{"id":347486,"date":"2026-08-22T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=347486"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:58:04","slug":"australian-parliament-conference-calls-for-accountability-in-iran-and-support-for-democratic-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/australian-parliament-conference-calls-for-accountability-in-iran-and-support-for-democratic-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Parliament Conference Calls for Accountability in Iran and Support for Democratic Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian MPs and Iranian activists convened on August 19, 2026, to discuss the 1988 massacre and recent political executions in Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A conference held at the Australian Parliament in Canberra on August 19, 2026, marked the 38th anniversary of Iran\u2019s 1988 massacre<\/a> of political prisoners and called for international action against continuing executions and repression. Australian parliamentarians, human-rights advocates, members of the Iranian-Australian community and representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) heard appeals for accountability, an end to appeasement, and recognition of the Iranian people\u2019s right to determine their own political future.<\/p>\n

Speakers presented the NCRI and the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) as an organized resistance capable of leading change, highlighting Resistance Units<\/a> operating inside Iran and the movement\u2019s Ten-Point Plan as a framework for a democratic, pluralist republic. The event also rejected both the clerical regime and a return to monarchy, including any externally imposed role for the Pahlavi family or the Shah\u2019s son. Participants urged Australia to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), refer grave crimes to international mechanisms and stand with Iranian activists seeking freedom, equality, justice and human dignity.<\/p>\n

In her keynote speech<\/a>, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/strong>, President-elect of the NCRI, addressed the conference by video and placed the 1988 massacre at the center of the current struggle. She said Khomeini\u2019s execution decree targeted PMOI prisoners who remained \u201csteadfast in their positions\u201d despite torture and abuse, and stated that 30,000 people were hanged, 90 percent of them PMOI members.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that the regime still regards the PMOI as its principal threat and that Resistance Units, <\/a>part of the organized PMOI network in Iranian cities, had carried out 200 anti-repression operations across Iran\u2019s provinces in the previous month. “In recent months, nine members of the PMOI have been executed,” Mrs. Rajavi said. “Dozens of other young individuals who participated in the uprising have also been hanged. In the regime\u2019s courts, they bravely declared that they had risen up to overthrow the regime, and just before their execution, they collectively sang songs of freedom inside prison.”<\/p>\n

“The regime welcomes war conditions that have lasted for about 15 months, using the situation as cover to confront its main enemy: the Iranian people and Resistance,” she declared. “Amid the war, the ruling regime also attempts to conceal its fundamental weakness. Its empty show of force is a major deception. A clear sign of the regime\u2019s deadly impasse are deep divides at the top of the ruling establishment.”<\/p>\n

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Mrs. Rajavi presented the organized resistance as the Iranian people\u2019s means of bringing about regime change rather than relying on war or foreign intervention. The NCRI President-elect rejected the idea that Iran should return to monarchy, saying the country would \u201cneither tolerate the current dictatorship nor return to the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

She described the NCRI as advocating a democratic republic based on separation of religion and state and free elections, and called for universal jurisdiction, referral of the 1988 massacre to the UN Security Council and an end to executions in any international agreement. Concluding her remarks, Mrs. Rajavi called for:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Prosecuting Iran\u2019s ruling criminals by governments under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
\n\u2022 Referring the case of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, as a crime against humanity, along with the regime\u2019s other major crimes against the Iranian people, to the UN Security Council.
\n\u2022 Including an end to executions in Iran as a key demand of the entire Iranian people in any international agreement.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the past 38 years, the regime has maintained the pattern of the 1988 massacre. Every time, it brutally suppresses the people's resistance and uprisings. Despite all this, the resistance to change the regime continues.
A country whose people pay such a heavy price for\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/OczIbp93a4<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n