The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has lashed out at US government policy in Iran saying Washington was “giving money to a leading state sponsor of terrorism,” the International Business Times reported on Saturday.
IBT wrote: “Speaking at a rally for the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, Iran’s principle opposition group, Gingrich attacked US President Barack Obama’s efforts of rapprochement with the Islamic Republic. The outgoing US leader’s year-old nuclear deal with Iran ended UN sanctions and unfroze billions of dollars’ worth of assets in exchange for the curtailment of the country’s nuclear programme”.
“They have methodically outmanoeuvred diplomats of the United States and the European countries. They have methodically set the stage for us to finance their dictatorship, to prop up their powers and to pay for their terrorism,” Gingrich told the thousands assembled at the rally in Paris.
IBT added: “Gingrich’s statements were met with rapturous applause by the gathering of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). The largest Iranian resistance movement, the people’s mojahedin is a member of the democratic opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran, opposed to the Hassan Rohani regime.”
Gingrich called on the US to support the group saying it was a key ally against the Iranian regime.
“We have an obligation with your help to communicate one key fact. With support, with encouragement, with a systematic effort the people of Iran will rise against the dictatorship and we will eliminate the dictatorship as a threat to civilisation,” he said.
“What you are doing by being here, what you are doing by bringing all of these delegations from all around the world, what you are doing by getting the news media to pay attention to the importance of your cause. I want each of you to know that being here is an important act of citizenship, you are making a difference and you are part of history and that with your continued commitment you are winning the argument,” he added.
