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Posted on 10/29/2003 4:24:49 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
Senators urge US support of Iran's democracy movement
Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com
WASHINGTON, July 8 (AFP) - As Iran prepares to mark Wednesday's fourth anniversary of bloody student riots, US lawmakers said Washington should do more to support students agitating for the regime's reform or ouster.
"America must make it clear that we see the difference between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people, and we support the people," said Senator Sam Brownback, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has held several hearings on the political and social situation in Iran.
"We must do everything we can to assist the pro-democracy forces in Iran as they struggle to take back their country," said Brownback, who is the main author of a bill in the US Senate, the Iran Democracy Act, which aims to promote democracy in the Islamic republic.
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