Who are the post-Khomeini youth currently leading the Iran protests?

1/4/2018 3:54:11 PM

 

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University students attend an anti-government protest inside Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran

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Al Arabiya, 3 January 2018-- The protests currently sweeping Iran are being considered the largest challenge to the Iranian regime since the Green Movement uprising in 2009 after the re-election of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The demonstrations are currently being led by a new generation of youth who were born after the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, who lead the Iranian Revolution in 1979, in 1989.

They are currently marching against his regime that has led Iran for more than 30 years.

This generation of youth are mostly aged under 30 and constitutes half of the current population of Iran, where the unemployment rate reaches up to 40 percent, according to several statistics.

The youth protests are not concentrated in Tehran, considered the traditional stronghold of the revolutionists, but have slowly moved from less populated areas toward the Iranian capital.

 

A university student attends a protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by anti-riot Iranian police, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017.

 The youth protesters make up more than 90 percent of the detainees currently being hold up in prisons for peacefully demonstrating.

Meanwhile, the West has been trying for at least a year to agree on a new approach to Iran’s expansionist policies.

Many are wondering how the world can help this young Iranian uprising, or whether the West should intervene at all.

 
The National Council of Resistance of Iran says at least 1,000 people, mostly youth, have been arrested so far. (NCRI)

Khamenei’s advisor threatened Hariri: ‘you will meet your father’s fate’

11/8/2017 5:18:33 PM

 

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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

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Al Arabiya on November 7th, 2017 cited an Iranian website known to leak what was going on behind the scenes of the Iranian regime during a meeting of Iran's Supreme Leader's adviser  Ali Akbar Velayati with the resigned Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, in Beirut last Friday.

According to Al Arabiya, Velayati, during that meeting, threatened Hariri to choose between backing up the strategy of the US administration against Hezbollah, or Lebanon will face chaos and Saad Hariri will meet the fate of his father who was assassinated on February 14th 2005.

Hariri has stressed, following his resignation, that “The current circumstances are very similar to those surrounding the assassination of his father, Rafik Hariri.”

The report added that conservative media outlets portrayed Saad Hariri's statements as being the result of pressure exerted by Riyadh on him, while “the truth is still out there” and that “Ali Akbar Velayati threatened Saad Hariri at the end of the meeting after the latter refused to bow to Iranian guardianship and stand against Trump’s strategy”.

Velayati threatened Hariri that if he did not implement what Tehran demanded in support of Hezbollah, Lebanon would see a great mess, and Hariri would meet his father's fate

Velayati asked Hariri to stand before the media and declare his full support for the Hezbollah group because it is resisting the Zionist entity.

Hariri replied that he could not do so, but at the same time he said nothing against Hezbollah.

Khamenei's advisor then brought in commanders from Hezbollah's security apparatus and asked them to present documents proving that the Lebanese Future Party had provided Western sources with sensitive information that led to the elimination of Hezbollah's field commanders in Syria by Israel.

According to the report, Hariri informed Velayati that he will not pledge his support to Hezbollah and that he is going to resign.

The report continued on saying that Velayati’s threat to Hariri was basically: “You will meet the same fate as your father.”

At that point, Hariri stormed out of the meeting.

New bloc against Tehran 10/17/2017 12:10:43 PM Bookmark and Share facebook Google+ ►Print A new bloc is forming against Iran regime A new bloc is forming against Iran regime Important News Iran: Twin Protest rally by looted investors of Arman Institution in Ilam and Kouhdasht Iran: Workers' strike of South Pars Gas Co. in Izeh Iran Youth Protest in Pol Dokhtar City Related News New bloc against Tehran Iranian Exile Leader Hails Trump on Nuke Deal, Says He Should Go Further Iran’s Rouhani: ‘If Our Rival and Enemy Leaves an Agreement, This Is Not a Defeat for Us’ Al Arabiya, 17 October 2017 - Truth be told, the pace of developments has taken us by surprise. Ever since Washington announced its decision against Iran’s government, Britain and Germany shifted their stance from insisting to remain loyal to the commitments of the nuclear deal to announcing that they support Trump’s plan to confront Tehran’s regime in the Middle East. It seems quite clear as the problem is not related to an agreement over nuclear activity as much as it’s about the wars, which Iran is regionally managing. It is unreasonable to let the regime loose in the region and to allow it to spread chaos, threaten other regimes and dominate Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. All this would basically be its reward for decreasing uranium enrichment! Britain and Germany criticized Iranian practices and announced they will join the US in confronting Tehran’s policy. This position foils Iran’s attempts to put the entire agreement in one package to impose on everyone without distinguishing between ending nuclear activity, that qualifies it for military supremacy and the dangerous practices, which benefit from the nuclear agreement itself. We must acknowledge that the White House wittingly managed the battle with its European allies who completely rejected backing down from the agreement and refused to take any action that may lead to tense relations with Tehran. However, President Trump put before them two options: correct the mistakes related to the agreement or cancel it altogether. He insisted on refusing the previous situation. This stance harmonizes with the Republican Party’s view and his government of course supported the decision. The wheel will begin to turn again to pressure Tehran’s regime, which will be responsible for the next economic and political crisis it will suffer from – that is if it refuses to change its behavior and to suspend its military and militant activities in the region. The US and governments in solidarity with it do not oppose Iran’s right to establish a civil nuclear program but it expects Tehran to curb the Revolutionary Guards and its intelligence apparatuses that are deployed in the region. Iran must withdraw the militias, which the Revolutionary Guards established and trained and which consist of powerless refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other countries. It also increased Hezbollah’s tasks and turned the party members into mercenaries who launch wars on its behalf in the region. It is preparing the Houthi Ansar Allah in Yemen for this same purpose. Iran also used a naval network to smuggle weapons to fighting areas in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon and used ships to smuggle supplies to fund the Yemeni war. It tried to do the same in Syria via the Mediterranean Sea. Iran also has activities in Afghanistan as it has supported the war there ever since the American invasion of the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Sanctions removal Iran could not have expanded in this manner in the region if those who signed the agreement hadn’t submitted to its conditions and hadn’t lifted sanctions randomly. Tehran could not have expanded in Syria if the former American administration, under Barack Obama, hadn’t been lenient with it out of fear that it may not sign the deal. The challenge will be in proposing a new project to Tehran. This can include lifting sanctions in exchange of keeping the deal and getting Iran to commit to withdrawing all its foreign militias from fighting zones and pledge to stop supporting local militias allied with it, like the Houthis, the League of Righteous People, Hezbollah in Iraq and others. To pressure Iran, Washington said it will revive its support of the Iranian opposition that’s working to topple the regime. Obama’s administration had stopped doing that and had suspended supporting academic, political and media activities directed against Tehran in order to please Rouhani’s government. Now that the political confrontation is back on, Tehran is before a new formula: stop wars or be sanctioned again. All this will be accompanied with the formation of a new bloc whose aims are to pressure Iran and guarantee the implementation of sanctions. Abdulrahman al-Rashed Abdulrahman al-Rashed is the former General Manager of Al Arabiya News Channel. A veteran and internationally acclaimed journalist, he is a former editor-in-chief of the London-based leading Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat,

