There were 450 anti-regime protests in 30 Iranian provinces in April alone.
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By ditching U.S. participation in the JCPOA Trump is effectively upping the pressure on the fanatical Islamist regime in Iran.
This is why the President ended his announcement last Tuesday by directly addressing the people of Iran.
“The future of Iran belongs to its people. There has been enough suffering, death and destruction- let it end now,” Trump said.
Israel educator Nevet Basker summed it up in one Tweet.
Under the JCPOA “Iran pursues nukes with international legitimization and funding,” Basker wrote.
Now comes Trump and introduces what she called “Plan B.”
Iran will now be “subject to U.S. sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and domestic unrest if it continues its nuclear pursuit. I’ll take B,” Nevet Basker tweeted.
Indeed, the Islamist regime in Iran could crumble when fresh sanctions are imposed by the U.S., according to the Iranian opposition-in-exile.
Officials of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI) claim that the popular uprising which started last December in many parts of Iran is gathering steam.
In April alone there were 450 separate protests in 31 provinces across Iran according to NCRI.
On the first of May, International Workers Day, tens of thousands took to the streets in 19 cities with banners that read: “Think of us, not Syria,” according to the NCRI.
The protests, which this time involve the working classes, the regime’s former power base, started because of the JCPOA.
The Iranian people have not profited from the billions of dollars in sanctions relief received after the implementation of the nuclear deal.
On the contrary, poverty has increased tremendously in the Islamic Republic since the beginning of 2016, when the JCPOA was implemented and the country’s currency, the Riyal, is now in free fall.
“We believe this year is decisive. These protests are of deep concern to the regime, and we predict it will go within two years,” Hossein Abedini, a spokesman for the NCRI, told reporters in Paris.
As he spoke, former IAEA deputy head Olli Heinonen delivered the evidence for Mogherini’s claim that the nuclear agency inspections regime in Iran has resulted in full Iranian compliance with the JCPOA is a lie.
“Let’s be clear – no one from the IAEA has ever said it has been able to carry out the level of inspections required under the terms of this agreement,” Dr. Olli Heinonen told reporters on Saturday.
His admission was followed by the news that Tero Varjoranta, chief of inspections of the IAEA, had suddenly resigned. The UN watchdog gave no reason for Varjoranta’s sudden resignation.
Iran, meanwhile, threatens to publish the names of all Western officials who were bribed to pass the JCPOA.
Yochanan Visser is an independent journalist/analyst who worked for many years as Middle East correspondent for Western Journalism.com in Arizona and was a frequent publicist for the main Dutch paper De Volkskrant. He authored a book in the Dutch language about the cognitive war against Israel and now lives in Gush Etzion. He writes a twice weekly analysis of current issues for Arutz Sheva
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