“The weak day is day after day,” the Iranian exiles say, and they are ready to build a new future

Erbil, Iraq – Israel was knocking Iranian nuclear sites For a week. To reach their targets, Israeli warplanes must cover about 1,000 miles, which cross up to three countries, including Iraq, which is located on the western border of Iran. For decades, Iranian groups opposed to Islamic theocratic rulers organized in exile across the border in Iraq, including the ethnic Kurdish factions that have become well organized and armed.

Kawsar Fatahi is a leader in one of the opposition parties that were banned in Iran and described a terrorist organization by the authorities in Tehran.

“The system weakens day by day,” she told CBS News. Fatahi believes that the government is led Ayatollah Ali Khawlni It can collapse under the pressure of the Israeli attack. If so, she said it would be just a desert for the Islamic militants who ruled the nation with an iron fist for about half a century.

“Well, the war is bad. People die. But it is still not much of the killing (like) the Iranian regime itself,” she told CBS News, on the pretext that Iran’s leaders have killed more Iranians themselves over decades more than Israelis with a week of war. Iranian officials only recognized about 220 deaths from Israel, but human rights activists in Washington in the Iran group, which depends on a network of sources in the country, The death toll says more than 650With more than 2000 others.

Ayatollah Khamani, 86, who has ruled a nation of 90 million people for nearly four decades, is the second supreme leader of Iran since the 1979 revolution that brought the Islamic Republic to the anti -American conservative to power. The revolution overthrew members of a royal family in support of the West, but it is very corrupt and suppressed, which prompted Iran to a relatively secular and prosperous nation in the region.

Many older Iranians can still remember the days before the revolution, and many younger Iranians, even with their view of control over the outside world, yearning for Freedoms that the regime brutally strangled.

The system is not very popular with many Iranians, and this has been demonstrated in mass protests on several occasions over the past decade, including those who call for the end of the laws of forced Islamic dress and other restrictions imposed on women. The demonstrations were Meet.

The Iranian opposition wants support, but not “shoes on the ground”

In the endeavor to take advantage of the vein from strange discontent inside Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to the Iranians It rises against their government Again – his saying now is the right time, with the regime for his weakest thanks for his country’s attack.

And he urged him last week after launching the attacks: “The brave people in Iran, your light will be defeated.”

Because of the war, “the Iranian regime lost its control over the suppression of people, because a lot of IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) was killed,” she said. “Now the power of repression weakens inside Iran, so people can lead to the street again.”

But Fattahi told CBS News that the Iranians do not want Israel, or the United States, to change the regime of engineers in Tehran. She said that although US air strikes may help weaken the government, the Iranians want to drop their leaders – and decide who replaces them – on their own.

“We don’t want their shoes on the ground, it is clear,” she said. “We do not want (a) makeup.”

What kind of support does Vatahi and her group want from the largest army in the world, then?

“Do not give up the regime, because they kill people,” she said. “The world will be a better place without the Iranian regime, for all of us.”

She said that the Iranians, with adequate support from the international community, are ready and ready to build their new government, and “we want a democratic Iran. We want secular Iran.”

She said that her party was already discussing with US officials.

“We are negotiating,” she said. Vathay did not enter the response that her party was getting from the White House at this stage.

“Discussions on the post -Islamic Republic, and Iran has started,” says the exiled Iranian crown prince.

Kurdish groups are not the only Iranian exile to see the back of the religious system, nor the only one that is likely to speak with Washington officials about what comes after that.

Crown Prince Reza Bahlvi, the son of another royal leader, Shah, who was extinguished in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, also lived for years in exile, and was also an explicit critic of the verse of God. Pahlavi, who lives in the Washington, DC, indicated this week that he wanted to lead a political transition, and that he was in discussions about his country’s future.

“Inviced sources inside the country who were in contact with me says that the leadership and coordination structures are collapsing at a wonderful pace,” says enlightened sources inside the country who were in contact with me that the leadership and coordination structures are collapsing at a wonderful pace, ” Balfafi said In a message posted on social media on Friday. “On the other hand, the international community realizes that the Islamic Republic has no future and that our discussions on the post -Islamic Republic have started, which can accelerate and facilitate the fall of the regime.”

It is still unclear the amount of support supported by the obedient son of the Shah, which is seen as close to the United States and Israel – or exiled Kurdish groups – among the Iranians. It is also not clear that the number of Iranians still in the country may feel sufficient to go to the streets again, or when this point can be reached, given the extent of violent and violent popular uprisings.

Any American military participation in the attack against the regime can bring this point closer, but my rawi warned that this step will verify “irreplaceable damages” to the United States.

American military bases throughout the Middle East are possible targets for Iranian revenge, along with nearly 40,00 American soldiers their headquarters.

In 2020, Iran attacked an American base here in Iraq with ballistic missiles. CBS News was just a few days later to see the comprehensive damage, although no members of the American service were not killed. Now, Israel excels in the Iranian airspace, which it used to remove missile sites and drones. The Iranian regional agent groups, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, which have long been a threat to the US bases in the region, have been exhausted seriously from months of Israeli strikes.

However, it is not clear what Iran, even in its weak state, could be able to do so.

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Steve Berman

He contributed to this report.