300 University and Civil Activists Request Biden to Continue ‘Firm Policy’ Toward Iranian Government
300 Iranian university and civil activists residing in the United States called on U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday in a letter to continue a “firm policy” toward the Iranian government.
The “Iranian Experts Committee for Iran Policy” stated in a statement that these Iranian university and civil activists, in their letter, referred to the “malevolent dimensions” of the Islamic Republic government and its “human rights record” in “suppressing opponents” both inside and outside the country, and called for “strong and immediate” support from the U.S. president for “the Iranian people’s aspiration for a secular, democratic, and non-nuclear republic.”
The letter was released coinciding with the first round of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States with the participation of signatories to the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) aimed at lifting sanctions on Iran and returning the country to its nuclear commitments under this agreement in Vienna.
The signatories of the letter subsequently requested that the U.S. president “lift no sanctions” and “give no concessions” to the Islamic Republic government, unless this government “verifiably refrains from human rights violations in Iran, terrorism abroad, and destructive support for its proxy groups in the region.”
Kazem Kazerounian, a professor at the University of Connecticut and one of the main organizers of this letter, told Radio Farda that given the developments taking place in Iran and considering that President Biden is in the process of formulating his policy toward Iran, we wanted to convey the voice of the realities inside Iran and especially the Iranian people who are being suppressed by the government to the U.S. president.
Kazem Kazerounian, referring to the Islamic Republic’s record of suppression inside Iran, added: We believe we are the true voice of the Iranian people, which is what we hear from our families, relatives, and friends in Iran.
Source: Radio Farda
