After Iran regime's retreat, encourage democratic change

Sona Samsami

The U.S. continues to lack a broad, coherent, and effective strategy on Iran; one that affords the nuclear issue the weight it deserves, but does so in conjunction with – not in isolation from - Iran’s other threatening facets as well as the percolating desire of millions of Iranians who earnestly seek regime change.
The nuclear agreement may have dire unintended consequences: an emboldened regime that will channel gains into other threat generators, such as the financing of Islamic extremism. As a result, the perceived mitigation of one threat actually bolsters another.

Just this week, after the deadliest bombing in months in Bahrain, state media said the explosives used in the attack were similar to those smuggled in from Iran and seized days earlier.

Indeed, despite all the fanfare by Tehran’s apologists inside the Beltway, the agreement does not provide much cause for celebration in a region already embroiled in sectarian strife, for the most part encouraged by the mullahs....Samsami is the representative in the United States for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which seeks to establish a democratic, secular and non-nuclear republic in Iran