Iran continue its nuclear ambitions

Tehran has shown no interest in giving up its drive to nuclear weapons. The weaponization program is continuing and they have not slowed down the process
In June, the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), the main Iranian opposition, whose widespread network inside the country enabled it to uncover many of the regime’s nuclear sites, beginning with Natanz and Arak facilities in 2002, triggering IAEA inspections, released a new report. Entitled How Iran Regime Cheated the World: Tehran’s Systematic Efforts to Cover Up its Nuclear Weapons Program, the report outlines three decades of Iran’s systematic deceptive practices, specifically the weaponization dimension of the nuclear program, and the formation since 2011 of an organization operated by the Defense Ministry, known as SPND, whose mandate of SPND is to develop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Now there is a question:

Is a robust Iran nuclear deal possible as serious questions remain unanswered on “possible military dimensions” of Tehran’s program?

Non-nuclear Iran

The Iranian regime's nuclear weapons program remained secret until 2002 when the National Council of Resistance of Iran held a press conference revealing a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and a Heavy Water plant at Arak.

Those revelations, based on information provided by the social network of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), triggered an investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that eventually brought the regime's nuclear file before the UN Security Council for punitive sanctions.

The earliest NCRI revelations of the regime's nuclear projects date back to 1991, but these fell on deaf ears in the West. Since 2002, the NCRI has held dozens of press conferences in Western capitals revealing various top secret nuclear sites and information about key personnel involved in the regime's nuclear projects.

In 2003, the NCRI exposed an enrichment project going on at the Lashgar-Abad site near Karaj. After a 2004 inspection by the IAEA, it was discovered that work was being done at the site on a laser enrichment project.

In 2004, the NCRI disclosed the existence of a nuclear facility at Lavizan (Lavizan II) and enrichment-related activity at the Parchin site. In 2008, the NCRI exposed a command and development center for nuclear weapons at the Mojdeh site, along with its various components, which included laser enrichment. In 2010, the NCRIexposed details of a nuclear enrichment site at Abyek.

In 2012, the NCRI exposed secret details of the role of the Revolutionary Guards in the regime's nuclear weapons projects.

The NCRI's own political platform rejects nuclear weapons or technology being pursued in Iran, and Mrs. Rajavi's 10-point plan for a future Iran specifically states: "We want the free Iran of tomorrow to be devoid of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction."

Who is Massoud Rajavi?

Massoud Rajavi was born in the town of Tabas in 1947. He attended Tehran University where he earned his degree in political science. Rajavi became influenced by PMOI’s modern interpretation of Islam early in life. Joining the PMOIin 1967, he was involved in discussions on religion, history, and revolutionary theory. Rajavi later became a member of the Central Committee.
In 1971, all the founders and the Central Committee of the PMOI, including Rajavi, were arrested and sentenced to death by SAVAK, the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service established by Iran's Mohammad Reza Shah. From 1975 up until his release in 1979, Massoud Rajavi led the Mojahedin’s resistance against all three fronts while incarcerated in different prisons. He stressed the need to continue in the fight against Shah’s dictatorship and warned against the emergence and growth of religious backwardness and despotism symbolized by Khomeini.

After his release, Rajavi was dedicated to rebuilding the PMOI. He gave weekly lectures at Sharif University that attracted large audiences. An article in Le Monde described the occasion:
"One of the most important events not to be missed in Tehran are the courses on comparative philosophy, taught every Friday afternoon by Mr Massoud Rajavi. Some 10,000 people presented their admission cards to listen for three hours to the lectures by the leader of the People’s Mojahedin on Sharif University’s lawn."
In 1980, Massoud Rajavi was nominated for the Iranian presidential election. In his book, The Iranian Mojahedin, Ervand Abrahamian writes:

