{"id":262560,"date":"2022-08-22T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262560"},"modified":"2023-02-04T23:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T22:22:57","slug":"recent-terrorist-threats-show-iranian-regime-is-incapable-of-negotiation-or-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/recent-terrorist-threats-show-iranian-regime-is-incapable-of-negotiation-or-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Terrorist Threats Show Iranian Regime Is Incapable of Negotiation or Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist activities have seen a recent upsurge, with Western authorities disrupting multiple assassination plots and investigating networks of Tehran\u2019s operatives that are focused on monitoring, defaming, and directly attacking expatriate dissidents throughout the world. Unfortunately, those counterterrorism actions have yet to result in consequences for the regime as a whole, or to prompt a shift away from Western policies that critics have labeled as tending toward \u201cappeasement<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last week, a 24-year-old man whose social media<\/a> had expressed admiration for the Revolutionary Guard Corps leaped onto the stage at a Western New York literary event, apparently intending to implement the 33-year-old fatwa through which the regime\u2019s first supreme leader called for the death of The Satanic Verses<\/em> author Salman Rushdie. The incident occurred just days after the US Department of Justice revealed details of an IRGC member\u2019s plot to assassinate former US national security advisor John Bolton.<\/p>\n

The previous month, Albanian authorities similarly revealed details of their operation targeting Tehran\u2019s spies<\/a> and would-be terrorists in that country, which is also home to the headquarters-in-exile for the leading Iranian opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. (PMOI\/MEK)<\/p>\n

On July 12, the Special Court for Combatting Corruption and Organized Crime issued search warrants for several properties associated with known and suspected agents of the Iranian regime. The ensuing raids, property seizures, and detentions were officially explained as being intended to prevent \u201cany possible terrorist attack\u201d.<\/p>\n

The danger of such an attack has been a matter of public record in Albania at least since March 2018, when authorities reportedly disrupted a plot to attack the MEK headquarters<\/a>, with a truck bomb. Just three months later, a very similar danger was exposed in Western Europe when four Iranian operatives including a high-ranking diplomat were caught attempting to bomb the international gathering of Iranian expatriates and political supporters which was organized just outside of Paris by the PMOI\u2019s parent coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.<\/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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