The Mecca Mirage and Tehran’s Dead-End Diplomacy

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  by: Struan Stevenson There is something faintly absurd about three countries forming a military alliance to defend themselves against aggression, then rushing to the capital of the country they suspect of encouraging that aggression, pleading for peace. Yet this was the spectacle in Tehran on 26 October, when senior representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan arrived for talks with the Iranian regime. Tehran hailed the meeting as a success. Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, spoke enthusiastically about a positive new atmosphere. The four countries agreed to continue talking. That was about it. No binding agreement to halt Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. No enforceable guarantees. No evidence of any miraculous conversion to peaceful coexistence. The mullahs must have been delighted. During my 15 years in the European Parliament, including five years as president of its Delegation for Relations with Iraq, I became thoroughly familiar with Tehran’s methods of extending...
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The Tabriz protests are a turning point in the Khuzestan uprising

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 By Reza Hoseani

On the tenth day of the courageous uprising of the people of southern Iran, where the mullahs' regime and its repressive apparatus were concentrated in Khuzestan, where it sent its repressive forces and cut off the Internet almost completely.

Suddenly, the protests of the people of Tabriz surprised the Iran's regime  and shook it.



The uprising in Tabriz, the third largest city in Iran with a population of about one million and 600 thousand people; In particular, the historical role of Tabriz in the anti-authoritarian and anti-colonial struggles of the Iranian people since the time of constitutionalism is a quality in the current uprising of the Iranian people.

The Iran's regime in Khuzestan was trying to pretend that everything was over by creating a military government and cutting off the Internet and tricks. Suddenly, it was faced with the thunderous roar of Tabriz. This, first of all, indicates the ready objective conditions in the society and the change of the balance of power between the people and the rule of Velayat-e-Faqih.

The uprising of the people of Tabriz had significant features:

1- It was very large and a large crowd of people, men and women, old and young, entered the scene, chanted slogans and clashed with the repressive mercenaries.

 2. When the armed forces of the regime attacked, the people not only were not afraid and did not retreat, but also resisted them; In some scenes, it was even the people who attacked the repressive forces and forced them to retreat.

3. The presence of women in the Tabriz uprising was significant

 4. The culmination of the Tabriz uprising was its rise to the slogan "We are not supporters of the Shah and Khamenei, but we are populists.

A slogan that thwarts the regime's and appeasers' efforts to blur the line between the people and the dictatorship, and shows that there is an impenetrable border between the People's Front and its resistance to the dictatorships of the Shah and Mullah.

And the last word is that: Tabriz is considered as a bridge of victory due to its weight and because of its potential and its influential role in the process of social change in Iran, it undoubtedly extends the Khuzestan uprising to the capital and other provinces of Iran.

 

Reza Hoseani is a writer, analyst, expert on Iranian affairs, a human rights activist and a defender of the rights of women, children and political prisoners

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