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Former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
At the Free Iran Convention 2025<\/a> in Washington, D.C., former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy delivered a passionate address highlighting the determination of the Iranian Resistance and calling on the United States to embrace a historic moment for democratic change in Iran.<\/p>\n
Kennedy commended Secretary Mike Pompeo, former Speaker John Bercow, and Ambassador Carla Sands for their principled leadership, noting that the NCRI<\/a> and MEK<\/a> have proven their political strength through diverse expertise, strong organization, and compelling public engagement. Reflecting on his family\u2019s longstanding commitment to human rights, he emphasized that the fight for freedom in Iran is not only an Iranian struggle but a universal moral responsibility.<\/p>\n
He honored the bravery of residents in Ashraf 3<\/a>, the resolve of young Iranians facing repression, and the vital contributions of women and specialists within the Resistance who are shaping a credible democratic alternative. Rejecting any return to monarchy<\/a>, Kennedy underscored that Iran\u2019s future must rest on democratic values and the NCRI<\/a>\u2019s Ten-Point Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Drawing on historic examples\u2014from President John F. Kennedy\u2019s leadership during the Berlin crisis to Nelson Mandela\u2019s journey from prisoner to president\u2014he argued that transformative victories often come unexpectedly. Kennedy closed by urging continued unity, perseverance, and international support to help the Iranian people achieve a free, democratic, and prosperous republic.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The full text of Patrick Kennedy\u2019s speech follows:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-RI (1995-2011), at the Free Iran Convention 2025, Wash DC - Nov. 15, 2025\">\n<p>Thank you so much for that great warm welcome. It\u2019s great to be with you. It\u2019s especially great to see so many distinguished American leaders. Secretary Pompeo, what a tremendous job he did in putting an end to appeasement when he was Secretary of State. And to have Speaker Bercow, I am so glad I\u2019m not up immediately following the Speaker. Wasn\u2019t he terrific? A terrific job. And the ambassador once again proved the point that in a pluralist society, we can finally see women reflected in the great government and representation of the people of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>And I just want to say to Professor Gharib, you have such humility, and it is truly inspirational to hear of your accomplishments and also know that you represent so many who were never able to realize the ambitions you had in Iran because of the mullahs.<\/p>\n<p>And think about where Iran would be today if people like you had been able to pursue your dreams and ambitions. Imagine a different Iran we would have today. But the good news is, you and your compatriots have never forgotten the fight, and you are ready to return to Iran and help Iran reestablish its leadership in the world.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madam Rajavi<\/a>, who I\u2019m so grateful to know and to know of her particular inspiration and that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/peoples-mojahedin-pmoi-mek-iran\/\" rel=\"\">MEK<\/a>. As has been said already, a movement cannot function if it doesn\u2019t have the process and the ability to manifest the changes it seeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80900\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"547\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy--300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy--768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And by having the young women\u2019s panel, by having the young persons\u2019 panel, by having the diaspora in technology and science, and by having the great diplomats, you are showing that there is a process here. There is a process whereby Iran can make the transition because it has the back room, as we say in politics. There are smart people in the back room.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always relied on those people to help me in my life, and I can tell you at every one of the events that I\u2019ve ever been to at MEK, NCRI, I see brilliance, people capable, people who are motivated. And thanks to your sacrifice, you\u2019re going to be the ones who write a new chapter in Iran\u2019s history when Iran becomes free.<\/p>\n<p>So, since I first spoke to you, I now have to use glasses. That\u2019s how long I have been in this battle with you.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make the points that have been made before. So you know there\u2019s the saying, \u201cEverything has been said but not everybody has said it.\u201d But it\u2019s important for the broader public to hear from American political leaders once again what this is all about.<\/p>\n<p>And so that is why I want to repeat the points that have been made, that this is no ordinary conference. This is a moment of history, and congratulations to you for making this conference happen now when we need to focus the United States Administration and the United States Congress on what is happening in Iran today, so that they do not lose focus on the opportunity that is before us to seek change in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Your message is loud and clear, and I\u2019ve had the privilege of seeing that message epitomized because I\u2019ve been to Ashraf 3 and seen the model of what Iran can look like when people of industry and intellect and perseverance come together and build a community.