Iranians are fighting for their freedom from the clutches of the brutal dictatorship of the Islamic Republic as they have been for 44 years. From this regime’s very first day it has especially attempted to subjugate, control, and humiliate Iranian women. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarding Narges Mohammadi this year’s peace prize is a recognition of the Women, Life, Freedom movement and this national struggle for freedom. I hope that this award will encourage a shift in Western policy toward offering tangible means of maximum support for the Iranian people and their national revolution and not serve merely as a symbolic gesture meant to deflect attention from appeasement of this criminal regime. The fight of freedom fighters and political prisoners like Ms. Mohammadi, Fatemeh Sepehri, Manouchehr Bakhtiari, Toomaj Salehi, Nahid Shirpisheh and so many others will continues until Iran’s liberation.

از شما هستم و با شما، و تا روزی که حکومتی ملی، دموکراتیک و منتخب مردم در ایران زمام امور را در دست بگیرد، از پا نخواهم نشست. زن زندگی آزادی پاینده ایران، رضا پهلوی