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MEK Still Isn’t OK

Nejat SocietySeptember 26, 20120113 views

If the MEK were really what it claims to be—“the largest peaceful, secular, pro-democratic Iranian dissident group” and it didn’t need our help—we wouldn’t need to worry much. But it’s not. The MEK has almost no support among the Iranian people, who vilify the group for signing up with Saddam Hussein, killing Iranians, and then becoming a cult—or see it as a joke. There are only two ways that the MEK could achieve its goal: money or arms. Both options would likely involve the United States,

Iranian Cult Is No Longer Officially a Terrorist Group!

Nejat SocietySeptember 25, 20120103 views

..As tensions with Iran over its nuclear program remain high, the Obama administration is wiping away the stigma from a cultish group[MKO/MEK/PMOI] that wants to overthrow the Iranian regime so badly it has attacked Iranian and other civilians to advance its agenda. And it comes after a long and deep-pocketed lobbying effort attracted a host of Washington politicos to advocate for the group

Money Talks: The Mujahideen-e-Khalq Episode

Nejat SocietySeptember 25, 2012085 views

The campaign to bury the MEK’s aka MKO/PMOI bloody history of bombings and assassinations that killed American businessmen, Iranian politicians and thousands of civilians, and to portray it as a loyal US ally against the Islamic government in Tehran has seen large sums of money directed at three principal targets: members of Congress, Washington lobby groups and influential former officials.

State Department set to take violent Iranian group off terror list

Nejat SocietySeptember 22, 2012073 views

The decision by Clinton is sure to aggravate Iranian-U.S. tensions at a time of continued negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program.MEK has been tied to the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. In February, NBC News reported that”deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group [the MEK]…

MEK using boldfaced names in bid to get off terror list

Nejat SocietySeptember 16, 2012064 views

Among the foreign countries and overseas organizations that hire people to advocate for them in ‎Washington, D.C., one doesn’t expect to find a group that’s listed on the U.S. government’s ‎roster of foreign terrorists. But the Mujahedin e-Khalq — a cult-like Iranian group whose killing ‎of U.S. officials landed it on the terrorist list in ‎‏1997‏‎ — has been paying hundreds of thousands ‎of dollars to a high-profile…

Should Carl Benstein go to prison for supporting terrorist MEK?

Nejat SocietySeptember 6, 2012094 views

McColm added that”[t]he financial arrangements for speakers were handled by the Iranian-American Community. For the legal at heart, there were no funds provided by NCRI/MEK or any other so-called front groups.”NCRI stands for National Council of Resistance of Iran and is recognized by the State Department as an alias for the MEK …

Can a designated terrorist group purchase the support of notable Americans

Nejat SocietySeptember 6, 2012072 views

Ed Rendell, a Democrat, received $160,000 for appearing at seven pro-MEK rallies and conferences, his office confirmed to NBC in March. Each event typically involves five to 10 former officials who speak in favor of removing the group from the terrorist list. The typical fee for a speaker at one of the events has been in the $20,000 range, according to news reports. Pro-MEK groups are thought to have spent millions of dollars on the events …

Dividing the World into Terrorists and the Rest

Nejat SocietySeptember 5, 2012074 views

.It is taken as a declaration of who is in the bad guys’ camp and who is not. Listing or delisting of a particular group gets promoted by those with an agenda that has nothing to do with enforcement of a criminal statute. This has been seen most obviously with the well-financed campaign to delist the Iranian cult-cum-terrorist group the Mujahedin-e Khalq…

More MEK money fallout: Journalist paid $12,000 for speech

Nejat SocietySeptember 3, 2012073 views

The Mujahadin-e Khalq .. has returned to the news, this time with a report that ex-Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein was paid $12,000 to give a speech at an event held on behalf of the MEK’s aka MKO/PMOI ongoing battle to be taken off the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.

Watergate Journalist Spoke at Event Supporting MEK ‘Terrorist’ Group

Nejat SocietySeptember 1, 2012098 views

journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria [1] in Manhattan and delivered a speech questioning the listing of an obscure Iranian group called the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) on the U.S. government list..In the past few years, pro-MEK groups have marshaled considerable financial resources to bring high-profile speakers …