Showing posts with label U.S.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S.. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

What happen if “The president-elect choose Giuliani as secretary of state?

Democratic Senator: Giuliani serves the U.S. in supporting the MEK 

In a stinging rebuke to Daniel Benjamin’s article critiquing the Mujahidin e-Khalq (MEK), and, by extension, the potential choice of Rudy Giuliani as Trump’s secretary of state, former Democratic Senator for New Jersey, Robert Torricelli, argued that Giuliani had served the U.S. well by participating in a broad coalition of American policy-makers committed to the MEK as a legitimate democratic opposition to the current Iranian regime....
Torricelli explained the history of the MEK, and concluded that “the MEK did take part in legitimate political and military action against the Iranian regime.” There is no evidence, he said, to support Benjamin’s assertion that the MEK committed terrorist acts against Americans or Iranians....
Torricelli concluded, “The president-elect may or may not choose Mr. Giuliani as secretary of state. What shouldn’t happen is for countering Tehran and assisting our country to be anything other than a valuable contribution to his consideration.”
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Gov. Tom Ridge: A year later, promises of Iran deal unfulfilled

Gov. Tom Ridge: A year later, promises of Iran deal unfulfilled
NCRI - The Philadelphia Inquirer published an op-ed on Tuesday from Gov. Tom Ridge, the former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, in which he argues for a new American policy on Iran which identifies itself with the Iranian people and their cry for democracy and freedom.
The following is the text of Gov. Ridge's op-ed:
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Tom Ridge: One year later, promises of Iran deal unfulfilled
AUGUST 9, 2016
By Tom Ridge
Last week, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused the United States of failing to honor pledges in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Citing "the futility of negotiations with the Americans," he distanced himself from the nuclear deal he once supported.