The Israeli Clarion Project has National Council of Resistance of Iran, the front organization of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO), on its list of “progressive Muslim organizations.”Describing the move as “surprising,” Commentary Magazine’s Michael Rubin wrote that the MKO may be a lot of things, but it is “neither progressive nor is it non-violent.”
supporters of the MEK but that the Mirmehdis and their attorneys say was just a list of attendees at a “constitutionally-protected, pro-democracy” rally in Denver in 1997. That rally was hosted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which was affiliated with the MEK, and attended by several members of the U.S. Congress …
MKO subscribes to an ideology that is a curious amalgam of Marxism and Islamism, both of which should be anathema to the US in terms of its professed high values. But then, in real life politics comes first”. And, the inconsistency is that the MKO “also happens to be listed by the US state department as a ‘terrorist’ organization. So, what ‘terrorism’ is to State Secretary Hillary Clinton becomes a key instrument of US policy for CIA boss General David Petraeus”, writes a leading US daily….
…thanks to a former high-ranking German official who told me on the record how the documents were given to German intelligence by a member of the Muhjadehin-e-Khalq, the terrorist organization that had worked for Saddam against the Iranian regime and then developed close ties with Israel’s Mossad …
… they would create a file of documents, a cache of documents, which would be attributed to a covert nuclear weapons program on the part of the Iranians. They would give it to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, the terrorist organization, so-called—not just so-called, but listed as a terrorist organization, with good reasons, by the State Department and other …
They knew that Powell was referring indirectly to information in those papers and they were alarmed, because it appeared that history was about to repeat itself: Powell had cited information from another MEK/MKO/PMOI source two years earlier as the centerpiece of his rationale for war in Iraq. That source was the now infamous “Curveball”. The BND had tried in vain to warn the CIA….
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday thanked Italy for welcoming seven Iranian refugees from Camp Hurriya in Iraq. In a statement issued by UNHCR Italia, the agency welcomed the Italian government’s decision to let into the country a total of 15…
Their arrival in our country is a response to the numerous appeals by the United Nations to find an agreed solution, one that is fully respectful of human rights, for the former residents of Camp Ashraf. It was promoted by the Farnesina….
EU spokesman Michael Mann told the Iran Times the EU has, over several years, given various UN agencies 14 million euros (about $19 million today) to help them interview and register the Mojahedin aka MKO/MEK/PMOI members, but has not yet given any money to support the group’s relocation
…Yet despite all the powerful friends won by the MEK’s aka MKO/PMOI deep pockets and relentless lobbying, the group has seen relatively little progress in efforts to relocate the 2,500 or so members who remain in Iraq….