Iran: Resignation of Zarif reflects critical crises engulfing mullahs’ regime
Analtsis by PMOI/MEK
Feb. 26, 2019 – Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of the mullahs’ regime in Iran, resigned on Monday night, according to state-run media outlets and a variety of international media reports. The resignation was first mentioned in his Instagram post:
“I apologize for my inability to continue serving and all the shortcomings during my tenure,” this post reads in part.
“Zarif announced his resignation on Monday night through an Instagram message,” according to the Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force. In an interview with the Fars news agency’s foreign affairs reporter, an informed source close to the Foreign Minister confirmed this report.”
Zarif’s resignation reflects escalating crises among the ruling mullahs’ in Iran and their continuous setbacks in international relations, especially issues related to the 2015 nuclear deal and the Financial Action Task Force resolutions.
International pressure and the mullahs’ global/regional isolation, reflected very vividly during the Warsaw, Munich and Sharm al-Sheikh conferences portray how Tehran’s foreign policy apparatus has reached a dead-end.
The Iranian regime’s atrocious report card of supporting international terrorism and being the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism came to haunt Zarif during his visit to Germany for this year’s Munich Security Conference.
Reporters asked Zarif about European sanctions against Tehran over the mullahs’ terror campaign on their soil, especially through the course of 2018. Constantly dodging questions over the Iranian regime’s bombing and assassination plots across Europe during the past year, Zarif, as always, resorted to old lies to justify these heinous measures and signaled the source of Tehran’s main concerns.
“The United States is listening to the wrong folks… what is clear is that there are people in Europe who have been on Europe’s terrorism list up until 2012. What happened all of a sudden that they were withdrawn from the terrorism list?… In 1998, the U.S. put the MEK on the terrorism list and in 2012 they took them off the terrorism list,” he said while obviously losing his temper and control.
“[U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer] Rudy Giuliani spoke yesterday for the MEK. [U.S. National Security Advisor] John Bolton has spoken for the MEK. John Bolton is angry because he promised the MEK that he would celebrate in 2019 in Iran with them. They are still in Paris,” Zarif continued, once again indicating how the Iranian regime is utterly terrified of the growing role of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
On the same day of the Munich Security Conference, members of the Iranian Diaspora and PMOI/MEK supporters rallied in Munich protesting the presence of Zarif as the top diplomat of the religious fascism ruling Iran and demanding his expulsion.
Zarif is a member of the regime’s Supreme National Security Council and has been involved in all decision-making processes to carry out terrorist attacks and assassinations abroad. This includes the bombing plot targeting the 2018 Iranian opposition rally in near Paris back in late June.
It has been crystal clear that the Iranian regime is the source of terrorism and warmongering in the Middle East and across the globe.
The protesters in Munich called on the international community to take into notice the eight demands raised by the Iranian opposition from the international community. Maryam Rajavi, President of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) raised these demands recently.
I declare the demands of the people of #Iran and the Iranian Resistance, as the following: #WarsawSummit pic.twitter.com/Ealwdgy283
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) February 14, 2019
PMOI/MEK supporters are now scheduled to hold a rally in Geneva on Tuesday, protesting Zarif’s planned visit to the United Nations’ European headquarters. These demonstrators will be demanding Europe to set aside its failed appeasement policy vis-à-vis Tehran and make the long-delayed decision of standing alongside the Iranian people in their struggle to establish freedom and democracy in Iran.
Supporters of Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) rallying in Munich, chanting “Zarif get lost!”
Supporters of Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) rallying in Munich, chanting “Zarif get lost!”
Supporters of Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) rallying in Munich, chanting “Zarif get lost!”
Supporters of Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) rallying in Munich, chanting “Zarif get lost!”