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Joint Letter of the Nobel Laureates

To the World Leaders

April 20, 2024

To:

Joe Biden, President of the United States

Antonio Gutierrez, UN Secretary General

Charles Michel, President of the European Council

Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

Copies to:

Leaders of 27 member states of the European Union

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned Nobel laureates, express our deep concern over the appalling and deteriorating state of human rights in Iran. We are deeply concerned by the Iranian regime’s ruthless suppression of the people of Iran, including ethnic and religious minorities. Iran remains the world's leading per capita executioner, killing at least 864 people in 2023.

During the 2022 uprising, the Iranian people rejected any form of dictatorship, whether monarchical or theocratic, and called for regime change to establish a democratic republic. 

Unable to crush the protest movement for change, the Iranian regime is the driving force behind the war in the Middle East, particularly since the October 7, 2023, attacks. The regime now threatens world peace by destabilizing the region and exporting terrorism through its known proxies. This is an effort to divert attention from its systematic crackdown on dissent and democracy activists and to escape accountability.

          On April 16, a significant bipartisan effort unfolded within the United States House of Representatives as House Resolution 1148 was introduced. Co-sponsored by 145 Representatives, this resolution stands as a firm condemnation of the Iranian regime’s multifaceted offenses, including acts of terrorism, fueling regional conflicts through proxy warfare, internal repression, and backing the Iranian Resistance, including the Ten-Point Plan advocated by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Furthermore, hundreds of esteemed professors from across the United States have joined the growing chorus of international concern. Their letter to President Biden emphasizes that the world must acknowledge the right of the Iranian people to defend themselves against the terrorist IRGC and their rightful aspiration to establish a democratic, secular republic accountable to its people. This is a strategic necessity for the region and the world.” The signatories, comprising American Nobel laureates, Templeton Laureates, members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and recipients of numerous prestigious accolades, call on the United States to unequivocally stand in solidarity with the Iranian people.

We, the Nobel Laureates, join the international support for the democratic demands of the Iranian people, including over 4000 parliamentarians from 41 countries around the world and 125 former world leaders in 2023 to express support for the Ten-Point Plan for the Future of Iran of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi that calls for the universal right to vote, free elections, a market economy, and separation of religion and state, and advocates gender, religious, and ethnic equality, a foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence, peace in the Middle East, and a nonnuclear Republic of Iran. 

We strongly condemn the Iranian regime's ruthless suppression and violation of human rights of its own people, its destructive role in the Middle East and its belligerent policies. Also, we join the global demand of blacklisting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity by the free world states. The IRGC is the main source of brutality and suppression of the Iranian people and export of violence to the other parts of the world.   We firmly maintain that the Iranian people, as well as the youth, possess an inherent right to ardently contend with the existing regime in order to establish the principles of democracy and freedom. This fundamental entitlement merits unequivocal acknowledgment.

Sincerely,

Signatories:

