PRNewswire WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Saturday, September, 17, 2011, a senior panel of former Secretaries, Generals, and Governors, as well as State and Justice Departments officials denounced the presence of the Iranian regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations, and urged the removal of Iran’s main opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK),…
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Free Iran’s freedom fighters
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Those who slander the MEK know nothing about its promise. As the first colonel to command Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where the main Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) is located, I should like to think I can speak with some authority about this deeply misunderstood organization now…
Who’s afraid of the Iranian opposition?
THE AMERICAN THINKER The West has spent more than thirty years looking for incentives for compromise with the Islamist regime in Iran. After the takeover of the alleged reformer Khatami in 1997, things looked brighter than ever before. In what U.S. diplomat Martin Indyk described as a “goodwill gesture,” the Clinton administration put the Iranian…
Getting on the right side of history
President Obama is in a quandary over what to do about Iran. News headlines over the last few weeks illustrate this: · “IAEA: Increasing concerns about Iran’s warheads designed to deliver nuclear payloads.” · “U.S. Treasury Department: Iran is aiding Al Qaeda.” · “Top al-Qaeda ranks keep footholds in Iran.” · “Iran continues…
The US State Department Positioned on the Wrong Side of History
THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Secretary Hillary Clinton! Who’s to be held accountable for the death of my brother who was killed by Iraqi forces when they raided Ashraf in July 2009? Are you aware that we, in Camp Ashraf, are paying the price for the “goodwill gesture” the State Department made to the mullahs in…