A special consultative meeting was held in Tehran last week, headed by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. The meeting was attended by former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who called for the Iranian regime to enter into a new comprehensive political dialogue with the West, including the US, to normalize relations and end the diplomatic discord that has persisted since the Islamic Revolution brought the mullahs to power in 1979. It was a blatant attempt to relaunch the tired, old, hard-line versus moderate fairy tale that has been a hallmark of Ali Akbar Salehi’s tactics for years.
Salehi successfully persuaded the West that he represented a ‘moderate’ faction within the Iranian regime’s hierarchy when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs under the rule of former ultra-hard-line conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He tried to re-emphasize his credentials as a restrained and mild-mannered soft-liner when he assumed the presidency of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, during former President Hassan Rouhani’s term in office. For the mullahs to trot out Salehi once again in an effort to hoodwink the West, is a sign of their growing desperation.
Western media and politicians have fallen for this subterfuge repeatedly. But the Iranian people know the truth. In frequent street protests they could often be heard chanting “Reformists and hardliners the game is over.” The Iranian people know that all of the mullahs are the same. They are all venally corrupt criminals, who are clinging to power by their fingernails, relying on the brutality of the IRGC, the regime’s Gestapo, and their militia thugs the Basij, to crush dissent. The people recognise that Tehran’s clerical leadership has to rely on coercion, repression, and lethal force in managing its domestic and international affairs. Its external aggression and internal brutality underline its determination to stave off all threats to the regime.
The truth is there are no reformists. It is the hardliners who rule Iran, and it is an ultra-hardliner, handpicked by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the current president. Ebrahim Raisi, dubbed ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ because of his notorious role as an executioner, has spearheaded the crackdown on protesters during the nationwide uprising that began following the murder in custody of Mahsa Amini last September. He has condoned the killing of 750 protesters by the IRGC and the Basij and the arrest of 30,000. He has launched a frenzy of executions in an attempt to terrify the Iranian population into submission. He has ordered the re-emergence of the hated morality police to punish women who fail to follow the mullahs’ absurd misogynist dress code. And he has embarked on a world tour of pariah states like Venezuela, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe, to burnish his credentials as a leading violator of human rights. This is the regime that Salehi serves.
An Iraqi by birth, Ali Akbar Salehi has beguiled western politicians with his flair for languages, speaking fluent English, Arabic and Farsi. His degree in physics from the American University in Beirut and PhD in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, positioned him as an American-trained academic. When the main Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran/Mojahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), revealed the regime’s clandestine nuclear weapons program at a press conference in Washington in 2002, it shocked western powers to the core. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was called in to conduct inspections and in 2009 Salehi was sanctioned by both the EU and the UK for his involvement in the covert plan. The EU, in a typical act of appeasement, lifted their sanctions when Salehi was appointed as Foreign Minister in 2010. Following his assignment as head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization by President Rouhani, Salehi was again sanctioned and subjected to travel bans by the EU and UK and also by the US, on the back of further revelations by the IAEA.
Despite his conniving and devious reputation, Salehi was nevertheless embraced by western powers, when he emerged as a key negotiator at the ill-fated Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear talks instituted by Barack Obama in 2015. The one-sided nuclear deal related mainly to the lifting of sanctions in Iran. In return the West got very little, apart from a few scant paragraphs detailing Iranian cooperation in slowing down its nuclear enrichment process for a period of eight years. It was a very bad deal for the West and a breakthrough deal for Iran. The JCPOA released over $150 billion in assets that were frozen under the sanctions, re-vitalizing the broken Iranian economy and enabling the theocratic regime to re-double its international terrorism, its warmongering in the Middle East, and its repression at home. It quickly became apparent that the regime was also using the JCPOA as a convenient cover for accelerated nuclear weapons production.
When President Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the JCPOA in 2018, reimposing tough sanctions on the mullahs’ regime, it began a spiral of decline in Iran. In panic, the mullahs have made repeated efforts to resurrect the JCPOA, pleading with the US, EU and UK to lift all sanctions. With the faltering administration of President Joe Biden beginning to sound keen on reinstating the zombie deal, it is no surprise that the mullahs have stage-managed a very public appearance by Ali Akbar Salehi, openly imploring the West to return to normal diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime. Salehi is the carrot being dangled in front of the US Republican donkey. At the Tehran meeting Salehi pointed out that Iran had held talks with the US over Afghanistan, Iraq, prisoner exchanges and the nuclear agreement. However, he regretted that Tehran and Washington had not entered into comprehensive and wide-ranging political negotiations covering other issues. Clearly, he was referring to sanctions when he added: “Due to the political situation and the challenges between us and the West, particularly the US, they exert pressure on us in any way possible.”
