European Union officials have been going out of their way to downplay the importance of the information Israel revealed Monday about Iran's true nuclear ambitions and its deception of the international community, but exiled Iranian dissidents in Europe welcomed the Israeli move.
Dr. Kazem Moussavi, an exiled Iranian opposition activist living in Germany, told Israel Hayom that the flurry of Twitter comments by Iranian officials following Monday's revelations, especially those by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, indicate Tehran's growing concern over what may come next.
"To understand the importance of the archival material exposed by [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, you have to first realize that Iran's nuclear program is the product of the Islamic republic's apocalyptic and anti-Semitic worldview and its global goals, which the regime believes it can promote only through anti-Western and anti-Israeli policies that include, first and foremost, constant military armament and a nuclear program," Moussavi said.
He said that in the current political climate in Iran, nuclear armament combined with an appeasement policy is the only way for the regime to hold on to its power.
"The regime used the 'appeasement agreement' to secretly pursue the nuclear program. Netanyahu's presentation of the archival material caused serious demoralization among regime officials and significantly weakened it, all while bolstering the Iranian public, which this year has again taken to the streets to protest against oppression and for freedom, equality and democracy," he said.
Moussavi was critical of the lukewarm response to the discovery of the classified Iranian archives.
"The European position is cynical," he said. "The Europeans are important political and economic partners of the fascist religious regime in Iran. Europe and Germany thought the regime could be changed through internal reforms and consciously reduced awareness to the danger this regime poses to world security and to Israel."
Moussavi said the 2015 nuclear deal failed to address the Iranian ballistic missile program, which threatens Israel as well as Europe.
"The agreement guarantees the regime's survival during its implementation while giving it billions of dollars with which it can sponsor terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas. Europe and Germany are silencing the fact that the murderous actions by Iranian terror units in Syria are the main reason why Syrians flee to Europe," he said.
Moussavi called on Europe and the West to take the information presented by Netanyahu seriously. U.S. President Donald Trump "needs to cancel this dangerous agreement. They [the international community] must impose new sanctions on the regime and publish a blacklist of all the members of the Revolutionary Guards, the body that guarantees the regime's survival and organizes the nuclear program," he said.
He also said he believes the world is already at war with Iran.
"There is an ongoing war in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and on Israel's borders, not only because of Hamas' and Hezbollah's presence there but also over the massive Iranian military presence [in Syria]," he said.
"Moreover, the regime has long been waging a war against the Iranian people and this has a lot to do with European appeasement policy.
"Europe must stop supporting [Syrian President Bashar] Assad and if it [Europe] truly wants peace, it should take the Israeli revelations as an opportunity to change its policy toward Iran. Assad's dictatorship in Syria gives the Iranian regime a corridor through which to conquer Jerusalem."
