During his appearance at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, just outside of in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rick Santorum told Family Research Council president Tony Perkins that “President Obama sided with the theocrats, sided with the radical Islamists” during Iran’s Green Revolution. After a discussion of the 2006 Iran Freedom and Support Act, Santorum said that Obama refused to “help and work” with the protest movement and “allowed those pro-democracy people to be slaughtered in the streets and imprisoned and tortured.”
Santorum: We need to embrace and engage the Persian people and help liberate them from the oppression. And when the opportunity came for this President to do so after we passed that bill, by the way over his opposition originally when he was in the Senate, he didn’t fund the opposition, he didn’t help and work with them, and when the revolution came in 2009, when they had the ability to topple this regime that was producing a nuclear weapon, President Obama sided with the theocrats, sided with the radical Islamists and allowed those pro-democracy people to be slaughtered in the streets and imprisoned and tortured as they are today.
