Iran said the decision risks "resuscitating terrorism." Posted on 12/13/2006 11:52:02 PM PST by M. Espinola
Iran today criticized as unacceptable a decision by Europe's second-highest court to end a freeze on assets of the main Iranian opposition group abroad.
Iran said the decision risks "resuscitating terrorism."
The Court of First Instance on December 12 ordered the European Union to cancel a decision from May 2002 to freeze the funds of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK).
The EU classifies the MEK as a terrorist group, but the MEK argues that it should be removed. A court spokesperson has said the move could result in its removal from the EU terror list.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the decision "is contrary to EU responsibilities in combating terrorism." Hosseini branded the move as "unacceptable and without any legal basis."
The EU's list of terrorist groups was drawn up late in 2001, following the September 11 attacks in the United States, and is revised regularly.
LOL. Oh, puuuuuuleaze. Iran is in on this. Just say that they're upset... sure.
MEK is a terror organization whether we like it or not.
They killed Americans military officers working for the Iranian government back in 1970s
Hitler jr. has his panties in a bunch.
Only reason why they are listed as a terrorist organization is because the Iranian government asked Clinton to list them as such and Clinton did so. I am certainly not defending them but that is the background. That being said they are a Marxist/Islamist group about the same as the current regime.
GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: On 10 May 2003 V Corps accepted the voluntary consolidation of the Mujahedin-E-Khalq’s forces, and subsequent control over those forces. This process is expected to take several days to complete. Previously, V Corps was monitoring a cease-fire brokered between the MEK and Special Forces elements. The MEK forces had been abiding by the terms of this agreement and are cooperating with Coalition soldiers.
December 12, 2006 - May 10, 2003 = 3 years, 7 months, 2 days. In that time Iran has supported an insurgency against Coalition forces, pushed ahead with their nuclear weapons program, denied the Holocaust, supplied missiles to the Lebanese Hezbollah, threatened to close the Straights of Hormuz, suggested the President of the United States should convert to Islam, repeatedly lied about the history and motives of the United States abroad and said DEMOCRACY is dead.
The United States has done what it could to hold Iran's enemies at bay, in my opinion, as a show of good faith and partnership. Never once has tangible diplomacy of that sort been reciprocated by the Iranian government. Indeed, the diplomacy Iran seeks is fully about intangibles. “Respect us as equals,” they say... Only they think their not, and subsequently prove their incapable of normalizing relations with their actions. How is their inferiority complex an American diplomatic problem? Is it a surprise to anyone that tangible diplomatics is not something a fundamentalist theocracy could reasonably do? In fact, the U.S. has done such a good job of restraining the enemies of Iran that Americans are right now enabling Iran to facilitate attacks in Iraq.
Besides the glaring imbalance, in terms of concessions to the terrorist state of Iran, it makes no sense for a terrorist organization to cooperate with Coalition forces. No mater what the EU decides, it only makes sense for the MEK to come off of the American FTO list. IMHO.
I don't think Clinton did that to kinda appease the mullahs.
MEK/NCRI is a terror group and has always been one.
Prior to Iran's repeated threatened unthinkable acts of mass murder, U.S. foreign policy of inaction regarding Tehran's & Damascus' terrorist instigating dictatorships must be promptly reversed. Common sense should mandate those two Axis of Evil rouge régimes must be overthrown in order to reduce the intolerable danger levels to American & Coalition troops.
As you mentioned Iran is supported the terrorist insurgency against our troops plus trained infiltrated saboteurs keep Iraq's oil Infrastructure in a chaotic state of fear and economic chaos. On the other hand oil & natural gas from jihad promoting Opec's Iran continues flowing to overseas customers, as the billions for global jihad roll in.
Washington has not acted in any meaningful way to counter Russia nor Red China in their arming the Ahmadinejad dictatorship.
A portion of a Turkish press article dated November 29th, 2006:
"Iraq's main northern oil distribution center was in flames after two mortar shells landed on it Monday night, an official with the Northern Oil Company said."
