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Yes, We Do Know the MEK Has a Terrorist Past

the United States government has blamed the MEK for killing three U.S. Army colonels and three U.S. contractors, bombing the facilities of numerous U.S. companies and killing innocent Iranians. Multiple administrations have rejected efforts by the MEK and its surrogates to claim that any bad acts were the result of what Torricelli calls “a Marxist group” …

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No Job in the Trump Administration for Rudolph Giuliani (Lobbyist for MEK)

Priebus stated that America’s mayor “was vetted by our team for any possible conflicts and passed with flying colors”—despite the payments he and his company Giuliani Partners have received from the Islamic State-funding government of Qatar or the registered terrorist group Mujahedin e-Khalq aka MKO/MEK/PMOI, a banished Iranian political party. Instead, the president-elect …

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Will America’s War with Iran Continue?

A number of senior Congressmen and potential officials in a Trump led government, having received large speaking fees, are closely tied with the Mujahidin-e-Khalq (MEK), an exiled Iranian opposition group with an odd Islamist/Marxist ideology. The MEK,/MKO/PMOI having allied with Saddam Hussein during Iran-Iraq war, has the distinction of being more unpopular in Iran …

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Iranophobes on Parade

Israel’s Mossad planned and prepared the killing of the scientists with a little help from the U.S., attacks which were almost certainly carried out by associates of the radical Marxist group Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK), which is now being seen favorably by several Trump advisors even though the group is Marxist, cult-like and has killed Americans …

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6 Years ago Today: CIA, Mossad and MEK Assassinated Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Majid Shahriari

Mossad planned and prepared the killing of Shahriari and the others, attacks which were almost certainly carried out by associates of the radical Marxist group Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK). The assassinations were based on the false premise that Iran had a nuclear weapons program that could be disrupted by killing the scientists and technicians involved …

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I was at State when we took the MeK off the terrorist list. But team Trump’s ties to the group still worry me.

Press accounts of MeK/MKO/PMOI support by Giuliani and these others often treat their ties as a curiosity or, at most, some kind of peccadillo, because the group was taken off the State Department list in 2012. I was the coordinator for counterterrorism at that time, and my office was responsible for leading the effort to decide whether …

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Giuliani, the favorite for Trump’s secretary of state, has ties to Venezuela, Qatar and Iranian exiles

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012.Since MEK was a designated terrorist organization at the time ….

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