February 6", 2015 Heshmatollah Tabarzadi Gohardasht Prison, Karadj. Iran Honorable Barak Hussein Obama President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, D.C. United States of America Dear Mr, President: Without human rights and democracy there will never be a lasting peace and security in the world. Please allow me to speak as a prisoner of conscious and a journalist opposed to the Islamic religion clerie’s rule over my homeland Iran. I was one of the student leaders who was considered to be an architect of a student uprising on July 9, 1999, by the regime. That was an uprising that was a true turing point in the movement for democracy. We wanted change of regime because our calls for reform had proven ineffective. ‘And so I spent six years in the notorious Evin prison. Two of those years were in solitary confinement. I was freed but rearrested and imprisoned again, and again. Over five years ago when the people of Iran were asking you to support them against the tyranny of the Shia clerics, you, as the president of the most powerful country on earth, were secretly writing letters to the dictator of Iran, In 2009 while Khamenei was ordering the suppression of the people to his paramilitary forces, killing the people on the streets and the university campuses, imprisoning and torturing journalists, intellectuals, the young and the old mercilessly, your friendly communications to the tyrant of Iran continued in the name of the people of the United States, ignoring the human rights of the people of Iran. You helped Khamenei to continue his Islamic tyranny in the name of Allah and Islam. During our 2009 uprising, I saw untold crimes against humanity committed against the people of Iran, [saw a woman in her late 20s get kicked so hard in her spine that she flew through the air. On Ghods Street, near Tehran University, I saw another young woman as her head was pounded into a cat by the basi paramilitary forces. All the while, they screamed disgusting epithets like "whore" and worse.Mr. President; the people of Iran are not backward fascists nor fanatic religionists as the ruling Islamic clergies are, When the day comes that the boots of the tyranny is lifted off our neck, it will be proven that Iranians are capable of handling democracy, secularism and social justice. Mr. President; all we want is to be a part of the international community, we want to be a free democratic people, master of our own destiny, live in Pease and prosperity, and be the decision makers for our homeland. We oppose nuclear bomb and the militaristic arrogance of the ruling cleric regime. Ifthe international community wants peace in the Middle East, support the People of Iran not the tyrants. The Islamic eleries have taken our nation hostage to their fanatical Islamic tyranny. In 2009 when the people of Iran loudly and clearly asked for your support for their freedom and sovereignty, you ignored us and empowered the tyrants to imprison, torture and kill us. Mr, President; I have the honor of being the cellmate of a good American, Pastor Saeed Abedini. Theard that you met with the wife and children of my cellmate, that his son, little Jacob asked you to help release his father for his birthday, however, you have refused to demand the release of the hostage Abedini from the old tyrant Khamenei, You claim that the only choice that you have is either make a deal with Khamenei, may I say- to surrender to him- or “war”. May I dare to say that this claim is a form of misinformation, and intimidation of the people of America? Mfr, President; we Iranian people submit to you and the people of the world that there is another way. Please Sanction and weaken the illegal regime of Khamenei, and empower the people to overthrow the tyranny, You know that you can support the people in many ways such as giving us internet communication access that the Khamenei regim cannot police and allow us to organize and rise up against these godless tyrants. No tyranny will last forever, but the nations will always be there and history will judge. Help us to overthrow this tyranny and become a free and democratic member of the international community and a friend of the United States. With Respect Heshmatollah Tabarzadi Journalist, prisoner of consciousBIO Manda Zand Ervin Founder and Director of the Alliance of Iranian Women During the Iranian Islamic revolution, Manda witnessed the execution of many innocent people, including her high school principal who was murdered because she was a woman and the secretary of education. She witnessed the human rights of the Iranian people, especially the women, taken away from them. Manda held offices in several Iranian Government ministries in Iran prior to the overthrow of the Shah by Ayatollah Khomeini. She witnessed her homeland leaving the twentieth century to turn backward and she witnessed the effect. Manda came to United States as a political refugee on June 17th, 1980, became a citizen three years later and began her fight for human rights in Iran. She is the founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women a group which has deep connections within the Iranian diaspora and within Iran. As the head of the Alliance of Iranian Women, Manda Ervin works to bring the West's attention to the plight of Iranian women under Islamic Sharia laws. She almost single-handedly gathered the support to pass a 2003 U.S. Senate Resolution on the human rights of the women of Iran. In 2005 Manda was invited to speak at the UN conference on the family in Islamic societies. On September of 2009 she was invited to the G-8 International Conference on Violence against Women, at the Italian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Rome, Italy, where she was the featured speaker on Iran. Manda is frequently consulted by Members of Congress considering resolutions and legislation on Iran policy and human rights. She has testified to the Congressional hearings and briefings, Helsinki Commission and spoken at the United Nations’ conferences. In February of 2008, Mrs. Ervin was appointed by the President of the United States as the United States’ Delegate to the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women. On December 10", 2013 she was invited to speak at the UN conference on Violence against Women. Manda is an analyst and writer, published by many online political magazines, like the Hudson Institute, American Thinker, and Family Security Matters, National Review and others. She speaks on TV and radio programs, nationally and internationally, including CNN, BBC, Radio France, VOA, Radio Liberty. She is a member of the Iranian/American media speaking on cable television stations which broadcast into Iran from California. She also speaks at universities and conferences on the history of American/Iranian relations, European/Middle Eastern history, human rights, and Islamic Shari‘a laws. Manda is the senior fellow Center for Security Policy and is the winner of the ST award