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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Iranian dissident groups are playing an important role in helping determine the scope of Tehran’s nuclear program. WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) — After a brief wave of optimism, nuclear talks with Iran slowed as senior inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog said they had made no progress in gaining access to Iranian…

PUBLIC SERVICE EUROPE The UN must end the intolerable situation endured by the Iranian democratic opposition held in Iraqi camps, and Hillary Clinton should remove the group from the US terror list – writes MEP Last week more than 220 of my colleagues in the European Parliament supported a joint statement regarding members of the…

THE WASHINGTON TIMES It’s past time for Clinton to remove terrorist designation from resistance. The U.S. Court of Appeals decision on June 1 ordering Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to act on the petition for removal of a prominent Iranian dissident group’s designation as a terrorist organization is the first step toward unleashing the…

THE HUFFINGTON POST One of the chief contentions by those supporting President Obama’s candidacy for president in 2008 was that his administration would change, change, change. In particular, the promise was made repeatedly that the rule of law would be followed, and followed strictly. Above all, human rights were to be safeguarded zealously. How steep…

TOWN HALL When there’s no good answer, people sometimes – actually often – try to obfuscate with false information. That surely was the case at the recent U.S. Court of Appeals hearing involving the terrorist designation of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK). I was present during the hearing and was stunned with how the…