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NCRI –\u00a0Tom Ridge, Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, spoke at the \u201cFree Iran\u201d rally held in Villepinte near Paris. He said that just before he took to the stage he was reminded as to why the event was taking place. He said that he had been speaking to a woman who has lost six members of her family.<\/p>\n
He said that the \u201clight of liberty can overcome and replace the darkness of the tyrannical Iranian regime\u201d. The light of freedom, he said, is kept going by all those who has lost their lives for the cause and by the people of Camp Ashraf and by those who have lived through the terror caused by the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n
Ridge alluded to Simin Behbahani, the human rights advocate and poet, who said: \u201cMy country, I will build you again, if need be with bricks from my life. I will build columns to support your roof, if need be with my bones. I will inhale again the perfume of flowers favored by your youth. I will wash away the blood off your body with torrents of my tears. And once more the darkness will leave the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Secretary of Homeland Security reminded the audience that he has been working with the Resistance for almost ten years and is still humbled by the passion, courage, sacrifice and dedication which reminds him of the US Declaration of Independence of his own country which enshrines a universal truth and universal rights. He emphasized that the rights are not given by the government or by man, \u201cbut by divine law, by human law, by natural law\u201d. He reminded the audience that everyone is created equal and has \u201ccertain inalienable rights that among them are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.\u201d He said that these universal truths and rights are the aspirations of the Iranian people.<\/p>\n
He said it was wrong that the people of Iran have been \u201crejected, denied, and crushed by the repressive Iranian regime.\u201d Now, he said, is the time for the subordination of the Iranian people to end.<\/p>\n
Ridge praised the Resistance, emphasizing that it is the only popular organization that has a proven leadership that can provide a democratic alternative to the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n
\u201cI join with you and we need to join the entire global community to raise their voices, sustain their voices, call throughout the international community, we want a free Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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