1. Purpose. Convert the distributed strength of Iranians worldwide into durable cooperation: practical services, trusted knowledge, and execution-ready preparedness that produces measurable public benefit—lawfully, transparently, and at scale.
2. Community of record. Serve the full continuum of Iranian life beyond borders: families long established in diaspora, second-, third-, fourth- and later generations born abroad, and those newly arrived or in transit. Build continuity through mentorship, leadership renewal, and institutions designed to endure beyond personalities, cycles, and momentary headlines.
3. Independence. Maintain structural independence—legal, financial, and operational—from any government, political party, faction, corporate control group, donor bloc, or religious authority. Governance, staffing, publications, credentialing, and resource allocation shall be protected so that no external actor can reasonably be understood to steer outcomes, suppress findings, or purchase influence.
4. Non-partisanship with outcome discipline. Do not campaign, endorse candidates, or operate as an electoral machine. At the same time, do not practice neutrality toward harm: stand for dignity, equal citizenship, competence, transparency, rule-bound institutions, and measurable public benefit. Refuse reputational laundering and decline any arrangement that normalizes coercion, corruption, discrimination, or captured practice.
5. Civilian, technical scope. Operate as a civilian, technical cooperation and readiness institution. Perform no armed functions, no covert activity, and no operational security services. Advance safety through lawful community resilience, continuity planning, risk reduction, and do-no-harm safeguards—grounded in ethics, consent, and proportionality.
6. Non-execution boundary. Do not underwrite, custody, pool, route, hold, or disburse funds for third parties; do not operate regulated financial markets; and do not solicit investments or promote financial products. Build what makes lawful execution possible: standards, evidence, peer review, portfolio discipline, and partnerable documentation—so competent authorities and regulated entities can act responsibly within their own legal perimeters.
7. Federated design. Function as a federation of Chapters and Colleges—local capability and technical legitimacy working together.
(a) Chapters are host-country community cells: service coordination, local partnerships, and lawful implementation adapted to local context.
(b) Colleges are communities of practice: standards, toolkits, peer review capacity, and skill pathways that make work comparable, auditable, and reusable across jurisdictions.
This structure enables subsidiarity: local action, shared method.
8. Authority by method. Earn trust through method, not myth. Publish clear standards; maintain reproducible indicators; conduct disciplined peer review with follow-through; and apply correction and supersession when facts change or errors are found. Reject authority by ideology, coercion, patronage, or personality.
9. Protected participation. Enable contribution without exposure. Provide confidentiality tiers, role-based attribution where necessary, anti-doxxing enforcement, minimal data collection, and secure communications. Design participation so experts, newcomers, and vulnerable contributors can engage without intimidation, infiltration, retaliation, or manipulation.
10. Truth that can be corrected. Treat truth as a practice: document assumptions, disclose limits, and distinguish evidence from interpretation. Publish methods and outcomes to the maximum extent compatible with safety. Where risk exists, publish redacted summaries while preserving internal audit trails. Make correction and supersession mandatory operational disciplines—signs of rigor, not weakness.
11. Inclusion without erasure. Hold the full mosaic together without forcing uniformity: Kurdish, Azeri, Baluch, Arab, Gilaki, Lur, Persian and others; Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Baha’i, Zoroastrian, secular, and all consciences; women and men; youth and elders; every ideological background that accepts the independence and civic rules of the institution. Pursue unity through shared method, shared respect, and shared work—never through identity hierarchy.
12. Knowledge commons. Build multilingual digital public goods that strengthen long-horizon capability: curricula, translations, reference templates, implementation guides, cultural archives, training programs, and toolkits. Release openly where safe and lawful; otherwise distribute under controlled handling—always with provenance, versioning, and clear conditions of use.
13. Readiness rail. Maintain a staged readiness discipline that converts ideas into implementable portfolios: safeguards, procurement integrity, auditability, monitoring and evaluation, results measurement, and performance governance. The goal is simple: reduce risk, shorten time-to-execution, and improve accountability—so lawful partners can finance, deliver, and measure outcomes with confidence.
14. Diaspora resilience and opportunity. Strengthen diaspora life where it exists today: education pathways, professional integration, entrepreneurship and SME enablement, community services, climate and disaster preparedness, and critical-infrastructure continuity—implemented within host-country law and aligned with local institutions.
15. Partnerable by design. Be easy to work with, without surrendering independence. Cooperate credibly with universities, municipalities, professional bodies, foundations, and responsible private partners through non-binding instruments that:
(a) prohibit control and endorsement,
(b) prevent capture and conflicts,
(c) protect participants, and
(d) require method discipline and auditable delivery.
16. Iran readiness window. Maintain disciplined preparedness for Iran without asserting public authority, conducting political operations, or executing finance. If lawful openings emerge, respond with readiness—not improvisation—through separately governed, appropriately regulated vehicles where required, and only under strict integrity and safety gates.
17. Measure of success. Judge performance by evidence: trust earned, fragmentation reduced, participation broadened across generations, standards adopted, peer-review follow-through achieved, readiness improved, partners enabled, and resilience outcomes delivered—without compromising safety, independence, or method integrity.
18. Foundational ethic. Carry a timeless operating standard into modern practice: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds—made measurable through governance, verified through method, and sustained across generations through service, learning, and disciplined cooperation.