March 1, 2005            

- President of the U.S. Senate:
Honorable Richard Cheney, the US Vice-President
- Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Honorable J. Dennis Hastert
- Chairman of the U.S. Senate on Foreign Relations:
Honorable Richard G. Lugar
- Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations: Honorable Henry J. Hyde
- Honorable Senators Rick Santorum, John Cornyn, Sam Brownback & George Allen

Via Fedex and Fax

- Honorable members of the 109th U.S. Congress

Via Fax or E.Mail

 
   Dear Vice President Cheney, Dear Speaker of the House Hastert, Dear Chairmen of the Foreign Relations Committees, Dear members of the 109th  Congress,

   In regards to the people of Iran's legitimate aspirations for freedom, wishing the following be considered by the members for sponsorship to be read aloud for the record, and entered as Congressional testimony:
 
   As prescribed by the U.S. Constitution, President George W. Bush has, on several occasions definitively outlined American policy toward the Islamic Republic regime. These policies of freedom's promise outlined by your respected President clearly clarify the outstanding issues of the "Argument of the age" as defined. To the Iranian people he said, "As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you."
 
   On behalf of the "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI), and the good people of our nation who have striven so long for freedom, we wish to extend our most sincere and humble thanks and gratitude for these words and the support of U.S. Congress in our long road to liberty.
   Know this, that as America stands with the people of Iran, we stand with America in your fight against terrorism and tyranny!
 
   For in this struggle we are engaged in, the leaders of the disreputable and wholly unpopular Islamic Republic regime are the terrorists in our people's midst, sponsoring it abroad, conducting it at home, and staining the honor of our nation with the blood of our citizens, as well as, the blood of the innocent throughout the entire world.
   Indeed, this theocratic entity is engaged in terror, torture and atrocity on a daily basis, and this illegitimate regime dares to call itself Democratic, an advocate of human rights, and protector of the oppressed throughout the region. A cruel joke added onto the injury to our nation's pride and heritage.
 
   The horror of this evil regime's hypocrisy, and methodical atrocities can only be likened to a daily Auschwitz for the stain it brings on the honor of those who appease and support and lengthen the life-span of this barbarian and tyrannical regime through silence, economic incentive, nuclear fuel negotiations, "engagement" and illusion, blind or not as they may be of what is taking place in our country. Nor can the international community, or any member of any government that holds in their heart the values of freedom continue to turn their back on the Iranian people's legitimate aspirations to formulate a new secular political structure, and call themselves human.
 
  Iran is not Iraq, nor Afghanistan nor China. While the overwhelming majority of Iranians, most of them young and educated with thirst of modernity and progress, have passed the stage of accepting any type of religion mixing with the affairs of state. They have also become very lucid and are open critics of any "Chinafication" of Iran where the governmental ideology will rule unchanged while its foreign policy and economy will be adapting to foreign governments requests.  The main difference between China and Iran is that Marxism was an economical ideology and can be adapted or end when the regime needs but the Islamist ideology by its essence is supposedly emanating from God and is by nature restrictive and against individuals rightful aspirations to freedom by trying to anchor them in precepts inherited from 14 centuries ago.

    Respected Senators and Representatives of the great American Nation,
 
   The Islamic Republic regime cannot be reformed in whole or in part by any referendum while the regime sits in power able to manipulate the outcome, nor can the regime be caused to abandon its blind nuclear ambition through the "carrot" of WTO ascension and other European "economic incentives".
 
   This honorable body of the elected is not blinded by illusion of propaganda the Islamic Republic regime has tried to create, and we wish to illustrate the alarming results of eight years of demagogy and sham "reforms from within", and to caution the U.S. Congress regarding any proposed Congressional testimony from former regime theoreticians or members of regime promoted religious student bodies. Indeed these 'former' supporters, involved in selling the sham reforms scenario and buying time for the shaky theocracy, have only recently 'joined' the opposition and they do not represent the majority of the Iranian people who wish for a totally new form of secular-democratic and progressist political structure without the backwarded mullahs and their technocrats involved in any way.

   The only way our people can regain our honor and the world its trust for a WMD-free Iran that seeks to provide a safer future for the world is by providing us, the people of Iran, the support for our legitimate aspirations of liberty and the tools necessary to take back the land that Cyrus the Great brought Democracy to over 2500 years ago.
  Honor demands that we do this of our own accord, and with the proper tools provided by this elected body of free men and women which is the U.S. Congress, as well as the President's noble foreign policy, and with the tools provided by the international community through the auspices of the UN, we will ultimately succeed.
   Primary among those tools we seek is the rule of international law, as provided by the resolutions on human rights, state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist financing already in place within the UN in various resolutions, and mandated by the Security Council.
 
   The prayers of suggestion included in SMCCDI's letter to the honorable George W. Bush  (Jan. 27, 2005) contains the full list of international tools the Iranian people need to solve the problem that plagues all of us. None of which include military intervention, or arms sales to any faction of the opposition movement within or outside Iran.
 
