The Free Iran 2024 World Summit kicked off on June 29, 2024, in Paris, just one day after the boycott of the Iranian regime’s sham presidential elections. Simultaneously, tens of thousands of Iranian freedom lovers rallied in Berlin to support the Iranian Resistance and the democratic alternative.
The Free Iran 2024 World Summit brought together hundreds of political personalities from America, Europe, Canada, and Arab countries. The guests included former presidents, prime ministers, parliamentary speakers, former foreign ministers, national security advisors, government ministers, lawmakers, jurists, lawyers, and human rights experts from various countries.
The event also featured 20,000 acts by Resistance Units inside Iran declaring support for the Free Iran 2024 World Summit.
World Leaders and MPs from 50 Countries Lend Support
Some 137 former world leaders, in addition to over 4,000 members of 81 parliaments from 50 countries, including the majorities of 34 parliaments, declared their support for the NCRI, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, and her Ten-Point Plan. The event marks a renewed commitment to ending the appeasement of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran and recognizing the struggle of the Iranian people for freedom and a democratic Iran, as well as the struggle of Iranian youths against the terrorist Revolutionary Guard Corps and Intelligence Ministry.
The speakers included US Vice President Mike Pence; former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Prof. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Former Speaker of the UK House of Commons John Bercow; Rita Süssmuth, former President of the German Bundestag; National Security Advisor John Bolton; former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper; former Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt; former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss; former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi; former French senior state minister Michèle Alliot-Marie; and former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
They expressed support for the NCRI as the only viable democratic alternative as represented by Mrs. Rajavi, and her Ten-Point Plan, as well as for the courage of Iranian women in standing up to the regime and the Resistance Units inside Iran who champion the liberation of the country.
Remarks by Maryam Rajavi
In her remarks to the summit, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI President-elect, said, “Two weeks ago, the regime’s official news agency criticized the PMOI for ‘wearing the hijab themselves yet championing the removal of the hijab!’
“The regime’s pain stems from our declaration, ‘No to compulsory hijab, no to compulsory religion, and no to compulsory governance,’ and our continued stance that women are agents of change and ‘Woman, Resistance, Freedom.’ The dispute between the veiled, the unveiled, or the improperly veiled is a construct fabricated by the clerics, aimed at oppression, division, and intimidation. The women of Iran have indeed spoken out, ‘With or without the hijab, onward to revolution.’”
Distinguished Women Addressed Free Iran 2024 Summit
The distinguished women who addressed the Free Iran 2024 World Summit and expressed support in the first two days were:
Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia (2016-2021)
Liz Truss, Former British Prime Minister
Natalia Gavrilita, Former Prime Minister of Moldova
Rosalia Arteaga, Former President of Ecuador
Ana Helena Chacon Echeverria, Former Vice President of Costa Rica
Michèle Alliot-Marie, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Interior
Judy Sgro, Canadian MP
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Nancy Mace, Member of the US Congress
Kathleen Depoorter, Belgian MEP
Naike Gruppioni, Italian MP
Linda Chavez, Former Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement
Ingrid Betancourt, Former Senator and Presidential Candidate of Colombia
Dominique Attias, Chair of the Board of Directors at the European Lawyers Foundation
Izabela Konopacka, President of Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE)
Kira Rudik, Ukrainian MP, Vice President of ALDE, leader of Golos Party
Rita Süssmuth, former President of the German Bundestag (1988-1998)
Diana Stöcker, Mayor of Weil am Rhein and former MP (until June 2024)
Baroness O’Loan, Member of the British House of Lords
Loretta Sanchez, Former Member of the US House of Representative
Monserrat Ruiz Guevarra, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
Janice Chetcuti, Member of the Parliament of Malta
Nargis Nehan, Former Minister of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan