Kurdish Activist: “Any New Iranian Nuclear Deal Would Spell Disaster”

When anti-regime protests broke out under US President Donald Trump, he gave more verbal and emotional support to the protesters than Obama did. However, he did not really provide Iranian dissidents with logistical and military support, preferring a “maximum pressure” campaign that would imply many economic sanctions on Iran than any sort of more active US involvement. After all, he was an isolationist, who felt that America should not get involved in other countries. So yes, he was a cheerleader, but the Iranian people needed more than just cheerleading.

And now, President Biden is not much better than Obama. Despite Iran’s atrocious human rights record, Dr. Ashtab predicted: “We will soon see an agreement between Iran, the US and the West. Yet, Iran will secretly try to expand its nuclear program to the point of building a nuclear weapon.”

“The lifting of sanctions will free up Iran’s hand to suppress the struggle for freedom of the Iranian people including the Kurdish nation, which has been fighting against this regime for its freedom and national rights for forty years,” he warned. “It will also lead to the expansion of terrorist organizations in Iraq, Syria and throughout the Middle East, and this will adversely affect the Kurds.”

Dr. Ashraf continued: “It is no secret that the Kurdish people in Iran have been persecuted ethnically, linguistically and politically. Students, intellectuals, poets, writers and journalists are imprisoned and tortured. Kurdish political activists have also been assassinated. If American sanctions on Iran are lifted or reduced, then the Iranian regime’s capabilities will be greater and it will be easier to suppress the Iranian opposition.” 

And in the long run, this goes contrary to America’s interests: “Mr. Biden’s agreement to lift sanctions and to agree on the nuclear issue is also not to the satisfaction of the American political and diplomatic experts.”