National Council of Resistance to Iran Declares Campaign Against Regime
The exiled group, with a strong base in Washington, DC, declared that they would liberate Iran not through war but through "organized resistance."
The National Council of Resistance to Iran or NCRI declared its commitment to the forcible overthrow of the Islamic Republic's regime, according to a report today (Thursday) by Iran International.
Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the NCRI, reportedly said that "“The solution to changing this regime lies in the hands of the people and the Iranian Resistance. With the regime’s overthrow by the people and organized resistance, Iran will move toward democracy and prevent a major regional war. We will have a free, non-nuclear Iran, without executions, without mandatory hijab, without forced religion and without coercive rule."
Both the NCRI and the exiled Crown Pahlavi Crown Prince have repeatedly called for regime change in Iran to their supporters, but thus far there have been no indications of real unrest in Iran itself, despite massive inflation, food shortages and even water shortages inside the country.
Those cases of violence against the regime have largely been the effort of regional separatists, not core Iranians, and there has been no sign of the kind of mass uprisings or protests of the sort that broke out throughout the country in 2009 or at other times.