Washington’s hostility towards Tehran is fast making war inevitable. But the bluster, sanctions and covert action are aimed at foiling Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a threat that may be entirely imaginary.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates have openly called for a preemptive military strike on Iran. And they have support from Washington insiders.
John Bolton, George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations, said on Fox News that the best “way to prevent Iran
The U.S. government funded the Iranian terrorist group (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MKO, MEK) which “found” the documents upon which the warmongers are relying
The people pushing for war against Iran are the same neocons who pushed for war against Iraq.
The IAEA report being trumpted as a casus belli contains no new information, but is based on a re-hashing of old, debunked claims stemming from “laptop documents”.
State Department cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the new IAEA
The MEK appears to believe that terrorist activities in which it may be engaged inside Iran will not have an impact on its delisting by the United States. This is all the more reason for journalists in Israel and outside to make known its cooperation with the Mossad, so that the U.S. government can make an informed judgment about whether or not the MEK has renounced terrorism as it claims.
Relations between Iran and the West, fraught with tension and conflict for decades, have in
Officials in the White House, Pentagon and State Department are reportedly fuming at the latest ill-conceived assassination, which was designed to drag the U.S. military into a ruinous war with Iran.
Over the weekend of Jan. 14-15, the White House announced it was abruptly canceling the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to Israel in a long-planned exercise that had been sold as a display of support but was really meant to be a show of force, directed at Iran. The reason
As the European Union prepared to consider tough new sanctions against Iran on Monday, a group of eminent Americans was cozying up here to an exiled Iranian opposition group that the United States classifies as terrorists.
Even undeclared war makes strange bedfellows, and none more so than the former politicians, generals and spooks on the panel at a conference in Paris on Friday evening and their hosts, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran.
In its checkered history, the PMOI has
In the case of the assassination of Iranian scientists, the Mossad’s assets are almost certainly members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) also known as The Peoples’ Mujahedin of Iran, which is committed to overthrowing the Iranian government.
The longer and complete form of the first question in the headline is - When is a terrorist not a terrorist in the eyes of the Obama administration (not to mention all of its predecessors) and the governments of the Western
Now the MKO is supported by some United States politicians who know very well that their own US government lists the MKO as a designated terrorist group—a group nonetheless who once described the United States as imperialists, capitalists and Zionists.
*Mujahedin-e-Khalq-e-Iran* is the Arabic term used to refer to a group called the People’s Mujahedin of Iran. The term *mujahedin* actually means holy warrior, and to take the definition a step further, it is this term which
In related news, some Arab news sources report that the MKO plans to carry out a series of bombings at the holy shrines in Samarra in an attempt to fan the flames of a sectarian war and mislead the public opinion in Iraq from the issue of MKO expulsion and closure of Camp Ashraf.
http://rajanews.com/detail.asp?id=111935
Efforts by the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to put things in order and restore stability to the war-torn country which had reached an important and
Analysts have urged against delisting for various reasons. Some have noted the potential blowback and the danger the brainwashed and militarily trained members still present, and others like neoconservative Michael Rubin concede that the group would not be able to implement government change in Iran due to its unpopularity with most Iranians.
http://www.lobelog.com/mek-remains-on-us-fto-list-after-camp-ashraf-resettlement-deal/
In August I was one among several people who
From silent war to loud weapons, from covert operations to overt operations, the US government has resorted to any possible means in an effort to incapacitate a nation whose sin is the very nature of its policy of no submission to force.
http://presstv.com/detail/217988.html
In line with its silent war with Iran, a US court in Manhattan made a mockery of justice, issued a default judgment against Iran, and accused Tehran of being involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an
American officials have expressed fears that the leadership of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) – which US government reports frequently describe as a cult – may order the massacre of their followers, rather than permit the peaceful disbandment of Camp Ashraf, which would deprive the MEK of one of its most powerful assets.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1220/With-deadline-looming-to-close-MEK-s-Camp-Ashraf-in-Iraq-what-next
Camp Ashraf, home to militants opposed
Experts on the MEK accuse its leaders of holding its own members hostage to efforts to get the organisation removed from the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106259
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another
From proposals to fund and arm terrorist organizations like the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), to fomenting foreign-backed "color revolutions" in the streets of Tehran, to carrying out covert US-Israeli military operations within Iran itself, it is clear that the Brookings Institution either was writing the playbook on conquering Iran or was reading from it when compiling "Which Path to Persia?"
Nearly every option described within the Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution 2009 "Which
According to top U.S. officials, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) leadership is blocking efforts to protect residents at the organization’s encampment at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
http://www.niacouncil.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7785&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=-1
According to top U.S. officials, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) leadership is blocking efforts to protect residents at the organization’s encampment at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
A December 31st deadline set by the Iraqi
From now on MeK leadership is preparing the troops to sacrifice, also he is inducing them that being Ashrafi means that we will never retreat, even one step; and we force the Iraqi government to withdraw by our deaths. However, until last week, he was promising the desperate forces that US, UN, and the EU will protect them.
After UNHCR, European Union confirmed Iraqi government decision to relocate the MeK inside its country, and to evacuate Camp Ashraf under control of the UN
In an article for “the Atlantic” Wendy Kaminer uncovers that by advocating this organization, these politicians and former high-ranking officials would be regarded as human rights activists, by means of which they find loopholes in paying taxes.
On Sunday NY Times revealed the extraordinary efforts of US politicians to reverse the terrorist designation of the group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, and proved that those efforts were all responded by huge sums of money.
In an article for
The United States is mulling over removing the anti-Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its terrorist watch list and giving refuge to its members, a move which indicates Washington's support for terrorism.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212420.html
Former CIA directors James Woolsey and Porter Goss together with former FBI director Louis Freeh are among those lobbying President Barack Obama to delist the MKO from the US terrorist list, The New York Times reported.
According to Habilian Association database quoting from Tehran e Emrouz Daily, Shi’ites, Iraqi Kurds, and a great number of Sunnis are against remaining MKO in Iraq; besides, political parties in Iraq such as Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Sadrist Movement, Islamic Dawa Party, and Kurdistan Democratic Party all emphasize expulsion of MKO terrorists from Iraq.
Iraqi government’s decision to expel MKO will lead to their expulsion
The decision to close down Camp Ashraf has been
MEK claims it has foresworn terrorism, but a 2004 FBI report states that a “Los Angeles investigation has determined that the MEK is currently actively involved in planning and executing acts of terrorism.” US diplomatic and intelligence officials maintain the MEK “trained females at Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform suicide attacks in Karbala.”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/13/the-armageddon-network/
In November 14, 2011, Justin Raimondo wrote an article for
All U.S. troops out of Iraq by year's end, it was a good news for American troops willing to come back home, however bad news for members of the MKO housed in Camp Ashraf who have tenuously benefited from the troops' residence.
Two weeks ago, speaking with certainty and resolution, President Obama announced that “after nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” [1] Obama spoke after a private video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and he offered
Washington’s hostility towards Tehran is fast making war inevitable. But the bluster, sanctions and covert action are aimed at foiling Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a threat that may be entirely imaginary.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates have openly called for a preemptive military strike on Iran. And they have support from Washington insiders.
John Bolton, George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations, said on Fox News that the best “way to prevent Iran
