{"id":4982,"date":"2016-07-05T00:55:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T05:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2016-07-05T00:55:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T05:55:05","slug":"canadian-parliamentarians-to-attend-free-iran-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/4982\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian parliamentarians to attend \u2018Free Iran\u2019 rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4984 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"videoplayback\" width=\"428\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a>NCRI &#8211; Canadian Senator, David Smith, said that he will be joining on behalf of &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of Canadian parliamentarians at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/20526-iran-prospects-for-change-one-year-after-the-nuclear-agreement\">Free Iran<\/a>\u00a0rally on July 9 in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>With colleagues from parliaments in the US and Europe, Senator Smith said he would be at the mass rally, as he has in previous years, to demand &#8220;genuine elections and basic human rights&#8221; for the people of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the Iranian community of Canada for continuing the struggle for basic freedoms in Iran, and was proud of his parliamentary colleagues for their continuing support for that struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Free Iran\u00a0gathering on July 9 in Paris will see members from legislatures across the globe, together with other decision-makers and civic leaders, in conference with tens of thousands of supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about\/our-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate\">NCRI<\/a>). The grand gathering will support the 10-point plan of NCRI President-elect,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate\"> Maryam Rajavi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4982-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/webm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback3.webm?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback3.webm\">https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/videoplayback3.webm<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NCRI &#8211; Canadian Senator, David Smith, said that he will be joining on behalf of &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of Canadian parliamentarians at the Free Iran\u00a0rally on July <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/4982\/\" title=\"Canadian parliamentarians to attend \u2018Free Iran\u2019 rally\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iranresistance","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}