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Members of Iran’s National Resistance Council spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital about how long the current regime in Tehran is trying to kill them.
“Since the beginning of the uprising in Iran in 2017, Tehran has stepped up its terrorist plots abroad and opposes our movement, especially because of its growing appeal among protesters,” it said. said Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the US office of the National Council. of the Iranian Resistance (NCRI).
“Tehran sees the MEK as an engine of change within Iran and has realized that the NCRI network abroad is key to building pressure on the regime.”
On August 10, the Justice Department accused Iranian agents, members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, of plotting to assassinate John Bolton, who served as President Trump’s national security adviser until 2019. announced the indictment of Shahram Pursafi. Allegedly targeting former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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US officials said the conspiracy was likely planned as retaliation for killing Qassem Soleimani during a strike in January 2020. An attempt on their lives that dates back many years. About Fox News Digital.
Jafarzadeh said after seeing media reports of criminal complaints and affidavits related to the assassination attempts against Trump and Bolton and seeing his own name among the possible targets of the affidavits. I learned that he is a prime target of the regime.
“I was already wary of the possible terrorist threat from the Iranian regime because only a month ago the Iranian regime’s diplomat with a bomb was arrested. I was expected to,” he explained.
He noted three failed attempts to hit MEK targets in 2018 alone, including an attempt to bomb MEK headquarters in Albania and an attempt to attack a rally in Paris in July of that year. French authorities then arrested an Iranian diplomat.
According to Jafarzadeh, Iran’s reach extends to agents operating covertly in the United States who maintain a “benign cover” to hide their ties to Tehran. He claimed that there are many agents of the Iranian regime who use Iranian-American covers and operate in think tanks and academic institutions.
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Ali Safavi, a member of the Paris-based NCRI’s Foreign Relations Committee, said the attempts against the opposition groups prove that the regime sees them as an “existential threat” and thus justifies them. It claims to transform
“The misguided policy of appeasing the medieval theocracy and turning a blind eye to the mullah’s atrocities at home and abroad created a culture of impunity and gave them the courage to spread terrorism beyond Iran’s borders. Just,” Safavi told Fox News Digital. He also discovered himself a target when affidavits against Iranian operatives were made public.
“I saw one of them [the assassins], a waiter in Orange County,” he revealed. I was in the city in 2015 and went to the restaurant several times. I was very attentive. Little did we know, in fact, that he was trying to eavesdrop on what we were talking about. “
The would-be assassin Safavi also demanded a photo with Safavi when the two clashed at a protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City in 2017.
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They said the revelations of repeated and ongoing attempts against former US officials and Iranian dissidents would prove enough for the Biden administration to end negotiations on the nuclear deal, leaving the country in a state of economic starvation. It believes it could potentially release much-needed millions of dollars in funds for countries in the region to finance terrorist agent groups in neighboring countries.
“Leopards don’t change their spots,” Safavi said. “Consistent with the Democratic Party platform, human rights must be at the center of any policy countering the Iranian regime. A policy that strengthens and expands sanctions and refuses to give the regime the resources to maintain the machinery of repression and war.”
Critics have also used revelations of an assassination attempt against a US official to argue that the Biden administration should deny President Ebrahim Raisi the visas required to attend the United Nations General Assembly in September. There is
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“The Biden administration has publicly admitted that the regime in Tehran is actively plotting to assassinate Americans,” said Richard Goldberg, senior adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Council official. told Fox News Digital.
“How can we issue visas to those responsible for the conspiracy? Denying visas to Laisse and his delegation on national security grounds is fully consistent with U.S. law and treaty obligations.” .”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.