New bloc against Tehran

10/17/2017 12:10:43 PM

 

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A new bloc is forming against Iran regime

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Al Arabiya, 17 October 2017 - Truth be told, the pace of developments has taken us by surprise. Ever since Washington announced its decision against Iran’s government, Britain and Germany shifted their stance from insisting to remain loyal to the commitments of the nuclear deal to announcing that they support Trump’s plan to confront Tehran’s regime in the Middle East.
It seems quite clear as the problem is not related to an agreement over nuclear activity as much as it’s about the wars, which Iran is regionally managing. It is unreasonable to let the regime loose in the region and to allow it to spread chaos, threaten other regimes and dominate Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. All this would basically be its reward for decreasing uranium enrichment!
Britain and Germany criticized Iranian practices and announced they will join the US in confronting Tehran’s policy. This position foils Iran’s attempts to put the entire agreement in one package to impose on everyone without distinguishing between ending nuclear activity, that qualifies it for military supremacy and the dangerous practices, which benefit from the nuclear agreement itself.
We must acknowledge that the White House wittingly managed the battle with its European allies who completely rejected backing down from the agreement and refused to take any action that may lead to tense relations with Tehran.
However, President Trump put before them two options: correct the mistakes related to the agreement or cancel it altogether. He insisted on refusing the previous situation. This stance harmonizes with the Republican Party’s view and his government of course supported the decision.
The wheel will begin to turn again to pressure Tehran’s regime, which will be responsible for the next economic and political crisis it will suffer from – that is if it refuses to change its behavior and to suspend its military and militant activities in the region.
The US and governments in solidarity with it do not oppose Iran’s right to establish a civil nuclear program but it expects Tehran to curb the Revolutionary Guards and its intelligence apparatuses that are deployed in the region.

Iran must withdraw the militias, which the Revolutionary Guards established and trained and which consist of powerless refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other countries. It also increased Hezbollah’s tasks and turned the party members into mercenaries who launch wars on its behalf in the region.
It is preparing the Houthi Ansar Allah in Yemen for this same purpose. Iran also used a naval network to smuggle weapons to fighting areas in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon and used ships to smuggle supplies to fund the Yemeni war. It tried to do the same in Syria via the Mediterranean Sea.
Iran also has activities in Afghanistan as it has supported the war there ever since the American invasion of the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Sanctions removal

Iran could not have expanded in this manner in the region if those who signed the agreement hadn’t submitted to its conditions and hadn’t lifted sanctions randomly. Tehran could not have expanded in Syria if the former American administration, under Barack Obama, hadn’t been lenient with it out of fear that it may not sign the deal.
The challenge will be in proposing a new project to Tehran. This can include lifting sanctions in exchange of keeping the deal and getting Iran to commit to withdrawing all its foreign militias from fighting zones and pledge to stop supporting local militias allied with it, like the Houthis, the League of Righteous People, Hezbollah in Iraq and others.
To pressure Iran, Washington said it will revive its support of the Iranian opposition that’s working to topple the regime. Obama’s administration had stopped doing that and had suspended supporting academic, political and media activities directed against Tehran in order to please Rouhani’s government.
Now that the political confrontation is back on, Tehran is before a new formula: stop wars or be sanctioned again. All this will be accompanied with the formation of a new bloc whose aims are to pressure Iran and guarantee the implementation of sanctions.

 

Abdulrahman al-Rashed

Abdulrahman al-Rashed is the former General Manager of Al Arabiya News Channel. A veteran and internationally acclaimed journalist, he is a former editor-in-chief of the London-based leading Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat,