{"id":343753,"date":"2026-03-23T18:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=343753"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:40:40","slug":"neither-appeasement-nor-war-will-free-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/neither-appeasement-nor-war-will-free-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Appeasement\u00a0Nor\u00a0War Will Free Iran\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Destroyed buildings and damaged vehicles in Tehran at Bagheri Highway and Tahamtan Street after a midday bombing on March 16, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three-minute read<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For too long, the world treated the clerical regime in Tehran as a problem to be managed rather than a dictatorship to be confronted. The policy of appeasement was stretched to the breaking point. Every concession was justified in the name of stability. Every warning was dismissed as alarmism. Every delay was defended as diplomacy. But the result of this strategy is now impossible to\u00a0deny:\u00a0appeasement did not moderate<\/a> the regime, restrain its ambitions, or make the region safer. It gave the mullahs time, money, legitimacy, and room to expand their machinery of repression at home and terrorism abroad.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Iranian regime used that breathing space exactly as the Iranian resistance said it would. It did not become more pragmatic. It became more aggressive. It tightened its grip on Iranian society while deepening its investment in proxy warfare, ideological radicalization, and regional destabilization. This was never merely a foreign-policy posture. It was a doctrine of survival. The regime has always understood that when its internal crisis sharpens, it must redirect attention outward. When the ground trembles under its feet in Iran, it tries to set the region on fire.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the proper context in which October 7, 2023, must be understood<\/a>. The attacks were not simply another eruption in a long regional conflict. They also\u00a0served\u00a0the strategic interests of a regime facing the ever-present danger of nationwide uprising. Tehran has long relied on the export of crisis as a method of self-preservation. In effect, it\u00a0sought\u00a0to push its own survival crisis beyond its borders. Instead of confronting the growing rage of the Iranian people, it bet on regional war, mass trauma, and strategic confusion.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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EU leaders\u2019 policy of appeasement has emboldened #Iran<\/a>\u2019s regime to carry out acts of terror on European soil. The explosives that Javad Zarif\u2019s \u2018diplomat\u2019 tried to use at the #FreeIran2018<\/a> Paris event was same type that ISIS used in France & Belgium. #ExpelIranDiplomatTerrorists<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/dkZ5tDxv51<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) October 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n