International Community Has a Responsibility to Hold Iran Regime Accountable for Its Crimes

In the past few weeks, tensions between the United States and Iran regime have continued to intensify. The United States has designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Iran regime’s President Hassan Rouhani announced that regime would be partially withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after oil sanctions waivers were canceled by the Trump administration. Then there have been reports of missile deployments and U.S. troops in the Gulf have been threatened.

The Trump administration announced that military planes and warships had been dispatched and the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unscheduled trip to Iraq leaving many questions unanswered. Pompeo did say, however, that any threat to U.S. interests would be dealt with in a “swift and decisive” manner.

There is great concern among many that the Trump administration could be heading towards a direct confrontation with the Iranian regime, despite President Trump’s claims that this is not what he is seeking. However, the Iran threat is a real one that needs to be dealt with imminently. It cannot keep being put off in the way the Obama administration ignored it for years.

The Iranian regime is still spreading chaos across the region. It presents a great threat to peace and security in the Middle East and much further beyond. During 2018 alone, the regime was responsible or directly involved in a number of terrorist and assassination plots. Thankfully European intelligence agencies were able to foil the plots before there were large numbers of fatalities and casualties.

The regime is targeting its main opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq. This goes to show that the opposition has great force and it presents a viable alternative to the regime. It has tried to dismiss the significance of the MEK Iran on many occasions over the past few decades, but its relentless pursuit to quash the opposition and silence its supporters proves otherwise.

The Mujahedin-e Khalq / MEK Iran has widespread support across the country and the people are calling for regime change. They have made it very clear that they will accept nothing less and they will undoubtedly be the force behind it