MEK Is Not Part of the Iranian Opposition!
In recent reports, the Washington Times has misinformed the public about the Iranian group MEK. Here are the facts.
The Times foreign service reports that a group of prominent U.S. Republicans associated with homeland security just spoke to a forum of cheering Iranian exiles in Paris. The exiles demanded that the Obama administration remove the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) Iranian opposition group from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, and that the U.S. incorporate it into efforts to overturn the mullah-led government in Tehran. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, former White House Homeland Security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey are the new batch of “formers” being recruited to lobby the Obama administration to support MEK.
MEK — which translates as “Jihadists of the Deprived Masses” — was one of the Middle Eastern anti-American groups sponsored and supported by the Soviet Union during the Cold War of the 1960s and 1970s. Led by Massoud Rajavi, MEK is a terrorist organization that robbed millions of dollars from banks and bombed public buildings and police stations. They killed thousands of innocents and law enforcement officials.
They bombed the offices of El Al, Shell, BP, and Jewish-owned offices in Tehran. They bombed numerous other U.S. facilities and properties, killing and maiming. In its publication, The Mojahid, Mr. Rajavi said: “We will make this another Vietnam for America.” During the 1970s, MEK assassinated many American military and civilian personnel, including: General Harold Price, Colonel Lewis L. Hawkins, Colonel Paul Schafer, and Colonel Jack Turner. Donald G. Smith, Robert R. Krongrad, and William C. Cottrell of Rockwell International were among the civilians assassinated by Rajavi’s order.
MEK also attempted to assassinate President Richard Nixon by bombing places he was going to visit when in Tehran. During the 1970s, there were many attempted kidnappings of Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur.
MEK joined forces with Ayatollah Khomeini until Khomeini took power. MEK then became the revolution’s terror and killing squad. They spied on and betrayed 186 Iranian Air Force officers, the finest pilots who were planning to take back their country. MEK was the firing squad that killed them all.
Iranians have never forgiven MEK for this betrayal.
MEK attacked and took over the U.S. embassy, taking the hostages. Rajavi insisted on killing the hostages, but Khomeini disagreed with him.
When Khomeini refused to give the position of prime minister to Rajavi, he revolted against the regime and unleashed his assassination squads, exploding leading clerics by children strapped with bombs. Iranians will never forgive MEK and Rajavi for the murder of their children.
Mojahedin is mullahs STRONGEST opposition.
VIVA PEOPLE OF IRAN!
VIVA CAMP ASHRAF!
VIVA VIVA RAJAVI!
Strongest? Where is that strength? Their guardian angel (Saddam) is gone… they have no guns, most of their members and supporters have deserted their twisted ideology. And the 3500 that are left in Ashraf, half of them are kidnapped and held against their wills or are in prisons of Ashraf, the other half is over age 60.
And as this article points out, they have NO support in Iran.
So where is the strength?
Now now.
Don’t act like Khamenei and Ahmadinjad, saying ”they have NO support in Iran.” Was their ever a free election in Iran for you to say that? Their hasn’t! So you can’t judge it like that. Let their be free elections in Iran! Let the people choose who they want. And Mojehdin doesn’t want power. All they want is freedom and democracy, free elections…
Free election in Iran? Sounds like the chicken and egg problem.
You want regime change by MEK/MKO and claim they have support in Iran and you ask for free election to prove it!?!?!?
Who feeds you this kind of nonsense logic? The same guy who told all the members to divorce their husbands and wives and abandon their kids? The same guy who took money from Saddam, killed Iranians and Iraqis for him, sold oil for him in black market… Then I am not surprised that you and all of MKO apologists like the ones posting their nonsense views below, are stuck in dreamland.
MEK is irrelevant. They are just a pebble in regime’s shoes.
You my main man are desperate!!! So are the author of this article and the entire mullah lobby system, like Trita Parsi and the rest. People like you have no place in a democratic and free Iran, where there will be separation of Church and State and a woman running for president after the six months provisional period. The time of our oppressed women has come and there is no turning back the clock
If you aren’t a mullah mercenary and a remnant of the corrupt regime of the Shah, why don’t start revealing some of the heinous crimes committed by the Savages of Tehran. Aren’t you the same idiot who kept threatening people with jail time for supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) under US law? Eat your heart out.
