Pence, Pompeo and Bolton attended Free Iran Event
Mike Pence and Liz Truss among VIPs who speak at Iranian dissident rally despite pressure from Tehran
Dozens of prominent US and UK politicians attend events despite warning of terror threat by US embassy
John Bowden
Washington DC
Monday 03 July 2023 21:53 BST
Other VIPs at Sunday’s event were equally impressive gets for the dissident group, especially given the State Department’s coldness: former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who appeared remotely, 2024 presidential candidate Mike Pence, former Sen Joseph Lieberman, ex-House of Commons speaker John Bercow, Trump national security adviser John Bolton and a dozen sitting members of the US Congress from both parties. Members who have attended the NCRI’s events in Washington typically skew conservative or towards the hawkish wing of foreign policy thought in the US government.
Mr Pence used his remarks to lash out at Joe Biden’s White House for supposedly “working overtime” to restore the Iran nuclear deal signed in 2015 under the Obama administration (and later abandoned by Donald Trump).
“Now, a new administration is threatening to unravel all of the progress we made in marginalising the tyrannical regime in Tehran,” Mr Pence claimed.
“They are working overtime to restore the Iran Nuclear Deal, putting Tehran back on the fast track to obtaining nuclear weapons.”
He also claimed that Iran could develop a nuclear weapon in a year if sanctions were rolled back and the 2015 deal snapped back into place.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-dissident-rally-paris-pence-b2368718.html