The former New York mayor spoke to members and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the biggest opposition group to Iran’s Islamic regime. Two U.S.-based members who joined the gathering have been targeted for assassination by alleged Iranian agents named last month in criminal complaints issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“So I say to the Iranian government, you must truly be afraid of being overthrown,” Giuliani said. “We will not forget that you wanted to commit murder on our soil.”
After Saturday’s attack on a military parade in Iran that killed more than 20 people, security was tight surrounding more than 1,500 people who came to a midtown Manhattan hotel for the meeting.
Giuliani said the Paris-based opposition organization is the democratic answer to an Iranian regime he called “a group of outlaws and murderers and people who pretend to be religious people and then have so much blood on their hands it’s almost unthinkable.”
Instead, Giuliani said, “Iran is entitled to freedom and democracy.”
At one point in his remarks, Giuliani told his audience: “You are a threat. It is a reality. The protests are getting worse. I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them. It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years. But it’s going to happen. They’re going to be overthrown.”
Several months ago, Trump withdrew from a nuclear deal with Iran put in place by President Barack Obama and sanctions were reinstated.
The National Council comes to New York annually during the United Nations General Assembly, staging protests outside the world body against Iran’s leaders who are in town.
The U.S. government considered the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, linked politically to the council, to be a terrorist group the U.S. State Department removed from its list of such organizations in 2012.
Since the beginning of the year, Iranians have kept protesting and marching against the clerical regime, and the national currency has lost about two-thirds of its value, said Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK, and the declared president-elect in exile of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Speaking via video, she said: “The regime is surrounded, politically and internationally, and in economic terms it is on the brink of collapse.”
The new Iran, she said, would be based on free elections resulting in the separation of religion and state, human rights including equal participation of women in politics and the abolition of the death penalty.
Crazy insane President with incompetent out-of-control rogue administration, but nothing anybody can do to remove him.
C’mon george. Perfect opportunity to get up on your 'we suck, Constitution is anti-democratic" horse and tell us about the 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected government and ultimately gave us both SAVAK and the IRGC.
And you just phoned it in.
Shorter Giuliani “quick, look over that way, at that shiny object!” What does Iran have to do with the case or cases that Giuliani was supposedly brought on to deal with?
I wish any news outlet that calls this guy Trump’s lawyer would trot out any believable evidence that he actually does anything remotely resembling a real lawyer’s work. His tales of negotiations with Mueller’s team don’t seem credible to me but I suppose anything’s possible.
Giuliani will say anything for a paycheck and a video camera. This is just one more example.