Note: In remarks at Freedom House’s Annual Awards and 85th Anniversary celebration last night, actor, producer, and human rights advocate Nazanin Boniadi reaffirmed that courage and unity can overcome tyranny in Iran and around the world. Freedom House stands with the people of Iran and calls on democratic governments, civil society, and freedom’s defenders everywhere to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom and the right to define their own future. Read or watch Boniadi’s full remarks below. In 1981, a shipyard electrician in Gdańsk, Poland, was arrested under martial law. His crime was helping workers organize. His movement—Solidarity—was crushed and banned by name. The Soviet bloc appeared immovable. Nine years later, Lech Wałęsa was sworn in as president of a free Poland. I begin there because Freedom House stood with the Polish people in 1981. It documented abuses.…