Iran news in brief, September 20, 2019
Iran news in brief, September 20, 2019
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Regime Change in Iran Is Sole Solution to End Regime's Terrorism
Regime Change in Iran Is Sole Solution to End Regime's Terrorism Written by Mansoureh Galestan on 21 September 2019 . Not content with bombing six oil tankers in the Gulf and the shooting down of an American drone, the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a British-flagged tanker -- the Stena Impero -- in international waters. Now it has mounted a drone and missile attack on Saudi Arabia 's Abqaiq oil-processing plant, the world's largest, and the Khurais oilfield, causing huge disruption to Saudi oil exports and a massive spike in global oil prices, writes former European lawmaker Struan Stevenson. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the attack as "an act of war." The latest spate of criminal attacks follows a year in which a senior diplomat from the Iranian Embassy in Vienna was charged with handing over explosives to three Iranian agents with instructions to bomb an opposition rally in Paris,...
Saudi Aramco attack: An old page in the Iranian regime’s playbook
Saudi Aramco attack: An old page in the Iranian regime’s playbook On September 13, 2019, the Saudi Aramco complex was targeted with dozens of missiles coming from Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, September 21, 2019 —Since they rose to power in 1979, Iran’s mullahs have kept their regime afloat based on two pillars: domestic repression and the export of terrorism abroad. These two implements have been key to the survival of the Iranian regime. Whenever the regime is faced with internal and international crises, it has sought the solution in spreading war and chaos to neighboring countries, and intensifying domestic repression in parallel. This is a tactic that worked well for the mullahs during their devastating eight-year war on Iraq, when their fledgling regime needed an excuse to repress and slaughter Iranian opposition groups, such as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ), who were standing up against their fundamentalist rules. The regime used the...