{"id":331349,"date":"2025-05-09T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=331349"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:42:44","slug":"a-crossroads-for-iran-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/a-crossroads-for-iran-and-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crossroads for Iran\u2014and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran, Iran’s capital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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For four decades, Iranians have watched an unelected elite trade our nation\u2019s future for missiles, militias, and clandestine centrifuges. Today, that gamble has reached its most dangerous point. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirms<\/a> that Tehran now holds enough 60<\/span>\u202f<\/span>percent-enriched uranium to fashion <\/span>several<\/span><\/i> bombs once the final technical steps are taken. Inside the country, many of us understand what that means: a permanent shadow of war over our cities, and a regime even more emboldened to crush dissent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington has sworn that <\/span>no<\/span><\/i> state sponsor of terrorism will be allowed to marry ideology with nuclear weapons, and Europe is openly weighing the \u201csnapback\u201d<\/a> of U.N. sanctions\u2014an automatic restoration of the penalties lifted by the 2015 deal. Our neighbors, who already endure drone strikes on tankers and energy facilities, warn that a nuclear threshold in Tehran could ignite a regional conflict no economy can absorb.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why does the world mistrust Tehran\u2019s pledges? Because the record since 2018 speaks for itself. After walking away from the JCPOA\u2019s limits, the authorities restarted 20<\/span>\u202f<\/span>percent enrichment, then leapt to 60<\/span>\u202f<\/span>percent, produced uranium metal, and blocked IAEA cameras. Each step contradicted the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali<\/a><\/span>\u202f<\/span>Khamenei\u2019s own <\/span>fatwa<\/span><\/i><\/a> claiming nuclear weapons are un-Islamic\u2014proof that religious edicts willfully yield to geopolitical calculation. The only forces that still restrain Khamenei are the prospect of devastating airstrikes and, consequently, the eventual uprising those strikes might spark among a population already primed for change.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We call on all governments and parliaments to recognize the Iranian people\u2019s right to overthrow this regime, and to support the rebellious youth in their struggle against the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
For decades, the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance have fought\u2014at\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/2CwqIeycdn<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n