In a research report by Margaret D. Stock published in Refugee Council USA (RCUSA) in 2006, she has explored one of the stranger and more embarrassing legal conundrums arising out of efforts by the US Congress to tighten the immigration and criminal laws relating to terrorism. The case she delved into is the terrorist organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR, NLA) that since 1997 the Secretary of State Albright designated as a FTO.
An appeals court in the US has ruled that the State Department should review the terror status of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). ..The MKO aka MEK,PMOI,NCRI had filed a petition against the US blacklisting in 2008. The Bush administration, however, rejected the request in its final days in 2009, after examining material submitted by the group and US intelligence community, including classified information…
Mark Dankof: The MEK/MKO/PMOI terror organization. Does it have the fingerprints of the CIA, Mossad, and MI6?…a Washington, D. C.-based 3 judge panel on the U. S. Appeals Court has declared that the U. S. State Department “failed to accord the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran [PMOI/MEK/MKO] the due process protections” ..The 3 judge panel has apparently not been let in on the history of the MEK/MKO/PMOI in killing Americans..
The State Department said PMOI”has not shown that the relevant circumstances are sufficiently different”to warrant a change. Material that was declassified in the autumn of 2009 contained allegations that PMOI aka MKO/MEK trained women in Iraq to be suicide bombers, had not ended military operations and that much of its information about Iran’s nuclear program was wrong.
Last week one of the well-known American news websites (Huffington Post) aiming to put more pressure on Iranians published an article written by one of the MKO so-called Parliament members, Ali Safavi. The writer of this text has tried his best in order to distort the realities and to acquit Mojahedin-e Khalq from its terrorist background.
Among MEK’s [MKO/PMOI]terrorist acts against civilians, the most crucial ones are “Attack on offices of General Motors in 1972, Bombing of offices of Oman Bank and Pan-American Oil and of gates of British embassy in 1974,suicide attacks targeting senior clerics in Tabriz, Khorasan, Shiraz and Rasht in 1981 and 1982,simultaneous raids on Iranian embassies in 13 countries in 1922,..
… MEK’s initial purpose was realized in 1979 when the group, along with followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, successfully staged the Islamic revolution, seizing the Tehran U.S. Embassy and sending the Shah into exile. Following the revolution, MEK was sent into exile by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Over the following two decades MEK allied itself with Saddam Hussein …
terrorist MKO has challenged the Secretary of State’s designation of the group in court. The case was heard by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday, January 12..how can MKO possibly plea a case if the evidence against it is wholly classified? In court on Tuesday, the Secretary of State’s counsel admitted that former Secretary Rice, who denied the group’s petition in January 2009, relied entirely on classified material to do so.
Led by husband and wife Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) is the primary opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran, its military wing is the National Council of Resistance of Iran, its military wing is the National Liberation Army (NLA) and its political arm is the National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI). The US State Department designated the MEK as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997, based upon its killing of civilians, although the organizations opposition to Iran and its democratic leanings has earned its support among some American and European officials…
The People’s Mujahidin is sick and tired of being called a terrorist organization by the U.S. government..The government’s lawyer, Douglas Letter, wasn’t about to negotiate with”an organization that for at least 30 years has been involved in terrorism, violence, assassination, et cetera.”He admitted the public record was not sufficient to demonstrate that the group still poses a threat, but he said”it was the classified material”that made it clear that the group still deserves its terrorist listing.