{"id":8263,"date":"2018-05-14T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:55:27","slug":"m-e-k-the-group-john-bolton-wants-to-rule-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/8263","title":{"rendered":"M.E.K.: The Group John Bolton Wants to Rule Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As talks with North Korea approach, the new national security adviser, John Bolton, has long pushed for regime change in another country with nuclear ambitions: Iran. One of his chosen replacements is the dissident group Mujahedeen Khalq, known as M.E.K.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Report\/Nytimes_Bolton_MEK.mp4\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" class=\"wp-image-8123 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bolton_John_3.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"650\"height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bolton_John_3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bolton_John_3-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>President Trump has never been a fan of the Iran nuclear deal. Now, he\u2019s told Britain, France and Germany to fix three key points by May 12 \u2014 or he\u2019ll pull the U.S. out.<\/p>\n<p>In the backdrop to these delicate negotiations? His new national security adviser, John Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bolton has been vocal about killing the nuclear deal and supporting the Mujahedeen Khalq, or the M.E.K. It\u2019s a fringe dissident group that calls for regime change in Iran. Mr. Bolton has said he has supported the controversial group for over a decade.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the M.E.K.?<\/h3>\n<p>The M.E.K. was one of the first organizations added to the State Department\u2019s list of foreign terrorist organizations in 1997 (it was removed from the list in 2012). During the 1970s, it was suspected of being behind the assassination of six Americans and the bombings of American companies in Iran. The group\u2019s aim is to the overthrow the current regime in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Mr. Bolton support this fringe group and what does that mean now that he\u2019s the president\u2019s national security adviser? Our video traces his past statements and breaks down what\u2019s at stake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nilo Tabrizy,<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As talks with North Korea approach, the new national security adviser, John Bolton, has long pushed for regime change in another country with nuclear ambitions: Iran. One of his chosen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[643],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","post_format-post-format-video","module-article","ctype-story","blog-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263","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=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}