Why the designation of IRGC is an essential step toward regime change in Iran?

Emerge of a new era in Iran

By Arash Nikzad

Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi welcome the US House of Reps’ new sanctions and terrorist designation of IRGC as essential to rectifying the policy of appeasement and described the act as a “step in line with the Iranian people’s desires and peace in the region,” especially as it turns up the heat on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) released a statement and welcomed the new sanction and measure as an essential step in rectifying the damaging policy of appeasement that previously dominated the policy toward Iran.

The statement added: “The IRGC serves as the guarantee to preserve the entirety of the religious fascism ruling Iran," the statement reads. "In the past 28 years, the Iranian regime's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has placed a vast portion of the wealth and resources of the Iranian people under IRGC's control, enabling it to plunder a large portion of Iran's economy."

The NCRI underlined that the sanctions need to be complemented with "the eviction of the IRGC and its affiliated militia particularly from Syria and Iraq as well as the recognition of the Iranian people's right to overthrow the clerical regime."

Democratic regime change in Iran, a goal that the NCRI has supported and perused it for years, is now getting traction across the world. Last month, at an NCRI gathering in Paris, prominent dignitaries and politicians from the U.S. and other countries called for regime change in Iran. The Trump administration is considering support for regime change as part of its policy toward Iran, which is currently under review.

Paralyzing the IRGC and assuming a tougher stance against Iran's nefarious activities can ensure that regime change happens without the need for foreign military invasion and another violent conflict in the region.

Although sanctions had been previously imposed on Iran's terrorist activities and human rights violations, the new measure is significant because it directly targets the entirety of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the military body that runs Iran's foreign terrorism portfolio, its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons program, and is largely responsible for the crackdown on dissidents and violation of the Iranian people's most basic rights.

The designation will freeze all assets linked to IRGC and its members abroad Iran

. It also prohibits American individuals or entities from establishing financial, business, services or other affiliations with any individuals directly or indirectly associated to the IRGC.

As the IRGC has encroached over Iran's economy over the past 28 years, this will put severe strains on Iran's funding of terrorism and weapons development.

Sanctioning the entire IRGC, which has economic interests in a wide variety of economic sectors in Iran like gas and oil, civil projects will result in an economic disaster for the Iranian regime and prepare the ground for entire disintegration of tyranny in Iran and emerge of a new era in Iran after almost four decades of exporting terrorism, violation of human right and bloody interference in Syria , Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen