Sunday, July 31, 2016
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, meets President Mahmoud Abbas
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Saturday evening, July 30, 2016, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the
Iranian Resistance, met with Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian
Authority, and they discussed the crises in the region.
President Mahmoud Abbas, at the meeting, reiterated the need to
combat fundamentalism and terrorism in the region and informed Mrs. Rajavi of
the latest developments in the Middle East, in particular regarding Palestine
and France's initiative.
Mrs. Rajavi expressed gratitude for the solidarity of the
Palestinian resistance and its leader with the Iranian people and Resistance.
She congratulated the Palestinian government on its victories and expressed
hope that the goal of the Palestinian people would be achieved. She reiterated
that the Iranian regime is the main instigator of sectarian discord,
fundamentalism and terrorism in the entire region, in particular in Iraq,
Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine, but she added that today the mullahs'
regime is at its weakest and most fragile and vulnerable state. This reality
can be seen clearly in the hysteric reaction of the regime's officials and
state media to the Iranian Resistance's July 9 gathering.
Mrs. Rajavi reiterated that the regime is above all fearful of
the solidarity and unity between the Iranian people and Resistance and the
countries and nations of the region. Therefore, the countries of the region and
the Iranian people and Resistance ought to take the initiative to free the
region from the scourge of fundamentalism.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
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100,000 Iranian Rally in Paris
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| Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Council of Resistance of Iran, takes part in a rally in Villepinte, France. PHOTO: REUTER Easthttp://english.aawsat.com/2016/07/article55354152/100000-iranian-rally-paris |
Riyadh – Hundred thousand Iranians rallied in Paris on Saturday to voice their demand for regime change in Iran during the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
In
the biggest gathering of its kind, thousands of Iranian dissidents called for
the toppling of the Iranian government.
Iranian
opposition leader Maryam Rajavi said during her opening speech that the only
solution would be a change in regime to improve stability in the region. She
said “regime change” is the “only solution” for Iran is to exit this
“deteriorating” situation.
The
latter also accused Iran’s leadership of supporting the massacre’s committed by
the Syrian regime and called for an end to Iranian meddling in Iraq and Yemen.
“So
long as the regime’s occupation of Syria, Iraq and Yemen continues, one cannot
confront ISIS effectively,” she told thousands of activists.
She
also said, “Those resisting Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (Wilayat al-Faqih)
regime are increasing and spreading their influence.”
Rajavi
added: “Khamenei’s circle is looking for an outlet to escape internal crisis
has failed.”
The
opposition leader also warned that repression intensified and the number of
executions rose to two to three times since the Iranian revolution.
The
rally was also attended by an array of former American, European and Middle
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LE BOURGET, France — Tens of thousands of supporters of a
dissident Iranian opposition group filled a vast convention hall here over the
weekend to call for the downfall of Iran’s theocratic
government.
The massive and boisterous event, which occurs
annually in this town just north of Paris, was led by the
controversial National Council of Resistance of Iran, a France-based
umbrella group for Iranian exiles that brought dozens of former U.S., European
and Middle Eastern officials together to speak out on its behalf.
A bipartisan clutch of Americans, including
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, former FBI
Director Louis Freeh and a host of others was on hand.
But perhaps the most eye-opening speech came
from a key figure of the Saudi royal family, whose posture towardIran’s leadership has
grown increasingly tense during the year since world powers put in place a
major nuclear accord with the Islamic republic.
Prince Turki bin Faisal Al-Saud, the former
longtime Saudi intelligence chief, drew loud cheers and applause from the
Iranian dissident crowd when he exclaimed that he too wants the government in Tehran to be
overthrown and that their “fight against the regime will reach its goal sooner
or later.”
In a sign that Arab frustration toward Tehran reaches far
beyond Saudi Arabia, Prince Turki was preceded on stage by a delegation of
several other former and current officials from 12 Arab nations — all of whom
also voiced support for the plight of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran.
