The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq

The MEK and the Deal with Iran

As he has done before, Shelton presents the cult[MKO/MEK/PMOI] and its allies as Iran’s “main opposition,” but this is plainly false. The group is widely hated inside Iran and has almost no support in the Iranian diaspora. It is wildly unrepresentative of what most Iranians in Iran and elsewhere want for their country, and it is also at odds with what most Iranians think about the nuclear deal. Most Iranians support the deal…

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UANI, Joe Lieberman and the MEK

As far back as 2008, Lieberman was joking—yes, joking, as if this were a laughing matter—about the “appeal” of bombing Iran. In a 2010 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations that re-purposed many of the talking points Lieberman had used to push for the invasion of Iraq, he spoke of a six-month deadline—six months! …

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Corrupt Money circulating between the MKO and Iraqi parties

The report adds that the money is originally paid to opposition figures such as Ayad Alavi by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. Ayad Alavi is the president of Alqaemia Alvatania party that criticizes the Iraqi Shiite government. He is a vocal supporter of the MKO in Iraq.alMuraqib alIraqia refers to the testimony of a former member of the MKO/MEK/PMOI..

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What would Iran look like if the Mojahedin-e Khalq were its government?

They[the MKO/MEK/PMOI] are quite controversial, and many documentaries and news sources describe this group as a cult, not just a militant political group. It also says it wants secularism, even though all its female members are forced to wear hejabs.. do you think they would truly uphold democracy if succeeding in taking power in Iran, or would they attack and kill ..

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Anti-Iran Deal AIPAC Spin-off Relies on Iranian Ex-Terrorist Group

Now that the campaign is taking shape, the AIPAC spin-off appears to be relying on a typical, if troubling, ally of American groups and individuals opposed to diplomacy with Iran. Namely, two items on the website of Citizens for a Nuclear Iran, one of which was later removed, featured an exiled Iranian opposition group called the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) aka MKO/PMOI.

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U.S., Iran share complex past

The MEK aka MKO/PMOI moved its operation to Iraq and allied itself with Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran. The group assisted Saddam in his bloody crackdown of the Iraqi Shia Muslims and Kurds. It is widely believed in Iran that the MEK, trained and armed by Israel’s Mossad, assassinated four Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010…

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McCain Seeks to Protect US-Backed Terrorists From Other US-Backed Terrorists?

However, Senator McCain, along with most of the neoconservatives, have long been defenders of the terrorist MeK/MKO/PMOI because their terrorism is largely confined to Iranian soil. It is not terrorism when a group kills civilians who happen to live in a designated”evil”country like Iran. The MeK also has a habit of delivering counterfeit”evidence”of Iranian nuclear …

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Demonizing Iran To Prevent the Nuclear Agreement

In advancing this narrative, Netanyahu has been helped by the Mujahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MEK, also known as MKO) and its lobby in the United States. The MEK is an Iranian armed opposition cult that sided with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and acted as his internal …

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