
Supporters of National Council of Resistance of Iran protest at NATO summit Brussels, Belgium
Ex-Defense Undersecretary for Policy Michele Flournoy
Flournoy - who served as Barack Obama's undersecretary of defense for policy and now heads up a major consulting firm with close ties to the Biden administration - appeared virtually at the 'Free Iran World Summit 2021' event on Sunday, where she openly endorsed "internal regime change" in the Islamic Republic.
"This regime should not expect an easy ride from this administration or from the US Congress. The American commitment to Iran's people in their quest to be free remains unfaltering. When there is an internal regime change, and a government comes to power that renounces its revolutionary aims and terrorism, the United States will be the first in line to engage it."However, approached about her speech by reporters with the Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Daily Beast, Flournoy's consulting firm WestExec Advisors attempted to distance her from the event's sponsor, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The council serves as the diplomatic branch of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group previously on the US terrorism blacklist due to alleged involvement in a string of bombings and assassinations between 1979 and 2000.














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