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\nBLOOMFIELD:\u00a0Tim, thank you very much, and good afternoon, everyone.\u00a0 I want to thank the OIAC <\/a>members who are here today and their colleagues back home in their states for hosting this holiday luncheon.\u00a0 I hope all of you are ready to enjoy a great holiday season, ready to enjoy a fantastic Persian meal.<\/p>\n Ambassador @LBJunior<\/a> ar @OrgIAC<\/a> Senate Briefing on Iran: And are you ready to identify people among the opposition groups of Iran who have a plan to move toward legitimate government, based on consent of the government?” @StateDept<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/8IEA4QyYtK<\/a> @VOAIran<\/a> @USAdarFarsi<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 OIAC (@OrgIAC) December 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n …. Are you ready to explain why the people have risen up?\u00a0 It\u2019s not just a recent hike in gas prices.\u00a0 Gas prices have gone up many, many times in Iran.\u00a0 It\u2019s not because America withdrew from the JCPOA Nuclear Accord.\u00a0 The economy was collapsing before the sanctions were put on by the Americans.\u00a0 That revolution was never consummated in 1979.\u00a0 And that\u2019s\u2014this is kept coming back to the streets in 1981, in 1999, in 2009, and now it\u2019s back in full force in 2019.\u00a0 That\u2019s what\u2019s happening.\u00a0 So, you need to explain the history of this regime and why they never achieved legitimacy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Are you ready to help your Senators organize hearings?\u00a0 Can you find Iran experts who anticipated the collapse of the clerical regime?\u00a0 Good luck with that.\u00a0 I\u2019ve listed to all of the thinktank Iran watchers and media correspondents.\u00a0 They all say the same thing.\u00a0 \u201cOh, the regime is in no danger of collapse.\u201d\u00a0 How many of them predicted the fall of the Soviet Union?\u201d\u00a0 So, I think we need to rethink and avoid strategic surprise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Are you ready to explain why Iran will not collapse into chaos, as happened, unfortunately in Iran, in Iraq, and Libya.\u00a0 Iran is different from Iraq and Libya.\u00a0 No offense to those great Arab countries.\u00a0 They have 2500 years of proud civilization.\u00a0 They have well over a century of striving for democracy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n And are you ready to identify people among the opposition groups of Iran who have a plan to move toward legitimate government, based on the consent of the government\u2014of the governed?\u00a0 You\u2019re sitting in a room with people, all of whom can explain to you what that plan is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Are you ready for Congress to make specific recommendations to the administration?\u00a0 You\u2019ve heard some ideas already today about the internet.\u00a0 That\u2019s vital.\u00a0 Perhaps there could be a UN Security Council resolution offering international support and good offices if there is to be a transition from the clerical regime to a legitimate government.\u00a0 Look at 2254 which was the Syria resolution.\u00a0 Why shouldn\u2019t the Iranian people enjoy the same support from the world community?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n How about calling for a thorough counterintelligence investigation to identify the regime\u2019s agents of influence in the United States?\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 They will find many.\u00a0 And this includes, I\u2019m sorry to say, parts of the media.\u00a0 The public needs to understand how certain newsgroups and reporters have made a tacit deal with the regime in order to gain privileged access and safe passage in and out of Iran.\u00a0 How about asking the FBI to vet the most visible experts, the ones who get quoted in the Times and the Post and all the other papers every day about Iran?\u00a0 Who seem to have easy access to senior leaders of this regime.\u00a0 How about examining how the regime may have supported some of the other opposition groups in order to divide and conquer and make sure that all of those Iranians who want to see change never unite into a single force?\u00a0<\/p>\n So, my friends working on Capitol Hill, you need to be ready, because one fine day, you\u2019re going to have a lot of work to do.\u00a0 You need to know why the people rose up, why the regime collapsed, why the Washington experts didn\u2019t see it coming, and above all, what to do next. ….. …\u00a0<\/p>\n First, if the NCRI <\/a>is not a terrorist group\u2014and it never was, and that\u2019s a fact\u2014why did the U.S. government and other governments find it convenient to put them on the terrorism list?\u00a0 That\u2019s actually an easy question.\u00a0 There are plenty of books written about that.\u00a0 The NCRI <\/a>was the one who exposed Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment program in the early 2000s.\u00a0 They\u2019ve published detailed books.\u00a0 Many of them are probably outside the door here.\u00a0 Book after book on subjects like a guide to all of the bases of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria, who the commanders are, where they\u2019re located, the locations of the regime\u2019s terrorist sites and training sites inside Iran, details of the industrial conglomerates that are owned by the religious foundations under the Supreme Leader or the Revolutionary Guards.\u00a0 They control all the contracting.\u00a0 They control all the banks, as you already heard.\u00a0 Books about many of the aspects of the smuggling routes throughout the Middle East, a guide to the regime\u2019s recent terror operations across Europe, country by country.\u00a0 And now, a guide to the regime\u2019s security leaders in each of the provinces of Iran\u2014the people running the suppression of the protests.\u00a0 In other words, they generated an entire catalog of well written, well-researched publications which are all registered with the Library of Congress.\u00a0 Excerpts. Please watch the Ambassador’s full remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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