This time, unlike in 2019, Khamenei will not be able to easily suppress the uprising.

Khamenei a month ago in a sham election with the appointment of Ebrahim Ra’isi as his next president, and two weeks later with the appointment of Mullah Mohseni Ejei as head of the judiciary thought that he had unified his regime and thus It is more stable.

But last week, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization of Iran, the only organized opposition that poses a serious threat to overthrow Iran’s religious regime held an international gathering called Free Iran, which was held virtually and in which more than 50,000 Points in 105 countries of the world were connected. 

This extraordinary meeting that their supporters were able to attend together, showed that this organization is still a serious threat not only to the mullahs’ regime but also Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in her speech at the conference pledged to overthrow the ruling dictatorship of Iran and replace it with a free republic based on the separation of religion and state committed to the freedom and equality of all Iranians, as well as a nuclear-free Iran. 

In this gathering, which was held for 3 days on July 10-12, important personalities from different countries participated and spoke in support of the resistance of the Iranian people. These included Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State under Donald Trump, Mr. Jans Jansa, the current Prime Minister of Slovenia, more than 30 senators and current members of the US Congress, including Senator Menendez, Sen. Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in Congress, Dona Brazile, the former leader of the Democratic Party, dozens of senators, and former congressmen such as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and Sen. Robert Torricelli, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the time of the 9/11 attacks, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Adviser John Bolton, Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Former Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, Former Prime Minister of România Petre Roman, and many Former Foreign and Defense Ministers of France, Italy, Britain, Poland, etc., and many other important figures, each in their speeches condemning the Khamenei regime and in particular, the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 by Ebrahim Ra’isi, who was serving as a Tehran prosecutor and a member of the death team at the time, and expressed support for the Iranian resistance led by Maryam Rajavi.

“The Iranian people see the corrupt ruling theocracy as their real enemy and the first and most important cause of the economic crisis,” Pompeo said. “We must continue to support the Iranian people and, in the first instance, support the trial of Ebrahim Ra’isi for crimes against humanity because they are fighting for a free and a democratic Iran in any way they can”.

Mike Pompeo’s remarks angered the Iranian regime, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh targeting Pompeo with obscenities and insults. 

Slovenian Prime Minister Jans Jansha also said, “For 33 years the world had forgotten the 30,000 political prisoners massacred in 1988. This must change. Especially since the person who has been accused by Amnesty International of crimes against humanity has now become the President of Iran”.

Following this stance of the Slovenian Prime Minister, the Foreign Ministry of the Iranian regime summoned the Slovanian ambassador in Tehran to the Foreign Ministry out of anger and expressed his official protest against this stance. But later Foreign Ministry of Slovenia also summoned the Iranian ambassador in Ljubljana and announced that their policy stands for respecting human rights and condemning any human rights violations by any country.

“Shame on any government in the world to sit down and try to negotiate on any issue with the government headed by Ebrahim Raisi,” former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a speech condemning Raisi. 

Mr. John Berko also stressed the establishment of a free and democratic government in Iran that has no affiliation with the former monarchy and the current regime. 

In this gathering, despite the Iranian regime’s strict control over the Internet and the creation of an atmosphere of repression and suffocation inside Iran, messages of 1000  Mojahedin resistance units, were broadcasted from inside Iran, that announced their readiness for the final battle with the mullahs. 

This message, above all, frightens the revolutionary guards (Pasdaran), who is responsible for repressing the people, because they know that these messages show the Iranian people that there is an organized resistance in Iran that is ready to enter at the earliest opportunity, and with the help of the people to take control of the cities in a short time (like what happened in November 2019).

Of course, this time, unlike in 2019, Khamenei will not be able to easily suppress the uprising, and this time the uprising is more likely to end up overthrowing his regime.

Cyrus Yaqubi is a Research Analyst and Iranian Foreign Affairs Commentator investigating the social issues and economy of the middle east countries in general and Iran in particular.

Iran’s ongoing crimes against humanity have been swept under carpet by the EU for far too long.

Over the last four decades, European governments have implemented various policies toward Iran, but one thing has been made clear in this period: Appeasement of the ruling clergy only helps advance their hard-line agenda.

In 1992, the European powers experimented with a precarious policy toward Iran. They wagered that negotiating with the fundamentalist rulers of Tehran may end up changing their egregious behavior, especially at home. The regime’s human rights record was so appalling that Europe tried to rationalize its dicey rapprochement by pretending to have a “critical dialogue”.

At the end of the fatal experiment, however, not only had the regime not modified its behavior, but it had ramped up its human rights violations and conducted bold terrorist attacks on European soil.

The critical dialogue policy was suspended in 1997 after the German judiciary indicted senior Iranian regime officials over terrorist killings in that country. Even the most basic realpolitik lesson learned should have been that appeasement emboldens the regime and makes the situation worse.

Following that logical line of thought, dialogue should have been replaced by holding the regime accountable for its past actions in order to prevent future provocations. Shockingly, however, the European capitals doubled down on a more conciliatory approach, engaging Tehran in even broader negotiations beginning in the early 2000s, ostensibly tackling Iran’s clandestine nuclear program.

