The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq

AIPAC from the Inside

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With the election of George W. Bush, the events of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq, Iran became front and center for Weissman at AIPAC.”Iran came back in a big way after the invasion of Iraq, because you had all these guys running around saying, ‘Next stop Tehran!’ and all that,”says Weissman. Many within AIPAC, and some of Israel’s top Iran-watchers, wanted to push hard for Iraq-style regime change in Iran, too, beginning with overt and covert support for dissidents, minority groups, and exile militia such as the Mojahedin-e Khalgh (MKO)… This is what makes it so stupid! The American Jewish community choosing the next government of Iran?

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MEK’s lobbyists do not express the views of the U.S. administration

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…Iraq then told the U.S. Embassy Rohrabacher and his five colleagues were no longer welcome in the country. Maliki also refused to let the congressmen visit Camp Ashraf. Iraq wants to expel the 3,000 MEK/MKO/PMOI members.Embassy spokesman David Ranz said Saturday:”Congressional visitors do not necessarily express the views of the U.S. administration or even a majority of Congress. The visitors this weekend made that clear in their remarks.”

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U.S. congressional delegation sets off political bomb in Iraq

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After Rohrabacher later announced his investigation to the media, al-Maliki, who’s currently acting minister of defense as well as commander in chief, apparently hit the roof. ..The U.S. Embassy issued a statement explaining that Congress is a separate branch of government whose members often disagree with the executive branch. It said it was important for members of Congress to meet and exchange views with Iraqi leaders, “even when there are disagreements.”..

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Protest against the MEK intensifies security treats in Iraq

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The protesters who gathered at the front of the Ashraf camp called on the government to deport the members..This is the right time for the Iraqi government to now step up its actions against the MKO/MEK/PMOI group as well as other armed groups which are directly or indirectly linked with any other armed group in or outside of the Iraq territories, the tightening of securities in and outside of Iraq will create an enabling environment for more investment companies to thrive and even expand their operations in the country,

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New committee to follow”Mojahedin Khalq”file

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… The Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense, revealed Thursday, that his committee had agreed with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to form a committee to follow up the file of the MKO. He also agreed to raise the financial budget of the military institutions. Said Hassan Sanead, told the Kurdish news agency that the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense met with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as a leader of the armed forces and discussed with him the three major security files of the country. ..

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MEK’s U.S. Congress lobbyists expelled from Iraq as”undesirable”

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… Members of Congress who had been in Baghdad on an official visit were expelled from Iraq on Friday. According to reliable sources the government decided to expel a delegation, chaired by [Rep. R-Calif.] Dana Rohrabacher, as undesirable elements. The U.S. Congress called on the Iraqi government to pay compensation for losses to the U.S. army in Iraq, pointing out that the U.S. government cannot afford to incur huge amounts of financial expenditure in light of the current economic hardship…

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CIA use MKO terror group to counter Anti-war campaign

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.. Supporters of the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, a controversial Iranian resistance movement that was once allied with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, took up a couple of rows in the Dirksen Senate office building hearing room. They were wearing matching day-glow yellow T-shirts and vests that read, “Protect Camp Ashraf” and “Delist MEK.” Also in the audience was a smaller contingent from Code Pink, the antiwar group. Code Pink members, wearing their signature pink shirts, silently held up signs in the aisle opposite the MEK. Their signs read, “End war – rebuild America”; “Bring our war $ home”’; and “Diplomacy not war!!” …

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U.S. saw leftist Iran opposition group Mujahadeen Khalq as a ‘cult’

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… The State Department has concluded that the Mujahadeen Khalq, or MEK, was holding Iranian exiles against their will in Iraq’s Camp Ashraf. The department, in cables sent to Washington over the last 20 years, asserted that Mujahadeen set a policy of killing suspected defectors from the movement supported by the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. Wikipedia said the group which played a major role with the leftist Tudeh Party in the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, was more”religious, radical, anti-American”than the earlier generation of Iranian leftists …

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The MeK Badly Needs Rebranding Makeover

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the then-secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote in a 2009 internal cable:”The most powerful myth the MEK has been able to lodge in minds of most supporters is that they are the democratic alternative to the current regime in Tehran.” She also referred to the MEK’s “terrorism and Cult-like repression of its members.”..The writer offers solution to supporters of MKO in order to succeed in selling their cause. He also notices the difficult path they have to take to purify the background of MKO,” like trying to get opium qualified as “all natural”

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Retired US Officer: No Country Willing to Shelter MKO Members

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No country in the world is ready to shelter the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) members and their only left option is a return to Iran, a retired US intelligence officer said.”We have talked with several countries via the US State Department but no one is willing to accept them in his country,”Steve Hasty said, addressing the audience at the ‘International Policy Institute’.”And the only way left for them might be a return to Iran,”he added.Hasty also warned about the MKO members’ severe sexual misconducts,

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