The released funds will only serve Khamenei and IRGC and won’t be used to resolve Iranian people’s plight

The adoption of the JCPOA by the Iranian regime and its hasty implementation by transgressing Khamenei’s declared redlines and guidelines, before all else, indicate the explosive state of the Iranian society, especially on the verge of the elections for the parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the eroding effect of the sanctions, and apprehension for the imposition of further sanctions by the U.S. Congress.
As the Iranian Resistance had declared last summer, six months after the adoption of JCPOA by the regime, the struggle for power at the top of the regime on the verge of elections has traversed the entire regime and led to the waning of Supreme Leader’s power and has rendered the regime in its entirety more feeble and vulnerable. In particular, regime’s consecutive defeats in Syria has deepened regime’s internal crisis. It is so that concurrent with the implementation of JCPOA, the clerical regime has ramped up its criminal executions and just in the first two weeks of the new year, it has carried out 53 execution of prisoners to intensify the climate of terror and fear.
Lifting of some sanctions and giving Iranian people’s assets to the illegitimate and usurper regime ruling Iran shall not at all improve the economic condition of the Iranian people and would rather serve regime’s policies of oppression, export of fundamentalism and terrorism, and warmongering, particularly the massacre of the Syrian people. As Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, declared on 14 July 2015, for these assets not to flow into Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon and not to further fill the pockets of the revolutionary guards, it should be spent under the strict control of the United Nations on Iranian people’s imperative needs, especially the meager, unpaid wages of laborers, teachers and nurses and to provide food and medicine to the population.
It should be mentioned that the bulk of Iran’s economy (to include over 50% of GDP) is concentrated in 14 huge economic hubs that are all associated with the military and security institutions or the foundations operating under Khamenei’s control. Most of regime’s foreign trade is linked to these 14 economic hubs. A good portion of IRGC expenditures and the monthly financial assistance to the Syrian dictator is paid up by the profits of these institutions. The bulk of the released funds will flow to these economic hubs and will thus serve Khamenei and the revolutionary guards.
Meanwhile, given the economic structure of this regime that is replete with corruption and pillage, and considering the many crises engulfing the regime, the funds handed over to the Iranian regime will not lead to any strategic way out for this regime but will only amplify the loath and rage of the Iranian people against the clerical regime and all of its gangs and factions that have only brought poverty and unemployment to the Iranian people.
The problem of the Iranian people with the ruling religious fascism is not just limited to the nuclear issue but prior to that is the brutal violation of human rights and the suppression of all liberties and the thorough repression imposed by this regime, especially against women, the youth, and the followers of other religions and faiths, as well as various ethnicities within the Iranian society. Any turning of a blind eye on the crimes of this regime inside Iran or its export of terrorism and fundamentalism under the pretext of the nuclear accord will exacerbate the threat to regional and global peace and security and would even embolden this regime in the pursuit of its nuclear projects and the violation of this very nuclear accord.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 17, 2016