{"id":87735,"date":"2026-06-29T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=87735"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:37:57","slug":"ingrid-betancourt-slams-france-for-banning-anti-execution-rally-endorses-maryam-rajavi-at-free-iran-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/free-iran-2026\/2026\/06\/ingrid-betancourt-slams-france-for-banning-anti-execution-rally-endorses-maryam-rajavi-at-free-iran-summit\/87735\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingrid Betancourt Slams France for Banning Anti-Execution Rally, Endorses Maryam Rajavi at Free Iran Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ingrid Betancourt condemns France rally ban, backs Maryam Rajavi, and warns against appeasing Iran\u2019s regime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
At the Free Iran 2026 World Summit<\/a> in Paris, former Colombian senator and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt delivered a powerful speech highlighting the human toll of Iran\u2019s ongoing repression. She described the constant psychological torment endured by political prisoners and paid tribute to Babak Alipour and Pouya Ghobadi\u2014two of six young men executed by the regime on March 31, 2026. Quoting their final messages, she underscored their rejection of both clerical rule and monarchy in favor of a democratic republic.<\/p>\n
Betancourt also voiced strong criticism of French authorities for banning a peaceful rally in Paris protesting the executions. Calling the decision a source of \u201cpain, shame, and disgust,\u201d she said it contradicts France\u2019s longstanding commitment to human rights. She warned that Western inaction and appeasement enable Tehran to extend its repression beyond its borders, recalling the foiled 2018 bombing plot targeting Iranian opposition near Paris as a stark example of the risks.<\/p>\n
She concluded by stressing that the real battleground is global public opinion, arguing that Iran\u2019s future cannot be dictated by foreign-imposed solutions or a return to past dictatorships. Betancourt affirmed that a viable democratic alternative already exists in the organized Iranian Resistance and reiterated her support for Maryam Rajavi as the opposition\u2019s elected leader to guide Iran toward freedom and justice.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_c2b13f36b2f05393\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><em><strong>Excerpts of\u00a0Ingrid Betancourt<\/strong><strong>\u2018s speech follow:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ma ch\u00e8re Maryam, mes chers amis pour un Iran libre.<\/p>\n<p>Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, and our heroes and heroines back there in Ashraf 3.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, somewhere in Iran, another young prisoner may hear footsteps approaching his cell.<\/p>\n<p>He will know what those footsteps mean. He will know that the regime wants him to choose between fear and surrender.<\/p>\n<p>And he will know, as so many before him have known, that his life may end before the sun rises.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reality of Iran today. It\u2019s not diplomacy, it\u2019s not geopolitics, it\u2019s not headlines. It\u2019s a woman or a man waiting for the sound of a key turning in a prison door.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us, especially those back in Ashraf 3, know what the feeling is.<\/p>\n<p>On March 31st, some days ago, 2026, six young men were led to the gallows: Babak Alipour, Pouya Ghobadi, and four other courageous comrades.<\/p>\n<p>The regime believed that by executing them, it could extinguish their ideas. Instead, it amplified their voices.<\/p>\n<p>From their prison cells, they left us not messages of despair, but messages of strength.<\/p>\n<p>Babak Alipour wrote: \u201cI pledge to fight and resist until the end for the overthrow of this anti-humane regime and the establishment of a democratic Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Pouya Ghobadi declared: \u201cI reject the mullahs, and I reject the shahs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their words reveal a profound truth: the struggle for Iran is not a struggle between the past and the present. It\u2019s not a choice between one dictatorship or another.<\/p>\n<p>It is the struggle of a new generation determined to build a democratic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the regime kills. Not because it is strong, but because it is afraid of young people who refuse to surrender. Afraid of women who refuse to submit.<\/p>\n<p>Afraid of workers, students, prisoners, and Resistance Units who continue to organize despite unimaginable repression.<\/p>\n<p>Killings, they know, will not save this regime. And the gallows are not instruments of governance.<\/p>\n<p>But they are the final refuge of a dying system waging war against its own people.<\/p>\n<p>And because the regime understands where the real threat lies, it seeks to suppress that threat not only inside Iran, but beyond its borders.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, French authorities prohibited a peaceful rally in Paris, organized to protest the mass executions taking place in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>What a painful contradiction in the country, my country\u2014my second country, but my country too\u2014of the Declaration of Human Rights and of Citizens\u2019 Rights.<\/p>\n<p>I am in pain, as we all French here are, and ashamed and in disgust, because I\u2019m afraid that everything is done so that my [fellow] French countrymen and women are not informed of what happened yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>When those who speak against executions are silenced, we must ask ourselves, not only as French citizens but as world leaders: Are these rights still universal principles, or have they become mere words on paper?<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime has exported, we know, terrorism for decades. But now, it is exporting repression. And repression in our countries, in free lands of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Silencing a peaceful rally in Paris means silencing worldwide outrage against executions in Iran, at a moment when brave young Iranians are paying with their lives the price to confront the same tyranny that democratic nations seek to contain. And our voices of solidarity have tried to be silenced.<\/p>\n<p>What message does that send? That we are willing to confront tyranny when our own security is threatened, but not when freedom itself is under attack? That our interests matter more than our principles?<\/p>\n<p>A free world cannot defend itself by abandoning its values. We cannot allow this to happen.<\/p>\n<p>This regime has already demonstrated that its violence does not stop at Iran\u2019s borders. Remember 2018?<\/p>\n<p>Operatives linked to the Iranian regime were convicted for plotting to bomb a large opposition gathering near Paris attended by many of us here today, and thousands of other people and international dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>Its objective was clear: to silence the opposition beyond Iran\u2019s borders through fear and terror.