As
Hassan Rouhani commences his second term as president, the West must
realize that he is not and has never been as agent of change in #Iran.
The
Iranian people have always recognized Rouhani as a veteran regime
insider who was a senior security official during the systematic
execution of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988, many of
whom were supporters of the main opposition #Mujahedin-e Khalq (#MEK).
In
2015, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus
Germany brokered a deal with the Iranian regime, imposing restrictions
on the Iranian regime’s nuclear program in exchange for tens of billions
of dollars in sanctions relief. The agreement has rightly been
criticized for offering too many concessions to Iran’s ruling theocracy,
while effectively abandoning the original goal of definitively halting
permanently the mullahs’ march to nuclear weapons.
This
approach by the previous administration was prompted in large part by
the expectation that Iranian behavior and U.S.-Iran relations would
improve under Rouhani’s presidency. Wrong, it was a gross
miscalculation. It didn’t and they didn’t.
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