The honorable couple were human rights activists who were also focused on the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as a terrorist communist cult that violates the rights of their members and their families.

Lady Bardi died at Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. “Badri Khanum” was a familiar name in America for human rights activists. Her activities aimed at exposing the anti-human nature of the Cult of Rajavi.

Professor Sheldon Foote announced the passing of his wife in his LinkedIn account:
With immense sorrow, I announce the death of my beloved wife of 55 years at Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. We married on October 25, 1968. Badri and I met while working at the Chief Foreign Branch of Barclays Bank in London, England. She was a bank Managerfor Bank Melli Iran.

Born in Shiraz, she was a graduate of the University of Shirazi. There is a famous song about my dear Shirazi girl. Many Iranians told me that the best wives come from Shiraz. I learned that this is true.

Our marriage survived extreme strains, such as the Iranian Revolution and America’s endless wars against Muslim countries.
Evil American politicians and media lie about Muslim and Christian relations. Thanks to my marriage with a Muslim and my work with the Middle East and North Africa, I learned about how America’s evil leaders and media dupe Americans into even supporting a genocide in Gaza. Shame on anyone who votes for Democrats and Republicans who support Israel.
Badri and I struggled to provide the best of both worlds for our children and grandchildren. Hopefully, others will follow Badri’s example. Badri was the best.
Badri (Hosseinian) Foote
1936 – 2024

Nejat Society sends its most sincere and deepest condolences to Professor Foote on the loss of lady Badri who was a great woman, always standing on the right side of the history.

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Press TV has interviewed Paul Sheldon Foote, a professor at the California State University, about a recent meeting between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the ringleader of anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq Organization, in the French capital of Paris late Saturday.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What do you make of this meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Maryam Rajavi?

Foote: It’s an outrageous blow to those of us who support both Iran and the Palestinians and the people of Gaza. Here you have a traitor who many call the quisling of Palestine. And for the people don’t know what quisling is, quisling was the Norwegian who was executed for having worked with the Nazis during World War II. But here’s a man who supports fully the leadership in Israel who is supporting the evil aims of the leaders of Saudi Arabia who have been funding the Mujahedin Khalq communist terrorists and who are doing anything they can to fund terrorism in the region. And at the same time the Palestinians have been asking people such as myself to support their cause. Well, it’s not possible for us to support the cause of someone who supports communist terrorists. They’ve got to pick their sides.

Press TV: What kind of a message is Mahmoud Abbas trying to send by setting up this meeting with the leader of the MKO?

Foote: He’s trying to show that he supports entirely the agenda of the Zionists and the neo-conservatives and the neo-Trotskyites that he will represent their interests in Palestine. He’s not even elected anymore. He is claiming to be a leader once in last election of Palestine. Who elected him? Why doesn’t anyone speak for him? Why does he speak for anyone in Palestine?

Press TV: Of course as we just mentioned Palestinian resistance groups have denounced this meeting between Abbas and the leader of the Mujahidin Khalq Organization. What does that mean basically on the ground when it comes to that axis of resistance when it comes to standing up against Israeli oppression on Palestinian land?

Foote: Well, there are many people in Gaza and in Palestine who suffer very much from the Israeli occupation. Even though Mahmoud Abbas isn’t suffering. He’s profiting from it. Everyone else in Palestine and Gaza should be definitely protesting him and getting him out of the country.

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In an interview with Habilian Foundation (families of Iranian terror victims) on Wednesday, Paul Sheldon Foote, said that the Iraqis should have the freedom to close MEK camps immediately, adding Mujahedin-e Khalq has “no right to remain in Iraq.”

“The American government plans to continue using the MEK for terrorist activities inside Iran,” added Sheldon Foote.

MEK is now hue and crying over not being allowed to carry their medicine, medical instruments, power generators, office facilities (chairs, desks and copy machines), water heaters, sanitary equipment, cupboards, etc. to the Temporary Transit Location!

