Gov. Howard Dean, a former chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, has said that the mullahs’ regime in Iran has nothing to do with Islam.
Howard Dean, a former Vermont Governor, told Breitbart News that “Iran is the farthest thing from an Islamic Republic.”
Instead, Gov. Dean said, Iran is “a republic that’s been hijacked by thugs and murderers.” He explained that he does not know Muslims whom he respects and who behave the way the regime does.
Gov. Dean was speaking exclusively to Breitbart News from Paris last month during a conference supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The PMOI (also referred to as MEK) is an opposition movement that played an active role in overthrowing Iran’s last Shah while President Jimmy Carter was in power, the report said.
Gov. Dean said he did not believe that nuclear deal last year with the mullahs’ regime was “a good deal.”
“That is, I think we did give away a lot more than we needed to. And I think the Iranians are the largest sponsor of state terrorism in the world. And they are making lives very difficult for a lot of our allies,” he said.
Gov. Dean added: “I think Iran is the farthest thing from an Islamic Republic, with some of the highest rates of execution in the world, torturing political prisoners, one of the worst human rights records in the world, a destructive force in the world. There’s nothing good about the Islamic Republic of Iran. And it’s not an Islamic republic; it’s a republic that’s been hijacked by thugs and murderers. And I think the legitimacy and the real government of Iran would be a secular government, which treated women equally with men.”