Yet the most vitriolic remarks at the rally,
which occurred Saturday, came from the American delegation, which included
former governors Bill Richardson and Tom Ridge, former George W. Bush
administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton — and included a presentation of
video statements from several current members of Congress.
Mr. Gingrich stoked the crowd by lamenting the Obama
administration-backed nuclear deal. The accord went into effect a
year ago this week and saw many economic sanctions on Iran lifted in exchange
for an agreement by Tehranto
curtail its long-disputed nuclear program.
The “dictatorship” in Iran “cannot be
trusted,” Mr. Gingrich said, adding that “the agreement made with it is
insane.”
Mr. Bolton went even
further. “There is only one answer here: to support legitimate opposition
groups that favor overthrowing the military theocratic dictatorship in Tehran,” he said. “Let me
be very clear: It should be the declared policy of the United States of America
and all its friends to do just that at the earliest opportunity.”
Both men appeared on stage with Mr.
Richardson, a Democrat, who said he was “proud to be here with Speaker Gingrich
and Ambassador Bolton,” and told the crowd that American “Democrats and
Republicans are together here fighting with you.”
All three were flanked by multiple movie
screen-size displays carrying the slogan: “Free Iran. Our Pledge: Regime
Change.”
Saturday’s rally was a marathon that included
more than nine hours of speeches and musical performances. The National
Council of Resistance of Iran has come to be known during more
recent years as perhaps the only dissent group on the planet with enough money
and political juice to rally tens of thousands of supporters in the heart of
Europe each June behind a collective call for the overthrow of Iran’s Shiite Islamist
government.
No one disputes that the National Council has
influence — some even describe it as the largest Iranian dissident group in the
world. But the organization’s persistence and tactics have given it a
double-edged reputation even among some of Iran’s Western critics.
National Council leader Maryam Rajavi
headlined Saturday’s rally with a demand that Washington abandon the Iranian
nuclear accord and take a far more aggressive posture toward Tehran.
Mrs. Rajavi has led the movement since its
founder — her husband, Massoud Rajavi — went into hiding in 2003. In an email
interview ahead of the rally, she said participants “represent the voice of
millions of Iranians who are being oppressed in their country and who seek
regime change and the establishment of a democratic, pluralist and non-nuclear
government based on the separation of religion and state.”
“Their expectation of the next U.S. president,
as with other Western leaders, is to abandon the policy of appeasement, which
emboldens the Tehran regime
to intensify the suppression of the Iranian people while continuing the policy
of exporting terrorism to the region,” she said.
She also referred broadly to a “resistance”
movement that she claimed has grown inside Iran during recent
years even as the government has cracked down on opposition.
“Despite the intensification of the
suppression over the past couple of years, we have witnessed a growing interest
among the Iranian people, especially women and youth, toward the Iranian
Resistance,” Mrs. Rajavi said. “The opposition to the regime is expanding. The
Resistance’s network inside Iran is much more
active in terms of organizing strikes, protests, sit-ins and other protest acts
inside the country and even inside prisons. The Resistance has had numerous
achievements in this regard.”
She also pushed back against characterizations
of the National Council and its various affiliate organizations as acting like
a cult.
“The source of these allegations is the
Iranian regime’s intelligence ministry,” she said. “The regime’s lobbies in the
West paint the Iranian opposition as a ‘cult’ or ‘terrorist group’ lacking
popular support. By doing so, they want to perpetuate the notion that there is
no other alternative for Iran except dealing
with the ruling religious dictatorship.
“I have said repeatedly that we are not
fighting to obtain power in Iran,” Mrs. Rajavi said.
“We are not even fighting for a share of power. We are fighting to create a
situation where the people of Iran are able to
freely elect the people they choose. I and our movement will certainly support
anyone who is elected through the ballot box in the course of free and fair
elections monitored internationally.”
On a separate front, the National Council
leader said that state political freedom and human rights have only worsened in Iran since the inking
of last year’s nuclear deal.
“The pace of
executions has intensified,” she said.
