Paid advocacy for MKO

For Obscure Iranian Exile Group, Broad Support in U.S.

The American advocates have been well paid, hired through their speaking agencies and collecting fees of $10,000 to $50,000 for speeches on behalf of the Iranian group. Some have been flown to Paris, Berlin and Brussels for appearances…the officials expressed frustration at what they described as the American supporters’ credulous acceptance of the M.E.K.’s aka MKO/PMOI claims of representing the Iranian opposition and of embracing democratic values.

Read more

US Analyst Terms MKO Tentacle of Israel

A senior American analyst underlined the Zionist regime’s all-out support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization aka MEK/PMOI, and said the Israeli lobby is an octopus with many tentacles, of which MKO is merely one.Justin Raimondo made the comments in an article in the Antiwar website, where he reminds MKO’s terrorist nature, and says that the group has even assassinated many US diplomats and agent

Read more

Strange bedfellows: Romney and the MEK militias

Frankly, who knows what their [MKO/MEK/PMOI]total budget is? Rubin continues. “But it seems to have paid off, because they’ve found a number of corrupt officials in Washington. Whether it’s Republicans or Democrats, it may be legal to pay such inflated individual speaking fees, but it shows a fundamental weakness and a fundamental corruption that doesn’t belong in any of the presidential campaigns.

Read more

The MEK’s Propaganda Machine

The record extends from the days it was killing Americans while opposing the shah, through supporting the hostage-taking at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, through the long period during which it was working for the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. The record is not based just on what is said by the State Department or an intelligence agency or any governmental component with a policy to support, much less on anything the Iranian regime might say. If you want a recent independently reported portrait ..

Read more

Why is There such Widspread Support in DC for Mojahedin Khalq?

But while the review has attracted a flurry of recent news coverage of the MEK and its alleged terrorist ties, what has been less examined is the impact this whole debate has had on American policy towards Iran and its people. MEK allies’ remarkably sophisticated and well-connected lobbying effort has sown confusion in Washington about the interests of the Iranian-American community as well as of the current generation of dissidents back in Iran.

Read more

MKO offers bribes to get off terror list

The other thing that comes up in all of this of course is that we are seeing attention diverted from what the United States and Israel are clearly doing in conjunction with groups like the Iran Policy Committee; to work with the Mujahedin-e Khalq aka MKO/MEK/PMOI in Iran to facilitate the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and to be involved in other black intelligence operations within Iran that are clearly both illegal and counterproductive. Raymond Tanter..

Read more

Salon: Dean Taking Cash from MKO Terrorist Group

Dean and other luminaries from across the political spectrum have been paid vast sums of money by the MKO/MEK/PMOI – as much as $20,000 for a 10-minute speech – to appear at events pushing the Obama administration to remove the MKO from the official list of terrorist organizations.Dean himself has acknowledged being paid but has not disclosed specific sums.

Read more

Lloyd James: Lobbying for Backers of MKO Terrorists

“Whether the MEK should or should not be listed is one thing, but the law is very clear that third parties and intermediaries don’t insulate you,”says David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University.”Think about how the United States would respond if [American] citizens were actively working with a PR organization to support the legitimacy of Hamas in Gaza? Here, the only thing protecting the people involved is that they include the former homeland security secretary..

Read more

Iranian Exile Group;MEK Lobbies To Get Off Terrorist List

Robert Hunter, a retired ambassador now with the National Defense University, says the residents of Camp Ashraf ought to be protected. But, he adds,”getting into bed with these people, I think, would be a profound mistake.”Hunter describes the MEK aka MKO/PMOI as a Marxist cult, whose members have learned the ways of Western public relations.

Read more

MKO: Homegrown Extremist terrorists in the US

The US and the MKO would like to use the MKO as a US proxy against the Islamic Republic as a way to destabilize the Iranian government. Despite the group’s violent extremist background record, it was embraced by some in the US administration. What this means for Iran haters, is that the MKO aka MEK/PMOI are the new freedom fighters, and they deserve, and must be de-listed.

Read more