In a powerful online address to a conference held at the Italian Parliament, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), urged European leaders to adopt a bold, decisive policy toward the Iranian regime. She stressed that the only effective way to neutralize the threats posed by Tehran is through democratic regime change led by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.
Speaking virtually to an audience of Italian lawmakers and political figures, Rajavi warned that the clerical regime is facing its most severe internal crisis yet. She cited the execution of 1,150 people over the past year and the continued expansion of the regime’s nuclear weapons program as signs of a regime desperate to hold onto power through terror and repression.
Mrs. Rajavi criticized decades of Western appeasement, which she said have only empowered the regime and endangered global stability. Referring to past attacks by Iranian agents in Europe and the regime’s military support to aggressors like Russia in Ukraine, she underlined that Tehran’s actions have global consequences.
She renewed her call for a “third solution” to the Iran crisis: not war or appeasement, but democratic change from within. She described the NCRI’s Ten-Point Plan as a roadmap for a free, secular, and non-nuclear Iran based on universal human rights and separation of religion and state.
Mrs. Rajavi also called on the European Union to finally blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reinstate sanctions via the UN snapback mechanism, and refer Iran’s human rights violations to the UN Security Council. She emphasized Italy’s potential role in leading this new direction, aligning EU policy with the values of freedom and democracy.
Concluding her message, Mrs. Rajavi invoked the spirit of Italy’s Garibaldi, saying that just as freedom was once the core of Italy’s national movement, it is now the driving force behind Iran’s Resistance. “Without freedom, nothing has value,” she reminded the audience.
