Two Flawed Pillars of Western Policy

For many years, the policy of Germany and other European Union member states regarding Iran rested on two fundamental assumptions:


First, an illusory hope that the monster of religious tyranny in Iran would eventually be tamed and that a way could be found to accommodate it.

Second, a misguided strategy premise that the Iranian problem could be resolved while ignoring the Iranian people and their organized resistance.

Events have proven both assumptions utterly wrong. Appeasement produced war. Meanwhile, consecutive uprisings and the expanding network of Resistance and Resistance Units have made one truth clear: the decisive force shaping Iran’s future is the Iranian people and their organized resistance.

The core failure of Western policy toward Iran to this day has been the refusal to recognize the Iranian people’s resistance.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) fights for a democratic republic grounded in free elections and the separation of religion and state.

The media frenzy surrounding the remnants of the Shah’s monarchy cannot alter this outcome. He represents a false alternative that undermines the Iranian people’s democratic movement and, in practice, serves the regime’s interests.

To the Iranian people, he remains a symbol of foreign dependency and an attempt to restore monarchical dictatorship. By openly declaring pride in everything his father did, he offers the clerics their greatest gift.

It was Britain that brought his grandfather to power, only to depose and exile him twenty years later during World War II, installing his son in his place. Likewise, in 1953, after the Shah fled the country, he was reinstated through a joint U.S.-British coup against the national government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.

Yet, as the leader of the Iranian Resistance, Massoud Rajavi, stated: “The grand lesson of two wars and an uprising in 2025-2026 is that a return to puppet monarchical fascism is nothing more than a mirage.”

https://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/message-conference-germany-two-choices-facing-the-clerical-regime/

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