… There is no history of such behavior even when the country was militarily much weaker and politically unstable. Thus, to best answer the question is to identify those who would benefit the most from a confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. Clearly those who have the most to gain from such a clash are Israel and the Iranian opposition, particularly the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI..
The other thing that comes up in all of this of course is that we are seeing attention diverted from what the United States and Israel are clearly doing in conjunction with groups like the Iran Policy Committee; to work with the Mujahedin-e Khalq aka MKO/MEK/PMOI in Iran to facilitate the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and to be involved in other black intelligence operations within Iran that are clearly both illegal and counterproductive. Raymond Tanter..
Shakuri was charged, but never actually arrested, and the Justice Department insisted that he is “still at large.” Iran appears to have been looking for him for awhile as well, and says he has used forged Iranian passports with the names Ali Shakuri or Gholam-Hussein Shakuri as well.Iran’s state news agency Mehr speculated that the plot was actually an MeK aka MKO/PMOI effort to implicate Iran…
decision of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end the presence of the MKO aka MEK/PMOI at the end of this year, noting that Iraq needs international support and expertise in the field of democracy, while a British parliamentary group wanted Najifi to intervene with the Iraqi government for approval of the British parliamentary delegation’s visit to Camp Ashraf.
The US still labels the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) as a terrorist group, says U.S. State Department Persian spokesman Alan Eyre.When asked whether the United States considers MKO aka MEK/PMOI a viable opposition group, he said: “No. The U.S. considers the Mujahedin-e Khalq a terrorist organization. That’s it.”
The mayor of Khalis, Uday Alkhaddran revealed the names of those politicians and tribal leaders involved in supporting the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq based in Camp Ashraf garrison. he said he would”send all the names of politicians and tribal leaders involved in supporting the PMOI aka MKO/MEK to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, along with the smallest details about the organization and internal support for it”..
The government rejects the existence of any organization on its territory which works against the neighbouring countries, including the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran aka MEK/MKO/PMOI, which stained its hands with the blood of the people,”stressing that”the Government was exerting pressure such as to remove the organization from the country…
“Whether the MEK should or should not be listed is one thing, but the law is very clear that third parties and intermediaries don’t insulate you,”says David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University.”Think about how the United States would respond if [American] citizens were actively working with a PR organization to support the legitimacy of Hamas in Gaza? Here, the only thing protecting the people involved is that they include the former homeland security secretary..
Robert Hunter, a retired ambassador now with the National Defense University, says the residents of Camp Ashraf ought to be protected. But, he adds,”getting into bed with these people, I think, would be a profound mistake.”Hunter describes the MEK aka MKO/PMOI as a Marxist cult, whose members have learned the ways of Western public relations.
Although UNHCR won’t require the dissidents to disassociate from the group, it said in a recent statement that refugee status could be granted only to individuals and not to the group as a whole. In effect, the MEK aka MKO/PMOI, as its known by its Farsi language initials, appears to be on the verge of accepting the demand by U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey in July to disband as a military formation.