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09-23-2018, 12:19 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-opposition/trump-lawyer-giuliani-says-irans-government-will-be-overthrown-idUSKCN1M3005
Worth noting though that Rudy is not generally that reliable on what he says. He may have earned some points following 9/11 but his reputation has been headed down since. Some suggest Trump hired him as his lawyer because nobody else seemed to want the job. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/trump-lawyers-mueller-investigation-none-for-president
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Saturday said that U.S. sanctions on Iran are leading to economic pain that could lead to a “successful revolution,” contrasting with administration comments that government change in Tehran is not U.S. policy.
“I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them,” said Giuliani, who spoke in his own capacity though he is a Trump ally, at an Iran Uprising Summit held by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, which opposes Tehran’s government.
“It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years. But it’s going to happen,” Giuliani told a crowd at a hotel in Times Square.
Giuliani’s comments were in contrast with the Trump administration’s policy of not seeking a change of government even though it is reimposing sanctions that are crippling Iran’s economy.
Trump ripped up a global deal on Iran’s nuclear program in May and his administration is snapping back sanctions on the Islamic Republic, including measures on its oil exports from Nov. 4.
The Trump administration hopes the sanctions will force Iran not only to curb its nuclear program but also halt militancy in the Middle East.
Iran says it has complying with the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran, the United States and five other world powers. A quarterly report by the U.N. atomic watchdog late last month said Iran had remained within the main restrictions of the agreement.
Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton told Reuters in August that “regime change” in Iran is not American policy. He said the administration wants a massive change in the regime’s behavior.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused U.S. backed Gulf Arab States of carrying out a shooting attack at a military parade that killed 25 people on Saturday, though he did not name the regional states he believed were to blame.
“The people of Iran obviously have now had enough,” Giuliani said on Saturday. “The sanctions are working. The currency is going to nothing ... these are the kinds of conditions that lead to successful revolution.”
Giuliani has suggested before that the re-imposition of sanctions was aimed at regime change. At a conference in June where he addressed the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, he said Trump’s policy would suffocate Iran’s ayatollahs.
The U.S. State Department has said Giuliani does not speak for the administration on Iran.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-attorney-blasts-irans-outlaws-murderers-58020313
Donald Trump's attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, told members of Iran's self-declared government in exile on Saturday that the U.S. sympathizes with their efforts to overthrow that country's official government.
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."
Worth noting though that Rudy is not generally that reliable on what he says. He may have earned some points following 9/11 but his reputation has been headed down since. Some suggest Trump hired him as his lawyer because nobody else seemed to want the job. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/trump-lawyers-mueller-investigation-none-for-president
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Saturday said that U.S. sanctions on Iran are leading to economic pain that could lead to a “successful revolution,” contrasting with administration comments that government change in Tehran is not U.S. policy.
“I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them,” said Giuliani, who spoke in his own capacity though he is a Trump ally, at an Iran Uprising Summit held by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, which opposes Tehran’s government.
“It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years. But it’s going to happen,” Giuliani told a crowd at a hotel in Times Square.
Giuliani’s comments were in contrast with the Trump administration’s policy of not seeking a change of government even though it is reimposing sanctions that are crippling Iran’s economy.
Trump ripped up a global deal on Iran’s nuclear program in May and his administration is snapping back sanctions on the Islamic Republic, including measures on its oil exports from Nov. 4.
The Trump administration hopes the sanctions will force Iran not only to curb its nuclear program but also halt militancy in the Middle East.
Iran says it has complying with the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran, the United States and five other world powers. A quarterly report by the U.N. atomic watchdog late last month said Iran had remained within the main restrictions of the agreement.
Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton told Reuters in August that “regime change” in Iran is not American policy. He said the administration wants a massive change in the regime’s behavior.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused U.S. backed Gulf Arab States of carrying out a shooting attack at a military parade that killed 25 people on Saturday, though he did not name the regional states he believed were to blame.
“The people of Iran obviously have now had enough,” Giuliani said on Saturday. “The sanctions are working. The currency is going to nothing ... these are the kinds of conditions that lead to successful revolution.”
Giuliani has suggested before that the re-imposition of sanctions was aimed at regime change. At a conference in June where he addressed the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, he said Trump’s policy would suffocate Iran’s ayatollahs.
The U.S. State Department has said Giuliani does not speak for the administration on Iran.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-attorney-blasts-irans-outlaws-murderers-58020313
Donald Trump's attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, told members of Iran's self-declared government in exile on Saturday that the U.S. sympathizes with their efforts to overthrow that country's official government.
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."