THE WASHINGTON TIMES A Senate Select Committee on Intelligence member is calling on the State Department to provide a special briefing to explain why an Iranian dissident group is listed as a terrorist organization. The State Department also is facing a federal court deadline Monday to justify the continued blacklisting of the People’s Mojahedin Organization…
Author: James Morrison
Bipartisan Political Leaders Urge Removal of MEK from Terrorist List, Denounce Attempt to Silence State Department Policy Critics
PRNEWSWIRE WASHINGTON, March, 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With a federal appeals court deadline looming for the U.S. State Department to answer why it has defied earlier court rulings requiring review of a decision to maintain the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khaq (MEK) on the terrorist list, top former US officials and Members of Congress…
True Terrorist Threat
THE TOWN HALL Much of the attention in the Middle East over the past few months has been focused on the suffering of the people of Syria. But the Assad regime in Syria, which is slaughtering its own people by the thousands, does so with help from its only ally, Iran. And it is not…
Terror tagging of an Iranian dissident organization
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL By RAYMOND TANTER, UPI Outside View Commentator: The author says facts and the law are against keeping People’s Mujahedin of Iran on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist groups. WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — Fact and law have been moving in the direction of removal of an Iranian dissident group —…
Opprobrium for friends of Iranian dissidents
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Honor demands better treatment for refugees and their defenders The events of the decade since Sept. 11 accentuate the reality that fighting terrorism and defending the security and welfare of the civilized world is the responsibility of every citizen, especially those in public service. But when the purported combat against terrorism turns…