<\/p>\n<p>Because if our free societies fail to defend their principles wherever in the world they are threatened, those same threats will eventually reach our own soil.<\/p>\n<p>History teaches us that cowardice has a price. Complacency has a price. Appeasement has a price. And too often, that price is paid in human lives.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear. We recognize and welcome the efforts of those who have confronted this tyranny and weakened its machinery of repression.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, silence does a favor to tyranny, because it strengthens it.<\/p>\n<p>And the decisive battle is not between foreign states and Tehran, but between the possibility we have here in France to speak for the Iranians that cannot speak in their country.<\/p>\n<p>This is the battlefield today. It\u2019s a battlefield of public opinion, where we need to make people understand what\u2019s happening in Iran. Not only bombs and missiles, but lives, people that matter.<\/p>\n<p>And history has taught some other lessons to us; for example, that the path to freedom is not a puppet imposed from outside. It\u2019s not a return to the past.<\/p>\n<p>The path to freedom in Iran is the organized Iranian Resistance of the people themselves.<\/p>\n<p>That means that we have the solution. The solution the international community has been seeking for decades is here; it\u2019s [among] us.<\/p>\n<p>Because here, amongst us, we have the only solution possible for Iran\u2019s crisis: the force, the organization, the commitment, the democratic values and principles that we share and we defend. But most of all, the legitimacy. It\u2019s about legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Maryam Rajavi has been elected by the opposition, by all the movements and organizations opposing this regime in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a democratic way of solving [internal] problems, to unite the opposition and to elect Maryam Rajavi as its leader.<\/p>\n<p>We have the solution, we have the leader, and we have the legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s with Maryam Rajavi, with the Resistance Units, with the prisoners of conscience, with the youth, with the women, with the men, with the students, that Iran will change, because that is the true force for change.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why the regime fears you. And that is why it fears even a peaceful gathering held thousands of kilometers away from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the democratic alternative already exists. We have said it so many times here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87739\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Former-Colombian-Senator-and-presidential-candidate-Ingrid-Betancour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" 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\/2026\/06\/Former-Colombian-Senator-and-presidential-candidate-Ingrid-Betancour.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Former-Colombian-Senator-and-presidential-candidate-Ingrid-Betancour-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Former-Colombian-Senator-and-presidential-candidate-Ingrid-Betancour-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maryam Rajavi\u2019s Ten-Point Plan offers a vision for a secular and democratic Republic based on free elections, gender equality, separation of religion and state, the abolition of the death penalty, the abolition of misogynistic laws, the respect for human rights, and a non-nuclear Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This is, with you, a transition from obscurantism to light.<\/p>\n<p>And we have to say\u2014and I want to address our heroes and heroines of Ashraf 3, also the prisoners who continue to resist in the prisons of Iran, and to the young people in Iran who refuse to surrender in the streets of Iran\u2014that you are, all of you are, pure strength.<\/p>\n<p>You are the driving force for a free, democratic change.<\/p>\n<p>And your victory is very near.<\/p>\n<p>And it will be the victory of freedom itself, not only in Iran, but for the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are, all together here, and we say, and we claim for the world to hear what you always say: that we\u2019re ready for freedom, we\u2019re ready for justice, we\u2019re ready for democracy. We\u2019re ready for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>[Ma hazerim], as you say: Hazer, Hazer, Hazer.<\/p>\n<p>We have the solution, we have the leader, and we have the legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s with Maryam Rajavi, with the Resistance Units, with the prisoners of conscience, with the youth, with the women, with the men, with the students, that Iran will change, because that is the true force for change.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why the regime fears you. And that is why it fears even a peaceful gathering held thousands of kilometers away from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the democratic alternative already exists. We have said it so many times here.<\/p>\n<p>Maryam Rajavi\u2019s Ten-Point Plan offers a vision for a secular and democratic Republic based on free elections, gender equality, separation of religion and state, the abolition of the death penalty, the abolition of misogynistic laws, the respect for human rights, and a non-nuclear Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This is, with you, a transition from obscurantism to light.<\/p>\n<p>And we have to say\u2014and I want to address our heroes and heroines of Ashraf 3, also the prisoners who continue to resist in the prisons of Iran, and to the young people in Iran who refuse to surrender in the streets of Iran\u2014that you are, all of you are, pure strength.<\/p>\n<p>You are the driving force for a free, democratic change.<\/p>\n<p>And your victory is very near.<\/p>\n<p>And it will be the victory of freedom itself, not only in Iran, but for the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are, all together here, and we say, and we claim for the world to hear what you always say: that we\u2019re ready for freedom, we\u2019re ready for justice, we\u2019re ready for democracy. We\u2019re ready for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>[Ma hazerim], as you say: Hazer, Hazer, Hazer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrid Betancourt condemns France\u2019s rally ban and backs Maryam Rajavi, urging global action against Iran\u2019s executions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":87738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4132,1,32],"tags":[4119,4635,150,4629],"class_list":["post-87735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-iran-2026","category-news","category-videos","tag-free-iran-2026","tag-free-iran-2026-day-2","tag-ingrid-betancourt","tag-paris-summit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ingrid 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