The ideal of all progressive mankind

Amid the onslaught of the religious dictatorship, which seeks to intimidate all through unmatched brutality, the perseverance of this Resistance and the Mojahedin foretells a bright future and rekindles hope in an oppressed society; so much so that the mullahs have been compelled to produce television series to confront the Iranian youths’ sympathy with the Resistance.

They lack the courage to admit the failure of all their previous campaigns claiming that the PMOI had been finished. And, they are afraid to admit that misinformation campaigns and assorted allegations against the Resistance have proven to be futile.

Consequently, they have now resorted to a hysteric propaganda campaign.
But, even if you (the mullahs) cry out against the Resistance 24 hours a day in your radio, television or newspapers, you cannot avert the fall of the velayat-e faqih regime.

Everyone knows that since four years ago this movement has been on the receiving end of the greatest political and military blows, much like a tsunami, from being bombed and disarmed (in Iraq) to the June 17th [2003] coup d’etat [against it in France].

So colossal were these blows that if one-hundredth of them, I repeat, that if only one-hundredth, had been directed against the mullahs’ regime, it would undoubtedly have lost everything. But, this movement emerged from these complicated circumstances even more powerful, and posed a greater threat to the clerical regime.

What is the secret to such resilience of the Resistance movement and the Mojahedin? Where does this perseverance stem from? How have they succeeded to revive themselves from flames and sufferings, much like a phoenix from the ashes?

At a time when the most powerful political parties around the world suffer from internal schism and chaos, how have the Mojahedin managed to sustain their internal unity and dynamism?

In addition to sacrifice, honesty, and enjoying a qualified leadership, the secret is in the progressive democratic relations within the PMOI, which relies on the free and conscious choices of each and every member of this movement. Freedom of choice forms the foundation of sincerity and unity within the ranks of this movement, and has unleashed creativity, a sense of responsibility, and extraordinary human qualities within it.

For this reason, this movement heralds free choice for all the Iranian people. Since day one, Massoud Rajavi has said that the PMOI have come to sacrifice itself for the Iranian people’s ability to choose freely.

The secret also lies in the PMOI’s profound belief in victory. Yet they were not motivated by victory, and they have not spent their lives experiencing victory and easily traversable paths. Otherwise, they would have never been able to rise up against the monster of [mullahs’ Islamic] fundamentalism.

So, as Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (la Pasionaria) once said, “Tell your children about those who traversed the seas and the mountains and the boundaries protected by spears. Tell them while hungry dogs were after them to tear them apart, they sacrificed everything: Their love, country, home, possessions, fathers, mothers, spouses, brothers, sisters and children… so that they could tell us we are here, for our ideal, the ideal of all progressive mankind.”

Indeed, there is an ideal, which emanates from the most unblemished, genuine, and rightful desires of the Iranian nation. A nation which has to date offered 120,000 of Iran’s most courageous children, including heroines such as my beloved sisters Neda Hassani and Sedigheh Mojaveri, whose memory we shall cherish in our hearts for all time.