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The May 19 election in Iran will make very little difference to Tehran\u2019s major policies of repression and terror-sponsorship, two critics of the regime said during a press conference discussion in Paris on the upcoming vote, CNSNews reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

But it will likely add to a process of weakening the regime, they said, particularly if the Trump administration\u2019s Iran policy review now underway results in policy shifts and greater economic difficulties, the report added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CNSNews\u2019s report further wrote in part:<\/p>\n

Giulio Terzi, a former Italian foreign minister, and Mohammad Mohaddessin, who chairs the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of Resistance on Iran (NCRI), both argued that whether the \u201cmoderate\u201d incumbent Hasan Rouhani or the \u201chardline\u201d cleric Ebrahim Raisi wins, key policies won\u2019t change.<\/p>\n

There may be tactical differences between various candidates, the Italian said, but not on the essential issues, including keeping the regime in power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe imminent presidential election will change very little of the true nature of the autocratic regime \u2013 a regime which is violent against its own people and is driven by messianic vision of domination in the whole region and beyond,\u201d said Terzi.<\/p>\n

With regard to foreign policy and national security, he said, \u201cit is irrelevant who the next president becomes,\u201d since those issues fall under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Terzi labeled the entire voting process the \u201cde facto selection\u201d by the supreme leader of a new president, pointing to the fact that the Guardian Council, a small body appointed by Khamenei, had disqualified all but six of more than 1,600 prospective candidates.<\/p>\n

The final word lies with the supreme leader, he said, who engineers the entire process to ensure the desired outcome.<\/p>\n

As for the leading pair of candidates, Mohaddessin noted that Raisi was a member of a notorious \u201cdeath panel\u201d that oversaw the mass execution of imprisoned dissidents in 1988, decreed by then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. By some accounts tens of thousands of dissidents were executed.<\/p>\n

But Rouhani, he said, \u201cHas been in the decision-making centers of the regime from the first days and has been directly involved in all of the crimes of the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohaddessin added, as recorded by human rights groups, that 3,000 prisoners have been executed have taken place during Rouhani\u2019s first term. (A U.N. human rights investigator has described this is a 20-year high in application of the death penalty.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference between Rouhani and Raisi is that Raisi is a mass murderer and Rouhani combined brutality and murder with deception.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 38 years since the Islamic revolution, the U.S. and Europe had debated and discussed as Iran held numerous \u201cso-called elections\u201d that saw seven presidents in office, Mohaddessin recalled. But none had brought any change in major policies \u2013 repression at home, the nuclear issue, and export of terrorism \u2013 and neither would this one, he added.<\/p>\n

Terzi said U.S. and European governments for decades have been deluding themselves, chasing a \u201cmirage\u201d that there are moderates and hardliners in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is only a perception which has been pushed by Iran and its supporters for obvious reasons, and has led to disastrous results,\u201d he said.
Both men saw the prospect of the regime weakening further.<\/p>\n

On April 18, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that Trump has ordered an interagency review into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, to evaluate whether the suspensions of sanctions under the agreement was vital to U.S. national security interests.<\/p>\n

Terzi said the U.S. policy review may \u201cincrease the fragility of international economic relations that the regime in recent years has been trying to reactivate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said already foreign banks aren\u2019t thinking seriously about going back into the Iranian market, and with the exception of oil and gas \u2013 which enrich regime elites \u2013 the people of Iran have seen little benefit from easing of sanctions under the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s election could further worsen the economy, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more a dictatorial regime has problems with its economy and social stability, the more it radicalizes,\u201d Terzi added \u2013 leading to a spiral that could precipitate an end to the system.<\/p>\n

Mohaddessin agreed that Iran was approaching a \u201cturning point\u201d as the regime weakens \u2013 not because of the election itself, but because of policy changes in Washington and economic difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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