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\u00a0Judge Michael Mukasey<\/a>:81st\u00a0United States Attorney General<\/a><\/p>\n The regime as we\u2019ve seen and heard is absolutely frantic about the threat posed by\u00a0MEK.<\/a><\/p>\n Ladies and gentleman there is an expression in American show business to say if someone or some people that they are a hard act to follow, I am following several hard acts to follow.<\/p>\n One accomplished soldier likes\u00a0General Jones,<\/a>\u00a0My good friend,\u00a0Roudy Giuliani<\/a>, whose accomplishments I could stand here for hours and discuss. Of course, Dr. Kouchner, whose currier, and whose achievements have marked him as somebody like the others with authority to deliver the message that he delivered, and their achievement, of course, give them the standing to deliver the message they delivered. But I will tell you that the greatest privilege, for me is to appear on the same program as\u00a0Mrs. Rajavi,<\/a>\u00a0as the young people, you heard from at the beginning of this program, the intelligent, focused and determined young people you heard from, and before you, because they and you are the future of a great country.<\/p>\n That really is a great privilege. We\u2019re gathered here on the eve of another session of the U.N. General Assembly. This one will be devoted at least in part to a discussion of nuclear proliferation and of course that makes it entirely appropriate to discuss Iran which has been intent the current regime at least has been intent on acquiring a nuclear weapon for decades. In fact, available intelligence shows that the regime continues to try to build facilities to help further that program despite claims that it is not doing so.<\/p>\n We know that the United Nations as a body, and the General Assembly in particular, has been at times a great disappointment, welcoming as they have, various scandals, including Ahmadinejad and of course Rouhani who they\u2019re about to welcome.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a great disappointment to people who cherish freedom, like those who are assembled here, but at least it\u2019s useful in providing the occasion to discuss the problem posed by the current regime in Iran and what has to be done about it, and the problem posed by the current regime is way beyond the threat of nuclear weapons and the mullahs desire to develop and use such weapons, because that\u2019s only a symptom of a more basic problem which is that under the current regime, there is a theocratic, despotism in place in Iran that oppresses and appeal exploits its people in particular and that finances terrorism both inside and outside its borders. As trying to become the dominant power in the Middle East, but there\u2019s reason to hope.<\/p>\n The discontent in Iran that we\u2019ve seen evidence of here has shown itself in repeated and widespread protests and demonstrations. It\u2019s not simply the same people or groups and or even people who are affiliated with particular groups who are participating. The demonstrators, the protesters come from all segments of society. The merchants in the bazaars, truck drivers as we\u2019ve seen, even students in religious seminaries. The slogans that are used in these protests are not confined to limited remedies, give us lower prices. They include things like \u201cDown with Khamenei<\/a>\u201d the regime\u2019s supreme Mullah, \u201cDown with Rouhani\u201d, the regime\u2019s puppet president. They show an understanding that the regime has used its resources not to benefit the people of Iran, but rather to engage in terrorism abroad.<\/p>\n Such slogans as \u201cNeither Gaza nor Lebanon I will give my life for Iran\u201d and \u201cThe enemy is the mullahs, they lie when they say it\u2019s America\u201d, show that the protesters will not be bought off with half measures.<\/p>\n Of course, protests alone can\u2019t bring down the regime there has to be a basic weakness in the government\u2019s ability to control the lives of its citizens and the conditions in its country and on that front, the news is encouraging as well.<\/p>\n Although President Trump was criticized by some for reinstituting sanctions against Iran and more are coming and it was suggested that somehow the United States was acting alone and could not succeed. The fact is that sanctions are succeeding. That\u2019s not surprising. When other nations are faced with a choice between doing business with the nineteen trillion dollar economy of the United States or with the four hundred and thirty-nine billion dollars and going down the economy of Iran, the choice is obvious. The United States has become the largest source of energy in the world. It\u2019s an exporter of energy rather than a country dependent on others and as a result in part, Iran\u2019s oil exports have dropped. In addition, the huge decline in the value of Iranian currency, there are now about one hundred twenty thousand or one hundred thirty thousand Rials to the dollar or fifteen thousand tomans if you prefer that measure.<\/p>\n If you measure things by the relationship between countries that are despotic, Iran is second only to Venezuela in the rate of its inflation and the chief cause of that, by the way, is not sanctions. The chief cause of that is corruption. The corruption that is rotten at the core of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n What more is going to take to bring about regime change? Well, I would suggest to that a clue to what more is going to take, may be found in the regime\u2019s own conduct. The regime as we\u2019ve seen and heard is absolutely frantic about the threat posed by MEK. The statements of Iran\u2019s leaders show it. Supreme leader Ali Khamenei has charged that MEK is responsible for carrying out coordinated activities that threaten the country security. A member of the Majles said this summer that the slogans repeated by demonstrators were designed by the MEK.<\/p>\n A preacher in the holy city of Qom said this summer that students in the seminaries have to be careful not to let MEK take over their rallies and draft the slogans. I could go on and on with this but you get the idea, and you don\u2019t have to stop with the statements of the members of the regime. In March, Albanian authorities stop the bombing plot, when two Iranians were arrested just before moving a truck bomb to a Nowruz event at which Mrs. Rajavi and Mayor Giuliani were about to address a crowd of three thousand people.<\/p>\n Also Germany, now has in custody an Iranian diplomat who\u2019s charged with planning to bomb an\u00a0MEK<\/a>gathering in Paris this summer. A gathering of course in which Mrs. Rajavi and many Americans were present. Americans including Mayor Giuliani and I\u2019m proud to say me.<\/p>\nAbout the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/strong><\/h4>\n