NCRI – The growing international consensus on referring the mullahs’ nuclear file to the UN Security Council is a major development in dealing with the regime in the world community. The regime’s internal consolidation of power, increased internal repression, and de facto declaration of war on the international community, is an indication of its increased sense of vulnerability in the final phase of its rule in Iran. The regime’s international isolation, is a consequence of the new belligerence emanating from Tehran, and is considered to be a political turning point. It also necessarily advances the Iranian national resistance to bring down the religious tyranny.
Tehran’s totalitarian regime feels a need to go on the attack in order to fend off threats to its existence, according to regime’s strategists like Javad Larijani, mullahs’ chief nuclear negotiator, and Mohammad Khatami, former president, otherwise it could implode.
The export of Islamic fundamentalism to Iraq, intensification of efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and continued internal consolidation of power, are all aspects of the regime’s dilemma. The Iranian Resistance has in contrast blocked the regime’s aggressive strategy with its principled policies.
The Iranian people and resistance movement have persistently called for a referral of the mullahs’ nuclear file to the UN Security Council and welcome this as a move in support of democratic change in Iran to end religious dictatorship and establish freedom and democracy in Iran.
Opposing a UNSC referral stands the clerical regime and its apologists who have vested interests in maintaining the regime, in clear conflict with the interests of the Iranian people and the growth of democracy in the region. To this end, the anti-referral front speaks about the disadvantages of a UN referral and sanctions, and accentuates difficulties that sanctions might pose for ordinary Iranians. However such an argument is feeble and will fail because sanctions will deprive the regime of the means with which it suppresses the Iranian people and blackmails the international community and is inevitable due to efforts of Iran’s organized resistance and its supporters inside Iran and across the world.
As the campaign to refer the clerical regime’s nuclear file to the Security Council gains ground, supporters of democracy in Iran and peace and security in the region and the world should redouble their efforts to end appeasement and push Tehran’s nuclear file and human rights record before the UN Security Council. This would be the first step in isolating the regime which has suppressed the Iranian nation for two decades and poses unacceptable threats to regional and international peace and security.
The policy of appeasement and all its vestiges against Iranian democracy and world peace should be abandoned. The most harmful aspect of this failed policy has been the terrorist designation of the People’s Mojahedin and denial of the Iranian people’s inalienable right to resist against a brutal dictatorship.
Advocates of appeasement who now openly admit to its failure should act promptly to remove the terror tag from the People’s Mojahedin as a moral duty and recognize its right
