Rep. Ed Royce: People of Iran are disenfranchised by the mullahs’ regime.

Rep. Ed Royce: People of Iran are disenfranchised by the mullahs’ regime.

NCRI - U.S. Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, on Thursday addressed the threats posed by the mullahs' regime in Iran during a strategic conversation on U.S. foreign policy at the Stimson Center.

Rep. Royce took part in the forum event with Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Stimson Center.

Rep. Royce said that the people of Iran are being “disenfranchised” by the mullahs’ regime.

He rejected the outcome of the regime’s sham Parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections in February, pointing out that candidates that were not loyal enough to the regime’s Supreme Leader Militarywere automatically disqualified.

"The election was in fact between the hardliners in Iran and the very hardliners in Iran. At the end of the day every one of those candidates was picked by the ayatollah," he said.

U.S. policy towards the Iranian regime has not succeeded in changing Khamenei’s attitude, he said.

“If we look at the number of people put to death and the political prisoners in Iran last year, it was much higher than the year before. It is a number which is going up.”

David Campbell Bannerman MEP: Over 2000 hanged in Iran by Rouhani

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Underthe Presidency of Hassan Rouhani, the mullahs' regime in Iran is carrying the highest level of executions for 25 years, David Campbell Bannerman, an MEP from the United Kingdom and Chairman of the Iraq Delegation at the European Parliament, has told European Union foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini.

Members of the European Parliament last week lambasted Ms. Mogherini for the lack of EU responsiveness to the appalling human rights situation in Iran.

Iran - Graham Plans to Block U.S. Money to the IAEA Over Iran ‘Side Deals’

Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to block IAEA funding over Iran ‘side deals’

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Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to block IAEA funding over Iran ‘side deals’

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday he plans to block funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) until the U.S. Congress gets access to alleged side deals that are related to the Iranian nuclear agreement.

Sen. Graham intends to block $88 million in U.S. funds to the UN nuclear watchdog until lawmakers get the documents,according to a Roll Call report. Sen. Graham is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees that funding.

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