{"id":334485,"date":"2025-07-21T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=334485"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:39:05","slug":"baroness-oloan-diplomacy-and-war-have-failed-back-irans-third-option-for-democratic-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/baroness-oloan-diplomacy-and-war-have-failed-back-irans-third-option-for-democratic-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroness\u202fO\u2019Loan: Diplomacy and War Have Failed\u2014Back Iran\u2019s \u201cThird\u202fOption\u201d for Democratic Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334486\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-334486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025.jpg\" alt=\"Baroness O'Loan addresses UK Parliament meeting on July 16, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025-741x420.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Baroness-OLoan-at-UK-Parliament-conference-16072025-696x395.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baroness O&#8217;Loan addresses UK Parliament meeting on July 16, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi\/uk-parliamentarians-champion-third-option-for-iran-rejecting-war-and-appeasement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cross\u2011party conference<\/a> in the UK\u202fParliament on\u202fJuly 16,\u202f2025, Baroness\u202fNuala\u202fO\u2019Loan\u2014chair of the British Committee for Iran Freedom\u2014warned that Tehran\u2019s clerical regime is closer than ever to triggering a regional war and exporting repression to British soil.\u202fFlanked by MPs, Peers, legal experts, and human\u2011rights advocates, she argued that Western policy has been trapped between two bankrupt extremes: military intervention and diplomatic appeasement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead, Baroness O\u2019Loan urged the Government to engage directly with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its President\u2011elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam\u202fRajavi<\/a>, whose \u201cThird\u202fOption\u201d calls for regime change <em>by<\/em> the Iranian people and their organized resistance.\u202fShe welcomed sanctions already imposed on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) but pressed ministers to outlaw the IRGC fully, implement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-terrorism-acts-in-2023\/the-terrorism-acts-in-2023-report-of-the-independent-reviewer-of-terrorism-legislation-accessible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan\u202fHall\u202fKC\u2019s recommendations<\/a> on proscribing state\u2011backed terror entities, and warn Tehran that any attack on dissidents in Britain will provoke severe consequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reading a message from Mrs. Rajavi, Baroness O\u2019Loan relayed fresh details of death sentences and torture used to crush dissent inside Iran and condemned attempts\u2014some orchestrated by Tehran\u2014to rehabilitate the Shah\u2019s remnants.\u202fMrs. Rajavi\u2019s appeal called for a parliamentary resolution recognizing the Iranian people\u2019s right to overthrow the regime, triggering UN \u201csnapback\u201d sanctions, and conditioning all UK ties on an immediate halt to executions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baroness O\u2019Loan closed by affirming that a non\u2011nuclear, democratic republic in Iran \u201cserves both our security and our values,\u201d noting that more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/uk-parliament-560-lawmakers-urge-robust-action-on-iran-back-ncri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">600 British legislators back Maryam Rajavi<\/a>\u2019s Ten\u2011Point Plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Full text of Baroness\u202fO\u2019Loan\u2019s opening remarks and Maryam\u202fRajavi\u2019s message<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(lightly edited for clarity and flow):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UK<\/a> Parliamentarians Champion \u2018Third Option\u2019 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>, Rejecting War and Appeasement<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/INZfBcU61N\">https:\/\/t.co\/INZfBcU61N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1946665094210883586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 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;\"><em>Baroness<\/em><em>\u202fO<\/em><em>\u2019Loan (Chair)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We meet tonight under the banner \u201cThe Third\u202fOption: Regime Change by Iran\u2019s People and Resistance,\u201d hosted by the British Committee for Iran Freedom. Our discussion is both timely and urgent: Iran and the wider region stand at a critical juncture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recent 12\u2011day conflict between the Iranian regime and Israel brought the Middle East perilously close to a wider war. Domestically, the regime has exploited that crisis to tighten its grip\u2014arresting protesters, targeting dissidents and their families, and subjecting women to arbitrary detention and harassment. Repression is a sign of fear, not strength\u2014fear of the people and their democratic aspirations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For too long Western policy has oscillated between two failed approaches: military intervention and diplomatic appeasement. The Iranian Resistance, led by the NCRI and Madam\u202fRajavi, offers a principled third course: regime change by the Iranian people and their organized resistance. We are honored to welcome Ms.