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.
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]…
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…
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 …
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 …
.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…
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.
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 …
Considering the fact that in order to sell a war in Syria the NATO/Israel/GCC nations had to employ every brand of mercenary necessary from generic “rebel” to FSA why not MEK. All terrorists. All terrorizing the Syrian people. And speaking of terrorizing the people of Syria…….
Washington’s support for MeK aka MKO/PMOI terrorism against Iran and Al-Qaeda terrorism against Syria cannot be legally, morally, or politically defended. USrael, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in world history, tried to hide its support for terrorism in the past..USrael’s support for “men who drink blood” is proof that it doesn’t care about its public image anymore