Rome, July 17, 2026 — Senator Giulio Terzi, President of the Italian Senate’s EU Affairs Committee, delivered a forceful address at the international conference “Iran Beyond War, the Power of the People,” rejecting both the current theocratic regime and any return to the pre-1979 monarchy while expressing strong support for the democratic alternative led by NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi.

Terzi described the 1979 Khomeinist takeover as the “odious advent of a nazi-islamist regime” that brought only death and extermination with the brutality of Hitler.

He challenged claims by some that parts of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) could negotiate a transition with monarchist elements, asking: “Are you aware that the IRGC is on the terrorist list of the European Union, of the major Western countries and of the international community?

They are under sanctions and all their activities are under sanctions from a large part of the world? How do you reconcile this fact with proposing a regime that includes a component already sanctioned by the international community?”

He stressed that “The IRGC is the Iranian state, and the Iranian state is the IRGC,” noting its 210,000 to 220,000 personnel embedded in banking and production.  Welcoming the February 2026 EU decision to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization, Terzi called for its full implementation. Recalling the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, the murders of Kazem Rajavi and Mohammad Hossein Naqdi, the Villepinte plot, and the attack on Alejo Vidal-Quadras, he declared: “Enough! It is time to say enough with the yeses, the buts and the obscuring of the truth.

It is a terrorist state, yet inside it there is a great wave of freedom that is driven by your movement, Madame Rajavi. We can only be proud to be your friends.”