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STATEMENT
JULY 18, 2006
CONTACT: (202) 330-5456
E-MAIL:
office@USADIran.org
Call for Firm UN Action in
Response to Iran’s Proxy War in the Middle East
WASHINGTON, DC - The theocratic regime of Iran is the core threat
to stability and peace in the Middle East. The Iranian government bears
primary responsibility for this latest crisis. The escalating conflict
is a by-product of Tehran's rogue resurgence following Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's ascension to power. Trans-Atlantic concession-making with
the world's most active state-sponsor of terrorism has made the ground
fertile for this and future conflicts. Decisive action must be taken by
the international community to reverse this destructive trend.
The US Alliance for Democratic Iran calls for prompt and firm UN
Security Council action to penalize the ruling regime in Tehran for its
continued nuclear defiance and for using Hezbollah as a terrorist proxy
to advance its destabilizing hegemonic designs.
Two-decade-long international inaction has served to reward Tehran's
systematic use and sponsorship of terrorism as a tool of statecraft, and
encouraged Iran's growing belligerence. Increased economic and political
incentives suggest to Iran's clerical rulers and their terrorist proxies
that they are able to negotiate relief from consequences for their
nefarious actions.
The conflict in Lebanon provides a preview of the kind of regional
instability the world would witness if Iran’s theocratic regime succeeds
in fulfilling its objectives to dominate Iraq. It also puts the
explosive ramifications of a nuclear-armed Iran in a clear, horrific
perspective. With a nuclear weapon capability, Iran's capacity to assert
its hegemonic policies would increase by the day and its arms transfer
to terrorist proxies is not likely to be limited to Fajar missiles.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has indeed placed his "war party "-
the top brass of Iran's notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
and officials of intelligence and security apparatus - at all levers of
political power in Iran. Specifically, Ahmadinejad, a former IRGC
commander with many years of service in the Qods (Jerusalem) Force, the
extra-territorial terrorist arm of the IRGC, became Khamenei's selected
president.
The key to putting an end to the mullahs' reign of terror at home and
abroad is in the hands of Iranians' indigenous resistance movement for
regime change. By all indications, a foreign military option would be
strategically ineffectual and incentives to negotiate a settlement would
only encourage more violence. Secular, democratic Iranian dissidents
committed to regime change should be the focus of any meaningful policy
to counter the core threat in Tehran.
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