Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of National Council of Resistance of Iran held an online conference on Iranian regime’s interference in the region on April 16. Below is the text of his remarks.

Remarks of Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee of National Council of Resistance of Iran in online conference
Can Iran’s regional belligerence be rolled back?
April 16, 2015

According to the latest reports coming out of Iran, massive protests by the nation’s teachers are continuing to develop, encompassing 27 of Iran’s 31 provinces so far, including Tehran. There are more than one million teachers in the country, serving 13 million students, and they have widespread influence in Iranian society.

On Tuesday, President Obama delivered a warning to the Iranian regime, one that urged them to respect Iraqi sovereignty, over the fight against Islamic State militants. After a White House meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, he said that Shiite fighters, ones that are backed by Iran and now battling the ISIS troops, should be directly answerable to government of Iraq.

By USA Gen. Hugh Shelton (ret.)

There is little doubt that the Middle East is passing through a transformative moment. As the movement of geopolitical fault lines shakes the region, hot spots are shaping new realities and players. It is clear that the Iranian regime is playing a pronounced role through its agents in almost all the major conflicts stretching from Iraq and Syria all the way to Yemen. Echoing deep regional resentment, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently characterized this as an Iranian attempt to “dominate” the region.

In an online conference, on Monday, a former senior US military commander in Iraq said Shiite militias in Iraq are getting their directions from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force.