Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to decide soon whether the Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) should remain on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations or be delisted and free to raise taxpayer support for their operations.
The protest took place as the State Department prepares to decide whether to remove the organization from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The MEK denies that it supports terrorism…”If the MEK campaign is successful,”Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council said,”it means that America’s national security is officially on sale to the highest bidder, and terror groups are free to set U.S. policies if the price is right.”..
The relocation would be temporary, the official said, with final settlement of the inhabitants in other countries. That would not include the United States, the official said, since U.S. law bars anyone associated with a terrorist organization from settling there.The new location would be”chosen and maintained and operated”by Iraq and appropriate humanitarian conditions would have to be maintained in this camp, the official said. The new location would be”chosen and maintained and operated”by Iraq and appropriate humanitarian conditions would have to be maintained in this camp, the official said.”..
the U.S. State Department officially considers the MEK a terrorist organization — meaning no American can deal with it; U.S. banks must freeze its assets; and any American giving support to its members is committing a crime.The U.S. military, though, regularly escorts MEK supply runs between Baghdad and its base, Camp Ashraf.
On Saturday, IRNA reported that police had restored order in Zahedan, a town at the juncture of the borders of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Gunfire was heard after security forces blocked off streets near the bombers’ hideout. Police cut off the electricity to the housing complex, the semi-official FARS news agency said.
What follows is part of the details of the session quoted by Iraqi TV: – Prosecutor provided the court with a new audio tape in which Ali Hassan Al-majid talks about chemical weapons against the Kurds and promises to impose more restrictions on them, including the ban on speaking Kurdish.- Another audio tape revealed that Hassan Al-Majid was planning a new scenario, including chemical attacks on the Kurds, gathering them in specified locations and then targeting them with chemical weapons.