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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 04:32 PM Jul 2018

So this is what Guiliani has been up to


@nedprice
The President's personal lawyer gave a fiery speech on foreign soil before a group that the U.S. government as recently as 2012 had declared a terrorist organization.

Giuliani spoke to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an umbrella coalition largely controlled by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK), which was once listed as a terrorist organisation in the US and Europe and is still widely viewed as a Marxist-Islamist cult built around the personality of its leader, Maryam Rajavi.

“We are now realistically being able to see an end to the regime in Iran,” Giuliani told a crowd of about 4,000, many of them refugees and young eastern Europeans who had been bussed in to attend the rally in return for a weekend trip to Paris.

“The mullahs must go, the ayatollah must go, and they must be replaced by a democratic government which Madam Rajavi represents,” Giuliani said. “Freedom is right around the corner ... Next year I want to have this convention in Tehran!”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/30/rudy-giuliani-mek-iran-paris-rally
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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
2. Agreed. And this one isn't even a foreign policy person
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 04:38 PM
Jul 2018

WTF is he out there making speeches on things to which he knows nothing about?

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
5. Trump's lawyer shouldn't be giving regime change speeches
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 04:46 PM
Jul 2018

He's working against interests of US, aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. This group supported the US Embassy take over during the hostage crisis...Isn't this treason?

former9thward

(32,009 posts)
6. MEK was taken off the terrorist organization by Clinton when she was SOS in 2012.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 05:25 PM
Jul 2018

It seems like a strange organization that has gone one way then the other.

The UK took them off the list in 2006 and Canada did in 2012 following the Clinton decision. Bill Richardson was at the same rally that Giuliani was according to your link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
7. Richardson was the US ambassador to the United Nations
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 05:30 PM
Jul 2018

As DT's personal lawyer, Guiliani has no business giving foreign policy speeches anywhere.

former9thward

(32,009 posts)
8. You stated MEK was a terrorist organization.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 06:49 PM
Jul 2018

You said it was treason to appear at the rally.

The Obama administration clearly disagreed with you. They gave $20 million to help them resettle in Albania.

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