Maryam Rajavi Meets with Senior U.S. Senator Thom Tillis

Maryam Rajavi held an online meeting with U.S. Senator Thom Tillis, a senior member of the Senate from North Carolina, to discuss developments in Iran, the prospects for change, and the appropriate policy toward Iran.
During the discussion, Senator Tillis expressed support for the Iranian people in their quest for freedom and the work carried out by the NCRI toward that goal.
He added that the Shah’s dictatorship had paved the way for the establishment of Islamic fundamentalist rule in Iran.
Maryam Rajavi said, “The slogan of the provisional government is peace and freedom. Regime change can only be achieved by the Iranian people and their organized resistance. Just as the Iranian people rejected the monarchical dictatorship, they have risen up to end the rule of the velayat-e faqih regime and remain committed to that goal.
“We simply urge the international community is to recognize the right of the Iranian people and their resistance to confront the Revolutionary Guard Corps and other repressive forces to overthrow the clerical regime and establish a democratic republic.”

Senator Thom Tillis has been among the initiators of a firm policy toward the clerical regime over the past decade. In 2017, he visited Ashraf in Albania as part of a high-level U.S. Senate delegation and met with Maryam Rajavi.
Senator Tillis has also introduced several resolutions in the U.S. Senate in support of the Iranian Resistance. The most recent, Senate Resolution 145, was introduced with 19 bipartisan co-sponsors and supports the rights of the residents of Ashraf 3.