{"id":16178,"date":"2020-07-15T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=16178"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T08:27:10","slug":"bipartisan-group-of-prominent-u-s-figures-supports-free-iran-global-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/annual-gathering\/grand-gathering-2020\/2020\/07\/bipartisan-group-of-prominent-u-s-figures-supports-free-iran-global-summit\/16178\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan group of prominent U.S. figures supports ‘Free Iran Global Summit’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, the ominous coronavirus outbreak<\/a> has disrupted many activities and prevented citizens to come together like the past. However, Iranian communities who were holding great gatherings in support of the Iranian opposition People\u2019s Mojahedin<\/a>Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) and National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>) announced that \u201cThis year, they will hold a virtual gathering, which is supposed to be the greatest video conference since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the eve of next Friday\u2019s \u201cFree Iran Global Summit<\/a>\u201d, a\u00a0bipartisan group of prominent\u00a0U.S.\u00a0figures has\u00a0declared their\u00a0support\u00a0for\u00a0the Iranian people and their Organized Resistance in the struggle under the leadership of the NCRI\u2019s president-elect Ms. Maryam Rajavi<\/a> for a free and democratic Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a beacon of hope in this dark landscape. The one organization that has done more than any other entity, including governments, to free Iranian citizens from tyranny and the world from fundamentalist-inspired terrorism is the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The NCRI strives relentlessly to ensure that hope for democracy and an end to injustice remains alive in,\u201d they wrote in\u00a0a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the MEK members have been subjected to the Iranian regime unbridled terrorism, signatories of the bipartisan statement<\/a> also encouraged the U.S. and European states to send teams of experts to Ashraf 3, home to the MEK members in Albania, to launch an investigation against criminal mullahs and their allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe recommend that countries that have been victimized by Iranian-government sponsored terrorism, including the US and its European allies, send teams of experts to study the evidence at Ashraf 3<\/a> while organizing their own evidence for eventual use in international tribunal proceedings,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full text of the statement is as follows:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to Prepare for Iranian Regime Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The days of religious fundamentalists controlling Iran are numbered. These clerics have remained in power since 1979 by brutalizing all who do not embrace their extremist constitution, who demand to think and speak for themselves, including about matters of religious faith, and who desire for their fellow Iranians a future of dignity and freedom. The regime has denied its citizens that future, and the rights that, for every human being, are inalienable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not just the rights, but the lives of Iran\u2019s citizens are being sacrificed for the empowerment of a\u00a0dysfunctional and rapacious theocracy.\u00a0 Just as it did in suppressing with lethal force innocent citizens\u00a0expressing political dissent in 1981, 1988, 1999 and 2009, the regime has answered the country-wide\u00a0demonstrations and protests that have taken place since December 2017 with bullets and prison\u00a0cells.\u00a0 Every act of defiance and protest is a courageous call for liberty, and a rebuke to an illegitimate\u00a0and isolated regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor have the regime\u2019s atrocities been limited to the Iranian citizens trapped within the country\u2019s borders. Iran has also become a staging area for hostile operations directed against governments throughout the Middle East and beyond. Every single year since 1984, Iran has been the leading state sponsor of international terrorism. The list of Iranian-sponsored terrorist activities continues to grow across Asia, Europe, and North America. As we now know, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) attempt to bomb an anti-Iranian government demonstration near Paris in 2018 was prevented by the joint law enforcement efforts of three European nations. In the space of a few months, MOIS actions were interdicted by authorities in Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, and Albania. In 2019, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States Government.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The designation was long overdue. The IRGC was responsible for the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996 which killed 19 and injured 500 American service-members. As documented by the U.S. Department of Defense, the IRGC was directly involved in 608 American service-members\u2019 deaths in Iraq since 2003. Hezbollah, under the supervision of an IRGC brigadier who later emerged as President Rouhani\u2019s Defense Minister, conducted the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings which resulted in deaths of 241 American and 58 French service-members.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence implicates Iran\u2019s top leaders in the most destructive terror bombings in Argentina\u2019s history, in 1992 and 1994. The regime has conducted assassinations of its critics in the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey, Austria, and Sweden. Commencing in 2009, Tehran\u2019s client government in Iraq and Iranian-backed proxy militias were responsible for three ground assaults on Camp Ashraf and multiple rocket attacks on Camp Liberty where the defenseless men and women of the Iranian opposition organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) were located, awaiting UN processing as refugees, and supposedly under the protection of the Iraqi government. The most deadly event was the September 2013 Ashraf massacre where 51 unarmed dissidents were murdered and seven were\u00a0kidnapped, never to be heard from again. Analysis of the weapons, methods, and precision of strikes confirmed IRGC involvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike many governments, the leading figures in this evil regime have been in positions of authority for years, decades even. The senior officials at whose direction police murder citizens on the streets and wrongfully arrest innocent people, prison officials torture and execute citizens whose only crime has been expressing the desire for political and religious freedom, and judges enable government tyranny and twist the rule of law, must now be held accountable. These criminals have abused the privileges of sovereignty to achieve impunity for their crimes against humanity for forty-three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a beacon of hope in this dark landscape. The one organization that has done more than any other entity, including governments, to free Iranian citizens from tyranny and the world from fundamentalist-inspired terrorism is the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The NCRI strives relentlessly to ensure that hope for democracy and an end to injustice remains alive in\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran. Additionally, with continual media outreach, publications, and meetings, it sustains international attention on the ongoing assault against humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albert Einstein, who would have been lost to the Holocaust had he not resettled in America in the 1930s, stated, \u201cThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do not do anything about it.