Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi rThis Sunday he exclaimed through his children when receiving the Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall: international support to end the Iranian regime, “at the lowest level of legitimacy and popular support.”

“Today, the youth of Iran have turned the streets and public places into an arena of widespread civil resistance. “The resistance is alive and the fight continues” Mohammadi stated this in a speech written in Evin prison (Tehran) and read, at the request of the winner, by Kiana and Ali Rahmani, her 17-year-old twin children.

Mohammadi, 51 years old and who is today a new hunger strike will begin To show solidarity with the persecution of the Baha’i religious minority in her country, she was “confident” that “the light of freedom and justice will shine brightly on the soil of Iran” as the regime faces a situation of “unstable balance.”

The winner, “one of millions of proud and resilient Iranians who have risen up against oppression, discrimination and tyranny,” stressed that the Women, Life, Freedom movement, born last year after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested on suspicion of violating the clothing code, This is a continuation of the historical struggle.

“This movement has made a significant contribution to the expansion of civil resistance in Iran, covering movements of women, youth, students, teachers, activists and others. At its core, this is a movement for fundamental change,” he said in a speech delivered in French as his children have lived with their father in exile in Paris for years.

However, the Iranian regime blocked any changes. reducing political participation to “zero”, responding with “arrests, imprisonment and bullets” to demands for democracy, said Mohammadi, who accused Tehran of religious, gender and ethnic discrimination, as well as promoting injustice and corruption.

The activist assured that the movement remains “alive and dynamic” no matter what and while he welcomed the support of global organizations and the media, he criticized the West for lacking “serious attention, practical consistency and a proactive approach.”

“The policies and strategies of Western governments have been is ineffective in empowering the Iranian people to achieve their goals.”lamented Mohammadi, who succeeded Belarusian Ales Bialiatski, the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine) and the Russian organization Memorial as the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Mohammadi, who remembered his compatriot Shirin Ebadi (2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and present at the ceremony today), defended that wearing the hijab This is not a religious obligation or cultural tradition.but a means of maintaining power and subordination.

An advocate of resistance and non-violence, Mohammadi, represented by her portrait placed behind the chair she would occupy at the ceremony, was confident in The ‘undeniable’ influence of the Nobel Prize on the opposition movement in Iranwhich gives him “hope” and “inspiration”.

“This year’s Nobel Peace Prize recognizes all the brave women of Iran, and from around the world who fight for fundamental human rights and to end discrimination and segregation of women,” said Norwegian Nobel Committee President Berit Reiss-Andersen in her speech at the ceremony presided over by Kings Harald V and Sonja of Norway.

Reiss-Andersen compared Mohammadi’s struggle to that of previous Nobel Peace Prize winners such as Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu or Nelson Mandela.

Mohammadi began her commitment to women’s rights in the 1990s, While still at university, she worked as a columnist for several reformist newspapers and then for the Human Rights Defenders Center in Tehran, run by Shirin Ebadi, her “respected mentor.”

The activist, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda against the state” and has been in and out of Iranian prisons for years, receives 11 million Swedish kronor (almost a million dollars), which she used to award this year’s Peace Prize. like the rest of the Nobel Prize winners.

One of the World the only one of the six awards that is awarded and presented outside of Sweden.in Oslo at the request of its creator Alfred Nobel, since at his time Norway was part of the Kingdom of Sweden.

Other awards – Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Economics – They will be delivered at another eventStarts at 16:00 local time at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

(EFE)