Iran’s Democratic Future Requires Support for Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan and the Transitional Government

At the Free Iran 2026 Conference in Paris, the Canadian presence underscored that the cause of the Iranian people is no longer an isolated domestic matter, but a test of the international community’s commitment to freedom and human rights. 

Former Canadian Minister of Immigration Judy Sgro stressed that the narrative promoted by the Iranian regime and its lobbyists about the absence of an alternative is nothing but an attempt to justify appeasement and block recognition of the democratic path represented by the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Judy Sgro, former Canadian Minister of Immigration and Chair of the Parliament’s International Trade Committee, stated: “I am proud to be here alongside a broad Canadian parliamentary delegation and friends of the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance. I have attended these gatherings for many years, and each year I leave with a stronger conviction that the path to freedom in Iran has not weakened; it has become clearer and stronger.”

She added: “Despite the brutal repression that followed the January uprising, despite thousands of deaths and arrests, and despite the rise in executions, the Iranian people and Resistance Units continue their struggle with courage. This alone refutes the regime’s lies that the people have surrendered or that no organized alternative exists.”

Referring to the case of political prisoner Zahra Tabari, Sgro said: “The tragedy of Zahra Tabari, an engineer educated at a university in Sweden whose death sentence has been reaffirmed because of her support for the Iranian Resistance, exposes the regime’s fear of organized opposition. The use of execution against political prisoners and people of conscience is not justice; it is a political tool of repression and intimidation.”

She emphasized: “We in Canada call for an end to all executions in Iran and the unconditional release of political prisoners. The international community must not treat these crimes as passing statistics, but as evidence of the nature of a regime that fears its own people and their Resistance.”

Sgro added: “The regime and its lobbyists try to convince the world that its fall would lead to chaos. This is a deliberate lie designed to protect the policy of appeasement. The truth is that for more than four decades, the National Council of Resistance of Iran has presented a democratic alternative based on pluralism, equality, and the separation of religion and state.”

She concluded: “That is why we welcome the NCRI’s announcement in February of a provisional transitional government, and we regard it as a historic step to ensure the peaceful transfer of power to the Iranian people, leading to free elections and a democratic republic. The international community — in the West, East, North, and South — must stand with Maryam Rajavi and her Ten-Point Plan, and reject the regime’s lies that seek to deny the Iranian people their right to a free and democratic future.”