Iran’s Future Hinges on Organized Resistance

In an interview with GB News, Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad, an Iranian policy analyst and writer, argued that any serious assessment of Iran’s future must begin by distinguishing between what the regime wants and what the Iranian people want.

She said the record has already shown that neither appeasement nor war, by themselves, have brought down the regime, and that the most sustainable path is for the Iranian people themselves, through their organized resistance, to overthrow it.

Sepehrrad challenged the common assumption that Iran’s future depends mainly on internal regime power struggles or leadership reshuffles at the top.

In her view, the real issue is not which faction inside the system might prevail, but whether the Iranian people and their organized resistance can bring about systemic change. 

From that perspective, she disputed the notion that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps can indefinitely dominate the streets, pointing instead to what she described as a broad, decentralized network of Resistance Units operating across Iran’s provinces and capable of contesting the regime’s control on the ground.

She further argued that this alternative is not merely a protest current but a structured political and organizational force centered on the PMOI/MEK within the wider coalition of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

In the interview, she said this movement was the first to expose the regime’s nuclear program, missile program, and regional proxy networks, giving it unusual organizational depth and relevance in the Iranian context.

She added that Maryam Rajavi, as the NCRI’s president-elect, has presented a Provisional Government framework designed to transfer sovereignty to the Iranian people and hold free and fair elections within six months after the regime’s fall.

Sepehrrad described that provisional-government proposal as both a legal and strategic step meant to prevent a political vacuum or the reproduction of past dictatorships, whether monarchical or clerical. In her view, the existence of such a framework is precisely what makes a peaceful and democratic transition conceivable in practical terms, rather than merely aspirational.

For that reason, she suggested that international policymakers should focus less on internal regime maneuvering and more on the Iranian people’s organized democratic alternative.