Posted on 07/25/2019 5:29:13 AM PDT by hassan.mahmoud
By: Hassan.Mahmoudi
Forty years have passed since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the Ayatollahs grasping power in 1979. Since then, hundreds of policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have attempted to challenge the Ayatollahs in very different ways. US President Obama throughout his 8-year term in office advocated continuing an already discredited appeasement policy towards the Iranian regime, in 2015, together with the EU, signing the JCPOA, ‘nuclear deal’ with Iran and releasing billions of dollars in sanctions relief, paving the way for the regime to become much more aggressive with malign activities and interventions throughout the region, and, in defiance of the deal, carrying out an increased number of ballistic missile tests. Sadly, the EU has continued to date with this failed policy of appeasement, while others have pushed for a much tougher stance against the regime. Current US President Donald Trump has argued that a maximum pressure policy would force the clergy to negotiate, preventing fundamental danger to global security. However, despite crushing sanctions being imposed, the ayatollahs have so far rejected any change in their foreign policy. With the sanctions crippling Iran’s economy, tensions have been ratcheted up in recent weeks by a series of confrontations, such as acts of sabotage on oil tankers by the regime. Iran became the main focus of the international community when, on July 11, 2019, a major 5-day international conference was held in Ashraf-3 in Albania, home to thousands of members of the Iranian Resistance, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Prominent speakers discussed policy options for the US, Europe and their allies in dealing with the Iranian crisis. They also reflected on the role of the democratic Iranian The opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the country's future. Ambassador Robert Joseph, former US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control said: “The right policy is whatever accelerates the end of this regime. The wrong policy is what prolongs the life of this regime. Appeasement has turned out to be not just a failure but also counter to American interests. We should start with maximum pressure, and the Administration has been doing a good job. The sanctions are having a deep impact on the Iranian economy. “If we show weakness, it’s provocative. When we show strength, the regime backs down. It’s important that we always keep in mind that the show of strength is key to success. “Land invasion is not what’s necessary. Change has to come from within [Iran]. A more effective policy would include calling out the regime on its gross human rights violations. We don’t do that often enough. “We should negotiate on nuclear affairs, but we have to keep in mind what our principles are. We should not be a victim to the mindset that negotiations mean compromise and giving the other party concessions. That is what happened in the JCPOA. “Our focus ought to be calling them out, and combining these tools, whether it’s sanctions or the military, that will facilitate the end of this regime.” General James Conway, former Commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps: “The objective of authoritarian regimes is the survival of their regime. The Iranian regime also wants to be the premier power in the region. How do we counter that? “We have been countering their expansion of the ‘Shiite Crescent’ in Syria. We should continue to do that. The second thing we should do is ratchet up the sanctions. What the sanctions have to identify to the people on the fence is that your regime is seen as a pariah. It’s leading you nowhere. If the sanctions are necessary to convey that message to the middle-tier of the society, we should ratchet it up.” John Baird, former Foreign Minister of Canada: “We can exploit the regime’s vulnerability, to support the people of Iran. The regime realizes that when it falls, they will have no place to go. The senior members of this regime know that they will have nowhere to go and they will be held to account for their crimes such as the 1988 massacre of political prisoners and the bombing of the Jewish center in Argentina.” Mayor Rudy Giuliani: “In the past year, the regime has become more frightened and irrational. Striking the drone and what they’re doing with the tankers, maybe they want us to attack them and they hoped that it would rally the people behind them. We’re so reluctant to take military action, and the world would also react badly, that the mullahs could push us along if they engaged diplomatically. But they’re poking their finger in our eye. “I think the mullahs are going to fall, with these protests going on, the crazy things they are doing. I think they are desperate. What they are doing sounds like a regime that is not thinking in clever ways.” Senator Robert Torricelli: “I think pulling out of that agreement (2015 nuclear deal) was effective ".."The fact that the protests continue is a very good sign even though the regime has tried to harm them. The biggest frustration is getting the European governments to do the right thing. Whatever their economic interests and fear, we should all be together in eliminating this regime. We have to keep up the pressure, try to put more sanctions. And the important point is, some of these revolutions have happened without an alternative. Here you do not have to let that happen. We must get Americans to understand that there is an alternative and let them see it.” “There is an alternative. You can pull away from the mullahs and take a stand in support of those who want to topple the regime. Because there are Iranians who will rise with the MEK.” Let us trust that the many parliamentary delegates from most of the EU countries enthusiastically supporting the Iranian opposition at this conference will soon translate into an end to the failed appeasement policy on the part of their governments and a united front to bring an end to the dangerous reign of the Mullahs.
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There is little question that the sanctions are very effective. There is ruinous inflation, food shortages and social unrest. The mullahs do not have the hard currency to pay their goons and soldiers. The regime is becoming increasingly desperate. So far nothing they have done has succeeded with Trump. They know if they draw first blood, it will be a disaster for them. Trump need only to remain patient. The sanctions are a smokeless devastating weapon.
If the European Union globalist cabal wants to go there, they can go there.
On their own dime, with their own people.
Pass.....EU aint our pals.
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