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Posted on January 17, 2017 by Siavosh Hosseini in Iran, Iran Resistance, News, Politics
According to various news outlets, including FOX News, 23 former U.S. top government officials have sent a letter to President-elect Trump, urging him to work with the Iranian opposition. Previous administrations have declined to do so.
Maryam Rajavi meets with U.S. supporters. From left: Tom Ridge, Rudy Giuliani, and Robert Pittenger. (Courtesy of Bijan Aghdam) |
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The officials also noted that through “their extremely high rate of executions at home, and destructive sectarian warfare in support of the Assad regime in Syria and proxy Shiite militias in Iraq, Iran’s rulers have directly targeted U.S. strategic interest, policies and principles, and those of our allies and friends in the Middle East.”
This group is calling on Mr. Trump to engage with the main opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its leader, Maryam Rajavi. “It is time to end the fundamentalist regime’s undue influence over U.S. policy and establish a channel of dialogue with the NCRI, as many other governments have done, consistent with the longstanding U.S. diplomatic practice of dialogue with political opposition groups worldwide,” stated the letter.
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