Thread by @NCRIUS

NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi on the Roadmap to Freedom, 2018 Iran Uprising Summit, September 22:
1- “I want to stress the path we have chosen and the horizon ahead of us as we strive to reach the Iranian people's grand destination.”
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2- “We seek popular sovereignty. We are fighting for the establishment of a republic based on the vote of the people. We consider the people's free vote to be the sole criterion of legitimacy for national officials.”
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3-“We stress human rights in accordance w/ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, & in accordance w/ conventions adopted by the United Nations. The mullahs' sharia edicts, which make up the legal precedent of the regime's punitive laws, will have no place in tomorrow's Iran.”

4- “We also stress the separation of religion and state.”
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5- “Active and equal participation of women in the political leadership of society is the strategy of our Resistance, both as we persevere and struggle to overthrow the regime, & as we establish freedom, democracy &equality following the clerical regime's downfall.”
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6- “We have risen up to establish a new economic & social order based on freedom. Our roadmap includes the uprooting of poverty, expansion of social justice, &growth of the economic power of citizens, enabling all of them 2have equal opportunities 4 employment &entrepreneurship.”

7- “Democracy in tomorrow's Iran will be founded on the participation of its various ethnicities liberated from dictatorship.”
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8- “In this respect, the 12-point plan of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) for the autonomy of Iranian Kurdistan, adopted 35 years ago, continues to shine as one of the most comprehensive models in the world.”
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9- “In the Iran of tomorrow, the regime’s policy of exporting terrorism will be replaced by peace &peaceful co-existence. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) &all of the suppressive, espionage &inquisition-like institutions will be disbanded.”
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10- "In accordance with the adopted plans of the NCRI, following the overthrow of the regime, a provisional gov will be formed, responsible 4 transferring power to the Iranian people & for organizing free elections 4 the formation of a Nat'l Constituent Assembly within 6 months."

11- “And finally, we seek a constitution based on freedom, democracy and equality. This is the roadmap to build our homeland Iran and make it prosperous.”
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12- “It is an urgent imperative that the [UN] Security Council address the flagrant violations of human rights in Iran, especially the torture and massacre of political prisoners, and the regime’s export of terrorism and warmongering in the ME Region.”
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13- “It [UN Security Council] must adopt binding measures to compel the regime to halt its crimes.
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14- “Overthrow, democratic change and establishing a free Iran are the responsibility of our people and Resistance. To this end, supporting the Iranian people’s uprising for the overthrow of the regime will contribute to regional and global peace &coexistence.”
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15- “The financial lifelines which fund the regime’s Supreme Leader and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps must be blocked. This is what the Iranian people demand, and it is indispensable to regional and global peace and security.”
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16- "We emphasize that the greatest danger posed by this regime is suppression at home. As such, firmness vis-à-vis the mullahs will only be effective when the violations of #HumanRights, the people’s uprising & the mullahs’ #terrorism are addressed in any discussion about Iran."

17- “We call on the United States to expel the Iranian regime’s operatives from America. We urge western governments to shut down or restrict the regime's embassies, which are control centers 4 espionage & #terrorism; & to expel this regime's criminal forces from #Syria & #Iraq.”

18- “Iran’s seat at the United Nations does not belong to the terrorist regime ruling it. That seat belongs to the Iranian people and Resistance.”
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