Monitoring the 2026 Iran uprising: Latest press releases, televised interviews, and social media dispatches from the National Council of Resistance of Iran—U.S. Representative Office
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Washington, DC, November 15, 2025. The NCRI Free Iran Convention hosted a specialized session under the theme “A Meeting of Minds: Science Without Borders,” featuring Professor Morteza Gharib, the Hans W. Lippman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Caltech, and the inventor of the
WASHINGTON, DC — The third session of the Free Iran Convention 2025 returned to one of the central questions of the entire gathering: How does Iran move from a collapsing dictatorship to a stable, democratic republic? Panel Five, titled “Prospects for Change in Iran: The Plan for
WASHINGTON, DC — The fourth session of the Free Iran Convention 2025, “The Power of Youth in Driving Change in Iran,” spotlighted Iran’s new generation as the central engine of the country’s freedom movement. From students and activists risking everything inside Iran to young professionals shaping
WASHINGTON, DC — The Free Iran Convention 2025 opened on Saturday, November 15, bringing Iranian scholars, activists, professionals, and community leaders together for an all-day program in the U.S. capital structured around four thematic panels, special segments amplifying voices from inside Iran, and discussions on rebuilding a
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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi Addresses the Free Iran Convention, 2025 Washington, DC, November 15, 2025. The Free Iran Convention 2025 was held in Washington, D.C., bringing together Iranian scholars, researchers, and a distinguished, bipartisan roster of international dignitaries. The convention focused on analyzing the Iranian regime’s
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Washington, DC, November 15, 2025. The Free Iran Convention 2025 continued with a historical address from Professor Hossein Sadeghpour, a distinguished Harvard scholar. Professor Sadeghpour presented a documentary analysis of Iran’s 120-year-long struggle for democracy, characterizing it as an “epic struggle against the icons of
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy director, U.S. Office, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Washington November 7, 2025 For nearly four decades, Iran’s political future has been framed in Washington as a choice between confrontation with the ruling theocracy or accommodation with it. Yet neither approach
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By Alireza Jafarzadeh, originally published on RealClear World Iran is in a strikingly similar position to the dictatorial Pahlavi regime right before it was deposed in 1979. The last U.S. Ambassador to Iran, William Sullivan, sent a now-famous telegram to the White House in late
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, October 17, 2025, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director In today’s Iran, where dissent is a crime and silence is enforced by fear, a new force has risen from within the people — the Resistance Units. They are not soldiers or armed
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