![Daughter of the former President of Iran Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, 10 January 2017 [Mustafa Melih Ahıshalı/Anadolu]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20170110_2_21209106_17831505.jpg?fit=920%2C567&ssl=1)
The daughter of Iran’s former president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, has criticised Tehran’s foreign policies saying they will lead to the overthrow of the regime.
“The regime’s policies will lead to overthrowing it and this requires no action by America. If we were wise, and did not waste the people’s rights and drain the country’s resources there would be no reason to worry about overthrowing the regime,” Faezeh Hashemi Bahramani, a human rights activists and a former member of the Iranian Parliament, told Iranian activists.
“The pressures exerted secretly and publicly by America, Saudi Arabia and Israel on Iran have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement. Unfortunately, the regime is giving wrong reasons to the Iranian people in order to distort the public opinion about what has happened and what is happening now,” she said, explaining that the current problems facing Iran are not the result of the Iranian nuclear agreement, but because of Tehran’s foreign policies including in Syria and Yemen.
Faezeh said: “Ironically, when we intervene in a country, we spend a lot of money there, and distort our credibility in the world, but when it comes to benefits, we are expelled from these countries including Syria and Iraq,” adding that these policies have proven to be counterproductive and harmful.