Elham Sajedian: Our generation has pledged to end this regime once and for all
On Saturday, October 25, 2025, Free Iran 1404—a youth gathering—was held with a large turnout of young supporters of the Iranian resistance from Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, and was connected live with simultaneous gatherings in Bonn, London, and Zurich. During the conference, held on the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising and attended by Ms. Maryam Rajavi, representatives from more than 30 youth associations from various fields shared their perspectives. At the youth gathering in Switzerland, which was connected live to the other gatherings, Elham Sajedian delivered a speech:
Greetings to all friends and to you, my dear Sister Maryam. I am honored to be a member of this powerful gathering. Because our generation is the force of change and the driving engine of society for building a prosperous and free Iran. I am Elham Sajedian, holder of a master’s degree in geology from Shiraz University. My family, including myself, were always under pressure from the regime’s repressive apparatus because of my father’s and uncles’ support for the PMOI. That is what ultimately forced me to leave Iran.
My father, Mohammad Sajedian, was executed by the mullahs’ regime at age thirty-four — I was only two days old. He was a prisoner of two dictatorships, the Shah and the clerical regime. During the Shah’s era he was arrested for his ties to the Mojahedin and horribly tortured. Under the clerical regime my father, along with two other Mojahedin members, were arrested by the regime’s Revolutionary Guards. After fifteen days of savage torture, the executioners publicly executed my father.
My uncle, Jalal Sajedian, was sent to the firing squad at age twenty. They didn’t even allow our family to put the names of our loved ones on their gravestones.
Censorship, Threats and Lies Will Never Stop People’s Awakening
I witnessed that the regime does whatever it can to prevent people from joining the Mojahedin. Members of the families of Mojahedin martyrs — even their most distant relatives — suffer the greatest pressures. My family and I were summoned many times, especially during the uprisings, by the so-called “Nejat Association” branch of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence, and we were threatened that if we were seen in the uprisings, we would not be treated like the others.
Some deceptively claim that in such suffocating conditions inside Iran they have conducted polls about the Mojahedin’s popularity. Of course, for anyone who has lived in Iran these hollow claims are nothing but a joke. The mullahs, in collusion with the appeasers, prevented the publication of the shocking news of 120,000 martyrs of the path to Iran’s freedom with the most brutal censorship of the century, and by their silence paved the way for that massacre to continue. But thanks to the campaign for justice that you, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, called for, today the sacrifices of the martyrs inspire our uprising generation.
The Ten-Point Plan is the cure for all the wounds that religious fascism has inflicted on the spirit and psyche of our people. For me and millions like me who were deprived of having a father or mother or a normal life by the brutal punishment of execution, one of the most valuable of these points is the abolition of the death penalty. Our generation has chosen not to yield until the day Iran is free.
We have everything for victory, and we pledge to rid the people of Iran of this regime forever. We are ready! Ready! Ready!