It is obvious that the mullahs hope Salehi may persuade the West to restore the defunct JCPOA and lift sanctions. It would be a catastrophic error for them to do so. Eighty-five million oppressed and brutalised Iranians now look to the West to end their appeasement of this cruel regime and transfer their support to the people of Iran who long for freedom and justice.
Struan Stevenson is the Coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change (CiC). He was a member of the European Parliament representing Scotland (1999-2014), president of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14). Struan is also Chair of the ‘In Search of Justice’ (ISJ) committee on the protection of political freedoms in Iran. He is an international lecturer on the Middle East and is also president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA). His latest book is entitled ‘Dictatorship and Revolution. Iran – A Contemporary History.’
Why o why do the US, and Western nations, take in people from places like Iran and educate them so they know how to make nuclear weapons? Inevitably they will use that knowledge to destroy the West. It’s a classic case of ‘biting the hand that fed them,’ and taking ‘a snake into one’s bosom.’
It takes a wolf to recognize a wolf. Given the opportunity and their 0% accuracy track record, the Biden administration would march us directly into their mouths. Trump and Mossad weren’t fooled.
Like with Lucy and the football, it can only work if Charlie Brown actually wants to be fooled. And many in the U.S., chiefly on the Left, want to be fooled by Iran. The soothing words allow them to refrain from doing anything meaningful to blunt Iran’s aggressive nuclear and imperialist ambitions.
I have become more skeptical about the claims regarding IRAN made by ISRAEL’s intelligence agency.That Iran is making a nuclear bomb.
1.We know the GLOBALISTS have been controlling the US for at least 20 years. Since 1999 Israel has got today’s equivalent of
158 BILLION dollars. Due to an aid accord signed in 1999.
2. Some 99% of it was for MILITARY aid.
3. So? So that means the Israeli government has to do and say what the Globalist US tells it to say and do.
FANATICAL VACCINATION
Notice Israel was the country that was fastest in vaccinating its population with the fake PFIZER vaccine.While India,China FORBADE it,never used it.
Israel had to obey its Globalist masters or………………..no more arms.
Really,in 6 MONTHS a vaccine had been created while ANY medical student will tell you it takes a MINIMUM of 5 YEARS to get a real vaccine,after many,many medical tests.
The same with Israel’s claim year after year, after ,after year that Iran was on the VERGE ,in a few months,of creating an atomic bomb.
Going so far as to ASSASINATE several Iranian scientists. Connect the dots. If they did not make the claim……………..no more military aid.
Israel warns of Iran completing the bomb so the West will keep sanctions on Iran. As seen with Obama, he lifted them with the Iran deal. Israel is warning the West, so no, Israel is not heeding any master. As far as aid to Israel is concerned, most of that money is spent here. We’ve given Ukraine more money altogether than we’ve given Israel since 1949.
What most don’t Israelis know, and Americans don’t know either is that on the surface it looks like we’re still an ally; in reality we’ve turned traitor. We’ve been strengthening Hezbollah with money and arms. None of the media will report this. But there are Israelis who do know, such as Caroline Glick. The question is, is Nasrallah gearing up for war? That spells disaster. We won’t be there to help. Without Trump, Iran and Saudi Arabia have entered into an “agreement”. Israel is alone and so are the Jews in the diaspora. If any Israelis bow to the United States it’s the Left. As though they think they live in a powerful, relatively safe country in the West.
PART 1
Hi,thanks for the feedback. You said:
“As seen with Obama, he lifted them with the Iran deal.
Israel is warning the West, so no, Israel is NOT heeding any MASTER. ”
Here is the situation:
1. It is a trick of the mafia,the Globalists: offer a great deal or treaty,the country accepts it, then FALSELY accuse the country of BREAKING the deal,
to apply sanctions again,or invade it.Part of the plan to conquer the 195 nations,make them part of the New World Order.
2.In 2015 Obama offered Iran a nuclear deal: Iran said of course,and that they were not making and would not build a nuclear bomb.
3. The Globalists and neocons, who Trump crazily appointed to high positions were headed by POMPEO( born-again Evangelical,who has said publicly “Jesus is my savior”),
lied to him,said Iran was building a bomb, and so in 2018 Trump ended it.
