In his speech at the Berlin conference on October 26, Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, called for a fundamental change in Western policy toward Iran, arguing that recent events have exposed Tehran’s destabilizing influence and the regime’s growing internal instability. Bloomfield outlined a series of setbacks for the Iranian leadership in 2024, highlighting how its weakening grip on power has coincided with increasing global recognition of the Iranian resistance movement, led by the NCRI and PMOI. He underscored the need for Western governments to acknowledge past misjudgments, end policies of appeasement, and support a democratic future for Iran.
Excerpts of Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield’s speech follows:
You know, many of us have attended events like this one for several years, And we talk about the repression of the clerical regime in Iran.
We express solidarity with the victims of the regime, most of them members and supporters of the organized resistance, including the PMOI, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the NCRI.
We express support for the Ten-Point Plan advocated since 2006 by Mrs. Mariam Rajavi, which reflects our values and offers a vision of peace and progress. Yet, for many years, our governments have pursued a different path.
They thought that this ruthlessly hostile regime could be reformed. They thought that Iran needed to increase trade with the West because Iran’s economy was so weak.
They believed the allegations and defamatory stories about the PMOI and NCRI. They saw Iranians protest for years, but they said there was no alternative to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran.
Ladies and gentlemen, 2024 has completely changed the situation. Decades of disinformation have been dramatically swept aside. The world can see that the regime is in serious trouble, and its hold on power is by no means assured. It is also clear as never before that the organized resistance, the PMOI and NCRI, have been telling the truth all along.
One reason our governments have so badly misjudged Iran for many years is that Tehran has had agents of influence in foreign capitals, including the United States and Germany.
Now, many agents have been exposed. 5 events this year have signaled that the era of Islamic revolutionary rule may be nearing the end in Iran.
Informative Vorträge von Amb @LBJunior über den iranischen Terrorismus, einflussreiche Agenten und die Aktivitäten des iranischen Regimes. pic.twitter.com/jRQKXgvhcS
— Javad Dabiran (@JavadDabiran) October 26, 2024
First, Supreme Leader, Khamenei lost his successor with the accidental death of President Ebrahim Raisi, who was accused of crimes against humanity for his leading role in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, up to 30,000 political prisoners.
Under the Veliyat Faqih constitution, the Supreme Leader must be a source of emulation, a guardian, the Guardian of Islam. If Khamenei promotes his son to succeed him, the regime will be exposed as no more than a corrupt monarchy in black robes.
Second, the United Nations report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Dr. Javaid Rehman, has completely wiped out years of disinformation by the regime.
Starting in 1981, during Khomeini’s reign of terror, the regime tried to exterminate tens of thousands of brave Iranians, who refused to accept Ayatollah Khomeini’s extreme and repressive interpretation of Islam.
The UN report says they were executed for their religious beliefs, and thus, Iran is guilty of genocide against members and supporters of the PMOI. Our governments must change their view of the NCRI and the PMOI.
The UN report added to the four major court verdicts in France, the EU, the UK, and the United States, confirming that the PMOI and NCRI never engaged in terrorism at any time, refutes the official position by Western foreign ministries since the mid-1990s and perhaps before.
Third, the leaked documents from the regime have exposed Iranian agents placed or cultivated in Western capitals. This is a major counterintelligence scandal, and the West’s understanding of the regime and the resistance will now change.
You may recall that after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, the US intelligence community said that Iran’s leaders had been surprised. Evidence is now surfacing that the Tehran regime was talking with Hamas for months about its planned attack.
Clearly, Washington decision-makers were receiving false and misleading information. Iran can no longer hide its dirty, covert activities here in Europe.
@LBJunior at major int conf in #Berlin:
Today, hundreds of former heads of state and government, Nobel laureates, & parliamentarians from around the world openly support @Maryam_Rajavi 10-point plan. The executions, bombings, assassinations, and propaganda campaigns have had but… pic.twitter.com/9cIeW51afH— Shahin Gobadi (@gobadi) October 26, 2024
We watched an accredited Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Asadi, be convicted and sentenced in Belgium to 20 years in prison for planning a mass casualty bombing at a resistance gathering in France, only to return home escaping justice after Iran kidnapped a Belgian humanitarian aid worker and traded him for their spy.
