{"id":8546,"date":"2017-10-18T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2017-10-18T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:54:23","slug":"trump-iran-speech-emboldening-ordinary-iranians-to-speak-out-against-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/8546\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump #Iran speech emboldening ordinary Iranians to speak out against regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Fox News:<\/span> President Donald Trump followed up his Iran speech announcing that he would not be certifying the Iran nuclear deal by also making clear his administration stood in solidarity with ordinary Iranians. Just two days later, thousands of Iranians marched against the regime over charges of corruption. Some experts say the protesters were newly emboldened by Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8510\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-Maryam-Rajavi-welcomes-the-US-policy-against-the-clerical-regime-and-its-crimes-against-the-Iranian-people_01c79d4828e7956abedc48e0b5c8efe8-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-Maryam-Rajavi-welcomes-the-US-policy-against-the-clerical-regime-and-its-crimes-against-the-Iranian-people_01c79d4828e7956abedc48e0b5c8efe8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-Maryam-Rajavi-welcomes-the-US-policy-against-the-clerical-regime-and-its-crimes-against-the-Iranian-people_01c79d4828e7956abedc48e0b5c8efe8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-Maryam-Rajavi-welcomes-the-US-policy-against-the-clerical-regime-and-its-crimes-against-the-Iranian-people_01c79d4828e7956abedc48e0b5c8efe8-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-Maryam-Rajavi-welcomes-the-US-policy-against-the-clerical-regime-and-its-crimes-against-the-Iranian-people_01c79d4828e7956abedc48e0b5c8efe8.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Mme Maryam Rajavi<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Speaking exclusively to Fox News before the protests, Maryam Rajavi, the head of that country\u2019s most visibly active opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that Trump\u2019s new policy toward Iran gives ordinary Iranians hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian people welcome a new approach by the U.S. government, recognizing the suffering of the Iranian people under the regime, ending years of misguided policy and siding with the Iranian people in their desire for regime change and the establishment of freedom and democracy,\u201d she said in a recorded statement from her exiled headquarters near Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Rajavi is seen by some Iran watchers as one someone the White House should be engaging with on Iran\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Heshmat Alavi, an Iranian political and rights activist said that Rajavi enjoys vast support in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Rajavi is the voice of a very restive society, described as a \u2018powder keg\u2019 by many, seen so vividly in the growing protests by the younger generation, women and most recently by thousands of investors across the country who have trusted their life savings into government institutions, only to be robbed of all their assets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Alavi said dissent against the clerical regime is growing especially given recent allegations that the regime took investors for their lifesavings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wmn7NTUpit4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon Tehran witnessed a demonstration by thousands of people chanting, \u2018We don\u2019t want a government of sheikhs,\u2019 expressing their dissent with the ruling regime in its entirety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Walid Phares, a Fox News national security and foreign policy expert, said that while the Obama administration abandoned Iranian protesters in 2009, preferring to engage with the regime, President Trump has a different goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis narrative is rekindling hopes among young Iranians that the new administrator is changing the tone. Interestingly President Trump spoke of the Iranian people and how it is oppressed by the regime just few days ago. With satellite TV and social media, millions of Iranians captured the new messaging. Did that influence the several demonstrations that took place over the past weekend in Tehran and other locations \u2014 highly possible. Iran civil society is moving again and they know there is a different White House,\u201d Phares said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on condition of anonymity, a veteran Middle East analyst close to the White House told Fox News that the Trump administration wants the Iranian people to know they are targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) and not the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know Iran is a rich and ancient civilization and that the Iranian people were the first victims of the regime. They\u2019re not going to make excuses for the IRGC regime like the Obama team did. That was a huge part of President Trump\u2019s speeches at the U.N. and last week.\u201d<br \/>\nTrump also designated the IRGC for its terrorist activities in last week\u2019s speech on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In her comments to Fox News, Rajavi called for regime change and for governments to recognize her group as a more enlightened replacement to the regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that the National Council of Resistance of Iran be recognized as the democratic alternative to the terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran. Such recognition would rectify decades of a misguided U.S. policy regarding the Iranian people,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDissent has grown significantly among the Iranian people, especially among women and young people. Regime change by the Iranian people and resistance is within reach,\u201d she told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>So far it is believed that the Trump administration has not reached out to any of the Iranian opposition groups. Most of that outreach ended with the Obama administration because of its intense focus on Obama\u2019s quest to make a deal with the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Fox News: President Donald Trump followed up his Iran speech announcing that he would not be certifying the Iran nuclear deal by also making clear <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/8546\/\" title=\"Trump #Iran speech emboldening ordinary Iranians to speak out against regime\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[140,141,142,139,138],"class_list":["post-8546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society-economy","tag-alavi","tag-demonstration","tag-national-council-of-resistance","tag-rajavi","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}