<\/p>\n<p>If people wonder, can anyone organize? Can anyone put it together? This is a big job to transition from a history of dictatorship and theocracy. That\u2019s not a small job. But you look at what the people of Ashraf 3 have done, and they are an oasis. They have been fighting the fight in spite of the terror that they face both in Iran and in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80901\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"550\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-1-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-1-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let us not forget how they were repeatedly bombarded and killed and attacked. And you know what? They still played their music. They still recited poetry. They still celebrated one another. That is the kind of model that is in store for Iran when it finally takes back its freedom for its own people.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what else is the model for the future? It\u2019s the young people you\u2019ve heard spoken of repeatedly at this conference. Because a movement cannot continue if it doesn\u2019t have people ready to take up the banner, to take up the mantle.<\/p>\n<p>And I can tell you a little bit about that in my family, because I had some really great role models. And so it\u2019s not an accident of fate that I am standing before you here. Because it was my uncle as President of the United States who stood up in the Cold War to the Soviet Union when they were encroaching on East Germany and East Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>And you all know that famous speech because when he delivered that speech, he wanted this to be seen not as an East Berlin fight. He wanted this seen as a fight for all humanity and all freedom. And that is why I\u2019m with you today, because this is not an Iranian fight, even though it\u2019s the people of Iran who are waging it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a universal fight. And I would hope, if I were in Ireland, no offense, Speaker, and I had oppressors, and I was living in the kind of conditions that the people of Iran are living in today, that I would have more people than just my fellow Iranians speaking up for me because I would want everyone to know that it\u2019s only by accident of birth that I am in Iran, because I am a child of God, and I could have been born anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And there but for the grace of God, I am not seeing my five children today born into a country with the oppression of these mullahs. I thank God that as a father and a loving husband, I do not have to witness the degradation, the terror that your family members have to witness on a daily basis as they try to raise their children in a country that is being dominated and terrorized by the mullahs.<\/p>\n<p>I am so grateful that I am not living in a country that will persecute and dehumanize my wife and my three daughters simply because they\u2019re women. I say to myself, I have an obligation to stand up for them because there but for the grace of God goes every single person in this world who\u2019s living under oppression. They need to know that they are not alone because they could be any one of the rest of us. And you obviously have had families that have shared today about the brutality of this regime.<\/p>\n<p>And we are reminded all the time that it is the number one country in the world for the imposition of the death penalty on their own people. Number one leader in killing their own people. What kind of leadership takes pride in the fact that they are known around the world to be the leading country in killing not only their own people but killing the dreams and the hopes of their own people?<\/p>\n<p>And you think to yourself, in the modern way, when people think about Iran, they think, oh, there\u2019s a lot of oil there. But you listen to Professor Gharib, and you look at the symphony orchestras, and you say to yourself, the biggest natural resource of Iran are its people.<\/p>\n<p>And the exciting thing, even in the midst of darkness and incredible oppression, when it would be easy for anyone to say, look at the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 martyrs. Look at the massacres ever since. Look at the number of people who are being arrested every day in Iran, who are being tortured and murdered and killed by their government. It would be easy if you were a young person to say, \u201cNot for me.\u201d I\u2019ve seen what this regime can do to people, and I am too afraid. But all of us have seen the courage and the strength of the young people across Iran as they stood up against that type of oppression.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80902\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"506\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Kennedy-2-768x389.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The courage means that all of you who have fought this battle for all of your lives can rest assured that no matter what, your struggle will carry on in the great determination and courage of all those young people who are standing up in the Iranian Resistance movement all across the country of Iran today.