NCRI Supporters and Global Leaders Unite at UN, Reject Dictatorship in Iran
Iran Focus, September 24, 2025
Thousands rallied in New York on September 23, 2025, outside the United Nations to demand democratic change in Iran, organized by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The gathering — which included Iranian Americans, international dignitaries, human-rights advocates and young activists — was in solidarity with uprisings inside Iran and an affirmation of the NCRI’s organized Resistance and Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for a secular, democratic, non-nuclear republic. Speakers condemned the regime’s executions (citing nearly 1,800 since Masoud Pezeshkian took office), regional aggression, and alleged nuclear deception, while rejecting both clerical rule and monarchy as alternatives.
Moderator Amir Emadi emphasized the Resistance as a people’s option: “the third option as presented by President-elect Maryam Rajavi is regime change by the people of Iran and their organized Resistance.” He pressed the crowd against return to past autocracies and declared, “The people’s resounding message is clear: No to the Shah, no to mullahs, yes to a democratic republic.”
A message from Maryam Rajavi was read to the rally. She praised attendees’ persistence as mirroring protests inside Iran: “perseverance of my compatriots, who gather here every year in protest,” and asserted their legitimacy before the UN: “With your powerful presence in front of the United Nations, the world sees that you represent the people of Iran; you are the voice of the Iranian people before the United Nations, not the president of the Supreme Leader.” Rajavi reiterated the Resistance’s nuclear revelations as service to global security and praised internal Resistance Units as “the most awake and vigilant fighters of Iran,” concluding: “Our message for Iran’s future is simple: the sovereignty of the people. We want neither a mullah nor a Shah.”
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A sea of protesters, chanting and carrying Iranian flags, gathered outside the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday to oppose the Iranian delegation to the U.N. (AP Video: Mary Conlon)
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