Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MEK as Human bargaining chips in deals with Iran

This is not the first time that the MEK has served as a bargaining chip in Middle Eastern politics. The group was placed on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations in 1997 at a time when the Clinton administration hoped the move would facilitate opening a dialogue with Iran and its newly elected president,who was seen as a moderate..Those at Camp Ashraf, including around 1,000 women, have become, in effect, bargaining chips in the complicated relationship between the United States, Iraq and Iran. ..

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MEK: The Peril of Paradox in American Middle East Policy

The shifting paradoxes would continue, as the MEK established a headquarters at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, largely under American and Israeli protection. The one-time adversaries of both Persian monarchy and its American military and intelligence allies, had now become a tool of the United States and the Europeans against the Islamic theocratic regime they helped to usher in 3 decades ago..the U. S. State Department continues to maintain a place for the MEK on its terrorism blacklist, as does the European Union…

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Mojahedin to execute Israel plan

Israel, in collaboration with Iranian terror groups, planned to assassinate Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Tehran’s top intelligence official. ..The MKO/PMOI/MEK terrorist group had, however, set conditions for carrying out the assassination, he added.”They had asked that the US and the West remove their name from their blacklists.”..The group is especially notorious for the help it extended to former dictator Saddam Hussein ..

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How cost effective is western support for the MKO ?

Looking at Iran from outside and through the lens of ‘regime change’ has led many western analysts and politicians to a false perception of the country – one based on wishful thinking rather than facts on the ground…the MKO/MEK/PMOI is profoundly unpopular among right thinking Iranians wherever they live and whatever their politics. Indeed in western countries, post-election protestors of all persuasions have angrily and vigorously expelled MKO activists from their demonstrations

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On the occasion of American Independence Day

large scale organised American support for Mirhossein Mousavi.. Notably Mr Mousavi served as the Islamic Republic’s Prime Minister in the early years of the Islamic Republic when the same Americans were calling him the henchman of Ayatollah Khomeini, etc..On the occasion of American Independence Day, let us remember the people who lost their lives for their country and wonder at those people who stand today under the same flag only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen. ..

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MKO role in a Color Revolution

AP reported that Iran”directly accused the United States of meddling in the deepening crisis.”On June 21 on Press TV, an official said”The terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has reportedly played a major role in intensifying the recent wave of street violence in Iran. Iranian security officials reported (the previous day) that they have identified and arrested a large number of MKO/MEK/PMOI members who were involved”..

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USA support for MKO-Jundallah terrorism

In an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) on the occasion of the publication of his article in The New Yorker, titled “Preparing the Battlefield,” ..Seymour Hersh revealed striking details of his findings on the goals of the $400 million budgeted by the US government for covert operations inside Iran. He provided valuable information on US military preparations to strike the country…and on the US support for the anti-Iran terrorist organizations Jundallah and MKO .

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MKO Terror campaign supported by US

In an article entitled The American-Backed Terror Campaign in Iran circulated by Pakistan Daily, it goes into details of why the suicide bombing in Iranian border city of Zahedan, with a casualty of 140 dead and injured, has attracted the least global attention..full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq aka MKP,PMOI,MEK, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups. Similarly, covert funds can now flow without restriction to Jundullah.

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James Longley on his ‘MEK and US Relations’

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, ‘The U.S. State Department lists the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq aka PMOI,MKO,MEK as a terrorist organization for its association with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime until the dictator’s ouster by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.’ It also states that ‘the MEK was blamed for Western targets in the 1970s and for supporting the 1979 American embassy takeover in Tehran. Over the last two decades, however, the group’s continued presence on the U.S. terrorist group list primarily involves its activities directed from Iraqi territory against Iran

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Iran nuclear leaks ‘linked to Israel’

The MKO is currently mired in a desperate attempt to prevent the dismantlement of its military base, Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Israel’s open challenges to Iran’s nuclear programme are a strong indication that the MKO/PMOI/MEK is no longer useful as a proxy for Israel’s intelligence services..The anonymous Israeli intelligence officials claim, cited in the committee report, that the”blueprints”in the”alleged studies”collection matched documents his agency had gotten from its own source seems to confirm the analyst’s finding that Israeli intelligence assembled the documents.

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