Conference Voices Support for Maryam Rajavi Ten-Point Plan

An international online conference held on Sunday (March 15), brought together prominent political, parliamentary, and international figures to endorse the Provisional Government announced by the National Council of Resistance of Iran and to reaffirm support for Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan as a democratic roadmap for Iran’s future.

The conference, held under the title “Support for the Provisional Government of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on the Basis of the Ten-Point Plan,” focused on one central message: democratic change in Iran cannot be achieved through appeasement, nor through war and foreign intervention, but through the will of the Iranian people and their organized resistance. Speakers described the provisional government as a transitional framework designed to prevent a political vacuum, transfer sovereignty to the people, and organize free elections within a defined period.

In her address, Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the NCRI for the transitional period, said that the only real solution to Iran’s crisis is the overthrow of the clerical regime by an organized uprising. She stressed that the announcement of the provisional government is aimed at ensuring an orderly transfer of power and avoiding chaos after the fall of the current regime. Rajavi said the transitional framework is based on the Ten-Point Plan, which calls for the separation of religion and state, full gender equality, abolition of the death penalty, guarantees for the rights of Iran’s ethnic and social components, and a non-nuclear Iran living in peace with the world. She also emphasized the slogan rejecting both dictatorship in its old and current forms: “No to the Shah, no to the mullahs.”

Former European Council President and former Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel delivered one of the conference’s key political messages. He described the Iranian regime as a source of terrorism, regional destabilization through proxies, hostage-taking, and nuclear blackmail, while also failing to provide the Iranian people with basic necessities such as water, bread, and electricity. Michel argued that neither war nor foreign military intervention can produce a lasting solution, just as silence, appeasement, and complicity have failed to reform the regime. He presented what he called the “third way” as the only realistic path: the will, legitimacy, and mobilization of the Iranian people, supported by leadership, a credible program, and international partners. He also underlined that legitimacy can only come through free and democratic elections.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman voiced strong solidarity with the Iranian people and their revolution for freedom and dignity. She said the oppression and wars suffered by Iranians today are not a sudden event, but the continuation of a long history of dictatorship and international complications. She paid tribute to Iranian women and political prisoners, including Narges Mohammadi, and said the spirit of freedom in Iran remains alive despite repression. At the same time, Karman clearly rejected war and bombing against Iran, warning that destructive wars do not automatically produce democracy and may instead pave the way for the return of authoritarianism in another form.

Esther Rodríguez, Vice President of the Madrid Parliament, also expressed support for the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people and said the conference reflected the importance of a clear and principled democratic alternative.

The conference concluded with a shared emphasis that the NCRI’s provisional government and the Ten-Point Plan offer a practical and credible framework for a democratic transition that rejects both appeasement and war, while ensuring that Iran’s future is shaped by its own people rather than external engineering.