The Islamic Republic’s machinery of execution and repression is targeting the life of yet another young woman. After months of arbitrary detention and torture, 33-year-old blogger Sevda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi faces the death penalty in a regime sham court, solely for her media activities. Let us be Sevda’s voice and use every available avenue to apply international pressure and stop the regime’s killing machine.⁩

The reconstruction of Iran can only begin with regime change and under the leadership of Prince Reza Pahlavi. During this panel at the “Free Iran and the European Union” conference in Düsseldorf, Dr. Alan Bostakian examines the similarities and differences between planning for the reconstruction of Iran and Ukraine. He identifies beginning preparations before a crisis has ended, developing sector-by-sector plans and ensuring continuity after the crisis as some of the most important lessons from Ukraine’s experience. At the same time, he emphasises that Iran’s circumstances are different. Iran’s highly skilled and well-connected diaspora can play a vital role in reconstruction, while, unlike Ukraine, Iran’s reconstruction process can only begin following regime change under the leadership of Prince Reza Pahlavi.