Date: July 14, 2016
No: 560-LR-5012
The Right Honorable Theresa May
Prime Minister of United Kingdom
London, UK
Dear Prime Minister:
We extend to you our warmest congratulations and best wishes on your appointment as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In these trying times the international community, and the free world in particular, require sound and strong leadership from the oldest parliamentary democracy. It is therefore important that the tyrannical theocratic regime oppressing the Iranian people have a firm and unequivocal understanding of the United Kingdom's support and commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its respect for the civil and democratic rights of the Iranian people.
We appeal to your high office and the international community to support our campaign for the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience. It is with an emphasis on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a non-violent solution for the future of Iran that we formed the Iran National Council for Free Elections in 2013 with the participation of Iranians from many political, social and religious spectrums, both in Iran and abroad.
Our ultimate vision is to hold free, fair and transparent elections in our beloved homeland.
Madam Prime Minister, we ask that you urge and convince the governments of the nations which comprise the free world to increase their pressures on the Islamic Republic with respect to its continuous violations of human rights, and to simultaneously support the aspirations and struggles of the Iranian people to achieve freedom, democracy and secularism.
Sincerely,
Reza Pahlavi
President
Iran National Council for Free Elections