Reclaiming the Right to Popular Sovereignty

We have not sat in idle anticipation, waiting for foreign powers or external governments to bring change to Iran. Instead, we have risen to reclaim what is fundamentally ours: the right to popular sovereignty, and the right of our people to dignity and freedom.

The Provisional Government and the Ten-Point Plan

The provisional government announced by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, guided by the principles of peace and freedom, exists solely for this purpose. It stands to realize the Ten-Point Plan of the Resistance, a vision of a republic built upon:

The separation of religion and state

Gender equality

Autonomy for oppressed nationalities

A non-nuclear Iran


This vision is what a member of the European Parliament from Italy, Mr. Leoluca Orlando, described as the “Iranian model of democracy.” And I must add this is not a model drafted merely on paper. It is a model forged from the profound suffering and the blood of 100,000 PMOI freedom fighters and combatants who have laid down their lives for the liberation of Iran.


Unyielding Spirit in the Face of Repression

The latest example is the case of a young woman, the 25-year-old Arghavan Fallahi. She spent months in solitary confinement and under torture. Her father is also incarcerated.

We now stand on the eve of the 38th anniversary of the 1988 massacre, which saw the execution of 30,000 political prisoners by decree of Khomeini, the founder of this very regime. More than ninety percent of those victims were members of the PMOI/MEK. Their only “crime,” the sole reason they were sent to the gallows, was their refusal to renounce the PMOI’s stance on freedom for Iran.

Today, this very same unyielding spirit is alive, burning bright within our political prisoners and the young generation flocking to this Resistance. Among them was Babak Alipour. Born in 1991 in Amol, a law graduate, Babak was one of eight PMOI members who were sent to the gallows in Ghezel Hesar Prison this past March.


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