Gothenburg, Sweden – August 23, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) organized and held a rally in Gothenburg to reaffirm their backing for Maryam Rajavi’s Third Option and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), presenting it as a democratic alternative to Iran’s theocratic regime.

Participants voiced concern over the imminent execution of five political prisoners and urged the abolition of the death penalty, the release of all political prisoners, and international recognition of the Iranian people’s right to resist tyranny.

Iranians in Gothenburg also commemorated the memory of more than 30,000 political prisoners executed on Khomeini’s fatwa during the 1988 massacre, which marks its anniversary these days, and emphasized the need to hold all perpetrators and masterminds of this crime against humanity accountable.

The demonstrators called for stronger international measures, including blacklisting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and closing the Iranian embassy in Sweden, to hold Tehran accountable for its human rights abuses.

A key focus of the rally was Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for Iran’s Future, which advocates universal suffrage, gender equality, freedom of speech and assembly, autonomy for ethnic minorities, separation of religion and state, a non-nuclear Iran, and other democratic reforms. Attendees emphasized that this plan offers a clear and realistic roadmap for a free, secular, and democratic Iran.

Speakers condemned all forms of dictatorship, whether clerical or monarchical, stressing that Iran’s future must rest on democracy, human rights, and the sovereignty of its people.

The rally concluded with a call to the international community to stand with the Iranian people, recognize their right to resist tyranny, and support the MEK Resistance Units in their struggle for freedom, dignity, and democracy.