Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield: Global Action Needed to Support Iranian Resistance and End Regime Aggression

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

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

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

Stop the flow of weapons:Prevent arms deliveries to Yemen and Gaza.
Important consequences for hostage-taking:Ensure serious repercussions, such as stopping Iranian oil exports, if the hostage-taking continues.
Provision of satellite communications:Allow Iranian citizens to communicate freely without government surveillance.
Iranian embassies closed:Iranian embassies in the West closed due to abuse of diplomatic privileges.
In search of justice:Hold regime officials responsible for the 1988 massacre of political prisoners accountable, including through international tribunals.

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

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

Good morning and greetings to Mrs. Rajavi, her great team of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, her guests, the People’s Mojahedin of Albania and Iran, and all supporters of the organized resistance in Iran and around the world.

This weekend was interesting and we could see that the NCRI enjoys enormous support that continues to grow year after year. At the same time, our governments have had to deal with growing problems from Iran, not only the nuclear threat, but also aggression in Europe and the United States, human rights violations in Iran, with mass executions and violence against women, and destabilization in the Middle East.

“We are not seeking to replace the current power with another.” Rather, the goal is to return power to “its rightful owner – the Iranian people.” (Forty-five years of the MEK promoting participatory government in Iran; still misunderstood/portrayed in Western capitals.) pic.twitter.com/c7BukeAi7E

— Lincoln Bloomfield (@LBJunior) June 29, 2024

Unfortunately, as we find ourselves this year with a long list of transgressions, we must add my view that Iran is behind the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th and bears responsibility for the terrible destruction that has occurred since then. All the weapons used by Hamas came from Iran, and all the threats from other non-state militias, from Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Shiite militias in Iraq, are all directed by the Qods Force.

Meanwhile, we see Iranian drones killing innocent Ukrainians, and these drones are now in Sudan and Ethiopia. There are problems all over Europe. We have seen Iranian aggression in Albania, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, and 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 do we do? I think the NCRI supporters and especially Mrs. Rajavi know what the answer is.

His ten-point plan is an inspiration to us all. But our governments need to rethink Iran policy. It is time for them to take more radical steps to end this problem.

We must stop the flow of weapons into 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 that it must not allow its oil exports to leave the Persian Gulf.

Iranian citizens must be given satellite communications so that they are no longer monitored by their own government. They can communicate and listen to the outside world. Iranian embassies throughout the West must be closed.

They have abused their diplomatic privileges for far too long and do not deserve the immunity that allows them to transport bombs on civilian planes, as they did with the bomb that nearly blew up our rally in 2018. And we must demand justice for all the victims of the 1988 massacre, which took up to 30,000 political prisoners, most of them MEK members. Even though President Raisi is gone, there are still high-ranking people in that regime who are implicated in that massacre.

They deserve to be brought before international courts to answer for their crimes. We must prepare for the change that is coming, because change is coming in Iran. It is not pleasant to talk about the suffering that Iranian citizens are enduring in such a depressed economy and under such a corrupt and immoral regime.

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

Change must come from within, but Iranians deserve to know that people around the world stand with them and will do everything in their power to stand for justice, peace, and a better future in a free Iran. Thank you.