Violence used by the US and its allies (including stateless groups) can never be terrorism, no matter how heinous and criminal.
The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), or People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, is an Iranian dissident group that has been formally designated for the last 15 years by the US State Department as a "foreign terrorist organization". When the Bush administration sought to justify its attack on Iraq in 2003 by accusing Saddam Hussein of being a sponsor of
Terror organization Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) will be delisted by the US State Department in order to clear legal obstacles in the way of overtly arming and funding the terrorists in pursuit of a proxy war with Iran, the LA Times reported in their article, “U.S. to remove Iranian group Mujahedin Khalq from terrorist list.”
As the US government confirms that terrorists involved in the Benghazi, Libya US consulate attack were indeed the very militants funded, armed, and provided
Only a few weeks are left to the deadline a US Court assigned for the State Department to make decision on the terrorist designation of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. Whether the State Department will delist the group or not depends on the US government’s approach about terrorism. The US reaction towards terrorism has been propagandistic...
"The common American tendency to view the outside world in starkly divided Manichean terms between friends, allies and good guys on one
The U.S. and Israel have tacitly admitted they were behind the assassinations. They openly admit they are training, funding, arming, and regularly deploying the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MKO). U.S. politicians openly lobby for MKO in full-page columns bought in large U.S. papers. It would interest many Americans to know that many of these lobbyists include stalwart supporters of the so-called “War on Terror”…
A U.S. journalist says the United States and its allies are taking serious
Among the foreign countries and overseas organizations that hire people to advocate for them in Washington, D.C., one doesn’t expect to find a group that’s listed on the U.S. government’s roster of foreign terrorists. But the Mujahedin e-Khalq — a cult-like Iranian group whose killing of U.S. officials landed it on the terrorist list in 1997 — has been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a high-profile team of former Members of Congress, political notables and
Once again, western newspapers are carrying water for recalcitrant Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorists by whitewashing their disobedience towards the Iraqi government.
These days the government of Iraq is involved with the transfer of the sixth convoy of terrorist anti-Iran MEK from their long-hold base in Diyala province to a former U.S. military base in Baghdad which has been stalled for more than three months over the grouplet’s complaints regarding the conditions of their new
The strange relationship between Saleh al-Mutlaq and Khalq organization is a relationship that makes question marks accompanied by doubts that rose around; especially that he represents a bloc not the government.
This organization had disgraceful positions against the Iraqi people and it had been brought in Iraq at the time of the tyrant for political considerations with Iran and such a thing is done by most of the countries in the world. As for Baghdad, it hosted Khalq because
USrael, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in world history, tried to hide its support for terrorism in the past but today in Syria and elsewhere it is openly backing terrorist groups.
“Jihadis of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your stage fright. After Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan, the West has fallen in love with you all over again — big time.” – Pepe Escobar, “American (jihadi) Idol.”
The most shocking development to come out of the conflict in Syria is
The MKO is not cooperative with the UN and Iraqi government to vacate Camp Ashraf.
Following the stall in the relocation process of Ashraf residents to Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty], the United Nations mission in Iraq presented a roadmap to the government suggesting series of steps to complete the peaceful relocation of the camp residents.[1]
The MKO’s reluctance to leave Camp Ashraf concerned the UN, the GOI and even the US. Special Representative of the UN
The government of Iraq, along with Iranian exiles, is called on to honor the spirit of a resettlement agreement, a U.S. State Department official said.
Baghdad and the United Nations signed a memorandum of understanding in December outlining the voluntary relocation of members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran from their Camp Ashraf enclave in Diyala province to Camp Liberty in Baghdad.
Patrick Ventrell, a State Department spokesman, said continued dialogue, not forcible
One of the UNAMI's lesser known achievements in Iraq, though potentially life-saving contributions, could be UNAMI’s ongoing efforts at preventive diplomacy to avert bloodshed over the situation of Camp Ashraf, where a tense standoff has persisted between the government and an exiled Iranian opposition group.
