Iran: Hangingwith the People's Mujahadeen of Iran

Hangingwith the People's Mujahadeen of Iran

Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance

In 1997, US President Bill Clinton added Iran’s People’s Mujahadeen (Mujahideen Khalq in Persian, or MEK  to the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations, and in 2012 his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took them off.

(For the sake of appeasement were listed)

One of them erred and erred badly.

The MEK fought hard against the Shah Reza Pahlavi before and during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Afterward, when the Islamist faction led by Ayatollah Khomeini emerged the strong horse in the ensuing struggle for power, they fought the new government alongside Iran’s leftist movements and lost.

Likewise, our relations with the MEK are outstanding. They haven’t even allegedly done anything bad to America for at least three and a half decades. Why would they? We have common enemies now. They’ve been ruthlessly persecuted by Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Khomeinists insist the MEK is “contaminated” with atheism and the “Western plague.”

An event in Paris was a grand spectacle. It lasted eight hours.

Roughly 100,000 people attended, the vast majority of them Iranians living in exile. Never in my life have I seen so many human beings in one place. The MEK may not be popular inside Iran, but it sure as hell is in the European diaspora, which suggests its popularity back home may not be quite so near the floor as its critics allege.

Yet I wasn’t bored for even five minutes. The organizers managed to keep things interesting and engaging with a splendid diversity of programming, including thunderous speeches, riveting films, and music and dance.

Here’s another reason the regime hates them so much: the MEK is the only major Middle Eastern political movement led by a woman, Maryam Rajavi. She is Iran’s Daenerys Targaryen, an exiled woman who wishes to overthrow an illegitimate government by rallying forces around her from abroad. 

Every single one of those speakers flew to Paris not only to support the Iranian opposition, but also regime-change in Iran. 

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia)

Here is but a sample of who attended from the American side of the Atlantic: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia), Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean (Democrat), Former New MexicoGovernor Bill Richardson (Democrat), Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island.), Former Senator Robert Torricelli (D-New Jersey), Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge (Republican), Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Republican) was also scheduled to be there, but couldn’t make it.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (Democrat)

Opinion:

I thing MEK  in front of Khomeini's Islamic fundamentalists in Iran are the only solution