{"id":18392,"date":"2020-10-04T09:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T07:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=18392"},"modified":"2020-10-04T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T07:14:30","slug":"remarks-by-kathleen-rice-at-the-trans-atlantic-summit-on-iran-policy-september-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/supports\/2020\/10\/remarks-by-kathleen-rice-at-the-trans-atlantic-summit-on-iran-policy-september-18-2020\/18392\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Kathleen Rice at the Trans-Atlantic Summit on Iran Policy; September 18, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the brink of the U.N. General Assembly\u2019s annual session, an online international summit, entitled \u201cTrans-Atlantic Summit<\/a>\u00a0on Iran Policy, Time to Hold the Iranian Regime Accountable,\u201d was held September 18. The Summit brought together Iranians in various countries around the world from 10,000 locations. Ms. Kathleen Rice, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, joined the Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the personalities who addressed the summit were 30 bipartisan U.S. lawmakers from the House and the Senate. Personalities including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Roy Blunt, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Bob Menendez, and dignitaries like Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor, General James Jones, National Security Advisor to President Obama (2009-2010), Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Joseph Lieberman, former U.S. Senator, as well as a delegation of U.K. lawmakers, and Ambassador Giulio Terzi, former Foreign Minister of Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the keynote speaker of the summit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mrs.\u00a0Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the\u00a0NCRI<\/a>\u00a0was the keynote speaker of the summit. She paid tribute to\u00a0Navid Afkari<\/a>, a rebellious national hero recently executed by the regime. Mrs. Rajavi said: \u201cFaced with executions and massacres, the people of Iran urge the U.N. and the U.N. Security Council, in particular, to restore snapback sanctions stipulated in the six U.N. resolutions against the clerical regime in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She continued,\u201d Otherwise, Khamenei will continue to ravage the nation as his regime\u2019s survival depends on murder and suppression. If Khamenei were to stop executions, he would lose control of the situation, and uprisings simmering in the depths of Iranian society would erupt and overthrow the mullahs\u2019 religious fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the summit, speakers demanded justice for over 30,000\u00a0MEK<\/a>\u00a0and other activists, political prisoners\u00a0massacred in 1988<\/a>. Also, they urged an end to the appeasement policy and requested those who ordered and carried out this great crime, who currently occupy high positions in the regime, to be brought to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Rice, member of the U.S. House of Representatives joined to the summit. In her remarks, Ms. Rice said, \u201cI was proud to support H.R. 4744, the Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act. This bill states that Congress finds the following in reference to the 1988 massacre<\/a>: \u201cOver a 4-month period in 1988, the Iranian regime carried out the barbaric mass executions of thousands of political prisoners by hanging and firing squad for refusing to renounce their political affiliations and in some cases for possessing political reading material, including prisoners of conscience, teenagers, and pregnant women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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