NIC statement of December 5, 2016<\/a><\/strong>, congratulating the President-Elect Trump on his victory in the presidential election, four decades of Islamic fundamentalist propaganda against the U.S. and Israel paradoxically has produced a large young Iranian population that is not hostile to Washington and Jerusalem, but friendly; not fanatically attached to fundamentalist interpretations of Islam, but alienated from them and often from Islam itself.<\/p>\nImmediately imposing crippling new sanctions on the IRGC is a critical first step in the new U.S. approach to dealing with the threats posed to the U.S. and its allies. The IRGC sanctions will contribute to rolling back and defeating the Khamenei regime\u2019s strategy in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
With respect to the regime\u2019s nuclear program and the nuclear deal itself, the NIC applauds the President\u2019s courageous, resolute decision to reject certifying that the continued suspension of sanctions under the deal is appropriate. Pursuant to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the President went the extra mile in seeking to work with the Congress and U.S. allies to remedy the numerous fatal flaws in the nuclear arrangement. Our considered judgment, however, is that the Khamenei regime will never accept the changes required to allow President Trump to have high confidence that the terms of the arrangement will protect U.S. national security interests and that the regime\u2019s compliance can be effectively verified. Moreover, it is very unlikely that the European participants in the nuclear deal will be willing to change any terms of the deal as even their willingness to do so would be seen politically as an embarrassing admission that the deal is deficient. \u00a0Consequently, we await the results achieved in the next two months.<\/p>\n
The NIC position on the nuclear deal, as enunciated in our December 5, 2016 Statement, is that President Trump should withdraw from this arrangement. Hence, for our part, the NIC will strongly support the President in a decision to cancel U.S. participation in the nuclear deal when he is convinced that achieving a new, effectively verifiable arrangement with the Khamenei regime that meets U.S. national security needs simply will not succeed. Our oft repeated view is that the only likelihood of a nuclear weapons-free Iran lies in a free, democratic Iran. \u00a0The notion that the only alternative to seeking a nuclear deal with the Khamenei regime is war is an illusion created by the previous U.S. administration. The truth is that the oppressed majority of the Iranian people did not then, and do not today, support the Khamenei regime\u2019s nuclear program or the nuclear deal and desperately want to be rid of the regime itself.<\/p>\n
We in the National Iranian Congress cannot overemphasize that the effects of the nuclear deal have only encouraged more abuse from the already brutal Khamenei regime.\u00a0 Oppression is at its harshest, yet at the same time, the President\u2019s new policy toward the Khamenei regime has set in motion events that can overwhelm the regime\u2019s grip on the Iranian people. We are so indebted to President Trump for ending the previous administration\u2019s perverse policy of supporting the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Thank you, Mr. President.<\/p>\n
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