Mrs. Maryam Rajavi underscored these sanctions must be implemented immediately against all individuals and entities involved in executing and torturing the Iranian people, especially those directly involved in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners.
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The enactment of a comprehensive sanction bill
and designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Specially
Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) by US lawmakers targeting Tehran’s military
and terrorist arm, is a significant signal of shifting US policy in reaction to
Iran’s destabilizing role in region. The regime is beginning to realize that
the Obama era is over.
This alteration in US policy acts as a
catalyst and facilitator of change inside of Iran. However, the main factor and
grass roots of change are inside Iran.
This pivot point for a policy change has an
accelerating role and is influenced by the ineradicable behavior of the Islamic
Republic and on the other hand the will of people’s resistance to achieve in
such policy.
Now, the question remains on the Iranian
regime’s reaction and choice of direction to the new sanction
bill. In such crises, the Iranian regime has a track record
of buying time (delaying tactic) and taking one step forward and one step
backward, as witnessed in previous nuclear negotiations.
If Obama’s policy of appeasement and
concessions was decisive, Tehran would have been forced to step further back
from their evil approach. But this did not happen, and the regime was
constantly revived through newly provided funds and sanction relief. Instead,
Tehran expanded its destabilizing
role and terrorist activities in the region.
The adoption of new sanctions so far has put
Iran in a shocking stage. If these sanctions are seriously applied and
extensively implemented, Tehran will be pinned to make an ultimate decision.
Retreating or challenging
Iran faces widespread and profound social
dissatisfaction, parallel to economic insolvency and serious crises. It
understands the language of force and lacks the ability to challenge. The most
likely option for Tehran is to kill time and continue delaying.
To prevent the regime’s highly cheating
skills, the best policy is to enforce and maximize pressure. Tehran is a
fundamentalist and rebellious regime without any legitimacy. It is incapable in
changing its behavior. According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,
changing the regime’s behavior will ultimately bring the regime down.
Therefore, there will be no transformation or
reform from such a regime. The Iranian people are keen towards overthrowing
this regime and the comprehensive and extensive sanctions on IRGC is aligned
and in support of their will for regime change.
The social conditions in Iran have come to a
boiling point and the opposition movement has the potential and an upper hand.
The path forward is social rebellions to overthrow this regime.
During the 2009 uprisings Iranians were
chanting: “Obama, Obama are you with us or the mullahs?,” as they called in
vain for international support.
The policy shift
The Iran policy shift has its effect inside
the regime and they have been vocal about it. In this regard the “Resalat daily”,
regime’s controlled paper, in its July 31, 2017 issue, pointing to the change
in the international affairs towards the Iranian regime states: “Behind the
sanctions belies a boycott campaign. There will be an overthrowing in a soft,
sophisticated and silent way,” a recent piece in the state outlet Resalat daily
reads.
Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Guardian
Council, also raised deep concerns. “[Khamenei’s] most important concern is the
fear of overthrow,” and “the enemy is seeking regime change from within,” he
said.
Iran won’t have the same fate as Iraq and
Syria since there is an organized democratic and powerful opposition. This
alternative is the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a democratic
platform which the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is the
main force. On July 1st the NCRI demonstrated its strength and abilities by
gathering hundreds of thousand supporters in Paris, all seeking regime change
in Iran.
The NCRI demands a boycott in international
diplomatic and economic relations and expelling Iranian regime representatives
from international assemblies. The IRGC and affiliated proxies must also be
evicted from the region.
The appeasement policy
On a side-note, the Iranian regime feeds off
its lobbies’ propaganda and advocates promoting yet again the appeasement
policy, aimed at justifying and legitimizing beneficial relations with Iran.
The regime’s lobby argues the international community should cooperate with
Tehran as there is no alternative other than war. This absurd propaganda is
promoted while the IRGC has been in war in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
In same regards, US Secretory of States Rex
Tillerson recently insisted on cooperation with Russia to tackle terrorism and
end the Syria war.
“Iran’s military influence, the direct
presence of Iranian military forces inside of Syria, they must leave and go
home, whether those are Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces or whether those are
paid militias, foreign fighters that Iran has brought into Syria” he said.
All evidence shows the only path to peace and
stability in Iran and the Middle East is to support the NCRI and pressure
Tehran through extensive sanctions.
The NCRI issued a statement welcoming the new
law imposing sanctions against Iran and the Revolutionary Guards, emphasizing
its immediate implementation meticulously without exception.
Furthermore, NCRI President-elect Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi underscored these sanctions must be implemented immediately against all
individuals and entities involved in executing and torturing the Iranian
people, especially those directly involved in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000
political prisoners.
Rajavi also emphasized that the people’s right
of resistance for regime change must be recognized. She also views these
collective ultimately resulting in stability and peace in the region.
