{"id":3867,"date":"2011-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2011\/08\/28\/delist-terrorists-as-provocative-action-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:37:44","slug":"delist-terrorists-as-provocative-action-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3867","title":{"rendered":"Delist Terrorists as \u2018Provocative\u2019 Action Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>Retired US General: Delist Terrorists as &lsquo;Provocative&rsquo; Action Against Iran <br \/> Praises MEK as &#8216;Overt Military Counterforce to the Iranian Regime&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In comments that further underscore the depth of the support the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has <img width=\"180\"vspace=\"10\"hspace=\"10\"height=\"122\"align=\"right\"alt=\"\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/WebSite\/Logo\/anti-war-n.jpg\"\/>generated with its massive pay-for-speech campaign, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney praised the MEK and called for their delisting as part of a campaign of &ldquo;provocative actions&rdquo; against the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;We need a very active tit for tat policy, so every time they kill Americans they have an accident in Iran,&rdquo; declared McInerney at the pro-MEK conference in Washington DC. It wasn&rsquo;t too long before he made it clear that the MEK would be arranging these &ldquo;accidents,&rdquo; declaring the group a &ldquo;credible overt political-military counterforce to the Iranian regime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> Such comments would seemingly go against the MEK&rsquo;s repeated claims to have transitioned from Islamo-Marxist cult into the non-violent champion of the free market it now styles itself as, but didn&rsquo;t seem to phase anyone, including the conference&rsquo;s organizer Ray Tanter, who insisted the attacks the MEK has conducted inside Iran were simply &ldquo;military activities&rdquo; and didn&rsquo;t count as terrorism.<\/p>\n<p> The MEK was a founding member of the State Department&rsquo;s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and conducted numerous attacks against US targets before the Iranian revolution, transitioning into a key Saddam Hussein ally afterwards and eventually into a darling of US hawks who are keen to use them as a proxy force to attack Iran.<\/p>\n<p> by Jason Ditz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such comments would seemingly go against the MEK\u2019s repeated claims to have transitioned from Islamo-Marxist cult into the non-violent champion of the free market it now styles itself as, but didn\u2019t seem to phase anyone, including the conference\u2019s organizer Ray Tanter, who insisted the attacks the MEK\/MKO\/PMOI has conducted inside Iran were simply \u201cmilitary activities\u201d and didn\u2019t count as terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[112,85,90,20],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[88],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization-as-a-terror-group","tag-hot-topics","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-mujahedin-warmongers","tag-third-view-mek","module-article","ctype-story","blog-anti-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","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=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/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=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}