{"id":340520,"date":"2025-12-15T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340520"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:58:32","slug":"in-ypres-europes-city-of-peace-amplifies-irans-organized-struggle-for-a-democratic-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/in-ypres-europes-city-of-peace-amplifies-irans-organized-struggle-for-a-democratic-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"In Ypres, Europe\u2019s \u201cCity of Peace\u201d Amplifies Iran\u2019s Organized Struggle for A Democratic Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_340521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340521\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-340521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi addresses a meeting in Ypres, Belgium, on December 13, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025-742x420.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/maryam-rajavi-ypres-13122025-696x394.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCRI President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi addresses a meeting in Ypres, Belgium, on December 13, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"1036\">Two days after Human Rights Day, the historic city of Ypres\u2014scarred by World War I and defined by its nightly Last Post\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/focus-wtv.be\/nieuws\/iraanse-oppositieleidster-op-bezoek-in-ieper-ook-yves-leterme-van-de-partij\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">became the stage<\/a> for a clear political message: Iran\u2019s crisis is not only a domestic tragedy; it is a test of whether Europe will stand with a people resisting dictatorship. In City Hall, leaders and guests framed Ypres\u2019 culture of remembrance as a duty to confront today\u2019s mass repression\u2014especially the regime\u2019s executions, persecution of dissidents, and systematic assault on women and youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1728\">At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belganewsagency.eu\/exiled-iranian-dissident-visits-city-of-peace-ypres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">center of the visit<\/a> was Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), advancing a democratic alternative anchored in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/maryam-rajavis-ten-point-plan-for-future-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Ten-Point Plan<\/a>: a secular republic, separation of religion and state, gender equality, abolition of the death penalty, and a non-nuclear Iran living in peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1728\">Speakers repeatedly underscored that the Iranian people reject every form of autocracy\u2014no return to the Shah\u2019s monarchial dictatorship and no submission to clerical tyranny\u2014and emphasized that change is driven from within by an organized resistance, including the expanding network of <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/pmoi-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI Resistance Units<\/a> confronting repression on the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speech at the City Hall of the historic city of Ypres in Belgium<br \/>In the European Parliament, and now here, I repeat: The freedom of Iran is a need for the whole world.<br \/>In this City of peace, we call on everyone to recognize the Iranian people\u2019s struggle to end the regime and the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vRoJvb5gzu\">pic.twitter.com\/vRoJvb5gzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1999547290978009195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 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;\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/speech-city-hall-ypres-in-belgium\/\">her remarks<\/a>, Mrs. <strong>Maryam Rajavi<\/strong> fused Ypres\u2019 war memory with Iran\u2019s struggle for liberation, making the case that remembrance must lead to accountability and action. She called Ypres \u201ca city whose history still speaks to the world,\u201d describing its nightly ceremony as \u201ca moral reminder of the cost of war and the value of peace\u201d and declaring: \u201cThe world will never forget the sacrifices Ypres made.\u201d From that platform, she pivoted to Iran\u2019s unresolved crimes\u2014especially <a href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/1988-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 1988 massacre<\/a>, when \u201c30,000 political prisoners were massacred,\u201d \u201changed across Iran,\u201d and buried in \u201cmass graves,\u201d while families seeking truth are still \u201cpersecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Rajavi then anchored the Resistance\u2019s identity in principle and program. She said \u201chuman dignity\u2026 lies at the heart of our historic Resistance\u201d and emphasized decades of sacrifice against a regime \u201cdeeply against humanity and peace.\u201d Her political red lines were explicit: \u201cNo to compulsory Hijab, no to compulsory religion, and no to compulsory governance.\u201d She described the alternative as a republic based on \u201cthe separation of religion and state, gender equality, and the abolition of the death penalty,\u201d and insisted on \u201ca non-nuclear Iran\u201d living in peace\u2014core components of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/plan-for-future-of-iran\/\">the Ten-Point Plan<\/a>. By urging recognition of Iran\u2019s youth confronting repression, she implicitly highlighted the Resistance\u2019s organized capacity inside the country, including the network of <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/pmoi-resistance-units\/\">Resistance Units<\/a> driving defiance from within and rejecting both the mullahs and any return to monarchial autocracy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exiled Iranian dissident Maryam Rajavi visited &quot;city of peace&quot; Ypres on Friday. She made a speech at city hall, visited the In Flanders Fields Museum and attended the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rqXnBpdxy4\">https:\/\/t.co\/rqXnBpdxy4<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Belga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlandersNewsService?