Posted on 11/08/2003 5:19:43 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
IRANIAN ANALYSTS WARNED THE US AGAINST NORMALISING WITH IRAN PARIS 15 Aug. (IPS) 8.16.2003
Iranian political experts welcomed US State Departments decision to outlaw the Council of National Resistance of Iran (CNRI), the political front of the outlawed Mojahedeeen Khalq Organisation (MKO), but at the same time expressed concern to see it being exploited by the ruling ayatollahs to increase their crackdown on Iranian dissidents.
The State Department said on Friday that it had placed the CNRI on its list of terrorist organisations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) immediately proceeded to close down the Councils offices in Washington D. C and other major American cities, including New York and Los Angeles.
"The Americans for the first time in their relationship with Iran have a real capital of sympathy with the Iranian people, mostly with the young generation, the only one in the whole of the Middle East to really like and appreciate the Americans. They should not deceive the Iranian people by comforting a regime that has no future", observed Mr. Ali Keshtgar, the Editor of the Paris-based "Mihan" (Homeland) monthly.
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