NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi explains her organization's platform for Iranian regime change, including separation of religion and state and gender equality.

There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in which we outlined a way to topple the Islamic Republic. At that time, we assumed that the use of force was off the table and that outside powers could only gradually erode the regime’s sources of strength.