For decades, the group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or (MeK), occupied the Camp, a self-contained site only a few hours drive from Baghdad. Yet as Iraqi politics
The Mujahedin-e Khalq is trying to steer its supporters in the United States toward war, which shows that the enemy of our enemy is not our friend.
The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is in the news again. Images of Newt Gingrich bowing to the Iranian dissident group’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, after speaking to MEK members at a Paris rally, and Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page’s unauthorized, paid speech at the same event have brought renewed attention to the MEK’s expensive (and
The Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page would have to be included in the poor judgment category, and unlike the others his involvement has been a one-time event.
U.S. News recently published a long article on the pro-MEK lobbying effort and the terrorist group’s American advocates. Here Karim Sadjadpour offers an explanation for why so many Americans have embraced the group:
Sadjadpour, the Carnegie analyst, finds it remarkable that so many politicians have supported a group
Under the leadership of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, MKO carried out several terrorist attacks all over the country and killed hundreds of innocent civilians including the Shiites of Western Iran and the Iraqi Kurdish people.
Those who mischievously called Iran a part of the so-called "Axis of Evil" and put its name in their ludicrous list of the state sponsors of terrorism - the list from which the name of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime was removed in 1982, are either
But one thing is for certain that it escapes interview or open debate with other media, opposition or anybody that aims to challenge the organization and question its legitimacy. That is because any interview or debate raises another problem frequently encountered in considering its legitimacy. Thus, exploited beyond their main purpose, the outside media are practically secondary instruments to fulfill MKO’s ambitions.
No doubt, of the most complex phenomenon in the modern world
“I thought they were simply a group of Iranian exiles who were opposed to the regime in Tehran,” Page said. “I later found out they can be construed as a MEK front group, and I don’t think it’s worth it to my reputation to be perceived as a paid spokesman for any political cause.
Every big- and middle-name Democrat and Republican loves raking in fees to speak to the exiled Iranian Marxist guerilla group MEK, an official member of the State Department’s terrorist group list that
MKO says “tens of thousands of Iranians” gathered in Villepinte! A look at several pictures taken by some of the attendees verifies that the hall was --not fully-- crammed by travelers of countries around Europe.
Purple flags and purple vests were waiting for people to take them in Villepinte, a hall in Parisian suburbs. Who is supposed to take these “Maryam & Massoud” – printed purple flags and vests? The Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) says “tens of thousands of Iranian”! A
These MKO-associated groups are actively lobbying to convince the Iraqi government, through pressures by Obama administration, to relocate the members of MKO who are now residing in Camp Ashraf, a refugee camp in Iraq's Diyala province, to another country and provide them with security and shelter.
The ill-omened, inauspicious plots of the terrorist gang Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization against Iran seem to have no end. The recent letter signed by 44 U.S. Senators addressed to
Of course, the actual Iranian opposition in Iran loathes the MEK, and it rejects the idea that the MEK speaks for opponents of the current Iranian leadership.
Ivan Sascha Sheehan takes to the pages of Haaretz to offer the worst campaign advice anyone could give Mitt Romney:
The Romney camp’s recent expressions of support for the organized resistance challenging Syrian President Bashar Assad should now be followed with a similar approach to the Iranian opposition’s
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday warned Iranian exile group Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, to comply with its relocation from Iraq's Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya if it hopes to be removed from the United States' list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
"The United States remains concerned about the situation at Camp Ashraf and urges the residents of Camp Ashraf to resume full cooperation immediately with the Iraqi government and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq,"
Violence used by the US and its allies (including stateless groups) can never be terrorism, no matter how heinous and criminal.
The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), or People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, is an Iranian dissident group that has been formally designated for the last 15 years by the US State Department as a "foreign terrorist organization". When the Bush administration sought to justify its attack on Iraq in 2003 by accusing Saddam Hussein of being a sponsor of
