From June 30 to July 3, for four consecutive days, the Iranian communities held five major conferences and panels, alongside a major rally in Paris with thousands of supporters  attending. The aim was to draw the attention of the international community to a pressing issue: with the terrorist theocracy in Iran gone, the world will be a better place and this change is possible. Yet this year’s Free Iran summit came against the backdrop of several internationally influenced matters in which Tehran was the party with the most at stake and thus with the most undertaking.

Wednesday, July 19, 2023, a judge at Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern Razavi Khorasan Province, sentenced to death Mohammad Javad Vafa’i Thani, a political prisoner in Iran. Sentenced on the bogus charge of “corruption on Earth,” Mr. Vafa’i Thani was taken to an unknown location after being informed of his death sentence. Mr. Vafa’i Thani, 27, among the boxing champions in Mashhad’s boxing clubs, was arrested in March 2020 and tortured for a long time.

On June 13, a British parliamentary conference took place at the House of Lords. During this session, a joint statement was issued, garnering support from 525 members of Parliament, including peers from all political parties in the UK. The statement expressed solidarity with the Iranian people’s uprising and endorsed Maryam Rajavi’s ten-point plan for establishing a democratic republic based on the separation of religion and state.

The signatories of the joint statement include over 50 former ministers and deputy ministers from both Conservative and Labour cabinets. Notably, 15 bishops from the House of Lords, including three former Archbishops of Canterbury and Wales, have also lent their support.

29th March 2023 - on Monday 20th March, thousands of Iranians held a large rally and demonstration in Brussels, simultaneous with the upcoming meeting of the E.U. Foreign Affairs Council. The protesters demanded the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, as it has been the main apparatus used by the Iranian regime to suppress nationwide protests. Many participants carried the Iranian flag with the lion and sun insignia while chanting, “Blacklist IRGC now!” and urged the E.U. to adopt a decisive policy against the clerical regime’s terrorism, blackmail, and hostage-taking.