{"id":48210,"date":"2023-07-23T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T09:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=48210"},"modified":"2023-07-23T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T09:21:35","slug":"remarks-by-former-fbi-director-louis-freeh-to-the-free-iran-world-summit-2023-july-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2023\/07\/remarks-by-former-fbi-director-louis-freeh-to-the-free-iran-world-summit-2023-july-1-2023\/48210\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, to the Free Iran World Summit 2023 – July 1, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Remarks — ^{Louis Freeh, Former Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFormer FBI Director Louis Freeh addressed the first day<\/a> of the Free Iran World Summit on July 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Louis Freeh: Resistance Units Represent Courage of Deep and Principled Convictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe full text of Former FBI Director, Louis Freeh\u2019s remarks, is as follows:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re delighted and honored to be here. You have an incredible US delegation. Just as wonderful, you have an outstanding international delegation, and we\u2019re very happy and proud, Madam Rajavi, to be here again with you in Paris to mark a great milestone in the fight for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We want to send very brief messages, first of all, to everyone here, our friends, but also to those who have been, as Senator Lieberman said, fantastic in the back there. We thank you so much for your energy and your support. Terrific, absolutely terrific. And of course, to our colleagues and friends on the streets of Paris today, the freedom fighters, the Resistance Units, absolutely incredible images, and representing courage of deep and principled convictions. And of course, to the demonstrators and the young women and men, but particularly the young women who we admire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have here on stage, actually, several hundred years of government experience, military, political, law enforcement, judicial. And, Madam Rajavi, we stand by you for many, many reasons, but you know that you have been, for us, a hero and inspiration and a reason to act and fight. We thank you so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n^{Louis Freeh, Former Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Free Iran World Summit, July 1, 2023<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMy friend and colleague Judge Mukasey, is going to present a letter to Madam Rajavi, which has already been seen, but we wanted to do it in this group. And it\u2019s a letter signed by dozens of American officials, most of everyone on the stage here, telling you from our heart what we believe and what we feel, and how we respect and admire what you\u2019re doing and how optimistic we are about this fight. The regime is a little bit like, in my experience as a prosecutor, we used to call it a continuing criminal enterprise, right? And it\u2019s run by gangsters, and they have their own rules. But at some point, that enterprise caves in and collapses on the weight of its own evil. And particularly here, because the regime has lost the confidence of the Iranian people, political confidence, economic confidence, and moral confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n}We want to thank all of you here for your support and your representation. We want to thank all of the friends of the NCRI and the MEK<\/a>. We want to thank the Albanian government because that was the only country that stepped forward to rescue and protect them when they were being massacred in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We want to also thank our Department of State. If you remember, then Deputy Secretary Blinken and Ambassador Weiner were the architects from the US side of getting that incredibly difficult negotiation and relocation done. So, we want to thank them also today. Judge, I\u2019m going to let you make a remark and a presentation. Madam Rajavi, we\u2019re going to ask you to come up just to receive our letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFormer FBI Director Louis Freeh: The regime is like a continuing criminal enterprise run by gangsters. At some point that enterprise caves in and collapses on the weight of its own evil.#OurChoiceMaryamRajavi<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/NRaNrcODUJ<\/a><\/p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>}

\"\" — ^{Louis Freeh, Former Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFormer FBI Director Louis Freeh addressed the first day<\/a> of the Free Iran World Summit on July 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Louis Freeh: Resistance Units Represent Courage of Deep and Principled Convictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe full text of Former FBI Director, Louis Freeh\u2019s remarks, is as follows:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re delighted and honored to be here. You have an incredible US delegation. Just as wonderful, you have an outstanding international delegation, and we\u2019re very happy and proud, Madam Rajavi, to be here again with you in Paris to mark a great milestone in the fight for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We want to send very brief messages, first of all, to everyone here, our friends, but also to those who have been, as Senator Lieberman said, fantastic in the back there. We thank you so much for your energy and your support. Terrific, absolutely terrific. And of course, to our colleagues and friends on the streets of Paris today, the freedom fighters, the Resistance Units, absolutely incredible images, and representing courage of deep and principled convictions. And of course, to the demonstrators and the young women and men, but particularly the young women who we admire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have here on stage, actually, several hundred years of government experience, military, political, law enforcement, judicial. And, Madam Rajavi, we stand by you for many, many reasons, but you know that you have been, for us, a hero and inspiration and a reason to act and fight. We thank you so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n^{Louis Freeh, Former Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Free Iran World Summit, July 1, 2023<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMy friend and colleague Judge Mukasey, is going to present a letter to Madam Rajavi, which has already been seen, but we wanted to do it in this group. And it\u2019s a letter signed by dozens of American officials, most of everyone on the stage here, telling you from our heart what we believe and what we feel, and how we respect and admire what you\u2019re doing and how optimistic we are about this fight. The regime is a little bit like, in my experience as a prosecutor, we used to call it a continuing criminal enterprise, right? And it\u2019s run by gangsters, and they have their own rules. But at some point, that enterprise caves in and collapses on the weight of its own evil. And particularly here, because the regime has lost the confidence of the Iranian people, political confidence, economic confidence, and moral confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n}We want to thank all of you here for your support and your representation. We want to thank all of the friends of the NCRI and the MEK<\/a>. We want to thank the Albanian government because that was the only country that stepped forward to rescue and protect them when they were being massacred in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We want to also thank our Department of State. If you remember, then Deputy Secretary Blinken and Ambassador Weiner were the architects from the US side of getting that incredibly difficult negotiation and relocation done. So, we want to thank them also today. Judge, I\u2019m going to let you make a remark and a presentation. Madam Rajavi, we\u2019re going to ask you to come up just to receive our letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFormer FBI Director Louis Freeh: The regime is like a continuing criminal enterprise run by gangsters. At some point that enterprise caves in and collapses on the weight of its own evil.#OurChoiceMaryamRajavi<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/NRaNrcODUJ<\/a><\/p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>}