{"id":340430,"date":"2025-12-12T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340430"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:13:25","slug":"why-irans-regime-panicked-over-mrs-maryam-rajavis-speech-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/why-irans-regime-panicked-over-mrs-maryam-rajavis-speech-in-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Iran&#8217;s Regime Panicked Over Mrs. Maryam Rajavi\u2019s Speech in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-340431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025-741x420.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-at-eu-parliament-10122025-696x395.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Two-minute read<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi addressed members of the European Parliament on World Human Rights Day, the Iranian state\u2019s response was immediate, coordinated, and unusually agitated. Within hours, outlets affiliated with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nournews.ir\/fa\/news\/262076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">regime\u2019s security establishment<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and state-run news agencies moved to discredit the event, question the legitimacy of the forum, and reassert long-standing accusations against the Iranian Resistance. The intensity of that reaction matters, because it reveals what the regime fears most at this stage of its crisis.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In her speech on December 10, 2025, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/european-parliament-human-rights-day-mullahs-hang-human-rights-every-single-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Mrs. Rajavi reiterated<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> well-documented facts: the scale of executions in Iran, the systematic repression of women, the criminalization of dissent, and the regime\u2019s impunity for mass killings\u2014past and present. She called for international accountability, recognition of the Iranian people\u2019s right to resist tyranny, and support for a democratic alternative.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranian state-linked media repeatedly emphasized that the European Parliament does not formally execute EU foreign policy. The emphasis itself was revealing. While the Parliament is not an executive body, it is a central arena where political legitimacy is conferred, narratives are tested, and the boundaries of acceptable policy are set. Over time, such forums have profoundly shaped public and policymaker understanding of the regime\u2019s role in regional warfare, transnational terrorism, and systematic human-rights abuses\u2014making it far harder for European governments to justify silence or appeasement.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Warm welcome to Iranian opposition leader Maryam <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rajavi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rajavi<\/a> and Friends of Free Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeStandTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeStandTogether<\/a> !European <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Parliament?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Parliament<\/a> . Brussels <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CDLDMjFqNv\">pic.twitter.com\/CDLDMjFqNv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Petras Austrevicius (@petras_petras) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petras_petras\/status\/1999052971858870493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Why This Moment Matters<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The panic was not triggered by a single speech but by context. Iran is entering 2026 with converging crises: a collapsing currency, deepening energy shortages, toxic air forcing school closures, a public health system under strain, and unprecedented infighting within the political elite. Parliamentary sessions increasingly resemble crisis-management exercises rather than governance. Officials now openly warn of \u201csocial explosions,\u201d declining legitimacy, and uncontrollable public anger.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Against that backdrop, Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s appearance in Brussels did something the regime works tirelessly to prevent: it connected internal instability to external accountability. It framed the Iranian crisis not as a humanitarian tragedy requiring charity, but as a political problem requiring consequences.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is why even security-linked media acknowledged\u2014while trying to minimize it\u2014that the Resistance has repeatedly influenced international debates in the past, including through nuclear disclosures that reshaped global policy toward Iran. One senior regime-linked political figure <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranntv.com\/959565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">recently conceded<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> that such disclosures, beginning in the early 2000s, forced Tehran into a prolonged and costly confrontation with the international community. That admission underscores why visibility still matters.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"sl\" dir=\"ltr\">Bu\u010den aplavz za vodjo iranske opozicije <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Maryam_Rajavi<\/a> in za <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MilanZver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MilanZver<\/a>, organizatorja dana\u0161njega dogodka ob svetovnem dnevu \u010dlovekovih pravic v <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Europarl_EN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Europarl_EN<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UA7aHd7isS\">pic.twitter.com\/UA7aHd7isS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter \u0160uhel (@PeterSuhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSuhel\/status\/1998733920792113279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A Familiar Pattern of Fear<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tehran\u2019s reaction followed a familiar pattern. When protests erupt, officials dismiss demonstrators as marginal\u2014until they no longer can. When corruption scandals break, blame is shifted to \u201cbad managers.\u201d When international pressure mounts, the regime claims victimhood and hypocrisy. The response to Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s speech fits squarely within this tradition.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What unsettled the regime was not applause in a European chamber. It was the erosion of a narrative it depends on: that no credible alternative exists, that opposition is fragmented or discredited, and that time is on the state\u2019s side. Each public forum that treats the Resistance as a political actor rather than a footnote weakens that claim.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What unsettles the clerical dictatorship is not rhetoric, but the presence of an organized Resistance that maintains networks inside Iran, has withstood decades of diplomatic appeasement, and has established itself as a recognized political actor on the international stage. That is why a single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/meps-call-on-eu-to-recognize-the-iranian-peoples-struggle-to-overthrow-religious-fascism\/\">address on Human Rights<\/a> Day triggered such a loud and defensive response from state-linked media. The regime did not hear a speech; it recognized a warning signal it has learned, through experience, not to ignore.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read&nbsp; When NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi addressed members of the European Parliament on World Human Rights Day, the Iranian state&rsquo;s response was immediate, coordinated, and unusually agitated. 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