Maryam Rajavi: We can free our occupied homeland In a message on December 30, 2017, Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, sent a message to Iranian women and men, admiring their courage. She reiterated that there is a price for freedom that every nation must pay. Here is the text of her message: Fellow courageous protesters across Iran, Brave women and men who rose up on December 28 and 29 and spread the message of freedom to Iranian cities, Hail to you and hail to our beloved cities who have risen up against poverty, hunger and unemployment, under the mullahs’ repressive occupation. Hail to Kermanshah, Hamedan, Khorramabad, Qom, Isfahan, Rasht, Sari, Qazvin, Shiraz, Ahwaz, Bojnourd, Qaemshahr, and Zahedan; Hail to Mashhad, Neyshabur, Kashmar, Quchan, Birjand, Shahrud and Yazd. You showed that despite massive repression and widespread arrests, the Iranian people’s freedom movement is simmering like amber beneath ...