“Neither the mullahs nor a monarch”

Maryam Rajavi and Liam Fox during the "Free Ian" conference. Foto: Eurojournalist(e) / CC-BY 2.0

(KL) – Numerous prominent politicians participated in the “Free Iran” online conference organized by the NCRI and its president-elect Maryam Rajavi. Politicians from Europe and the US agreed that only the Iranian people can decide their future, not a foreign power or a feudal jet-set representative who simply craves power. According to the participants, Reza Pahlavi would be a step back into the past and has no legitimacy to place himself at the head of a revolution for which he has done nothing so far.

(KL) – Numerous prominent politicians participated in the “Free Iran” online conference organized by the NCRI and its president-elect Maryam Rajavi. Politicians from Europe and the US agreed that only the Iranian people can decide their future, not a foreign power or a feudal jet-set representative who simply craves power. According to the participants, Reza Pahlavi would be a step back into the past and has no legitimacy to place himself at the head of a revolution for which he has done nothing so far.

The various speakers, such as former US Special Envoy Robert Joseph, support (and have done so for some time) the 10-point plan of Maryam Rajavi and the NCRI, which is by no means about personal power, but about a peaceful transition to a modern democracy in which the Iranian people can decide in free elections, within six months at the latest, who should govern Iran in the future. It is clear that neither the clergy nor a representative of a defunct monarchy is capable of leading Iran into a new and better era.

It was interesting that Robert Joseph explicitly said that it could not be the task of the US to determine the future leadership of Iran – the highly decorated expert believes that this transition to a modern democracy can only be managed by Maryam Rajavi, whose 10-point plan is supported by European and American politicians. Free elections, abolition of the death penalty and torture, equality between men and women, a nuclear-free Iran, no more support for terrorist groups, separation of religion and state – this is the NCRI’s program, which represents a real alternative to the mullahs and Reza Pahlavi.

Liam Fox, the former British defense secretary under David Cameron, sounded similar: “There must be no return to monarchy,” Fox said, referring, of course, to Reza Pahlavi, who has not actually done anything for Iran, which is why his claim to power is completely unfounded.

Global support for the NCRI and Maryam Rajavi could be the decisive factor in the organization of post-war Iran. However, according to Robert Joseph, the US should first “do their job” to ensure that there can be no return to monarchy or theocracy. Otherwise, Robert Joseph is clear—if anyone can bring about Iran’s transition to democracy, even if it is not an easy task, it is Maryam Rajavi. No one should then trumpet the false statement that there is “no alternative” to Reza Pahlavi. There is an alternative, and it is clearly more promising than a return to a monarchy that harmed Iran until 1979 just as much as the theocracy that followed.