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have all been treated to a terrific sense of humor from Speaker Bercow about the Shah\u2019s son. Because I don\u2019t need to add to that. It was brilliant. And it just shows the comedy that anyone could take this person seriously when they miss the whole point. The whole point is to free the country. What about that don\u2019t you get? It\u2019s not about you. It\u2019s about the people that you say you care about.<\/p>\n<p>And if you did care about them, the last thing you would choose to do is resurrect an old dictatorship when the argument for the future is a democracy. And that is why we need to follow the democratic example manifest in the Ten-Point Plan of the NCRI and <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\/\" rel=\"\">Madam Rajavi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as I mentioned in my family, I grew up thinking to myself, what is there left for me to do? I had these incredible people in my father\u2019s generation. One of them, my aunt Eunice Shriver, started Special Olympics, which is now in over 190 countries around the world, uniting people and families who were previously shunned because their loved one had an intellectual and developmental disability. I grew up watching my uncle Bobby with Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up watching my father fight apartheid in South Africa, which no one ever thought. No one, to Secretary Pompeo\u2019s point, no one ever thought they\u2019d see the end of that. And you know what was so remarkable about that moment? Is that they had to go pick up the future president of the country from the jail. They had a motorcade, a presidential motorcade. And you know what they did? They drove it all out to the place where all the political prisoners were incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>And they had to pick up Nelson Mandela and take him out of jail, and guess where? They drove him directly into the president\u2019s office and he took over.<\/p>\n<p>So, I just hope you know, as it\u2019s been said before, these moments are going to happen. And I know you\u2019ve been awfully patient and you\u2019ve been waiting for too long. But don\u2019t give up because the moment is coming and it\u2019s coming soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd36 Representative Patrick Kennedy, D-RI, 1995-2011, speaks at the 'Free Iran Convention 2025 \u2013 The Roadmap to a Democratic Republic\u00a0in\u00a0Iran' <br>Washington, DC \u2013 November 15, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIranConvention2025?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIranConvention2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c7xSPjp75z\">pic.twitter.com\/c7xSPjp75z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-U.S. Rep Office (@NCRIUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCRIUS\/status\/1990843307660820584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And all I have to say to you is I am so grateful, as the Speaker said, for the opportunity to be on this road with you. My children literally have grown up watching MEK rallies. And I can\u2019t wait to take them to Iran and get the tour guides. Have Madam Rajavi even tell me who the best tour guide is for me to choose.<\/p>\n<p>And then I will take my kids all around and hear all about the Persian people and the birth of civilization and the greatness of a culture and the greatness of a people. And I will be able to say, I was part of this fight to make sure that the ultimate dream that was embodied through millennia of a free and prosperous Iran ultimately was manifest.<\/p>\n<p>And I will be able to say that I was part of these great number of people who did the right thing. And you know what? It\u2019s not going to be one person who does this, it\u2019s all of us together.<\/p>\n<p>And in the words of my uncle, speaking about South Africa, he said, each of us, each one of us, he didn\u2019t say all of us, each one of us can work to change just a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of our generation.<\/p>\n<p>Each time, he said, a person stands up or acts to improve the lot of others, like those brave Ashrafees, like those brave young Resistance Units, like Madam Rajavi, each time someone stands up, they send forth a tiny ripple of hope. And all those ripples coming together can create a current that can knock down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.<\/p>\n<p>So this is it. We don\u2019t have to do it all on our own. We\u2019ve got everybody in this room, everybody in that room, and people all over the world who are joining in, because together we can finally achieve this goal of a free Iran. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kennedy urges global unity and U.S. leadership to support Iran\u2019s path toward democracy at the Free Iran Convention 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":80898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3037,18,867,1,32],"tags":[3913,158],"class_list":["post-80896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-iran-2025","category-supports","category-iranian-resistance","category-news","category-videos","tag-free-iran-convention-2025","tag-patrick-kennedy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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