{"id":7221,"date":"2017-03-18T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2017-03-18T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T04:26:23","slug":"oiac-senate-nowruz-event-iran-policy-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/7221\/","title":{"rendered":"OIAC Senate Nowruz Event Iran Policy Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Senior Senators, ex-US officials urge firm policy on Iran<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7222 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-4-1-810x449-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-4-1-810x449-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-4-1-810x449.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>By <span class=\"vcard author\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oiac-us.com\/author\/padidehhandiz-2\/\">Oiac<\/a><\/span><\/span>: <span style=\"color: #666699;\">Washington DC, March 15, 2017<\/span>&#8211; Marking the Iranian New Year of 2017, bi-partisan senior members of the United States Senate joined the Nowruz gathering calling for change in Iran.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10212\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator John McCain, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee at Iranian New Year (Nowruz) Luncheon in Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, organized by Organization of Iranian American Communities-US (OIAC) on March 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SOfBj5xbAGM?feature=oembed\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While criticizing the Iranian regime\u2019s malign behavior, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, John McCain (R-AZ) said, \u201cI think the only thing that the Iranian regime understands is, as Ronald Reagan called it, peace through strength.\u00a0 But most of all, I hope that we can give the people who are now residing in that country the hope and belief and commitment to all of us that someday they will know freedom again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10214\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Member, Senate Foreign Relation Committee and Armed Services Committee at Iranian New Year (Nowruz) Luncheon in Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, organized by Organization of Iranian American Communities-US (OIAC) on March 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smuhdPjmrzI?feature=oembed\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Relations Committee member, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) welcomed the resettlement of thousands of Iranian dissidents, the residents of Camp Liberty, Iraq, in Albania and thanked the Albanian Ambassador for her country\u2019s efforts to this end.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10215\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Gary Peters , Member, Senate Homeland Security &amp; Governmental Affairs Committee and Armed Services Committee at Iranian New Year (Nowruz) Luncheon in Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, organized by Organization of Iranian American Communities-US (OIAC) on March 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-YWh0rjsKc?feature=oembed\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Committee member, Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) recognized the need for a bi-partisan effort in US Senate to prevent \u201cproliferation in the hands of this regime that has one of the worst human rights records anywhere on the planet, which constantly is suppressing any kind of free press or demonstrations or any kinds of activities as a free society, we simply cannot let them have those weapons of mass destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video message, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, expressed her support for a \u201cbipartisan measure demanding pressure on the Iranian regime to stop its destabilizing actions in support of terrorist groups, and its continued test-firing of ballistic missiles\u2026 a legislative language, which calls for the application of UN Security Council resolution 2231 as well as a bill that calls for the designation of the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10217\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, expressed her support for a \u201cbipartisan measure demanding pressure on the Iranian regime to stop its destabilizing actions in support of terrorist groups, and its continued test-firing of ballistic missiles\u201d. The Senate event was organized by Organization of Iranian American Communities-US (OIAC).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOLs8ryKPUg?feature=oembed\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 728px;\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-5-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-5-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-5.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/>Senator Joe Lieberman is speaking at Iranian New Year (Nowruz) Luncheon in Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, organized by Organization of Iranian American Communities-US (OIAC) on March 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his remarks, former Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) said, \u201c\u2026 the bipartisan consensus about the threat that Iran represents has returned, and there\u2019s a real interest in focusing in on a regime in Iran and changing what exists now\u2026 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s been phrased any better than the program, the ten-point program that Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, on behalf of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and on behalf of the people of Iran, has issued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., said time had come to take Iran regime\u2019s leaders accountable. \u201cFrom the Supreme Leader down the line, some of the most senior members of the regime, and we have court documents that place them in the room, authorizing major terrorist operations, yet there has been no accountability,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 727px;\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-6-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-6-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-6.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/>Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., Former Assistant Secretary of State is speaking at Iranian New Year (Nowruz) Luncheon in Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, organized by Organization of Iranian American Communities-US (OIAC) on March 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 717px;\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-7-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-7-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IP-7.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/>Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad welcomes the Senators, their staffs, Embassies\u2019 representatives and the media to the Senate Nowruz event. 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