{"id":90946,"date":"2026-09-23T08:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=90946"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:49:07","slug":"new-york-rally-calls-for-action-on-iran-executions-backs-the-ncri-alternative-rejects-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/supports\/2026\/09\/new-york-rally-calls-for-action-on-iran-executions-backs-the-ncri-alternative-rejects-monarchy\/90946\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rally Calls for Action on Iran Executions, Backs the NCRI Alternative, Rejects Monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><figure id=\"attachment_90953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90953\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90953\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NYC-Rally-Sept-22-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian Resistance supporters rally outside the UN in New York on September 22, 2026.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"462\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NYC-Rally-Sept-22-2026.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NYC-Rally-Sept-22-2026-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NYC-Rally-Sept-22-2026-768x355.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian Resistance supporters rally outside the UN in New York on September 22, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>New York Rally Calls for Action Over Iran\u2019s Executions, Highlights Resistance Units and Rejects a Return to Monarchy<\/h2>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> Thousands of Iranian-Americans and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/ncri\/alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI<\/a>) rallied across from United Nations headquarters in New York on <strong>September 22, 2026<\/strong>, as world leaders gathered for the UN General Assembly, calling for international action against executions in Iran and backing an Iranian-led transition to a democratic republic. The gathering took place at Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Plaza and featured former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine <strong>Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg<\/strong>, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe <strong>Gen. Wesley Clark<\/strong>, former U.S. <strong>Ambassador Carla Sands<\/strong>, faith leaders, human-rights advocates and Iranian speakers. The rally took place as Iranian regime\u2019s president Masoud Pezeshkian was also in New York for the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 HIGHLIGHTS | Thousands Rally in New York for a Democratic Iran<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from today\u2019s major Iranian-American rally outside the UN, featuring speeches by Gen. Wesley Clark, Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg and Amb. Carla Sands, who voiced support for the NCRI and Mrs. Maryam Rajavi\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HSLus6uHNt\">pic.twitter.com\/HSLus6uHNt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/en_simayazadi\/status\/2102485945517760808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the NCRI<\/h3>\n<p>Mrs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, President-elect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran\/\" rel=\"\">NCR<\/a>I, sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/message-to-the-rally-of-freedom-loving-iranians-outside-the-united-nations-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a message<\/a> to the New York rally, making both the Resistance Units and demands for international action central to her remarks. She opened by challenging Tehran\u2019s representation at the UN and declared: \u201cIran\u2019s seat belongs to the people of Iran and to their legitimate Resistance for peace, freedom, and a democratic republic.\u201d She argued that continuing repression, executions and regional conflict were inseparable from the nature of the ruling system and stated: \u201cThe solution is democratic change by the people of Iran and their organized Resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\/\" rel=\"\">Mrs. Rajavi<\/a> said the determination expressed by Resistance Units, political prisoners and protesters constituted what she called the Iranian population\u2019s message to the outside world. \u201cTheir message is this: they will overthrow the religious fascism ruling Iran, no matter the price,\u201d she said. She cited political prisoners facing death sentences, including Arghavan Fallahi, whose message from prison rejected both forms of dictatorship: \u201cWe belong to Generation Z. We stand against dictatorship and dependence, against both the Shah and the Mullahs.\u201d The NCRI President-elect said the same position extended beyond individual prisoners to successive uprisings and what she described as an increasingly defiant society.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Message to the rally of freedom-loving Iranians outside the United Nations in New York<br>\u201cIran's seat belongs to the people of Iran and to their legitimate resistance for peace, freedom, and a democratic republic\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2026NYRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2026NYRally<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/UNGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UNGA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toXKTcV6AT\">pic.twitter.com\/toXKTcV6AT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/2102399502376120454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She also challenged international policy toward Tehran, citing executions, previous protest crackdowns and reports by UN investigators and other human-rights bodies. Mrs. Rajavi argued that inaction on human rights had consequences beyond Iran\u2019s borders, saying: \u201cFirst, whenever the brutal violation of human rights in Iran is met with silence and inaction, this regime becomes emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons and its warmongering across the region.