While the Obama administration lifted many
economic sanctions on Iran under
last year’s nuclear accord, the State Department has continued to list the
nation as a state sponsor of terrorism, and international sanctions remain on
the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
But Mrs. Rajavi suggested the remaining
sanctions were irrelevant.
She criticized, for instance, the prospective
agreement that has made headlines recently between Boeing and the government in Tehran, asserting that if
the deal goes through, planes made by the American aerospace giant “will
directly or indirectly be used by the IRGC” and “will facilitate the regime’s
activities for sending forces and arms to Syria and other countries in the
region.”
• This article is excerpted from a staff report
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Thank you for inviting me to speak to you
today. There is a tradition that states that the Prophet Muhammad, (PBUH), once
gestured towards his Persian companion Salman and said, “Even if faith were
near the Pleiades, men from among the Persians would attain it.”
This tradition points to a few fundamental
truths about Persian history and identity. In the pre-Islamic world, the
Persian Sassanian Empire extended from Turkey and Egypt in the west to the
Indian subcontinent in the east; it was a cultural and political force rivaling
that of ancient China, India or Rome.
Eventually, the Persians embraced Islam; the
Persian language adopted its own version of the Arabic script and borrowed
heavily from Arabic vocabulary. The Persians of greater Khorasan, the name that
the Arabs took to designate the geographic area that includes present-day Iran, Uzbekistan,
Afghanistan and Tajikistan, were a key factor in the development of the
politics of the Islamic Umma and became an important component in another
Golden Age alongside the Arabs; one with far more geographic breadth and
cultural diversity than before.
As Europe struggled in its Dark Ages, Khorasan
produced some of the Islamic world’s most famous scientists, mathematicians,
theologians and poets. Al-Ghazali, the theologian, scholar and mystic often
referred to as one of the most important Muslims after the Prophet Muhammad’s
(PBUH) companions, was from a city near Mashhad. The legendary polymath
Avicenna (Ibn Sina,) the greatest scientist and medical scholar of his age, the
author of over 400 texts and a master of the Greco-Roman and Indian scholarly
traditions, made time to compose poetry in his native Persian.
But even in the cosmopolitan Islamic Golden Age,
alongside Arabs, Turks and others, Persian culture held some nostalgia for the
purity and power of their own history. The poet Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, or Book
of Kings, an epic of Persian legends and history from the dawn of time until
Islam, was written around the year 1000 AD. As he wrote the Shahnameh, Ferdowsi
was careful to avoid Arabic influence on his vocabulary — he wanted a Persian
epic to be represented in undiluted Persian prose.
The Iranian Revolution of 1979, which
installed the powerful yet polarizing Khomeini as Supreme Leader, was a new and
vastly different articulation of Iranian identity.
Khomeini’s claim to rule was based on his
interpretation of the concept of vilayet-i faqih, the “guardianship of the
jurists,” a Shi’ite doctrine articulated in the late 19th century in face of a
perceived increasing Europeanization of the Iranian imperial elites, which gave
varying degrees of civil authority to religious scholars trained in Shi’ite
Islamic law as opposed to the westernized imperial administrators and imperial
family.
Of course, despite this isolationist and
interventionist foreign policy, the first and foremost victims of Khomeinism
have been the Iranian people themselves — not only the political activists
opposed to his all-encompassing, authoritarian and totalitarian ideology, but
also to the ethnic and religious minorities of Kurds, Arabs, Azaris, Turkmans,
Baloch, Sunnis, Ismailis, Bahais, Christians and Jews of Iran against the
clerical Twelver religio-political elite of the Revolution.
Today, the lofty beauty of the Pleiades can
seem very far indeed from the reality of daily life in Iran. The country is
marked not by worldliness or even by religion but by isolation; in contrast to
the travelling artists of the Sassanians and the multilingual scholars of the
Islamic Golden Age, many famous and well-respected Iranian artists today have
trouble even getting on a plane to another country.