"Rajavi’s candidacy was not only endorsed by the Mojahedin-affiliated organizations...; but also by an impressive array of independent organizations including the Feda’iyan, the National Democratic Front, the Kurdish Democratic Party, the Kurdish Toilers Revolutionary Party (Komula), the Society of Iranian Socialists, the Society for the Cultural and Political Rights of the Turkomans, the Society of Young Assyrians, and the Joint Group of Armenian, Zoroastrian and Jewish Minorities. Rajavi also received the support of a large number of prominent figures: Taleqani’s widow; Shaykh Ezeddin Hosayni, the spiritual leader of the Sunni Kurds in Mahabad; Hojjat al-Islam Jalal Ganjehi...; fifty well-known members of the Iranian Writers’ Association, including the economist Naser Pakdaman, the essayist Manuchehr  of the early Mojahedin martyrs, notably the Hanif-nezhads, Rezais, Mohsens, BadizadeganHezarkhani and the secular historians Feraydun Adamiyyat and Homa Nateq; and, of course, many of the familiess, Asgarizadehs, Sadeqs, Meshkinfams, and Mihandusts. The Mojahedin had become the vanguards of the secular opposition to the Islamic Republic."
Khomeini denied and vetoed Rajavi’s candidacy for the Iranian presidential election. Khomeini’s reasoning was that Rajavi had opposed the national referendum on Iran's new constitution, which established a theocratic government. Rajavi ran for a seat in Iran’s new Majlis (parliament), but lost the race after a discrepancy in the vote tally and election process.

On July 29, 1981, Massoud Rajavi announced the formation of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. He invited all democratic forces opposed to religious despotism to join the democratic alternative to the religious, terrorist dictatorship.
When the mass arrests, imprisonments and executions of PMOI members began to accelerate by the mullah’s dictatorship, he was forced to leave Iran. Mr Rajavi travelled to Paris on board of an Iranian aircraft from a military base in Tehran. The extraordinary flight was organized by PMOI supporters within the Iranian Armed Forces.
During a critical time for regime’s internal situation in 1984, Senators Gary Hart and Edward Kennedy - in addition to thousands of statements of support from other countries - wrote to Massoud Rajavi, to declare their support for the Iranian people’s just resistance. These statements of support alarmed the mullahs, who subsequently made any normalization of relations with Western countries, including the United States, contingent upon curbing the activities of the Mojahedin and National Council of Resistance.

During the time that the Iranian people were being devastated by the Iran-Iraq war which had destroyed the country and had taken the lives of over a million on the Iranian side alone, Massoud Rajavi made the tough decision to initiate a peace campaign to end the war. A decision which was wholeheartedly supported by the Iranian people who had suffered so much during the war.
Rajavi had to leave France in 1986, when the French government, which was involved in negotiations with the Iranian regime over the fate of French hostages in Lebanon, pressured him to do so, and as a result he traveled to Iraq in June 1986. The Iraqi government at the time had recognized the PMOI’s political, financial and military independence.
Since the formation of the NCRI, Massoud Rajavi has concentrated his efforts to the Council. His management of the NCRI’s affairs earned him the trust of the NCRI’s members. In August of 1993, The NCRI elected Maryam Rajavi, wife of Massoud Rajavi, as the future President of Iran.

Why do I support the Iranian Resistance and Maryam Rajavi ?

When I was a student in Iran, I didn't think a better future could happen for us. We were condemned to death because our beliefs.

Many of my friends have been in prison because they wanted their freedom. They wanted to live free as youths in European coun

tries.

But even freedom considers a crime in Iran, under the dictatorship.

When I came here and noticed that there is a resistance fighting for the freedom of my country and people, I found a new world, where everything is possible.

We can and we must free our homeland, where we belong. There is just one solution for the country’s future. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is the answer. She is one who we need for our country.

I will be with her in the gathering of supporters of the Iranian resistance and declare my support Maryam Rajavi’s ten-point platform for regime change as the only solution for the country’s future:

1. In our view, the ballot box is the only criterion for legitimacy. Accordingly, we seek a republic based on universal suffrage.

2. We want a pluralist system, freedom of parties and assembly. We respect all individual freedoms. We underscore complete freedom of expression and of the media and unconditional access by all to the internet.

3. We support and are committed to the abolition of death penalty.

4. We are committed to the separation of Religion and State. Any form of discrimination against the followers of any religion and denomination will be prohibited.

5. We believe in complete gender equality in political, social and economic arenas. We are also committed to equal participation of women in political leadership. Any form of discrimination against women will be abolished. They will enjoy the right to freely choose their clothing. They are free in marriage, divorce, education and employment.

6. We believe in the rule of law and justice. We want to set up a modern judicial system based on the principles of presumption of innocence, the right to defense, effective judicial protection and the right to be tried in a public court. We also seek the total independence of judges. The mullahs’ Sharia law will be abolished.

7. We are committed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and international covenant and conventions, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture, and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.

