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Nikki Haley: Iran Regime Continues to Cause the Most Havoc, Around the World

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The United States is currently trying to control the very real threat posed by the Iranian Regime, with various White House officials coming out to denounce the Regime for its support of terrorism and destabilisation of the Middle East.

The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said: “[Iran is] the country that continues to cause the most havoc, whether it’s Syria, whether it’s Iraq, any place around the world you look at Iran, and you see there is a bad influence, and being that state sponsor of terrorism is something we don’t want to reward.”

While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said: “Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and is responsible for intensifying multiple conflicts and undermining U.S. interests in countries such as Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon, and continuing to support attacks against Israel… An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea, and take the world along with it… Iran’s provocative actions threaten the United States, the region, and the world… Iran continues to have one of the world’s worst human rights records.”

But strong rhetoric alone will not make even make the mullahs blink, so what could solve the Iran problem?

Shahriar Kia, a human rights activist and political analyst affiliated with the Iranian Resistance, wrote an op-ed for the American Thinker in which he laid out the only best way for the United States to achieve change in Iran: support the Resistance forces.

He wrote that there was no point in pandering to the Regime and playing along with good cop/bad cop routine, whereby the Regime pretends that it has moderates within it and if they are appeased, then the Regime will be more moderate.

He wrote: “Events in Iran throughout the past four decades clearly show there are no ‘moderates’ to be found inside this regime, and until the mullahs’ establishment is out of power, we will not witness any change from within. This is exactly why, over 40 years, be it during the tenure of ‘hardliners’, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or the so-called moderates seen in former president Mohammad Khatami, and the incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s official policy has continued to focus on exporting crisis and terrorism abroad, quelling down domestic dissent, and continuing efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.”

The Regime likes to pretend that there is no opposition to their rule, but these are lies. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) is a democratic, coalition, opposition group, which enjoys wide support both in Iran and the world in general, while the Regime suffers constant protests against its brutal rule and is unpopular with many governments around the world.

If the Regime truly believed that the NCRI and it’s biggest single group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), were not a credible opposition then why not let them run for office? Why not let them hold rallies? Why imprison, torture and kill their supporters?

Kia wrote: “Despite the Iranian regime launching killings sprees and massacring more than 30,000 PMOI/MEK members and supporters in the summer of 1988, this organisation has remained the most powerful Iranian opposition movement enjoying networks in cities across Iran. Senior Iranian regime officials have admitted time and again how the PMOI/MEK network organised the massive 2009 rallies without leaving a trace behind. And currently, Iranian officials are terrified of a 2009 repeat in the upcoming May 19th presidential election.”

The Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi presented a 10-point plan for a democratic, secular and non-nuclear Iran, which focused on universal human rights, gender equality, freedom of religion, revoking the death penalty, banning torture and respecting all international covenants.

If Western leaders do not accept the Resistance as the key to bringing democracy to Iran, then Kia warns that the past will simply repeat itself.