{"id":334079,"date":"2025-07-11T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=334079"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:06:39","slug":"jean-pierre-brard-irans-democratic-future-depends-on-its-internal-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/jean-pierre-brard-irans-democratic-future-depends-on-its-internal-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Pierre Brard: Iran\u2019s Democratic Future Depends on Its Internal Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334080\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-334080 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page.jpg\" alt=\"Image of former French MP Jean-Pierre Brard overlaid on the backdrop of a L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 article he authored\u2014 July 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jean-pierre-brard-humanite-page-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of former French MP Jean-Pierre Brard overlaid on the backdrop of a L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 article he authored\u2014 July 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"393\"><em data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"393\"><strong data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"392\">Two-minute read<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"751\">In a powerful op-ed published on July 2, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanite.fr\/en-debat\/dictature\/iran-la-voie-de-la-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in <em data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"450\">L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/em> titled<\/a> <em data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"492\">\u201cIran: la voie de la R\u00e9sistance\u201d<\/em>, Jean-Pierre Brard, former French deputy and mayor of Montreuil, asserts that the only path to meaningful change in Iran lies in democratic regime change \u2014 led not by foreign powers or exiled royalty, but by the people of Iran and their organized Resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"1223\">Brard, who now serves as president of the French Committee for a Democratic Iran (CFID), highlights the critical role played by <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/iranian-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resistance Units inside Iran<\/a>, describing them as the backbone of a broad, grassroots movement committed to ending the clerical dictatorship. He reports that over <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/news\/2024-report-pmoi-resistance-units-lead-courageous-activities-for-irans-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3,000 anti-repression<\/a> actions have been carried out by these units in just the past year, underscoring the depth and reach of this internal challenge to the regime\u2019s power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1225\" data-end=\"1541\">The article marks the anniversary of a pivotal turning point: the <a href=\"https:\/\/wncri.org\/2025\/06\/18\/iran-june-20-uprising-a-peaceful-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 1981 uprising<\/a>, when half a million peaceful protesters in Tehran were met with bullets on Khomeini\u2019s orders. It was on that day, Brard notes, that the Resistance resolved to never retreat \u2014 a movement that has persisted now for 43 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1960\">Throughout the piece, Brard catalogues the Iranian regime\u2019s extreme brutality: over 100,000 executions of dissidents, including more than 30,000 political prisoners massacred in 1988, most of them supporters of the People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK). He adds that since August 2024, at least 1,350 executions have been recorded \u2014 making Iran the global leader in executions per capita.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jean-Pierre Brard: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranianResistance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranianResistance<\/a> Chose Not to Back Down\u2014and It Will Win<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i2DRews4he\">https:\/\/t.co\/i2DRews4he<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1937920605883609392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"2392\">Brard does not limit his criticism to Tehran. He sharply rebukes Western governments for decades of appeasement, recalling how in 2002 the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranwatch.org\/our-publications\/weapon-program-background-report\/history-irans-nuclear-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposed the regime\u2019s secret<\/a> nuclear weapons program \u2014 only to be met with silence and the blacklisting of the Resistance movement itself. \u201cThe democracies chose to dialogue with the executioners instead of the whistleblowers,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2394\" data-end=\"2766\">Rejecting both foreign military intervention and dynastic nostalgia, Brard warns against \u201cthose who imagine history can be repeated\u201d through figures like the Shah\u2019s son \u2014 whose family legacy, he reminds readers, was built by foreign intervention, not popular will. These are, in his view, diversions from the only viable solution: an uprising rooted in Iran\u2019s own society.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wise words from former French MP Jean-Pierre Brard\u2014worth revisiting as some try to repackage the Shah\u2019s son as an alternative to the mullahs\u2019 regime:<br \/>\u201cBecause as barbaric, as cruel as the mullahs, there is none. And those are criminals<br \/>who are looking for alternative solutions to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1m2H9o3V9\">pic.twitter.com\/K1m2H9o3V9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/en_simayazadi\/status\/1937256904897757187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2768\" data-end=\"2919\">That solution, Brard explains, is already clearly articulated in Maryam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/plan-for-future-of-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rajavi\u2019s Ten-Point Plan<\/a> \u2014 the democratic platform of the NCRI. It includes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2920\" data-end=\"3120\">\n<li data-start=\"2920\" data-end=\"2971\">\n<p data-start=\"2922\" data-end=\"2971\">Freedom of expression, parties, and the press<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2972\" data-end=\"3010\">\n<p data-start=\"2974\" data-end=\"3010\">Separation of religion and state<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3011\" data-end=\"3032\">\n<p data-start=\"3013\" data-end=\"3032\">Gender equality<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3033\" data-end=\"3063\">\n<p data-start=\"3035\" data-end=\"3063\">Ethnic minority autonomy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3064\" data-end=\"3094\">\n<p data-start=\"3066\" data-end=\"3094\">Environmental protection<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3095\" data-end=\"3120\">\n<p data-start=\"3097\" data-end=\"3120\">A nuclear-free Iran<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3122\" data-end=\"3411\">He frames this vision as aligned with universal values and echoes of past struggles for liberty \u2014 including France\u2019s own history. Quoting a revolutionary ideal, Brard writes: \u201cThe true revolutionaries are those who perceive the beacon of liberty in the dark, when no one else yet sees it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3413\" data-end=\"3492\">That beacon, he concludes, now shines clearly \u2014 and it shines from inside Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read In a powerful op-ed published on July 2, 2025, in L&rsquo;Humanit&eacute; titled &ldquo;Iran: la voie de la R&eacute;sistance&rdquo;, Jean-Pierre Brard, former French deputy and mayor of Montreuil, asserts [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":334080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[222],"class_list":{"0":"post-334079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"tag-iranian-resistance"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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