“These resources were provided for terrorist services rendered by supporters in Iraq (Saddam Hussein), Saudi Arabia, America, and elsewhere,” Sheldon said regarding the issue.

Concerning the latest allegations regarding Iran’s involvement in recent terrorist attacks in Thailand, Sheldon Foote made reference to an Indian author’s article rejecting the Israeli claims upon because of the close trading relationship between Iran and India.

He stressed that they “want an excuse for attacking Iran.”

Referring to the MEK member arrested in Thailand, Paul Sheldon Foote underlined that it is expensive to hire supporters for terrorists, adding that (MKO) terrorists “earn their way by pleasing their supporters” by means of committing acts of terror against their enemies.

Earlier this week the first step towards the expulsion of MKO terrorists from Iraq were taken by transferring some 400 members to a Temporary Transit Location in order for UNHCR to determine their refugee status.

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Press TV talks with Paul Sheldon Foote, Professor of California State University from Irvine who provides an outline of the extent of involvement both the US, Israeli and Saudi Arabian governments and intelligence services have with terrorist group PJAK that targets Iran, Turkey and Syria. Following is a transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Would you please explain who PJAK is and what their goals are?

Paul Sheldon Foote: PJAK as was mentioned in your report is a branch of communist terrorists that includes the PKK — same leadership; the only difference is one attacks Iran, one attacks Turkey and one attacks Syria.

They have existed throughout those regions for a number of reasons: one is strong American support. Even though the American government denies it, it’s been reported by Seymour Hirsch in The New Yorker; it’s been reported by Laura Rosen in the War and Peace Blog. They can deny it all they want, but we do strongly support it — independent journalists have gone through the region and videotaped all these communist terrorist groups and they all admit they are working with the American government.

They also of course have strong support from Israel. What the American media doesn’t bother to report is that one of the two branches of the Kurdish groups is a Jewish branch. There is a large Jewish population of Kurds both in Iraq and in Israel. There used to be a pipeline that went from Iraq to Israel.

And so the Israelis have had Mossad members on the ground in Kurdistan. They have even tried to create a central bank in Kurdistan and they have been manning the terrorist attacks and directing the terrorist workers and providing weapons. And so there’s a very strong Israeli element in all of this.

Press TV: Can you describe the strength of the MKO inside Iraq? The Iraqi government doesn’t appear to be doing what should be done to counter the MKO in many respects. And how does PJAK have complete control of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, which is almost autonomous?

Paul Sheldon Foote: This goes back to December of 2002 when former US President Bush spoke at the UN and they issued a background paper specifically mentioning the Mujahidin-e Khalq (MKO) as a pretext for whenever we needed to go to war with Iraq.
In 2003 American coalition forces attacked Camp Ashraf Iraq and killed some of the terrorists there. They quickly settled and they turned around and started using them to go inside Iran to kill Iranians.

We have been using them as terrorist tools — the only question is who they work for. Terrorists exist because someone wants them to exist. Their headquarters is in Paris, France because the French government wants them to exist. They have broadcasting facilities in England because England wants them to exist.

Terrorism only exists because someone’s paying the bills and that includes America, France and England.

Press TV: We have the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia — all are trying to push, through financing and training, this group to militarily get engaged and cause instability inside Iran. Does not Iran therefore have the right to defend itself?

Paul Sheldon Foote: Yes of course. I can give you an example of this Saudi financing. You could get Massoud Khodabandeh on a future show — he owns a website called www.iran-interlink.org. Last time I was in London he told me that when he was at Camp Ashraf, Iraq in a very high position in the Mujahidin-e Khalq he personally supervised the receipt of a large shipment of gold bars from Saudi Arabia to the MKO.

The agreement they made with the Saudis is that they had to shave off the insignia and markings on the gold bars so no one could know where the gold came from. You can verify he was there at their head quarters at Camp Ashraf Iraq and a large shipment of gold came in. The Saudis fund every terrorist organization they can imagine in the region.

