{"id":228391,"date":"2020-10-23T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=228391"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:38:02","slug":"iran-terrorist-plots-reveal-the-iranian-regime-as-both-dangerous-and-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-terrorist-plots-reveal-the-iranian-regime-as-both-dangerous-and-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Terrorist Plots Reveal the Iranian Regime as Both Dangerous and Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past several months, the Iranian opposition has hosted several online conferences, with participation from political dignitaries in the US, Britain, the European Union, and elsewhere. Many of these have served as prominent venues for criticizing current Western policies toward Iran\u2019s theocratic dictatorship. And some of those have focused even more narrowly on Western responses to an apparently escalating threat of Iranian terrorism.<\/p>\n

This was the case with one conference that was held<\/a> on Thursday, streaming to viewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Speeches from current and former Western lawmakers. This keynote speaker of this event was Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>). In addition to Mrs. Rajavi, other officials of the NCRI attended this conference.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Mohaddessin, the chairman of the NCRI\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee, explained<\/a> that the Iranian regime had plotted attacks on Mrs. Rajavi at least two venues in 2018 because this was \u201cits main plan to neutralize the uprisings\u201d that had begun at the end of the previous year.<\/p>\n

In December 2017, a protest began in the city of Mashhad which was focused on the Iranian regime\u2019s economic mismanagement but inspired protests with a much broader political message in dozens of other cities and towns. The resulting nationwide uprising<\/a> was arguably the most significant protest movement to emerge in Iran since the first confrontations between the regime and the organized democratic opposition in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

The January 2018 uprising<\/a> featured slogans that called for the ouster of all leading regime officials and expressed distaste for both the \u201chardline\u201d and the \u201creformist\u201d factions of the regime. It also included participation from a diverse array of Iranian communities and demographics, including residents of poor rural towns who, the regime had been presenting as its supporters. That assumption was proven wrong by the uprising, and it dramatically moved the needle on a gauge of the Iranian people\u2019s prospects for overturning their existing government.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIran\u2019s Year of Uprising\u201d<\/div><\/div>
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