We also saw a regime prison official, Hamid Noury, who was convicted in Sweden of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1988 massacre of up to 30,000 political prisoners, returned home after Iran kidnapped a Swedish EU official and traded him with a second hostage.
From attempted bombings and cyber-attacks in Albania to the attempted murder of our distinguished colleague and friend, Alejo Vidal Cadras in Madrid, to murder for hire, assassinations, and abductions, threats all across Europe and the United States.
The regime in Tehran has been exposed. The fourth major setback of 2024 was demonstrated last night, when Israeli warplanes flew into Iran, destroyed targets in 3 provinces, and returned safely.
The message to the Iranian people is crystal clear. Ayatollah Khamenei has failed to protect his country.
Iran is now vulnerable to attack. Billions of dollars diverted from the Iranian economy to support foreign nonstate militias armed by the Quds Force and the Revolutionary Guards have only brought war to the Iranian homeland.
In Iran’s cities, the regime has displayed giant images of its heroes, Soleimani, Nasrallah, Haniyah, Sinwar, and others. Today, they’re all gone, defeated. All that remains are the images.
The Supreme Leader has failed as Iran’s guardian. And now, our governments must accept the new reality. There will be no reform of this violent corrupt dictatorship. There will be no rapprochement with the West.
No expansion of trade. And most certainly, no nuclear deal. There will be no lasting engagement at all, because the West, like the more than 85 million citizens of Iran, cannot trust anything the regime says.
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Here is the new reality. The Tehran regime is extremely vulnerable. The organized resistance, the PMOI and NCRI, are a strong and competent political organization. The clerics have tried for decades to silence the resistance.
And yet, despite the constant danger and false allegations, these dedicated patriots of Iran have said no to totalitarian rule. No to executions. No to misogyny and gender discrimination.
No to fake elections. And no to stealing the country’s oil revenues to pay for the regime’s terrorism and aggression. Iran’s prisons are still filled with innocent citizens who oppose religious fascism.
Scores of executions are taking place despite global protests. The escalating conflict in the Middle East is a direct result of the regime’s armed provocations.
Tehran is still promoting false propaganda aimed at intimidating the diaspora and portraying the resistance as a terrorist cult with no support inside Iran. In 2024, all of that has failed.
The regime has no credibility inside or outside of Iran. It is time for our governments to admit that their policies over many years have failed and have been influenced by disinformation and outright falsehoods.
It is time for our governments to act on the UN’s confirmation of atrocity crimes, organizing a process of international accountability. It is time to expose the regime’s agents of influence in the West.
No more should these people be shaping government policy and media commentary on Iran. It is time for our governments to realize that this regime will never reform and to hear the Iranian people’s call for change from within.
And my friends, it is time to revise decades of twisted history generated from Tehran, contained in hundreds of regime-published books and thousands of articles, all of it aimed at demonizing the NCRI and the PMOI.
Citizens, following their conscience, and sacrificing so much for democratic values and gender equality should be respected and honored, not demonized.
Today, a hundred of former heads of state and government, Nobel laureates, and parliamentarians from around the world openly support Mrs. Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan.
The executions, bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, and propaganda campaigns, have had but one purpose, to keep the people of Iran from hearing the message of the organized resistance, and seeing that, yes, there is an alternative to the nightmare of repression and escalating war in the name of religion.
When you hear someone say that there’s no support for the NCRI inside Iran, when you see that various exiled Iranians are given an audience at gatherings like the Munich Security Conference, but no one is invited from the organized resistance.
When you read that a Washington official says the US does not view the NCRI and PMOI as a viable participant in the future of Iran. You should be embarrassed for your governments, and now they should be embarrassed as well.
A change is coming. And when it comes, generations of darkness and fear will end. The Middle East will no longer suffer from this regime’s destructive abuse of religious faith in the pursuit of raw political power.
Truth, justice, religious freedom, and democratic legitimacy will light the path to a brighter future, and the people of Iran will show us all the face of a great nation, a free Iran.
