TownHall.COM By MONA CHAREN PARIS — An estimated 50,000 Iranian exiles and supporters from Europe and North America are here to remind the world that no cooperation with the brutal, expansionist regime in Tehran can possibly advance Western interests. This annual gathering of MeK (People’s Mujahedin of Iran), an Iranian resistance group, was already scheduled….
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Washington’s strategic mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s exiled opposition
History News Network By Walid Phares It has already been established, including in my recently published book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid, that Washington has undertaken two global mistakes in its regional policies. One was the partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood and its backers in the…
Dictators need no excuses to crack down on dissent
The Hill By Mauricio Claver-Carone “Don’t give them an excuse to crack down on dissent,” is a favorite sophism spread among foreign-policy elites, lazy bureaucrats and big-chair academics. Dictators love it. Why? Because as soon as it’s uttered, it shifts blame, immunizes them and effectively silences freedom’s advocates, even in the face of egregious…
Alan Dershowitz: US must force Iraq to stop abusing Iranians dissidents in Camp Liberty
NCRI – The United States Senate must use its power to force Iraq to stop mistreating the Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty, prominent American lawyer Alan Dershowitz has told a meeting in Washington DC. The US was also to blame for exposing the camp’s residents to ‘violence, death and injury’, and for failing to prevent…
Supporters of a free Iran demand U.S. honor promises
THE WASHINGTON TIMES By James Morrison American supporters of a free Iran are demanding that President Obama honor U.S. promises to provide political refuge to Iranian dissidents crowded into a relocation camp in Iraq where they face daily threats against their lives. The 3,400 dissidents who made up the armed wing of the National Council…