Iran nuclear deal may ignite slow-motion Arab arms race

The Hill, March 24, 2017 - What the United Arab Emirates ambassador to Washington said earlier this week in a panel discussion on the Iranian nuclear deal should attract the administration’s appropriate attention.
Yousef al-Otaiba stated in a Carnegie conference in Washington, D.C. that the UAE is not pleased with its nuclear compact. Iran got a better nuclear deal than us, he said, and 'it continues to keep its uranium enrichment program, while we made a commitment to forgo uranium enrichment,' suggesting that others in the Middle East might want the same uranium enrichment capability Iran has.    
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IRAN-Leader of Iranian resistance issues list of demands to Donald Trump’s administration

By Harriet Sinclair
International Business Times, March 22, 2017 - The leader of the Iranian resistance has sent a strong message to the new US administration: Cease relations with Iran until the country stops torture and executions.

Maryam Rajavi , the leader of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, spoke at a gathering in the Albanian capital Tirana to mark the Persian New Year and took the opportunity to issue some demands to US President Donald Trump’s administration.
'First, make your commercial and diplomatic relations contingent on end to executions and torture in Iran,' Rajavi began.

'Second, expel the Iranian regime’s criminal and invasive forces who have infiltrated the region by taking advantage of the West’s silence and appeasement.

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iran- Maryam Rajavi: This Nowruz Harbingers End of Religious Dictatorship and Advent of the Spring of Freedom

Maryam Rajavi addressed her greeting at Nowruz celebration, the Iranian New Year , which was held at Tirana Albania with PMOI members and guests from Albania, France and United States:
Congratulations on Nowruz, the blossoming of spring and the beginning of the year 1396!
Greetings to each and every one of you freedom fighters who have established the Third Ashraf contrary to the wishes of the Velayat-e Faqih regime!
I would also like to extend my greetings from here to my dear countrymen for the beginning of the New Year.
I congratulate you, Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs and Azeris, all the colorful flowers of Iran’s garden. I greet my compatriots around the world who can hear my voice. Congratulations on Nowruz and the beginning of 1396!
May this year’s celebration harbinger the defeat of Velayat-e Faqih who has enchained Iran! May this Nowruz mark the advent of the spring of freedom and national sovereignty in Iran!
May the end of winter this year harbinger the defeat of the mullahs’ belligerence and aggression in the region, and I particularly wish for the liberation of the people of Syria from the clutches of this brutal regime.
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Iran sends destroyer and warship to the Gulf of Aden

Iran is violating international law and peace،Endanger security in the region
And a destabilizing factor in the region.With these things it wants in world wars.
Al Arabiya, 14 March 20 17 - In a provocative move, Iran 
announced sending the “45 Group” of the Iranian Naval Force, which consists of a ship and a destroyer to the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab. The tension caused by the continued friction between the Iranian gunboats and US forces located in international waters is due to the persistent attempts of Iran to assist and provide the Yemeni militia with weapons.
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NCRI's Statements Iran: “Death to Mullahs’ Regime” and “Mullahs Must Be Killed” heard in Fire Festivities

Hello and greetings to the thousands of prisoners intrepid and fearless in the Iranian clerical regime that celebrate traditions.
Political prisoners in hall 12 of ward 4 in Karaj’s Gohardasht Prison, west of Tehran, celebrated “Fire Festivities” marking the last Tuesday night of the Iranian calendar year, expressing their hatred of the mullahs’ regime chanting “Death to Dictator” and “Death to Mullahs’ Regime”. These celebrations were held despite intense pressures and restrictions imposed by the Iranian regime. Prison authorities had also deprived the prisoners any fresh air time.
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Trump misses an opportunity to defang Iran

Iran regime missile program must be stopped

By Jennifer Rubin 

Since former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn warned Iran that it was “on notice” for an illegal missile test and the administration issued exceptionally narrow sanctions, we have heard little — if anything — from the administration about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iranian aggression in the region, Iran’s human rights atrocities or much of anything else concerning the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Obviously unconcerned about being on “notice,” Iran this week yet again conducted a ballistic missile test. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Thursday that the country’s Revolutionary Guard successfully tested another ballistic missile, while boasting that Iran’s efforts to build a ‘better’ home-made version of the Russian S-300 missile defense system were well on their way. This follows Russia’s latest delivery of anti-missile equipment to Iran. (“Last week, Iran announced that the advanced S-300 air defense system, delivered by Russia following the July 2015 nuclear deal after years of delay, was now operational.”)
If the administration has an Iran policy different from that under President Barack Obama, it’s not evident what it might be. Michael Singh of the Washington Institute has some ideas. He recommends that we first define three policy objectives:
1. Prevent Iran from acquiring or developing nuclear weapons—or significantly advancing its ability to do so—and from proliferating nuclear weapons technology.

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This is the Islam that Iran regime represents

The world’s two Islams
... Muslims’ real external problems started with Iran’s 1979 revolution, which claimed to defend Islam and Muslims, but with violence, lobbying and crowds.
Before that, Muslims were integrating with other communities in peace, while maintaining their faith and practicing their rituals. However, Tehran wanted to use Islam for its own political gain.

The ugly images of men wearing turbans, bearing political and religious slogans, and chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “Here I come O Khomeini,” are far from the image the world knew of Islam. These stained, scary faces used to hold diplomats hostage against all morals, norms and religions.
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