{"id":1895,"date":"2018-06-03T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T10:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2018-06-18T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T09:18:54","slug":"iranian-resistance-free-iran-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/iranian-resistance-free-iran-gathering\/1895\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Resistance Annual \u201cFree Iran\u201d Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iranian Resistance Annual \u201cFree Iran\u201d Gathering<\/a><\/p>\n

The announcement for the largest gathering of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> and the PMOI, held annually in Paris, was aired on Simay-e Azadi TV Channel recently.<\/p>\n

To set up such a magnificent ceremony every year, bringing together freedom lovers from all over the world including those from Iran, indicates a tremendous commitment on the part of the Iranian Resistance. A commitment, beyond all pragmatic assessments, resolved to carry out the task of overthrowing of the entire clerical dictatorship in Iran.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s gathering of the Iranian resistance in Paris is particularly important given the rapid changes taking place in the Iranian political and social scene, nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n

The continuation of the widespread uprising indicates a new era in the Iranian political environment.<\/p>\n

During last December\u2019s uprising the Iranian people shouted slogans such as \u201cReformist, fundamentalist the game is over \u201c, and, \u201cDeath to dictator, death to Khamenei (the supreme leader).\u201d \u00a0The people of Iran have expressed their desire for a regime change through these chants.<\/p>\n

The Isfahan farmers\u2019 protest, teachers\u2019 protests in 32 different cities, the astonishing uprising of Kazerun, and the currently ongoing strikes of truck drivers in over 270 cities signify the continuation of the uprisings despite the high degree of cruelty displayed by the regime in its crackdown against people.<\/p>\n

The regime has shown a bewildering capability to commit cruelty.\u00a0 For example by killing detainees telling the families that it was a suicide, or, as it happened in Kazerun, shooting to death young protesters who demonstrated to preserve their city\u2019s historic and demographic texture.<\/p>\n

The rapidly changing condition of the country is so real that emerging crises, protests, and confrontations between disaffected people and the ruling mullahs are expected on daily basis.<\/p>\n

The social and political conditions can be analysed from different aspects, but the members and supporters of the Iranian resistance do not stop there. They do not intend to maintain the status quo or simply follow the quixotic idea of reforming it. \u00a0But they are determined to make a profound change in the social environment of Iran even if it may seem unrealistic at times.<\/p>\n

They are creating a model for tomorrow\u2019s free Iran.<\/p>\n

The historians, free from Shah and Mullahs\u2019 bowdlerizing, will write and people will know that the Iranian resistance\u2019s ability to overcome all the hurdles was not by accident or a miracle, but was due to an all-out effort of many years.<\/p>\n

Let us remember an event from the near history dating back to late December 1977. On the New Year\u2019s Eve, in the Niavaran Palace, Tehran.\u00a0 On that occasion, the United States\u2019 then-President Jimmy Carter and Iran\u2019s Shah were toasting and giving speeches about an \u201cisland of stability in one of the most troubled areas of the world\u201d referring to Iran under the iron fist rule of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.<\/p>\n

At that time not many believed an emerging tsunami on the \u201cIsland of stability\u201d. But suddenly, it all changed and in a matter of few month, the Shah\u2019s regime was toppled during the 1979 Iranian revolution.<\/p>\n

In this year\u2019s \u201cFree Iran\u201d gathering, the Iranian diaspora aims to tell the world that the Iranian regime will soon be overthrown at the hands of the Iranian people. And that, there is a powerful and popular alternative that will be able to achieve democracy for Iranian people. An alternative that did not and will not bow to political bullies during the period of its resistance for freedom, instead resolutely held the helm for the peoples\u2019 struggle for their rights and steered it in the correct direction.<\/p>\n

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On 30th June we will gather to stand in #solidarity<\/a> with the people of #Iran<\/a> and to present the true alternative to the theocracy ruling Iran.
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\u2014 Soheila Dashti (@Alicebahe) June 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n