On July 13, 2019, dignitaries from dozens of countries across the world attended the main event of the Free Iran 2019 international conference. The conference was part of the five-day Free Iran 2019 series of conferences at the main headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Ashraf 3, Albania. Several dignitaries, political and human rights activists delivered speeches, issuing remarks about the struggles of the Iranian people and their resistance movement for freedom in their country.
Following are key remarks by U.S. Congressman Lance Gooden at the Ashraf 3 conference.
Lance Gooden:
Thank you all very much. My name is Lance Gooden, and I’m a freshman member of the United States Congress.
The first thing I learned with respect to Iran is one of the most respected people across the United States in your movement is Madame [Maryam] Rajavi. Thank you. And the other thing I’ve learned is despite our differences in Washington, and despite the issues that we often disagree on, one of the issues that we are all in agreement on in the United States Congress, and President Donald Trump is right there with us leading the charge, that is that we have to have regime change in Iran now.
I want to thank you all so much for your dedication and your fight. This is my first time ever in Albania, my first day, in fact. And while I look forward to coming back to Albania, I look forward to visiting you all in Tehran someday very soon when you move back home to where you belong. Let’s win this. I encourage the young people across Iran to get involved, to get united, to fight, to spread the messages that young people are the future of your nation. And together, I believe that you all will prevail and that all the people that I’m here with today will be back in Iran with you. It will be a democratic nation. Thank you, and God bless you all.
