On May 31, 2025, at an international conference backing democratic change in Iran, former Italian Senator Roberto Rampi delivered a powerful speech underscoring the Iranian regime’s central role in destabilizing the Middle East and threatening global security. Drawing from his long-standing commitment to human rights, Rampi warned that the regime finances terrorism across the region and even sows chaos within Europe, making the global cost of appeasement untenable.
Rampi called on Albania to fully protect the residents of Ashraf 3, highlighting their sacrifice and courage as pillars of the organized resistance. He denounced efforts to legitimize false alternatives to the regime and criticized European leaders for falling for Tehran’s propaganda, especially the myth of “moderation” within a fundamentally unreformable system.
He endorsed Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan and described the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) as the only viable democratic alternative. Stressing that support for the current regime enables continued terror and crisis, Rampi argued that the fall of the regime is not only necessary for Iran but for peace and security worldwide.
A translated version of the speech follows. Portions have been lightly edited for clarity and flow.
.@rampi: We must change the regime with @Maryam_Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan. Iran must not only matter when an Italian journalist is jailed. We must stand with #NCRIAlternative that’s fought for 40 years. See you in a free Tehran.
https://t.co/CSMPXmuqLM— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 31, 2025
Thank you very much to all of you once again for asking us to be here. Thanks to the friends of Ashraf 3, where I had the honor of being present as a parliamentarian — they are truly great heroes, and everyone should go visit them and greet them.
From this stage, first and foremost, we call on the government of Albania to guarantee the security, protection, and human rights of those women and men to whom we owe so much in terms of freedom.
I have always fought for human rights — first before becoming a parliamentarian, then as a deputy and senator, and today as a guarantor for detainees — in my work as a writer, educator, and student of philosophy.
And precisely as a student of philosophy, I want to say that the philosophy of the National Council of Resistance, the philosophy of the Iranian Resistance, is a philosophy of peace. It is a philosophy of just peace, and it is a philosophy that can guarantee pluralism and democracy for Iran.
That pluralism we have seen today in a magnificent way with a new generation of Iranian girls and boys who want to fight with freedom, standing together with a generation that also fought physically in that country, with all those wonderful images of courageous women and men we’ve seen in Iran.
We're proud to have @rampi support the #FreeIran10PointPlan for a Democratic Republic. Together, we stand for freedom and democracy in #FreeIran2024. pic.twitter.com/MzDdpRUy1Q
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) June 28, 2024
Never before has the situation in Iran been so dramatic for the people. But precisely for this reason, there is now a real possibility and strength for that regime to finally fall.
The countries of the world do not need to do much — they just need to stop supporting this regime and stop giving it the means to survive, even though its place in history has long since come to an end. And that depends on us. That is why we are here today.
That is why this alliance among so many parliamentarians, so many women, men, and countries from around the world — even with differing opinions — is so important.
Because majorities in national parliaments are formed by bringing together differing views, because first and foremost comes democracy. First comes freedom. And then come divisions — divisions that, in democratic countries, can exist peacefully and sincerely.
And I would like to conclude, because it has been a long day, and I don’t want to make it any longer than it already is. But I believe an important message must come out of here today.
What Iran is doing in the world right now is destabilizing. It is financing terrorism in many countries — starting with what we see in the Middle East. It is creating problems even in our own countries.
So if we do not feel a closeness in our hearts to these women and men, we should at least — with our minds, with our heads, with rational thought — understand that until there is a democratic Iran, a free Iran, an Iran liberated from the terrorists who govern it today, there will be no possibility of peace, justice, or security in any other country in the world.
That is why we must change the regime — with the Ten-Point Plan, with a president like Maryam Rajavi, a president-elect, a democratic president who guarantees democracy and security through her experience and values.
Because fashion is not enough — and I’ll conclude with this.
It’s not enough to be briefly swept up in admiration for the Iranian movement, as we’ve seen in Italy as well.
It’s not enough to pay attention only when the regime arrests and imprisons an Italian journalist, and then everyone talks about Iran for a few days. And then, once that journalist is brought back home — and we know what that exchange cost — nobody talks about Iran anymore.
Meanwhile, people speak badly of Iran, giving voice to figures who do not represent the Iranian people, who pretend to be the Iranian Resistance, and who perhaps even speak ill of the true Iranian Resistance. And these people are dangerously listened to by many representatives of the Italian people.
We say: these are false prophets, and they must be unmasked.
We must stand on the side of the true Resistance — the organized one, the one that has been resisting for forty years, the one with the intelligence and capacity to envision a possible regime change.
And with them, we will meet again — as someone a few years older than me once said — of course we will go to Iran. We will all see each other again together in a free Iran.