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Erbil, Iraq – Israel hammered Iran’s nuclear and military sites for a week. To achieve their goals, Israeli warplates must cover around 1,000 miles, crossing up to three countries, including Iraq, which is right on the Iranian western border. For decades, Iranian groups opposed to theocratic leaders of the Islamic Republic have organized themselves in exile through the border in Iraq, including ethnic Kurdish factions which have become well organized and armed.
Kawsar Fattahi is a leader of one of the opposition parties who was prohibited in Iran and qualified a terrorist organization by the Tehran authorities.
“The diet is weakening day by day,” she told CBS News. Fattahi thinks that the government led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could collapse under pressure from the Israeli assault. If this is the case, she said that it would only be deserts for the rich Islamic who have governed the nation with an iron fist for almost half a century.
“Okay, war is bad. People die. But it’s still not much kill [as] The Iranian regime itself, “she said to CBS News, arguing that Iranian leaders killed more Iranians themselves during the decades than the Israelis with a blooming week of war. said the number of deaths really exceeds 650with more than 2,000 others injured.
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Ayatollah Khamanei, the 86-year-old man who has ruled the nation of 90 million people for almost four decades, has only been the second supreme leader of Iran since the 1979 Revolution which has carried the power of the conservative and deeply anti-American Islamic Republic. The revolution overturned a pro-Western royal family, but deeply corrupt and repressive which had led Iran to a secular and relatively prosperous nation in the region.
Many older Iranians can still remember these pre-revolution days freedoms that the regime has brutally stifled.
The regime is deeply unpopular with many Iranians, and who manifested himself in mass manifestations several times over the past decade, including those calling for the end of forced Islamic dress and other restrictions on women. The demonstrations were encountered a deadly force.
The Iranian opposition wants support, but not us “boots on the ground”
Seeking to exploit the vein of quirquering discontent in Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Iranians get up against their own government Again – saying now is the moment, with the regime to its weakest thanks to the assault of his country.
“Brave People of Iran, your light will overcome the dark,” he urged last week after launching the attacks.
Due to war, the “Iranian regime has lost its control to suppress people, because many IRGC leadership [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] were killed, “she said.” Now, the power of suppression is weakening in Iran, so it can lead people to return to the street. “”
But Fattahi told CBS News that Iranians did not want Israel, or from the United States, to design a regime change in Tehran. She said that even if US air strikes could help weaken the government more, Iranians want to overthrow their leaders – and decide who replaces them alone.
“We don’t want their boots on the ground, of course,” she said. “We don’t want [a] Invented state. “”
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What kind of support that Fattahi and his group want the largest soldier in the world?
“Do not compromise with the diet because they kill people,” she said. “The world would be a better place without the Iranian diet, for all of us.”
She said that Iranians, with sufficient support from the international community, are ready and willing to build their own new government, and “we want a Democratic Iran. We want a secular Iran”.
She said her party already had discussions with US officials.
“We negotiate,” she said. Fattahi would not have entered the response that his group obtained from the White House at this stage.
The exiled crown prince of Iran says that “discussions on an Iran post-Islamic Republic began”
Kurdish groups are not the only Iranian exiles wishing to see the back of the office regime, however, or the only ones likely to speak with Washington officials of what comes next.
The Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last royal chief of Iran, the Shah who was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, has also lived for years in exile, and he was also a frank critic of Ayatollah. Pahlavi, who lives in the Washington DC region, said in interviews this week that he wanted to lead a political transition and that he was already under discussion on the future of his country.
“Sources lit inside the country that have been in contact with me say that command of the regime and the coordination structures are decomposed at a remarkable rate”. Pahlavi said In a message published on social networks on Friday. “On the other hand, the international community realizes that the Islamic Republic has no future and that our discussions on an Iran post-Islamic Republic began, which could accelerate and facilitate the fall of the regime.”
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We still do not know how much support for the Shah Shah, whose family is considered to be close to the United States and Israel – or exiled Kurdish groups – could in fact collect among the Iranians. It is also difficult not to know how many Iranians still in the country could feel confident enough to take to the streets, or when this point could be reached, given to what point the previous popular uprisings were quickly and violently previous.
Any American military involvement in the offensive against the regime could bring this point closer, but Khamenei warned that such a decision would be encountered by “irreparable damage” for the United States
The American military bases across the Middle East are possible targets for Iranian reprisals, as well as the around 40.00 American troops based on them.
In 2020, Iran attacked an American base here in Iraq with ballistic missiles. CBS News was there a few days later to attend significant damage, although no member of the American service was killed. Now Israel has superiority in Iranian airspace, which he has used to eliminate missile and drones sites. Iran’s regional proxy groups, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, which have long been a threat to the American bases in the region, have also been seriously exhausted by months of Israeli strikes.
However, we do not know exactly what Iran, even in its weakened state, could be capable.
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