{"id":343802,"date":"2026-03-25T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=343802"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:54:25","slug":"europe-must-back-iranian-led-regime-change-ncri-fac-chair-tells-20-minutos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/europe-must-back-iranian-led-regime-change-ncri-fac-chair-tells-20-minutos\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Must Back Iranian-Led Regime Change, NCRI FAC Chair Tells 20 Minutos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NCRI FAC Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin speaks at a news conference in Paris on March 12, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Published by 20minutos<\/em> on March 25, 2026, this interview<\/a> with Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, presents the Iranian opposition\u2019s case for regime change led by Iranians rather than foreign powers. Speaking in Brussels, Mohaddessin says the war could end within weeks, but argues that Western policy remains incomplete if it focuses only on military pressure, ceasefire slogans or diplomacy with Tehran.<\/p>\n

Instead, he urges Europe, including Spain, to politically recognize the Iranian people\u2019s right to overthrow the clerical dictatorship and to back the opposition and its proposed provisional government. He rejects the idea that outside armies, money or weapons are needed, insisting that Iranians themselves are ready to fight and finance the movement.<\/p>\n

Mohaddessin argues that appeasement merely allowed Tehran to advance its nuclear ambitions, while a democratic Iran would also address the world\u2019s concerns about nuclear weapons, military expansion and terrorism. He says the NCRI has spent 45 years building a political alternative, with plans for free elections within six months of the regime\u2019s fall, a constituent assembly, a new constitution and protections for women<\/a>, minorities and the separation of religion and state. He dismisses fears of an Iraq-style collapse.<\/p>\n

A translated version of Mohammad Mohaddessin’s interview follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interview: Mohammad Mohaddessin, Iranian opposition figure: \u201cSaying \u2018No to war\u2019 is a good slogan, but Europe must support regime change.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) sat down with 20minutos<\/em> in Brussels to analyze the state of the war and the future of the ayatollahs\u2019 regime: \u201cWe do not need money, weapons, or troops on the ground, only recognition of the Iranian people\u2019s right to change the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammad Mohaddessin (Tehran, 1955) is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and his activity right now is intense. He is working to gather support for the cause in the midst of the war by the United States and Israel against the ayatollahs, and he wants a country free from the autocratic yoke that has punished the population for decades: that is the message, the ayatollahs must fall. In that context, and while Donald Trump is giving Tehran room for negotiations that the Iranians are so far denying, Mohaddessin sits down in Brussels with 20minutos<\/em> to talk not only about the conflict, but also about how a regime he sees as increasingly weakened can be defeated through resistance and from exile, and why, he insists, diplomacy is of no use with it.<\/p>\n

Do you see the end of the war as near?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, we pray for that, and we think it could be a matter of weeks. That is what people in Iran want. Our people right now are under two kinds of pressure. One comes from the Iranian regime, the repressive forces, the Revolutionary Guard, the Ministry of Intelligence; and on the other hand they are under the daily threat of bombings, because these bombings are not only against regime officials or the Revolutionary Guard. Ordinary people are also under the pressure of the bombings.<\/p>\n

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I told \ud83c\udf0d media today: The overthrow of the mullahs\u2019 regime requires a powerful, battle-tested, combat-ready force rooted within Iranian society. Today, that force exists within Iran in a disciplined and organized force: the PMOI Resistance Units, active across all 31 provinces. pic.twitter.com\/BcPJdhzLgr<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) March 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n