Are you going to send Mayor of New York, General Jones, the FBI Director, Tom Ridge, John Bolton, and the rest of the distinguished panel that participated in Wednesday’s Symposium to jail? Listen to me and listen good… The train has left the station for cockroaches of your character.
Patriot
You my main man are desperate!!! So are the author of this article and the entire mullah lobby system, like Trita Parsi and the rest. People like you have no place in a democratic and free Iran, where there will be separation of Church and State and a woman running for president after the six months provisional period. The time of our oppressed women has come and there is no turning back the clock.
If you aren’t a mullah mercenary and a remnant of the corrupt regime of the Shah, why don’t start revealing some of the heinous crimes committed by the Savages of Tehran. Aren’t you the same idiot who kept threatening people with jail time for supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) under US law? Eat your heart out.
Are you going to send Mayor of New York, General Jones, the FBI Director, Tom Ridge, John Bolton, and the rest of the distinguished panel that participated in Wednesday’s Symposium to jail? Listen to me and listen good… The train has left the station for cockroaches of your character.
Please dont use or share the propaganda of the Iranian mullahs regime.
Mojahedin doesn’t even want power. They want freedom, democracy, free elections.. ONLY.
Get your facts straight dude.
Mojahedin is mullahs STRONGEST opposition and ONLY opposition.
Sahar says: Mojahedin doesn’t even want power. They want freedom, democracy, free elections.. ONLY.
Dear Sahar, I think you should get YOUR FACTS straight. The whole fight of Rajavi and the regime of Iran is about power. Rajavi believed that he is the rightful owner of the revolution but once he was pushed aside, that’s where the fights began.
You can hear it in his speech referring to MKO as the rightful owner of the revolution. (he really meant himself, not the origanization) EVEN TO THIS DATE that claim is repeated over and over and over in their speeches, articles, etc…
I read anything I can get my hands on about the MKO, their books, articles, watch their videos… Sounds like you have some reading to do.
Trust me Yek Irani, I got my facts straight.
There all about freedom, democracy, free elections, peace, and justice.
That’s why i’m a supporter of them.
Looks like you got some more reading to do: http://ncr-iran.org/en/about-ncri/ncri
You again!!! Present everywhere, and on the side of the savages at every turn; by now everyone is aware of your venom against these innocent Children of the Iranian Liberation. What a shame that one can sell oneself for a few dollars of blood money.
Patriot
LOL… I love how easily I can push your buttons to the point that it boils your blood and how easily your argument is defeated.
That’s just how weak MKO and their supporters are. Go ahead and hide behind rhetoric, call me “mercenary”, a “supporter of regime” and other names.
MKO ideology is so corrupt that an ordinary person like me can easily attack and defeat it.
Let’s talk about mullahs’ crimes against humanity. Man up and engage in real debate. I have seen your poisonous rhetoric against a bunch of intrepid folks who have been fighting for the liberation of their people for close to half a century, and characters like you, for any reason, and I have no idea why, have been attacking them. what is wron with you people?
Who are you anyway and why are you so relentlessly spreading your venom against these good folks who now practically have the entire world community on their side for barbaric crimes committed against them and their 120,000 supporters who irrigated the tree of liberty for the Iranian women and men. an irrigation that sped up the near demise of the Savages of Tehran.
And as was pointed out earlier, no logical individual can argue that the majority of the US House of Representatives, which in effect constitutes the majority of American people, would just come out of the woodwork and support these patriotic souls. You may not believe it, as it is in your character to exploit anything and anyone, including the country that gave you refuge; but I do believe that the American people may be late to come to realization that they have not done the right thing, and the just thing, but once they do, they a very decent bunch, and that’s what we see today.
Everybody from the Mayor of New York and the mayor of the entire world, the National Security Advisor to President Obama, Director of FBI, the CIA Director, the Homeland security Chief, the Attorney General of the United States, the White House Advisor on Terrorism, a former Presidential Candidate, Governor of New Mexico and Commerce Secretary and Presidential Envoy to North Korea, Bill Richardson and so on and on, have all lined up in support of these good and brave people.
