developments regarding #Iran and the Middle East on fast forward recently, voices are heard speaking of winds of change in Iran. Iran’s society, described as a powder keg due to social discontent, is literally simmering.
And
after far too many years, the international community is gradually but
surely realizing how appeasement will only yield further destruction.
Catapulting
events further is Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s failure to
engineer the recent presidential election to unify his regime for the
tsunamis ahead.
Iranian opposition leader #Maryam Rajavi was
the keynote speaker of a recent convention in Paris where she delivered
a very different and new perspective on how to resolve the Iran
dilemma.
We are also only a week away
from July 14th, marking the second year of the Iran nuclear deal
signing. Despite a windfall of over $100 billion dollars pouring into
Iran, this agreement has failed to provide meaningful change in people’s
lives.
And yet, Tehran has in fact allocated these funds to fuel turmoil across the Middle East, in Syria, Iraq,Yemen and beyond.
Returning
to Iran’s milestone May 19th presidential “election”, Khamenei
attempted to end his regime’s impasse by placing his weight behind
conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi in that race.
Considering
Raisi’s notorious role in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political
prisoners, and a massive campaign launched by activists of the Iranian
opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (#PMOI/MEK) inside
Iran, Khamenei’s candidate stood no chance.
However, the fact that the incumbent President#no2 Hassan Rouhani was able to secure a second term will not render any change in the regime’s status quo. In fact, quite the opposite.
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