NCRI – Despite “many shortages and unwarranted concessions” given to the clerical regime in Iran, the nuclear deal made earlier this week between the Iranian regime and the world powers forces the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to “retreat” from the red lines he had set in his nuclear policy, Iranian opposition spokesperson Shahin Gobadi has told the BBC.
“As Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian opposition, said, while circumventing the six UN Security Council resolutions and giving unwarranted concessions to the regime will not block the mullahs’ path to deception and access to the nuclear bomb; however, even such a small retreat by Khamenei will shatter his hegemony in the regime,” Mr. Gobadi, a spokesperson for the People’s Mojahedin, PMOI (or Mujahedin-e-Khalq, MEK), and a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told BBC Radio on Wednesday.
Mr. Gobadi said that allowing international inspection of Iranian sites was one of Khamenei’s red lines which the regime had crossed by accepting the deal.
“The nuclear weapons program was one of the pillars of the regime’s survival. Khamenei had always viewed this as a guarantor for the survival of his regime. That’s why he had invested in it so heavily for all these years.”
“The West because it lost a very unique opportunity to deprive the regime from the nuclear weapons program altogether. Given the weak position of the regime inside Iran – and the regime facing such a restive population at home – if the West had adopted a little tougher policy and had been a little more steadfast, they could have squandered the regime’s nuclear weapons program altogether and have relieved the world very much from this threat forever,” he added.
He also pointed out that the regime in Iran had failed to voluntarily admit to any of its nuclear facilities; rather, it had been forced to do so on each occasion following revelations of its secret sites by other sources, including by the organized opposition NCRI and PMOI (Mujahedin-e-Khalq, MEK).
“Verification is the key,” he said, adding that the international community should ensure that Tehran implements all the terms of the nuclear deal in the most “stringent” manner to prevent it from “playing around loopholes” in the agreement.
Based on information provided by the sources of the PMOI (MEK) within the Iranian regime, the NCRI was the first group to reveal to the world the regime’s nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak in 2002, but since then, the NCRI has exposed dozens of other Iranian nuclear sites and nuclear related projects of the regime to build a nuclear weapon.
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