We are committed to the equality of all nationalities. We underscore the plan for the autonomy of Iranian Kurdistan, adopted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The language and culture of our compatriots from whatever nationality, are among our nation’s human resources and must spread and be promulgated in tomorrow’s Iran.

8. We recognize private property, private investment and the market economy. All Iranian people must enjoy equal opportunity in employment and in business ventures. We will protect and revitalize the environment.

9. Our foreign policy will be based on peaceful coexistence, international and regional peace and cooperation, as well as respect for the United Nations Charter.

10. We want a non-nuclear Iran, free of weapons of mass destruction.

Obama on deal with Iran: 'Nobody has a bigger personal stake in making sure that it delivers on its promise'President Obama on Friday promised he would not make a bad deal with Iran in part because he wouldn’t want to bear the shame.
“This deal will have my name on it,” Obama said, “so nobody has a bigger personal stake in making sure that it delivers on its promise.
“I want a good deal,” he said, adding he will only agree to terms that would block all of Iran’s paths to nuclear weapons capability and secure it with rigorous inspections revealing any violations of the agreement.
Despite his optimism over the prospects for talks, Obama said that he isn’t guaranteeing a deal will be reached and that he keeps “all options” open for deterring Iran from building a nuclear weapon – a veiled reference to the possibility of airstrikes.
Republican critics voice skepticism about the outcome of the talks. As lawmakers passed a measure giving Congress the right to review and reject any deal with Iran, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the goal was to stop a bad agreement, especially if it could “strengthen and legitimize the government of Iran.”
In his remarks Friday, Obama insisted that any success in the nuclear talks will not erase U.S. concerns about other Iranian activity, especially its support for terrorism, moves to de-stabilize the region and threats against Israel.
President supports a two-state solution, for two people living side-by-side in peace and security, “precisely because I care so much about the state of Israel,” he said.

CALL FOR A GATHERING; JUNE 13, 2015; VILLEPINTE-PARIS
The Middle East is in state of peril and chaos that is unprecedented in recent history. There are wars raging in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and these are increasingly taking on the appearance of one overarching sectarian conflict.
Islamic fundamentalism is growing on both sides of this divide, becoming more than an isolated geopolitical concern and leaving the West struggling to understand how to prevent it from threatening the very heart of modern, democratic societies.
And at the center of all of this stands the Iranian regime, tying together the forces of Shiite extremism, driving recruitment for their Sunni opponents, and using a perversion of the Muslim faith to justify domestic abuses and dangerous regional policies. Almost two years into the tenure of Hassan Rouhani as the regime’s president, the human rights situation in Iran has been on a slippery slope and reform and moderation are as elusive as ever. Notwithstanding the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran faces a moribund economy, rampant and pervasive state corruption, a restive and disillusioned population, intensifying factional feuding, and further regional isolation.
On June 13, Iranian communities the world over will gather in Paris in their biggest gathering ever, to stand up to Tehran, to highlight its egregious polices as the epicenter of Islamic extremism, and to call for a new Western policies that address the changing dynamics of the most volatile and strategically important region of the world while supporting democratic and anti-fundamentalist local movements and populations.
In addition to Iranians, some 1,000 political figures, activists, and religious leaders will participate in this rally, representing over 100 countries, five continents, and a range of socio-political backgrounds.
Each of these figures will join in condemning the policies of the Islamic Republic and express support for the Iranian resistance and its call for regime change and a free, democratic, non-nuclear Iran.
The June 13 Paris event is the highlight of a wide-ranging, global campaign by Iranians and their supporters from all walks of life. The problems and issues addressed by that campaign are not localized to Iran but address the entire crisis in the region, and the Western policies that may address it.

We urge all persons who are concerned about those issues to join us in Paris on June 13.
Organizing Committee:
Comité organisateur du Grand Rassemblement du 13 juin 2015
Sponsors:
• Belgian Committee of Parliamentarians for a Democratic Iran
• International Parliamentary Campaign in Defense of Ashraf
• French Committee for a Democratic Iran
• Friends of a Free Iran in the European Parliament
• The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom
• German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran
• Italian Committee of Parliamentarians and Citizens for a Free Iran
• Committee of Friends of a Free Iran in the Danish Parliament
• The Dutch Group of Friends of a Free Iran
• Friends of a Free Iran in Sweden
• Friends of a Free Iran in Norway
• Swiss Committee in Defense of Ashraf