\u202fDowlat\u202fNowruzi, the NCRI\u2019s UK representative, who will elaborate on that path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our meeting also follows the Intelligence and Security Committee\u2019s new report confirming Tehran\u2019s growing threat to Britain through espionage, assassination plots, and harassment of dissidents and journalists. The report chastises successive governments for fixating on the nuclear file while neglecting broader strategy. I welcome sanctions covering the entire IRGC and the decision to place Iran, its intelligence ministry, and the IRGC in the higher tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme\u2014but more must be done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime poses a persistent, wide\u2011ranging threat. I look forward to supporting legislation that implements Jonathan\u202fHall\u202fKC\u2019s recommendation for proscription\u2011style powers to outlaw state\u2011backed terrorist entities such as the IRGC. Above all, the Government must make clear to Tehran that exporting repression to UK soil will carry serious consequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I urge ministers to engage officially with the NCRI and to invite Madam\u202fRajavi to Parliament. Her insight into the regime\u2014and her leadership in the struggle for a free Iran\u2014are invaluable in shaping effective policy on terrorism, regional security, and the nuclear issue. A democratic republic in Iran serves both our security and our values, and more than 600 MPs\u202fand\u202fPeers have signed letters supporting Rajavi\u2019s Ten\u2011Point Plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allow me now to read Madam\u202fRajavi\u2019s message to this meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Message to the Conference at the UK Parliament, \u201cThird Option: Change by Iran\u2019s People and Resistance\u201d<br \/>The real war is between the people of Iran and the ruling religious fascism<br \/>The twelve-day war has brought to light an undeniable truth: the solution to the crisis in Iran lies\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xHXrDx5TEf\">pic.twitter.com\/xHXrDx5TEf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1945531992361050404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 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;\"><em>Message from Maryam<\/em><em>\u202fRajavi, President\u2011elect of the NCRI<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe 12\u2011day war laid bare an undeniable truth: the solution to Iran\u2019s crisis lies neither in appeasing the regime nor in foreign military intervention. The real path forward is the Third\u202fOption\u2014regime change by the Iranian people and their organized resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since Khamenei escalated regional warmongering two years ago, his primary aim has been to block uprisings inside Iran. Immediately after the recent war, he launched a new wave of repression. A fresh law rushed through the regime\u2019s parliament accelerates executions. On 12th of\u202fJuly, the judiciary\u2014<em>the regime\u2019s machinery of death<\/em>\u2014sentenced three political prisoners, Farshad\u202fEtemadi\u2011Far, Masoud\u202fJamei, and Alireza\u202fMardasi\u202f(Hamidavi), to death for alleged PMOI membership; two others received 27\u202fyears in prison. The Supreme Court has now upheld death sentences against two more defendants for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These rulings expose two facts: first, Khamenei\u2019s greatest fear is a society seething with anger and ready to rise; second, by imposing death solely for PMOI membership, he admits where the real threat\u2014and the democratic alternative\u2014lie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I commend the UK\u2019s Intelligence and Security Committee for exposing yet another facet of the regime\u2019s criminal behaviour, this time its terrorist plots in Britain. The mullahs have never been so vulnerable or powerless in the face of the Iranian people\u2019s determination for freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, certain media and political circles attempt\u2014through shallow propaganda\u2014to rehabilitate remnants of the Shah\u2019s dictatorship. No one benefits more than the current regime, and many such campaigns are orchestrated or amplified by Tehran itself. Any action prolonging clerical rule must be rejected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 40\u2011year policy that has fueled insecurity, terrorism, and warmongering must end. The world should instead embrace the values in the joint statement signed by a majority of both Houses: support for a non\u2011nuclear, democratic Iran founded on separation of religion and state, gender equality, abolition of the death penalty, and autonomy for all ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I respectfully urge UK parliamentarians to introduce a resolution that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022 recognizes the Iranian people\u2019s struggle to overthrow the regime and the PMOI\u2019s legitimacy in confronting the IRGC;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022 triggers the UN \u2018snapback\u2019 mechanism under Resolution\u202f2231 to re\u2011impose sanctions on Iran\u2019s nuclear projects;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022 designates the ruling regime as a clear and imminent threat to international peace and security under Chapter\u202fVII of the UN Charter; and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2022 conditions all diplomatic and economic relations on the immediate cessation of executions in Iran.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-334402 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025.jpg\" alt=\"The UK Parliament hosted the conference &quot;The Third Option Change by the People and the Resistance of Iran&quot; \u2013 July 16, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025-592x420.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/uk-parliament-ncri-conference-pic-16072025-696x494.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a cross&#8209;party conference in the UK&#8239;Parliament on&#8239;July 16,&#8239;2025, Baroness&#8239;Nuala&#8239;O&rsquo;Loan&mdash;chair of the British Committee for Iran Freedom&mdash;warned that Tehran&rsquo;s clerical regime is closer than ever to triggering a regional war [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":334486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5487],"tags":[222],"class_list":{"0":"post-334485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-free-iran-global-summit-2025","9":"tag-iranian-resistance"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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