A naturalized U.S. citizen must face trial on a charge of providing material support to an Iranian terrorist organization[Mujahedin Khalq] she’s accused of helping to lead, a federal judge ruled Thursday. …Prosecutors allege that Taleb-Jedi told FBI agents at the time she”wholeheartedly”supported the group and that two informants have since identified her as a member of a leadership council of MKO.
… An embarrassing aspect of the American pin-prick war against Iran is that many of its instruments were previously on the payroll of Saddam Hussein. The MEK even played a role in 1991 in helping to crush the uprising against the Baathist regime at the end of the Gulf war …
MKO seeks to fuel the sectarian ordeal, intervenes in the Iraqi issue, and takes aggressive position toward the parliament and the elected national government, Unified Iraqi Coalition’s chief was quoted….The MKO, blacklisted by many countries including EU member states as a terrorist organization, has been involved in the killing of many Iraqis under Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Writing in the New Yorker magazine, Hersch said the tempo of operations against Iran has escalated in recent months, with cross border raids by US Special Forces, and the funding of indigenous armed oppositon groups ..Another group allegedly benefitting from the fund is the Iraq-based opposition Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO aka PMOI)..The group was attacked by US forces during the 2003 invasion, but now reportedly benefits from American support.The Iraqi government has ordered the MKO to lay down its weapons and leave the country.
Britain removes terrorist group MKO (Rajavi cult) from her lists as Iraq puts them firmly on the list An interview with Massoud Khodabandeh
The MEK is a communist terrorist organization responsible for killing large numbers of Iranians and Iraqis. The MEK has murdered American military officers and Rockwell International employees. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked the communist terrorists at Camp Ashraf , Iraq . Now, the American military is protecting these terrorists. In June 2003, some members of the Rajavi Cult burned themselves in France and elsewhere to protest the arrest of a cult leader in France .
“Hell-bent on regime change in Iran, some neoconservative hawks are lobbying the Bush administration to support an organization designated as a terrorist group by the State Department.”
A battle is brewing within the ranks of neoconservatives in Washington. Public flashes of private quarrels are uncommon among this rarefied circle of uber-hawks, who have been unanimous in shaping and supporting the Bush administration’s aggressive foreign policy. Yet they find themselves at odds over the most unlikely of issues: an Iranian terrorist group called PMOI or MKO.
The Washington Post today has a piece about how Richard Perle gave a speech last weekend to a group that US law enforcement and intelligence suspects is actually a front for a terrorist group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). According to the Post, US law enforcement had debated whether they had the authority to shut the fundraiser down. And on Monday the Treasury Department froze the assets of the event’s main sponsor, Iranian-American Community of Northern Virginia.
An Iranian rebel group (PMOI/MKO/MEK)that is aggressively campaigning for Washington’s support as part of a”regime change”strategy in its homeland has committed serious abuses, including torture and prolonged isolation, against dissident members, according to a leading human rights watchdog.
A cult to some and freedom fighters to others, the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its affiliate groups typify the gray areas in the often black-and-white world of the war on terror. While Mujahedin /PMOI have been designated foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department, the groups’ members still maneuver between the restrictions aimed at disabling them.