{"id":230019,"date":"2020-11-21T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T10:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=230019"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:33:31","slug":"flood-of-information-about-irans-malign-activities-should-prompt-more-assertive-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/flood-of-information-about-irans-malign-activities-should-prompt-more-assertive-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood of Information About Iran\u2019s Malign Activities Should Prompt More Assertive Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This November has been marked by a remarkable number of milestones in Iranian affairs. Each one of them arguably provides further grounds for a more assertive turn in European policy toward the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

Last week, the third committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution<\/a> condemning Iran\u2019s human rights violations \u2013 the 67th resolution of its kind. That move closely coincided with the one-year anniversary of a major activist uprising<\/a> inside Iran, which led to a major crackdown on dissent and thus furnished additional evidence of the regime\u2019s contempt for human rights.<\/p>\n

This week, the US government imposed new sanctions on Iranian regime. And next Friday, the persistent danger of that foreign terrorism will be highlighted by the trial of four Iranian operatives who conspired to set off a bomb at a rally<\/a> in a Paris suburb.<\/p>\n

The connections among all of these developments are even stronger than they may appear on the surface. The terror plot in question, which was thwarted in June 2018 through the cooperation of multiple European authorities, had essentially developed as part of the same repressive strategy as was applied to the November uprising. That uprising was a sort of sequel to a similar nationwide protest movement that erupted in the final days of 2017 and led to rare acknowledgement of the prominent social role of a longstanding democratic opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The past three years\u2019 Iranian terror plots and domestic crackdowns have escalated in sequence because of growing fears over the MEK\u2019s challenge to the mullahs\u2019 hold on power. Though it lasted through much of January 2018, the first uprising was ultimately disrupted by a campaign of shootings, indiscriminate arrests, and torturous interrogations. Dozens of peaceful protesters were killed, but the message of the message of the uprising did not disappear. Instead, calls for regime change and slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d came to define a \u201cyear full of uprisings,\u201d as directed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran President-elect Maryam Rajavi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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