{"id":15945,"date":"2025-04-07T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:21:18","slug":"cia-analyst-we-funded-and-trained-the-mujahedin-e-khalq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/15945","title":{"rendered":"CIA analyst: we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States and Iran are at a critical juncture, worries on a military conflict are increasing. Tensions have escalated under President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; campaign meant to deter Tehran from developing its nuclear program. In response Tehran\u2019s policy is to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while Iranian nation is under the US\u2019s maximum pressure campaign and military threats. Sponsoring the formerly designated terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) is considered a proof for US\u2019s illegal stance against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Many analysts think that invading Iran would be the gravest mistake in U.S. foreign policy since the Vietnam War. Sixteen years ago, the George W. Bush administration manipulated intelligence to scare the public into backing an aggressive war against Iraq. The so-called weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that he warned against didn\u2019t exist, but the invasion long desired by neoconservatives and other hawks proceeded.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, one of the pretexts that George W. Bush declared in his pre-war speech was the presence of the MEK in Iraqi territory, funded and supported by the then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The outcome was: Thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands of wounded and maimed U.S. personnel, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and millions of Iraqis displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Dialogue Works is a YouTube channel hosted by the Brazil-based Professor\/Podcaster Nima Rostami Alkhorshid. Dialogue Works believes that there&#8217;s nothing more unstoppable than dialogue. The topics discussed on this podcast are dedicated to dialogue and peace!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15946\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15946\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Larry-Johnson-202504-1.jpg\" alt=\"CIA analyst: we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Larry-Johnson-202504-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Larry-Johnson-202504-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Larry-Johnson-202504-1-585x329.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CIA analyst: we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Therefore, the guests of Dialogue Works are mostly selected out of those analysts who criticize the warmongers in the United States in particular Donald Trump. Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA analyst and Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer of US marine courts discussed \u201cWhy War with Iran Would Be America&#8217;s Biggest Mistake\u201d on the episode published on April 1st, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On the US\u2019s fabrications about Iranian nuclear program and the American terrorism against Iran, Larry Johnson stated:<br \/>\nThe United States doesn\u2019t have any right to be the final arbitral since it drops bomb on people and kill them. The problem I have with the US\u2019s position is that so many false wrong assumptions about Iran, about its capabilities and about in fact what Iran is doing.<\/p>\n<p>The only country over the last 20 years that has been carrying out terrorist attacks against the other is the United States that has been carrying terrorist attacks against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not been Iran that has been carrying out terrorist attacks inside the United States, or against US targets.<br \/>\nIn the United States we complain that the Iranians provide assistance to Shias of Iraq during our invasion, our illegal invasion, I will add.<\/p>\n<p>And that they provide military support to guys carrying out attacks against military units. That\u2019s terrorism? That\u2019s not terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Our terrorism was when we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq who we used to declare as a terrorist organization. They were carrying out attacks against civilian targets inside Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The same with aid to the Baluchestan area in South East Iran.<\/p>\n<p>So, the United States has fabricated this narrative about \u201cOh, my God! We\u2019re gonna stop Iran at all cost!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States and Iran are at a critical juncture, worries on a military conflict are increasing. 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