Economic and Secondary Economic sanctions were applied against Iran by Trump.
4.It was all a lie,how do we know this?In 2009, the neocon(Globalist,New World Order,Great Reset) “think tank” the Brookings Institute wrote a paper titled
“Which path for PERSIA”(2009) that says
to offer Iran a nuclear deal it would accept ( lifting of sanctions for a treaty),then have ISRAEL
via NETANYAHU ( PM of Israel from 2009 till 2021,again in 2022) falsely accuse Iran of making a bomb.
5.That document then details a plan of INVADING Iran, after accusing it of breaking the treaty.
Netanyahu was PM and in 2020 FORCED all Israelis to be FULLY-vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine,and it is he who has been year after year,been saying “Iran is a few months from making a bomb”.
PART 2
Here is another example of the Globalist technique, lying:
to REPEAT, non-stomp, a lie.
1.You always hear that in 2014 the citizens of DONESK and LUGANSK held a REFERENDUM…………………..declaring INDEPENDENCE from Ukraine.
All the time they are called SEPARATISTS,who held a referendum in 2014,declaring independence.
2. JACQUES BAUD is a former UN analyst, Swiss, who is very respected,he appears in French-language videos,is impartial,he says:
“The conflict begins with those who, in the past eight years, have told us about ‘separatists’ or ‘independence’ for Donbas. This is incorrect.
The referendums in the self-proclaimed republics of Donbas and Luhansk in May 2014
were NOT about independence (независимость),
as irresponsible journalists called it,
but about SELF-DETERMINATION or AUTONOMY (самостоятельность). ”
And they got it,in 2014 they signed the MINSK agreement ,later in 2015 MINSK II, where they were promised AUTONOMY (самостоятельность), and never got it.Instead Ukraine broke its promised and started killing civilians.
Another factor as to why the talk Iran is about to launch a nuclear attack is part of what is called the technique of MANUFACTURED CONSENT of the population by the Globalists
( propaganda campaign based on lies to convince a nation to be pro-war, used by GOEBBELS, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda)
is that Iran will soon join BRICS.
1. It shows the ignorance there is, why did IRAN and SAUDI ARABIA reconcile recently? Peace talks done by China.
They now have diplomatic ties again.This led to the END of the war in YEMEN,one group supported by Iran,the other by Saudi Arabia.
BRICS is an economic bloc,with its own financial system independent of SWIFT,thus economic sanctions and secondary economic sanctions by the Globalist US will not destroy a nation’s INTERNAL banking system.
It also has a replacement for Mastercard and VISA,protection against economic sanctions by the US.China and Russia are in BRICS,and have their independent SUBSTITUTE for Google,the Globalist US can’t destroy
a country’s economy by shutting it off from internet access.
Both Iran and Saudi Arabia will join BRICS, one condition is…………….NOT to be at war with a future member of BRICS,whether open war,
or secretly via PROXY groups,like in YEMEN.
2.Don’t you think Russia and China’s highly effective SPY systems have not heard of the claim Iran is on the verge of having a nuclear bomb to, as SOON as possible, use it,against Israel, based on
a theology of an APOCALYPTIC nature?
Of course they have. Either they used their influence to stop Iran on that plan,or discovered it was false all the time.
3.Iran now uses Russia’s substitute for SWIFT ,called MIR, and is doing TRADE with Russia using the RUBLE instead of the dollar.
4. Iran, recently,in 2023,
joined SCO ( Shanghai . Cooperation Organization) The SCO also includes China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
AGAIN,one of its conditions NO war mongering and war plans.
The SCO is a political, economic, international security group It is the world’s largest regional organization in geographic scope and population, 60% of the area of Eurasia, 40% of the world population.
Another detail is a new agreement between Iran and Russia has now led to the near completion of a RAILWAY system that begins
in RUSSIA,passes through several friendly countries,and ends up in a PORT city of IRAN,on the Persian Gulf.
From that port ships will transport goods to INDIA.
It has been created to BYPASS the SUEZ canal, making commerce go faster, thus cheaper,
and SAFER ( don’t forget the SOMALI PIRATES that capture many ships further south).
The Iranian theocracy is undeniably repressive: women have to wear a hijab, can’t sing in public,can’t dance,can’t even be singers, there is the death penalty for leaving Islam ( however, RARELY imposed),etc,
There is no such a thing as moderate islam/muslims.
Some are better liars than others and can hide their true savage nature in order to infiltrate and destroy non-muslims from inside.