{"id":43871,"date":"2023-03-20T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=43871"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:13:12","slug":"the-joint-letter-of-26-nobel-prize-laureates-in-support-of-the-iran-revolution-and-the-mrs-rajavi-10-point-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2023\/03\/the-joint-letter-of-26-nobel-prize-laureates-in-support-of-the-iran-revolution-and-the-mrs-rajavi-10-point-plan\/43871\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joint Letter of 26 Nobel Prize Laureates in Support of the Iran Revolution and the Mrs. Rajavi 10-Point Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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March 15, 2023:<\/strong> Twenty six Nobel Laureates sent a joint letter to the President of the Council of Europe and expressed their support for nationwide uprising<\/a> of the Iranian people and the 10-point plan<\/a> of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a> the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full text of the joint letter and the names of the signatories are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joint Letter of the Nobel Laureates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To President of the European Council<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

March 15, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excellency Charles Michel,
President of the European Council
Rue de la Loi\/Wetstraat 175
B-1048 Bruxelles\/Brussel
Belgique\/Belgi\u00eb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. President,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For six months now, the Iranian people have been leading a nationwide uprising for a democratically elected republic. Despite facing a brutal crackdown by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and heavy human casualties \u2013 with 750 killed, including at least 70 children and more than 30,000 arrests \u2013 the brave young men and women of Iran have persevered in their quest for democracy, inspiring awe and admiration from people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC<\/a>) is the main tool of war, repression, terrorism, and warmongering, that is why the people of Iran want it to be blacklisted by the civilized world, especially the European Union. On January 19, 2023, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the designation of IRGC as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian people\u2019s unwavering determination to achieve their long-denied freedoms, despite the heavy costs, make it imperative for human rights advocates to take concrete steps to support Iranian people and their just resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty-four years ago, millions of Iranian people rejected the despotic rule of the Shah and its brutal secret police (SAVAK<\/a>) due to its crimes and torturing people by participating in mass demonstrations. Today, During the ongoing nationwide protests, they chant \u201cNo to Monarchy<\/a>, No to Theocracy! Yes to Democracy, Equality\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryam Rajavi<\/a>\u2018s 10-point platform for a secular and non-nuclear democratic republic, already supported by the signatories of this statement, was endorsed by 250 representatives of the UK House<\/a> of Commons and the House of Lords in February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The absolute majority of members of the US House of Representatives (225 members) also sponsored a resolution (H. Res. 100<\/a>) in March 2023, which recognizes the right of the Iranian people to establish a secular and non-nuclear democratic republic and the 10-point platform which calls for universal suffrage, free elections, a market economy, independent judiciary, gender, religious, and ethnic equality, a foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence, and a non-nuclear Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blacklisting of IRGC by the European Union and the support of the United Nations fact-finding mission in Iran are essential. Let us stand with the brave people of Iran in their pursuit of freedom and democracy and a real change in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signatories:<\/strong>
\u2022 President Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta, President of TImor-Leste, Nobel Peace Prize, 1996, Timor-Leste
\u2022 Professor Sir Richard J. Roberts, Nobel Prize, Medicine 1993, UK-USA
\u2022 Professor John C. Mather, Nobel Prize, Physics 2006, USA
\u2022 Professor Harvey J Alter, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2020, USA
\u2022 Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2016, France
\u2022 Professor Michel Mayor, Nobel Prize, Physics 2019, Switzerland
\u2022 Professor Oliver Hart, Nobel Prize, Economics 2016, USA
\u2022 Professor Georg Bednorz, Nobel Prize, Physics 1987, Germany
\u2022 Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize, Literature 1986, Nigeria
\u2022 Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2019, UK
\u2022 Professor Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize, Literature 2010, Peru
\u2022 Professor Richard Schrock, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2005, USA
\u2022 Professor Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize, Economics 2018, USA, Israel
\u2022 Professor May-Britt Moser, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2014, Norway
\u2022 Professor Edvard Moser, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2014, Norway
\u2022 Professor John Polanyi, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 1986, Canada
\u2022 Professor Michael Rosbash, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2017, USA
\u2022 Professor Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Prize, Physics 1979, USA
\u2022 Professor Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize, Economics 2004, Norway
\u2022 Professor David Wineland, Nobel Prize, Physics 2012, USA
\u2022 Professor Gregory Winter, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2018, UK
\u2022 Mr. Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nobel Prize, Peace 1986, Costa Rica
\u2022 Professor Barry Barish, Nobel Prize, Physics 2017, USA
\u2022 Professor Roger D. Kornberg, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2006, USA
\u2022 Professor John Maxwell Coetzee, Nobel Prize, Literature 2003, South Africa
\u2022 Professor Jerome Friedman, Nobel Prize, Physics 1990, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n