{"id":337467,"date":"2025-09-24T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337467"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:17:32","slug":"thousands-rally-outside-un-no-to-shah-no-to-mullahs-yes-to-a-democratic-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/thousands-rally-outside-un-no-to-shah-no-to-mullahs-yes-to-a-democratic-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Rally Outside UN: ‘No to Shah, No to Mullahs, Yes to a Democratic Republic’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of NCRI supporters rally in New York demanding democratic change in Iran\u2014 September 23, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, September 24, 2025, thousands of Iranian Americans and supporters of the Iranian Resistance rallied outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, denouncing the presence of regime president Masoud Pezeshkian at the UN General Assembly and voicing support for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its president-elect Maryam Rajavi<\/a>. The crowd echoed a unified call: \u201cNo to the Shah, no to the mullahs\u2014yes to a democratic republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a video message broadcast<\/a> to the rally, Maryam Rajavi<\/strong>, President-elect of the NCRI, saluted the crowd as the \u201ctrue voice of the Iranian people before the United Nations.\u201d She said the protests in New York echoed the uprisings in Tehran, Mashhad, Ahvaz, Tabriz, Zahedan, and across Iran, including inside prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message is very simple and clear: Overthrow and democratic change\u2014a democratic republic, with freedom and democratic rights,\u201d Rajavi declared. She stressed that the clerical regime has executed 1,817 people in just 14 months and accused it of crimes against humanity, calling for its leaders to be prosecuted in an international court.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Rajavi insisted that the international community must end appeasement: \u201cThe seat of the Iranian people at the United Nations must not be given to a regime of executions and massacres.\u201d She warned that Europe was \u201cforced to trigger snapback at the last minute\u201d because the regime will never abandon its nuclear program and credited the NCRI\u2019s 133 revelations<\/a> for preventing Tehran from acquiring the bomb.<\/p>\n

Rejecting all forms of dictatorship, she proclaimed: \u201cWe want neither a mullah nor a Shah. The era of all forms of dictatorship, whether religious or monarchical, is over. Our message for Iran\u2019s future is simple: the sovereignty of the people\u2014the people\u2019s republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s our message:
-The seat of the Iranian people at the UN must not be given to a regime of executions.
-Refer the case of genocide and crimes against humanity in Iran to the UNSC.
-Khamenei and those responsible for these crimes must be prosecuted in an international court.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/s3JXJdjJno<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n