OfficialWire.com In an unprecedented political move, thousands of Iranian expatriates supporting the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) movement converged on the State Department on Friday, August 26, to join voices with former U.S. Congressmen and senior officials to call the U.S. Government to take the MEK off its list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTO). Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy…
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Truth will trump fiction in Iran opposition case
SCOOP INDEPENDENT NEWS On August 13, 2011, an article written by Elizabeth Rubin appeared in NYT’s Sunday review. The highly biased article which lacks the slightest notion of neutral reporting cites allegations emanating from Iran’s rulers against their main opposition, Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI). As the US Department of State is due to review its decision on…
MEK FTO List Has Put Innocent Lives At Risk
OfficialWire.com My name is Hanif Hosseindost born in 1980 in Rasht in northern Iran. All my family members are in Camp Ashraf. I was active in the student protests during Khatami’s presidential period in 1382. In the universities, these protests ended in clashes between protesters and the Revolutionary Guards ( Pasdaran). I was arrested…
Thousands of Iranians Rally in Washington, Urge delisting of MEK
StopFundamentalism.com I was among thousands of Iranian-Americans from 41 states across the country who took part in a huge rally and march outside the State Department last Friday, urging Secretary Clinton to act swiftly and delist the principal Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK). Several senior former US Government officials also spoke at the…
UN envoy disputes Iraq’s PM on Iranian exiles
ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD (AP) — The departing head of the U.N. mission in Iraq on Monday bluntly disputed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s account of their farewell meeting, saying he did not embrace the government’s efforts to deport a group of Iranian exiles by the end of the year. The public disavowal was rare for the…