{"id":212893,"date":"2020-01-13T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=212893"},"modified":"2023-01-22T02:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T01:58:29","slug":"ncri-and-mek-supporters-hold-convention-in-california-solidarity-with-iran-protests-and-airliner-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/ncri-and-mek-supporters-hold-convention-in-california-solidarity-with-iran-protests-and-airliner-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"NCRI and MEK Supporters Hold Convention in California: Solidarity With Iran Protests and Airliner Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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January 10, NCRI and MEK Supporters Hold Convention in California in Solidarity With Iran Protests and Airliner Victims<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Members of the Iranian American community in California, supporters of the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>,\u00a0held a\u00a0convention in\u00a0Los Angeles on Saturday, January 11, in support of the nationwide Iran protests and the Iranian resistance movement,\u00a0NCRI,\u00a0<\/a>and MEK.<\/p>\n

This event was also attended by American dignitaries such as former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, former\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines commandant General James Conway, Senator Robert Torricelli, Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield,\u00a0and\u00a0Professor Ivan Sasha Sheehan. They delivered speeches in support of the Iranian people\u2019s struggle to establish a free and democratic country.<\/p>\n

Participants and speakers at this event condemned the downing of the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 on Wednesday by the regime\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and once again expressed their support for the Iranian people\u2019s uprising and the\u00a0MEK<\/a>\u2019s \u201cResistance Units.\u201d They also called for the prosecution and accountability of those involved in massacring the Iranian people.<\/p>\n

Mrs.\u00a0\u00a0Maryam Rajavi<\/a>,\u00a0NCRI<\/a>\u2019s president-elect, sent a message to the convention. She referred to the IRGC shooting down\u00a0of\u00a0the Ukrainian airliner, with 176 victims.\u00a0 Mrs. Rajavi highlighted that\u00a0the\u00a0Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei always takes \u201chard revenge\u201d from the Iranian people and concurrently threatens the\u00a0MEK\u00a0<\/a>members in Albania.<\/p>\n

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Message to the Convention of Iranian Americans in California – January 11, 2020 #2020CaliforniaConvention<\/a> #IranProtests<\/a> #FreeIran<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/PeapFiCJ3G<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/AwvDqJ1clZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) January 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Iranian regime has received irreparable blows. Topping them all was the Iran uprising in November. The elimination of the terrorist Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, delivered a crushing blow to the strategy of export of fundamentalism and terrorism,\u201d Mrs. Rajavi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe regime had not had anyone like terror master Soleimani over the past 40 years. Single-handedly, he embodied the depravity and ruthlessness of the mullahs\u2019 regime. All of the regime\u2019s internal factions were united in supporting him,\u201d Mrs. Rajavi added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mullahs\u2019 strategy of exporting reactionism and terrorism due to the uprisings in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, is crumbling as we speak,\u201d Mrs.\u00a0Rajavi continued.\u00a0\u201cThe dawn of a free Iran can now be seen in the relentless uprising and the struggle of resistance units.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe seek to establish a democratic, free and progressive Iran based on people\u2019s free choice and suffrage, based on the separation of religion and state, based on pluralism, gender equality, the autonomy of the oppressed ethnic groups, and the abolition of the death penalty. The political groups and parties, Iranian and non-Iranian, who benefit from the continued rule of the mullahs\u2019 regime are reeling over the Soleimani\u2019s termination,\u201d Mrs. Rajavi underlined.<\/p>\n

Speakers at this convention described the killing of IRGC Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani,\u00a0as a significant and irreparable blow to the Iranian regime. They called this a major step in speeding up the downfall of the mullahs\u2019 regime in Iran. Qassem Soleimani killed\u00a0MEK\u00a0<\/a>members and played a leading role in oppressing the Iranian people\u2019s protests. He was also in charge of exporting terrorism abroad and\u00a0an\u00a0irreplaceable figure in the regime, especially for Khamenei.<\/p>\n

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#2020IranConvention<\/a> Calls:<\/p>\n

1\ufe0f\u20e3Providing a secure internet to the Iranian people<\/p>\n

2\ufe0f\u20e3Support our desire for #RegimeChange<\/a> by Iranians & their legitimate resistance led by @Maryam_Rajavi<\/a><\/p>\n

3\ufe0f\u20e3Mullahs must be held accountable for committing crime against humanity & be referred to #UNSC<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/BdQettAvrM<\/a><\/p>\n

— CSDI (@CaliSDI) January 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n