Iran Freedom Project

The regime’s answer to the largest protest wave since 1979 was a near-total internet blackout. The Forum’s answer was infrastructure. The Iran Freedom Project, directed by Mehrdad “Marty” Youssefiani, runs six pillars of connection into Iran: 470-plus Starlink terminals across all 31 provinces, Radio Iran broadcasting from Erbil 18-plus hours a day, an SMS relay network built on a verified registry of some 20 million numbers, the Geonesis AI platform that has predicted regime crackdowns 24 to 48 hours in advance, satellite file delivery to roughly 3 million users through the independent Toosheh platform, and a 75,000-person citizen network across more than 30 cells. We do not fund, direct, or take part in armed action.

Alongside the hardware stands the Iran Freedom Congress: six people around a London table grown to a body of more than 500 members (every Iranian ethnic community represented, a majority-female executive) after an inaugural London congress of some 400 participants, the broadest unified opposition assembly since 1979. Working groups on transition governance, the economy, women, youth, and foreign relations have drafted the 28-member National Reconciliation Council framework: the day-after plan, written before it is needed, because that is when it is useful. The Congress belongs to Iranians. The Forum convened the founding table and keeps the room funded.

Year two scales the machine: from 470-plus terminals toward 2,500-plus; 30 FM micro-transmitters carrying Radio Iran deeper into the provinces; the SMS network toward 200 million-plus messages a month; the citizen-journalist corps from roughly 250 toward 500-plus. For the Congress: follow-on convenings in Europe, a Congressional Summit in Washington planned with Freedom House, and the working groups’ policy papers moved into the hands that will need them.