatic pouches to pass the ball to terrorists who would then go from Belgium into France to Paris to place that bomb underneath the conference.
And the motion that we put down was supported by a large number of my colleagues in the British Parliament. And as to the strong support for our two parliamentary motions, reflects the strong cross-party support the NCRI enjoys, and indeed, the President-Elect Madam Rajavi enjoys in the UK Parliament and amongst your friends in the United Kingdom.
Our two parliamentary motions show that there is strong support of bringing the mass murderers to justice, including a sham election of the president of Iran, who, of course, was responsible for the 1988 massacre. And I would like to make this pledge.
That 35 of our colleagues in the commons and lords, including many of my colleagues who are present today, made the history and destroyed the terror attack against the PMOI, which was a great victory, not only for the Iranian resistance and for you, Mrs. Rajavi, but for the people of Iran. We are going to take the mass murderer, Ebrahim Raisi to court.
We call on the United Nations Security Council to refer him to the International Criminal Court and try him as a criminal against humanity. And this is a must, as you always say, Mrs. Rajavi, we can, and we must. Let us call for a free Iran. Iran will be free.
