News Iran Resistance Tarnishing Image of MEK, Cornerstone of Iran Appeasement Policy
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Tarnishing Image of MEK, Cornerstone of Iran Appeasement Polic
response to a biased, distorted, and misleading story by Associated Press about the Iranian opposition, a complete rebuttal was provided to relevant editors at the AP on February 5, 2017, but regrettably, the AP has so far failed to correct the many errors and misrepresentations of facts. To set the record straight, here is a brief clarification of facts and some insight on the crux of the matter.
The AP story, “Trump Cabinet pick paid by 'cult-like' Iranian exile group,” Feb. 5, 2017, is a rehashing of old and long-debunked allegations aimed at disparaging the principal Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and its bipartisan supporters.
These accusations are not new. The religious dictatorship ruling Iran and its lobby abroad have tried for years to discredit the Iranian opposition in an effort to proffer the appeasement of the ruling mullahs as a viable policy. Today, the crux of the matter is a choice between a firm policy vis-à-vis the clerical regime as the godfather of international terrorism and standing with the long-held desires of the Iranian people for freedom and democracy.
Aside from the loosely-worded and biased tone of the article, the AP reporter in Dubai Jon Gambrell has chosen to ignore facts regarding the conduct and history of the Iranian resistance. Instead of reporting the views of a large bi-partisan lawmakers in both chambers of US Congress, and the decisions by the highest US and European courts which rejected the stale and oft-repeated accusations, he has chosen to rely heavily on only two individuals, both of whom have been proponents of the appeasing the murderous mullahs of Iran.
The first is a person with virtually no experience and background on the Middle East named Jeremiah Goulka, the author of the eight-year-old RAND report, and the second is a character named, Ervand Abrahamian, whose public advocacy of appeasing the regime in Iran and his opposition to the delisting of the MEK is well-established. He was among a group of Tehran’s apologists and lobbyists urging the State Department not to delist MeK despite the court ruling.
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