In recent days, Mike Pompeo, after meeting with Maryam Rajavi, has tweeted that the Iranian government will soon be overthrown. Calling the terrorist group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (the MEK), despite all its crimes, an alternative is a position worth studying. In this article, we will examine this position and how much money Pompeo and people like him have received from MEK terrorists for such statements.
The image below, taken from a speaker and performer booking company, shows Mike Pompeo’s booking price for each speech. How much does he pay for aligning himself with the terrorist extremist Cult of Rajavi? The website shows that hiring him as a speaker cost between $75,000 and $149,000. A credible document that shows that anyone can invite him to express his views in favor of theirs.
Mike Pompeo’s profile in a speaker booking agency, the speaking fee of Mike Pompeo
Mike Pompeo has once again flattered the MEK in exchange for $210,000. However, the issue does not end with Pompeo.
There are other officials who are willing to speak in support of the MEK in exchange for large sums of money. Like Mike Pence, who was a short-term presidential candidate in the United States. He had to provide his financial documents. Below you can see the payments made to him by the MEK.
Payment by the MEK front group, OIAC, to Mike Pence
Payment by the MEK front group, Iranian American Community of Northern California, to Mike Pence
Payment by NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran) to Mike Pence in Duress Albania
Document on Mike Pence’s financial disclosure report for his presidential candidature
The bribes the MEK pays its supporters and the lack of transparency of the terrorist group’s finances has led to perilous situations. In 2013, hawkish Senator Lindsey Graham was discredited for just $2,600! He was forced to return the money that a MEK supporter named Masoud Abu Ali had donated to help his campaign.
Politico report on Lindsey Graham returning MEK’s donation to his campaign
Among the Americans who attend the MEK’s multi-milion-dollar campaign, there are those who prefer to forget how many Americans, Iraqis, and Iranians the very terrorist group has killed, maimed and injured.
In a January 2023 article in the Washington Examiner, Michael Rubin stated that any connection to the MEK should be a disqualifier for a US presidential candidacy. This statement reflects the extent of corruption and discredit of the group. He considered the MEK to be extremely undemocratic and used the term “cult” to describe it.
“The group and the shell “community organizations” it creates to funnel cash to American and European politicos also refuse to open their books, raising questions about the origins of their money,” Rubin states about the MEK. “This should raise a number of questions for any recipients of MKO largesse.”
The American journalist asks a crucial question: “Is the group a political Ponzi scheme?”
The geographical network of the MEK’s Ponzi Scheme
Ponzi schemes are a type of investment fraud in which investors are promised artificially high rates of return with little or no risk. Original investors and the perpetrators of the fraud are paid off by funds from later investors, but there is little or no actual business activity that produces revenue.
Rubin explains: “In order to suggest grassroots support, the National Council of Resistance of Iran established 40 geographical front groups in the United States linked together by the umbrella Organization of Iranian American Communities. Some of these include supposed local groups like the Iranian American Community of Northern California, the Iranian-American Community of Maryland, and the Iranian-American Community of North Texas.”
Rubin’s article
According to his investigations, none of these supposedly independent organizations file Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990s, mandatory for most non-profits with gross receipts greater than $50,000. Such 990s list expenditures, income, and salaries for key employees. The U.S. Representative Office of National Council of Resistance of Iran which says it is “registered as a non-profit entity in Washington, DC” also has no 990 filed.
“The tax forms for the Organization of Iranian-American Communities are available, but are strange: All income comes from donations,” Michael Rubin adds. “Expenditures are for advertising, office expenses (even though the group lists no salaried employees) and travel. There is no expenditure lists for conferences or meetings.”
He warns about the risk of existence of such groups in the US territory explaining that that these community organizations with no paid staff, no events of their own, and little income seem to provide honoraria or political donations in excess of their total budgets. The normal donation for former American officials speaking at the MEK’s annual rallies in Paris or Albania is around $50,000, quite a haul for a five-minute speech.
Robin refers to the MEK’s claims about exposing Iran’s nuclear program. “The reality is that MKO intelligence is as often demonstrably wrong,” he suggests. “This raises another possibility: foreign intelligence organizations like those of Israel and Saudi Arabia launder their own theories and revelations through the MKO in order to protect their own assets and ensure plausible deniability. This in turn raises the possibility that the funding MKO-affiliated groups channel to American officials come from outside the U.S.”
The journalist of the Washington Examiner believes that the MEK donations have become a barometer of Washington corruption. “Given the MKO’s financial opacity, its cult-like nature, its history of terrorism to include the murder of Americans, its previous alliance with Saddam Hussein, and its refusal to come clean on any of these, it is time to state the obvious: To take any funding or donations from the MKO, National Council of Resistance of Iran, the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, or any of its local shells should be a disqualifier for higher office.”
Thus, lack of knowledge about the MEK’s background cannot be a good excuse for Western politicians. Today, if any Western official, especially an American, attends a MEK-run event and meets with Maryam Rajavi, they will have put their reputation and credibility to the test.
By Mazda Parsi
