![\"natanz-300\"](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/natanz-300.jpg\" "\\"natanz-300\\"")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
NCRI – Despite \u201cmany shortages and unwarranted concessions\u201d given to the clerical regime in Iran, the nuclear deal made earlier this week between the Iranian regime and the world powers forces the mullahs\u2019 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to \u201cretreat\u201d from the red lines he had set in his nuclear policy, Iranian opposition spokesperson Shahin Gobadi has told the BBC.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian opposition, said, while circumventing the six UN Security Council resolutions and giving unwarranted concessions to the regime will not block the mullahs\u2019 path to deception and access to the nuclear bomb; however, even such a small retreat by Khamenei will shatter his hegemony in the regime,\u201d Mr. Gobadi, a spokesperson for the People\u2019s Mojahedin, PMOI (or Mujahedin-e-Khalq, MEK), and a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told BBC Radio on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Mr. Gobadi said that allowing international inspection of Iranian sites was one of Khamenei\u2019s red lines which the regime had crossed by accepting the deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nuclear weapons program was one of the pillars of the regime\u2019s survival. Khamenei had always viewed this as a guarantor for the survival of his regime. That\u2019s why he had invested in it so heavily for all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe West because it lost a very unique opportunity to deprive the regime from the nuclear weapons program altogether. Given the weak position of the regime inside Iran \u2013 and the regime facing such a restive population at home \u2013 if the West had adopted a little tougher policy and had been a little more steadfast, they could have squandered the regime\u2019s nuclear weapons program altogether and have relieved the world very much from this threat forever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He also pointed out that the regime in Iran had failed to voluntarily admit to any of its nuclear facilities; rather, it had been forced to do so on each occasion following revelations of its secret sites by other sources, including by the organized opposition NCRI and PMOI (Mujahedin-e-Khalq, MEK).<\/p>\n
\u201cVerification is the key,\u201d he said, adding that the international community should ensure that Tehran implements all the terms of the nuclear deal in the most \u201cstringent\u201d manner to prevent it from \u201cplaying around loopholes\u201d in the agreement.<\/p>\n
Based on information provided by the sources of the PMOI (MEK) within the Iranian regime, the NCRI was the first group to reveal to the world the regime\u2019s nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak in 2002, but since then, the NCRI has exposed dozens of other Iranian nuclear sites and nuclear related projects of the regime to build a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n