نسخه انگلیسی

Date: August 21, 2019

An Open Letter to the Leaders of United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Russia,
China and Germany

 – His Excellency Donald J. Trump,

President of the United States of America

– His Excellency Emmanuel Macron,

President of the French Republic

– The Right Honourable Boris Johnson,

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

– His Excellency Vladimir Putin,

President of the Russian Federation

– His Excellency Xi Jinping,

President of the People’s Republic of China

– Her Excellency, Dr. Angela Merkel,

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Re: Coalition of Committed for a Secular Democratic Iran

Your Excellencies:

We, the undersigned, would like to bring to your attention that fourteen political and civil activists inside Iran
have bravely called for a national campaign to establish a secular democracy in Iran. This is a grassroot
campaign that every day is growing louder and louder inside and outside Iran.
The central point of this campaign is to have a referendum to establish a new secular democratic constitution
based on the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
This campaign represents over 100 years of Iranian people’s aspirations for democracy and their demands today
to replace the entire Islamic Republic theocracy with a secular democratic constitution.
Today, the majority of the Iranian people inside the country and elsewhere around the world have reached the
conclusion that there are no possibilities that the Islamic Republic of Iran can be reformed, as was highlighted
by the failure of the 2009 protests known as Green Movement.
As part of this campaign, the secular democratic forces inside Iran in conjunction with the support of outside
voices are working towards an alliance for a “Coalition of Committed”.
This transitional alliance represents a clear and transparent objective in establishing a domestically and
internationally “Coalition of Committed” in achieving a Secular Democratic Constitution through a peaceful and
non-violent manner.
We are respectfully requesting your recognition of this campaign as part of expansion of international Coalition
of Committed as part of the agenda of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Your
acknowledgement would serve as a catalyst for the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people as well as the
security of the International community.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
Respectfully Yours,
Signed from 3+14 persons

From Iran:

1. Shahla Entesari, Women Rights and Social Activist

2. Kamal Jafar Yazdi, Academic and Political Activist

3. Giti Pourfazel, Lawyer and Political Activist

From Outside of Iran:

1. Masih Alinejad, Journalist, Founder of White Wednesday Anti-Compulsory Hijab Campaign

2. Parviz Dastmalchi, Author and Political Activist

3. Abdol Sattar Dosoki, Center of Balochistan Studies – London

4. Hassan Etemadi, Journalist and Political Activist

5. Niloofar Gholami, Journalist and Political Activist

6. Nazila Golestan, Political and Anti-Corruption Activist

7. Hossein Khalifeh, Political Activist

8. Fereydoun Khavand, Academic and Journalist

9. Zarrin Mohyeddin, Political and Social Activist

10. Massoud Noghrekar, Author, Political and Human Rights Activist

11. Reza Pirzadeh, Political Activist

12. Behrooz Setoodeh, Writer and Political Activist

13. Kaveh Shahrooz, Lawyer, Senior Fellow Macdonald-Laurier Institute

14. Elham Yaghoubian, Writer and Human Rights Activist

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CC:

The Right Honourable Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

His Excellency, Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic

His Excellency, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation

His Excellency, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China

Her Excellency, Dr. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany