"Online Briefing on Iran: Resistance Says Regime Change Is the Only Path to Peace"

As regional tensions continue to escalate and the Middle East faces overlapping political and security crises, the Iranian Resistance used a major online briefing on Thursday, March 26, 2026, to deliver a clear message: neither appeasement nor foreign war can solve the Iranian crisis. The only viable solution, speakers said, is the overthrow of the ruling clerical regime by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.

The event, held under the title "Current Developments in Iran and the Region, the Iranian Resistance’s Position, and Future Prospects," brought together dozens of political and media figures from different countries. The session focused on developments inside Iran, the broader regional picture, and the role of Iranian society and Resistance Units in shaping the next phase.

Among the main speakers were Dr. Senabargh Zahedi, head of the Judiciary Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee. The discussion addressed a wide range of questions on the direction of the crisis, the prospects for change, and the role of local and regional actors.

Opening the session, Dr. Zahedi said the region is living through an "exceptional moment" in which war, internal unrest, and political uncertainty are all colliding. He argued that one of the major flaws in many international analyses is the continued neglect of the Iranian people and their organized Resistance as a decisive factor in the future of Iran. He stressed that any serious reading of the current situation must begin from "clear constants" rather than shifting tactical assumptions.

Zahedi also referred to a message by Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi at the start of the new Iranian year, in which he emphasized the need to hold firmly to established principles amid "fire, smoke, and dust." According to Zahedi, those principles remain the compass guiding the Resistance through the current storm.

Introducing Mohammad Mohaddessin, Zahedi described him as one of the most experienced senior figures in the Iranian Resistance and a veteran leader in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, with decades of political struggle and extensive experience in international affairs.

In his remarks, Mohaddessin said Iran is now living under wartime conditions while the wider Middle East is facing a grave and expanding crisis. He argued that the root cause of both is the clerical regime in Tehran, whose policies of repression at home and aggression abroad have destabilized both Iran and the region.

He said more than four decades of Western appeasement, combined with repeated regional efforts to maintain or normalize relations with Tehran, have only emboldened the regime. The ruling system, he stressed, is not reformable and will never voluntarily abandon either its nuclear ambitions or its strategy of exporting war and chaos.

Mohaddessin said the Iranian Resistance has long offered what it calls a "third option": no appeasement, no foreign war, but regime change by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance. Recent events, he said, have only confirmed that this is not a slogan, but the only realistic path forward.

A central part of Mohaddessin’s argument was that real change cannot come from outside, nor from media speculation, but only from a genuine organized force inside Iranian society. He identified two decisive elements in this equation.

The first, he said, is the deepening "social explosion" inside Iran. The Iranian people are living under the combined pressure of war, repression, economic collapse, and political suffocation. That pressure, he argued, is likely to intensify further.

The second element is the existence of an organized force capable of channeling that anger: the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran and its Resistance Units active across the country. Mohaddessin said these units carried out thousands of operations during the past Iranian year, helped expand uprisings, protected protesters, and continued their activities even under severe wartime security conditions.

These operations, he said, are proof that a powerful force for change exists inside Iran itself. He added that this force is supported by a broad social base that includes the families of political prisoners, victims of repression, and communities affected by the regime’s brutality. According to him, this network has also succeeded in exposing highly sensitive information about the regime’s activities.

Mohaddessin said the authorities’ growing fear of renewed uprisings has become visible in official orders to fire on protesters. This, he argued, shows that the regime itself knows the real threat comes not from outside, but from within Iranian society.

He also pointed to the regime’s internal succession dynamics, especially the promotion of Mojtaba Khamenei, describing it as a sign that the system is moving toward an even more hereditary and fascistic model of rule. Rather than strengthening the regime, he said, such a move narrows its social base and deepens its fragility.

In contrast, Mohaddessin highlighted the announcement of a "provisional government" by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. He said its mission would be strictly transitional: to transfer sovereignty to the Iranian people within no more than six months after the regime’s fall, and to prepare the ground for free elections.

He added that this transitional vision is rooted in Maryam Rajavi’s "Ten-Point Plan," which calls for a democratic republic based on separation of religion and state, equal rights, abolition of the death penalty, and recognition of the rights of Iran’s diverse ethnic communities and nationalities. In his view, this democratic provisional government deserves international recognition and political support as a credible alternative to both dictatorship and chaos.

Mohaddessin stressed that the Iranian Resistance is not asking for military intervention or foreign funding. Instead, he called for a firm international policy: ending relations that legitimize the regime, recognizing the NCRI and its provisional government, and standing with the Iranian people’s right to change their own future.

He argued that firmness does not escalate the crisis; rather, it restrains the regime. Appeasement, by contrast, has repeatedly encouraged Tehran to press forward with repression, interference, and violence.

Addressing the region directly, Mohaddessin said the fall of the Iranian regime would not only open the door to freedom in Iran, but would also create the conditions for real stability across the Middle East. He said the Iranian Resistance extends a hand of friendship to Arab and Muslim countries and sees cooperation with the region as essential to defeating what he called "religious fascism."

Returning at the close of the session, Dr. Zahedi addressed the historical role of the "National Liberation Army of Iran," saying that had such a force remained intact in previous phases, it could have changed the outcome of earlier uprisings. He argued that its disarmament in 2003, under the logic of appeasement, weakened the Iranian people’s capacity to accelerate change. Even so, he said, the experience of the Liberation Army still demonstrates that Iranians are fully capable of overthrowing the regime when the necessary conditions are in place.

The briefing also featured video footage of recent operations by Resistance Units inside Iran, along with archival images of the National Liberation Army during its years in Ashraf Camp in Iraq. The visual presentation reinforced the core argument of the session: that the force for change exists inside Iran, is organized, and remains active.

At the conclusion of the event, journalists and participants raised a series of questions about the future of Iran, the direction of regional developments, and the policies of the Iranian Resistance. Mohaddessin and Zahedi responded in detail, reiterating that the decisive struggle is not between war and diplomacy, but between dictatorship and the Iranian people’s democratic future.

Their message was clear: Iran’s crisis will not be solved by bombs, nor by accommodation with the ruling clerics. It will be solved when the world recognizes and supports the democratic alternative already on the table, and when the Iranian people are allowed to reclaim their country from within.