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When the Supreme Leader Speaks, Who Still Listens?

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  By: Struan Stevenson Mojtaba Khamenei inherited the most powerful office in the Islamic Republic. Yet six months into his tenure, a question once considered unthinkable is surfacing in Tehran. When the Supreme Leader speaks, who still listens? For almost five decades, the answer was obvious. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created a system in which factional warfare could rage beneath the surface, provided everyone ultimately bowed to the Supreme Leader. Ali Khamenei preserved that arrangement for more than three decades. Presidents came and went. Clerics competed. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) accumulated power. Yet one principle remained sacrosanct. The Supreme Leader had the final word. Today that principle is under strain. On August 28, Mojtaba Khamenei warned officials against creating false choices between war and negotiation, compromise and confrontation. He urged them to avoid publicizing weaknesses and declared that anything damaging social cohesion was forbidden. The mess...
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Iran: No Punishment for Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Violations or for Genocide?

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 Written by Mohammad Sadat Khansari September 12 that “The U.N. atomic watchdog reached an agreement with Iran on Sunday to solve ‘the most urgent issue’ between them.” This agreement comes at a time when the regime has increased its nuclear extortion. Following the International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear activities, there were signs that the UN body is finally losing patience.  IAEA  Director General Rafael Grossi has been credited with saving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, from complete collapse on more than one occasion, by striking temporary agreements with Tehran to prevent inspectors from being kicked out of the country altogether. He struck another deal with the mullahs’ regime while he had earlier expressed concern over Tehran’s nuclear activities. “I am increasingly concerned that issues with unannounced sites remain unresolved and that Iran needs to resolve them as soon as possible,”  Grossi ...
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Feckless Western Policy Emboldens Iran Regime Mad Dash to the Bomb

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  If there were any lingering doubts that the Iranian regime is accelerating its nuclear program despite Western engagement, they should be set aside after two recent reports by the UN nuclear watchdog. Western parties, especially the European Union, should rethink their feckless policy and negotiations vis-à-vis the theocratic regime. The policy of appeasement has failed. On Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) released two reports that revealed the regime’s illicit nuclear activities and obstruction of monitoring activities by the agency. The IAEA also warned that the regime has 10 kilograms of uranium enriched at near-weapons grade level. In addition, Tehran has stockpiled more than 80 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium. Under the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, the regime is not allowed to enrich uranium above 3.5 percent. Therefore, Tehran is in clear violation of the nuclear accord. The IAEA warned that its verification and monitoring activities have...
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New IAEA Reports Highlights JCPOA Failure in Curbing Iran’s Nuclear

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 Written by Mahmoud Hakamian The International Atomic Energy Agency recently presented its quarterly  report  on the Iranian regime’s nuclear activities, and it is now clearer than ever that the international community must adopt a new strategy for confronting Tehran’s provocations and halting its progress toward a nuclear weapon. Reacting to the IAEA report, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Wednesday that time was running out for Iran to return to the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “I’m not going to put a date on it but we are getting closer to the point at which a strict return to compliance with the JCPOA does not reproduce the benefits that that agreement achieved,” Blinken told reporters in Germany. Yet, the US and the European  signatories  of the deal have refused to change the weak attitude toward the regime despite Tehran’s provocative actions. In absence of such a change, the current...
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