Iran
at a Crossroads
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/1041-iran-crossroad-english.htm
ایران بر سر دو راهی
http://www.ghandchi.com/1041-iran-crossroad.htm
The regime ruling Iran, for the first time in 37 years, after signing the Iran
Deal in Vienna cannot claim to be in danger of a foreign attack and the public
opinion is now focused on the political, economic and social life of the people
in Iran, and the way Islamic Republic of Iran is administering the country. The
leaders of Islamic Republic of Iran, relative to the political opposition, are
in a similar situation that Shah was in 1977 when the last opportunities for
peaceful change were still possible but he did not agree to the liberal
government of Shapour Bakhtiar till it was too late, and Khomeini's radicalism
had already become the people's alternative for change in the country.
The demand for peaceful change in the Islamic Republic of
Iran is not limited to the Islamist Reformers and includes the secular forces
that have worked for peaceful change all these years. Not only Mousavi, Karroubi
and Rahnavard have not been freed yet but all the endeavors of the peaceful
seculars to change the beneficent supervision (nezarate estesvabi law) so that
they can participate in the upcoming February 2016 election, have failed and if
in the last year of the Shah, because of shortsightedness of the regime and
lack of giving concessions to the peaceful change, Khomeini's radicalism became
people's alternative, this time the radicalism of Mojahedin-e Khalgh
Organization (MEK) is becoming people's alternative to Islamic Republic's
regime.
The same way that before the revolution I clearly expressed my
views about Khomeini's radicalism and Ayatollah Khomeini's supporters broke my
nose, I have personally written my views clearly about MEK (aka MKO, PMOI) ten
years ago in my book "The Futurist Iran" and I ask the readers not to think they
know what the analysis is and please read it carefully in the link that is
provided below (1). MEK is a Shia version of Daesh with all limitation of the
scope of Shia Islam in the region. They were the only Iranian political group
that supported Daesh last year when they seized Mosul (2). You can also see the latest attacks of MEK's followers
against me that have been written a few days ago in Balatarin site at the link
below (3).