{"id":237046,"date":"2021-03-31T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237046"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:00:43","slug":"editorial-when-it-comes-to-policy-iran-nukes-vs-sanctions-relief-is-a-false-dichotomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-when-it-comes-to-policy-iran-nukes-vs-sanctions-relief-is-a-false-dichotomy\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: When It Comes To Policy, Iran Nukes vs Sanctions Relief Is a False Dichotomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For decades, the Iranian regime, taking advantage of the western powers’ conciliatory policy, has extorted its way out of every single international and regional crisis, using terrorism and blackmail. It blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, destroyed the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, took hostages from a colorful array of nations, hijacked ships and tankers, launched drone and ballistic missile attacks on neighboring countries, and at home slaughtered peaceful protesters, sniped intellectuals, assassinated dissidents, and the list just goes on and on.<\/p>\n

A 2009 BBC documentary<\/a> exposed a shocking conversation between the Iranian diplomatic delegation with their European counterparts. They brazenly said<\/a>: “Let us build our nuclear program, and we won’t kill your soldiers in Iraq.”<\/p>\n

These were precisely the types of activities, which the architects of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), claimed will be raising with Tehran. Nothing of the sort happened. The JCPOA was not a starting point but the end game in so far as the regime was concerned.<\/p>\n

Lacking legitimacy inside Iran, the mullahs have resorted to domestic suppression and egregiously violated the terms of the nuclear deal to project a position of power and gain the international ‘hands-off’ status they desperately need.<\/p>\n

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Iranian opposition reveals new details about Tehran\u2019s illicit nuclear program - March 2, 2021<\/div><\/div>
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