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WE ARE WORKING FOR A FREE IRAN AS WELL AS FOR A FREE UKRAINE: TWO FRONTS OF THE SAME STRUGGLE

16 January 2026

Press release from For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours!

The association "For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours!" takes a position on the Iranian uprising because the two struggles are inseparable.

The mullahs' regime directly arms Russian aggression: its Shahed drones kill Ukrainian civilians every day. Tehran is an integral part of the neo-totalitarian Moscow-Tehran-Pyongyang-Beijing axis that threatens our democracies. The freedom of the Iranian people and that of the Ukrainian people face the same enemies.


The Iranian people are rising up against the dictatorship of the mullahs, their Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the mafia-like caste of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the terror maintained by special courts, and mass executions. Iranians, this time of all generations, are confronting the repressive forces, seizing buildings and neighborhoods, and attacking Revolutionary Guard bases. Regime agents have already killed thousands of protesters, pushing cruelty and cynicism to the point of demanding exorbitant sums to return the victims' bodies to their families. ( https://fr.ncr-iran.org )


If this state terror were to crush the uprising, the axis of dictatorships would emerge strengthened. This is why democracies must act to obstruct this repression and support Iranians in their aspiration for a democratic, secular, and peaceful state governed by the rule of law, guaranteeing individual freedoms.


The European Union and France must abandon their current reticence, which amounts to failing to assist a people in danger. Urgent action is needed:


• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been classified as a terrorist organization

• Strengthened sanctions targeting regime officials and its armed groups

• Freezing the assets of officials and blocking their financial transfers

• Guarantee of Iranians' access to free internet

• Countermeasures to hinder the regime's propaganda, repressive operations and arms trafficking.


For that THE peoples Iranian And Ukrainian prevail against there even barbarity.



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For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours! An association created in February 2022 by 130 academics joined by many supporters of the Ukrainian cause, publishes opinion pieces and carries out actions in support of the cause of Ukraine.

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