US Activates Sanctions Snapback on Iran

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Iranian American Communities supporters of The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), in the US, rally in front of WhiteHouse, Sept 22, 2020, to support the US’s call on the UN to SnapBack all sanctions on dictators ruling Iran and said EU must follow.

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The United States activated the sanctions snapback mechanism in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, citing Iran’s constant violations of the agreement and its other illicit activities, on Monday.

The Secretaries of State, Defence, and Treasury announced in a joint press conference the imposition of new sanctions and an Executive Order by Donald Trump regarding the reimposition of all sanctions.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the 2015 agreement, saying that it “gifted the regime billions and paved the way for Iran to become the arms dealer of choice for terrorist groups and dictators all across the world in just five short years”.

What has changed since the regime was last under these sanctions?

  • The US has changed tack on the regime, so the sanctions that weren’t fully implemented last time will be. This means that Iran cannot continue its illicit activities as it did beforehand.
  • The Iranian people have become much more rebellious in their fight for freedom, with two major nationwide uprisings in 2018 and 2019 that shook the regime to its core and showed that the people are desperate for regime change, even if many of them are killed by the regime for protesting.
  • Massive protests against Iranian interference in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syrian, by the people of those countries, as well as the death of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, have caused the regime to lose ground in what it previously called its “strategic depth”.
  • Iran’s economy has deflated massively due to institutionalized corruption and spending on war and terrorism, so the people are more than ready to revolt over that.
  • The coronavirus, which has exacerbated the existing crises in Iran, has made people more willing to rebel because they see where the mullahs’ priorities lie, something admitted by the state-run media in Iran.

All of this shows that sanctions will be quite different this time around.

On Friday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI) said: “As for sanctions, I must reiterate that the people of Iran were attacked and slaughtered last November for protesting against gasoline price hikes. They want the pipelines that fuel the mullahs’ killing machine and terrorism to be destroyed. According to official reports, billions of dollars of oil revenues disappear every year. In other words, they end up in the coffers of Ali Khamenei.”

She said that the international community must “boycott the clerical regime” as this helps fight terrorism, suppression, and corruption.

Iranian American Communities supporters of The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), in the US, rally in front of WhiteHouse, Sept 22, 2020, to support the US’s call on the UN to SnapBack all sanctions on dictators ruling Iran and said EU must follow.

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