Recent events have underscored the futility of efforts to reach a durable understanding with Iranian leadership, reinforcing the need for sustained pressure on the regime. Yet while that pressure has increased, some Western governments continue to pursue policies that provide the ruling authoritarian establishment with unnecessary political breathing room. Such actions threaten to undermine an historic opportunity for the international community to help the Iranian people and the organized, democratic opposition movement to break the regime’s hold on power once and for all. It is political support for a new domestic uprising that aims to implement the ten-point plan authored by NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi. The NCRI has alternatively articulated a roadmap for regime change that involves no direct foreign intervention, nor even material support for the domestic opposition.