The Resistance Units routinely install huge banners with photos of Iranian opposition leaders and calls for regime change across busy highways and on bridges and overpasses in major cities in Iran, inspiring defiance and encouraging the public to rise up.
Such defiant acts are carried out at great risk to the Resistance Units themselves, since being discovered in the act could lead to arrest, torture, and execution.
In October 2024, to mark the anniversary of Maryam Rajavi’s election as President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the Resistance Units carried out a string of activities across Iran. From Tehran to Mashhad, and Karaj to Zanjan, they installed posters, projected images, and spread messages in public spaces, in support of Rajavi’s vision of a free and democratic Iran.
One of their acts was to unfurl large portraits of Maryam Rajavi from an overpass on a key highway in Karaj, west of the capital Tehran.
Maryam Rajavi’s 10-point plan is a comprehensive blueprint for a future free and democratic Iran. It rejects the regime’s principle of velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule), advocating for the sovereignty of the people through universal suffrage. Her platform emphasises freedoms that are currently restricted under the mullahs’ rule, such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and political plurality. It also advocates complete gender equality, separation of religion from state affairs, and a non-nuclear Iran.
Throughout various cities, Resistance Units highlighted these core messages. In Karaj, posters read, “No to velayat-e faqih, yes to a democratic republic,” while in Tehran, posters bore the slogan, “No force in the world is stronger than our will for freedom.”
PMOI Resistance Units celebrate the anniversary of the election of Maryam Rajavi as the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) for the transition of power to the people of Iran after the overthrow of the mullahs' regime.#Iran #PMOI pic.twitter.com/nxjEhq1cs0
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) October 21, 2024
In September 2024, Resistance Units across the country installed posters of Iranian opposition leaders and the emblem of the main opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MEK) to mark the 59th anniversary of the PMOI’s founding on 5 September.