\u201d She then rejected external war as an alternative: \u201cAnother lesson is that the solution to the Iranian crisis is neither war nor foreign intervention. Rather, it is the people of Iran and their organized Resistance who possess the ability and the legitimacy to bring about great change in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the concept of fake alternatives, Mrs. Rajavi was equally explicit. \u201cThe people of Iran have rejected every form of dictatorship, whether religious or monarchical,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her message concluded with a series of concrete demands: creation of an international criminal-justice mechanism for crimes against humanity in Iran, Security Council referral of the human-rights situation to the International Criminal Court, and prosecutions under universal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the Security Council to refer the regime\u2019s human rights violations to the International Criminal Court. And we call on all countries to prosecute the regime\u2019s leaders under the principle of universal jurisdiction,\u201d she said. Mrs. Rajavi also urged the international community to recognize the Iranian people\u2019s right to overthrow the existing system and \u201crecognize the rights of the Resistance Units and the National Liberation Army to fight against the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AFP :  Demonstration against the Iranian regime in front of the UN headquarters-New York<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NCRIUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCRIUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrgIAC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OrgIAC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3oRWtaj7r0\">pic.twitter.com\/3oRWtaj7r0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Firouz Mahvi (@FirouzMahvi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FirouzMahvi\/status\/2102514178913108083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe<\/h3>\n<p>Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, similarly argued that the NCRI and PMOI constituted an organized vehicle for political change. \u201cThere\u2019s hope for change, and that change is driven by the National Council for Resistance in Iran,\u201d he told the rally. Turning directly to the PMOI, Gen. Clark said: \u201cThe MEK, you\u2019re in every province in Iran, not just here in New York City, not in Paris. You\u2019re in every province in Iran.\u201d He emphasized what he described as its ability to communicate developments from inside the country, organize resistance and present an alternative political program.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Clark said Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/plan-for-future-of-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten-Point Plan<\/a> offered the basis for a transition built around political freedoms, elections, separation of religion and state and an end to nuclear-weapons ambitions and regional domination. Addressing governments hesitant about what might follow the existing system, he urged them to place greater confidence in the Iranian opposition\u2019s capacity for organization. \u201cThey must believe in the National Council of Resistance of Iran,\u201d he said. Gen. Clark concluded with one of the rally\u2019s strongest calls for action: \u201cI believe it will happen driven by the courage, and determination of the people of Iran, and I believe it will happen led by the National Council of Resistance and the MEK. Please choose the right moment, choose the right moment, but act.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gen. Wesley Clark: \u201cWe believe that under Mrs. Rajavi, the MEK for Iran will provide the basis for a democratic transition of power in Iran.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YJP7K7IglT\">https:\/\/t.co\/YJP7K7IglT<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2026NYRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2026NYRally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran10PointPlan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran10PointPlan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102415441566351782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Former U.S. Ambassador Carla Sands<\/h3>\n<p>Former U.S. Ambassador Carla Sands argued that external military pressure could weaken Tehran but could not create a durable political alternative. \u201cOnly the indigenous force on the ground can deliver lasting change and peace,\u201d she said. \u201cThe lasting solution lies in supporting the Iranian people and their organized resistance in bringing about change from within Iran.\u201d Amb. Sands explicitly backed Iranians rejecting both the Pahlavi monarchy and clerical rule and praised Resistance Units confronting the security apparatus inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Sands devoted a substantial part of her speech to what she described as the resilience and organizational strength of the PMOI after decades of repression. \u201cYou are Iran\u2019s leading opposition movement, and you\u2019ve carried forward an unbroken struggle against dictatorship for 61 years,\u201d she told supporters. \u201cThe MEK has survived, expanded, and continued its struggle because it\u2019s rooted in the profound commitment to freedom.\u201d She said the movement had succeeded in building \u201can organized movement capable of confronting the regime\u201d and highlighted the prominent role women have assumed in its leadership. Amb. Sands also credited Mrs. Rajavi with helping create that structure, describing her as a political leader who had helped break longstanding barriers to women\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>She presented Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s Ten-Point Plan as the political counterpart to that organization inside Iran, citing free elections, separation of religion and state, equality, minority rights and a non-nuclear republic. The former ambassador closed with a stark formulation of the choice she believed Western governments faced: \u201cStand with the executioners or those facing the gallows. Stand with a failed dictatorship or with an organized democratic resistance. Stand with the past or with the future.\u201d She then explicitly declared support for the Resistance Units, the PMOI and Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s democratic program.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ambassador Carla Sands: \u201cIran\u2019s seat at the UN belongs to the people of Iran, not their repressive rulers.