{"id":262139,"date":"2022-08-08T13:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262139"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:21:00","slug":"wests-iran-policy-and-its-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-articles-analyses\/wests-iran-policy-and-its-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"West’s Iran Policy And Its Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Iranian Resistance has long advocated for regime change<\/a> as the only reliable means of solving problems created by Iran’s theocratic dictatorship. But for just as long, American and European lawmakers have continued to operate on the assumption that regime change is not attainable and that the clerical regime’s long-term hold on power is an indelible fact of geopolitics.<\/p>\n

That assumption has been reinforced by \u2013 and arguably grounded in \u2013 the Iranian regime’s own propaganda. Ever since the authorities killed thousands of Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) members during a massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988<\/a>, the regime has been acting as if there is no pro-democracy opposition to speak of. Countless state media broadcasts and scores of state-financed books and movies have written off that opposition as nothing more than a small “cult,” and their talking points have variously infiltrated global media and thereby influenced Western policy discussions.<\/p>\n

Albania’s Top Channel T.V., citing an Albanian intelligence source, disclosed on August 2, 2022:\u00a0“In addition to the cyber-attack in Albania, the extra-territorial intelligence unit of the (IRGC’s) Quds Force secret operations also dispatched secret agents to vilify MEK members. To this end, this unit also attempted to infiltrate into the Albanian media.” Reads a statement<\/a> by NCRI on August 3, 2022.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It is a well-known fact that\u00a0<\/em>Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) secretly recruits former MEK members and instructs them to act as opposition to the regime while being critical of the MEK. This has been one of the main tactics of the regime to pursue its demonizing campaign against the MEK.<\/p>\n

On July 15, Albanian media reported that 20 Iranians have been under investigation by local authorities and anti-terrorism units on suspicion of espionage, based on orders of Albania’s Special Courts against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK\u2014GJKKO). “At the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, inspections are being carried out in their apartments,” according to one\u00a0report<\/a>. The investigation into these individuals has continued for four years, according to the\u00a0BalkanWeb website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The main goal of this campaign has been to say that the regime has no alternative and the right policy towards the regime in the engagement and efforts to force the regime to change its behavior.<\/p>\n

The resulting policies have shown a troubling tendency toward appeasement of the Iranian regime since European and American leaders have persisted in viewing themselves as having little choice other than to deal with the regime on its own terms or else risk a long, devastating war aimed at driving the mullahs from power.<\/p>\n

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To deal with Tehran\u2019s threats, the world should stand with Iran\u2019s people<\/div><\/div>
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