{"id":36362,"date":"2022-08-30T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=36362"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:45:30","slug":"professor-john-mather-director-of-the-james-webb-telescope-project-nobel-laureate-in-physics-2006-addresses-the-free-iran-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2022\/08\/professor-john-mather-director-of-the-james-webb-telescope-project-nobel-laureate-in-physics-2006-addresses-the-free-iran-2022\/36362\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor John Mather, Director of the James Webb Telescope Project \u2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics 2006, Addresses the Free Iran 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Excerpts of the speech of Professor John Mather, Director of the James Webb Telescope Project \u2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics 2006, at the Free Iran 2022, is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am happy to contribute my few words to a great cause of freedom for Iran and freedom for everyone everywhere. In 1776, July 4, a small group of Americans representing the 13 British colonies declared independence from Great Britain with a long document explaining why we did it. We were tired of being oppressed by the king and his ministers, and tired of having no representation in Parliament. We asked politely but were refused. Now, at that time, the average citizen in Britain or anywhere else was extremely poor and had almost no rights whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our revolutionary Declaration of Independence said, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government of the governed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was actually a declaration of war, and it was a very difficult fight that could have turned out very differently. Depending on outside help that we got from France, you might think it was obvious that the Americans would win, but it was not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With slightly different weather, slightly different battlefield strategies, the revolution could have failed. I have been following the Iranian resistance<\/a> for 13 years now, through all sorts of terrorist attacks by the Iranian government and its agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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