• Professor Pierre Agostini, Nobel Prize, Physics 2023, France
• Mr. Oscar Arias, (President of Costa Rica 2006-2010), Nobel Prize, Peace 1986, Costa Rica
• Professor Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize, Literature 2015, Belarus
• Professor Harvey J Alter, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2020, USA
• Professor Robert Aumann, Nobel prize, Economics 2005, USA-Israel
• Professor Barry C Barish, Nobel prize, Physics 2017, USA
• Mr. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Nobel Prize, Peace 1996, East Timor
• Professor Georg Bednorz, Noble prize, Physics 1987, Germany
• Professor Bruce Beutler, Nobel prize, Medicine 2011, USA
• Professor J Michael Bishop, Nobel prize, Medicine 1989, USA
• Professor Mario Capecchi, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2007, Italy-USA
• Professor Thomas Cech, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 1989, USA
• Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2020, Germany
• Professor Elias Corey, Nobel prize, Chemistry 1990, USA
• Professor Johann Deisenhofer, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 1988, USA-Germany
• Professor Gerhard Ertl, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2007, Germany
• Professor Jerome Friedman, Nobel prize, Physics 1990, USA
• Professor Joachim Frank, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2017, USA
• Professor Sheldon Glashow, Nobel prize, Physics 1979, USA
• Professor David Gross, Nobel prize, Physics 2004, USA
• Professor John Lewis Hall, Nobel prize, Physics 2005, USA
• Professor Serge Haroche, Nobel prize, Physics 2012, France
• Professor Oliver Hart, Nobel prize, Economics 2016, USA
• Professor Alan Heeger, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2000, USA
• Professor Richard Henderson, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2017, UK
• Professor Roald Hoffmann, Nobel prize, Chemistry 1981, USA
• Professor Jules Hoffmann, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2011, France
• Professor Gerardus 't Hooft, Nobel prize, Physics 1999, the Netherlands
• Professor Tim Hunt, Nobel prize, Medicine 2001, UK
• Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize, Literature 2017, UK-Japan
• Ms. Elfriede Jelinek, Noble prize, Literature 2004, Austria
• Professor Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize, Physics 1973, UK
• Professor Takaaki Kajita, Nobel Prize, Physics 2015, Japan
• Professor Brian Kobilka, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2012, USA
• Professor Roger D. Kornberg, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2006, USA
• Professor Finn Kydland, Nobel prize, Economics 2004, Norway
• Professor Juan T. Lee, Nobel prize, Chemistry 1986, USA-Taiwan
• Professor Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2012, USA
• Professor Anthony Legett, Nobel Prize, Physics 2003, UK-USA
• Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel prize, Chemistry 1987, France
• Professor Morio Vargas Llosa, Nobel prize, Literature 2010, Peru
• Professor Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize, Economics 2007, USA
• Professor John C. Mather, Nobel prize, Physics 2006, USA
• Ms. Oleksandra Matvichuk, Nobel Prize, Peace 2022, Ukraine
• Professor Michel Mayor, Nobel prize, Physics 2019, Switzerland
• Professor David McMillan, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2021, UK-USA
• Professor Hartmut Michel, Nobel prize, Chemistry 1988, Germany
• Professor Paul Milgrom, Nobel prize, Economics 2020, USA
• Professor Patrick Modiano, Nobel prize, Literature 2014, France
• Professor Paul Modrich, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2015, USA
• Professor William Moerner, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 2014, USA.
• Ms. Herta Muller, Nobel Prize, Literature 2009, Germany
• Mr. Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Prize, Peace2021, Russia
• Professor William Phillips, Nobel prize, Physics 1997, USA
• Professor Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Prize, Economics 2010, UK-Cyprus
• Professor John Polanyi, Nobel Prize, Chemistry 1986, Canada
• Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Nobel prize, Medicine 2019, UK
• Professor Charles Rice, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2020, USA
• Professor Sir Richard J. Roberts, Nobel prize, Medicine 1993, UK-USA
• Professor Michael Rosbash, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2017, USA
• Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2016, France
• Professor Randy Schekman, Nobel prize, Medicine 2013, USA
• Professor Richard Schrock, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2005, USA
• Professor Gregg Semenza, Nobel prize, Medicine 2019, USA
• Professor Danny Shechtman, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2011, Israel-USA
• Professor Vernon Smith, Nobel prize, Economics 2004, USA
• Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel prize, Literature 1986, Nigeria
• Professor Sir James Fraser Stoddart, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2016, UK
• Professor Donna Strickland, Nobel prize, Physics 2018, Canada
• Professor Jack Szostak, Nobel Prize, Medicine 2009, USA
• Professor Kip Thorne, Nobel prize, Physics 2017, USA
• Professor Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize, Literature 2018, Poland
• Mr. Lech Walesa, Nobel Prize, Peace 1983, Poland, President of Poland 1990-1995
• Professor John Walker, Nobel prize, Chemistry 1977, UK
• Professor Arieh Warshel, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2013, Israel-USA
• Professor Stanley Whittingham, Nobel prize, Chemistry 2019, USA
• Professor Eric Wieschaus, Nobel prize, Medicine 1995, USA
• Professor Torsten Wiesel, Nobel prize, Medicine 1981, Sweden
• Professor David J. Wineland, Nobel prize, Physics 2012, USA
• Professor Robert Wilson, Nobel prize, Physics 1978, USA

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first wartime visit to Russia commences today in Moscow.

The specter of closer Russia-China military and economic cooperation has stirred Modi's interest in maintaining close relations with the Russian Federation.

China is India's arch-enemy, and tensions remain high, and even violent, along the border between the two nations.

Modi is expected to spend two days in Russia for what will be his first face-to-face encounter with Putin since the Russian leader went to Delhi in 2021 before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Back in 2000, Russia and India agreed to hold annual summits. But that tradition was halted first by the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine.

According to India’s Trade Ministry, trade between India and Russia reached a record $65.7 billion in the 2023-2024 financial year. Of that, Indian exports (pharmaceuticals, chemicals, electrical and mechanical equipment, iron and steel) to Russia totalled $4.26 billion, while imports from Russia were $61.44 billion (mostly oil, oil products and fertilizers), reports The Bell.

The likely reason for the switch is Moscow’s increasing dependence on Beijing – a dependence that has caused some alarm in New Delhi. Relations between India and China are often strained, and New Delhi would not want Russia to become too beholden to China.

However, a barrier to further investment are problems with settling international payments. As one top Russian official put it to The Bell: “You may be able to agree on projects and investments, but how will you pay for them?”

Specifically, the problem is Indian companies paying for oil in rupees – but then Russian companies not being able to withdraw this money from the country. This became a major issue last year. We do not know the exact amount currently in limbo in Indian accounts, but two Russian officials told The Bell the total was less than $10 billion. 

Military cooperation is another reason why India is concerned about Moscow’s deeper ties to China, according to expert Alexander Gabuev. “It is very important for India to understand whether, over time, Beijing will gain leverage that could limit Moscow’s willingness to maintain the weapons it has already delivered,” said Gabuev. “Another question is the extent to which any new systems offered to India – or upgrades of existing ones – will depend on Chinese components.”

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"Hungarians are a peaceful nation. So we stand on the side of peace, not war," reported Hungarian news outlet MTI.

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