Pack up and go home!!! Your time is up!!!
You revolt any human being with any sense of decency and character. How can you make such wild accusations against a group that has been in the forefront of one of the most historic struggles against the most brutal religious fascisms seen by humanity for more three decades?
You and your kind either are in the pockets of the mullahs or you are sitting in some cozy place with pensions and money flowing to you either from the loots you grabbed from the previous corrupt regime, or you’re looking for the continuation of savages running things and the status quo, for any progressive force such as the PMOI/MEK will not allow you to squander and seal from the Iranian treasury.
CNGS
So the MEK was an invention and creature of the Soviet GRU. The GRU still exists, as Russia is still run by the KGB. Wherefore, the MEK is still a Soviet asset. Their “informing us” of Iran’s nuclear program was therefore part of Soviet disinformation. That is to say, it was part of the operation of nuclearizing Iran, provoking a Western reaction, because it provided the West of irrefutable proof of that program. MEK’s information was therefore a catalyst in the event – a catalyst of the next phase of Iran’s nuclear provocation, which of course was preceded by years of Soviet nuclear aid. Or did AQ Khan supposedly also furnish the designs and the capabilites to dig the caverns and construct the reactors that are so dispersed and hardened that we cannot destroy the program, only “set it back”? Or perhaps Iranians are born with such knowledge?
People. Wake up. The Soviets chose a “Russian” guise precisely because it makes no public political sense to link Iran and Russia – even when Russia is publicly building the nuclear facilities are providing teh uranium!!! Isn’t that interesting? Supposedly Russia would never supply Iran with strategic weaponry because Iran could attack Moscow, oh and didn’t you know the Russians have an Islamist war in Chechnya? And yet the Russians build and give. Wow, they’re so weird right? Let’s all hate Rethuglicans! Bla Bla! Hip hop! Subruban housewives!
Ladies and Gentlemen. The present war is a Bolshevik war. The Islamists are often Communists with Islamic masks – although there are of course many legitimate Islamists. But how do we know who trained them – or who trained the trainers? Think about the many possible methods: don’t, for example, the Taliban get much their weaponry from trades with the Soviet boarder guards – arms for Afghan heroin, later distributed West out of St. Petersburg?
How else could the Afghans supply the rest of the world with 90% of its heroin? Afghans!?
Same with the MEK. What does it mean in an Islamic totalitarian state to say the MEK just retired into seclusion – the MEK, whose leader supposedly legitimately believed he should be prime minister? What Ruthless revolution allows such a person to exist, much less with his army in tact? That situation makes no sense. How could a revoluationary junta that hijacks a revolution most literate people believed was going to bring social democracy be strong enough to dominate those people and the 40 million illiterate Shia peasant in the countryside and smaller cities, and yet not powerful enough to destroy a potential *military* threat like the MEK – especially if the MEK was an agent – let’s call it what it is – of the superpowerful religion-killing Soviet Union?
It’s interesting. In the book The Seige of Mecca, which relates the takeover of the Great Mosque in Mecca in 1979 by a chiliastic cult that believed it was lead by the Mahdi, the author provides a lot of State Department documents – like WikiLeaks – that describe the situation as it appeared to them. They believe the Mecca operation was being conducted by “the Russians,” as the author relates, *because it resembled the Iranian revolution.* That is, they believed the Iranian revolution was the work of the Soviets, at the time.
To read it in our own State Department inter-office mail makes the whole idea a lot more vivid. What if there was a lot more Soviet involvement – for example, through the Tudeh Party – and such an appraisal was reasonable? The story that comes down to us might leave out hugely important aspects of reality. Even if you can’t go that far, you have to at least admit that the survival of the MEK by itself provokes a lot of questions the present story just doesn’t answer.
What a mish-mush. Not a bit of sense in the entire long-winded diatribe. All over the map and totally meaningless.
