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Is Iran Escalating the Nuclear Issue?

From On April 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Mohammad Ali Shabani

Most headlines on Iran’s launch of uranium-related sites on April 9th — its National Day of Nuclear Technology — linked it to the diplomatic deadlock in Kazakhstan. Tehran was regarded as pursuing escalation, perhaps in frustration with the situation. But was this really the case?

To answer [...]

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What Delisting the MEK leads to

From On October 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Guardian’s Chris McGreal reports that the Mujahadeen-e Khalq (aka MEK, PMOI and NCRI), which was recently delisted from the State Department’s foreign terrorist organizations list, is now pushing for the Obama administration to recognize it as the “legitimate opposition” to the Iranian government. Fortunately [...]

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MEK Delisting Slap in the face for Average Iranians

From On September 24, 2012 · 1 Comment

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By Leila Kashefi

As everyone knows, since the revolution of 1979, the United States and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) have been BEFs — best enemies forever. While the US occasionally offers its solidarity to the people of Iran and criticizes the regime’s human rights record, its [...]

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Analysts Respond to Expected US Decision to delist MEK from FTO List

From On September 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Jim Lobe and I wrote a report yesterday for IPS News about the expected US decision to delist the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (aka MEK, PMOI and NCRI) from its foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) list. Most analysts we interviewed predicted that the removal would only worsen already abysmal relations with Iran and possibly make [...]

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U.S. to Take Iran Anti-Regime Group Off Terrorism List

From On September 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Jim Lobe and Jasmin Ramsey

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In a move certain to ratchet up already-high tensions with Iran, the administration of President Barack Obama will remove a militant anti-regime group from the State Department’s terrorism list, U.S. officials told reporters here Friday.

The decision, which is expected to be formally announced before Oct. [...]

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More on "Washington's Favorite Terrorists," the MEK

From On July 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Trita Parsi has a good piece out about how the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian exile group officially declared a terrorist entity both in the United States and Iran, may soon be removed from the US terror list.

Through its front group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the MEK has [...]

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Neocon Iran Policy Committee tied to disgraced Iraqi National Congress

From On September 10, 2010 · 4 Comments

And Eli Clifton

The Iran Policy Committee (IPC), the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), and the Iraqi National Congress (INC) are connected in more ways than just a neocon modus operandi of taking exile groups with little or no domestic legitimacy, using their (faulty) intelligence to build a case for war, and promoting them to spearhead [...]

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