Iran regime willfully defying terms of nuclear deal
NCRI/Saturday, 14 May 2016
There has been a “historic rise” in the number of executions in Iran since Hassan Rouhani took office as the Iranian regime’s President, the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) said on Saturday.
Tehran has also ignored a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding that it avoid all new work on ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons, Majid Sadeghpour, political director of the OIAC wrote on Saturday in Townhall. Objectively assessed, the article said, the Iranian regime’s actions since last year’s nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), particularly when viewed in light of its behavior in the past 37 years must be regarded as a “willful and defiant decision by the regime & its President Hassan Rouhani’s to step-up work on these weapons.”
It added: “A historic rise in notwithstanding, nearly two years’ worth of sample size belie Rouhani’s moderate claims. There apparently is more at play here. As it turns out, the latest ballistic missile test in Iran occurred at a fortuitous time. Recent Iranian mischief occurred just as a New York Times revelation linked President Obama and White House foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes to a willful effort to promote a narrative of Iranian moderation to justify the nuclear negotiating process, including while Rouhani stood for Iran’s presidential selection.””The New York Times’ exposé and the April missile launch speak volumes about recent US Iran policy missteps. The Iranian test launch reiterates that its foreign policy posture has not changed. Now that Rouhani’s supposedly moderate disposition is seen as an invention of the Obama administration (and likely that of Ayatollah Khamenei), seriously expecting a change in Iranian regime behavior is at best naive. Even before Rouhani’s rise to presidency, staunch critics of Iran’s theocratic regime, including the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) led by Maryam Rajavi had warned of the latter. Today, we can only hope that their message (one that will again be articulated by participants in an international gathering in Paris on July 9th) will have more resonance.”
“For its part, Congress is moving to hold Iran accountable,” the article pointed out. U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member, Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY) recently noted that, “Iran’s recent ballistic-missile tests directly contravened the expressed purpose of the UN Security Council and were meant to test our resolve.” The Iranian regime’s leaders, he added, “Insisted that their ballistic-missile program and support for terrorism be off the table during the nuclear negotiations. Now they have to face the music as we act to target this behavior and those who support it.”
The Committee’s Chairman, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), meanwhile called on the Obama administration to stop, “tripping over technicalities” to “explain how they don’t violate the president’s deeply flawed nuclear deal.”
The article in Townhall added: “Let’s hope that the next administration, whomever runs it, will recognize the expertise of the individuals and credible Iranian dissident groups as it sets future U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic. By and large, the Iranian opposition has recommended ramping up pressure on the theocratic regime and U.S. outreach towards the people of Iran.””There is good reason to believe that if the United States had followed this course of action (or if it adopts it soon), it will be able to elicit greater concessions and force Iran’s fundamentalist zealots into choices which yield either large-scale reform within Iran or an internal regime collapse. Given the organized nature of Iran’s main opposition movement, both would be positive developments as either would help improve prospects of regional peace as well democracy for the Iranian people.”
Javad Zarif heaps praise on Hezbollah’s top terror chief in Syria
Saturday, 14 May 2016/NCRI – The Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has heaped praise on Hezbollah top military commander in Syria who died in a Damascus explosion this week.
“I express my condolences on the martyrdom of the great holy fighter Mustafa Badreddine who was full of spirit and heroism in defending the righteous values of Islam and the combatant people of Lebanon,” Zarif said in a message on Friday to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. His remarks were carried in the Iranian regime’s state media including by the official news agency IRNA.
Hezbollah reported on Friday that Mustafa Badreddine, 55, who oversaw the Lebanese terrorist group’s military operations in Syria, was killed this week in a “huge explosion” near the Syrian capital.
Commenting on Zarif’s praises for the Hezbollah terror chief, Firouz Mahvi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Saturday said:
“Heaping such praise on a notorious international terrorist clearly shows the true nature of the mullahs’ foreign minister Javad Zarif so far as it pertains to his belief in terrorism as a state tool. This is in tandem with Zarif’s previous acts such as laying a wreath at the grave of Imad Mughniyah, the former military commander and head of the terror apparatus of Hezbollah, in 2014. This once again manifests a simple reality that the so-called ‘moderate’ official of the clerical regime is simply a smiling terror master.”
Badreddine’s death is the biggest blow to Hezbollah since the death in 2008 of his brother-in-law Imad Mugniyah, who was behind the 1983 bombing of the American Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 people, and other acts of violence.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in his book “Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat” (published in 1993) included a clipping from the Iranian state-run newspaper Ressalat which on July 20, 1987 carried a quote from Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Minister of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) at the time, who said: “Both the TNT and the ideology which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marine Headquarters have been provided by Iran.”
Badreddine and Mugniyah were among the early recruits for Hezbollah which was fostered by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon.
Badreddine was indicted by the United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
