Maryam Rajavi’s Address to the UK Parliament
At a conference in the UK Parliament, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), delivered a powerful message condemning the wave of executions in Iran. She emphasized that the clerical regime’s systematic killings are a desperate attempt to delay its inevitable downfall.
The Only Way to Stop the Regime’s Terror and Nuclear Threat
Mrs. Rajavi declared that international efforts focused solely on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs overlook a deeper humanitarian crisis—the mass executions of prisoners.
She stated that the only effective way to halt Tehran’s repression, terrorism, and nuclear ambitions is to support the Iranian people’s struggle to overthrow the regime.
Since the beginning of 2025, she said, more than 1,400 people have been executed—an unprecedented figure in nearly four decades. Mrs. Rajavi stressed that these executions are politically motivated decisions made directly by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to suppress uprisings and crush resistance.
She called on governments and the United Nations to send an international delegation to Iran to meet death-row prisoners, inspect torture centers, and investigate sham trials that violate fundamental human rights.
The shocking rise in executions has nothing to do with any judicial process. It is a political decision made by Khamenei himself. His goal is to prevent new uprisings and to delay the inevitable fall of the regime. pic.twitter.com/SwXf41rwdl
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) October 31, 2025
The Iranian Resistance’s Vision: Abolition of the Death Penalty
Mrs. Rajavi reaffirmed that the Iranian Resistance, guided by her Ten-Point Plan for a Free Iran, has long pledged to abolish the death penalty in a future democratic republic.
She highlighted the “No to Execution” campaign, which has mobilized Iranians against the regime’s policies, as well as widespread protests by workers, teachers, nurses, and retirees demanding justice and freedom.
Resistance Units and defiant youth have intensified organized actions in cities nationwide, defying the regime’s repression. Even within prisons, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign—now active in 54 prisons—demonstrates the growing defiance of political prisoners.
Mrs. Rajavi cited the one-week hunger strike by 1,500 death-row prisoners in Qezel Hesar Prison as a symbol of this courage and resistance against state terror.
International Recognition of the Iranian People’s Struggle
Maryam Rajavi urged members of both Houses of Parliament and all human rights defenders to pressure the UK government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and make any continued relations with Tehran conditional on halting executions.
She warned that the clerical regime’s use of mass executions reflects its desperation to cling to power and that every execution only intensifies public outrage.
Mrs. Rajavi underscored that the only path to end repression and executions in Iran is through the overthrow of the religious dictatorship and the establishment of a democratic republic. She concluded by calling on the international community to recognize the Resistance of the Iranian people and the ongoing struggle of the Resistance Units against the IRGC as the legitimate alternative to the regime.
