A Berlin conference on October 14, 2026, brought German parliamentarians, former diplomats, and Iranian activists together to reject both military intervention and continued appeasement, arguing that democratic change in Iran must come from the Iranian people and the organized Resistance led by the PMOI/MEK and NCRI.

Speakers highlighted the regime’s escalating executions—at least 43 in two weeks, including political prisoners—and ongoing prison protests such as the 142-week “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, while endorsing Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for a secular democratic republic and opposing restoration of the monarchy.

Participants urged Germany and the EU to condition relations on ending executions, pursue accountability for crimes against humanity, counter transnational repression, and engage directly with the organized Resistance rather than treating it as irrelevant.

A conference held in Berlin on October 14, 2026, brought together German parliamentarians, former diplomats, political analysts, and Iranian activists to discuss the deepening crisis in Iran and the need for a fundamental change in German and European policy toward Tehran. The conference highlighted the Iranian regime’s escalating human rights violations, the growing wave of executions, and the role of the Iranian people and their organized Resistance in bringing about democratic change.

Throughout the discussions, speakers rejected both foreign military intervention and continued appeasement of the clerical regime. They stressed that a sustainable solution must come from within Iran, through the Iranian people’s struggle and the organized Resistance represented by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

The participants also expressed support for Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for a democratic Iran, criticized attempts to promote the restoration of the former monarchy, and urged Germany and the European Union to take concrete measures against Tehran’s repression and its activities abroad.

Maryam Rajavi: The decisive struggle is between the Iranian people and religious fascism

In a video message to the conference, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the NCRI, emphasized that Iran’s central conflict is not between Tehran and foreign governments, but between the Iranian people and the ruling dictatorship.

Mrs. Rajavi traced the current crisis to the regime’s decision after the 1979 anti-monarchic revolution to suppress demands for democracy and pursue regional intervention and warmongering. She described the struggle for freedom as “the fundamental war between the Iranian people and religious fascism.”

She warned that the regime was exploiting the ongoing conflict to prevent another nationwide uprising while intensifying domestic repression. She cited the execution of at least 46 political prisoners, including nine PMOI members, since the latest war began, alongside new death sentences against political detainees.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that repression had failed to contain public defiance, particularly among younger Iranians and the expanding network of Resistance Units.

Turning to Western policy, she criticized the longstanding assumption that the clerical regime could be moderated through engagement while ignoring the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.

“Appeasement produced war,” she declared, describing the refusal to recognize the Iranian people’s Resistance as “the core failure of Western policy.”

Mrs. Rajavi also rejected attempts to promote the remnants of the Shah’s dictatorship as a “false alternative” and reaffirmed the NCRI’s commitment to a democratic republic based on free elections and separation of religion and state.

She concluded by urging Germany to pursue accountability for crimes against humanity, condition relations with Tehran on ending executions, and recognize the Iranian people’s struggle for democratic change.

Escalating executions and human rights violations expose the regime’s crisis

A major theme of the conference was the Iranian regime’s increasing reliance on executions, imprisonment, and repression to contain growing public discontent.

Bundestag member Carsten Müller described Iran as being at a critical political turning point. He argued that the regime’s........

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