\u201d We call upon governments that live by democratic principles to act now on a coordinated initiative to bring accountability to individuals bearing responsibility for gross human rights abuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCRI and its affiliate organization, the MeK, have endured unspeakable horrors from the Iranian regime. The NCRI and MeK have kept very thorough documentation of the atrocities committed against themselves and the Iranian people. MeK\u2019s Ashraf 3 museum in Albania has compiled a remarkable display and repository of evidence, staffed by victims bearing personal witness to the depraved modalities of regime torture. The MeK\u2019s documentation is securely backed up in other countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the US and other governments contemplate policies to deter and contain Iranian threats and aggression, they can and must act to bring accountability to people with the blood of so many Iranians on their hands. Ample precedent exists that leaders cannot claim sovereign immunity for their crimes against humanity. We recommend that countries that have been victimized by Iranian-government sponsored terrorism, including the US and its European allies, send teams of experts to study the evidence at Ashraf 3 while organizing their own evidence for eventual use in international tribunal proceedings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice delayed is justice denied. Einstein\u2019s admonition requires action. So do the principles by which we define ourselves as Americans. By signaling that a day of reckoning awaits the Tehran regime\u2019s most brutal actors, and that these men will never again walk free in the world, we will be sending the most powerful signal of hope and solidarity to the Iranian people, and to all who espouse freedom and justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respectfully,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amb.\u00a0<\/em>J. Kenneth Blackwell<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former\u00a0U.S. Representative, United Nations Human Rights Commission\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr<\/em><\/strong>. \u2013\u00a0Former Special Envoy and Asst Sec State\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonel (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>Thomas V. Cantwell<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former US Military Commander for Camp Ashraf\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>George Casey<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff and Commander of Multi-National Forces\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iraq\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Linda Chavez<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former\u00a0Assistant to the President for Public Liaison; Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonel (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>John Cirafici<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former Defense Attache, Algiers\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>James Conway<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former\u00a0Commandant U.S. Marine\u00a0Corps\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt<\/em>. Gen. (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>David Deptula<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former Deputy COS for Intel, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, U.S. Air Force\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor\u00a0<\/em>Alan Dershowitz<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Professor of Law, Harvard Law School\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Louis J. Freeh<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former\u00a0Director FBI\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Newt Gingrich<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former Speaker\u00a0of the House\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon<\/em>.\u00a0Marc Ginsberg<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former U.S.\u00a0Ambassador to Morocco\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Rudy Giuliani<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former NYC\u00a0Mayor, Presidential Candidate\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Porter Goss<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Director of\u00a0CIA, Former Chairman of House Intel\u00a0Committee\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General (Ret.)\u00a0James L. Jones<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former USMC Commandant, NATO Commander, National Security Advisor to the President\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Robert Joseph<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013<\/em>Former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Patrick Kennedy<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former Rhode\u00a0Island Congressman\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Joseph I. Lieberman<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former\u00a0Connecticut Senator\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonel (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>Wesley M<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Martin<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former Senior Antiterrorism Officer, Coalition Forces \u2013 Iraq\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt. Col. (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>Leo McCloskey<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former US Military Commander for Camp Ashraf\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>R<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Bruce\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>McColm<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President,\u00a0Institute for Democratic Strategies\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonel (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>Gary Morsch<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>Former\u00a0Senior Medical Officer at Ashraf\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Michael B. Mukasey<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former US\u00a0Attorney General\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Ted Poe<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former Texas\u00a0Congressman\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Mitchell B. Reiss<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former\u00a0Ambassador, Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Tom Ridge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Former PA Governor,\u00a0Secretary Homeland Security\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>John Sano<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Deputy Director\u00a0CIA National Clandestine Service\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor\u00a0<\/em>Ivan Sascha Sheehan<\/em><\/strong>, Ph.D.\u00a0<\/em>\u2013\u00a0Executive Director School of Public and International Affairs, Univ of Baltimore\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Eugene R. Sullivan<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Retired Federal Judge\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon.\u00a0<\/em>Robert Torricelli<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former NJ Senator\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General (Ret.)\u00a0<\/em>Charles (Chuck) Wald-<\/em><\/strong>Former Deputy Commander U.S. European Command\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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