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Zarif’s designation was the most recent in a long list of sanctions in the US’s “maximum pressure” campaign.
According to Rouhani, the US started the campaign after the nationwide 2018 protests in almost all of Iran’s provinces.
According to Rouhani, the US started the campaign after the nationwide 2018 protests in almost all of Iran’s provinces.
Protesters chanted “down with Khamenei” and denounced both factions of the regime. They called for the downfall of the regime in its entirety chanting “reformers, hardliners, the game is over”.
It was then that the world realized the regime’s days were numbered.
It was then that the world realized the regime’s days were numbered.
Many in the west, especially regime apologists, say that US sanctions hurt the people of #Iran first and foremost.
It should not come as a surprise that Iranians think otherwise.
It should not come as a surprise that Iranians think otherwise.
Ordinary Iranians, who are actually under the most economic pressure, were heard chanting, “Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s America”, in recent protests.
Having lived under the absolute rule of the clerical dictators in #Iran, Iranians know the clerics for what they are. And make no mistake, they know their enemy. They know that the regime has stolen all that could be stolen from the people.
They know that even before the sanctions, many Iranians were living in poverty. They know that their economic woes are the product of rampant corruption among regime officials, especially those affiliated with the IRGC and the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
The long succession of sanctions, especially the designation of the IRGC & Iran’s Supreme Leader, targets the biggest enemy of the people of #Iran. It curbs their lucrative money supplies therefore limits their ability 2 create proxy wars abroad & their ability 2 suppress dissent
This is obviously in the interest of the Iranian people who are crushed by the IRGC and other suppressive forces on a daily basis for the most trivial civil rights, such as the right to dress as they please.
It’s a very simple equation. Pressure on the regime with sanctions=protests by Iranians who deem the regime as their main enemy = more pressure on the regime by the West as they realize the regime has no future = more Iran protests which will eventually lead to #IranRegimeChange
The #Iran regime does not actually want to negotiate. However, it does want to buy time with the game of diplomacy.
Zarif’s designation has now put the regime in a stalemate as its main “player” can no longer play the game.
Zarif’s designation has now put the regime in a stalemate as its main “player” can no longer play the game.
Zarif and everyone else in the regime are just puppets of the Supreme Leader. What he says, goes, and Khamenei does not want to negotiate. In statements in June, Khamenei called talks with the US “poisonous”.
Khamenei's solution to the current #Iran crisis is the creation of a “Hezbollah” government which means he wants to tighten his grip on the society and the economy.
And true to his word, the regime has started a severe crackdown on civil liberties in the past few months, giving hefty prison terms to women’s rights activists, flogging political prisoners and even asking Iranians to spy on each other’s “immoral” conduct.
This does not sound like a regime that wants to negotiate.
#Iran is too weak to actually behave like a “normal” state because it would have to back down from many things that give it its so-called “power”, such as its missile program.
#Iran is too weak to actually behave like a “normal” state because it would have to back down from many things that give it its so-called “power”, such as its missile program.
Backing down from even the most trivial of things will lead to a chain reaction that would ultimately lead to its downfall.
#Iran is stalling, and praying that the regime does not topple before the end of President Trump’s first term. They are desperately waiting for a new, “nicer” president who would hopefully be more like President Obama.
Someone should tell them not to hold their breath.
Someone should tell them not to hold their breath.
The new sanctions against the #Iran regime’s spokesman means that the US thinks that the regime is illegitimate. This is what Iranians have been saying for decades, only to be brutally suppressed.
For the first time in the past 40 years, the US stands with the people of #Iran. This in turn gives hope to ordinary Iranians, encouraging them to take to the streets.
In the end, it’s up to the people of Iran to end the 40 year reign of the mullahs in Iran.
In the end, it’s up to the people of Iran to end the 40 year reign of the mullahs in Iran.
