How could possibly maximum pressure on the regime in Iran be achieved? Interview with Afshin Sajedi, Director of Research and Analysis at the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR), and an expert on the Middle East affairs on a speech delivered by Prince Reza Pahlavi at the National Conservatism conference in Washington D.C. from 8.-10. July 2024. Part III focuses on the passage where Reza Pahlavi appeals to the audience how to counter the risks we discussed in part I: maximum pressure on the regime and maximum support for the people in Iran.
We narrow down on how exactly this could be done by the US-administration and their EU counterparts. For reasons of actuality, we start the interview with linking the assassination attempt on president Trump with the aforementioned risks.
Maximum pressure on the regime
Maximum pressure as perceived by Afshin Sajedi contains degrading the 200 embassies of the regime around the world to consulates, in order to deprive them of their diplomatic importance as they are often used for smuggling dangerous goods under the label of diplomatic affairs. Latest example is the case of the Vienna based Assadollah Assadi, agent of the regime. The transport of unauthorized goods by the use of diplomatic immunity must be stopped.
Maximum support for the people in Iran
People in Iran need strong signals from the Western governments. One of those signals could be the decreasing of the status of the political relation with the Islamic Republic. Further on, there are personalities who leave Iran with huge amounts of money and settle in the Western countries like Canada, USA, Great Britain or Europe. It is money that belongs to the people in Iran. Money that is being used to support hate speech, radicalization and terrorism. This should be under control of the Western governments.
Western governments should finally be very transparent about their relations to the Islamic Republic. What we experienced in the case of Hamid Nouri from the Swedish government that didn’t even bother to inform the parliament is not a good way. It is kind of a cooperation with the Iranian regime. This the Iranian people will not forget.
Main takeaways from this interview:
- the regime in Iran threatened several times before to kill president Donald Trump.
- the regime in Iran works hard to maximize strong bipolarity in the US/the West.
- mind the dual-level structure of the regime, and don’t focus on the apparent level.
- the biggest pressure by the economic sanctions is on the shoulders of the Iranian people, rather sanction institutions of the caliph-level!
- Pay attention to the persons evading Iran with high amounts of money, who start financing hate speech, radicalization and terrorism.
If you like to follow what we discussed before:
Part I: The risk for Western civilizations and the unholy alliance of reactionary forces
In this interview, we focus on the risks Western liberal civilizations face from groups of devoted ideologues who form strategic alliances to promote an apocalyptic scenario and end up in purely collectivist societies of different colors.
Part II: Constitutional monarchy as a legal possibility to transition in Iran?
Part II focuses on the passage where Reza Pahlavi criticizes the US-administration for imposing a government of their like to the tribal society of Afghanistan, instead of agreeing with a choice Afghans preferred. „In Afghanistan, when 70% of the country’s post-Taliban tribal parliament wanted to restore the constitutional monarchy of Zahir Shah because his people saw him, even in his old age, as a symbol and source of national unity, the American administration denied this national claim and this sovereign right.“ We evaluate the importance of this passage and its relation to a future Iran.
Follow Reza Pahlavi’s full speech here:
@mehriran.de, July 2024
