Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, September 25, 2019—Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani expressed his outrage over a condemnation by the three main European countries, France Germany and the United Kingdom, over Tehran’s role in the September 14 attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities in the eastern parts of this country.
In his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the 74th annual United Nations General Assembly in New York, Rouhani described the statement issued by the so-called E3 as baseless allegations raised against the Islamic republic and criticized such a measure, according to the Iranian regime’s state media outlets.
The leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom issued a statement on Monday, September 23, describing the Iranian regime as the party responsible for the attacks on vital oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.
In further remarks signaling the mullahs’ escalating global isolation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tehran’s insistence on the United States lifting sanctions as a precondition for talks is not realistic. Mrs. Merkel’s remarks came after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Rouhani on the UNGA sidelines. With such conditions we will not witness any practical steps towards negotiations, she added.
Mr. Trump’s speech at the General Assembly further resembled the crises engulfing the mullahs’ regime.
“One of the greats security threats facing peace-loving nations today is the repressive regime in Iran. The regime’s record of death and destruction is well known to us all. Not only is the world’s state sponsor of terrorism, but Iran’s leaders are fueling the tragic wars in Syria and Yemen. At the same time, the regime is squandering the nation’s wealth and future in a fanatical quest for nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. We must never allow this to happen,” he said.
“All nations have a duty to act. No responsible government should subsidize Iran’s blood lust. As long as Iran’s menacing behavior continues, sanctions will not be lifted. They will be tightened. Iran’s leaders will have turned a proud nation into just another cautionary tale of what happens when a ruling class abandons its people and embarks a crusade for personal power and riches… Iran’s citizens deserve a government that cares about reducing poverty, ending corruption and increasing jobs, not stealing their money to fund and massacre abroad and at home. After four decades of failure, it is time for Iran’s leaders to step forward and to stop threatening other countries,” Mr. Trump concluded.
In an undisputed indication of the Iranian regime’s miseries, Ahmad Jannati, head of the mullahs’ Guardian Council and Assembly of Experts, acknowledged the complete impasse facing this regime.
“Let’s be frank. I have no hope in the current directors and managers,” in reference to officials appointed by Rouhani and his cabinet. “We are working for the day when these individuals are replaced so we can overcome this suffocation and utter humiliation we are suffering from today,” he said in a clear reference to the further erupting power struggle and the regime having no solution for the status quo.
“We are not the winners in negotiations [with the U.S.]. In fact, we will have to obey their commands. They want to restrict us and force us to surrender by limiting our abilities one by one. This includes our ballistic missile capabilities to other issues,” Jannati concluded.
Also emphasizing on the mullahs’ impasse, Iranian opposition President Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), delivered a speech to a massive “No to Rouhani” rally in New York outside the United Nations, emphasizing on the regime facing a dead-end.
The mullahs’ regime is weak and at an impasse. Its adventurism and evil acts in the region are expanded only because no other party has stood up to it. At the same time, the people of Iran are the regime’s primary victims. #IranRegimeChange #FreeIran #UNGA
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 24, 2019
“The mullahs’ regime is weak and at an impasse. Its adventurism and evil acts in the region are expanded only because no other party has stood up to it…The regime in Iran is neither capable of reform nor can it change its behavior; it will never abandon weapons of mass destruction, human rights abuses, and the promotion of fundamentalism the terrorism; it gets emboldened by appeasement and only understands firmness and strength,” Mrs. Rajavi emphasized.
