{"id":262778,"date":"2022-08-27T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262778"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:31:57","slug":"irans-regime-president-actually-did-deliver-what-he-was-missioned-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/irans-regime-president-actually-did-deliver-what-he-was-missioned-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime President Actually Did Deliver What He Was Missioned For"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian Resistance supporters hold a rally in Washington, D.C., calling for a ban on Ebrahim Raisi’s trip to the U.S. for the upcoming UN General Assembly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In recent weeks, there has been a veritable outpouring of terrorist threats<\/a> from the regime ruling Iran. That fact should serve as a wake-up call to Western officials regarding both recent and longstanding failures of Iran policy. Even if it has no impact on the pending agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, it should at least prompt the West to turn away from the underlying assumption of good faith on Tehran’s part and to recognize that by treating Iran as a normal country, they only embolden the behaviors that mark it as anything but.<\/p>\n

Since Ebrahim Raisi was appointed by the regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei as the new president, the overall climate of repression intensified throughout the country. Khamenei had selected Raisi for the presidency on the expectation that he would implement practices similar to those which guided the 1988 massacre.<\/p>\n

Naturally, this entails phenomena like mass arrests and the rapid implementation of capital sentences. But there is also a foreign policy component to the regime’s repression of dissent, and this has proven to be important in the face of multiple uprisings over the past several years. The first of these, in January 2018<\/a>, prompted Khamenei to deliver a speech in which he acknowledged that the \u00a0Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK) had played a major role in organizing the nationwide protests and promoting slogans like “death to the dictator,\u201d which communicated popular demand for regime change.<\/p>\n

Concerns about the MEK’s growing influence have been apparent ever since, and they have led to attacks not only on its “Resistance Units<\/a>” inside Iran but also on its members and affiliates throughout the world. In March 2018, Albanian authorities disrupted a plot to deploy a truck bomb against the MEK compound in that country. And in June, a number of European law enforcement bodies uncovered a plot to infiltrate and bomb an international rally that was organized near Paris by the NCRI.<\/p>\n

In mid-July this year, the MEK was forced to postpone a planned rally at Ashraf 3, after Albanian authorities identified credible threats of attack by Iranian intelligence operatives. Those threats were disrupted in large part by the enactment of search warrants issued by an Albanian court specializing in organized crime, which then revealed that it had been investigating a local Iranian intelligence and terror network since the time of the 2018 bomb plot.<\/p>\n

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Raisi is a mass murderer and a key member of the #1988massacre<\/a> of political prisoners in #Iran<\/a>
UN is not a place for mass murderers#NoVisa4Raisi<\/a>#VictimsOfTerrorism<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/u5c9FOAaKi<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n