CNGS
Yes, the MEK are in fact the same cult they used to be, if Khomeini didn’t betray them, they would’ve been torturing and killing the Iranians until this day and no Marxist or Islamist ideology can ever become an American ally or a supporter of democracy, in fact to both the Marxists and Islamists liberal democracy and capitalism are the biggest enemies.
The MEK only cares about power, they may strategically pretend to be western friendly (as Khomeini tricked Carter and received full technical and financial support from the CIA, MI6 and KGB), but once they sieze power, they’ll show their true face.
However, I don’t see the MKE as a threat to the Iranians anymore, they may start a blood shed if they given power, but won’t have the opportunity to take over the country because the Iranian people will never trust and support them. (I suspect the MEK to still have KGB connections, but doubt they get along with other Iranian Islamist or Marxist groups.)
Carter was a socialist traitor of the American people and America’s greatest ally in the ME the Shah of Iran.
I agree with Dan, the cold war has never ended and in fact the Iranian regime, Venezuela, N Korea and KGB alliance today is the extension of cold war. The Soviets played a big role in the Islamic Revolution and many of the IR leaders today, almost all their lobbyists and spies in the west are the former Marxist Tudeh members. Khemenei’s favorite idol is not Mohammad or Hussein, his idol is Stalin. All the ones close to him have confirmed it and Khamenei was a Marxist mullah and very close to other Marxist mullahs and both Islamic & secular marxists before the revolution. He owns a palace in Russia and in case of regime change he’ll escape to Russia to enjoy the $10s of billions he has stolen from Iran
There is an underground connection between the former Tudeh and communist IRGC and regime insiders, the Islamist ones and the Tudeh and Marxist memebrs outside the country. I watch them everyday through their email groups and access to their private networks.
Remnants of the Shah’s regime nostalgic about the good ol days of ripping the Iranian people. Now they prefer the mullahs to any other regime that will be independent and bring about change to our bereaved nation, for they still have interests in the preservation of the Savages of Tehran.
CNGS
Are you “Patriot” or “CNGS”? Can you please make up your mind.
I guess you could be both… right? Just like the MKO who are also, MEK, NCRI, NLA, PMOI.
And perhaps that’s how you count your supporters? Count each person 100,000 times.
The jig is up. LOL.
You strike me as none other than a character with odious manners as that of the Hezbollah; for I have never come across any form of life that displays as much chutzpah as this creature.
Once again, you’re advised to man up and SAY UNCLE, for you have been tagged for good. You and the rest of your creed.
Is this PATRIOT or CNGS talking? LOL…
You really have a lot of nerves speaking up even after I caught you red-handed.
How am I like the Hezbollah? If by that you mean I caught you lying and shut you down, then yes, both me (a simple Iranian) and Khomeini and the hezbollas have something in common. Khomeini called your beloved MKO “monafeqin” and that’s exactly what the MKO became: monafeqin.
You advise me to “man up”, I did. For years I sympathized with and even supported the MKO and lost family members to their cause. And once I realized that Rajavi and his gang are nothing but a bunch of liars, I “manned up” and speak against them.
And “tagging me for good” is straight out of the terrorist handbook.
Thanks for proving my point once and again, and again, and again…
Dan and Cyrus did a wonderful job. So I need to give that peculiar ancient roots of all this. Islam is actually a form of Mazdakism or Manichaeism. Mazdak was the first Communist, and Mani twisted Zoroastrian Dualism of Ohrmazd and Ahriman opposing in the real world (like Yin and Yang) into Good and Evil of the religious kind. The Cosmogony section of Wikipedia on Manichaeism is well written. The truth is that we Iranians pretty much created our own mess way back then, when the military then in the form of a great patriot called Kartir massacred thousands of people who threatened Iran in the 6th Century AD. Enemies of the state then got together with the High Priest’s son Salman Parsi and helped to create an Islamic State for “All”. This new utopia became the religio-socialist state then. The followers of this what the Shahanshah called the “alliance of red and black” happened way back then. All books, all art of Iran and the ancient world, got Talibanized. But the Simurgh of Iran rose again and we are riding its wings, in our hearts.
