Iran’s nuclear program must be stopped at once

Like here in Bushehr, the Iranian nuclear program runs at full throttle. Foto: Hossein Heidarpour / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 4.0int

(KD/KL) – Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed the adoption of the IAEA Board of Governors’ resolution and stressed the need to immediately activate the snapback mechanism, implement the six UN Security Council resolutions, end uranium enrichment and dismantle the regime’s nuclear facilities. She added that while these actions should have been taken earlier, after the IAEA’s comprehensive report, there is no longer any room for delay or procrastination. Nevertheless, the secret nuclear projects of “Ivanaki” and “Kavir” in Semnan province, revealed by the Iranian Resistance on May 8 and June 10, have not yet been investigated, nor included in this report.

The ruling mullahs have a record of deception and secrecy, Maryam Rajavi noted. Were it not for the revelations of the Iranian Resistance in the past 34 years, they would have acquired nuclear weapons long ago. The regime has never adhered to its obligations under the NPT and Security Council Resolution 2231 (UNSCR 2231) and has always used negotiations to buy time and complete its nuclear projects. Obtaining the atomic bomb and exporting terrorism and warmongering abroad have always constituted the regime’s strategic guarantee for survival. The crushing defeats suffered by the regime and its regional proxies over the past year have intensified its need for nuclear projects.

Experience has shown that so long as this regime is in power, it will not stop repression, terrorism, exporting fundamentalism, warmongering and its nuclear program. The ultimate solution to get rid of a nuclear-armed terrorist dictatorship is to change it by the Iranian people and the Resistance. As thousands of lawmakers, leaders and prominent political figures from different countries have declared, the international community must recognize the right of the Iranian people and the Resistance to fight against the mullahs and bring about a regime change.

Europe must now play a prominent role to support the NCRI’s 10-Point-Plan promoted by Maryam Rajavi. The political support by leading European (and American) politicians has been expressed, but Iran needs determined action by the international community. Europe can not afford to limit itself to supportive declarations, but maximum pressure needs to be exercised on the mullah’s regime which continues to oppress the Iranian people, to execute opponents of the regime and pursues merciless everybody who questions the middle-age and terrorist politics operated by this regime. The NCRI which demands a peaceful transition of Iran towards a modern democracy, must be supported and recognized as the representation of the will of the Iranian people. The world can not afford to let the mullahs obtain nuclear weapons – which would destabilize even more the entire region. Time to act is now!