Dear friends, President-elect Maryam Rajavi,
I stand before you as the child of a generation whose hopes and dreams were stolen, yet who rose with extraordinary courage to resist oppression under the banner of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Two of my uncles, political prisoners Abbas Hosseini and Gholam-Hossein Hosseini, endured torture in the Shah’s jails, and were later murdered by the mullahs’ regime.
My aunt, Maryam Hosseini, a heroic Ashrafi, was brutally murdered on the first of September 2013 massacre in camp Ashraf (in Iraq).
The profound impact of their sacrifices for justice and freedom are carved in my being.
In 1988, just a few years after the executions of my uncles, the regime brutally massacred 30,000 political prisoners in a bid to terrify our generation into submission.
For decades, they embarked on a campaign of demonization and lies but the regime failed. My generation refused to trust its propaganda. Instead, we found truth and courage under the leadership of Maryam Rajavi, who has inspired countless of women like me across generations, as you see here today.
With her motto, “We can, and we must,” she has empowered generations of women to now stand at the highest ranks of a movement which dares to challenge the world’s most misogynistic and tyrannical regime, while offering a democratic alternative to the regime and a model for the Middle East.
Today, as the MEK marks its 60th anniversary, we celebrate a movement that has carried the torch of freedom, through countless betrayals, making the greatest of sacrifices along the way.
My generation and I, some of whom are behind me today, vow to our people and to our Resistance to expose every lie, confront every betrayal, to carry this revolution towards victory.
This time, Iran will truly see the dawn of freedom, independence, and the people’s sovereignty, no matter the cost.
Now with pleasure I introduce the next generation to say their remarks.
