Iran’s mullahs will never abandon their nuclear program

According to the Iranian resistance network inside Iran, Tehran is secretly accelerating the development of nuclear warheads for solid-fuel missiles with a range of over 3,000 km. These missiles are being manufactured at the Shahroud missile site, located in central Iran.

Disguised under the cover of a satellite launch program, the missile sites in Shahroud and Semnan are now in full coordination with the regime’s nuclear militarization entity, the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, or SPND.

The SPND is particularly involved in designing nuclear warheads for Ghaem-100 solid-fuel missiles, which are equipped with mobile-launch platforms at the Shahroud site. It is also utilizing the liquid-fuel Simorgh missile, deployed in Semnan, for nuclear warhead development.

According to a confidential internal memo, revealed last week in Washington by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the regime is stalling for time by negotiating with European countries and even indirectly with the United States, aiming to maintain the current status quo long enough to complete its weapons program. This same document reveals the regime’s concerns over the potential triggering of the “snapback mechanism” at the U.N. Security Council. The regime’s plan is to drag out negotiations for another six months, after which the sunset clause in the U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 would render it obsolete.

A regime of warmongering and chaos

The survival of the Iranian regime depends on war and chaos. Believing that this regime, even in a weakened state, could achieve peace and stability in the region would be naïve. Despite severe blows to its proxy forces and the loss of Syria – once a key stronghold of its expansionism – the senile Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has not abandoned support for the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen. On Feb. 6, Khamenei hosted the head of Hamas’ leadership council in Tehran. His rhetoric, claimed by Iran’s ambassador to France as being about “a nonmilitary nuclear program,” is nothing but a farce. As long as he has the means, Khamenei will continue his destabilizing actions.

Khamenei has repeatedly stated: “Young Syrians will liberate their country again.” This is an illusion, but it exposes the regime’s intent to sow chaos in the region. The brutal theocratic regime needs an external enemy to justify its grip on Iran and sustain its rule through war and repression.

In the past, Khamenei used to affirm: “If we do not fight in Syria, we will have to fight in Tehran and Isfahan.” Today, after losing Syria, he has turned inward, erecting a defensive line against his own people by carrying out 1,000 executions in 2024. Domestic repression and military expansionism remain the two pillars of the regime’s survival – pillars to which Khamenei clings desperately.

Revolt, resistance and the regime’s inevitable downfall

The mullahs’ regime is surrounded on all sides: by resistance units and rebellious youth, by heroic women who refuse to submit despite brutal torture, and by a society on the brink of explosion. It is also facing internal conflicts, exacerbated by the collapse of its main regional stronghold, Syria, as well as mounting external tensions.

Amid its spiral of failures, the regime’s rival factions have fiercely clashed over the issue of negotiations with the United States. The deputy intelligence minister of the regime has called negotiations “the deadliest poison.” He further states that the Americans are telling them: “Either you retreat, or you are overthrown.” Recently, Khamenei had the final say, declaring: “Negotiation is not wise, it is not intelligent, it is not honorable.”

To compensate for its setbacks, the regime sees only one solution: to accelerate its nuclear program without restraint. Although its officials frequently cite Khamenei’s fatwa supposedly forbidding nuclear weapons, they carefully avoid explaining why they are enriching uranium beyond 60% and constructing underground production sites.

Maryam Rajavi: The fall of the regime is certain

Meanwhile, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian resistance, stated in a live televised message to 20,000 protesters gathered in Paris on Saturday, Feb. 8: “With or without negotiations, with or without a nuclear program, the uprising and the overthrow of the regime by the people and the organized resistance are inevitable.”