Happy Nowruz to everybody
We need a new beginning, actually a new beginning of a debate about Iran, and about the “negotiations” with the Iranian regime. And I can tell you that every single day, I receive so many questions, people are concerned, people are shocked, people are surprised by the fact, not that we are negotiating, but that we are negotiating with a regime that did not send signals that it is changing.
Iranian regime pilots, it was reported that were bombing not in Iraq, but in Yemen. Iranian pilots sent by the regime are bombing Aden, that far south, away from Iran. This is not a regime that is preparing for peace. Having said that, we understand the regime is not going in the direction that our negotiators think it is, and it won’t. Because the regime is expanding simply, as many of the prominent speakers have mentioned, including the senator, it is afraid of his own people. That’s the key. When a regime is concerned about the trust of its own people, when a regime saw what happened in June 2009, millions on the streets, %60 under the age of 20, quarter of them, the first few days were girls and women, when the regime is very concerned about the fact that the Iranian National Resistance can gather up to 100,000 in Europe and in Paris, and that indeed its leader is a woman, and that the Iranian Resistance Movement is getting more and more supporters inside Iran, not just within ethnic majority, but also with the ethnic minorities, obviously, obviously what they are trying to do in terms of expanding in the region, what they are trying to do in term of obtaining a nuke, is because they are afraid of their own people. The nuclear bomb that Ayatollahs are trying to establish is to protect them from their own people.
So, the big question is what to do? And let me in one minute or two quickly make few suggestions that are a little bit none usual and none traditional. Congress in a bipartisan majority, and I insist on the bipartisan, needs to also address the Iranian people, needs to listen from the Iranian people. Let’s declare that Camp Liberty should be protected internationality. We have an international obligation, not just an American obligation, and when we send on taxpayer money our budget to support the Iraqi government, when we send trainers, when we are partnering with the government with Baghdad, the least we should do, the least we should do, is to ask this government to back away, to leave that camp, to put it under international protection. We have an obligation towards them.
So, I call here at the end for a gathering of all the oppositions in the Middle East to show that next Middle East wants to be different from the one under threat by Ayatollahs or Islamic fundamentalists of Daesh.