US Congressman Backs ‘Material Support’ to Help Iranians ‘Overcome’ Islamist Rulers
Republican Congressman Tom McClintock speaks to VOA Persian at an Organization of Iranian American Communities event at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, Dec. 11, 2018. A U.S. Republican lawmaker sponsoring a bill to support a democratic and secular Iran says Washington should provide Iranians with material support to help them “overcome” their Islamist rulers. U.S. Representative Tom McClintock spoke to VOA Persian late Tuesday at a Christmas celebration held by the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) at Washington’s Rayburn House Office Building. “I believe it is increasingly important that we provide (Iranians) with material support that they need to overcome the tyranny in Tehran,” McClintock said, without specifying what form that support should take. “In previous years, we provided cash on cargo pallets to the mullahs, cash used to oppress the Iranian people. Now we owe it to the Iranian people to provide the resistance with the kind of ...