Addressing a large gathering of Iranian exiles in Paris on 9 July, Free Iran, Iranian Resistance President-elect Maryam Rajavi presented an assessment of the clerical regime’s situation one year after signing the nuclear agreement and said: “The regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei realized that the survival of his regime was threatened. In order to rescue the regime, he ultimately decided to retreat with an at least temporary abandonment of the regime’s nuclear weapons programme. Yet the crisis engulfing the regime could not be contained. On the contrary, it was exacerbated, throwing the regime even deeper into the quagmire of the Syrian war.
Source: EU Reporter, 9 July 2016
