{"id":19122,"date":"2020-07-12T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2020-07-12T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:59:31","slug":"free-iran-global-summit-iran-rising-up-for-freedom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/19122\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Iran Global Summit: Iran Rising Up for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Written by<\/span>Sedighe Shahrokhi<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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28th June 2020<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

MEK\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Resistance Units\u00a0<\/span><\/b>A<\/span><\/b>re the\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Key to\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Regime Change in Iran<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Every year, the Iranian Resistance holds its\u00a0annual<\/a>\u00a0\u201cFree Iran\u201d\u00a0grand gathering<\/a>\u00a0in Paris. Tens of thousands of Iranians and supporters of the main Iranian opposition movement, the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK)<\/a><\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0from around the globe attend the major event. Also, hundreds of renowned politicians, dignitaries, human rights activists, and parliamentarians from the US and Europe\u00a0join<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0annual gathering<\/a>\u00a0and present their thoughts about the situation in Iran and the Iranian resistance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last year the\u00a0gathering<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0held in Ashraf-3 in Albania<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0the main base of the\u00a0MEK<\/a>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>e<\/span>picenter of Resistance for\u00a0<\/span>f<\/span>reedom. Ashraf-3 hosted hundreds of international dignitaries from 47 nations. The visitors saw a sprawling city in Albania that is now home to the main Iranian opposition movement, the\u00a0MEK<\/a>. Among the visitors to Ashraf-3 were former US and European prime ministers, foreign ministers, parliamentarians, diplomats and ambassadors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Iranian people have suffered gravely at the hands of the clerical regime. For the past 41 years, the regime has executed over 120,000 people, including\u00a0MEK<\/a>\u00a0members, supporters, political and human rights activists. This includes the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the\u00a0summer of 1988<\/a>. In addition to domestic suppression, for decades the Iranian regime has adopted a policy of intervention in the region and export of terrorism, and<\/span>\u00a0it is<\/span>\u00a0pursuing a nuclear<\/span>\u00a0weapons<\/span>\u00a0program.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the efforts of the Iranian\u00a0<\/span>R<\/span>esistance, the regime\u2019s domestic and international efforts to suppress the people at home and destabilize the region and its nuclear program have been exposed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For years<\/span>, the<\/span>\u00a0Iranian Resistance has insisted on the policy of regime change by the Iranian people and through<\/span>\u00a0a<\/span>\u00a0popular uprising. It also insisted that the only solution to liberate the Iranian people and bring peace to the region is\u00a0<\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>uprising by the Iranian people to change the regime.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2012 and according to the strategy of 1000 Ashraf, the\u00a0MEK<\/a>\u00a0formed and organized Resistance\u00a0<\/span>U<\/span>nits\u00a0<\/span>all across<\/span>\u00a0Iran. For years these units were active in posting the pictures of\u00a0<\/span>R<\/span>esistance leaders in all cities and organizing protests. In 2017, 2018 and 2019 these units played a ma<\/span>jor\u00a0<\/span>role in organizing and continuing the uprisings.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n