On July 1, 2023, distinguished world leaders and lawmakers convened at the Headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Auvers-sur-Oise outside Paris, to take part in the Free Iran World Summit 2023, entitled “Onward to a Democratic Republic.”
Simultaneously, tens of thousands of Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance rallied in Paris to demonstrate their support for a democratic and secular republic in Iran and the overthrow of the entire clerical regime as a necessary first step to bring about freedom, democracy, and peace, as embodied in the 10-Point Plan of the NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi who was the summit’s keynote speaker.
A stellar group of prominent political and policy figures from the United States who had attended the summit, provided many inspiring and insightful remarks about the U.S. policy toward Tehran, the viable democratic alternative NCRI, and the inevitability of the success of the Iranian people’s revolution in the making. Below is a list of their remarks’ transcript.