One other distinguished American politician has come out in assist of the controversial Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e Khalq, aka MEK.
Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke at a summit of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran Thursday. The council is an umbrella group of which the MEK is the primary member. Pence stated that the MEK is a viable various to the ruling Islamic Republic of Iran, in response to an official transcript.
“One of many largest lies the ruling regime has offered the world is that there isn’t a various to the established order,” Pence told the crowd in Washington, DC. “However there may be another – a well-organized, absolutely ready, completely certified, and popularly supported various known as the MEK.”
Viewers members chanted “M-E-Ok” following Pence’s remarks.
Mujahedeen-e Khalq shaped in 1965. It was initially a Marxist group, although it has distanced itself from communism since then. The group seeks the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is banned there. Mujahedeen-e Khalq lacks widespread assist in Iran, partly as a result of they fought with Saddam Hussein throughout the Iran-Iraq conflict within the Eighties. The MEK is extensively described as a cult.
The US authorities beforehand designated the MEK as a terrorist group, however the designation was lifted in 2012 beneath the Obama administration. Some US politicians who oppose the Iranian authorities have warmed up to the group since then, together with different Trump administration officers. Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo additionally addressed an MEK summit in July. The group has obtained the assist of many Iran hawks within the US, together with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former US Ambassador to the United Nations and Nationwide Safety Adviser John Bolton and former governor of Vermont and chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee Howard Dean.
Pence, as the previous second-in-command of the US authorities, is maybe essentially the most distinguished American to reward the MEK. HE additionally criticized Iran’s nuclear power program within the speech, and stated that political change will quickly come to the nation.
“So, let it’s clear: regime change in Iran, by the Iranian individuals and their Resistance, is inevitable,” he stated.
