{"id":341800,"date":"2026-01-22T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=341800"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:36:43","slug":"only-organized-nationwide-resistance-can-bring-regime-change-mrs-rajavi-tells-breitbart-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/only-organized-nationwide-resistance-can-bring-regime-change-mrs-rajavi-tells-breitbart-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Organized Nationwide Resistance Can Bring Regime Change in Iran, Mrs. Rajavi Tells Breitbart News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maryam-rajavi-message-iran-academic-year-2025-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"153\" data-end=\"577\">NCRI President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi has warned that Iran\u2019s clerical regime, despite showing signs of strain amid nationwide unrest, will not collapse through foreign military intervention or external pressure alone. In an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/20\/exclusive-iranian-opposition-leader-foreign-military-power-wont-topple-clerical-regime-only-nationwide-resistance-will\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Breitbart News<\/a> on January 20, 2026, Mrs. Rajavi argued that only a disciplined, organized, and nationwide resistance led by Iranians themselves can dismantle the regime\u2019s repressive core and bring about lasting change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"1112\">Mrs. Rajavi rejected the notion of a spontaneous implosion of the clerical dictatorship. She stressed that the regime\u2019s survival depends on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> (IRGC) and that meaningful change requires its dismantling through a sustained uprising and coordinated resistance inside Iran. According to Mrs. Rajavi, expectations that outside powers or military force could topple the regime are strategically misleading and risk weakening internal momentum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1540\">She emphasized that the NCRI has spent years preparing for both the overthrow of the regime and the transition that would follow, stressing that the coalition has an organized nationwide network, operational capacity inside Iran, and a concrete plan to prevent chaos after regime change. Mrs. Rajavi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/plan-for-future-of-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlined a roadmap<\/a> involving a provisional government, free elections for a constituent assembly, and the drafting of a new constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1843\">Her remarks come amid escalating repression, executions, and an ongoing internet blackout, as well as rising regional tensions. Mrs. Rajavi reiterated what she described as a \u201cthird option\u201d for Iran: neither foreign war nor appeasement, but change driven by the Iranian people through organized resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1845\" data-end=\"1888\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1845\" data-end=\"1888\" data-is-last-node=\"\">The full text of the Breitbart News interview follows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive \u2014 Iranian Opposition Leader: Foreign Military Power Won\u2019t Topple Clerical Regime, Only \u2018Nationwide Resistance\u2019 Will <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QcctsnNLxP\">https:\/\/t.co\/QcctsnNLxP<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iran_policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joshua Klein (@JoshuaKlein_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaKlein_\/status\/2013731237517492329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2026<\/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;\">Iranian Opposition Leader: Foreign Military Power Won\u2019t Topple Clerical Regime, Only \u2018Nationwide Resistance\u2019 Will<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/20\/exclusive-iranian-opposition-leader-foreign-military-power-wont-topple-clerical-regime-only-nationwide-resistance-will\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi warned that the Islamic Republic\u2019s escalating violence against protesters has exposed a regime under strain \u2014 but not one on the verge of collapse \u2014 arguing that Tehran will not fall through foreign military intervention or external pressure alone, but only through an organized, nationwide resistance capable of dismantling its repressive core.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rajavi \u2014 the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) \u2014 said recent developments have made clear that while Iran\u2019s clerical rulers are increasingly vulnerable, their weakening alone will not bring about the regime\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018This Regime Will Not Fall Through External Pressure\u2019<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi framed the issue as a strategic reality confronting Iran\u2019s opposition rather than a question of outside force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGenuine transformation in Iran can be achieved only by the Iranian people themselves,\u201d Rajavi said, through \u201can organized, nationwide resistance rooted in active, combat-ready forces inside Iran\u2019s cities \u2014 a resistance capable of confronting and defeating one of the most brutal apparatuses of repression in the world today, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such a resistance, she added, must also possess \u201cthe capacities, requirements, and concrete plans necessary for a peaceful transition after the overthrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The People of Iran are determined to topple Khamenei\u2019s criminal regime<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oSL1HbJJ2i\">pic.twitter.com\/oSL1HbJJ2i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/2013904631185764527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018No Spontaneous Collapse \u2014 The IRGC Must Be Dismantled\u2019<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi rejected the notion that the regime could simply implode under pressure, arguing instead that its survival hinges on the IRGC \u2014 and that dismantling it is the prerequisite for change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere will therefore be no spontaneous collapse,\u201d she