There had previously been numerous announcements by the regime’s officials that the regime has successfully begun the production of various missiles and submarines as well as tested space rockets and produced ammunition. In another such comical act, the regime showed areas of southern Iran to be used as mass graves for US troops should they attack Iran.
On August 18, Khamenei, the regime’s bankrupt supreme leader, announced that the mullahs “Will not give up the right to build nuclear plants and to produce the required fuel inside the country”. In an idiotically exaggerated threat he added that the mullahs’ regime will, “respond to any pressure in its own way … and the scope will not be limited to our region but it will extend to a broader area”. He described the regime’s expansionist policies of support for terrorism and export of fundamentalism as “a successful political experience in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world”. He added that, “it’s indicative of an upward trend in Iran’s influence”. A few days later, Ahmadinejed went beyond what his master had said and claimed that, “The response will be global”.
The mullahs’ bankrupt political establishment, fearful of the ever-increasing impact of international sanctions, is using such shows to prevent the adoption of an international firm policy as well as to try to give hope to its disillusioned and frightened domestic forces and to avert further deepening splits within its political base while increasing suppression of those who have risen up against the regime.
The political demise of the faltering regime would be accelerated and it would fall from inside if it were to retreat from the nuclear weapons project or to slow down its support for terrorism and for the export of fundamentalism. Otherwise it had to face a standoff with the international community. This is the mortal dead-end for a regime whose downfall is sought by a great majority of the Iranian people.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 23, 2010