Mike Pence Says Joe Biden’s Iran Nuclear Strategy Shows ‘Weakness’

Mike Pence Says Joe Biden’s Iran Nuclear Strategy Shows ‘Weakness’

NEWSWEEK – BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 10/28/21 AT 1:38 PM EDT

Former Vice President Mike Pence has claimed President Joe Biden‘s efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran risk encouraging more regional aggression by Tehran.

Pence told a Washington, D.C. event on Thursday that Biden’s “embrace” of the nuclear deal was dangerous for the U.S.

His decision to appear at the event organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)—the political wing of the controversial People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK)—reiterates his hawkish stance on Iran.

“Peace follows strength,” Pence told the attendees. “With our current administration’s embrace of the JCPOA, their hesitation to condemn rockets being fired at our cherished ally Israel, and the heartbreaking and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, our adversaries may be sensing weakness in the current American administration.”

Pence added: “They may be emboldened to test our revolve.

“Weakness arouses evil.”

The summit—attended by interventionist figures including former Democratic senator Joe Lieberman and former Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway—was called to condemn what NCRI called Iran’s “nuclear defiance, terrorism, regional meddling,” and the role of Iran’s conservative President Ebrahim Raisi in a 1988 massacre of Iranian political dissidents.

Pence condemned the “tyranny” of the Iranian government and dismissed Raisi as a “brutal mass murderer,” suggesting his election was a “sign of the regime’s growing desperation and vulnerability.”

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