For most of its modern history, Iran has been defined — both at home and abroad — by what it is against. Against the Shah. Against the West. Against Israel. Against its own people who dare to protest. The Iran Prosperity Project is the first comprehensive attempt to define what Iran is for: a secular democracy, a functioning economy, and a government that draws its authority from the consent of the Iranian people rather than the barrel of a gun.
The project was officially launched on April 30, 2025, in Washington D.C. by the National Union for Democracy in Iran. It is not a manifesto or a political platform — it is an operational blueprint. Fourteen white papers cover the specific machinery of transition: legal and political frameworks, military restructuring, foreign policy reorientation, macroeconomic stabilization, energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, education, and more. Reza Pahlavi, who leads the effort as head of NUFDI, framed the launch explicitly: "This is a project built not on slogans, but on solutions. Not on vague promises, but on detailed plans".
The plan addresses the fear that has shadowed every Iranian opposition movement since 1979: that regime collapse leads not to freedom but to chaos. The IPP answers that fear directly by design. The first 180 days are pre-planned in granular detail, with a unified Transitional System — a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary — ready to stand up immediately. Within four months of the Islamic Republic's fall, Iranians will vote in a national referendum to choose their permanent system of government; both options on the ballot are secular and democratic. The transition is expected to run 18 to 24 months in total before a fully elected government assumes power and the transitional institutions dissolve.
This is not a promise made by a politician. It is a plan built by more than 70 Iranian experts — economists, lawyers, security specialists, and policy professionals from inside the country and the diaspora — who spent years designing a handoff that actually works. Whether you are in Tehran or Toronto, in Shiraz or Los Angeles, the Iran Prosperity Project belongs to you. It was built for you, and it cannot succeed without you.