2019 Event Flashback
2019 Annual Free Iran Conference
The annual ‘Free Iran’ conference of the Iranian opposition is underway today, July 13, 2019. The event was held for the first time at ‘Ashraf 3’, the headquarters of the main Iranian opposition in Albania. Hundreds of lawmakers, officials and dignitaries from around the world have flocked to Albania to join the 2019 Free Iran conference. Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi is the event’s keynote speaker.
In her remarks, former French Minister of Human Rights, Rama Yade, said:There is a new city, Ashraf 3, built here in Albania by thousands of Iranians who survived the attacks of the Iranian and Iraqi governments. Thank you to the Albanians who made it possible for the Ashrafis to have somewhere to stay, after their great sacrifices. What you have achieved here, you can achieve in Iran in one day. I am emotional when I see the Iranian Resistance’s museum at Ashraf 3 and 120,000 martyrs. Iran is a nuclear threat and a religious threat, starting from the same nature of the Iranian Regime… the MEK members have paid the price of resistance with their lives. They are supportive of Islam but are against fundamentalism and they put women at the center of their movement. 2018 was a dark year for human rights in Iran, and we should be concerned about that.
Solidarity Speeches & Messages
Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield
![Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Amb.-Lincoln-Bloomfield.jpg)
Gen. George Casey
![Gen. George Casey](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Gen.-George-Casey.jpg)
Sen. Bob Joseph
![Amb. Robert Joseph](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Amb.-Robert-Joseph.jpg)
British MP Matthew Offord
![British MP Matthew Offord](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/British-MP-Matthew-Offord.png)
Rep. Dana Rohrabacherr
![2018-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2018-Rep.-Dana-Rohrabacher.jpg)
Italian MP Giuseppina
![Italian MP Giuseppina Occhionero](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Italian-MP-Giuseppina-Occhionero.png)
Sen. Joe Lieberman
![Sen. Joseph Lieberman Sen. Joseph Lieberman](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sen.-Joseph-Lieberman-562x374.jpg)
Sen. Bob Torricelli
![Sen. Bob Torricelli (1)](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sen.-Bob-Torricelli-1.jpg)
David Ames
![David Ames](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/David-Ames.jpg)
Rep. Lance Gooden
![Congressman Lance Gooden](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Congressman-Lance-Gooden.png)
Miche¦Çle de Vaucouleurs
![French MP Miche¦Çle de Vaucouleurs](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/French-MP-Miche¦Cle-de-Vaucouleurs-.png)
Rep. Ted Poe
![Judge Ted Poe, former Member of the U.S. Congress](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Judge-Ted-Poe-former-Member-of-the-U.S.-Congress.png)
Stephen Harper
![Stephen Harper](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Stephen-Harper.jpg)
Ingrid Betancourt
![Ingrid Betancourt](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ingrid-Betancourt-.jpg)
Marc Ginsberg
![Amb. Marc Ginsberg](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Amb.-Marc-Ginsberg.jpg)
Dr. Bernard Kouchner
![Bernard Kouchner](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bernard-Kouchner.jpg)
German MP Eduard Lintner
![German MP Eduard Lintner](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/German-MP-Eduard-Lintner.png)
MEP Miche¦Çle Alliot-Marie
![MEP Miche¦Çle Alliot-Marie, former French minister of foreign affairs, defense, interior, and justice](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MEP-Miche¦Cle-Alliot-Marie-former-French-minister-of-foreign-affairs-defense-interior-and-justice.png)
Gov. Tom Ridge
![Gov. Tom Ridge](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gov.-Tom-Ridge.jpg)
Baroness Verma
![Baroness Verma](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Baroness-Verma.jpg)
British MP Bob Blackman
![British MP Bob Blackman](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/British-MP-Bob-Blackman.jpg)
John Baird
![John Baird](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/John-Baird.jpg)
German MP Martin Patzelt
![German MP Martin Patzelt](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/German-MP-Martin-Patzelt.jpg)
Yakin Ertu¦êrk
![Yakin Ertu¦êrk, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women](https://oiac.org/annual-free-iran-2022/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Yakin-Ertu¦erk-UN-Special-Rapporteur-on-Violence-against-Women.png)
“Excerpts from Speakers Speech”
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX)
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)
Gen. James Conway
Sen. Bob Torricelli
Ingrid Betancourt
Giulio Terzi
Gerry Horkan
Lord McInnes
Kimmo Sasi
Dana Rohrabacher
Gov. Tom Ridge
Rama Yade
Giuseppina Occhionero
Ital Paolo
Radka Maxová MEP