https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/07/05/the-west-must-realize-rouhani-isnt-an-agent-of-change-in-iran/#5db7955e32f3
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.
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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