{"id":327713,"date":"2025-01-15T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=327713"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:08:12","slug":"norwegian-minister-calls-out-tehrans-smear-campaign-against-iranian-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/norwegian-minister-calls-out-tehrans-smear-campaign-against-iranian-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Minister Calls Out Tehran\u2019s Smear Campaign Against Iranian Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ola Elvestuen, former Norway\u2019s Minister of Climate and Environment speaking at an Iranian Resistance meeting on January 11, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ola Elvestuen, former Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway, delivered a strong message of support for Iran\u2019s organized democratic resistance, emphasizing the regime’s relentless efforts to discredit opposition groups, particularly the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Speaking at an international conference<\/a> on January 11 in Paris, Elvestuen highlighted Tehran\u2019s fear of the NCRI, evidenced by its persistent smear campaigns and attempts to portray the resistance as fragmented.<\/p>\n

He described 2024 as a year of unprecedented crisis for the regime, with mounting economic collapse, internal protests, and strategic defeats across the region. Elvestuen praised the NCRI\u2019s Ten-Point Plan<\/a> for a democratic, secular Iran, calling it a blueprint for freedom and equality.<\/p>\n

The former Norwegian minister urged the international community to reject Tehran\u2019s propaganda, fully enforce sanctions, and engage with the Iranian people and their resistance. \u201cA free and democratic Iran will bring transformative change,\u201d he concluded, calling for unity against dictatorship and tyranny.<\/p>\n

The full script of Ola Elvestuen’s speech follows below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mrs. Rajavi, prime ministers, distinguished speakers, I have careers and experiences that make me privileged to also be part of the speakers. Ladies and gentlemen, both here and also in Ashraf 3, it’s a privilege for me to be invited and to be here.<\/p>\n

And, I will not try to sum up the speakers as I’ve been here, but I think one of the cores that are here is that 2024 has been a year of unprecedented crisis for the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

The Iranian regime is weak. The regime’s regional ambitions have suffered devastating blows. Hezbollah faces near destruction, the Houthis are in a very difficult situation. With the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the grip Iran maintained on Syria has slipped away causing shock waves in Tehran.<\/p>\n

And that is something I think we should also take in, how hard a blow the loss of Syria is to the Iranian regime. I think it’s much harder than it is being recognized amongst majority in the democratic world.<\/p>\n

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Takk for en sterk, tydelig og inspirerende tale, @olaelvestuen<\/a> \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n

Vi i UNID setter stor pris p\u00e5 din deltakelse og din st\u00f8tte for et fritt og demokratisk iran. #FreeIran2025<\/a> #NCRIAlternative<\/a> #Iran<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WyMlzsBiXm<\/a><\/p>\n

— Unge norsk-iranere for demokrati (@UNID_) January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n