{"id":50462,"date":"2023-09-26T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=50462"},"modified":"2023-09-26T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:01:09","slug":"us-senator-joseph-lieberman-speech-to-the-new-york-rally-in-support-of-uprisings-for-a-democratic-republic-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2023\/09\/us-senator-joseph-lieberman-speech-to-the-new-york-rally-in-support-of-uprisings-for-a-democratic-republic-in-iran\/50462\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Joseph Lieberman Speech to the New York Rally in Support of Uprisings for a Democratic Republic in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"US — ^{US Senator Joseph Lieberman<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDuring a great rally<\/a> held in New York on September 19, 2023, US Senator Joseph Lieberman delivered a speech. The rally was held outside the UN in support of uprisings for a democratic republic in Iran and in condemnation of the Iranian regime and its president, Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, during the session of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The text of Senator Joseph Lieberman\u2019s speech follows:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you. Good morning everybody. I think you\u2019re as excited and happy to be here as I am, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, it\u2019s a beautiful day in New York. The sun is shining on us, and I want to tell you the sun is shining on the movement for a free Iran. And I\u2019ll tell you something else: The sun is setting on Raisi <\/a>and the regime in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has been of course a year since the last time we gathered alongside the UN General Assembly, and there too we protest as we must the appearance here of Raisi. Bob Torricelli said so eloquently as a murderer. He has the blood of thousands of people on his hands, and yet he gets the right to speak from the podium of the United Nations. I know you agree with me, he ought to be in the defendant\u2019s docket in the International Court of Criminal Justice in The Hague because of the crimes against humanity that he has carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say, because I don\u2019t want to talk a lot about Raisi today. I want to talk about where the sun is shining on the Free Iran movement. But I want to say to our friends in the United Nations: You\u2019ve got some repentance to do for the fact that Raisi is given a podium here, and I want to give you a few ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s time to snap back and reinstate the sanctions that were imposed by the United Nations Security Council based on facts of what Iran has done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, it\u2019s time to expel Iran from every international agency and organization because this regime is a criminal state and it doesn\u2019t deserve to be in international organizations finally as I arrived today, I heard one of the women here quoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is a document adopted by the United Nations, and I want to read you one of the clauses in it, it says that people and nations have recourse to rebellion against tyranny and oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say it\u2019s a last recourse but pursuant to a United Nations universal declaration of rights, we and the people of Iran have the right to rebel, and I remind you which I\u2019ve done before: At the outset of America, a committee, pretty high-level committee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams were asked to design the seal of the United States and a motto. And the first motto they chose was \u201cRebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the mullahs in Iran say they are doing the work of God. Would God want them or anyone to torture people, to kill people, to kill children to arrest people? Of course not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, and that\u2019s why I go back to what I said at the beginning. This Movement for a free Iran is stronger today than it\u2019s ever been. And it\u2019s an amazing thing to say that it\u2019s about a year ago as you all know that the morality police, the police of the Iranian regime arrested and ultimately murdered Mahsa Amini. The rebellion that had been simmering and brewing against the tyrants in Tehran broke open into the most serious threat to the regime and the regime knew that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so they acted brutally 750 people were killed at least, 30,000 arrested, and 3,600 members of the MEK <\/a>resistance fighters disappeared. But what happened in response? The resistance didn\u2019t weaken, it got stronger. For every person who was taken by the regime, two, three, four, five joined the battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The forces of freedom will not be stopped. And I know you agree with me, that\u2019s why we will not stop until liberation is achieved In Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u27a1\ufe0f Senator @JoeLieberman<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Vow0eSRYjw<\/a><\/p>\u2014 OIAC: Organization of Iranian American Communities (@OrgIAC) September 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>}