McColm added that”[t]he financial arrangements for speakers were handled by the Iranian-American Community. For the legal at heart, there were no funds provided by NCRI/MEK or any other so-called front groups.”NCRI stands for National Council of Resistance of Iran and is recognized by the State Department as an alias for the MEK …
Ed Rendell, a Democrat, received $160,000 for appearing at seven pro-MEK rallies and conferences, his office confirmed to NBC in March. Each event typically involves five to 10 former officials who speak in favor of removing the group from the terrorist list. The typical fee for a speaker at one of the events has been in the $20,000 range, according to news reports. Pro-MEK groups are thought to have spent millions of dollars on the events …
.It is taken as a declaration of who is in the bad guys’ camp and who is not. Listing or delisting of a particular group gets promoted by those with an agenda that has nothing to do with enforcement of a criminal statute. This has been seen most obviously with the well-financed campaign to delist the Iranian cult-cum-terrorist group the Mujahedin-e Khalq…
I asked the most important one: given the definition laid out in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, was he at all concerned that his advocacy on behalf of the Iranian dissident group the MEK aka MKO/PMOI could be defined as material support for terrorism under the PATRIOT Act?..
A security source closely related to the terrorist MEK camp said, that the security forces, which oversaw the deportation of the first group of the remaining residents of Camp Ashraf, have found materials used for military purposes inside MEK women’s bags and clothes.
The Mujahadin-e Khalq .. has returned to the news, this time with a report that ex-Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein was paid $12,000 to give a speech at an event held on behalf of the MEK’s aka MKO/PMOI ongoing battle to be taken off the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.
journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria [1] in Manhattan and delivered a speech questioning the listing of an obscure Iranian group called the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) on the U.S. government list..In the past few years, pro-MEK groups have marshaled considerable financial resources to bring high-profile speakers …
The United Nations top envoy in Iraq today hailed the relocation of another group of 400 Iranian exiles{MKO/MEK/PMOI] from a camp outside of the capital, Baghdad, to a new location, prior to their eventual resettlement in third countries. “I welcome the residents’ decision to re-commence the relocation process..
The ministers and delegates of foreign countries paid a visit to two exhibitions organized to commemorate the assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists on Monday 27 August night on the sidelines of the NAM Summit in Tehran. The exhibitions consisted of books and pictures, which showed that assassinations and creating insecurity are the two main agendas of Western spy ..
The United States welcomes today’s safe arrival of the sixth convoy of approximately 400 Ashraf residents to Camp Hurriya, the first such convoy in over three months. We welcome and are encouraged by this resumption of cooperation by the Ashraf residents in the relocation process as set forth in the December 25, 2011 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Iraq and the United Nations.