   We are not blinded by the difficulties involved with civil disobedience in stopping the functioning of the Islamic Republic, but those here who would have doubt of the current leadership's ability or the people's will must remember your own history of civil disobedience that changed the fabric of your nation, protecting the rights of all it's citizens.
   We remember Gandhi's march, the Gdansk shipyards, the Velvet revolution, the Rose revolution, and all the non-violent change that has been brought about through these non-violent methods throughout history. These leaders of civil disobedience were mostly unknown in their beginnings, just as the publicly unknowns of many uprisings led in anonymity the localized events in these national revolutions that have changed the world for the better. So it is among all grass roots movements.

   We ask that this letter to U.S. Congress, as well as the letter to President Bush be considered in equal measure to provide proper perspective to you on the issues, for it is our firm belief that only after the Islamic regime is removed by the Iranian people can a genuine UN monitored referendum, and new political structure be properly debated and chosen by the people.
 
 
   Honorable members of the 109th U.S. Congress,
 
   Many resolutions have come before you on matters of human rights, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and weapons development over the years. In particular, the "Iran Democracy Act", that the honorable Senator Sam Brownback introduced On May 19, 2003., supporting the right of the Iranian people to choose their own government. The legislation to be considered,
contained within the "Iran Freedom and Support Act", introduced by the honorable Senator Rick Santorum and endorsed by Senator John Cornyn and some of your fellow colleagues, follows on these measures.
 
   The honorable George W. Bush, your president, has said many times that "We owe it to our children and our children's children to free the world from weapons of mass destruction in the hands of those who hate freedom." No one knows the truth of these words more than the people of our nation who have the most to lose should this become manifest in the hands of the mullahs, and their terrorist allies.

   On behalf of the "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI), and the good people of our nation who have striven so long for freedom, we call upon all members of this great elected body of Democracy, to approve the "Iran Freedom and Support Act" in a vote of unanimous consent. We hope that this bill will be endorsed and/or co-sponsored by a overwhelming majority, with both Democrat and Republican adding their names in bi-partisan support for our aspirations of liberty.
   Such supportive action will provide the tools we need to free not only our children and grandchildren, but the world's as well, from the dangers posed to all by the Islamic Republic regime.
 
   Many among you view the word's "regime change" in different ways, and in different manifestations. The proposals outlined in SMCCDI's letter to president Bush may not require this Congress to debate this phrase that causes so much controversy, primarily as we have proposed "regime change" the Iranian way, as they are essentially Iranian solutions by, for and of, the Iranian people. But these solutions may serve as well to create a better world for the sake of all people in their success, and we believe they merit America's strong and solid support.
   We believe they will work to provide a better home for all our children and grandchildren to live in, and for the entire region. It has already begun in Iran, now the solution needs the world's support and resolve as well. The "Iran Freedom and Support Act" is part and parcel to this.
 
     With this elected body's firm unanimous voice, and the resolve of the U.S. President and his Secretary of State; Supporting the measures proposed to be tabled and ratified in the UN as outlined in SMCCDI's proposals, and the formation of a roundtable of opposition groups and international representatives; The coordination of economic and military sanction, freezing of assets, closing of embassies, banishment from the UN, and other non-violent measures as may be found worthy under international law will be overwhelming to the Islamic republic regime, and it's demise will happen in a fairly short time.
 
    The Mullahs are on life support, and the machine that keeps them alive is their vast financial holdings, the Revolutionary Guard and the absence of a unified international stand against this evil regime, politically and economically.
   Many rank and file military will join the people of Iran, having no loyalty but their families and to a paycheck which is never on time. As the infrastructure of the economy sit idle, the regime will have to take from what's left of the guard to run it, and thereby leaving the streets to the people. We believe we can remove the regime without undo bloodshed, for we wish not for the future to be stained with the blood of civil war.
    In the end, the only stain we wish to have upon us, is a purple one on everyone's index finger held up in a "V".
 
    On this path of liberty America has been given the task to promote, may all the members of U.S. Congress, as well as, all free nations support each other in common cause, let not your doubts or differences blind you to the correct path when the fork in the road is before you, seek not to point fingers at one another in confusion and doubt as to which road to take. Heed not the confusion sown by those who would place that shadow of doubt at the feet of freedom.
    In this great world endeavor of freedom the U.S. President has put forth, let all people of the world remember why our feet point forward (to walk upright) and why our eyes are at the front of our heads (to not look backwards while walking).
    For even as the shadows of doubt follows in the bright light of the truth, do not seek to look at the shadow that is cast behind lest it cause a people to stumble and falter.
    When the shadow of doubt lies in the path ahead, let sturdy feet trample it with reason. And when the shadow of doubt is cast beside the path, do not turn aside to speak to it, lest it deceive and delay the reaching of the "undiscovered country".
 
    On behalf of the "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI), and the good people of our nation who have striven so long for freedom, we ask simply that every one of you in the 109th U.S. Congress stand united with us now, not as Democrat or Republican, nor even as Americans per se, but simply as Humans. For that, and the hope of liberty is what binds all people together in unity.

    With gratitude

    Aryo B. Pirouznia (Movement's Coordinator)

SMCCDI
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