Richard Silverstein
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Trump and Iran Nuclear Deal: ‘On the Road to Nowhere’
As the October 15th deadline for Pres. Trump to certify Iranian compliance with the P5+1 nuclear deal, the administration through various media leaks made clear it will refuse to do so. His grounds for refusal are the flimsiest imaginable: Iran has engaged in objectionable behavior…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Iran terror attack: Who gains?
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a long-standing Iranian opposition group, has collaborated with the Israelis on those earlier operations. So they are likely to have played a role as well. The group retains thousands of secret supporters within Iran who would have helped smuggle arms into the…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Terror delisting the MEK is a cynical sham
former leaders and members of the MEK have noted the ruthlessness and duplicity of the group. They believe that the Iran it envisions would be a dictatorship rather than a democracy. These dissident former members decry the MEK's slavish worship of its leader Maryam Rajavi…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Hersh: U.S. Trains and Facilitates MEK Terror Attacks in Iran
Let’s be very explicit: the U.S. is waging a war of terror against Iran. It is a war little different from the war Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda waged against us. The only difference is that we’re pissed about their alleged nuclear program and…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Dershowitz: from Israel Firster to MEK Firster for the Right Price
How much money is the MEK dropping on Dershowitz? I’d be shocked if he’d sell himself any cheaper than $50K a pop. If anyone has actual figures on this please get in touch. Where does the money come from? Possibly from the Iran assassinations the…
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terror group
Israeli Source: Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Joint Mossad-MEK Operation
An Iranian news agency reports that a fourth Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a professor specializing in petroleum engineering at a technical university and director of Natanz’s uranium enrichment facility. .. My own confidential Israeli source confirms today’s murder was…
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terror group
Former MEK Leader Confirms Terror Conspirator Affiliated with the group
a former high-ranking MEK leader, Massoud Khodabandeh writing in the Gulf2000 listserv, confirmed that Shakuri is in fact an MEK member. He cautions that there may be more than one Gholam Shakuri, and the one who is the MEK member may not be the same…
