Symposium suggesting 'regime change' in Tehran

Larry Klayman

A symposium has been announced for tomorrow at the National Press Club to call on the new Congress, with Republicans now in the majority in the U.S. House following a 2010 midterm election that repudiated President Obama's agenda, to push for Western intervention in Iran.

The event has been announced by Freedom Watch and the Foundation for Democracy in Iran.

Freedom Watch chief Larry Klayman told WND the event will feature a number of high-profile speakers including James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence, and will be to discuss how the United States and the West can liberate the Iranian people.

Klayman is handling right now a series of claims against officials in the Iranian government, including one on behalf of a freedom fighter in Iran who was tortured and killed by the regime.

Also scheduled to speak is Ken Timmerman, an international journalist on the Middle East and Iran, as well as Vincent Forras, a 9/11 first responder and former U.S. Senate candidate. Also in attendance will be Reza Kahlili, who goes by an alias following his defection from Iran's controversial Revolutionary Guards. He is the author of "A Time to Betray."

Frank Gaffney, chairman of the Center for Strategic Studies and former national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, also is to be on hand.

The subject is the "ongoing and brutal repression of the Persian freedom movement now under way in the Islamic Republic."

Reza Kahlili

"The policy of 'appeasement' that has been attempted by the Obama administration and the European Union has proven to be a dismal failure. It is hoped that this conference will help convince the new Congress, with the House of Representatives now in Republican hands, independent Democrats, and other entities, to push harder for U.S. and Western intervention to remove this dangerous radical Islamic regime before it is too late," according to Klayman's announcement.

Speakers will offer insight "as to how the U.S. and the West must now take action to remove the Islamic regime, thereby bringing about freedom for the Persian people and eliminating the prospect of a nuclear holocaust by radicals bent on the destruction of and dominance over Western civilization and Israel," Klayman said.