{"id":14016,"date":"2013-06-22T06:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/14016-annual-conference-for-democratic-change-in-iran-to-be-held-june-22-2013"},"modified":"2013-06-22T06:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T05:22:26","slug":"annual-conference-for-democratic-change-in-iran-to-be-held-june-22-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/annual-conference-for-democratic-change-in-iran-to-be-held-june-22-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Conference for Democratic Change in Iran to be Held June 22, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/2013\/Gathering\/002.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" \/>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>June 20, 2013 (Paris, France) \u2013 The tenth annual Conference for Democratic Change in Iran<em>, Onward to Freedom<\/em>, will be hosted on June 22, 2013 in Paris, France. The conference is the largest political event of the Iranian people in opposition to the ruling religious dictatorship in Iran. It will feature scores of world leaders and elected officials in a rejection of the Mullah\u2019s recent election and call for regime change by Iranian people and the organized opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Tom Ridge, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and more than 100 other international policy influencers are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by human rights organizations and parliamentary committees around the world, the annual conference has been held in late June since 2004 and commemorates the 1981 uprising against then Ayatollah Khomeini and his clerical regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the Iranian Resistance movement, the National\u00a0Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its popular leader Maryam Rajavi, <em>Onward to Freedom<\/em> will address prospects for democratic change in Iran and the impact of recent elections on peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IranNewsUpdate.com (INU) will feature live coverage of the <em>Onward to Freedom<\/em> conference on its website including video interviews of speakers and additional commentary.\u00a0 Updates and inside commentary on the event can be found on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNewsUpdate1\">Twitter.com\/IranNewsUpdate1<\/a> and on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/IranNewsUpdate\">Facebook.com\/IranNewsUpdate.<\/a>\u00a0 Follow @IranNewsUpdate1 and tweet #IranFreedom and #DCII for all updates on the <em>Onward to Freedom<\/em> conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>INU features news, analysis and commentary on events inside Iran and the Iranian Diaspora to audiences around the world. News and information is provided in cooperation with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the parliament in exile of the Iranian Resistance and the PMOI\/MEK.<\/em> <em>Analyses on developments on Iran and the region are provided by INU experts. Media and researchers are welcome to use INU news and commentaries, with attribution made to IranNewsUpdate.com\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2013 (Paris, France) &ndash; The tenth annual Conference for Democratic Change in Iran, Onward to Freedom, will be hosted on June 22, 2013 in Paris, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-iran-resistance","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Annual Conference for Democratic Change in Iran to be Held June 22, 2013 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2013 (Paris, France) \u2013 The tenth annual Conference for Democratic Change in Iran, Onward to Freedom, will be hosted on June\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/annual-conference-for-democratic-change-in-iran-to-be-held-june-22-2013\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Annual Conference for Democratic Change in Iran to be Held June 22, 2013 - 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