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Israel’s Iranian Opposition?

Nejat SocietyJuly 1, 20100121 views

… Bolton and Aznar were there to represent a transatlantic coalition of neoconservative pro-Israeli interests who seem to wish to promote the PMOI as the legitimate opposition to Iran’s clerical regime. Bolton’s credentials need no rehearsal here, but let’s not forget that Aznar has recently signed on as a founding member of a European Friends of Israel, in the face of the disastrous repercussions of the Gaza Freedom floatilla raid. The reason for this is fairly clear: on the issues of Israel and on Iran’s nuclear program …

The West must cut its terror ties

Nejat SocietyJanuary 6, 2010071 views

Whatever the exact degree of Western involvement with the Mojahedin-e Khalq, the group remains a candidate for partnership with Western governments, who preach about fighting terror.The Mojahedin-e Khalq might be a footnote in the wider struggle, but it’s the nail that punctures the great powers’ approach to Iran. Why harbor the group if it’s terrorist? If the West can’t agree on who’s a terrorist, how do they expect an agreement with the Muslim world?

No excuse can acquit MKO of violence and terrorism

Nejat SocietyJanuary 2, 2010099 views

“U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or”finding”as well as congressional oversight. The money for Jundullah was funneled to its leader, Abdelmalek Rigi, through Iranian exiles who have connections with European and Gulf states.”..members of the MEK aka MKO/ PMOI, the Iranian opposition network that, in 1981, assassinated about 70…

Inept at Both Killing and Coddling Terrorists

Nejat SocietySeptember 12, 2009068 views

Washington is angry at Baghdad because Iraqi troops recently stormed a camp north of Baghdad belonging to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq[MKO/MEK/PMOI]…Even after the U.S. turned Saddam from friend to foe, it continued his policy of befriending the enemy of the enemy. Hawkish members of Congress shilled for the Mujahideen, despite reports that the group had become a cult. Defectors were telling horror stories of devotees being indoctrinated, forced to live gender-separated lives, and of families being broken up.

Washington wants to write off the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Nejat SocietyAugust 12, 2009064 views

The truth of the matter is that the decision to sever ties with the MEK was taken by Washington following a study undertaken by the Rand Corporation, which established, on the one hand, the criminal character of the organization (cracking down on Kurdish and Shia dissidents on behalf of Saddam Hussein) and, on the other hand, its sectarian set-up (the religious cult of the Rajavi couple and the sequestration of their members).

Democracy As Usual in Iran

Nejat SocietyJune 27, 2009081 views

… The MKO-MEK can be best described as the Persian speaking wing of the degenerated Iraqi Baath Party and an earlier species of Al Qaeda back in early 1970s– a contemporary of the Red Brigades and the Baadermeinhof terror organizations in Europe. For decades, it has been designated as a terrorist group by most countries. They murdered American military advisers in … MKO was on Saddam’s payroll to kill Iraqi Shiites, in exchange for having a base in Iraq.

MKO Terror campaign supported by US

Nejat SocietyJune 8, 2009074 views

In an article entitled The American-Backed Terror Campaign in Iran circulated by Pakistan Daily, it goes into details of why the suicide bombing in Iranian border city of Zahedan, with a casualty of 140 dead and injured, has attracted the least global attention..full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq aka MKP,PMOI,MEK, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups. Similarly, covert funds can now flow without restriction to Jundullah.

US “War on Terror” Not About Terrorism

Nejat SocietyMay 16, 2009059 views

Aslan, 35, who spoke Monday before a packed audience at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco to promote his latest book How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror, discussed religious ideology and extremism and its destructive impact on the world…the former Bush administration’s self-proclaimed “War on Terror” was never about terrorism. If it were, Aslan argues, the war would have included terrorist groups like ETA , or the Iranian group Mujahideen-e-Khalq..

Terrorists living among us

Nejat SocietyApril 30, 20090145 views

..The Mojahedin-e Khalq (also known as MEK inside Iran) means People’s Advocates, yet more than 90% of their intended targets and almost 95% of their casualties have been Iranian civilians. ..Once the NCR started campaigning for money and influence in Washington for assistance against the Iranian Islamic government, the U.S. politicians and the Israeli lobbyist ignored their origins and their past activities against American civilians…

Hosted by terrorists?

Nejat SocietyMarch 28, 2009095 views

An organization in Ottawa’s bad books wined and dined Canadian politicians..Critics, including other Iranian opposition groups as well as the U.S. State Department, describe the NCRI as a personality cult built around Maryam Rajavi and her husband, Massoud, who hasn’t been seen in public for years. Several of its supporters, including at least one Canadian, have set themselves on fire during public protests