{"id":255225,"date":"2022-02-03T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=255225"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:31:33","slug":"irans-regime-naval-terrorism-warrant-more-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/irans-regime-naval-terrorism-warrant-more-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Iran\u2019s Regime Naval Terrorism Warrants More Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest revelations<\/a> by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) about the Iranian regime’s dangerous attempts to disrupt international maritime activity should serve as a wake-up call for Western governments. Tehran has significantly expanded its maritime terrorism using foreign mercenaries from the Middle East and Africa, especially in Yemen.<\/p>\n

This shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. The economy is tanking, and the regime is facing a multitude of irremediable social, political, and economic crises at home and is unable to stem the tide of expanding and continuing protests virtually by every sector of the Iranian society. Since December 2017, there have been eight major nationwide uprisings, the common theme of which has been the popular demand to overthrow the regime.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the elimination of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani<\/a> in January 2020 damaged the regime’s influence in regional hotspots like Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, ceaseless rounds of concessions by the West toward the regime and the refusal to hold the theocracy accountable for its terrorism and horrendous domestic repression have emboldened Tehran. Now, the regime wants to blackmail the international community by resorting to piracy in strategic waterways. The main goal is to cover up its fundamental weaknesses at home and put on a hollow show of force.<\/p>\n

At its press conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the NCRI released a report uncovering previously undisclosed details about a new unit that provides maritime terrorist training to regional proxies. The naval unit operates within the regime’s Quds Force, the extraterritorial terrorist arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> (IRGC).<\/p>\n

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PRESS CONFERENCE: NCRI Unveils IRGC Quds Force\u2019s Proxy Naval Terror Units<\/div><\/div>
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