As the Trump administration pushes forward with a new Iran deal, retired Lt.Gen.
Keith Kellogg told a Paris gathering of the National Council of Resistance of Iran — an exiled Iranian opposition coalition aligned with the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) — that Tehran’s rulers are weaker than they have been in decades and urged dissidents to seize what he described as a historic opening."The window is open wider than at any moment in a generation, and windows do not stay open forever," Kellogg said at the two-day event."The theocratic regime in Tehran will not leave voluntarily.
You must force it.The hope is here.
Now must come the action."Kellogg, a retired U.S.Army lieutenant general and former U.S.
special envoy for Ukraine, framed any disarmament agreement not as an endpoint, but as "the first step of something far larger," saying it should become the foundation for Iran’s future without the current regime.POMPEO SAYS IRANIAN REGIME HAS ARRIVED AT 'NATURAL TERMINUS': 'LET'S NOT WASTE THIS HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY'Retired Lt.Gen.
Keith Kellogg speaks at the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s two-day conference in Paris, where he urged Iranian opposition supporters to seize what he called a historic opening against Tehran’s regime.(Mousa Mohebbi)Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s president-elect, used her remarks at the conference to argue that neither war nor negotiations had solved the threat posed by Tehran’s rulers.
"A peaceful, non-nuclear Iran is possible only through the overthrow of this regime by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance," Rajavi said, adding that any international agreement to end the war should include an end to executions of political prisoners and the killing of protesters.Kellogg also invoked the NCRI’s 2002 disclosure of Iran’s Natanz and Arak nuclear sites, saying the group should play a role in pushing for strict verification of any agreement."When I say trust, but verify, understand that...