Before Anyone Further Appeases #Iran...
After decades of appeasement policy
regard Iranian regime and disappointment of emerging a moderate faction
from within the regime, the condition is changed. Even the whisper of
regime change in Iran can be heard by the policy makers. For
apologists of appeasement policy, who, by accident!!!, have vast
economic benefits in Iran, ‘regime change’ is the most hatred topic
and scramble to find ways of stopping the rising tide of desire for democracy and regime change in Iran.
Heshmat Alavi, a political activist wrote an article in Forbes over the topic.
The
pro-Iran deal camp is recently making much noise about how the Trump
administration and critics of the pact, known as the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action (JCPOA), are making rightful complaints of the text
failing to address Iran’s destructive belligerence in the Middle East.
These
are valid concerns, considering the fact that even if the deal remains
intact come October’s decision by President Donald Trump to find Iran in
compliance or not, the mullahs are hell-bent to continue wreaking havoc
and expanding influence across the region.
The pro-Iran deal camp claim Washington has no evidence to hold Tehran in violation of the JCPOA terms. Not true.
- Tehran has exceeded its heavy water production cap, necessary for a plutonium nuclear bomb,
- testing more advanced centrifuges,
- illicitly procuring highly sensitive nuclear and ballistic missile technology in Germany, according to Berlin’s intelligence services,
- surpassing its uranium enrichment cap, another key non-compliance factor
The
pro-JCPOA camp also argues this deal has prevented Iran from becoming
the next North Korea. This is partially true and misleads only the
uninformed reader. A deal very similar to the JCPOA, led by the Clinton
administration, was signed with North Korea and ended up in dismal
failure. This left the world with a rogue state now equipped with at
least 20 nuclear bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles and the
technology to miniaturize a nuclear warhead in its payload.
While
the JCPOA was intended to keep Iran away from nuclear weapons, why
shouldn’t Washington lead the West in demanding Iran curb its further belligerence, such as advances in its ballistic missile drive, increasing executions and atrocious human rights violations, and stirring mayhem in the Middle East?
Iran
must be held responsible for "its missile launches, support for
terrorism, disregard for human rights, and violations of U.N. Security
Council resolutions," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Tuesday.
Speaking
of this flashpoint region, legitimate concerns exist over Iran
establishing a “Shiite crescent” stretching from Afghanistan to the
Mediterranean. Important to note is the fact that JCPOA flaws, and the
Obama administration’s desperate nature to sign a deal as a foreign
policy legacy, provided Iran a windfall of billions to stoke its support
for the Assad regime in Syria.
“Iran
has been helpful in Iraq by fighting the Islamic State,” is how The New
York Times describes Tehran’s campaign in its western neighbor, failing
to even mention how Iran-backed Shiite militias and death squads have
launched massacres, killing sprees and forced displacements targeting
Iraq’s Sunnis and other minorities. While Iraq was a melting pot of
peoples of different backgrounds living intertwined in peace and for
centuries, Iran’s fueling of sectarian wars has created a dangerously
wide rift of hatred.
Iran’s measures
in supporting Yemen’s Houthis in their illegitimate fight against an
internationally recognized government, funding of the Lebanese Hezbollah
and supporting the Afghan Taliban as an ally against the US add all the
more reason for strong action against Tehran.
In
parallel fashion, the pro-appeasement camp continues to seek ties
between Washington and Tehran, similar to the “working relationship”
established between former US top diplomat John Kerry and his Iranian
counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Iran
apologists are quick to criticize current US Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson for refusing to meet Iranians, while easily brushing aside the
undeniable truth that Tehran usurped its warmed relations with the
Obama administration to concurrently prop up the Assad regime and its
massacring of innocent Syrian women and children, especially with
chemical weapons.
Another question
Iran apologists have allowed Tehran to go by never answering is this:
Why do the mullahs continuously insist on such a politically and
economically expensive nuclear program while sitting on the world’s
second largest natural gas reserve and fourth largest crude oil reserve?
If
the mullahs truly sought the better interest of the “Iranian nation,”
as they have claimed for the past forty years, why don’t they turn off
the lights on their nuclear program and reap in all the incentives and
lucrative economic contracts that will most definitely follow?
And
why the sudden regime change-phobia on Iran? Yes, many critics
correctly point out the fact that regime change policies in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Libya have gone south. Yet why do these critics fail to go the
distance and carefully evaluate the main reason behind these failures?
Afghanistan,
Iraq and Libya lacked any solution and alternative to replace their
ruling states with true democracies. This is not the case with Iran.
The
Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a
coalition of numerous dissident groups and individuals, led by its
charismatic President Maryam Rajavi, has a ten-point plan for the future of Iran.
Universal
suffrage, pluralism, individual freedoms, abolition of the death
penalty, separation of church state, gender equality, rule of law,
commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, peaceful
coexistence and a non-nuclear Iran all meet the modern democracies in
the West.
The NCRI, with the People's
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as its core member, has been
gaining serious momentum in the past few months. Senator John McCain,
Chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee met with NCRI
President Rajavi in April. Last month hundreds of international
dignitaries and over 100,000 members of the Iranian Diaspora voiced
support for regime change in Iran in a massive Paris rally.
And as the Trump administration is weighing its comprehensive Iran policy, a high-profile delegation of US senators recently visited Maryam
Rajavi and PMOI/MEK members in Albania. This visit sends strong signals
as Rajavi and the PMOI/MEK are the legitimate flagbearers of regime
change in Tehran.
originally published in the forbes
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