To those who hear our voices today and our learning for the first time of this struggle, here is all you need to know about the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. To those who do not know of our fight, this is all you need to know. There is no decent place in the family of nations for those who would kill innocent men and women only for their beliefs.
Barack Obama, Mrs. Merkel, President Hollande, Prime Minister Cameron, look at these faces, it is the murderer of these people who sits across from you and negotiates a nuclear weapons treaty. You believe you can trust them with the lives of the world when they could not be trusted not to kill their own people.
Because we love life, we mourn their deaths. Because we love freedom, we admire their sacrifices. Martin Luther King once said a man who found something to die for has brought meaning to their lives. Today, people in Iran maybe hearing the names of these martyrs for the first time; In 100 years on the 100th anniversary of a free Iran, every school child in Iran will know their names and their sacrifices and this crime and the role that it played in ending this terror in Tehran.
We do not know when this struggle ends, only that it will end. We don’t know how victory comes, only that it is inevitable. We wish that we could claim that these 52 martyrs were the last who would have to sacrifice, but they are not. To those who hear our voices today in Iran, just know this: these 52 brave men and women died that you might live free. They took your places in the front lines of freedom. Because they will not be the last and because the struggle is not one, we turn now to you. We all have a role to play. In Tehran because they have robbed the good name of your country; in the international community because while there are many threats in many quarters to the world order and to freedom, there is one threat large enough, persistent enough, dangerous enough, that it calls upon all free people to the barricades. That struggle is the immediate, complete and total destruction of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran, and now.