Mike Pence, visiting Iranian dissidents in Albania, calls on Biden to withdraw from nuclear talks

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday visited Iranian dissidents in Albania, praising their efforts to switch the theocratic regime with a democratic and secular authorities – and calling on the Biden administration to withdraw from talks to enter a renewed Iran nuclear deal that he mentioned will solely serve to “empower and enrich” the present regime.

“I’ve traveled greater than 5,000 miles from my house in Indiana to be right here at present as a result of we share a standard trigger: the liberation of the Iranian folks from a long time of tyranny, and the rebirth of a free, peaceable, affluent and democratic Iran,” Pence advised activists on the headquarters of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). 

Pence is visiting the Albanian protected haven for the NCRI, an umbrella group for dissident teams that oppose the regime and which discovered assist from numerous Trump-era officers together with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

PENCE SAYS HE WON’T LET DEMS USE JAN 6 ‘TO DISTRACT’ FROM THEIR ‘FAILED AGENDA’ PRAISES TRUMP RECORD

Feb 17, 2022: Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Stanford College’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Stanford, Calif.  (Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Pictures)
((Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Pictures))

Pence met with NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi, and with those that suffered human rights abuses within the nation, earlier than he delivered a speech to activists praising their wrestle and telling them that the American folks stand with their trigger, whereas noting the withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal by the Trump administration in 2018.

“Below the Trump-Pence administration, I’m proud that in our time, America didn’t flip a deaf ear to the pleas of the Iranian folks, and we didn’t stay silent within the face of the Iranian regime’s numerous atrocities,” he mentioned. “We proudly stood with the freedom-loving folks of Iran. We canceled the Iran nuclear deal, which had flooded the regime’s coffers with tens of billions of {dollars}, and pallets of money — cash that it used to repress its personal folks and assist lethal assaults throughout the broader world.”

Former Vice President made a serious coverage speech, Thursday, on Iran. Pence was visiting the headquarters of a serious Iranian opposition group.
(NCRI)

IRAN REBELS TAKE DOWN REGIME WEBSITES, SECURITY CAMERAS AMID PROTESTS

The NCRI, which has workplaces in Washington D.C., has pushed for a harder stance by the West towards Iran — and has opposed efforts to re-enter the Iran deal, warning that the regime can’t be trusted to adjust to phrases. It’s the political wing of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, the principle Iranian opposition motion which just lately launched numerous cyberattacks in Iran that took down safety cameras and authorities web sites.

The Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 accord, which positioned limits on Iran’s nuclear actions in trade for sanctions aid, in 2018 and commenced re-imposing waves of sanctions as a part of a “most strain” technique designed to show up the warmth on the regime and curb its aggression through proxies within the area. The administration additionally launched a strike that took out Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp Quds chief Qassem Soleimani.

Talks designed to carry each the U.S. and Iran again into the deal have stalled amid calls for from each Iran’s new hardline authorities and from Russia, who wish to make it possible for the sanctions being imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine won’t have an effect on its buying and selling relationship with Iran.

Pence was crucial of the efforts to re-engage the deal, a deal he known as a “harmful mistake,” warning that it might solely serve to assist the regime and do little to curb its path to a nuke.

Mike Pence and his spouse, Karen, standing with Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran. 
(NCRI)

“A renewed nuclear deal gained’t result in peace and stability. It would result in extra terrorism, loss of life and destruction. A renewed cope with Iran gained’t block Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb. It would pave a path in gold,” he mentioned. “And a renewed Iran nuclear deal gained’t profit the folks of Iran in any method It would merely empower and enrich a corrupt regime that has tormented and tortured the Iranian folks for generations.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

“Pence then turned his consideration to the administration, calling for it to withdraw from talks and to voice assist for the NCRI’s opposition efforts.

“Right now, we name on the Biden administration to instantly withdraw from all nuclear negotiations with Tehran, voice assist for the organized opposition in Iran, and make it clear that America and our allies won’t ever allow the regime in Tehran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” he mentioned.

Pence is one in all numerous Republicans who’ve opposed the Biden administration’s strikes to place the U.S. again into the Iran deal. In March, a bunch of 49 Republican senators mentioned they might not approve the deal and vowed to reverse any deal that weakened sanctions and lowered nuclear restrictions.

“The nuclear limitations on this new deal look like considerably much less restrictive than the 2015 nuclear deal, which was itself too weak, and can sharply undermine U.S. leverage to safe an truly ‘longer and stronger’ deal,” they mentioned. “What’s extra, the deal seems prone to deepen Iran’s monetary and safety relationship with Moscow and Beijing, together with by way of arms gross sales.”

Fox Information’ Ben Evansky contributed to this report