In 1994, the U.S. Department of State produced a comprehensive report exposing the Mujahideen-e-khalq (MEK) for what it is — an exiled Iranian fringe group with a record of terrorism, violence, political opportunism and the abuse of its own members.
It states
…our mutual distaste for the behavior of the regime in Tehran [...]
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Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) told ThinkProgress he was paid $25,000 to speak at a rally to remove a controversial Iranian exiled opposition group from the U.S. terrorist rolls after previously not saying if he was paid.
The following is an incomplete listing of some informative critical reports, articles and other media about the Mujahideen-e-khalq (MEK).
U.S. Government Report on the People’s Mojahedin of Iran – U.S. State Department, 1994
The Cult of Rajavi – Elizabeth Rubin, New York Times, 2003
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A top foreign policy adviser to GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is highly active in a campaign on behalf of an Iranian anti-regime exile group designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department.
Mitchell Reiss, the president of Maryland’s Washington College who also advised [...]
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In an article on Fox News’ website, former Bush administration officials Michael Mukasey and Tom Ridge and former FBI director Louis Freeh claim that in his apparent rush to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, President Obama is abandoning the Iranian exile group the Mujahedeen-e [...]
Media coverage of the Mujahedin-e Khalq’s (MEK) recent lobbying blitz has been picking up ahead of the U.S. Department of State’s soon to be announced decision on the group’s delisting request from the foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) list.
Elizabeth Rubin of the New York Times Magazine has accordingly penned a damning article on the [...]
Any day now the U.S Department of State will announce whether or not it will remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from its Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. Well-funded and mostly unmonitored lobbying activities led to the group’s delisting in the EU and UK and now leader Maryam Rajavi (her husband Masoud Rajavi mysteriously disappeared in 2003) [...]
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has launched a campaign against the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) which I give some background info on here. (My post was cited at Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish along with Trita Parsi’s important article.)
Considering the millions of dollars that have [...]
Michael Rubin is on the offensive against the campaign to delist the Mojehedeen-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Rubin, a resident scholar at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, splits with some of his fellow hawks and denounces the MEK as a group which “has targeted Americans” and [...]
News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 19, 2010.
The Washington Post: The Post‘s increasingly neoconservative editorial board, led by Fred Hiatt, is challenging Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s opposition to a military strike on Iran. “To be clear: We agree that the administration should continue to focus for now on [...]
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