Sam Brownback: The Iranian government has reached its expiration date

Sam Brownback announced in an interview that the Iranian government has reached its expiration date and is approaching the boiling point.

Sam Brownback, president of the World Conference on Religious Freedom and former US ambassador, said in an interview about religious freedom in the world, especially in Iran, and about freedom of expression, the economy, and the shaking of the foundations of the Islamic Republic's government: "The energy, the diversity, and the people who have come from all over the world, a number of high-ranking officials from all countries of the world, all show how successfully this movement is progressing."

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives spoke at our council meeting, and the former Vice President of the United States will be there. This movement is growing in strength, in energy, in intensity, and we are finally reaching a point where people are saying we can't accept this anymore. Eighty percent of the world's population has some form of religious belief, and eighty percent of the world's population lives in countries where there are strict religious restrictions. All of these restrictions need to be lifted. I think the real movement is taking shape, and we are all seeing a movement forward.

The situation for the people of Iran is very bad and deplorable, the Baha'i communities, Christians and almost everyone in that mainstream are being persecuted and harassed by the ruling mullahs. The Sunni Muslims are also witnessing the same situation, you ask yourself why? Such a great and good people with such a long history, but now you see people rising up, more and more protests are taking place in Iran and this trend continues.

I think the rulers in Iran are past their expiration date and you see that these rulers are thinking about the rest of the people in the Middle East but they don't care about their own people and the people are fed up with it. All this money they are spending on Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis and they are not doing anything for the people of Iran. I think we are approaching a boiling point inside Iran.

I think religious freedom was a superficial thing before, but now people are getting into the details and understanding that if you want to stop genocide, nine out of ten genocides are against religious minorities. You have to stop all persecution and persecution based on religious belief right there, that will stop the genocide. If you want to grow your economy, we have a diverse world and people need to be able to have their own religion and belief to find themselves and know themselves, and you have to open up space for them.

"If you want to have security, people have to be able to have security in their worship and their belief. I think people have finally come to the conclusion that all these pieces are leading to this one, so let's fix this one and improve the human rights situation, then we can have economic growth and peace and stop genocide. That's one of the fundamental issues that we have to get right, and we haven't got it right for a long time."