Folks, Iran is old, very very old, and yes like an old tree it needs a wind to shake its branches every now and then. The roots are deeper now.
We all know that politicians have no brains but have a lot of influence.This being the case,they must be directed in the correct avenue and by the right people. They must listen to the masses in Iran,not the ones in hiding in France. If someone told Giuliani there was a vote to find in the sewer of Poland,he would go.
First of all this report is actually the views and the comments of the Iranian regime on the MEK and the NCRI , i would not say the Iranian people because i’m one whom has recently come from Iran and knows who is really opposing this clerical regime ( not the supporters of the Shah of Iran’s son or Mussavy or Karobi.)
Secondly we live in the united states of America the country of the democracy, in this country you can’t publish anything against any organization without getting any respond, so I would recommend you to go and read this book that I am going to put it’s link at the end of this comment and get your answers with the evidences that has provided by the NCR foreign affairs committee
may god bless those brave people who are paying the price to bring peace and democracy to not only their country but actually to the whole region.
http://www.mojahedin.org/links/books/democracy_betrayed.pdf
this is the link enjoy it
MEK is the most effective opposition against the Iranian Mullahs and I wish the others do the same. The fact is that the Iranian people are hostages in the hands of the Iranian Regime and Iranian government is the enemy number for all Iranians. The articles contains false statements, Which does not have any values and helps Mullahs more than anything else.
By the way MEK stands for Mojahedin khaluq And PMOI stands for People Mojahedin of Iran. not that rubbish word that you have published and publicized.
MEK in fact is the main opposition against mullah’s regime.
This is a well known fact that has been repeated by Iranian regime and others.
Eighter the writer is misinforming the public or hasn’t done much reading or studying.
MEK is the only hope for a democratic change in Iran and this is the reason for having the support of more than 3500 parlimentarians around the world which are representing more than one billion people including United States.
I refere everyone to go to the link below to hear from officials in Clinton, Bush and Obama’s administration and their regards for MEK!
Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, former Attorney General of the United States
Honorable Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico
General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret), former National Security Advisor to President Obama
James Woolsey, former director of CIA
Honorable Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security Secretary
General Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret), former commander of CENTCOM
Honorable Louis Freeh, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Honorable Robert G. Torricelli, former Democratic senator from New Jersey
Honorable Mitchell Reiss, former Director of the Policy Planning, U.S. Depa
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297619-1
Anti-MEK materials are supplied and paid by Iran for decades. Iranian government is paying for anti-MEK article for the past ten years.
MEK are the best people who are able to bring democracy in Iran and peace in the region. The source of all negative reports is Regime of the Mullah’s. We should not fall in the Mullah’s trap. MEK is a great asset for Iranian people and civilize society.
is this all you came up with? whoever wrote this article must be very scared of regime change in Iran…..
I guess the mullahs’ agents come in different forms and shapes! I would suggest to this writer to remember millions of people who are still alive and can be a witness to what has happened in the past 32 years. Twisting and fabricating garbage is done in Islamic Republic of Iran by the regime’s agents! Fabricating lies and garbage against the most dedicated and honorable of Iranians (MEK) who have given up everything in the struggle for a democratic and secular Iran, is very shameful. It is what the mullahs’ agents do.
I read this article and it made me sick.
Some idiot “Savaki” (Shah’s Secret Police) who probably lives in South of France or Southern California is making false accusations against MEK.
Shah’s Savakis and Military leaders are responsible for thousands of murders. They ransacked the treasury and escaped the country. Savak and Mullahs shall face justice.
I knew some MEK members who were killed by Savak. I considered them patriotic Iranians.
This article is very similar to what Mullahs say. If MEK has done what this article says, how come those claims were not proved in the Britins EU and US high courts. I believe MEK is the main opposition. MEK is the only organization who can bring more than 100,000 people in Paris. tens of thousand of people in the US. If anybody else claims they are main opposition, I like to see then to bring just 1000 people for a political event anywhere except Iran!
“… Iran government spends 10s of billions of dollars to keep Mujahedin in the black-list,to allow Mujahedin get delisted, is the greatest mistake of Ahmadinezad government…” May 2009- Mehr News -M.Rezai former chief of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp and a presidential candidate.
