Iran’s Massive Crackdown On Opposition Shows The Regime’s Vulnerability and Fear

On July 9, the Free Iran rally near Paris attracted tens of thousands of Iranians from five continents and gained support from political leaders from many countries, including the US, several EU member nations, and the Gulf States.

 It also provoked the predictable ire of the Iranian regime, which has persecuted the constituent groups of the main opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, since the beginnings of the Islamic Republic.

Approximately 120,000 political dissidents have been killed since 1981, most of them from the NCRI’s main constituent group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK). 

Participants in the rally underscored that Iran’s deteriorating domestic situation 

signals the increased vulnerability of Tehran’s leadership.

 Just as MEK dissidents were executed in great numbers to compensate for t theweakness shown in accepting the end of the war with Iraq and tens of  put to 

death in the summer of 1988 alone thousands were

The clerical regime fears for its survival, and as with any insecure bully, that fear 

manifests as bluster. This was evident in a series of provocations made toward the West, including the January seizure of 10 American sailors who had strayed into Iranian territorial waters,

Reacting to the rally, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (RGCI) Corps even went so far as to dispatch several patrol boats to follow an American warship through the 

Gulf. 

The expressions of international support for the NCRI included a speech by Prince Turki al-Faisal, an influential member of the Saudi royal family, With his declaration that Muslims around the world support the Iranian resistance “heart and soul,” he turned the annual event into a celebration of unprecedented Middle Eastern unity. The extraordinary foreign support removes any doubt that the Iranian resistance is an existential threat to the clerical regime. Mullah regime in Iran accused Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other powerful Arab states of “flagrantly interfering in Iran’s internal affairs.”

 Iran has engaged in its own in the region for years. Examples include its all-out defense Bashar al-Assad fomenting of a Shiite rebellion in Yemen, threats to instigate one in Bahrain but Iran now stands to suffer the consequences of its actions, as powerful forces 

offer their justified support to a legitimate Iranian opposition movement.

The mullahs'fundamentalist regime in Iran:

Because the fear of Maryam Rajavi and the organized Iranian resistance