Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, July 25, 2019 – During the Dec 2017-Jan 2018 uprisings, the people of Iran rejected the regime in its entirety and called for the overthrow of the mullahs’ rule. The people cried out, “Reformist, hardliners, the game is over,” making it clear that they believe none of the factions in the regime can solve their problems and lead the country to freedom and prosperity.
But some Iranian official officials still futilely believe that the can mend the relationship between the people and the regime through “social dialogue.”
Hadi Khaniki, an Iranian regime analyst who writes for the state-run “Iran” newspaper wrote an article in which he recommended that the regime and its factions engage in “social discussions” to “create opportunities to lead the [regime] out of its current dilemmas.”
However, the truth is, the people of Iran are past giving the regime and its various gangs of thugs new opportunities to make amends and deceive them through false promises and fake reforms.
The people will not suffice to anything less than the complete overthrow of the mullahs’ regime.
The solution is not in the Majlis or the government—it’s in the streets
Ardeshir Nourian, a member of the Majlis (parliament), said during a July 20 session, “The government and Majlis are doing nothing. In Charmahal and Bakhtiari Province (southwest Iran), the people are fed up and are saying no one is listening and we should take to the streets.”
On July 16, the anchor of the state-run TV acknowledged the outrage of the people toward security force and said, “During the past months, videos posted on social media show tensions between the people and security forces… it is no longer a confrontation between criminals and security forces—ordinary citizens are confronting the security forces.”
The regime is losing its authority
The state-run TV also said that videos showing the people confronting security forces are degrading the power and authority of the regime’s security apparatus.
In the same TV program, Bahram Bayat, one of the agents of the Iranian regime referred to a meeting between the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the commanders of the state security forces. In the meeting Khamenei asked one of the commanders whether the people side with the police or the criminals when security forces are making an arrest.
As Bayat said, the commander had later told him, “I hesitated a bit to respond and then [Khamenei] said, ‘Of course, they side with the criminals.'”
This confessions further prove that the mullahs’ regime has lost all its legitimacy inside Iran, and the time for “social dialogue” is up.
The people hate this regime so much that even though its security forces are armed to the teeth and have a brutal history of suppressing the people, they are no longer effective in stifling protests and in many cases, they can’t make arrests when the people confront them.
The mere fact that the regime’s officials, who have historically responded to the people’s demands with torture and executions, are now begging for social dialog shows that the regime is at a dead end.
Whether Iranian regime officials accept it or not, in the current situation, the mullahs’ regime is in the slippery downward slope toward its overthrow. And it is the Iranian people and their resistance movement who will seal the fate of this regime.
