The disturbances we are witnessing today on the streets of Iran are the result of decades of oppression by the clerical regime and of the world’s neglect in allowing the regime to continue violating many red lines.

Instead of bringing the Iranian administration to book over the slaughter of thousands of innocent people both within the country and abroad, the world decided to make deals with Iran, releasing billions of its impounded dollars frozen in international banks due to its illegal pursuance of nuclear weapons.

As I have shown in earlier articles, the regime has used the riches it acquired from country’s resources and from the billions returned following the Iran Deal to line its own pockets and those of the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards Corps.

In addition, the regime has spent billions to acquire long-range missiles with the ability to carry nuclear weapons and to strengthen its armed forces to fight wars for colonial gain to the detriment of the Iranian people, who have been allowed to exist at subsistence levels.

In the wake of such treatment, the people of Iran have risen up. For decades, they have witnessed friends and family members being hung for speaking out against government policies — many of them children, even pregnant women. Many of those arrested never faced a fair trial, while many were tortured to death in Iran’s hideous prisons, such as Evin.

Source: Alarabiya