Iranian policies under
the Khomeinist regime since 1979 are constitutionally based on the principle of
exporting the revolution, violating the sovereignty of countries in the name of
“supporting vulnerable and helpless people.” This has been the case over the
years in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere, relying on the Khomeinist
regime’s support of terrorism through the provision of safe havens in its
country, planting terrorist cells in a number of Arab countries and even being
involved in terrorist bombings and the assassinations of opponents abroad.
Be it in Morocco, Egypt, Palestine or even
amongst Iraqi Shi’ites and Syrian Alawites themselves, Iranian interference is
increasingly despised for the ruin it perpetuates and requires to be useful for
the regime in Tehran. Elsewhere, the regime has supported groups from Sudanese
Islamists, to the Japanese Red Army, the sectarian armed militias of the Iraqi
Dawah Party, the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, Lebanese
Hezbollah, Hamas in Palestine and Islamic Jihad in Israel, the global
organization of Al-Qaida and the Hizballah in the Hijaz — all for the purpose
of destabilizing Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, so as to assist sectarian
and revolutionary militants in these countries to replace the existing
governments with proxies and puppets of the Khomeinist regime.
Khomeini wore the black turban that signified
his pride in his long and noble Arab lineage. Today Khamenei and even Nasrallah
wear it also. But the Iranian leadership’s meddling in Arab countries is
backfiring. The recent popular protests in all Iraqi cities, from Basra, where
the Shi’ah make up the majority, to Kirkuk, where they don’t, carried banners
saying and they chanted: Iran, get out. Just this
week, popular demonstrations in Abadan chanted, leave Syria.
In conclusion, the Islamic conversation is
richer with the Iranian voice in it — likewise, the Muslim world too benefits
from a strong, proud and influential Iranian presence; however, their approach
must be one of mutual cooperation, exchange, and respect — as has proven
necessary in all epochs of history with a strong Middle Eastern world.
The Khomeinist regime has brought only
destruction, sectarianism, conflict and bloodshed — not only to their own
people in Iran,
but across the Middle East. The people of Iran should no longer
suffer this humiliation. Khamenei and Rouhani believe that if they fix their
relationship with the big Satan, their problems will be solved. They should pay
heed to fixing their relationship with the Iranian people.
And you, Ladies and Gentlemen, your legitimate
struggle against the Khomeinist regime will achieve its goal, sooner rather
than later. The uprisings in various parts of Iran have ignited,
and we in the Muslim world stand with you, heart and soul. We support you, and
we pray to God that He guide your steps so that all components of the people of Iranget their rights.
And you, Maryam Rajavi, your endeavor to rid
your people of the Khomeinist cancer is an historic epic that, like the
Shahnameh, will remain inscribed in the annals of History.
• The above are excerpts from Asharq
al-Awsat, July 9, 2016.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Addressing
a large gathering of Iranian exiles in Paris on 9 July, Free Iran,
Iranian Resistance President-elect Maryahttps://www.eureporter.co/frontpage/2016/07/09/maryam-rajavi-to-the-freeiran-gathering-in-paris-a-year-after-nuclear-deal-both-factions-fail-at-rescue-iranian-regime-on-verge-of-being-overthrown/m Rajavi presented an assessment
of the clerical regime’s situation one year after signing the nuclear agreement
and said: “The regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei realized that the survival
of his regime was threatened. In order to rescue the regime, he ultimately
decided to retreat with an at least temporary abandonment of the regime’s
nuclear weapons programme. Yet the crisis engulfing the regime could not be
contained. On the contrary, it was exacerbated, throwing the regime even deeper
into the quagmire of the Syrian war.
“Over
the past year since the conclusion of the nuclear accord, many of the sanctions
were lifted and oil exports were increased. But the resulting revenues fueled
the flames of the Syrian war. Even with some of the most encouraging
international opportunities and unwarranted western concessions at the regime’s
disposal, the economy went deeper into recession.
“The
financial and banking system are bankrupt and factories closed down like
falling autumn leaves. The faction led by Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Rouhani
who viewed the agreement as a climbing ladder to obtain additional share of
power fell down head first. Western governments and companies dreaming of a
hidden golden opportunity in Iran, were instead faced with the wreckage left by
the velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule).
