For the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the push to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity has never been a stand-alone demand. This is presented as the Resistance’s own longstanding position (a historical claim made in her speech). This is the clearest, programmatic statement tying a future democratic order to the dismantling of the regime’s security architecture, not merely reforming it. December 2022 — Calls to place the IRGC and Intelligence Ministry on terrorist lists, close embassies, expel operativesIn a statement amid executions and repression, Rajavi calls for practical measures including shutting down regime embassies and placing the IRGC and MOIS on terrorist lists, alongside expelling their mercenaries. 22 November 2023 — Strasbourg: Rajavi urges action, including terrorist listing of IRGCAt a Strasbourg conference with lawmakers, Rajavi again calls for a firm policy and urges steps that include placing the IRGC on terrorist lists (framed as necessary to confront repression and terrorism).