{"id":14381,"date":"2019-12-14T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=14381"},"modified":"2019-12-14T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T10:05:18","slug":"ted-poe-mek-free-iran-rally-pmoi-ncri-maryam-rajavi-mojahedin-iranian-opposition-ashraf-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/annual-gathering\/2019\/12\/ted-poe-mek-free-iran-rally-pmoi-ncri-maryam-rajavi-mojahedin-iranian-opposition-ashraf-3\/14381\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Poe at MEK\u2019s annual Free Iran rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>On Saturday 13 july 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/07\/12\/iranian-opposition-conference-albania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a large crowd gathered in Ashraf 3, Albania<\/a>,\nhome to Iranian opposition group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/peoples-mojahedin-pmoi-mek-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>),\nto hold the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/07\/13\/annual-mek-rally-ashraf-3-albania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">annual Free Iran rally<\/a>\u00a0of the Iranian\nresistance. The event was the fourth installment in a series of events held at\nAshraf 3. Ted Poegave a speech in this gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Poe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ted Poe\u2013 Former\nMember of Congress<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"684\" height=\"385\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted\nPoe: Thank you very much. I am Ted Poe from the state of Texas and a former\nmember of the United States Congress. I am here with my friends, Dana\nRohrbacher and Lance Gooden from the United States. Dana Rohrbacher from\nCalifornia, and Lance from the state of Texas. A few years ago, when I was\nserving on the foreign affairs committee, Dana Rohrbacher was chairman of the\nEuropean subcommittee, we went to Iraq. And the reason we went to Iraq was to\ngo to Camp Ashraf and see the atrocities that were taking place. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because\nthe Iraqi government and the Iranian government had denied those atrocities war\ntaking place. We came to visit you. And when we got to Iraq and we talked to\nMaliki, he got irate. He said, \u201cYou cannot go to Camp Ashraf. You are forbidden\nto go to Camp Ashraf.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nfact, he got so mad that he ordered us out of his country. We couldn\u2019t believe\nit. We were evicted from Iraq because we wanted to see you. But now, we are\nhere. And we do get to see you, you folks in Camp Ashraf. Thank you for letting\nus visit with you and thank you for your endurance over all of these years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\nknow, the cynics, the critics, always have been criticizing you.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted\nPoe added: The Ayatollah, the mullahs, they said you would never last in Camp\nAshraf 1, but you did, and you made that a paradise in the desert for freedom.\nAnd then they said you would not last in Camp Liberty, which was a dungeon, but\nyou made it another parasite for freedom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nthey said you would never be able to leave and yet because of our Albanian\nfriends you were allowed to come to Camp <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/08\/28\/ashraf-3-home-to-iranian-opposition-group-mek-in-albania\/\">Ashraf 3<\/a>\nand make it a paradise in the desert. Well, there\u2019s going to be a Camp Ashraf\n4, and I hope that will be the last one. Because it\u2019s going to be in Tehran where\nall of us will be together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncynics and the critics criticized members of Congress that supported the\nfreedom fighters, supported Madame Rajavi. And when I was chairman of the\nterrorism committee, I wanted to have Madame Rajavi testify. All the bureaucrats\nwere jumping out the windows. \u201cYou can\u2019t have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/chronology\">Madame Rajavi<\/a> testify. It\u2019s not proper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s\nnot appropriate. She cannot come to the United States and testify.\u201d Well, we\nworked out some of the details. And it\u2019s true, she did not go to the United\nStates. She didn\u2019t have to. Because her testimony was on satellite and she did\ntestify before the terrorism subcommittee. And thank you for that. They said it\ncouldn\u2019t be done but she made the case, the case for freedom. The case for the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\">MEK<\/a>.\nThe case for delisting the MEK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nof course, the State Department, our State Department, oh they were so upset.\n\u201cWe cannot delist the MEK.\u201d First of all, it was a mistake for the United\nStates to ever put the MEK on the terrorist list. But I filed legislation,\nHouse Resolution 60, to delist the MEK, joined by Democrats and Republicans on\nthe Foreign Affairs committee. It was filed. Not long after, because of a\nlawsuit filed by the MEK, a federal judge in the United States ordered the\nState Department to delist the MEK and the MEK is delisted, as it should be.