Trusting the West and Europe

Throughout our interview, Rajavi emphasized that Iranian insurgents must “go it alone.”

“From our perspective, the fundamental and immutable principle is that the overthrow of the regime must be carried out by the Iranian people themselves and their organized resistance,” she said. “This is the only path to toppling this regime. Without a combat-capable, organized resistance, this brutal and medieval system will not fall.”

She added that this has been the basis of what she called “our relentless struggle” for nearly five decades.

Regarding the West, Rajavi pointed out that “the expectation of the Iranian people is that democratic countries, including the United States, do not side with the Iranian regime in this unjust war, that they recognize the legitimacy of the struggle against this religious fascism and its Iran [Islamic] Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC], who are the [Nazi German] SS of our time, and that they hold the leaders of this regime and the architects and perpetrators of these mass killings accountable.”

As for direct involvement from other countries on the side of the insurgents, she said, “We are not asking the U.S., or any other government, to overthrow this regime. That responsibility belongs to the Iranian people and their resistance.

“Historical experience clearly demonstrates that freedom is not an imported commodity; it can only be achieved through reliance on internal forces and the sacrifices of the sons and daughters of this land.”

Agreeing that “it is natural that Western countries prioritize their own interests,” Rajavi pointed out that “our message to them is this: this regime ultimately acts against your security and endangers peace. As long as it remains in power, it will not abandon repression and mass killing, nor will it cease terrorism and warmongering.”

As to the worry of many in the U.S. and throughout European capitals that an Iran liberated from the order of its present regime would quickly devolve into a worse situation, such as in Iraq after Saddam Hussein and Libya after Muammar Gaddafi (which President Obama famously concluded was “the s—show”), Rajavi is not worried.

“What fundamentally distinguishes Iran’s situation from that of other countries in the region, such as Iraq or Libya, which descended into chaos and sectarian violence, is the existence of a democratic alternative with a long track record and a clear, articulated program,” she explained. “This alternative prevents a power vacuum and averts catastrophe in the aftermath of the regime’s fall.”

By “democratic alternative,” Rajavi means the constitution sculpted by her organization that includes the NCRI’s plan for the separation of religion and state, adopted forty years ago, which bans all forms of religious discrimination and ensures “no individual may enjoy privileges or suffer restrictions in political, civil, judicial, educational, or social rights on the basis of belief or non-belief.”

In addition, the NCRI constitution guarantees a judiciary “entirely independent of religion or ideology, and only laws enacted by the legitimate [elected] legislative body carry legal validity.”

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