{"id":20644,"date":"2016-07-05T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/20644-former-us-envoy-urges-democrats-and-republicans-to-listen-to-iran-opposition"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:39:34","slug":"former-us-envoy-urges-democrats-and-republicans-to-listen-to-iran-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/former-us-envoy-urges-democrats-and-republicans-to-listen-to-iran-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US envoy urges Democrats and Republicans to listen to Iran opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ken-blackwell-400\" class=\" size-full wp-image-46257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/ken-blackwell-400.jpg\" alt=\"ken-blackwell-400\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ken-blackwell-400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ken-blackwell-400-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NCRI &#8211; Writing on Tuesday in the American Thinker, Ken Blackwell, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, said both Republican and Democratic parties can unite behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104076275379213468454\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about\/our-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">NCRI<\/a>) in pursuing &#8220;the universal imperative to confront the threat of Islamic extremism.&#8221; Ambassador Blackwell argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about\/our-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">NCRI<\/a> had already united &#8220;officials from several presidential administrations&#8221; of both parties in &#8220;common cause&#8221; against fundamentalist terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Such coalition-building was essential, he said. As NCRI\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2015\/07\/14\/iran-nuclear-deal-feeds-the-roots-of-regional-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">President Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, &#8220;a devout and profoundly anti-fundamentalist Muslim woman leader,&#8221; has said, &#8220;moderate democratic Islam is the antidote to the violent conduct of extremists.&#8221; This was, Ambassador Blackwell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/an_iranian_voice_republicans_and_democrats_should_heed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">continued<\/a>, &#8220;an Iranian voice Republicans and Democrats should heed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NCRI&#8217;s credentials in the confrontation with extremism were impeccable. Ambassador Blackwell reported that, &#8220;Some 120,000 of the activists of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK)<\/a>, the main constituent of the NCRI, have been executed in Iran in the past three decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">NCRI\u2019s rally<\/a> in Paris on July 9 &#8211; &#8220;ironically bigger in size&#8221; than both US party conventions &#8211; the NCRI will outline its ten-point plan for &#8220;standing up to the egregious conduct of the Iranian regime, fighting the Islamic State, facilitating the removal of embattled regional dictators like Bashar al-Assad, and making sure that the peoples of that region have strong, recognizable alternatives to the extremist groups currently vying for dominance,&#8221; Ambassador Blackwell 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