Spring of freedom

By Mohammad Sadat Khansari The Iranian Regime has  threatened  to close the world’s busiest shipping lane in response to the US decision to remove the sanctions waivers on the country from May 2. On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed that the US would not extend sanctions waivers on eight countries – China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Greece, Italy, and Turkey – who had been allowed to keep buying Iranian oil after the sanctions snapped back last November. The sanctions came into force after the US withdrew from the nuclear deal, citing Iran’s violation of the UN resolution surrounding the deal. What did Iran Regime do? Alireza Tangsiri, a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was recently designated a terrorist organisation by the US, vowed that they would block off the Strait of Hormuz, severely impacting the flow of goods, especially oil. This would make shipments more dangerous and more expensive. Tangsir...

INU- The Iranian Regime has been publically fuming over the ministerial summit on peace and security in the Middle East since US secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced it last Friday. Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif called the summit “disappointing” and “anti-Iranian circus”, according to Iranian state-run television, even criticising Poland for hosting the event. While Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament, referred to the summit as a form of “psychological warfare”, which would be a “losing battle” for the US, and asked for the Regime to provide a “decisive response” to Poland, something “beyond a simple complaint”. This is to be expected because Iran is still reeling from the recent European sanctions levied against it for terrorist activity on the Green Continent and the significant delay in Europe actually creating the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to maintain trade with Iran despite US...

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee was yet another stage where US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo further defined US policy vis-à-vis Iran’s regime and how the Iranian people oppose the mullahs’ policies. “There is an enormous economic challenge inside of Iran today. It’s an economic structure that simply doesn’t work. When you’re a country of that scale that foments terror through the Lebanese Hezbollah, through Shiite militias in Iraq, into Yemen, conducts assassination attempts in European countries, provides enormous support for Assad outside of Lebanese Hezbollah in Syria, that’s expensive and I think the Iranian people are beginning to see that that’s not the model that they want. The Iranian expansionism that the supreme leader and Qassem Suleimani so favor is not what they’re looking for. I think you’re beginning to see the economic impact combined with understandings inside of Iran of the kleptocracy that it is, leading...