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YTN8LVdNNu\">https:\/\/t.co\/YTN8LVdNNu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2026NYRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2026NYRally<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102417967661089268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg<\/h3>\n<p>Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg focused heavily on the Resistance Units as an existing force inside Iran rather than a diaspora-based political project. \u201cThere currently are Resistance Units in all 31 provinces of Iran,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are currently acting as the engine of change and pursuing a strategy of confronting the Revolutionary Guards in combination with the people.\u201d Gen. Kellogg described the NCRI under Mrs. Rajavi as possessing a \u201cblueprint for Iran\u2019s future governance\u201d and pointed to its Ten-Point Plan as a roadmap toward a secular and non-nuclear republic.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Kellogg also drew a distinction between weakening the Iranian authorities from abroad and achieving political change inside the country. \u201cMilitary attacks and sanctions have greatly weakened the regime, but it will not lead to change. That change is dependent upon the people of Iran,\u201d he said. He urged Iranians to organize around a provisional government and free elections, while portraying escalating executions as evidence of official insecurity rather than stability. His core message was that external powers could not deliver freedom on behalf of Iranians: the decisive force, he argued, would have to be the population and the Resistance structures already operating within Iran.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gen. Keith Kellogg, former U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine: \u201cYour presence today is important. You are sending the message of hope and resistance to the people of Iran.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/generalkellogg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@generalkellogg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NqW4KAKLae\">https:\/\/t.co\/NqW4KAKLae<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2026NYRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2026NYRally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102421997883932966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Ana Sami, Attorney and Moderator<\/h3>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Ana Sami, an attorney and moderator of the rally, opened by thanking the Iranian-American community, supporters of freedom and democracy, and distinguished guests for gathering in New York with what she described as a common message: that the Iranian people reject the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. She said the rally was being held on behalf of a nation whose voice had been silenced, whose rights had been denied and whose people had paid an enormous price in pursuit of freedom, while emphasizing that the Iranian people remained committed to freedom and, in her words, \u201cso close to victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Sami said the gathering was intended to demand accountability for decades of repression, executions, terrorism, corruption and crimes against humanity. She also challenged the Iranian regime\u2019s presence at the United Nations, arguing that it represented rulers associated with decades of massacre, murder, terror and hostage-taking rather than the Iranian people. \u201cThe seat of Iran at the United Nations belongs to the Iranian people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">She highlighted the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran as a central part of what she described as the democratic alternative, noting its 61st anniversary and its survival despite the execution of its founders under the Shah and the massacre of tens of thousands of its members under the clerical regime. Sami said that while world leaders were gathering for the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, the Iranian people were now speaking for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>She further emphasized that Iran belonged to those who had sacrificed for freedom, those imprisoned for demanding basic rights and those continuing to resist tyranny despite what she described as unimaginable repression. She identified the National Council of Resistance of Iran as the democratic alternative and said Iran belonged to a free and democratic future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Why are thousands of Iranian-Americans gathering in New York for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2026NYRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2026NYRally<\/a>? Ms. Ana Sami, the moderator of the rally, says:\"\u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4yUx3SjBJc\">https:\/\/t.co\/4yUx3SjBJc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StopExecutionsInIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopExecutionsInIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/No2ShahNo2Mullahs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#No2ShahNo2Mullahs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102401229460492467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Iranian-American advocate Zahra Amanpour<\/h3>\n<p>Iranian-American advocate Zahra Amanpour placed the rejection of monarchical restoration at the center of her speech. She traced political repression through both the Shah and the clerical system, arguing that Iran\u2019s modern political struggle had repeatedly been denied its fundamental demand for popular sovereignty. The PMOI, she said, had opposed the Shah before resisting the clerical state and had survived imprisonment, executions, massacres and exile. Its continued existence, she argued, demonstrated that \u201creplacing one dictatorship with another will never be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amanpour contrasted hereditary and theocratic authority with the Resistance\u2019s proposal for an elected republic based on political pluralism, separation of religion and state, equality and minority rights. She also pointed to the prominence of women in the PMOI\u2019s leadership as a structural contrast with Tehran\u2019s restrictions on women. Her rejection of a return to the Shah\u2019s system was unequivocal: \u201cIranians did not struggle against monarchy to create religious tyranny, and the answer to religious tyranny is not to recreate monarchy.