Paris – December 15, 2025: At a conference titled “The Current Crisis in Iran: The Possible Way Out” held at the French National Assembly on December 15, 2025, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), delivered the keynote address, warning that Iran’s multiple crises have reached an irreversible stage.
The event was organized by the Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran and chaired by its president, Ms. Christine Arrighi, with the participation of members of parliament from various political parties and former senior officials.
Escalating Repression, Executions, and Social Crises
Maryam Rajavi stated that, according to reports by the Iranian Resistance, more than 2,000 people were executed in Iran in 2025, including 60 women. She cited the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, noting that this wave of executions is unprecedented since the 1988 massacre.
She emphasized that the regime’s aim is to spread fear and prevent a popular uprising, highlighting that in November 2025 alone, 335 people were hanged. Mrs. Rajavi also pointed to death sentences against supporters of the Mojahedin, with 18 prisoners currently facing execution.
Despite this repression, she said resistance is growing through Resistance Units, protests inside prisons under the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, and hunger strikes in 55 prisons. She added that widespread protests are fueled by inflation, poverty, and the diversion of national wealth to nuclear, missile, war, and repression programs.
Mrs. Rajavi described the nationwide water crisis, electricity cuts, gas shortages, and deadly air pollution as evidence that the country’s infrastructure has been devastated, stressing that the crises have reached a point of no return.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, which has been fighting against this regime for over 40 years, has a well-structured plan for the transfer of power to the Iranian people.
The Iranian people and Resistance are determined to establish a free Iran for global peace and… pic.twitter.com/iEsPd06AH0— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) December 16, 2025
Propaganda Against the Resistance and the “Third Solution”
Mrs. Rajavi said the Iranian regime conducts extensive propaganda against the organized Resistance to prevent an uprising and discredit its opponents. She argued that the twelve-day war last June demonstrated the legitimacy of the Resistance’s “Third Solution,” which rejects both foreign war and appeasement in favor of regime change by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.
She criticized Western governments for overlooking executions, repression, and terrorism and for prioritizing negotiations and easing sanctions. Mrs. Rajavi called on them, following the activation of the snapback mechanism and renewed UN Security Council sanctions, to abandon appeasement and stand with the Iranian people and the Resistance Units confronting the Revolutionary Guard.
A Democratic Alternative and the Rejection of Dictatorship
Mrs. Rajavi recalled that after the overthrow of the Shah, Khomeini hijacked the revolution, adding that today the Iranian people reject all forms of dictatorship, declaring “neither the Shah nor the cleric.”
She outlined the NCRI’s call for a democratic, pluralistic, non-nuclear republic based on the separation of religion and state, gender equality, freedom of religion, abolition of the death penalty, repeal of clerical Sharia laws, autonomy for Iranian Kurdistan, and an end to nuclear bomb production.
Concluding her address, Mrs. Rajavi said the NCRI has a structured plan for transferring power to the Iranian people and urged parliaments and governments to recognize the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom and the rebellious youth’s fight against the IRGC.
