maandag 12 oktober 2015

USA Supports Iranian Terrorists


As US attempts to extort a settlement in Syria built on regime-change, US senators and generals conspire to arm and back a new terrorist army aimed at Iran. 

An October 7, 2015 hearing before the US Senate Committee on Armed Forces (SASC) titled, 'Iranian Influence in Iraq and the Case of Camp Liberty,' served as a reaffirmation of America's commitment to back the terrorist organization Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) and specifically 2,400 members of the organization being harbored on a former US military base in Iraq.

Providing testimony was former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, former US Marine Corps Commandant and former Supreme Allied Commander Europe General James Jones, USMC (Ret.), and Colonel Wesley Martin, US Army (Ret.).

All three witnesses made passionate pleas before a room full of nodding senators for America to continue backing not only MEK terrorists currently harbored on a former US military base in Iraq, but to back groups like MEK inside of Iran itself to threaten the very survival of the government in Tehran.

In the opening remarks by Lieberman, he stated:

It was not only right and just that we took them off the foreign terrorist organization list, but the truth is now that we ought to be supportive of them and others in opposition to the government in Iran more than we have been.
Lieberman would also state (emphasis added):
Here's my point Mr. Chairman, we ought to compartmentalize that agreement also, that nuclear agreement. We ought to put it over there, and not let it stop us from confronting what they're doing in Syria. Continuing the sanctions for human rights violations in Iran in support of terrorism. And here's the point I want to make about the National Council of Resistance of Iran and other democratic opposition groups that are Iranian - we ought to be supporting them. 

This regime in Tehran is hopeless. It's not going to change. There's no evidence ... every piece of evidence says the contrary. So I hope we can find a way, we used to do this not so long ago, supporting opposition groups in Iran. They deserve our support, and actually they would constitute a form of pressure on the government in Tehran that would unsettle them as much as anything else we could do because it would threaten the survival of the regime which from every objective indicator I can see is a very unpopular regime in Iran. 


The People's Mojahedin of Iran or the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK, also PMOIMKOPersianسازمان مجاهدين خلق ايرانsāzmān-e mojāhedin-e khalq-e irān) is an Iranian opposition movement in exile that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Massoud Rajavi is the Secretary-General of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

While the MEK's leadership has resided in Paris, the group's core members were for many years confined to Camp Ashraf in Iraq, and later in 2003 the MEK and U.S. forces signed a cease-fire agreement of 'mutual understanding and coordination.' The group's remaining 3,200 members were recently compelled to move to ex-U.S. military base Camp Liberty...

The European Union, Canada and the United States formerly listed the MEK as a terrorist organization, but this designation has since been lifted, first by the Council of the European Union in January 26, 2009 (following what the group called a 'seven-year-long legal and political battle'), then by a decision by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 21, 2012 and lastly by a decision by the Canadian government on December 20, 2012.



4 opmerkingen:

Ron zei

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2015/10/growing-guantanamo-asadullah-rahman-151007111308336.html

Ron zei

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/10/03/the-blood-salvador-massacres-stains-america/t9WNTGKBjX9iuBreGutE3M/story.html

Ron zei

https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/653244345991172096

Ron zei

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/top/surveillance-planes-spotted-in-the-sky-for-days-after-west-baltimore-rioting/2015/05/05/c57c53b6-f352-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html?tid=kindle-app

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