{"id":334397,"date":"2025-07-19T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=334397"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:40:05","slug":"uk-parliamentarians-champion-third-option-for-iran-rejecting-war-and-appeasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi\/uk-parliamentarians-champion-third-option-for-iran-rejecting-war-and-appeasement\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Parliamentarians Champion \u2018Third Option\u2019 for Iran, Rejecting War and Appeasement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK Parliament hosted the conference “The Third Option Change by the People and the Resistance of Iran” \u2013 July 16, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

London \u2013 July 16, 2025<\/strong> \u2013 In a significant gathering at the UK Parliament, a cross-party group of MPs and Peers, alongside legal experts and human rights advocates, convened to address the escalating crisis in Iran and the broader Middle East. Hosted by the British Committee for Iran Freedom, the conference focused on the \u201cThird Option: Regime Change by Iran\u2019s People and Resistance,” a path forward that rejects both foreign military intervention and the failed policy of appeasement toward the clerical regime.<\/p>\n

The event took place at a critical juncture, following a recent 12-day conflict that brought the region to the brink of a wider war. Speakers from across the political spectrum voiced their robust support for the Iranian people’s struggle for democracy and endorsed the 10-Point Plan for a future republic, as articulated by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).<\/p>\n

Baroness O’Loan: A Principled \u2018Third Option\u2019 is the Only Path Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baroness O’Loan, chairing the conference, opened the proceedings by highlighting the urgency of the situation. She noted that while the world\u2019s attention was on the recent conflict, the Iranian regime had seized the opportunity to intensify its domestic crackdown, a sign she described as “fear, not of strength.” She criticized decades of Western policy as being “trapped between two failed approaches, military intervention and diplomatic appeasement.”<\/p>\n

She introduced the central theme of the conference: “The Iranian resistance movement led by the NCRI and madam Rajavi offers a principled third option, a regime change by the Iranian people and their organized resistance.”<\/p>\n

Baroness O’Loan also read a powerful message from NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi, who stated that the recent war had illuminated an “undeniable truth”: the solution lies in the Third Option. In her message, Mrs. Rajavi detailed the regime\u2019s new wave of repression, including the sentencing of three political prisoners\u2014Farshad Etemadi-Far, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi (Hamidavi)<\/a>\u2014to death on charges of membership in the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK). She condemned these actions as proof of the regime\u2019s fear of its own people and its recognition of the PMOI as the primary threat and democratic alternative.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s message concluded with a call for the UK Parliament to take the initiative in recognizing the Iranian people’s struggle, triggering the snapback mechanism for UN sanctions, designating the regime as a threat to international peace, and conditioning all relations on the immediate cessation of executions.<\/p>\n

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A policy that, for over four decades, has only fueled insecurity, instability, warmongering, and terrorism must come to an end. Instead, the world should stand behind the very values and principles outlined in the joint statement by the majority of members of both houses of the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ovPOsWRdh4<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n