{"id":3832,"date":"2011-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2011\/08\/13\/scott-horton-and-trita-parsi-discuss-mko-terror-group\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:37:32","slug":"scott-horton-and-trita-parsi-discuss-mko-terror-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3832","title":{"rendered":"Scott Horton and Trita Parsi discuss MKO terror group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses the <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Writer\/Parsi\/Parsi_Horton_L.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"240\"height=\"170\"align=\"right\"hspace=\"10\"vspace=\"10\"\/>Mujahideen-e Khalq\u2019s tendency to accuse their critics of working for the Iranian government; how constant US belligerence and the MEK\u2019s violent radicalism serve as useful foils for the Iranian regime \u2013 discrediting dissidents and keeping the people in fear; how violent coups beget radical authoritarian governments, while nonviolent methods often deliver democratic results; the many former US officials now employed as well-paid lobbyists, working toward the MEK\u2019s de-listing from the State Department\u2019s terrorist group list; and the implausibility of a Hamas, al-Qaeda or Hezbollah fundraising and lobbying event on Capitol Hill (though they share the same terrorist designation as the Congress-friendly MEK and MEK\u2019s loyal service to Saddam Hussein, helping put down the 1991 uprisings and acting as his shock troops throughout the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trita Parsi is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, recipient of the Council on Foreign Relation\u2019s 2008 Arthur Ross Silver Medallion and the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Francis Fukuyama (and Drs. 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Ramazani, Jakub Grygiel, Charles Doran) at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies while heading the largest Iranian-American organization in the US, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).<br \/>\n<\/span><a class=\"postmvdl\"href=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/media\/Interview\/Parsi_Horton.mp3\"target=\"_blank\"rel=\"noopener\">Download Scott Horton interviews Trita Parsi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trita Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses the Mujahideen-e Khalq\u2019s tendency to accuse their critics of working for the Iranian government; how constant US belligerence and the MEK\u2019s violent radicalism serve as useful foils for the Iranian regime \u2013 discrediting dissidents and keeping the people in fear; how violent coups beget radical authoritarian governments, while nonviolent methods often deliver democratic results; the many former US officials now employed as well-paid lobbyists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[85,20],"module":[78],"ctype":[331],"blog":[88],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-third-view-mek","post_format-post-format-audio","module-interview","ctype-audio","blog-anti-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}