\u201d She concluded that political power should neither be inherited nor concentrated in an unelected supreme authority: \u201cOne says power belongs to the Shah or a Supreme Leader. The other says sovereignty belongs to the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Zahra Amanpour: \u201cThe Shah\u2019s crown was replaced by the mullahs\u2019 turban, and political repression was joined by religious coercion.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/No2ShahNo2Mullahs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#No2ShahNo2Mullahs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StopExecutionsInIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopExecutionsInIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lwb4ZOjP5c\">https:\/\/t.co\/lwb4ZOjP5c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102404690365624776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Young Iranian Speakers<\/h3>\n<p>Young Iranian speakers at the rally delivered a broadly similar generational message, combining personal accounts of relatives executed under the clerical authorities with rejection of both religious and monarchical dictatorship. They emphasized the expansion of Resistance Units, the role of women in the PMOI and support for a secular democratic republic based on Rajavi\u2019s Ten-Point Plan. One young Iranian-Canadian speaker summarized that rejection in unusually direct terms: \u201cWe will not exchange a turban for a crown or one dictator\u2019s son for another. Iran is not a family inheritance. Iran belongs to its people.\u201d Others emphasized that decades of executions had not eliminated the PMOI\u2019s appeal among younger Iranians and portrayed the movement\u2019s long record of female leadership as evidence that women\u2019s equality had become an organizational principle rather than a slogan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At the UN rally, Iran\u2019s youth delegation condemned the mullahs\u2019 brutal executions &amp; backed Maryam Rajavi\u2019s Ten-Point Plan, the NCRI\u2019s democratic alternative, women\u2019s leadership, and rejection of all dictatorships.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran10PointPlan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran10PointPlan<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iSrQQoymsD\">https:\/\/t.co\/iSrQQoymsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102420206090113271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Rev. Adrienne Dannhauser, Episcopal priest and rector of the Church of the Incarnation<\/h3>\n<p>The rally also drew support from New York faith leaders. Rev. Adrienne Dannhauser, an Episcopal priest and rector of the Church of the Incarnation, cited reports of killings, torture, sexual violence and arbitrary imprisonment and rejected the use of religion as justification for state violence. \u201cDictatorship does not work because it is a usurpation and corruption of God\u2019s power, whether exercised in the name of religion, monarchy, or any other ideology,\u201d she said. Rev. Dannhauser called for solidarity with political prisoners and those facing death sentences and joined the rally\u2019s demand for a \u201cfree, democratic, and secular republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rev. Adrian Dannhauser: \u201cI\u2019m here today to declare my solidarity with the people of Iran\u201d and support a free, democratic, and secular republic.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pq0hqaTB3L\">https:\/\/t.co\/pq0hqaTB3L<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/No2ShahNo2Mullahs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#No2ShahNo2Mullahs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102425448391262339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, executive director of the Interfaith Center of New York<\/h3>\n<p>Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, executive director of the Interfaith Center of New York, focused on religious freedom, human dignity and the costs paid by successive Iranian protest movements. Drawing on her own experience of interfaith engagement in Iran, she said direct contact with Iranians had changed perceptions formed through decades of political confrontation. Rev. Breyer thanked Iranians for what she described as their continuing efforts toward democracy and lamented that the United States had not done more in previous protest movements. Addressing prisoners and families whose relatives had been killed or detained, she said their sacrifices had not been in vain and closed with a biblical appeal to justice and protection for the oppressed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer thanked Iranians for showing the world \u201chow to strive for democracy.\u201d She continued:  \u201cThe struggles have not been lost\u2026 these struggles are costly, and we know that they are not in vain.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b16dEMFjM2\">https:\/\/t.co\/b16dEMFjM2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2026NYRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2026NYRally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102426738991182178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Venezuelan human-rights activist and musician Jonathan Acosta<\/h3>\n<p>Venezuelan human-rights activist and musician Jonathan Acosta linked the Iranian gathering to opposition to authoritarian rule in his own country. Acosta said Venezuelans understood the experience of families whose children had been tortured or killed and expressed support for Iranians campaigning against executions. He said members of the Venezuelan community had travelled from Washington, Maryland and Virginia to participate and called for cooperation with the NCRI in pressing for an end to executions. Framing the issue as one extending beyond any one country, he urged Iranians and Venezuelans to speak for one another against dictatorship and closed by joining chants for a free Iran and an end to executions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jonathan Acosta: \u201cWe will work with the NCRI to demand an end to the executions\u201d and a free Iran.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RuyW3RMYdl\">https:\/\/t.co\/RuyW3RMYdl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StopExecutionsInIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopExecutionsInIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NCRIAlternative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NCRIAlternative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/2102428575387312453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" 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