“During
this period, repression was intensified. Our Kurdish, Arab and Baluchi
compatriots and the followers of different faiths were subjected to more
suppression and discrimination. The number of executions rose to two to
three times the figure during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s period.
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“Owing to explosive public discontent and the
existence of a capable and vigilant alternative force, the regime finds itself
exposed to the danger of being overthrown. It is not without reason that only
five days before your major gathering in Paris, the regime ordered the missile
attack against Camp Liberty. This was a reaction to Iranians’ reception for
this gathering, and a further indication of the regime’s fear of being
overthrown.”
Rajavi added: “In the past year, both factions
failed to find a way to preserve the regime. It was once again proven that no
solution exists within the regime and the solution offered by the National
Council of Resistance of Iran, namely the overthrow of the ruling theocracy, is
the most viable one. In a word, the Iranian people say the velayat-e faqih
regime must be overthrown in its entirety, with all its factions.
“There were many who assumed that the nuclear
deal would bring tranquility to the region. But instead it brought barrel bombs
and unleashed 70,000 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members on the
people of Syria. It resulted in ethnic cleansing of Sunnis by the terrorist
Quds Force in Iraq. And it led to the spread of extremism under the banner of
Islam in the whole region.
“The mullahs and Daesh (ISIS) are reading from
the same script. Both oppose the pristine teachings of Islam. They have a
similar modus operandi when it comes to barbarity and savagery. They need to
rely on one another to survive. For this reason, so long as the regime’s
occupation of Syria, Iraq and Yemen continues, one cannot confront Daesh
effectively. Regrettably, the notion of practical coordination with the Iranian
regime’s terrorist Quds Force is being justified on the pretext of confronting
Daesh. I warn that any silence vis-à-vis such an approach or any collaboration
with the mullahs enables them to commit genocide and to infringe upon the
national sovereignty of countries in the region.
“US policy on Iran, and consequently on the
Middle East, has leaped from one mistake to another: From the notion of
empowering bogus moderates within the regime to blacklisting the People’s
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), to remaining silent vis-à-vis the
2009 uprising in Iran. This policy has enabled the religious dictatorship, has
brought calamity to our nations and other crises to the U.S.
“This policy can be corrected through a
solution that is the only effective option, and the most indispensable and
attainable solution: the right of the Iranian people to overthrow the religious
dictatorship and attain freedom and democracy must be recognized. This solution
does not only benefit the Iranian people. It also amounts to a breakthrough for
the region and for the world.”
Friday, July 8, 2016
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Today I’ll be attending a roundtable discussion for journalists in Paris prefatory to tomorrow’s Free Iran event. Some 100,000 people are expected to attend tomorrow, including Iranian expats and their international supporters, along with “hundreds of political, social, and cultural dignitaries from the world over.”
According to the
invitation,
As you are aware,
there are various issues related to Iran that are of major concern to the world
community. These include the country’s flagrant human rights violations, its
meddling in the region (especially in Syria), its export of terrorism and
extremism, and its ballistic missile tests.
In the midst of
serious debate about the trajectory of events inside Iran and the correct
approach to long-term Western policy toward the Islamic Republic, a major
international event is scheduled to take place in Paris on July 9 to address
this pressing issue. Tens of thousands are expected to attend the event, titled
“Free Iran.” They include Iranian expats and their international supporters,
along with hundreds of political, social, and cultural dignitaries from the
world over.
A large bipartisan
group of American experts and policymakers will take part and address the
event. It will include senior officials from the past four administrations who
have been involved in key US national security policies, and they will be
joined by former senior US military commanders.
Among the topics to
be addressed by speakers at this gathering are: assessing the situation and
trend of events one year after the nuclear deal; Iran’s destructive role in
exporting fundamentalism and Islamic extremism; prospects for a solution to
Islamic extremism in general and the correct policy regarding the Iranian
regime in particular.
