Conference at the French National Assembly on Iran’s Crisis

Maryam Rajavi: Under the mullahs’ rule in Iran, the crises have reached the point of no return

On Monday, December 15, at the initiative of the Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran in the French National Assembly, a conference entitled “The Current Crisis in Iran: The Possible Way Out” was held under the chairmanship of Ms. Christine Arrighi, President of the Committee, with the participation and speeches of a number of members of the National Assembly from various political parties.
Ms. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was the keynote speaker at the conference.

Other speakers included: Hervé Saulignac, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran; Patrick Hetzel, Member of Parliament from the Republican Party; Alain Vivien, former Minister and the first head of the Prime Minister’s Interministerial Mission on Cults; Gilbert Mitterrand, President of the France Libertés–Danielle Mitterrand Foundation; Ms. Dominique Attias, former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe; Jean-Pierre Brard, former Mayor and Member of Parliament and one of the founders of the Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran; Jean-François Legaret, former Mayor of Paris’s 1st arrondissement; Ms. Sarah Nouri, lawyer and legal expert; and Dr. Hamid-Reza Taherzadeh, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Address by Maryam Rajavi:

Dear Ms. Christine Arrighi,
Honorable Members of Parliament,
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends,
I am very pleased to be with you this evening, and I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran for its support for the struggles of the Iranian people.

Mass Arrests and Executions in Iran

According to reports by the Iranian Resistance, more than 2,000 people were executed in Iran in 2025.
Although not all of these executions are political in nature, they nevertheless serve the political interests of the regime.
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this wave of executions in Iran is unprecedented since the 1988 massacre.
The regime seeks to create a climate of fear to prevent the emergence of a popular uprising. Among those executed are 60 women.
In November 2025 alone, the regime hanged 335 people, setting a grim record.
The regime has focused its efforts on arresting and issuing death sentences against courageous women and men who support the Mojahedin.
At present, 18 of these prisoners have been sentenced to death.
These are the photographs of these brave woman and men.
The aim of this repression is to prevent young people from joining the Resistance Units.
Nevertheless, what is growing is not fear, but resistance, because Ashraf-3 in Albania stands as a powerful source of inspiration for rebellious youth.
The wave of protests inside prisons continues through the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, now in its 98th week, and hunger strikes by prisoners in 55 prisons.
The recent resolution by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which for the first time addresses the 1988 massacre, highlights the urgent need for the international community to mobilize against this regime of executions and massacre.
Protests across all social classes are also spreading in the streets.
High inflation, poverty, and the plundering of national wealth for the regime’s bomb and missile programs, as well as for war and repression, have fueled increasing discontent.
The crises have reached a point of no return.
The most dire of these crises is the water crisis, which affects all of Iran.
This is the result of the diversion of water resources for the benefit of the IRGC and foundations affiliated with Khamenei.
The situation has become so critical that the president of this regime is even speaking of evacuating Tehran.
In reality, the country’s infrastructure has been devastated. As a result, electricity is repeatedly cut, and gas supplies have declined.
Air pollution, likewise, claims thousands of lives each year.

The Iranian Regime’s Extensive Propaganda Against the Resistance

The regime engages in extensive propaganda against the organized Resistance to prevent an uprising and seeks to sow division and discredit its opponents.
The twelve-day war last June demonstrated the legitimacy of the “Third Solution” proposed by this Resistance.
This solution is neither foreign war nor appeasement, but regime change achieved by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.
It is a solution to end the regime’s crimes and crises, including its nuclear bomb program, and to liberate the women and people of Iran.
Western countries, however, turn a blind eye to the executions, repression, and terrorism carried out by the regime—whether for commercial interests or because of blackmail, warmongering, terrorism, and hostage-taking.
They prefer to negotiate and ease sanctions.
But after the activation of the snapback mechanism and the reinstatement of the new UN Security Council sanctions, Western governments must abandon their policy of appeasement and stand with the Iranian people and alongside the “Resistance Units,” who are the vanguard of the uprising and whose capabilities in confronting the Revolutionary Guard grow day by day.

The Iranian People’s Rejection of All Forms of Dictatorship

After the overthrow of the Shah’s dictatorship, Khomeini stole the revolution and, as a result, diverted it from its original path.
Today, the Iranian people reject all forms of dictatorship and declare: neither the Shah nor the cleric.
The Iranian Resistance calls for the establishment of a democratic, pluralistic, non‑nuclear republic based on the separation of religion and state.
A republic founded on gender equality, freedom of religion, the abolition of the death penalty, the repeal of clerical Sharia laws, autonomy for Iranian Kurdistan, and an end to nuclear bomb production.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, which has been fighting against this regime for over 40 years, has a well-structured plan for the transfer of power to the Iranian people.
The Iranian people and Resistance are determined to establish a free Iran for global peace and security.
Today, more than ever, it is essential that parliaments and governments recognize the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom and the rebellious youth’s battle against the IRGC.