{"id":7739,"date":"2017-07-08T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T02:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2017-07-08T21:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T02:18:31","slug":"videos-what-terrifies-iran-regime-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/07\/08\/videos-what-terrifies-iran-regime-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos: What terrifies Iran Regime the most?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over 100,000 members of the Iranian Diaspora from all over the world participated in the event. In addition to Maryam Rajavi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BIN website, July 7, 2017<\/strong> – The annual Iranian resistance gathering took place on July 1, 2017. Over 100,000 members of the Iranian Diaspora from all over the world participated in the event. In addition to Maryam Rajavi <\/a>, President-elect of Iranian resistance as the keynote speaker, many prominent personalities form all over the world also delivered speeches. The main message of the meeting and its speakers was that the time has come for regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n

In previous years, Iran, by putting a media blackout over the event, would ignore the resistances\u2019 gathering. There is a well-known policy in Iran that publishing the name, picture or any news of Rajavi and the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), the main opposition of Iran, is a red line and prohibited. But this year, in an unprecedented manner this red line was ignored and in only three days over 500 news reports about the gathering were published in state run media, reflected the Iranian regime\u2019s unprecedented fear.<\/p>\n

The visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to France topped Tehran\u2019s reaction to the event. Just a day prior Zarif went to Paris for the signing of a $5 billion dollar contract with the French oil giant Total.<\/p>\n

The main purpose of Zarif\u2019s trip was to ask the French government to cancel the resistance\u2019s annual gathering, according to Iranian state media. One outlet even claimed the entire convention had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our talks with the French officials we raised the issue of the MEK and their presence as a vague point in our relationship,\u201d Zarif said while departing France.
\nNow the question is why Iran is so terrified of the annual Iranian resistance gathering, and what can be concluded about their hysterical reaction about this event.
\nThe theme \u201cregime change\u201d, echoed in all the speeches, was and remains a core reason of the mullahs\u2019 fear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a viable opposition to the rule of the ayatollahs and that opposition is centered in this room today. I have said for over ten years since coming to these events that the declared policy of the United States of America should be the overthrow of the mullahs\u2019 regime in Tehran. The behavior and the objectives of the regime are not going to change, and therefore the only solution is to change the regime itself. And that\u2019s why before 2019 we here will celebrate in Tehran,\u201d said former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton in his speech.
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