Tehran first and the foremost condition to sit-down with western countries(has always been “to keep MEK black-listed”) is clearly indicative of the fact that MEK is the main opposition in Iran. Perhaps the author knows better?
Demonization of MEK and in a bigger sense Iranian Resistance has been and is job one for Tehran and its agents.
This article comes to aid of Tehran and against all Iranian people legitimate outcry for freedom, resisting a suppresive fundamentalist regime, because most of its rubbish allegation are the work of Tehran regime. MEK was never involved in American Embassy hostage taking! and more…
It is quite a shame twisting the fact, in favor of a suppresive regime belonging to the dionnasores age.
MEK in fact is the main opposition against mullah’s regime.
This is a well known fact that has been repeated by Iranian regime and others.
Eighter the writer is misinforming the public or hasn’t done much reading or studying.
MEK is the only hope for a democratic change in Iran and this is the reason for having the support of more than 3500 parlimentarians around the world which are representing more than one billion people including United States.
I refere everyone to go to the link below to hear from officials in Clinton, Bush and Obama’s administration and their regards for MEK!
Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, former Attorney General of the United States
Honorable Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico
General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret), former National Security Advisor to President Obama
James Woolsey, former director of CIA
Honorable Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security Secretary
General Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret), former commander of CENTCOM
Honorable Louis Freeh, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Honorable Robert G. Torricelli, former Democratic senator from New Jersey
Honorable Mitchell Reiss, former Director of the Policy Planning, U.S. Depa
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297619-1
Here we go again!!! Now that the entire community of nations is admiring the Herculean struggle by the PMOI, direct and indirect agents of mullahs, under different pretexts, have begun to attack this true representative of the oppressed Iranian people.
The author’s accusations are totally unfounded and without merit, and she ignores the fact that the people of MEK/PMOI have sacrificed by far more than any other resistance force in the history of their country and perhaps world-wide struggles.
CenterNGS
What Iranian opposition is the author referring to!!! There is no true resistance but the MEK. Rehash all the old stuff that the regime lobbyists have been fantasizing for years now. The lady was a functionary of a corrupt regime and now is bad-mouthing a group of true fighters who have sacrificed all in their possession, including dear life and endurance of the most savage tortures under both the Shah’s regime and now the mullahcracy of Iran.
The personalities supporting the MEK are amongst the most knowledgeable, patriotic and pragmatic in America, and there is absolutely no way anyone can claim that their siding with the PMOI is based on any factor, other than the interests of the United States and freedom of the Iranian people, now under the dark yoke of a gang of mullahs of the Middle Ages for more three decades…
AAT
JUST TELL THE TRUTH HOW MUCH MONEY PAJAMAS MEDIA UNDER TABLE RECEIVED FROM DAMN MULLAH S.
For over three decades the Mullas in Iran have tried to demonize MEK in any ways possible but, this article by far is the most desperate attempt I have ever seen . The crimes referred as “facts” committed by PMOI were in fact ordered by Khomeini and carried out by his hoodlums.Taking American hostages, killing thousands of Innocent people and so on. The writer must be politically disoriented, at best.
Patriot
PMOI/MEK is not part of the non-existent opposition, IT IS THE ONLY OPPOSITION!!! And rightly so… they have attained this honor not by pontificating and wavering back and forth, they have gained it by offering blood and sacrifice.
By hard work… by struggling day and night…by giving up all worldly possessions and desires…something neither the author nor her supporters that don’t exceed a few mercenaries can ever comprehend.
Look what they have done under the most difficult circumstances. You think just all of a sudden a cavalcade of the most prominent personalities and the majority of the US Congress which constitute the majority of the American people came out of the blue and supported the PMOI?MEK?
No, the American people have finally come to the comprehension that this group is no less patriotic that their own struggle against the British Tyranny, where Honorable George Washington beat the hell out of the German mercenaries of the Englishman on Christmas Eve in Trenton New Jersey with his rag-tag army, many of whom (soldiers) had no shoes in the middle of one of the worst winters and snow-storms in the Northeast of the United States.
