{"id":233594,"date":"2021-01-23T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=233594"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:18:09","slug":"irans-zarif-proposes-cooperation-in-middle-east-while-regime-continues-provocative-terrorist-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/irans-zarif-proposes-cooperation-in-middle-east-while-regime-continues-provocative-terrorist-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Zarif Proposes Cooperation in Middle East, While Regime Continues Provocative Terrorist Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Simultaneous with its rising provocative and terrorist activities, the regime in Iran blatantly speaks of cooperation in the Middle East to secure peace and stability.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported<\/a> today that Iranian regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/a> in an interview with state-run Etemad daily has said Iran may cooperate with the United States on oil and security in the Gulf, \u2026but we \u201cwill not allow you to interfere in (Iran’s) internal affairs, but we have no problem working with you on the question of oil. We have no problem with ensuring the security of the Persian Gulf, though we believe that foreign presence in the Persian Gulf causes insecurity and you should not be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zarif remarks come at a time when the Iranian regime\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC<\/a>) has conducted several military exercises within the last few weeks. On Friday, January 15, the IRGC unveiled its new missiles and drones during a maneuver in central Iran.<\/p>\n

IRGC Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the IRGC aerospace commander, on this show-off, said these \u201cmissiles are the tools to produce power and security for the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hajizadeh bragged about the role of IRGC\u2019s missiles in providing \u201cpower and security\u201d to people, even while IRGC surface-to-air missiles had downed<\/a> a Ukrainian passenger jet in January 2020, killing 176 innocent passengers.<\/p>\n

The regime\u2019s power exhibition comes in the wake of two major uprisings in Iran within the last two years. The regime brutally suppressed these movements and briefly prevented another uprising, using its inhumane coronavirus policy. Yet, the ongoing protests across Iran, with people identifying the regime as the real source of their problems, show the regime has failed in its quest to control the restive society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe society\u2019s outrage is slowly building up, and we cannot predict what will happen when this hatred explodes. But what we know for sure is that this piled-up hatred will one day explode and can turn into a massive blow [to the regime],\u201d wrote the state-run Ebtekar daily on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

To boost the morale of its forces, on one hand, and to have leverage for lifting the sanctions, on the other hand, the regime resorts to this hollow exhibition of power. The regime\u2019s so-called military exercises are due to the regime\u2019s weakness, not its strength.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the regime\u2019s so-called \u201cmoderate\u201d Foreign Minister Zarif worked closely with the eliminated head of the IRGC Quds Force Qassem Soleimani<\/a> and said he \u201cnever felt they had any differences\u201d as they conspired together to pursue the same foreign policy objectives via two distinct means.<\/p>\n

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Iran FM Javad Zarif, and Chieftain terrorist Qassem Soleimani, two side of the same coin<\/div><\/div>
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