Signatories of Former World Leaders' Open Letter on Iran
The international community should support pro-democracy protesters in Iran and blacklist the Revolutionary Guards, more than 100 distinguished former world leaders announced in an open letter to the world powers on 23 May 2023, just days after the regime executed three protesters.
As of 9 October 2023, the open letter has been signed by 125 esteemed world leaders.
Click here to read the text of the open letter.
Click here to read the JVMI’s press release about the open letter.
Here are the 125 distinguished signatories:
Distinguished Signatories
Ban Ki-moon
Former United Nations Secretary General
Mike Pence
Former Vice President, United States
Liz Truss
Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Jean Claude Juncker
Former Prime Minister, Luxembourg; former President of the European Commission
Romano Prodi
Former Prime Minister, Italy; former President of the European Commission
Horst Köhler
Former President, Germany
Juan Manuel Santos
Former President, Colombia; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Oscar Arias Sánchez
Former President, Costa Rica; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Lech Wałęsa
Former President, Poland; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Bernard Cazeneuve
Former Prime Minister, France
Yulia Tymoshenko
Former Prime Minister, Ukraine
Stephen Harper
Former Prime Minister, Canada
Gordon Brown
Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría
Former President, Costa Rica; former Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
César Gaviria
Former President, Colombia: former Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
Matteo Renzi
Former Prime Minister, Italy
Mariano Rajoy
Former Prime Minister, Spain
Janez Janša
Former Prime Minister, Slovenia
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Former President and former Prime Minister, Portugal
Mary McAleese
Former President, Ireland
Joseph Deiss
Former President, Switzerland; former President of the UN General Assembly
Heinz Fischer
Former President, Austria
Göran Persson
Former Prime Minister, Sweden
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Former President, Malta
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Former President, Chile
Mauricio Macri
Former President, Argentina
Guy Verhofstadt
Former Prime Minister, Belgium
Danilo Türk
Former President, Slovenia
Sebastián Piñera E.
Former President, Chile
Vicente Fox
Former President, Mexico
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Former Prime Minister, Yemen
Carlos Alvarado Quesada
Former President, Costa Rica
Giuliano Amato
Former Prime Minister, Italy
Pedro Angulo Arana
Former Prime Minister, Peru
Andrus Ansip
Former Prime Minister, Estonia
Mercedes Aráoz
Former Prime Minister, Peru
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano
Former President, Ecuador
Alexandru Athanasiu
Former Prime Minister, Romania
José María Aznar
Former Prime Minister, Spain
Gordon Bajnai
Former Prime Minister, Hungary
Jan Peter Balkenende
Former Prime Minister, Netherlands
Nicolás Ardito Barletta
Former President, Panama
Jaume Bartumeu-Cassany
Former Prime Minister, Andorra
Gian Nicola Berti
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Georgi Bliznashki
Former Prime Minister, Bulgaria
Emil Boc
Former Prime Minister, Romania
Luca Boschi
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Felipe Calderón
Former President, Mexico
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier
Former President, Costa Rica
Micheline Calmy-Rey
Former President, Switzerland
Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister, Canada
Miro Cerar
Former Prime Minister, Slovenia
Youssef Chahed
Former Prime Minister, Tunisia
Laura Chinchilla Miranda
Former President, Costa Rica
Matteo Ciacci
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Emil Constantinescu
Former President, Romania
Carlo Cottarelli
Former Prime Minister, Italy
Édith Cresson
Former Prime Minister, France
Elio Di Rupo
Former Prime Minister, Belgium
Iván Duque
Former President, Colombia
José María Figueres
Former President, Costa Rica
Ántero Flores-Aráoz E.
Former Prime Minister, Peru
Federico Franco
Former President, Paraguay
Mario Frick
Former Prime Minister, Liechtenstein
Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert
Former President, Bolivia
Lawrence Gonzi
Former Prime Minister, Malta
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Former President, Lithuania
Alfred Gusenbauer
Former Chancellor, Austria
Geir H. Haarde
Former Prime Minister , Iceland
Avdullah Hoti
Former Prime Minister, Kosovo
Osvaldo Hurtado
Former President, Ecuador
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Former President, Estonia
Enda Kenny
Former Prime Minister, Ireland
Anatoliy Kinakh
Former Prime Minister, Ukraine
Andrej Kiska
Former President, Slovakia
Bronisław Komorowski
Former President, Poland
Andrius Kubilius
Former Prime Minister, Lithuania
Milan Kučan
Former President, Slovenia
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Former President, Poland
Zlatko Lagumdžija
Former Prime Minister, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vytautas Landsbergis
Former Head of State, Lithuania
Yves Leterme
Former Prime Minister, Belgium
Moritz Leuenberger
Former President, Switzerland
Igor Lukšić
Former Prime Minister, Montenegro
Jamil Mahuad
Former President, Ecuador
Pandeli Majko
Former Prime Minister, Albania
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Former Prime Minister, Poland
Moncef Marzouki
Former President, Tunisia
Giuseppe Maria Morganti
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Mireya Moscoso
Former President, Panama
Michele Muratori
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Joseph Muscat
Former Prime Minister, Malta
Peter O'Neill
Former Prime Minister, Papua New Guinea
Jiří Paroubek
Former Prime Minister, Czech Republic
Pedro Passos Coelho
Former Prime Minister, Portugal
Andrés Pastrana
Former President, Colombia
Ernesto Pérez Balladares
Former President, Panama
Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez
Former President, Bolivia
Iveta Radicova
Former Prime Minister, Slovakia
Eugene Rhuggenaath
Former Prime Minister, Curaçao
Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé
Former President, Bolivia
Taavi Rõivas
Former Prime Minister, Estonia
Petre Roman
Former Prime Minister, Romania
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Former President, Chile
Francisco Sagasti
Former President, Peru
Antonis Samaras
Former Prime Minister, Greece
Semisi Sika
Former Prime Minister, Tonga
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera
Former President, Costa Rica
Vladimír Špidla
Former Prime Minister, Czech Republic
Hanna Suchocka
Former Prime Minister, Poland
Johnson Toribiong
Former President, Palau
Aníbal Torres Vásquez
Former Prime Minister, Peru
Aminata Touré
Former Prime Minister, Senegal
Elbegdorj Tsakhia
Former President and former Prime Minister, Mongolia
Guntis Ulmanis
Former President, Latvia
Raimonds Vējonis
Former President, Latvia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Former President, Latvia
Juan Carlos Wasmosy
Former President, Paraguay
Andrea Zafferani
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Rosa Zafferani
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Guerrino Zanotti
Former Captain Regent, San Marino
Valdis Zatlers
Former President, Latvia
Mario Monti
Former Prime Minister, Italy
Tarja Halonen
Former President, Finland
George Papandreou
Former Prime Minister, Greece