\nIt\u2019s not a terrorist organization. And how ironic is it that the MEK now is not\non the terrorist list but the Iranian government and the IRGC, they are both\nterrorist organizations, both of them. Thank you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted\nPoe continued: And let me say this about Madame Rajavi. When she testified and\nmade the case for freedom for Iran, I was impressed and others were impressed.\nAnd she reminded me of something my grandmother told me when I was a little\nkid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My\ngrandmother tried to make things simple for me to understand. You know, I\u2019m\nfrom Texas, it\u2019s got to be simple. And she said, \u201cRemember this: there is\nnothing more powerful than a woman that has made up her mind.\u201d And that woman\nis Madame Rajavi. She has made up her mind for freedom for all y\u2019all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday\u2014they\nlimited my time so I gotta keep going. Yesterday, Tom Ridge spoke about the\nfact that all of us in the world and in all of history are given by God with\ncertain rights. We get them from God, not from government. And he mentioned\nthose in the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those\nare three rights but there is another right that is mentioned in the\nDeclaration of Independence that all peoples have. Thomas Jefferson further\nwrote that governments are instituted among people to secure those rights of\nlife, liberty an the pursuit of happiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nif governments don\u2019t do that, the people have the right to alter or abolish\nthat government. It is the right of the people to abolish a tyrannical\ngovernment like the mullahs have in Iran. I used to be a judge long time ago.\nAnd when the mullahs are all captured and tried for war crimes, I want Rudy\nGiuliani to be the prosecutor in my court to try the mullahs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nwhat\u2019s the evidence? What\u2019s the evidence that they have forfeited the right to\ngovern the people of Iran? Well, how about 120,000 murders of Iranian people?\nHow about the attacks in Camp Ashraf and Ashraf 2. How about the attacks that\nthey wanted to have on you here in Albania? How about the assassination\nattempts? How about the fact that this terrorist organization is operating\nevery where there is trouble in the world there you will see a terrorist\norganization, the IRGC, whether it\u2019s in Yemen, whether it\u2019s in Lebanon, whether\nit\u2019s in Syria, whether it\u2019s in South America, whether it\u2019s ships at sea in\ninternational waters being attacked, whether it\u2019s aircraft in international\nairspace being attacked, you will see the mullahs and the IRGC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\nhave forfeited the right to rule the people of Iran. They are guilty of high\ncrimes. They are guilty of murder on the high seas and against their people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,\nthe mullahs. Don\u2019t fear the mullahs. Don\u2019t let them cause you to not be able to\nsleep at night. It is important that the mullahs fear you and you keep them\nawake at night. And I think that is what is taking place now; you keep them\nawake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted\nPoe indicated: You speak, you speak for the voices that have been silenced by\nthe murders that have taken place against them. And their voices cry out\nthrough you for justice, for justice. And justice demands that the people of\nIran, the people that are there and the people that are listening in Iran, they\nrule their own country. And that the illegitimate regime of the mullahs, it\nmust go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some\nof you know, and personal note and I\u2019m through, just a personal note and I\u2019m\nthrough. Not long ago, I was diagnosed with leukemia. And tough battle\noccurred.\u00a0 Thanks to the prayers of many of you here the Almighty has\ntaken care of that and I am here to continue to fight for you. But leukemia\u2019s a\ncancer. Many of you have had cancer before, your families have had cancer. You\ncannot ignore cancer. It doesn\u2019t just go away. The regime in Tehran is a\ncancer. It is not going to go away on its own. You must fight it. We must all\nfight it.\u00a0 The world will be safer, the people of Iran will be safer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nas Madame Rajavi has said in the past, when you have a serpent, a snake, you\nmust cut off the head of the snake. And I\u2019m here to tell you that the lion with\nthe sword is going to but off the head of the serpent so that there will be\nfreedom in Tehran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nthe end Ted Poe emphasized: Some things are worth living for and some things\nare worth dying for and I can think of no greater cause for any of us than to\nlive and die, if necessary, for freedom. And make sure that we sing the song\nthat the mullahs must go Freedom, freedom. Thank you very much. God bless you.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 13 july 2019,\u00a0a large crowd gathered in Ashraf 3, Albania, home to Iranian opposition group\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), to hold the\u00a0annual Free Iran rally\u00a0of the Iranian resistance. The event was the fourth installment in a series of events held at Ashraf 3. Ted Poegave a speech in this gathering. 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