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Arm the Iranian people
The Iranian people are risking their lives for freedom with nothing to defend themselves.
They face a regime armed with everything: rifles, armored vehicles, prisons, and a security apparatus built for one purpose, which is to crush them. They face it with their bare hands. Every week, more of them are shot, arrested, tortured, and hanged for asking to live free.
We call on the President and Congress, without sending a single American soldier into Iran, to build a program that identifies, vets, and equips credible Iranian resistance forces to overthrow the Islamic Republic and win a free, secular, democratic Iran.
Specifically, we call on the United States to:
- Identify the credible Iranian resistance forces already fighting for a free Iran.
- Vet them rigorously for their commitment to human rights and to a free, secular, democratic Iran.
- Equip them with what they need to defend themselves and their people.
- Do all of it without sending a single American soldier into Iran.
This is not a call for an American war. It is the opposite. It is a call to stop asking an unarmed people to face an armed regime alone. The Iranian people are not asking anyone to fight for them. They are asking for the means to fight for themselves.
The future of Iran belongs to the Iranian people. Give them the means to claim it.
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Affirm the Iranian people's right to self-determination
Sign this petition calling on Congress to affirm the Iranian people's right to choose their own future and stand with those seeking freedom and democracy.
A government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.
Through decades of repression, political imprisonment, censorship, torture, and violence against peaceful protesters, the Islamic Republic has demonstrated that it does not represent the democratic will of the Iranian people.
The Iranian people are not the Islamic Republic.
Like all people, they possess the inherent right to determine their own political future through free and fair elections, representative government, and the rule of law.
Therefore, we call upon the United States Congress to:
- Affirm that the Islamic Republic does not represent the democratic will of the Iranian people.
- Recognize the Iranian people's right to determine their own political future through free and fair elections.
- Support the Iranian people's right to establish a democratic transitional authority and future government of their own choosing.
- Encourage the President of the United States to review and reconsider the recognition of the Islamic Republic as the legitimate representative of the Iranian people.
- Reaffirm that the United States stands with the people of Iran in their pursuit of freedom, democracy, human rights, and national self-determination.
The future of Iran belongs to the Iranian people.
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Join thousands calling on Congress to stand with the people of Iran, not the Islamic Republic.