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FlandersNewsService<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Democracy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Belga News Agency_English (@Belga_English) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Belga_English\/status\/1999874853990694933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 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;\">Ypres Mayor <strong>Katrien Desomer<\/strong> set a principled frame: Ypres\u2019 identity as a \u201ccity of peace\u201d is not ceremonial, but civic discipline\u2014proof that societies must actively defend rights after catastrophe. Speaking \u201cthe day after International Human Rights Day,\u201d she argued that \u201cpeace can never be taken for granted\u201d and that democratic communities must \u201cactively safeguard the values\u201d that enable human coexistence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mayor Desomer elevated the Menin Gate tradition as a civic obligation, calling the Last Post \u201ca living symbol,\u201d \u201ca ritual\u201d that \u201cevery evening emphasizes the responsibility to continue striving for dialogue, justice, and respect between peoples.\u201d She welcomed Mrs. Rajavi as someone who \u201cplays an important role for the Iranian future and internationally in the fight for human rights, democratic values and social dignity,\u201d and said Ypres aims to be a place where \u201cvoices that stand up for human dignity continue to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My visit to the In Flanders Fields Museum was not only a simple visit for me. In every step, every picture, and every sound, I felt the pain and the hope of the people who fought and died here a hundred years ago. In its halls, there is silence heavier than any word and a message\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g9132eCrmD\">pic.twitter.com\/g9132eCrmD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1999532011451449510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 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;\">Former Belgian Prime Minister <strong>Yves Leterme<\/strong> framed Ypres\u2019 City Hall as a symbol of legitimate governance, recalling he spent \u201chours and hours to exercise democracy, to legitimate decision-making for this city,\u201d calling it \u201conly a small example of the practice of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leterme described his meeting with Mrs. Rajavi near Paris and said he was struck by her \u201cauthentic, moving, description\u201d of conditions in Iran and by \u201cthe courage that you kind of symbolize.\u201d He underscored the Resistance\u2019s social depth, noting that despite \u201cextreme atrocity of the current regime,\u201d it is \u201cnot one, not two, but thousands, hundred thousands\u201d who \u201cwant to fight back\u201d and \u201cwant to conquer the right to exist, the right to express themselves, to live in freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He warned that delay is measured in lives: \u201cevery hour, every day, every week we have to wait for a change in Iran is too much, too much of suffering,\u201d citing \u201cexecutions\u201d and people \u201cpersecuted because they stand on your side.\u201d He closed by linking Ypres\u2019 peace pledge to Iran: \u201cno more war, no more war,\u201d insisting \u201cwe have to continue to fight for peace\u2026 not the least in your nation in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A warm welcome in Ypres, the City of Peace, for Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi<\/p>\n<p>The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran was welcomed last night to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StadIeper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StadIeper<\/a> by Mayor Katrien Desomer &amp; former \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YLeterme?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YLeterme<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FocusWTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FocusWTV<\/a>\u2019s coverage: \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/duVIHCa81r\">pic.twitter.com\/duVIHCa81r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HanifJazayeri\/status\/1999466839450300913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 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;\">Former UK MEP <strong>Struan Stevenson<\/strong> used his remarks to argue that Iran\u2019s future should not be reduced to a choice between the current clerical regime and a restored monarchy. Citing his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/COUNTDOWN-COLLAPSE-IRANS-REGIME-BRINK\/dp\/B0FJ722HZ5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Countdown to Collapse:<\/a> Iran\u2019s Regime on the Brink, he said the volume details both Iran\u2019s present crisis and the long history of resistance to dictatorship. He sharply criticized Shah-era rule, describing it as \u201cthe evil regime of the Shah,\u201d and dismissed Reza Pahlavi\u2019s stated ambitions as \u201cludicrous,\u201d saying he \u201cwishes to take control of the Peacock Throne and become the king, the emperor of Iran once more.\u201d Stevenson cited Shah-era corruption and repression\u2014\u201cthe billions that his father stole\u201d and the \u201cmurder and mayhem\u201d of \u201cSAVAK\u201d\u2014to warn against what he portrayed as a return to autocracy under a different banner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drawing on Ypres\u2019 World War I legacy, Stevenson linked the city\u2019s history of sacrifice to Iran\u2019s victims of repression, citing \u201c120,000 men, women, and children,\u201d including \u201cchildren as young as the 13-year-old Fatemeh Mesbah,\u201d who, he said, were killed for supporting the democratic opposition. \u201cTheir crime was not violence or treason. Their crime was hope,\u201d he told the audience. 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