Brussels, Belgium — January 17, 2026 — Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance and their Kurdish compatriots held a rally in Brussels in solidarity with the nationwide protests in Iran that erupted on December 28, 2025. They called on the European Union to list the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization for its crimes against the Iranian people and its brutal suppression of protests, and to end the EU’s appeasement policy toward Tehran.

Participants reaffirmed the call of their compatriots inside Iran for a free and democratic republic. They carried banners and portraits of the uprising’s martyrs, voicing the slogan: “Regime change in Iran by the people of Iran.”

Demonstrators called for the establishment of a free and democratic republic in Iran, rejecting all forms of autocracy—whether monarchical or theocratic. They held pictures of the martyrs of the uprising and carried banners echoing the demands of protesters in Iran, including “Regime change in Iran by the people of Iran” and “No to the Shah! No to the Mullahs.”

The rally sent a clear message to the global community: Support the Iranian people’s quest for freedom and democracy, not any dictatorship.