The alliance around Reza Pahlavi, Shirin Ebadi and Masih Alinejad has outlined in a charter the way for an overthrow of the regime and the time after. The charter can be read here in its wording and translated into German. Below is a summary of the most important points.
Background: The group, which calls itself the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom in Iran, announced its own alliance in February at an event at Georgetown University. The group includes exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Canadian-based activist Hamed Esmaeilion, as well as U.S.-based author, journalist and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad.
Title: The document is also known as the "Mahsa Charter," in reference to the assassination of Mahsa (Jina) Amini and the beginning of the revolution.
Goal: In the document, the alliance emphasizes that the way to build a free and democratic Iran is to overthrow the regime of the Islamic Republic. To achieve this, the three elements of "unity, organization and relentless continuity in activism" are required, it says.
Other core positions in the charter:
International isolation of the Islamic government is a first and necessary step for democratic change, it said. International pressure must be built on the Islamic Republic to suspend all death sentences and to release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally. This should be done, among other things, by expelling the regime's ambassadors and all those dependent on it, and by recognizing the opposition alliance and its charter.
The form of the future government should be a secular-democratic system determined by referendum.
Among the values espoused by the alliance in the charter are the need to preserve Iran's territorial integrity while accepting diversity of language, ethnicity, religion and culture, and to decentralize power by devolving financial, bureaucratic and political affairs to elected provincial, municipal and regional administrations.
The charter also speaks of the formation of an independent organization to oversee elections and accept domestic and foreign election monitoring, leading to a new national constitution. This, in turn, should conform to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its entirety.
The charter also mentions the abolition of the death penalty and all corporal punishment and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, as well as the creation of an independent judicial system in accordance with international standards.
It also calls for justice for all victims of the Islamic Republic through commissions of inquiry under the auspices of fair and independent courts, including the right to independent legal counsel.
One of the most important points of the charter is the abolition of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and all its sub-organizations. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)