Patriot
PMOI/MEK is not part of the non-existent opposition, IT IS THE ONLY OPPOSITION!!! And rightly so… they have attained this honor not by pontificating and wavering back and forth, they have gained it by offering blood and sacrifice.
By hard work… by struggling day and night…by giving up all worldly possessions and desires…something neither the author nor her supporters that don’t exceed a few mercenaries can ever comprehend.
Look what they have done under the most difficult circumstances. You think just all of a sudden a cavalcade of the most prominent personalities and the majority of the US Congress which constitute the majority of the American people came out of the blue and supported the PMOI?MEK?
No, the American people have finally come to the comprehension that this group is no less patriotic that their own struggle against the British Tyranny, where Honorable George Washington beat the hell out of the German mercenaries of the Englishman on Christmas Eve in Trenton New Jersey with his rag-tag army, many of whom (soldiers) had no shoes in the middle of one of the worst winters and snow-storms in the Northeast of the United States.
LOL… I just saw this… “Patriot” and “CNGS” are confused who they want to be…
Is this what it has come down to? Defending a blood-thirsty, undemocratic cult like MKO/MEK with deception?
You Rajavi supporters are so pathetic!
Miss Manda Zand Ervin, We will soon see who Iranian people will choose for free and democratic Iran. I can asure you MEk is one of the group that Iranian poeple support.
Sincerely
Reza Alizadeh
Then who is the real part of the opposition? Why don’t you name them so that people know them and you better? Of course most of Iranians oppose this medieval regime, but who can make a difference on the ground? Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey testified that, the MEK is not one of the few opposition groups, rather the only one opposition to Iranian regime. If the top US officials can be “recruited” by a group to make false statements, then Iranian regime with all those oil money should be a better recruiter! Also, your attribution of Mojahedin to Jihadists reveal your il-intention. The translation of “Mojahedin e Khalgh e Iran”, (MEK), is “Strugglers of the Iranian People” not “Jihadists of the Deprived Masses”! Your other comments will be better dealt with when the MEK get off the list!
You know very well MEK is the real opposition of Iran. you know very well you have to have a proof for all your none sense. You know very well MEK is the only hope for Iranian people and freedom in Iran. You are against them just because you know very well you have a benefit in this.MEK is the only opposition because of their hard work and most important with Mollas claim. You believe them. right???
This article is noting except all lies and I hope you have proof for all falls informations.We will see in the feature. This government under the name of religion did nothing except: Terror, Stoning, Jail, Torture, Rape and bankrupped the country and you are the same and you don’t care at all about Iran and Iranian people. Enough is enough and we stand by Iranian people and support them any way we can with the help of MEK, the only hope we have.We are not that far from Victory, get ready.
MEK is the only path of hope to depend on for all uprising youth of Iran. The recent symposium in Washington was a turning point for the United States to wake up to the realities of events happening in Iran. We applaud the US Secretary sanctions and MEK could not be labelled as terrorist as they are fighting the terrorists ruling our country, Iran.
I am sure MEK will be soon delisted from terrorism.
I must say to the “mozdoor or shekanjegar” of this anti-human regime that your time your boss in Tehran is over.The people are on the streets.They have already decided for their future.Time is up for you and the history will not repeat itself.It does not matter how much more the regime is spending money to spread rumours or to accuse “Mojahedin”.Time is up.They need to start packing up and be ready to appear in the international courts.The question here is why the regime is so scared of a caged Mojahed like Ali Saremi.We must realize that the regime is on the brink and my adwise to all is to feel and understand it.At the end,lets get ready for a peaceful,harmonic,and sweet future without the “Mllahs” who remid me of cannibalism .The life is a gift given to us by GOD,Do not waste it.
PMOI (aks MEK)is the only organized democratic movement.No one gets fooled by trashy articles such as this one.This article brings smile to the brutal Iranian regime face.
Long Live PMOI and freedopm in Iran.
