Why Iran Needs to Fuel Middle East Turmoil

Why Iran Needs to Fuel Middle East Turmoil

when I heard news about ISIS attack in Iran, I was shocked because we all Iranian know that it is not easy to do an arrangement to enter parliament. Actually, when people want to pass, they can't pass through without several checkpoints and even cannot carry a needle with them through in process checkpoint. As I am an Iranian I was a witness much time inside Iran. The Iranian regime has repeatedly carried out terrorist operations inside Iran and also in the region to show up guilty PMOI and to find out a solution to get out from crises. To be more awareness please follow the article.

by Heshmat Alavi

We have witnessed over the past four decades Iran’s desperate need to create turmoil inside its own borders and abroad to quell dissent, justifying all measures to achieve this.
Through such a perspective we can analyze the unseen truth behind the events of the June 7th twin ISIS attacks in Tehran. The surfacing of more facts and evidence have raised speculation that this entire turn of events was a scenario blueprinted by Tehran.
Both parties benefited, with Tehran finding pretexts to portray itself the victim of terrorism and to thus justify any and all following actions domestically and abroad. And for ISIS, suffering major setbacks in Iraq and Syria, staging such an attack in the heart of Tehran would be a necessary boost in morale amongst its dwindling rank and files.

Focusing on the needs of the Iranian regime, the aftermath of last month’s presidential election resulted in escalated factional disputes. A resulting domino effect allowed increasing voices of protests in cities across the country, making the ruling apparatus desperate for elevating the security clampdown.
The recent US Senate 98-2 vote levying significant sanctions on Iran have also sounded major alarm bells amongst the mullahs.Turning the attention outside of Iran’s borders, this regime is seen plunging an already war-torn Middle East into further despair through warmongering. This is especially regarding Syria, Iraq and Yemen.To read more click here

Faux Elections in Iran and Freedom for the Iranian People

By:Tanter 
couple days ago I was searching on the internet. I was thinking about my country Iran. I was concern about Iran future and it was my question if the Mullahs to be an overthrow, after that who are going to take over the power, suddenly I saw an article about Iran future and that article convince me not to worry about Iran in future because there is a group as know MEK can be instead of Mullahs. I submit to you this article talking about PMOI please take a look at it. 

Iran held its latest national elections in May 2017, resulting in a second term for President Hassan Rouhani. But the country’s banned democratic opposition groups, mainly the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), read more click here

As you know Rouhani wants to circle the sanction but yesterday, The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation that would impose new U.S. sanctions that would target Iran's ballistic missile program, its support for terrorism and human rights violations, and yet it would still comply with the Iranian nuclear deal. Rouhani tries to bring back the same situation as was before this is a rift at top of the leadership in Mullahs regime. you can follow an article to find out your answers.

The Iran Opportunity Before the Arab World

By: Shahriar Kia

A new US president has symbolized a new foreign policy, particularly when it comes to dealing with Iran. The US is resetting the table, both militarily and diplomatically.

During the election campaign, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged to focus his second term on lifting non-nuclear sanctions. Whether he will be successful is something yet to be seen, considering it was the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who green-lighted the nuclear talks back in 2012, before Rouhani’s term, and his blessing was needed in the entire process.

Having non-nuclear sanctions lifted is conditioned on Khamenei willing to endure major setbacks, as he did in the nuclear deal. However, the international community will be raising major demands from Iran to bring an end to its support for terrorism and exporting warmongering, put a lid on its ballistic missile program and begin respecting human rights by ending executions and torture. London, 13 Jun – The US House of Representatives has passed a bill condemning the 1988 Iranian massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.

Resolution 188, officially titled: The condemnation of the Iranian government for the massacre of political prisoners in 1988 and the invitation to call for justice for the victims, is a rare example of a bill that receives bipartisan support in an increasingly partisan Congress.

While these conditions are obvious, the signs seen from Iran and the region are signaling noteworthy developments and changes.

“We will test our missiles whenever needed, waiting for no one’s permission,” Rouhani said in response to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Riyadh, saying Iran must end its ballistic missile tests. Rouhani’s remarks are a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231.

“In the region, Iran has been able to stand in the face of terrorism… sending its diplomats and military advisors to Iraq, Syria and other nations…,” Rouhani said in response to both US President Donald Trump and his top diplomat as they both demanded Tehran bring an end to its terrorism in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, and end its financial support for the Lebanese Hezbollah and other proxy groups checkered in the region.

read more: ISIS Claims it Attacked Iran 

Digging deeper, the very nature of the mullahs’ regime, with Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards – IRGC – calling all the serious shots, will make such developments impossible.

Just one day prior to Iran’s recent presidential “election”, in Syria, the IRGC dispatched a column of proxy forces to take over a base near the town of Tanef, near the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border. Syrian opposition and US Special Forces are stationed on this site. In response, marking a major development, the US launched an airstrike targeting the incoming force and sending very important signals across the region.

Further steps were taken when international coalition warplanes struck a Hezbollah base in Syria’s Deir Ezzur. This marked the second incident in a week when the US targeted positions associated with Iran’s militias in Syria, including Hezbollah.

While Iran enjoyed the ability to harass US Navy ships in international waters during Obama’s tenure, recent episodes have been a wake-up call for Tehran. A US Navy warship fired warning shots towards an approaching IRGC boat. US Navy 5th Fleet spokesman said the warship transmitted numerous messages to the boat and was forced to resort to warning shots.

In the meantime, a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis, another Iranian proxy, was shot down by Saudi missile air defense systems. And despite numerous failures, Iran has raised the level of its support for the Houthis, as troubling reports show Tehran is smuggling chemical weapons to Yemen.

