How the winds of change blow on Iran?

By Arash Nikzad

Tens of thousands of supporters of Iran’s main opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran , gathered in a massive convention hall in Villepinte, Paris over the weekend to call on the international community to back the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations for freedom and democracy in their homeland  and asked  the world to recognize the NCRI as the real alternative to the mullahs’ regime in Iran.
The rally, which takes place in Paris every year, was this year attended by more than 50 parliamentary delegations from all over the world.
The main speaker at the event was NCRI-president, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. In her speech that was also broadcast inside Iran, she emphasized that “regime change [in Iran] is within reach because the mullahs have gotten themselves stuck in three wars of attrition in the Middle East.
Their withdrawal from these conflicts in whatever form or shape will undermine their own existence.
  She added: Regionally and internationally, the Iranian regime is in the worst situation because it has destroyed all bridges with the US and the neighboring Arab countries
Today, the regime in Tehran is terrorizing its own people and is a major threat to the Middle East and the world security.
The NCRI is struggling to bring about democratic change by overthrowing mullahs' regime in Iran. Almost three decades, the Iranian Resistance has urged the international community to adopt a firm policy against the ruling regime, therefore, it is not surprising that Mrs. Rajavi welcomed the statement following the recent Islamic, American Summit.
“We have welcomed the statements made at the Arab, Islamic, American Summit in Riyadh against the Iranian regime and destabilizing activities in Mead east. Nevertheless, we emphasize that the ultimate solution to the crisis in the region and confronting groups like ISIS is the overthrow of the Iranian regime by the Iranian people and Resistance.
The facts on the ground in the Middle East indicate that Mrs. Rajavi is accurate.
In fact, the most serious threat facing the world and the US president is to challenge Iran’s destabilizing role in the region for example in areas in Syria and Iraq that are liberated from ISIS recently. If the Iranian regime is allowed to occupy these areas then it would pose even a greater danger to the US, Europe, and the Arab world.
Consequently, to protect their national interests, they are and should look for a solution to stop the mullahs’ destructive actions in the region. Up to now, unfortunately, their policy has been to accommodate Iran’s actions and obviously it has failed. They hoped to reform Iran’s behavior by support to President Hassan Rohani but on the contrary, this policy has increased Iran’s intervention in the Middle East. That is why the US and its Arab allies have to take serious steps to change their policy.
Hence, a few weeks ago, the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, announced that “Our policy towards Iran is to push back on this hegemony, contain their ability to develop obviously nuclear weapons, and to work toward support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful alteration of regime in Iran.
It is an obvious fact that the NCRI and its democratic platform for future Iran provides a viable alternative for this policy. In this case, the previous US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton stressed on a crucial feature about this policy at the gathering in Paris. “There is a viable opposition to the rule of the Ayatollahs and that opposition is centered in this room today”,
It is time for the international community to make decisive decisions against the ruling regime in Iran. Today, the only remaining way to end four decades of disaster in the region. It is a known fact that Iranian regime is the root of problems in the region. Therefore, it is necessary that Mrs. Rajavi’s voice is allowed to be heard.
In this regard for ending the mullahs’ regime in Iran, Mrs. Rajavi made three recommendations, “Recognize the resistance of the Iranian people to overthrow the mullahs’ religious dictatorship. Expel the regime from the UN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and hand over Iran’s seat to the Iranian people’s Resistance. Designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization and evict it from the entire region.”
If the international community wants democracy and human rights to root and progress in the Middle East, it should heed these recommendations.