NCRI – In a testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ambassador John Bolton described the Iranian regime as the greatest “threat to international peace and security in the Middle East, and perhaps worldwide” “since a decade ago and “negotiations with Tehran will never dissuade the mullahs from their path toward nuclear weapons.”
“We should overtly and covertly support regime change in Iran. by politically supporting the Iranian opposition,” he said during a testimony on July 31 before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa presided by Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Criticizing the policy of negotiations with the Iranian regime, he said: “Continued emphasis on these policy options simply works to Tehran’s advantage, by prolonging the time available to it to make progress on its weapons program. and by postponing the inevitable day of reckoning to a time when it will be most advantageous for the theocratic fascists in Iran. “
“Hassan Rouhani demonstrated his ability to pursue precisely this kind of strategy as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in 2003 -2005, later boasting openly about how he and the regime deceived European Union (“EU”) diplomats and the United States.”
Ambassador Bolton said: “The mullahs’ regime is highly unpopular inside Iran, and had we been at work to overthrow it for the last ten years, we might well be in a very different place today.”
“We are not talking about another war in the Middle East. We are instead simply recognizing that Iranians themselves can bring this theocracy down.”
