Don’t Scuttle Chances for Negotiations

Announced by U.S. Newswire, over one hundred religious leaders, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish, will call on Congress on Tuesday 26 this week to urge Congress to assert its oversight function to prevent a preemptive attack on Iran. Religious leaders, all agreed on “Don’t Scuttle Chances for Negotiations”, are encouraging Congress to vote no on the Iran Freedom Support Act and pursue unconditional negotiations with Iran.

The religious leaders specifically cite five causes for concern, the second of which points to the administration using the terrorist Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) to prepare for military action:

2) The administration is using Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian terrorist organization on the State Department’s List of terror groups, to destabilize the southern region of Iran. Some intelligence officials believe that the administration is outsourcing to the MEK in an effort to pave the way for United States military action.

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