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Giuliani, the favorite for Trump’s secretary of state, has ties to Venezuela, Qatar and Iranian exiles

Nejat SocietyNovember 22, 2016080 views

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012.Since MEK was a designated terrorist organization at the time ….

An Iranian Exile Cult Jockeying for War Could Have the Ear of Trump’s White House

Nejat SocietyNovember 21, 20160215 views

…“There are families in the U.S. and throughout the world who have lost members of their families to the MEK. They can’t find their family members because they’ve been sucked into the MEK organization.”The MEK/MKO/PMOI did not immediately respond to a request for an interview….

Why Rudy Giuliani Shouldn’t Be Secretary of State

Nejat SocietyNovember 19, 20160168 views

Mr. Giuliani for instance, he was paid to deliver speeches in 2011 and 2012 defending a cultlike Iranian exile group/MKO/MEK/PMOI that was on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. In the long list of ridiculous things Mr. Giuliani has said, his remarks about President Obama in February 2015, when the presidential campaign was gearing up, were particularly disgraceful …

Rudi Giuliani took money from Qatar, Venezuela, Iranian exiles

Nejat SocietyNovember 19, 2016089 views

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012. A subsidiary …

John Bolton, Top Contender For Secretary Of State, Calls For Regime Change In Iran

Nejat SocietyNovember 19, 20160169 views

Bolton has attended rallies in support of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK)/MKO/PMOI, an exiled Iranian dissident group that the U.S. classified as a terrorist organization until 2012. The obvious disconnect between the worldviews of Trump and Bolton makes it hard to grasp why the president-elect is considering Bolton to be his top diplomat. But lacking any foreign policy …

Gaffney, Lopez, and the MEK

Nejat SocietyNovember 17, 20160104 views

If Lopez, Giuliani, Bolton, or Gingrich serve in the Trump administrations, the MEK will have the highest level access it’s ever enjoyed in the U.S. government, a remarkable journey for a fringe Islamic-Marxist group…Leaving aside the obvious danger these people pose on Iran policy, it is further proof of Trump’s poor judgment ..

What Will a Trump Foreign Policy Look Like?

Nejat SocietyNovember 17, 2016088 views

As I mentioned earlier this week, Gingrich, Giuliani, and Bolton have all been boosters of the totalitarian cult and “former” terrorist group, Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK/MKO/PMOI), which seeks to replace the current Iranian government with its cult leader…..

EU-Iran Relations in the Trump Era

Nejat SocietyNovember 17, 2016096 views

Already some notorious uber-hawks, such as New Gingrich, John Bolton, and Rudy Giuliani, are slated for top jobs in the Trump administration, including the crucial secretary-of-state job. All three have deep ties with the Iranian dissident cult MEK/MKO/PMOI, on the US terror list until 2012, ….

Giuliani was paid advocate for shady Iranian dissident group

Nejat SocietyNovember 16, 20160204 views

Throughout the first term of the Obama administration, Iranian American organizations with extensive links to the MEK/MKO/PMOI paid prominent U.S. national security officials to speak on behalf of the group. They also contributed heavily to the campaign coffers of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The payments ran through….

Former Terrorist Group To Enjoy Close Ties to Rumored Trump Cabinet

Nejat SocietyNovember 16, 20160163 views

The MEK/MKO/PMOI is known for paying generous sums to former officials who speak at their events. Lee Hamilton, a former chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee who headed the Woodrow Wilson Center for 12 years, told InterPress Service that he was paid “a substantial amount” to appear on an MEK panel