M.E.K. To Be Delisted From Terrorism List For Providing Terrorism
As the Iranian marxist cult M.E.K. is now, with the help of the U.S., committing terrorist attacks against civilians in Iran it will no likely be taken off the official U.S. list of groups committing terrorist attacks against civilians.
The Obama administration is not the first to show such hypocrisy.
The Bush administration first claimed that the groups presence in Iraq as proof that Saddam Hussein supported terrorist organizations:
Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians.
Then, switching into Saddam Hussein's role, it trained and used the group for terror attacks against Iran:
The M.E.K.’s ties with Western intelligence deepened after the fall of the Iraqi regime in 2003, and JSOC began operating inside Iran in an effort to substantiate the Bush Administration’s fears that Iran was building the bomb at one or more secret underground locations. Funds were covertly passed to a number of dissident organizations, for intelligence collection and, ultimately, for anti-regime terrorist activities. Directly, or indirectly, the M.E.K. ended up with resources like arms and intelligence. Some American-supported covert operations continue in Iran today, according to past and present intelligence officials and military consultants.
My assumption is that the delisting is announced now to sabotage the upcoming nuclear talks with Iran. The U.S. has no interest in solving the nuclear issue or in peace with Iran. It wants Iran under its control and that necessitates regime change.
Just like the use of Jihadists against the Libyan and Syrian government the use of the M.E.K. against Iran again proves that the war on terror the U.S. is allegedly waging is indeed a war of terror against whomever disagrees with it.
Posted by b on May 15, 2012 at 15:32 UTC | Permalink
Your assumption about the timing is almost certainly correct. The nuclear talks appear only intended to position Iran as the bad guy and prove the US tried to solve things diplomatically. They also provide cover for a delay in moving on Iran while the US and Europe try to whittle away at Assad in Syria.
Posted by: Bill | May 15 2012 16:10 utc | 2
Ah, yes. Obama administration: Bush III, in word and deed.
Indeed, Obama was hired to protect Wall Street and the Powers That Be. A side benefit: Destroy the Democratic Party brand image.
Two NE NJ Democratic House members were smushed into the same district by state Republican's redrawing the electoral map. Both of the are considered "liberal." But, in a debate last night, they both claimed they would be the best man to help Obama enact his programs.
I shuddered. I hoped the moderator would ask the how thecandidates stood on Obama's oft repeated desire to "change" Social Security by raising the retirement age and modifying the cost of living index to decrease any cost of living increases...but no such questions. I knew there wouldn't be any questions about spying on US citizens, collecting our information, using drones to kill anyone the president deems needing to be killed -- or just having a "signature" of people who might be "terrorists" and to hell in a red mist with anyone close to them. No such questions are raised, nor would any politician in a close contest dare to even raise such issues.
I was hoping --that word so tinged with irony after Obama's campaign for president-- that someone would have the sense to not declare the MEK our new best buddies, but that now has happened. Gah.
I should be losing weight on the Obama Disgust Diet, as it's getting so difficult to keep one's food down with this disgusting administration. But the Obama Disgust Diet. based on the insula reaction*, isn't working well enough -- I'll have to do actual watching what I eat dieting. Heh.
*"This is Your Brain on Metaphors"--
.... So where did this facility with symbolism come from? It strikes me that the human brain has evolved a necessary shortcut for doing so, and with some major implications.A single part of the brain processes both physical and psychic pain.
Consider an animal (including a human) that has started eating some rotten, fetid, disgusting food. As a result, neurons in an area of the brain called the insula will activate. Gustatory disgust. Smell the same awful food, and the insula activates as well. Think about what might count as a disgusting food (say, taking a bite out of a struggling cockroach). Same thing.Now read in the newspaper about a saintly old widow who had her home foreclosed by a sleazy mortgage company, her medical insurance canceled on flimsy grounds, and got a lousy, exploitative offer at the pawn shop where she tried to hock her kidney dialysis machine. You sit there thinking, those bastards, those people are scum, they’re worse than maggots, they make me want to puke … and your insula activates. Think about something shameful and rotten that you once did … same thing. Not only does the insula “do” sensory disgust; it does moral disgust as well. Because the two are so viscerally similar. When we evolved the capacity to be disgusted by moral failures, we didn’t evolve a new brain region to handle it. Instead, the insula expanded its portfolio.
Posted by: jawbone | May 15 2012 16:36 utc | 3
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Yeah, the war of terror goes on, and with the recent republican support for MEK, the choice of going after the terror-supporting politicians or legitimizing the terrorists, it was most beneficial to back up the Iran-hostile terrorists. Does this mean every means are legitimate, as long as they have the same enemies as the USA? (that was a retorical question, though it shouldn't have to be)
Here are some articles by Leverett on Iran
Is Obama helping Iran?
Iranian "Plots" and American Hubris
Under the threat of war, iranians affirm their support of the islamic republic
Oil and the Iranian-Saudi "Cold War"
Posted by: Alexander | May 15 2012 15:55 utc | 1