This is exactly why Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir emphasized the Arab World will judge Iran by its actions, not words. “Iran is planning terrorist networks in Arab countries, supplying arms to militias seeking to disrupt our security,” he said, adding “Tehran has been refusing al-Qaeda leaders for more than 15 years and facilitate their measures.”

Decades of experience have proven Iran’s mullahs only understand the language of force. As the Arabic Islamic American summit came to its finale, reports indicated the establishment of a 34,000-strong military force aimed at confronting terrorism, set to begin operations in early 2018.

Iranian opposition Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed the new initiatives and called on the international community to specifically end all relations with the mullahs’ regime, expel its representatives from international organizations, blacklist the IRGC and the slate of its associated paramilitary, and have them evicted from the entire region.

Rajavi also welcomed the approval of a sanctions resolution against the Iranian regime by the US Senate in unison with the House of Representatives. She described the move as an imperative and significant step to prevent the medieval regime from obtaining nuclear weapons. She expressed hope that the US government would immediately implement the resolution.

The status quo has provided the international community – particularly the US – the opportunity to stand on the right side of history, alongside the Iranian people in their struggle against the mullahs’ regime.

Recent Iran Attacks

yesterday I was shopping in a market and faced with a newspaper that inside it was an article about the recent attack on Iran. I would like to share this interesting article with you.

Al Arabiya English Op-Ed: Khamenei and IRGC Capitalizing on Recent Iran Attacks

 Monday, 12 June 2017 16:25

Khomeini grave

The remarks made by the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can be viewed as seeking to capitalize on the recent attacks in Tehran that left 17 dead and dozens more wounded, according to a new column published on Al Arabiya English.

“If the Islamic Republic had not taken a stance in the center of all this sedition, we would have experienced many problems inside the country,” Khamenei said in reference to his regime’s meddling in Syria. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), being the main lever at Khamenei’s disposal to pursue his policies, is also seeking its own interests.

The IRGC, being one of the main parties involved in developments inside Iran and the region, suffered damages in the recent attack and is seeking its own share of profit, dissident Iranian writer Heshmat Alavi wrote on Monday for Al Arabiya English.

He argued that the IRGC’s image also endured a major blow in the recent presidential election in Iran and more recently after a US Senate vote seeking more sanctions. In response, Tehran will seek to capitalize on this turn of events as a major platform to justify launching future measures.

Alavi further wrote:

Following US President Donald Trump’s visit to the region and the severing of diplomatic ties by numerous Arab countries with Qatar, a known ally of Iran in the region, Tehran needed desperately to portray itself a victim of terrorism and pave a necessary path in this regard.

The IRGC is also terrified of even the slightest influence enjoyed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Khamenei’s opinion and decisions. The recent attacks in Tehran can be described as a nail in the coffin for Khamenei to show any softness. This is exactly what the IRGC needed at this particular timing.

For a variety of reasons the IRGC will profit from establishing a certain high security atmosphere inside the country. Firstly, to begin an initiative to pressure Rouhani’s cabinet, and secondly, preparing the grounds for determining Khamenei’s successor, an issue discussed extensively in different circles across Iran.

“To those who sacrifice the country’s security, destiny and interests for short-term and factional political gains, have they learned nothing from the recent attacks? This incident should be considered a major wake-up call for those involved in politics, to know we are all sailing in the same ship here,” a piece read in the Kayhan daily, known to be Khamenei’s mouthpiece.

The IRGC also sought to target the main source threatening the very existence of the mullahs’ regime. “This terrorist incident is similar to the crimes committed by the infidels in the 1980s,” the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency wrote. Infidels is the term used in the Iranian regime apparatus for the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

“Now we must decide what actions must be taken to confront the terrorists. The judiciary and security forces must arrest these criminals, prosecute and execute them,” the piece reads, further signaling how the IRGC will seek to justify upcoming crackdown measures against an already restive Iranian society.

“Those who are against our struggles in Iraq and Syria should come to realize how sweet security is, and how bitter is insecurity,” the piece continued.

Eyewitness have pressed on the suspicious nature of this attack, especially armed assailants being able to enter the parliament building with assault rifles and vests full of explosives.

“They wouldn’t even allow us take a pen inside. They just said we will take your papers and documents upstairs. How can armed men come into the legislative building? There were no security guards and no security equipment,” one injured man said to Iran’s Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi. Similar conflicting reports were also witnessed in other state and IRGC media outlets.

“Iran’s Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council said those involved in these attacks were of Iranian nationality. Whereas other state media, including Tabnak website affiliated to former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaie, the accent heard from the terrorists indicated these individuals were not Iranian Arabs, but most certainly of foreign nationality,” according to the Tabnak website.

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence also issued a statement announcing the first names of five of the assailants, refusing, for some reason, not to mention their last names.

On a broader scale, Iran also failed to prevent a highly significant US Senate initiative seeking to impose new sanctions on Iran. This regime has been described a destabilizing entity and if such a bill gains final approval after the 92-7 initial stage setting vote, Iran’s IRGC will be blacklisted as a foreign terrorist organization.

Was it a coincidence that Tehran’s attacks took place only hours before the Senate planned its bill discussion and a number of known regime lobbyists went the distance to delay the measure? You be the judge. As a final thought, this entire string of developments have played into the hands of Iran’s Khamenei and IRGC.

The Iranian regime desperately needs such an open hand to have any hope of confronting the status quo, especially since the Trump administration has yet to define its Iran policy, the future of the Iran nuclear deal is in questions, sanctions will not be lifted from Iran and Washington will most likely be demanding concessions from Tehran in the region.