A few short years after the conclusion of that attempt in 2015, the Belgian judiciary is on track to repeat what German courts found 23 years ago, but on a much larger scale. Next month, regime diplomat Assadollah Assadi will be put on trial in a breathtaking case that sees him accused of direct involvement in a terrorist plot in France.

Prosecutors say that, in June 2018, Assadi delivered 500 grams of the powerful explosive triacetone triperoxide to his accomplices with the aim of bombing an Iranian opposition rally in Paris. Had the plot not been discovered at the very last minute, the terrorist act could have left hundreds dead, including international dignitaries and many European parliamentarians.

Those parliamentarians and many of their colleagues are now furious that the EU is continuing with its failed policies on Iran, even as the regime’s terrorist plots become more daring and the human rights situation worsens by the day. More than 40 European Parliament members, as well as national MPs in Poland and Germany, last week addressed the issue in Brussels and Berlin, respectively.

They vociferously condemned the regime’s terrorism and ongoing crimes against humanity. Insisting on action rather than words, they also urged their governments to live up to Europe’s political and moral obligations by adopting a firm policy toward the regime, including shutting down its embassies.
The keynote speaker and one of the main targets of the regime’s terrorism over the past two years, including a plot in Albania and the one in France, was Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

She echoed the parliamentarians’ sentiments and insisted there should be no doubt that the regime is inherently incapable of moderating its behavior, and that it should be overthrown by the Iranian people. This further highlighted the legitimacy and international recognition of the opposition as a viable democratic alternative. The NCRI’s message has had a meaningful impact both inside and outside Iran, forcing regime officials to warn about the growth of its reach and the drawing of the younger generation to its democratic 10-point plan.

Iran’s ongoing crimes against humanity have been swept under carpet by the EU for far too long. They are simply ignoring the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988, the executioners of which continue to hold senior positions in the Iranian government. And, when Tehran last year killed 1,500 protesters and arrested and tortured 12,000 others, Europe simply watched from afar, contenting itself with occasional statements of condemnation.

More importantly, after several failed and costly rounds of dangerous experimentation with policies of appeasement and negotiations, the Europeans continue to make the same mistakes. As the famous quote reminds us, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Individual European governments and the EU as a whole would do well to listen to the voices of the Iranian people.

To stop Tehran’s provocations, especially its terrorism, Europe must hold the regime accountable for its foreign adventurism and its reprehensible repression of dissent and peaceful protests at home.

What should a firm policy include as its core measures? The EU should adopt legislation to expel Iranian “diplomats” and intelligence agents like Assadi, who may be plotting further terrorist attacks. They should consider closing down Iranian embassies. And, most importantly, they should designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies as terrorist organizations.

When it comes to human rights, the EU should seek to send an independent international mission to investigate Iran’s ongoing crimes against humanity and visit the country’s prisons. It must tell Tehran that it should stop its executions before any further diplomatic engagement.

For once, Europe should adopt a sane policy on Iran: A policy that better detects Tehran’s threat while hearing the legitimate calls for democracy of the Iranian people. Otherwise, European insanity will continue to breed Iranian terrorism.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a Harvard-educated Iranian-American political scientist. He tweets under @Dr_Rafizadeh.

Article first published on Arab News.

Mojahedin newsagency reported that, the politicians of National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) will present new evidence obtained by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) inside Iran to prove the Iranian regime’s role in the September 14^th cruise missile and drone attacking targeting Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

“The press conference will shed further light on Tehran’s missile activities and warmongering,” it added.

PRESS CONFERENCE to Reveal Details of the Iranian Regime Attack on Saudi Oil Installations
Intelligence obtained by the MEK from inside the regime will be released.
Monday, Sept. 30, 10 am, at the National Press Club. RSVP required. To RSVP:https://t.co/WPJNqyog5p pic.twitter.com/0KCISoBErW

— NCRI-U.S. Rep Office (@NCRIUS) September 27, 2019

This press conference is set to begin at 10 am Eastern Standard Time (EST), 4 pm Central European Time, at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street, Washington DC.

U.S Secretary of State Department Mike Pompeo tweeted on the day of the attack that Iran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy.

Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy. Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) September 14, 2019

The leading opposition voice Maryam Rajavi tweeted that the clerical regime’s attack on Saudi oil installations is an act of war.

The clerical regime’s simultaneous missile and drone attacks from inside #Iran on oil installations in Saudi Arabia is an act of war. #FreeIranhttps://t.co/aBFN3HndB6 pic.twitter.com/6wGXVcanaS

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 18, 2019

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted that Iran is not interested in peace, while it’s creating havoc in the Middle-east.

Iranian supported Houthi rebels who attacked Saudi oil refineries is yet another example of how Iran is wreaking havoc in the Middle East. The Iranian regime is not interested in peace – they’re pursuing nuclear weapons and regional dominance. https://t.co/RElvTDFYb2

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 14, 2019

Saudi Aramco’s oil installations in Abqaiq in the eastern province were attacked by Iranian drones on September 14. Houthi militias in Yemen claimed the responsibility of the attacks, however initial investigations revealed that the attacks were made by Iran, and the Houthis took the responsibility to purposefully divert the attention.