Berlin – New York Times – March 7, 2015 — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that the U.S. should take a stronger stance against Iran — or risk appeasing what he called an “insane” regime.
Giuliani spoke at a rally in Berlin organized by the exiled opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Giuliani claimed that the government in Tehran, which is seeking to reach a deal with world powers to lift crippling international sanctions, “has proven to us that it shouldn’t be trusted with any kind of nuclear capacity.”
Anyone who thought otherwise was “stupid” or risking the kind of appeasement that Britain tried with Nazi Germany in 1938, he said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has recently said Washington will endorse only an agreement with Iran that seriously and verifiably crimps Tehran’s ability to make atomic arms.
He cited Tehran’s growing influence in Syria and Iraq, which he said could prompt a dangerous reaction from Iran’s Sunni rival Saudi Arabia.
To cheers from Iranian exiles at Berlin’s Velodrom cycling arena, Giuliani spoke strongly in favor of giving refuge to about 2,700 members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran living at Camp Liberty, a former U.S. military base in Iraq.
