Maryam Rajavi is the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (Coalition of democratic Iranian opposition) for the transitional period during which sovereignty will be transferred to the people of Iran. Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for the future of Iran calls for a republic based on the separation of religion and state, gender equality, abolition of the death penalty and a non-nuclear Iran.
Our people have endured torture, displacement, and painful hardship. Iranian women have faced terrible discrimination and brutal injustice.
In Iran, the mullahs hang human rights every single day. Their record of horrific crimes does not need an annual review.
On Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to those who resist for freedom and democracy, those who sacrifice their lives and livelihoods for human rights.
The international community must take urgent action to stop this crime against humanity in Iran. Silence and inaction only embolden the ruling religious.
Conference in the European Parliament on International #HumanRightsDay#StandUp4HumanRights pic.twitter.com/8dJfHepB7D
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) December 10, 2025
From November 22 to December 8, just 17 days, the death toll from Khamenei’s execution machine has already exceeded 200.
The regime’s judiciary has sentenced a political prisoner to death for supporting the PMOI/MEK, and upheld death sentences for six others on the same charge.…— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) December 9, 2025
Maryam Rajavi was born into a middle-class family in Tehran. One of her brothers, Mahmoud, is a veteran member of the PMOI/MEK and was a political prisoner during the Shah’s regime.
Her older sister, Narges, was killed by the Shah’s secret police, SAVAK, in 1975.
Her other sister, Massoumeh, an industrial engineering student, was arrested by the clerical regime in 1982. Pregnant at the time, she was ultimately hanged after undergoing brutal torture. Massoumeh’s husband, Massoud Izadkhah, was also executed.
Maryam Rajavi graduated with honors from the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in metallurgical engineering.
She joined the PMOI/MEK to participate in the popular resistance against the two corrupt dictatorships of the Shah and the mullahs. In the 1970s, during her college years, she organized anti-Shah student protests.
In 1980, she ran for a seat in Parliament from Tehran. But, due to widespread voter fraud by the new fundamentalist regime, none of the opposition candidates made it into Parliament. Despite the scam, Maryam Rajavi received over 250,000 votes.
Maryam Rajavi’s viewpoints on human rights in Iran The Iranian Resistance struggles for the establishment of freedom, equality, and democracy in Iran and a republic based on the separation of religion and state. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) underscores its commitment to revive human rights in Iran and abolish the death penalty […]
Maryam Rajavi’s views on the abolition of the death penalty in Iran As it has been outlined in its Ten-Point Plan, the Iranian Resistance has been calling for the abolition of the death penalty for years. We emphasize on this need and we call on our compatriots to widely protest the implementation of this inhuman […]
Maryam Rajavi’s 10 points plan for future Iran The Ten-Point Plan for Iran’s Future was first presented by Maryam Rajavi in December 2006 at a session of the Council of Europe. This plan encapsulates the aspirations of the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance for a future Iran: a pluralistic republic based on the separation of religion and state, gender […]
The Third Option Twenty-one years ago, I stood in this very parliament and declared that the solution for Iran lies neither in appeasement nor in war, but in a third option: regime change by the people of Iran and the organized resistance. I warned, “The policy of appeasement encourages the clerical regime to persist in […]
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Message to Geneva Conference- 20 November 2025
Free Iran 2025: Convention in Washington, D.C.- 15 November 2025
Maryam Rajavi Addresses Human Rights Conference in Germany- 5 November 2025
Conference at the UK Parliament-30 October 2025
Free Iran 2025: Youth Gathering- 26 October 2025
World Day Against the Death Penalty- 11 October 2025