Press TV: Do you think if there wasn’t this interference by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia that this problem would perhaps have been resolved regionally along with the neighbors of Iran, let’s say Turkey and Syria along with the local governments there in Baghdad?

Paul Sheldon Foote: Absolutely. There is no reason for these problems. A large percentage of Iraqis are actually Iranians who have been living in Iraq for more than 100 years.

The borders of the Middle East were imposed on the Middle East after WWI by France, England and the rest of the world. These are artificial lines. My wife has relatives buried in Iraq and she is from Iran. Who’s to say that anyone outside the region should be defining the lines and imposing these kinds of conflicts on the region? The only objection to Iran is that Iran finally has a government independent; that stands up and will not tolerate having its oil stolen as it was under the Shah.

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Professor Paul Sheldon Foote on a short visit from the USA was invited by Conservative members of parliament to present a briefing talk about US foreign policy toward Iran.

Paul Sheldon Foote is a Professor at the California State University and an outspoken critic of US neoconservatives and American political leaders who support war on Iran. Professor Foote served as an elected member of the Republican Party Central Committee, Los Angeles County (1990 to 1992) and as a conservative Republican candidate for the California State Assembly endorsed by the California Republican Assembly (1992). He is also a Vietnam veteran. Professor Foote is married to an Iranian-American and has conducted extensive research on Iran’s political and cultural issues.

Professor Foote was welcomed in London by some individual members of parliament, researchers and media representatives.

On Thursday, November 22, 2007 (Thanksgiving Day in America), at the invitation of the Conservative Middle East Council (CMEC) http://www.cmec.org.uk,

Professor Foote addressed a group of MPs in a Q & A meeting in parliament with the title ‘US Division of Foreign Policy Towards Iran’.

The talk highlighted the false positioning of neoconservatives as representing the far right. Instead, Professor Foote identified their agenda as being in-line with communist totalitarian ideology. From this position, neoconservatives promote the exiled Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq organization (aka MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) in the pursuit of ‘regime change’. As well as being a totalitarian cult which acted as Saddam Hussein’s private army for two decades, the MEK is listed as a terrorist group in the EU and USA.

In this way, Professor Foote explained, the neoconservatives have hijacked the traditional right wing in America. According to Professor Foote, opposition toward the Administration’s foreign policy does not come exclusively from the American left and the Democratic Party. America’s traditional right is also outspoken in criticism of the neoconservatives. Among these are Congressman Ron Paul and Patrick J. Buchanan author of ‘Where the Right went Wrong’.

“Real American conservatives support setting an example of how to have a great republic at home, not how to invade other countries to steal resources”said Professor Foote.

Others include Justin Raimondo, Claes Ryn, Lew Rockwell and Bruce Laingen – a Republican and highest ranking diplomatic hostage in Iran, who has supported talks and diplomatic relations with Iran.

Professor Foote and Massoud Khodabandeh from”Centre de Recherche sur le Terrorism (Paris)”met with members of the Home Affairs Select Committee and Foreign Affairs Select Committee in the House of Parliament during which they highlighted the damage which the British parliament’s reputation has received worldwide by ignoring the infiltration into parliament of proscribed terrorist organization Mojahedin Khalq (aka Rajavi cult). The banned group’s abuse of democratic institutions, including the misuse of privileges given historically to some unelected members appears to have gone unchallenged. Mr. Khodabandeh presented documents clearly illustrating the gravity of this issue and the impact it has already had on the reputation of Parliament.

Professor Foote participated in a one hour round-table review on the significant issues in the Middle East during 2007 which will be broadcast for Press TV’s ‘Middle East Today’ program on 26 December 2007.

He also gave his expert view on the subject of the US Administration and possible ways of engaging in the problems posed by the Middle East, which will be published in next month’s edition of CFSOT (Centre for the Study of Terrorism – London) , the”Islamism Digest”.

During his trip Professor Foote also met with Anne Singleton of Iran-Interlink.

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