“It is extremely unfortunate that the former vice president would lend his credibility to the MEK, an organization and leadership structure with a dark and ugly history,” CAMERON KHANSARINIA, policy director of the Iranian-American National Union for Democracy in Iran, told NatSec Daily. JOE LIEBERMAN (I-Conn.) and ROBERT TORRICELLI (D-N.J.) also spoke.īut some anti-regime advocates aren’t pleased Pence agreed to headline the event.
Pence wasn't the only big political name at the event: Former Sens. The popularity point isn’t right: An August 2018 poll conducted by the Netherlands-based Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran found the current MEK leader, MARYAM RAJAVI, would receive only 0.6 percent of the vote in a free and fair Iranian presidential election. “Weakness arouses evil.”Īs for MEK, Pence asserted the group is "a well-organized, fully prepared, perfectly qualified and popularly supported alternative" to the current and brutal Iranian regime. "With our current administration's embrace of the, their hesitation to condemn rockets being fired at our cherished ally Israel, and the heart breaking and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, our adversaries may be sensing weakness in the current American administration," Pence said. The former vice president used his address and Q&A moderated by his former chief of staff MARC SHORT to blast President JOE BIDEN over his foreign policy - especially toward Tehran. organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political arm of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK. On Thursday, Pence spoke at the “ Free Iran Summit 2021” in Washington, D.C. Out of government, Pence has no problem speaking at an event sponsored by a formerly designated terrorist group that killed U.S.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., Thursday, Oct.
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