While the media of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) do not hesitate to express their pleasure over Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, Trump, in his first steps to choose the cabinet, crossed out one of the ardent supporters of the group.
US President-elect Donald Trump is choosing his cabinet members for another round of his presidency. On Saturday,
November 9, Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he “will not be inviting former [UN] Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo” to work for him again.
During the previous term of Trump’s presidency, Mike Pompeo served separately in the two positions, as the head of the US Intelligence Organization (CIA) and the Secretary of State.
Mike Pompeo is one of the well-known Republican and anti-Iran figures who speaks at the MEK gatherings. He and his wife were warmly received as the guests of Maryam Rajavi at the group’s headquarters in Albania.
Pompeo’s affairs with the MEK are not limited to these meetings and speeches after the end of his service in the Trump administration. On July 22, 2018, while he was the US Secretary of State, he gave a speech to the Iranian-American audience at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. The speech was part of a deliberate policy of escalating tensions with Iran, targeting its economy, and supporting Iranian opposition groups—all with the goal of pressuring and destabilizing Iran. Members of the MEK terrorist group were present in this meeting. Actually, they had been invited to the event.
Today, while Trump has once again come to power in the United States, the absence of Pompeo in his cabinet has turned off one of the green lights of belligerence against Iran for the MEK. In response to Trump’s victory in the US elections, the MEK media have chosen the alleged headline from London Telegraph among all the headlines in the world of news and media: “The return of Trump, the worst nightmare of the Iranian regime”!
However, currently, Mike Pompeo remains in the list of retired Western officials who receive hefty payments for traveling to Paris and Tirana and speaking on behalf of the MEK. He can once again warmly shake hands with the self-proclaimed president of the so-called resistance, Maryam Rajavi.
By Mazda Parsi
