Financial Times
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Revolutionary Guards blame Saudi Arabia for Tehran terror attack
Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a senior politician close to Tehran’s hardliners, blamed a combination of Saudi Arabia, the US, Isis and the exiled opposition group MEK for Wednesday’s attacks. “Saudi Arabia is definitely playing the leading role in these incidents, considering that its foreign ministry threatened Iran…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Iranian exiles pay US figures as advocates
An Iranian exile group is spending millions of dollars in a lobbying effort to be removed from the US’s list of foreign terrorist organisations, recruiting a group of US national security luminaries to be its advocates.Dozens of former officials across the political spectrum – from…
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USA
US officials holding talks with Izzat al-Douri, the former Ba’athist senior official!?
...He also claimed Tehran had information that US officials were holding talks with Izzat al-Douri, the former Ba’athist senior official who is said to be leading parts of the Sunni insurgency. “This is a disaster for the Iraqi people,” he said...
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Iran
Iran will be the first to benefit from peace and security in Iraq.
We have some information, and some indication, that contrary to what the Americans claim, there has been some contact with some terrorist groups. This is why I talked about good will at the beginning. One of the bad policies of the United States is this…
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Iran
Iran is America’s best hope for stability in the Gulf
In the most widely reported covert operations under way in Iran, the US is smuggling weapons and money to disaffected non-Persian ethnic minority factions. But at the recent Iran-US talks in Baghdad, Iranian delegates focused on less publicized sabotage and espionage missions in the Persian…
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Iran
FT interview with Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy FM for legal and international affairs
This is what we understand. Iraq is suffering a vicious cycle. There are foreign forces who have occupied Iraq, and justify their presence on the pretext of the ‘war on terror’ and terrorists who claim they are fighting occupiers …Each is justified by the other.The…
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Iran
Iran offers to help US find Iraq exit
Mr Araghchi, a career diplomat seen as a potential interlocutor with Washington, insisted the US presence was part of Iraq’s problem. “Iraq is suffering a vicious cycle. There are foreign forces who have occupied Iraq and justify their presence under the pretext of the ‘war…
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terror group
Iran opposition group seeks US legitimacy
..the People's Mujahideen Organisationaka PMOI/NCR/MEK and its political co-leader, Maryam Rajavi, are given leeway in the US as they campaign to have the "terrorist" tag removed and to become eligible for US funding of Iranian opposition groups...the group led by Mrs Rajavi and her husband…
