The people in the State Department keep urging that we do things gradually. They are the gradualists. They are the people with small view of life and the technical argument and all the reasons why you could not. They remain the gradualist today. Imagine going gradually from driving on the left hand side of the road to the right hand side of the road, or you can assure if you do that a lot of people are going to get killed. When it happens, it got to happen decisively and swiftly, and it is going to happen decisively and swiftly because the pressure is building. It is building among you, and it is building among the people in Iran, and it is building among the people in camp Liberty, and it is building in Syria, and it is building among all freedom loving people in the world.
The sprit that brought about the delisting is really something that comes from your tradition and ours. I am actually going to give a coin to each of the people on the stage to carry as a reminder of what they did and what needs to be done. On one side of the coin there is a familiar figure, familiar to you, the lion as an ancient symbol of Iran and the words of a great Farsi poet. I am sure I am going to mangle the Farsi so please be patient with me. The words in Farsi are: “Bani Adam Aezay Yek Digarand.” Those are the words that are inscribed in English in the entrance pole of the United Nations and means “of one essence is the human race,” and that was a very important way that we got here. On the other side (of the coin) is an American eagle and some words from our history. The words from one of our great president Abraham Lincoln in which he described how we are going to go forward after the civil war. One of the memorable phrases he used was “with firmness in the right,” and that’s how we acted up to now and that’s how we are going to go forward.
So, of one essence as the human race and if we acted with firmness in the right we will see Mrs. Rajavi in the United States and we will see all of you in a free Tehran.
Thank you very much.
