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Iran’s Role In Recent Saudi Attack Amid Internal Protests – OpEd

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Iran’s Role In Recent Saudi Attack Amid Internal Protests – OpEd   September 18, 2019 By  Hassan Mahmoudi Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran was responsible for the attacks on vital Saudi Arabian oil installations over the weekend that cut the global oil supplies to half. During nationally televised remarks on September 17, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: “Iran will never hold talks with America.” Despite enduring painful economic restrictions, in his speech on May 14, 2019, he emphasized the need for a ‘prudent resistance’ policy, to include continuing to develop Iran’s missile program, maintaining the regime’s support of terrorism abroad and blocking the protests inside the country. In his eyes, ‘resistance’ is the key to the Islamic Republic’s forty years of survival. However, for the people of Iran, Khamenei’s ‘prudent resistance’ translates into brutal suppression, rampant inflation, rising unemployment and a ruthless crackdown on all ...

MARYAM RAJAVI: ATTACK ON NEIGHBORING COUNTRY’S OIL INSTALLATIONS IS A MAJOR AND BELLIGERENT STEP

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mARYAM RAJAVI: ATTACK ON NEIGHBORING COUNTRY’S OIL INSTALLATIONS IS A MAJOR AND BELLIGERENT STEP   Statements of Maryam Rajavi Inaction only emboldens Iran’s religious dictatorship The Iranian regime’s coordinated missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations is a blatant act of war. Subsequent to the attack, the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected any negotiations at any level with the United States unless “America repented.” He also stressed, “They send the Europeans… to insist to us to come and have a meeting with the American President and all your problems will be solved. This is because they want to prove that the policy of maximum pressure is a success. On the contrary, we must prove that the policy of maximum pressure is not worth a penny.” Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), described the attack on a neighboring country’s oil installations a major s...