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The confrontation between different ruling factions in Iran over the futile Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after three years, shows the dead-end the Iranian regime finds itself stuck in as the sanctions regime and international isolation of the regime intensifies.<\/p>\n
The grandiosely hyped deal between Iran and the P5+1 countries, which was supposed to cure the Iranian regime\u2019s impasses\u2014especially the economic one\u2014has turned into a corpse which Tehran doesn\u2019t know what to do with.<\/p>\n
From day one, economic suffocation was the single most important reason why the Iranian mullahs\u2014and their Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the forefront\u2014sat behind the negotiation table. Now, at the doorsteps of the third anniversary of the agreement, the nuclear deal has become a self-defeating venture that has backfired against the mullahs themselves.<\/p>\n
The JCPOA was a point of disagreement between the different ruling factions of the regime from the outset but when the current U.S. administration pulled out of the deal and the economic benefits that the mullahs have reaped over the past years started to evaporate, things started to change.<\/p>\n
In a bid to debunk rivals\u2019 arguments, Javad Zarif, Hassan Rouhani\u2019s foreign minister, recently said that the goal of the deal wasn\u2019t economic at all.<\/p>\n
The Assembly of Experts, a powerful supervising body close to Khamenei, didn\u2019t agree with this viewpoint in its recent statements: \u201cOfficials, especially the foreign ministry, are expected to act with regards to the nuclear deal to lift the sanctions. The goal of the negotiations is specifically to unconditionally lift all the economic, financial, banking, and nuclear sanctions completely and one shouldn\u2019t back down on this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The January 17 statement further says that the foreign minister, and contrary to the stated path of the negotiations by Ali Khamenei, \u201chas announced that he goal of the JCPOA was not economic and lifting the sanctions. This means backing down in front of the enemy and aberration from the main guidelines of the negotiations that was lifting the sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the same day, Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts and the Guardian Council, attacked Rouhani\u2019s faction and said that \u201cbeing hopeful of the Europeans to do their JCPOA obligations is stupidity\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome say that after the U.S. leaving the JCPOA, Europeans will do something for us, while they drag their feet and will never do anything in our favor,\u201d Jannati said.<\/p>\n
Although he was lying but he revealed the Islamic Republic\u2019s true fear of the existential threat it feels and said: \u201cThe very same France invites [MEK\/PMOI] and organizes a summit for them, and hosts them and empowers them against the Islamic Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jannati even took one step further than Khamenei and said: \u201cThe Supreme Leader has said that if they tear up the JCPOA, we are going to burn it but we didn\u2019t and now [is the time] to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mohsen Kouhkan, an Iranian MP, also referred to statements by some individuals close to Rouhani\u2019s faction arguing that they should continue negotiations with Europe about Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles program and said: \u201cWe went down the pit of the JCPOA with the rotten rope of the Europeans and these people need to first say what benefits we had from the JCPOA so that we continue these negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regardless of the opposing interests between different factions about the JCPOA, the fact is that the deal has turned into a problem for the Iranian regime and they don\u2019t know how to deal with it.<\/p>\n
Mohsen Jalilvand, an Iranian analyst close to the conservatives sums it up and says: \u201cWe should do our funeral prayers for the JCPOA and we should think about post-JCPOA. It\u2019s very strange that Iran is still waiting for the JCPOA to revive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: www.mojahedin.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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