<p>Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, called on the international community to support a 10-point plan for regime change in Iran and described alarming conditions for political prisoners at a Paris conference on July 1</a>.</p><p>The conference, Free Iran</a>, featured an estimated 100,000 participants, including refugees from Iran, Syria, and Palestine, as well as a myriad of American and European diplomatic officials and politicians.</p><p>Like any political organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran has been controversial. It was listed by the US State Department as a “terrorist” organization until 2012, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought its removal. Iran regards the organization as a “terrorist” front. Other descriptions of the organization have called it the only legitimate independent Iranian political party, of a sort, as a number of dissident voices against the Iranian government have found expression within it. Credit: National Council of Resistance of Iran via Storyful</p><br />
