JUST IN Hezbollah has received assurances from Iran that no final nuclear agreement with the United States will be signed unless Israel withdraws from Lebanon. - Hezbollah press office

This morning, I met with @EmilyThornberry Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, and other members of the Committee to discuss the situation inside Iran, the Islamic Republic’s repression of the Iranian people, and the urgent need to place the people of Iran at the centre of UK policy. I made clear that dealing with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 Iranians in January is not only morally wrong, but strategically misguided. Any agreement that preserves this regime or its remnants will fail. The Iranian people will not accept it. With or without international support, the people of Iran will overthrow this regime. Freedom will come to Iran.

As it signs a Memorandum of Understanding for “peace”, the Islamic Republic just executed two more protesters from January 8th and 9th. This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime. To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protestors in two days in January is morally wrong and strategically misguided. Dealing with this regime will fail and we will all face the consequences. The regime’s 47-year war against the Iranian people continues. Just as it has never made peace with its own citizens, it will never truly make peace with the world. The international community should back the people of Iran’s fight for freedom. Put them center in any negotiations and in their Iran policy. But let me be clear - with or without international support - this regime will fall. The people of Iran will liberate themselves from tyranny.

The Hamas movement has published its official response to the Iranian MOU, which reads as follows: “We welcome the announcement of the agreement regarding the memorandum of understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America. We extend our sincere congratulations to the Islamic Republic of Iran, its people and its leadership, and express our appreciation for its steadfastness and its commitment to its national rights and interests in the face of pressures and challenges, which contributed to thwarting attempts to impose dictates and projects of hegemony on the region. We hope that this agreement will constitute a step that contributes to enhancing regional stability and will have a positive impact on various issues in the region, foremost among them the immediate cessation of the ongoing Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and the ending of the repeated attacks and violations against Lebanon and other fronts. We affirm that security and stability in the region will not be achieved as long as the occupation government continues its war of extermination, starvation, and displacement against our Palestinian people, and unless the true roots of the conflict—namely, the Zionist occupation and the denial of our people’s legitimate rights—are confronted.” As commentators debate the language of the MOU, it is important to keep in mind the close coordination retained through Qaddoumi’s office and even between Hazem Qassem and Iran, to say nothing of Khalil al-Hayya—a figure from the ranks of the Sinwar flank of the movement.

شاهزاده رضا پهلوی، رهبر اپوزیسیون دموکراتیک ایران، روز سه‌شنبه ۲۶ خرداد، همزمان با بررسی لایحه «تهدیدات امنیت ملی و نفوذ دولت‌های خارجی» در پارلمان بریتانیا، به لندن سفر خواهد کرد. در جریان این سفر، شاهزاده رضا پهلوی با رهبران سیاسی بریتانیا، نمایندگان پارلمان، رسانه‌ها و چهره‌های اثرگذار و همسو با مبارزه ملت ایران دیدار خواهد کرد. محور اصلی این دیدارها تأکید بر ضرورت قرار گرفتن مردم ایران در مرکز تصمیم‌گیری‌ها و گفت‌وگوهای سیاسی درباره آینده ایران است. شاهزاده همچنین در این سفر بر این واقعیت روشن و انکارناپذیر تأکید خواهد کرد که تهدید جمهوری اسلامی تنها به درون مرزهای ایران محدود نیست و رژیم خطری مستقیم برای جوامع دموکراتیک و امنیت ملی کشورهای غربی، از جمله بریتانیا است.