For the transfer of sovereignty to the people of Iran and the establishment of a democratic republic based on the Ten-Point Plan of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
28 February 2026
Read Mrs. Rajavi’s full message to the Iranian people here.
Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-point-Plan for the Future of Iran:
1. Rejection of velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule). Affirmation of the people’s sovereignty in a republic founded on universal suffrage and pluralism;
2. Freedom of speech, freedom of political parties, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and the internet; Dissolution and disbanding of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the terrorist Qods Force, plainclothes groups, the unpopular Bassij, the Ministry of Intelligence, Council of the Cultural Revolution, and all suppressive patrols and institutions in cities, villages, schools, universities, offices, and factories;
3. Commitment to individual and social freedoms and rights in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Humans Rights. Disbanding all agencies in charge of censorship and inquisition. Seeking justice for massacred political prisoners, prohibition of torture, and the abolishment of the death penalty;
4. Separation of religion and state, and freedom of religions and faiths;
5. Complete gender equality in the realms of political, social, cultural, and economic rights, and equal participation of women in political leadership. Abolishment of any form of discrimination; the right to choose one’s own clothing freely; the right to freely marry and divorce, and to obtain education and employment. Prohibition of all forms of exploitation against women under any pretext;
6. An independent judiciary and legal system consistent with international standards based on the presumption of innocence, the right to defense counsel, right of appeal, and the right to be tried in a public court. Full independence of judges. Abolishment of the mullahs’ Sharia law and dissolution of Islamic Revolutionary Courts;
7. Autonomy for, and removal of double injustices against, Iranian nationalities and ethnicities consistent with the NCRI’s plan for the autonomy of Iranian Kurdistan;
8. Justice and equal opportunities in the realms of employment and entrepreneurship for all of the people of Iran in a free market economy. Restoration of the rights of blue-color workers, farmers, nurses, white-color workers, teachers and retirees;
9. Protection and rehabilitation of the environment, which has been massacred under the rule of the mullahs; and
10. A non-nuclear Iran that is also devoid of weapons of mass destruction. Peace, co-existence and international and regional cooperation.
The Washington Times Report
Iranian exile group forms provisional government as U.S.-Israeli military operation continues
By Mike Glenn – The Washington Times – Saturday, February 28, 2026
The National Council of Resistance of Iran on Saturday announced the formation of a provisional government as the U.S. and Israel launched a massive joint military attack on the Islamic republic regime in Tehran.
The NCRI, an exiled political umbrella organization that has described itself in the past as a “parliament-in-exile,” said it wants to establish a democratic republic in Iran free of the rigid clerical rule that has controlled the country since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in February 1979.
NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi said the goal is the overthrow of the ruling regime. She called for “patriotic personnel” in Iran’s military to stand with the people rather than the government in Tehran.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other forces tasked with preserving the regime must lay down their arms and surrender to the people,” Ms. Rajavi said in a statement. “Only the people of Iran possess the legitimacy to determine the political future of their country.”
“As the Iranian people demonstrated during the January uprising, they seek a future based on a democratic republic and reject both the Shah and the mullahs,” Ms. Rajavi said. “Our path leads toward the future and the establishment of a democratic republic, not a return to the buried dictatorship of the past.”