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 —…
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Iran group gets U.S. backers
THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Coalition urging State Department to take dissidents off terror list For nearly 20 months, the legal status of a dissident Iranian group has remained in limbo, mired in a U.S. State Department review of the association’s official designation as a foreign terrorist organization. A federal appeals court in Washington directed the…
U.S. turns its back on camp
THECOLUMBIADAILY TRIBUNE Iranian dissidents not terrorists but face abuse in Iraq. No presidential administration wants a crisis in an election year, yet 2012 finds the Obama administration careening headlong into a major showdown with Iran. Tehran just announced it has started enriching uranium at an underground site in Ferdow, near Qom, an ominous sign of…
Clinton Under Pressure
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week pressed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her failure to remove the Iranian resistance from the U.S. list of terrorist groups. They warned that the lives of more than 3,000 dissidents living in a camp in Iraq are in danger because of…
Why The US Needs To Rescue 3,000 Iranians Trapped In Iraq
BUSINESS INSIDER More than 3,000 innocent civilians, to whom the United States solemnly pledged protection, are now at risk of being killed by Iranian agents, following the withdrawal of US military personnel from Iraq. It’s a potentially tragic situation whose ending is far from certain. Moreover, the cascading violence in Iraq has turned this situation…