A member of Iraq’s Islamic Virtue Party (al-Fadhila Party) described the steps taken by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to expel the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI) from Iraq as”very slow and insufficient.”
… A lengthy lobbying and legal campaign — backed by folks such as former U.N. ambassador John Bolton; Rep. Dana Rohrabacher; former presidential candidates Newt Gingrich (R), Rudy Giuliani (R) and Howard Dean (D); and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell — eventually forced the State Department …
… That group’s reactionary founder, Daniel Pipes, is one of the most outspoken advocates for war with Iran and an aggressive critic of efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear challenge peacefully. Pipes has called for the U.S. to “empower Iranians” by working with the Mujahedin-e Khalq. In 2009 he famously said Iranians should vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reject the Green Movement to make war more likely …
An Iranian opposition group that was once considered a terrorist front by the State Department has hired an ex-senator to lobby for them….The MEK was blamed by the State Department for several attacks in the 1970s that killed Americans in Iran…
Critics of the NCRI have called the group a front for the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK, the group of Islamic Marxists that helped violently overthrew the Pahlavi Shah during a 1979 revolution in Iran and was credited with killing six American citizens that decade. As recently as 2002, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation told the State Department that ‘‘[i]t is the unanimous view of the FBI personnel who are involved in and familiar with the FBI’s investigation of the [MEK] that the NCRI is not a separate organization
Some US critics of the NCRI [MKO/MEK/PMOI]say there are no grounds for believing the group has anything of a positive image, let alone actual support, in Iran. Going further, they point to the high speaking and lobbying fees that some of the group’s prominent American advocates have reportedly been paid as evidence of Washington support that is only dollars-and-cents deep.
The US supported MKO/MEK/PMOI killed 12,000 of them, but Americans know nothing of it. One Israeli died in the last Gaza ‘war’, but Americans do know that. Do you see something a little out of balance here?Yes, some of this mass killing was done while Saddam was using the MKO, but when the US took over it kept the MKO bases in operation under its protection.
The Iraqi government has decided to increase pressures on the European Union to make it find a host country for the rapid resettlement of the members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI, an Iraqi lawmaker said.
The MKO/MEK/PMOI has on many occasions asked the US administration to provide the group with financial support in a bid to make Iraq insecure..The report added that the proposals have been put forward to US officials through former and retired Washington officials who are now among the MKO advocates,
Iraqi Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki says the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has become a “serious concern” and will soon be expelled.“The MKO has become a serious concern for Iraq and a regional concern,” IRNA quoted Maliki ..