said. \u201cThe prerequisite for toppling the regime is the dismantling of the IRGC through an uprising and an organized resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the NCRI has spent years preparing for precisely such a moment, describing the opposition coalition as uniquely positioned to prevent chaos after the fall of the regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi said the NCRI has the \u201cpractical readiness\u201d to manage the post-overthrow period, citing the existence of an organized, deeply rooted nationwide network inside Iran, paired with a recognized democratic alternative and a broad pool of specialists inside and outside the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That combination, she explained, makes it possible for sovereignty to be transferred from dictatorship to the Iranian people \u201cin an orderly, calm, law-based manner, without chaos or anarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What makes such a transition feasible, she added, is the presence of a ready political and executive framework for \u201cthe day after\u201d \u2014 one the NCRI has been preparing for many years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under those plans, she said, a provisional government would be formed immediately after the overthrow, tasked with organizing free and fair elections for a Constituent Assembly within six months. That body would then appoint a transitional government and draft a constitution for a new Iranian republic to be submitted to a public vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shared Mourning, Shared Oath for Freedom<br \/>Salute to the Martyrs of Iran\u2019s Freedom<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SnmJzxibUZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/SnmJzxibUZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RVaYNexu8S\">pic.twitter.com\/RVaYNexu8S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/2012993508114636919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Not Symbolic. Not Propaganda.\u2019<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about the scale and organization of resistance inside Iran, Rajavi rejected claims that the movement exists only abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe MEK\u2019s presence inside Iran is not symbolic nor merely propaganda,\u201d she said, describing it as a movement forged through six decades of struggle against both the Shah\u2019s dictatorship and the clerical regime, \u201cthrough fire, blood, and sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She underscored the toll paid by the movement, noting that more than 100,000 of its members and supporters have been executed or killed under torture \u2014 including 30,000 political prisoners hanged in the 1988 massacre for maintaining their support for the MEK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turning to the current uprising, Rajavi said resistance units were active in at least 220 cities, providing on-the-ground reporting and detailed information about those killed and arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said a significant number of resistance members have been killed during the unrest, with some of their names made public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite relentless repression by the IRGC, the Basij, and the security apparatus, Rajavi said the nationwide resistance network has endured due to its professional structure and culture of sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The network, she explained, disseminates calls to action, links localized protests into nationwide waves, sustains morale, and raises the cost of repression for the regime \u2014 a capacity that has endowed it with formidable strength in social mobilization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei, through the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has turned his weapons against our people, while young Iranians, armed with little more than determination, have risen to defend and protect unarmed and innocent civilians.<br \/>In this ruthless confrontation, in which thousands\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fcJdgbG2fV\">pic.twitter.com\/fcJdgbG2fV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/2011506934424486118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why Tehran Is Targeting the Resistance<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi argued that the regime\u2019s own actions demonstrate how seriously it views the resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe clearest indicator of the Resistance\u2019s active and impactful presence inside Iran is the regime\u2019s own reaction to it,\u201d she said, pointing to a sustained campaign of demonization and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an example, she cited an ongoing in-absentia proceeding in Tehran targeting 104 resistance members \u2014 most of them refugees in Europe \u2014 a process that has stretched over two years and involved more than 50 court sessions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the presiding judge has called for their extradition, describing the case as a staged effort aimed at deterring young Iranians from joining the resistance.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Transition Built to Prevent a Power Vacuum<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing divisions among opposition groups, Rajavi said the NCRI was formed precisely to avoid monopolization and institutional collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the coalition has paid a heavy price for its commitment to democratic principles and has consistently rejected marginalizing other democratic forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Founded 44 years ago, she described the NCRI as the longest-standing coalition in Iran\u2019s contemporary history \u2014 created with the explicit goal of enabling unity during the overthrow of the regime and the transition that follows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the NCRI is grounded in a democratic structure, a clear political program, and a concrete governing roadmap with foundational principles articulated more than two decades ago in the Ten-Point Plan for a Free Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those principles include gender equality, separation of religion and state, minority rights including autonomy for Iranian Kurdistan, an independent judiciary, freedom of parties and media, abolition of the death penalty, and a non-nuclear Iran living in peace with its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi said these plans are not theoretical, but are underpinned by thousands of experts, academics, and administrators inside and outside Iran who have spent years working on implementation across the economy, law, education, healthcare, energy, environmental policy, security, and transitional justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For that reason, she said, the NCRI \u2014 working alongside other democratic forces \u2014 can guarantee a transition without a power vacuum, without the collapse of state institutions, and without dangerous instability.