MEK that was pointed to less than a decade ago as proof of Saddam’s Terrorist Evil is now glorified by both political parties in Washington and — now that it’s fighting for the U.S. and Israel rather than for Saddam — is no longer a Terror group.
Former U.S. officials, paid to advocate for a designated Terror group, are now on the verge of succeeding.
A bipartisan band of former Washington officials and politicians has spent the last two years aggressively advocating on behalf of
The ongoing saga of Mujahedin-e-Khalq is a good example of how the unfortunately imprecise cliche ought to be understood.
In his new book, The Tyranny of Cliches, Jonah Goldberg goes on a rant against the phrase, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," writing, "It is simply absurd to contend that because people may argue over who is or is not a terrorist that it is therefore impossible to make meaningful distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters." Is
Today, the MEK is campaigning to be taken off the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations – and they’re on the brink of success.
On May 21, 1975, Col. Paul Shaffer, a military attaché to the US mission in Iran, kissed his wife and two children goodbye, and entered a waiting car with his colleague, Lt. Col. Jack Turner, whose wife was getting their three children ready for school. It was the last time the families of these two US servicemen would see them alive.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) – the political arm of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) often known as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), a terrorist organization trained by the United States and the Israeli Mossad to carry out assassinations and other covert operations in Iran – has put out another propaganda report dealing with the Iranian nuclear program.
In their latest report, which a top U.S. nuclear expert already said
ia Glenn Greenwald, Daneil Denvir writes about former Governor Ed Rendell trying to explain why he shouldn’t be indicted for providing “material support” to the Iranian cult terrorist group MEK:
One 10-minute speech earned Rendell $20,000, and he frequently flew to Europe to call for MEK’s removal from the terror list. That would appear to fall within the extraordinarily broad definition of “material support” used by theObama administration.
Rendell calls that “ludicrous.” He
Because all material dealings with the MEK are serious felonies, the Treasury Department has recently issued subpoenas to some of its key US supporters.
Has any other maxim led to greater error and remorse than the twisted logic that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend?” Yet the irony is that this malevolent cliché is actually the most charitable interpretation for why a large and bipartisan group of prominent Americans is currently lobbying on behalf of the bizarre Iranian
The U.S. can make no such claim about Iran. And by itself, the revelation that the U.S. has funded, armed, and trained an Iranian dissident group looking to overthrow Iran’s government gives the Iranian regime a much more credible pretext for preventive war against the U.S. than the U.S. has against Iran.
According to a New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh published Friday, during the George W. Bush administration the United States funded, armed, and trained in Nevada members of
What the beltway insiders leave out of their analysis is that the MEK has been a violent, radical, terrorist group from its inception.
The Mujahedin-e-Khalq–sometimes referred to as the MEK, the MKO, the PMOI, the NCRI or, perhaps more fittingly, “The Cult of Rajavi”–is a strange terrorist group by anyone’s reckoning.
They wear identical khaki uniforms and headscarves, singing songs to their cult leaders, Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam. They adhere to an eclectic mix of
In its repertoire of political violence, the MeK is credited with blowing up schools, mosques, churches, libraries, government buildings and various market places, in addition to the various ‘personalized’ assassinations it has performed, including (as assumed by those ‘in the know’) the 5 Iranian nuclear scientists murdered in recent years.
Given the current climate in America, where all political creatures—both small and great—bear that infamous ‘mark’ indicating their 100%
The US government can train terrorists in the Nevada desert that it’s own State Department has designated part of a “foreign terrorist organization” and no one blinks an eye.
This past week saw the conviction of Tarek Mehanna for “material support of terrorism,” a special charge these days for those with Arabo-Muslamic sounding names. A charge that earned Mehanna 17.5 years in prison.
Aside from the problematic nature of the case, (Mehanna’s digital history proves he did not fit
Since then, the dream of friendship with the U.S. was over and the MKO tried out almost anything to keep Pentagon’s support and convince the Americans to continue protecting their camp, but it seemed like the U.S. had no more interest in hearing them.
MKO’s leadership thought they had a much more powerful master than Saddam right after the U.S. invaded Iraq and Pentagon started to act more friendly with MKO terrorists and signed a treaty to protect them.
After a short while
How do you get a group described by the US government as a cult and an officially designated foreign terrorist organisation to be viewed by many congressmen and parliamentarians as champions of human rights and secular democracy?
It would challenge even the most talented PR executive. The starkly differing perceptions of the MEK or People's Mujahideen of Iran could be a case study in the power of image management - of what can be achieved not with guns but by the way
Jeremiah Goulka, former RAND expert on the Mujahedin-e Khalq, says war hawks from Bush admin. and some Democrats were paid by the group to advance its interests in DC and are being investigated by US Treasury.
Well, what do the following list of former government officials have in common? People like former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, former attorney general Michael Mukasey, former UN ambassador John Bolton
Hersh’s work deserves praise. In an age dominated by corporate media afraid of stories that reveal wrong doings of large businesses and the U.S. government, this story reveals that the U.S. is not how it always says it is.
It has been revealed that under the Bush administration the United States helped train a terrorist group that has been linked to the deaths of Americans and Iranian nuclear scientists. This was revealed after investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner
The Prospect takes on the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq ads playing nonstop during campaign coverage.
If you’ve been watching cable news lately, there’s a good chance that you’ve noticed some out-of-the-ordinary adverts. Namely, a 30-second spot done in the grainy style of a spy-thriller flashback calling for the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group, to be taken off the official U.S. terrorist watch list. It’s a conspicuous outsider in the typical ad roster filled with car
Series of mainstream admissions of US & Israeli state-sponsored terrorism
Ynetnews reported in their article, "US operated deep in Iran, trained assassins," that, "the New Yorker reported over the weekend that the US trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq. According to previous reports, Israel has been cooperating with the group, which allegedly carried out hits on Iranian nuclear scientists." Ynetnews also reported that US officials doubt Iran is or
According to two op-ed pieces by Goulka, appended to the Greenwald account, the MEK is swimming in cash, and pays prominent American politicians of all stripes an average of $30,000 per lecture to tout the MEK cause and press for its removal from the State Department list.
Glenn Greenwald published another scathing exposé of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) and their persistent corrupting influence on American politicians of all stripes. The State Department is now in the process of
For the US former officials who advocate the MKO’s cause in the Capital Hill, the case seems to be the matter of money. Some of these former top government officials, who have publicly advocated delisting of the group, have received federal subpoenas from the Treasury Department.
When the US President first spoke of the "war on terror", the world might barely think of a day when American politicians openly support a terrorist designated group , the Mojahedin Khalq Organization.
The fact that every single person involved with the MEK is not being investigated and arrested shows just how little our government actually cares about fighting terrorism. In reality, the “War on Terror” is just a flimsy pretext to engage in neo-colonialist adventurism abroad while robbing us blind and stripping us of our rights here at home.
Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City during the time surrounding the tragic events of September 11, 2001, is now
Where does an organization based in an Iraqi refugee camp for the last 25 years get so much money? While MEK has organized rallies and campaigns to have it delisted as a terrorist group in the past, it has never, by all accounts, spent the amount of money it has over the past year.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Treasury opened investigations into former government officials who have been paid speaking fees by the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian resistance
MEK that was pointed to less than a decade ago as proof of Saddam’s Terrorist Evil is now glorified by both political parties in Washington and — now that it’s fighting for the U.S. and Israel rather than for Saddam — is no longer a Terror group.
Former U.S. officials, paid to advocate for a designated Terror group, are now on the verge of succeeding.
A bipartisan band of former Washington officials and politicians has spent the last two years aggressively advocating on behalf of
