Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, May 31, 2019 – In an interview with the London-based Elaph website, Mohammad Mohaddesin, Foreign Affairs Committee Chair of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), discussed the situation in Iran ruled by the theocratic mullahs’ regime.
“Following the tightening noose of sanctions around the neck of the clerical regime ruling Iran, and ending the era of western appeasement, the clerical regime in Iran has once again resorted to the deception policy,” Mohaddesin says.
The mullahs’ supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his president Hassan Rouhani are dispatching [Mohammad-Javad] Zarif, the mullahs Foreign Minister and his deputy, Abbas Araghchi, and others to Japan, Pakistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and other parts of the world with farce pledges in order to neutralize the effects of sanctions and a firm policy against the regime. They also seek to reduce the overwhelming economic and political pressures that have rendered the regime helpless.
The NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee Chair discussed the conferences that the Arab countries are having on May 30 in Mecca.
“The Arab Conference in the holy city of Mecca on Thursday has rendered the mullahs’ regime panicking, prompting it to resort to this deception tactic. The regime is aiming to prevent the adoption of a firm policy by the Arab countries against it,” he explained.
Edge of abyss
Mohaddesin pointed to three components that have driven the regime to the edge of its demise.
Sanctions
“The first component is that sanctions have started to bite. The U.S. ending sanctions waivers for Iran oil imports have choked the Iranian regime. On May 25th, Rouhani said, ‘It is unprecedented in the history of Iran that an Iranian cargo ship has not been able to dock at any harbors to unload. It is also unprecedented that during the past 40 years the U.S. State Department continues to contact a small country to advise against an Iranian ship. It has also been unprecedented during the past 40 years of the Islamic Republic’s lifespan that an Iranian oil tanker attempting to deliver its cargo is constantly tracked by satellites,’” the NCRI Foreign Committee Chair added.
Tehran’s influence challenged
The presence of U.S. military forces in the region is considered the second effective component in creating the current critical situation for the mullahs’ regime, according to Mr. Mohaddesin. This component alone has the mullahs terrified, realizing their meddling and warmongering policies in the Middle East will not go unanswered.
“During the past three decades, since the Kuwait crisis in 1990, the Iranian regime has not paid any price for its meddling in the countries in the region and the main winner of the three wars in 1991, 2001 and 2003 in the Middle East has been the Iranian regime. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. opened Iraq’s gates to the Iranian regime and the mullahs in Iran actually occupied Iraq without paying any price for it. It was from there that the theocratic regime of Iran found its way to Syria and beyond. But now, the era of sponging and freeloading has ended and the regime’s fears are escalating,” he added.
Iranian opposition
As the third component driving the regime to the edge of its demise, Mr. Mohaddesin said the active presence of the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the NCRI, both inside and outside Iran, has been significant. Furthermore, the growing influence and activities of PMOI/MEK Resistance Units across the country, and the people welcoming and supporting these activities have realized the prospect of the toppling of the regime. Numerous arrests, issuing death penalties for a number of political prisoners and intimidations have not been able to simmer out the ever-growing protests and popular uprisings in the country.
Arab conferences
According to the NCRI Foreign affairs committee chair, the firm and radical position the Mecca Conference took against the regime of theocrats in Iran was a firm answer to regime’s ridiculous maneuvers. Therefore, we should not allow the regime to buy time for itself through these preposterous maneuvers and to extend its life by postponing the inevitable overthrow and to find more time to expand its warmongering policies and export of terrorism to the nations in the region.
Firm measures
Mohaddesin reiterated that following the U.S. State Department designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO), a range of complementary measures are now necessary.
- Recognizing the Iranian people and their Resistance’s right to topple the clerical fascism ruling Iran to achieve freedom and democracy in the country.
- Designating the regime’s Ministry Of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and other repressive entities of the mullahs’ regime in the Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ list.
- Evicting Iran’s MOIS and IRGC Quds Force agents from American and European countries.
- Severing all ties with the regime in Tehran
- Referring the regime’s human rights violations dossier and the case of 1988 massacre of tens of thousands of political prisoners to the UN Security Council, and referring the perpetrators of these heinous crimes – some still in key positions in the ruling establishment in Iran – to the International Criminal Court.
- Launching an independent, international fact-finding mission to visit prisons in Iran in order to assess the horrific and dreadful situation of political prisoners and to confront the mullahs’ atrocious anti-human policies.
Mr. Mohaddesin stressed on evicting the mullahs’ illegitimate regime from the UN and Iran’s proxies out of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan.
