Iran Regime Is Not a Leader in the Muslim World and Will Not Be Until They Abandon Extremism25 September 2017

Iran Focus
London, 25 Sep - Following some absurd comments by the Supreme Leader of Iran about his and the Regime’s status in the Muslim world, one political scientist is telling the Regime to take their cues on peaceful co-existence from Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, a leading expert on Iran and US foreign policy, wrote an op-ed for Arab News in which he dismissed claims on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website in which he is described as the “leader of the Islamic World”.
Rafizadeh highlights that a leader of the Islamic world should at least show some qualities of Islam, like uniting the Shiite and Sunni worlds and building bridges between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.
He said that nothing in the Iranian Regime suggests that religion has been used to unify but everything suggests that it has been corrupted to divide.

The US Must Convince Its Allies to Go Tough on IranNuclear 26 September 2017

Iran Focus
London, 26 Sep - If the US really wants to increase pressure on the Iranian Regime, they need to convince the rest of the world to join with them and pass international sanctions on the Regime and their Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
In October, the Iranian nuclear deal comes up for review once again and if Donald Trump’s tough rhetoric comes to pass then Iran should be declared noncompliant because of the mountain of evidence that suggests they are not keeping to the deal.
This could mean issuing fresh sanctions against Iran (something that the Trump administration has hardly been shy about) or reintroducing ones lifted by the nuclear deal, but even the action of declaring Iran noncompliant could give the US essential leverage and bring the mullahs back to the negotiating table.
The 2015 deal, of course, can always be renegotiated if all parties agreed or a follow-up deal could be offered; perhaps one that addressed other problems with the Iranian Regime like their human rights violations or destabilising effect on the Middle East.
However, the other signatories to the deal- the UK, France, Germany, China, and Russia- have indicated that they would oppose the “snapping back” of sanctions. And it doesn’t help that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has determined that Iran is compliant even though they are unable to access many suspected nuclear sites.