Maryam Rajavi on the Iran Uprising

Young women in Hamedan stage a sit-in in front of security forces

Source: NCRI Women's Committee Women's News January 4, 2026

Maryam Rajavi on the Iran Uprising:

A Generation Destined to Win

Overview

• A new uprising has spread across Iran and entered its second week.

• The movement has reached all provinces, showing a nationwide uprising.

• Young people have paid with their lives, strengthening the nation’s resolve.

• A generation that has cast aside fear and taken to the streets is destined to prevail.

The Price of Freedom

• Young lives lost in Kuhdasht, Delfan, Azna, and other cities recall past executions.

• Among them was Mostafa Fallahi, a 15-year-old killed by the Revolutionary Guards.

• Protesters in Marvdasht, Lordegan, Fooladshahr, Harsin, Qom, Hamedan, and Ilam showed

extraordinary courage.

• These sacrifices represent the heavy price imposed on the Iranian people for freedom.

The Goal of the Uprising

• Overthrow the corrupt and oppressive clerical regime.

• End repression, violence, and plunder.

• Achieve freedom, democracy, and popular sovereignty.

Message to the Families of the Fallen

• Turn grief into strength, anger into energy, and sorrow into hope.

• Your children are the children of the entire nation.

• They belong to a people determined to achieve freedom at any cost.

Millions of Iranians Oppose Khamenei

• Protesters face heavily armed forces with bare hands.

• Khamenei has threatened more bloodshed after days of silence.

• Tens of millions of Iranians openly reject the system of Velayat-e Faqih.

• The people demand an end to repression and that the regime step aside.

Conclusion

• The Iranian people are brave, selfless, and deserving of freedom.

• Chains must be broken and history will deliver its verdict.

• The people of Iran will prevail and claim their freedom.

• Salute to the martyrs. Salute to the rebellious cities of Iran.