This morning, Senator McCain spoke to the National Endowment of Democracy to share his thoughts on the current circumstances in Iran.
Senator McCain shared in part:
“We need to stand up for the Iranian people. We need to make their goals our goals, their interests our interests, their work our work.
We need a grand national undertaking to broadcast information freely into Iran, and to help Iranians access the tools to evade their government’s censorship of the Internet.
We need to let the political prisoners in Iran’s gruesome prisons know that they are not alone, that their names and their cases are known to us, and that we will hold their torturers and tormentors accountable for their crimes.
We need to publicize the names of Iran’s human rights abusers, and we need to make them famous. Then we need to impose crippling sanctions on them for their human rights abuses – to go after their assets, their ability to travel, and their access to the international financial system, which is exactly the goal of legislation that I and others have proposed."
You can read the full speech [as prepared for delivery] below.
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