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Monday night, on the sixteenth day of Iran uprising, with wounded bodies and grieving hearts yet with unbreakable resolve, the people of Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Meshkan in Fars Province, Falahieh (Shadegan), and many other cities once again took to the streets.<br \/>Hand in hand\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YI2j558Txq\">pic.twitter.com\/YI2j558Txq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/2011029961545527523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Neither Appeasement Nor War \u2014 A Third Option\u2019<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi\u2019s comments come as Iran enters its most volatile moment in years, with protests that erupted in late December met by mass arrests, executions, and an ongoing nationwide internet blackout. President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that it is \u201ctime to look for new leadership in Iran,\u201d prompting Tehran\u2019s president to threaten \u201call-out war\u201d if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were targeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the rhetoric escalates, the United States has begun repositioning major military assets toward the region, underscoring the rapidly intensifying standoff as the Islamic Republic struggles to contain unrest at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Against that backdrop, Rajavi defended the NCRI\u2019s long-standing insistence that regime change must be achieved by Iranians themselves \u2014 even amid reports of widespread killings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe massacre of thousands at the height of the January uprising is a deep and searing wound,\u201d she said, noting that the killings, carried out across more than 200 cities, have only reinforced the strategy of change from within.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe outpouring of this blood will draw ever more young people into the struggle and bring down the monster of religious despotism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi said she articulated this approach more than two decades ago in a speech to the European Parliament, arguing that Iran\u2019s crisis would be resolved neither through appeasement nor war, but through a \u201cthird option\u201d \u2014 regime change led by the Iranian people and organized resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said recent events have only validated that view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without an organized resistance force on the ground, she warned, \u201cthe prospects for real change are extremely slim\u201d \u2014 a reality underscored by both the recent 12-day war and the uprising that followed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rejecting passivity by the international community, Rajavi outlined steps she said could meaningfully support the Iranian people without military intervention: raising the cost of repression, pursuing legal accountability for regime crimes, cutting off financial and logistical lifelines of repressive forces, and guaranteeing access to the internet and open communications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She emphasized that a truly effective step would be international recognition of the resistance and of rebellious youth confronting the regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>External Pressure \u2014 Only When It Reinforces Internal Change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajavi said the NCRI has long called for sanctions, sustained pressure, and severing diplomatic relations \u2014 but only as tools that reinforce internal resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">External pressure, she said, is effective only when it serves that internal process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She pointed to targeted sanctions \u2014 particularly blocking oil exports \u2014 political isolation, credible diplomatic pressure, and expelling regime operatives from Western countries, which she described as rear bases for the IRGC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such measures, she said, can raise the cost of repression and deepen fissures within the ruling apparatus \u2014 but none can replace the Iranian people themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are neither seeking power nor a share of power,\u201d Rajavi said. \u201cWe struggle and make sacrifices so that the people of Iran may reclaim their freedom, and so that sovereignty is returned to its rightful owners: the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years, the NCRI\u2019s Ten-Point Plan has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/18\/house-majority-backs-freedom-fighters-in-iran-calls-to-collapse-the-tyranny-from-within\/\">drawn<\/a>\u00a0support from thousands of lawmakers worldwide, including bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress, as well as international figures who have cited its framework for a future Iranian republic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2002, the group was the first to publicly reveal Iran\u2019s clandestine nuclear program, including the Natanz enrichment facility \u2014 disclosures that later became central to international scrutiny and sanctions targeting Tehran\u2019s nuclear activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi has warned that Iran&rsquo;s clerical regime, despite showing signs of strain amid nationwide unrest, will not collapse through foreign military intervention or external pressure alone. 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