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Not The Onion: Tom Cotton Befriends Radical Marxist Muslim Cult

Nejat SocietyMay 9, 20150130 views

On Wednesday, Cotton participated in a panel called “After Iran Nuclear Framework Agreement, Now What?” organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) in a Senate meeting room. The OIAC, through spending millions of dollars lobbying, is responsible for getting an Iranian dissident terrorist group removed from the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations in 2012 by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…

Why Is Congress Listening to an Ex-Terrorist Iranian Cult Leader?

Nejat SocietyMay 4, 2015079 views

Not everyone bought the group’s transformation into defenders of liberty, secularism, and women’s equality. Critics say the group began to transform into a cult centered around its leaders, the married couple Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, after the Iran-Iraq War, when thousands of its fighters were killed.In 2003, New York Times reporter Elizabeth Rubin visited the group’s Iraqi compound at Camp Ashraf and described it as resembling a “fictional world of female worker bees…

MEK Uses Congressional Spotlight to Push Regime Change in Iran

Nejat SocietyMay 3, 2015079 views

“Over the past 30 years, the United States has been drawn into some serious diplomatic and military dead-ends in the Mideast by mistakenly backing individuals and organizations claiming popular support, which turned out to be exaggerated and somewhat manufactured,”Davis told Rajavi.”Would you please tell us about the role of the [MEK/MKO/PMOI] … and its place in the current Iranian political life?”

Buying your way to respectability

Nejat SocietyMay 3, 20150122 views

Maryam Rajavi has no experience as a counterterrorism expert, nor does MEK aka MKO/PMOI have any experience fighting (or any reason to fight, let’s be honest) against ISIS…., and this may come as a shock so sit down before you read it, she plans on explaining how the US should fight ISIS….

Cult Leader Will Tell Congress: Fight ISIS by Regime Change in Iran

Nejat SocietyApril 30, 20150162 views

Rajavi’s written testimony, a copy of which was obtained by The Nation, focuses on an unexpected way of bringing ISIS to heel: by fostering regime change in Iran. “The ultimate solution to this problem” of Islamic extremism, such as ISIS, Rajavi says in the written statement …

Former Iranian Terrorist Group, MEK, To Testify Before Congress

Nejat SocietyApril 30, 2015094 views

Tanter added that Rajavi is a good candidate to testify because the subcommittee members will be able to ask how her how she’s dealt with Islamic extremists in the past and how to counter radical Islam.The problem with this reasoning is that the MEK/MKO/PMOI is a kind of cult, according to the FBI, Human Rights Watch, the Rand Corporation, and just about every other organization which has investigated the group.

Benjamin Helped Delist Mojahedin Khalq. That Doesn’t Mean He Wants to Testify With Them

Nejat SocietyApril 29, 20150121 views

In an email to Foreign Policy, Benjamin noted that the MEK’s “exclusive focus” of concern has for decades been Iran. “So one has to wonder what the purpose of Rajavi’s presence on this panel is,” said Benjamin, who is now director of an international studies program at Dartmouth University.

Renowned U.S. Arabist Is Second Witness to Refuse to Appear With MEK Leader

Nejat SocietyApril 29, 2015087 views

He is the second witness to balk at sharing the spotlight with Rajavi. On Monday, former State Department counterterrorism director Daniel Benjamin pulled out of the hearing, which is scheduled for Wednesday. “I didn’t want to be on a panel with the MEK aka MKO/PMOI. I was shocked they invited ,,,

Congressional invite to MEK sparks furious backlash

Nejat SocietyApril 29, 2015076 views

Former ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and ex-counterterrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin told Al-Monitor that they did not want to give a platform to the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK)/MKO/PMOI, a group that the United States considered a terrorist organization until three years ago. Ford said he would not testify at the same time as Maryam Rajavi, while Benjamin has pulled out altogether from Wednesday’s terrorism subcommittee hearing on the self-proclaimed Islamic State

MEK leader to testify before Congress

Nejat SocietyApril 25, 2015080 views

The Barack Obama administration believes Rajavi’s group[MKO/MEK/PMOI] is trying to derail its negotiations with Iran and has raised doubts about its recent purported revelations about illicit nuclear activity. The group’s claim to fame came in 2002 when it publicly revealed the location of an undisclosed nuclear facility at Natanz, but questions about how much the United States and Israel already knew at the time have swirled ever since.