The event is
newsworthy from various perspectives:
· One year after the
nuclear deal, it provides a different perspective on the situation and will
offer a policy alternative to the Western countries that emphasizes the voice
of native Iranians.
· In the midst of a
very contentious US presidential campaign and political season, the event will
take place one week prior to the US Republican National Convention and two
weeks prior to the Democratic National Convention. The partisan nature of those
events and their speeches will stand in stark contrast to the rare
bipartisanship represented by the American delegation to the July 9 event.
· A sizeable number
of young Iranians who have fled Iran recently (after the nuclear deal or during
Rouhani’s presidency) will take part in the rally and will provide a unique
perspective on the situation currently faced by people living under the thumb
of the Iranian regime.
· Iranian-American
pastor, Saeed Abedini, who was imprisoned in Iran since 2012 for advocating Christianity
and was released earlier this year, will be among the group of Christian clergy
who will take part in the July 9 gathering.
· There will be a
very senior group of politicians and activists from Muslim countries, including
a delegation from the moderate Syrian opposition (including those who took part
in the Geneva talks).
This is today’s
schedule:
Panel
one:
Crisis in the Middle East, Prospects and Solutions (14:30 to 16:00)
Moderator: Alejo Vidal
Quadras, President ISJ, former Vice President of European Parliament
Panelists:
Frédéric Encel, Scholar of
geopolitics, teaches international relations at the ESG Management School
Agnès Levallois, Specialist in
contemporary Arab world, project manager at the International Diplomatic
Academy
Philip Crowley, Assistant Secretary
of State from 2009 to 2011 and former senior director of public affairs for the
United States National Security Council and Special Assistant to the President
for national security affairs
Marc Ginsberg, US ambassador to
Morocco from 1994–1998 and former Deputy Senior Adviser to the President of the
United States for Middle East Policy
Panel two: One year After
Nuclear Deal (16:15 to 17:45)
Moderator: Lincoln
Bloomfield Jr.,
Chairman of the Board of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a non-partisan security
think tank in Washington, D.C. and served as the assistant secretary of state
for political military affairs from 2001 to 2005
Panelists:
Mitchell Reiss, President and CEO
of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia, former director of policy
planning at the U.S. Department of State with special emphasis on Iraq, Iran
and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research
Fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Robert Torricelli, Member of the US
Senate from 1997 to 2003 and served 14 years in the U.S. House of
Representatives before being elected to the Senate.
Robert Joseph, United States
Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation and the Under Secretary of State for
Arms Control and International Security until 2007
Frances Townsend, Former Homeland
Security Advisor to the President.
Panel three: Developments in
Iran and the Role of Opposition (18:00 to 19:30)
Moderator: Lincoln
Bloomfield
Panelists:
Kenneth Blackwell, Former Mayor of
Cincinnati and a former Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights
Commission
Linda Chavez, Founder and
Chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, author, commentator, and radio
talk show host and a Fox News political analyst and has a syndicated column
that appears in newspapers nationwide
Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont
from 1991-2003, CNBC Contributor, Founder of Democracy for America, Chairman of
Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, Candidate for the Democratic
Nomination for President in 2004
Struan Stevenson, President of the
European Iraqi Freedom Association, former President of the European
Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq and Co Cahir of Free Iran
committee and author of the book “Self-Sacrifice, Life with the Mojahedin”.
If it’s permitted, I
could try Periscoping the discussions, if you’d like to watch them.
I’ll share my notes in the comments beneath this post. Please ask any
questions that occur to you. I’ll try to ask them on your behalf.
You can read more about the event here. Tomorrow’s speakers
include Newt Gingrich, Ambassador John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, Louis Freeh,
Michael Mukasey, and General James Conway.
One of the other
journalists in attendance will be Ricochet favorite Michael Totten. In fact,
Michael is going to be my cat-sitter next week while I’m out of town doing
research for my book. If time permits, maybe he and I can sit down over
the weekend and record a podcast about this event.
Check the comments
later today for further updates.
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