The annual Iranian resistance gathering
took place on July 1, 2017. Over 100,000 members of the Iranian Diaspora
from all over the world participated in the event. In addition to
#Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of Iranian resistance as the keynote
speaker, many prominent personalities form all over the world also
delivered speeches. The main message of the meeting and its speakers was
that the time has come for regime change in Iran.
In
previous years, Iran, by putting a media blackout over the event, would
ignore the resistances’ gathering. There is a well-known policy in Iran
that publishing the name, picture or any news of Rajavi and the
People’s Mojahedin Organization of #Iran (#PMOI/MEK),
the main opposition of Iran, is a red line and prohibited. But this
year, in an unprecedented manner this red line was ignored and in only
three days over 500 news reports about the gathering were published in
state run media, reflected the Iranian regime’s unprecedented fear.
The
visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to France topped
Tehran’s reaction to the event. Just a day prior Zarif went to Paris
for the signing of a $5 billion dollar contract with the French oil
giant Total.
The main purpose of
Zarif’s trip was to ask the French government to cancel the resistance’s
annual gathering, according to Iranian state media. One outlet even
claimed the entire convention had been cancelled.
“In
our talks with the French officials we raised the issue of the MEK and
their presence as a vague point in our relationship,” Zarif said while
departing France.
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