Elaheh Mossadegh at Youth Gathering: “Iran’s New Generation Has Risen for Freedom”
On Saturday, October 25,2025, on the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, a youth gathering titled “Free Iran 2025” brought together a large number of young supporters of the Iranian resistance from across Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia.
The event—attended by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), was linked live with simultaneous gatherings in Bonn, London, and Zurich.
Representatives from more than 30 youth associations and organizations spanning diverse fields—medicine, law, engineering, sports, and academic addressed the assembly.
Citing the historical role of young people in the uprisings of 2019 and 2022, they stressed that Iran’s new generation is no longer a bystander but has become an informed, organized, and committed force for the achievement of freedom and democracy in the country.
In a moving address delivered on behalf of the delegation of Iranian students abroad, Elaheh Mossadegh said:
“Dear friends, Dear Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, my name is Elaheh. I left Iran fifteen years ago. I am a pharmacy student at Uppsala University in Sweden, and it is a great honor to stand here today at this gathering commemorating Iran’s revolutionary youth.
Our generation has risen from the ashes of repression. We have abandoned silence and chosen resistance. Young forces have become courageous insurgent cells confronting the regime’s tyranny, fulfilling Mr. Massoud Rajavi’s promise that ‘we will build a thousand Ashrafs, and today we see thousands of Ashrafs in practice.
From the girls and boys who write ‘Death to Khamenei’ on blackboards to students like Ehsan Faridi—a 22-year-old manufacturing engineering student who is behind bars instead of in class and faces execution for supporting the PMOI. Faced with an Islamic regime that views youth solely as a threat, the Mojahedin have opened every door for young people to become leaders of this movement. We have not merely been given an opportunity; we have been given a responsibility to carry the banner of the struggle for our homeland’s freedom, and here and now we pledge not to lay that banner down until Iran is free.
Elaheh Mossadegh said: This regime fears the awareness and resolves of youth because it knows that the day this generation rises up it will uproot reaction. It is this same generation that has risen across Iran today and speaks with one voice: “Death to the oppressor — whether Shah or Mullah.”