Manda,
Despite tens of thousands of political executions and other practices which amount to a reign of terror, the mullahs have not succeeded in uprooting the nationwide movement for democracy. Indeed, the student-led uprising of Iranians in Tehran and many other cities clearly showed that without barbaric use of force, the clerical regime would not last long. In recent weeks, many cities in western Iran have been the sconces of ferocious anti-government protest. The triumph of this movement is the key to democratic change in Iran and peace and security in the world. So Manda, Get a Life!
By trash talking the MEK you can not bring legitimacy to Iranian Regime! just remember that people of Iran will never forget and forgive mullahs tyranny and their puppets and servants! their time is up and world won’t be big enough for them to run and hide! They will be prosecuted on the court of law and there will be no money left for parasites and trashes like you and your friends to survive.
My suggestion to my friends who try to prove that “Mojahedine khalghe Iran” are not “terrorist” and are “the only real alternative” to this
“anti-human” regime is not to waste their valuable time.The future of Iran belongs to the people of Iran and their democratic movement.The enemies of our country have already lost the battle.Let’s focus on how
to take part on rebuilding our sweet homeland.
MEK is a cult of personality. They along with the Mullahs are equally hated by the Iranians
Mojahedin is mullahs STRONGEST opposition.
VIVA PEOPLE OF IRAN!
VIVA CAMP ASHRAF!
VIVA VIVA RAJAVI!
Mojahedin is mullahs STRONGEST opposition.
VIVA PEOPLE OF IRAN!
VIVA CAMP ASHRAF!
VIVA VIVA RAJAVI!
Is that how the MKO brainwashes their members and supporters? Keep repeating nonsense?
Doesn’t work for the rest of us who are in touch with reality.
You’re damn right they are sick and tired of being blacklisted for purely political reasons and under the table deals with the Savages of Tehran. So are the majority of patriotic Iranians who for years now have endured the pain, not only fr…om the barbarians dominating Iran, but from the State Department and people like you, who play a double game and engage in double entendre…as you have done throughout your article.
The brave Iranian people who have poured into the streets of Tehran and other cities throughout the country are Mad as Hell, to see their main opposition group, these true children of their liberation, with more than 120,000 fallen for the cause of liberty, and thousands in the dungeons of the Butchers of Tehran, to be called these infamous names, all to appease a gang of thugs, who have brought nothing but misery, torture, rape and murder to their people.
The organization has renounced violence, and has been extremely patient with the crimes committed against it, whether at Ashraf Camp in Iraq, or inside Iran against its supporters and the parents and relatives of Ashraf residents, and instead has acted responsibly by providing the West with valuable information regarding mullahs nuclear weapons sites, and for all intents and purposes, has displayed its bona fides as the friend and ally of the US and Western World.
The European Union and the UK were ordered by their high courts to de-list the group, why shouldn’t the US? Except that the State Dept. and people like you are in the business of appeasing, not the national security of the United States of America.
The whole fraudulent dossier was compiled by Jack Straw (former British Foreign Secretary) along with foreign office’s mullah experts, and the collusion of the mullahs in Tehran, and presented to the Europeans and the US, who mistakenly saw an opening and a rapprochement with the mullahs at the time of Mohammad Khatami’s presidency who supposedly headed the so-called reformist faction of the savages.
Well, now let’s look at this carefully. How is it that neither the UK nor the EU courts found any so-called classified documents, and threw the case out of court and gave back the PMOI and the Iranian people their honor. It’s quite simple… there is no indication that the group has engaged in any violent act for more than 8 years.
Why does the State Department and the US government still insist on a failed policy that was initiated in 1997, and the blacklisting of the PMOI was one of the key demands the mullhas made, to start some sort of dialogue which ran into a dead end and the catastrophic emergence of a lunatic like Ahmadinejad?
The response to this question is also very simple…Appeasement, Accommodation and God knows what goes through the mind of State Dept. functionaries.
And finally a word of advice to the columnist…bone up on your writing, sense of history and integrity in journalism. You’re all over the map buddy…contradictory and malicious throughout your so-called column.
All that said, the american Judicial System is a hallowed institution and its court system will soon make the right decision; that is giving back the PMOI their rightful place in history, and consider them and American ally and friend rather than keeping them in the blacklist.See More