Chicago: Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon and is using talks with the West to give them more time to achieve that goal, according to Iran’s National Resistance Council (NCRI) spokesman Shaheen Gobdi.
Gobdi, 60, a thermal nuclear scientist who first joined the resistance 40 years ago while a college student at UCLA, said the NCRI, which is based in Paris, works with the People’s Mojahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). does. Gobadi said that the PMOI/MEK operates inside Iran, taking great risks to expose Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Without the PMOI/MEK resistance, Gobadi said, the world would never know the true depth of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and how far it has progressed toward building a nuclear weapon.
“Iranian resistance, primarily the People’s Mojahideen Organization of Iran, has been a major factor that has brought the issue of the Iranian nuclear program to international attention,” Gobadi said.
“If it weren’t for Iranian deterrence activities through more than 120 press conferences and revelations about secret Iranian nuclear sites, projects, facilities, the world would have been fully aware of the mullahs’ covert campaign to acquire nuclear weapons. would have been alerted and by now the world would be facing the worst weapon of the worst regime ever. In fact, it was a slew of conflicts through our vast human network within our regime of the past three decades. The Mojahideen inside Iran, the MEK’s vast network, are taking enormous risks to uncover various aspects of the campaign to acquire mullahs. nuclear weapons.”
During an interview on “The Ray Hanania Show”, which aired on Wednesday May 4, 2022, Gobdi said that resistance to Iran’s brutality is increasing not only under the leadership of the NCRI outside Iran, but also by the protests and engagement of everyday citizens. Even with being significant disruption.
“Protests and disruptions,” Gobdi said, “have increased especially during the last four years. Since January 2018, there have been eight nationwide uprisings against the regime in Iran. And in some of them, such as in November 2019, it spread across the country. It spread so quickly in the U.S., it spread to nearly 200 cities, with people shouting ‘down with Khamenei the Supreme Leader and down with the entire regime’.
The mullahs, he said, responded by massacre more than 1,500 civilian protesters.
“But even then people have not been stopped from coming on the streets. Or in 2021, teachers, who are more than one million people, have taken to the streets in 21 nationwide protests and strikes. And even after this, there has been a significant increase in the activities of resistance which is affiliated to Mojahideen, MEK and their activities are increasing continuously,” said Gobadi.
Gobadi said that everyday the Iranian people are “standing up” and promoting a “continuous escalation of resistance”, which makes the mullahs “more vulnerable and much more concerned” about their future.
“Since 1981 some 120,000 political activists, more than 100,000 from the main resistance movement, the People’s Mojahideen Organization of Iran, the leading resistance organization, have been executed by theocracy for a secular government and staunch upholding gender equality,” Gobadi said.
“And that includes thousands of women, which is a wonderful aspect of our resistance in Iran. Hundreds of thousands of others have been imprisoned and severely tortured.”
Gobdi cited several incidents of resistance inside Iran. In January, the resistance disrupted 25 of the Iranian regime’s televised radio channels, which were broadcasting slogans of “Death to Khamenei and “Hail to Razvi”—the leaders of the resistance. In the same month, they attacked several provinces. The idols of Qasim Sulemani were set on fire.
On April 25, more than 100 computer servers of Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture were disrupted. Over the past few weeks, resistance units have repeatedly raised anti-regime slogans in busy places, large cities and shopping malls.
Gobadi said Iranian mullahs have not only been brutal in their responses against their own people, 70 to 80 percent of whom live below the poverty line, but importantly, the regime is a “primary source” of international terrorism.
He called it “foolish” that a brutal regime like Iran would give up on its nuclear weapons ambitions even if a joint comprehensive action plan is approved and the US removes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. He said Iran views the talks as “appeasement”, rather than preventing them from acquiring nuclear weapons.
“An agreement that does not close the regime’s path to a nuclear drive is not going to stop the drive. If the West is resolute, the regime has no choice but to obey the West. Unfortunately, at the time this will. It was not, especially of the Obama administration,” Gobdi said.
“And look what happened. Mullahs took billions of dollars and it all ended up in the coffers of the regime’s leaders, especially Khamenei, or top officials of the IRGC, or the regime’s surrogate and terrorist groups in the region to increase the capacity of the regime. missile program… and, the regime has never, ever, never abandoned its nuclear weapons program.”
“Well, by now, they have been the most active state sponsors of terrorism for years and years. Their webs have reached Europe, America, and even Latin America. Needless to say Europe, the Middle East. This Very shocking.”
On the reinstatement of the JCPOA, Gobadi said, “We feel that such an agreement is by itself no guarantee that the regime will not receive nuclear weapons.”
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