Middle East Focus: Iran Assassinations: Mujahideen of Mossad, Mujahideen of the West, Mujahideen of the Potentates……

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Iran Assassinations: Mujahideen of Mossad, Mujahideen of the West, Mujahideen of the Potentates……

Rattlesnake Ridge

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“Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s leaders. The group, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the United States, accused of killing American servicemen and contractors in the 1970s and supporting the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran before breaking with the Iranian mullahs in 1980. The attacks, which have killed five Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007 and may have destroyed a missile research and development site, have been carried out in dramatic fashion, with motorcycle-borne assailants often attaching small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims’ cars. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign but has no direct involvement………..”

Mujahideen Khalq are still listed on the U.S. terrorist list, but you wouldn’t know it from the way top American politicians, current and former, deal with it. It holds conferences in places like Paris and invites prominent speakers at fat fees, thousands of dollars a pop. People of both American parties: Rudi Giuliani, James Woolsey, Ed Rendell, Bill Richardson, Tom Ridge, etc. They all come home from these MEK (MKO) conferences a bit richer and a bit more hawkish on the prospects of a war against Iran.
The cultish organization spends a lot of money is spent, and I have speculated here on the source of all that money, many millions. Some Gulf GCC states have been singing the praises of the MEK in recent years, campaigning to keep their “camp” in Iraq even as Iraqis want them out of their country. The Saudis have not yet offered them its territory for their camp, which is too cloe to the Iraq-Iranian border to last. During the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 the MEK were loved by the Gulf potentates because they fought on Saddam Hussein’s side. After Desert Storm they were reviled by the GCC potentates for the same reason: because they sided with the Iraqi Ba’athist security in helping crush rebellions. Now the MEK are loved again by the same potentates. As for the source of all that money…….
In fairness, the group is an equal opportunity ally, as long as its Western or Arab partners and paymasters are against the Iranian regime. You all know the story of Lenin's 1917 train ride across Germany and into St. Petersburg.
Cheers
mhg

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