Furthermore, I should be fair and point out that the MKO is hardly the "democratic"
organization that it claims to be. They are hated by the Iranian people, including even the reformists. They operate out of Iraq and are allies of Saddam Hussein. They fought with Saddam Hussein against Iran during the Iraq-Iran war and against the U.S. during the Persian Gulf War. Contrary to their claims on targeting only "military" targets in Iran, they have been blowing up bombs in government and civilian administration centers in Iran for years.
Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the MKO/NCR for their use of political violence. They have recently been involved in major criminal activities in California, including an immigration fraud ring and a bogus charity scheme. Numerous arrests were made in these cases.
The MKO has been similarly implicated in charity frauds in Britain and Germany. Furthermore, they believe in a Marxist-Islamic ideology that isn't far from Iran's conservative establishment thinking. Again, women covered with red Islamic veils, parading with machine guns. Whom are our leaders supporting?
The fact that this is an organization that the Justice Department, the State Department, and some of our allies, such as Britain consider a terrorist group, that has a very clear history of terrorism, makes support for this kind of group precisely the kind of short term compromise that gets us into long term trouble.
organization that it claims to be. They are hated by the Iranian people, including even the reformists. They operate out of Iraq and are allies of Saddam Hussein. They fought with Saddam Hussein against Iran during the Iraq-Iran war and against the U.S. during the Persian Gulf War. Contrary to their claims on targeting only "military" targets in Iran, they have been blowing up bombs in government and civilian administration centers in Iran for years.
Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the MKO/NCR for their use of political violence. They have recently been involved in major criminal activities in California, including an immigration fraud ring and a bogus charity scheme. Numerous arrests were made in these cases.
The MKO has been similarly implicated in charity frauds in Britain and Germany. Furthermore, they believe in a Marxist-Islamic ideology that isn't far from Iran's conservative establishment thinking. Again, women covered with red Islamic veils, parading with machine guns. Whom are our leaders supporting?
The fact that this is an organization that the Justice Department, the State Department, and some of our allies, such as Britain consider a terrorist group, that has a very clear history of terrorism, makes support for this kind of group precisely the kind of short term compromise that gets us into long term trouble.