Paid advocacy for MKO

Iranophobes on Parade

Israel’s Mossad planned and prepared the killing of the scientists with a little help from the U.S., attacks which were almost certainly carried out by associates of the radical Marxist group Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK), which is now being seen favorably by several Trump advisors even though the group is Marxist, cult-like and has killed Americans …

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The MEK and Its American Fans

One of the more troubling things about American MEK/MKO/PMOI supporters is their willingness to whitewash the group’s past as well as its present-day behavior. They aren’t content to work with an avowedly bad group against a common enemy, but feel compelled to pretend that the group is upstanding and noble. At an appearance in Paris last year, Giuliani …

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Trump’s top picks for key posts back anti-Iran terror group

… Describing MKO/MEK/PMOI as “bizarre and brutal” with “plenty of American blood on its hands, as well as that of thousands of Iranians killed while the group was a strike force serving [former Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein” during his war on Iran in the 1980s, US-based magazine Politico revealed in a Saturday report that former New York City’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former …

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I was at State when we took the MeK off the terrorist list. But team Trump’s ties to the group still worry me.

Press accounts of MeK/MKO/PMOI support by Giuliani and these others often treat their ties as a curiosity or, at most, some kind of peccadillo, because the group was taken off the State Department list in 2012. I was the coordinator for counterterrorism at that time, and my office was responsible for leading the effort to decide whether …

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Why Donald Trump needs the Iran nuclear deal

John Bolton, whose favoured policy toward Iran has been to bomb the country. Others mentioned have been Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani. All three of these candidates have something in common: they have spoken in support of the MKO, an exile opposition group (also referred to with an alphabet soup of other acronyms – MEK, PMOI, NCRI, etc). The …

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Giuliani, the favorite for Trump’s secretary of state, has ties to Venezuela, Qatar and Iranian exiles

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012.Since MEK was a designated terrorist organization at the time ….

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MKO hanging on the Trump administration?

Regarding that the MKO/MEK/PMOI have bought a large number of supporters among US politicians particularly the republican figures, it might be natural to be concerned about the next US government’s warmongering policies but how much the extent of such influence would be –if there is any influence.

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Why Rudy Giuliani Shouldn’t Be Secretary of State

Mr. Giuliani for instance, he was paid to deliver speeches in 2011 and 2012 defending a cultlike Iranian exile group/MKO/MEK/PMOI that was on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. In the long list of ridiculous things Mr. Giuliani has said, his remarks about President Obama in February 2015, when the presidential campaign was gearing up, were particularly disgraceful …

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Rudi Giuliani took money from Qatar, Venezuela, Iranian exiles

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012. A subsidiary …

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John Bolton, Top Contender For Secretary Of State, Calls For Regime Change In Iran

Bolton has attended rallies in support of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK)/MKO/PMOI, an exiled Iranian dissident group that the U.S. classified as a terrorist organization until 2012. The obvious disconnect between the worldviews of Trump and Bolton makes it hard to grasp why the president-elect is considering Bolton to be his top diplomat. But lacking any foreign policy …

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