Freedom-Loving Iranians Rally in Berlin and Stockholm, Call for Regime Change by the Iranian People and Their Organized Resistance
On June 21, 2025, thousands of freedom-loving Iranians marched and rallied in Germany and Sweden. They declared their support for the “Third Option” proposed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
In a message to the gatherings, the NCRI President-elect, Maryam Rajavi, told the demonstrators, “Today, We Are on the Threshold of a Great Transformation.
“I want to begin with the words I spoke 21 years ago, in my message to your rally in Berlin on February 10, 2005: ‘Our message is clear: The Iranian people’s resistance for freedom must be recognized. We say no to appeasement and saving the mullahs’ regime, and no to war.’ Instead, ‘there is a Third Option: regime change by the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance. Democratic change is the will of the Iranian people and the verdict of history.’ ”
In Berlin, thousands of freedom-seeking Iranians marched in the streets, holding placards and chanting slogans supporting the Third Option.
They also rejected any return to monarchy. Participants called for a complete transition away from both forms of dictatorship, expressing solidarity with the organized resistance inside Iran.
Simultaneously in Stockholm, Iranians rallied for the “Third Option” — “No to war, no to appeasement, yes to democratic change by the Iranian people and their resistance.” Among the slogans chanted by protesters were: “Change by the people of Iran—this is the Third Option,” and “The Iranian people’s uprising is the way out of the crisis.”
The speakers emphasized that the real battle is not between governments, but between the Iranian people and their organized resistance on the one hand and the repressive clerical regime on the other, which was emboldened by years of Western appeasement.
Participants called on Western governments and international institutions to formally recognize the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) as the only viable democratic alternative for Iran. They asserted that Iran’s future lies neither in a return to the past monarchy nor in the continuation of the current regime. Rather, it depends on establishing a democratic and secular republic founded on the will of the people.
