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..
..I wished Mr. Bolton could remember the advice of his Neo Cons friends to President Reagan in arming Taliban and Terrorists of Bin Laden against the Soviet Union, and could understand how unwise it is to use terrorists and cults against those who one might consider as enemies…
The US military forces in Iraq are training 150 members of a terrorist organization at a military base in the war-ravaged country, informed sources say…the select group of terrorists, all longtime members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), has been moved from their base in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad to a US base in central Iraq.
Bolton and Aznar were there to represent a transatlantic coalition of neoconservative pro-Israeli interests who seem to wish to promote the PMOI as the legitimate opposition to Iran’s clerical regime. Bolton’s credentials need no rehearsal here, but let’s not forget that Aznar has recently signed on as a founding member of a European Friends of Israel, ..
… Bolton and Aznar were there to represent a transatlantic coalition of neoconservative pro-Israeli interests who seem to wish to promote the PMOI as the legitimate opposition to Iran’s clerical regime. Bolton’s credentials need no rehearsal here, but let’s not forget that Aznar has recently signed on as a founding member of a European Friends of Israel, in the face of the disastrous repercussions of the Gaza Freedom floatilla raid. The reason for this is fairly clear: on the issues of Israel and on Iran’s nuclear program …
(Aznar and Bolton joined forced to found the Friends of Israel Initiative)… speeches by former Spanish Prime Minister José-Maria Aznar and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton – who recently joined forces to found the Friends of Israel Initiative- calling on the State Department to stop considering the People’s Mujahedin as a terrorist organisation and on the European Union to unilaterally reinforce the sanctions against Iran …
…. In a new development, Struan Stevenson and Vidal Qadras have stopped their support for the Rajavis, leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq cult.The former advocates of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) moved to the Iraq Delegation to make best use of the cult when the MKO issue became defunct in relation to Iran and became a more useful tool in support of the Saddamists in Iraq …
… 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 …
… The network was tasked with recruiting people and sending them to an MKO camp in Iraq and other countries, where they would receive training, the statement said. The network was also in close cooperation with”Lawyers Committee”and”Harana News service,”it said …
… “I think it’s quite obvious that the United States is being very hypocritical,” Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi says. “They are not only supporting this terrorist organization but they were also supporting the MEK aka MKO/PMOI for a number of years, they have carried out many terrorists attacks in Iran over the last three decades.”…