Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield: Global action is needed to support the Iranian resistance and stop the regime’s aggression

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In a video message to the Free Iran 2024 World Summit in Paris, Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs, highlighted the growing global support for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the Iranian regime’s growing list of violations.

Bloomfield attributed the ongoing war and conflicts in the Middle East to Tehran, pointing to the use of Iranian drones in conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan and Ethiopia, as well as the regime’s aggression in numerous European countries and the United States.

He proposed several measures to counter the actions of the Iranian regime:

1. Stop the flow of weapons: Preventing arms deliveries to Yemen and Gaza.
2. Consequences for hostage-taking: Ensuring severe consequences, such as a halt to Iranian oil exports, if the hostage-taking continues.
3. Provision of satellite communications: Allows Iranian citizens to communicate freely and without government surveillance.
4. Closure of Iranian embassies: Closure of Iranian embassies in the West due to abuse of diplomatic privileges.
5. Striving for justice: Hold regime officials accountable for the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, including through international tribunals.

Ambassador Bloomfield called on Western governments to transform themselves into agents of positive change, support the Iranian resistance, and prepare for the inevitable change in Iran. He stressed that while change must come from within, the international community must stand with the Iranian people to uphold justice, peace, and a better future in a free Iran.

Below is the full text of Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield’s speech:

Good day and greetings to Mrs. Rajavi, to her great team in the National Council of Resistance of Iran and to your guests, to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq in Albania and Iran, and to all supporters of the organized resistance in Iran and around the world.

It was an interesting weekend where we saw that the NCRI enjoys enormous support, which is growing year after year. At the same time, our governments have had to deal with increasing problems from Iran, not only the nuclear threat, but also aggression across Europe and in America, human rights violations in Iran with numerous executions and abuse of women, and destabilization of the Middle East.

“We do not want to replace the current ruling power with another one.” Rather, the goal is to return power “to its rightful owner – the Iranian people.” (For forty-five years, the PMOI has advocated participatory government in Iran; it is still misunderstood/misrepresented in Western capitals. pic.twitter.com/c7BukeAi7E

— Lincoln Bloomfield (@LBJunior) June 29, 2024

Unfortunately, at our meeting this year, we must add to the long list of transgressions my view that Iran was behind the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year and is responsible for the horrific destruction that has taken place since then. All the weapons used by Hamas came from Iran, and all the threats from other non-state militias, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Shiite militias in Iraq, are all directed by the Quds Force.

At the same time, we see Iranian drones killing innocent Ukrainians, and those drones are now in Sudan and Ethiopia. There are problems all over Europe. We have seen aggression from Iran in Albania, in France, in Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and the UK, and there are many problems in the United States, including threats to our drinking water and attempted kidnappings and assassinations. The question is how do we stop this? What can we do? I think the supporters of the NCRI, and especially Mrs. Rajavi, know the answer.

Your 10-point plan inspires us all. But our governments must rethink Iran’s policies. It is time they did more to end this problem.

We must stop the flow of weapons to Yemen and Gaza. We must tell Iran that there must be no more hostages or there will be serious consequences. And by that I mean we must not allow Iran’s oil exports to leave the Persian Gulf.

We must provide satellite communications to the citizens of Iran so that they do not have to be monitored by their own government. They can communicate with the outside world and listen in. We must close Iranian embassies throughout the West.

They have abused their diplomatic privileges for far too long and do not deserve immunity that allows them to transport bombs on civilian aircraft, as they did with the bomb that almost blew up our rally in 2018. And we must seek justice for all victims of the 1988 massacre of up to 30,000 political prisoners, most of them MEK. Even though President Raisi is no longer there, there are still high-ranking figures in this regime who are implicated in the massacre.

They deserve to be brought before international tribunals to answer for these crimes. We must prepare for the change that is coming, because there will be changes in Iran. It is not pleasant to talk about the suffering that Iranian citizens have to endure under such a bad economy and such a corrupt and immoral regime.

It won’t be easy, but we have to stand together. We have to make our governments agents of change, of positive change. Nobody is talking about bombing Iran.

Change must come from within, but the people of Iran have a right to know that the people of the world are behind them and will do everything to maintain justice and peace and a better future in a free Iran. Thank you.