"The massive fire continued to burn despite efforts by the U.S. army, Iraqi army and civil defense brigades to put it out, he added. A huge fire was visible from the nearby city of Kirkuk. �This is the first time this installation has been attacked with such force,� said the official, who would not reveal the extent of the damage or whether pumping had ceased."
For years Iran has been utilizing huge sums of earned energy profits for various terror campaigns in Tehran's plotted quest for a Shi'ite caliphate spreading from the coast of Hezballah invested Lebanon, to Gaza's Hamas killers, spreading east to Pakistan & Afghanistan's Shia populations.
Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel
Iran wants oil above US$70 a barrel
Saddam and MEK Cult leader Rajavi
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/uploads/rajavi-saddam_006.jpg
I've seen this picture of Husein and Rajavi posted on a number of blogs whenever and where ever the MEK are discussed. Tell us about it Biscuit. What year was it taken? What was the meeting about that precipitated the handshake? Who are the other two gentlemen in the room? What is the original source of the photo and what was the geopolitical context occurring at that time? What do you mean by cult leader?
In the absence of any reasoned response from you, I am curious about the response you expect the image to produce in the minds of its viewer? Saddam is likely to be hung in January and Masoud has only managed to produce a single letter in three and a half years. These two men are irrelevant by any unemotional measure, so what's your point?
Don't defend the terrorists on FR
Don't defend pedophiles or cannibalism on FR
Nonesense
I have followed your posts through FR archive and I guess you have some connections with terrorist group MEK
http://www.iran-interlink.org/
MEK/NCRI is a terrorist organization. Period!
''Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.''
(Maryam Rajavi, March 1991.)
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote
California State University, Fullerton, pfoote@fullerton.edu
January 27, 2006
Michael Rubin’s “Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq” (FrontPage Magazine.com, January 13, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=20780&p=1 )
classified correctly the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. Even the New York Times has reported that some Iranians refer to Massoud Rajavi as the “Pol Pot of Iran”. (Elizabeth Rubin, “The Cult of Rajavi”, New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/13MUJAHADEEN.html?
pagewanted=1&ei=5007&en=6b6a11b0fdb450b1&ex=1373428800&partner=USERLAND)
Ali Safavi’s “Missing the Mark on Iran” (FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21064) should become a textbook case example on how easily America’s terrorist enemies can have their lies published in the American media.
Michael Rubin’s “Hitting the Mark on Iran” (FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=21065&p=1) has exposed some of the dishonest tactics the MEK has used with success in duping the American media and the American public. One could fill books about the dishonesty of the MEK, if any American publisher dares to expose the names of Democrats and Republicans in Congress who have been duped. For a list of some of the dupes, see the NCRI’s free book Democracy Betrayed posted online at:
http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/special/chap3.html
The MEK has been on the terrorist lists of the State Department since the administration of former President Bill Clinton. In September 2002, President George W. Bush’s background paper for his remarks at the United Nations listed the MEK as one of three Saddam Hussein-supported terrorists operating in Iraq. The MEK was a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. In April 2003, American and coalition forces did attack and kill some of the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. However, some analysts have claimed that this was a staged attack because the American military could have destroyed easily the entire camp and its four thousand or more terrorists.
The American government ordered the American military to protect the MEK and to permit the MEK to keep individual weapons. In 2004, the American government recognized the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq as having protected person status under the Fourth Geneva Convention (civilian individuals!). The American government has closed the Washington, DC office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the National Press Building. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a supporter of the MEK while a Republican Senator, raided the home of NCRI spokesperson Alireza Jafarzadeh and took boxes of documents from his home.
Did you read all of my posts? Did you like them? Which was your favorite? Seriously, my first post on FR was the text of a congressional symposium that was about "Iran and the future of Iraq". The MEK were mentioned in that symposium on multiple occasions. I had assumed US policy would've changed by now. It looks like the EU may take the lead on it. In that old thread there were comments similar to your comments in this thread. Is that what you are referring to? Attending a symposium where the MEK is mentioned does not constitute a connection. In Iran it might. Are you a member of the Revolutionary Guard Corp? How much time in prison could I expect for attending a symposium where the MEK was mentioned? I know a newspaper editor spent at least two years in jail for reprinting an AFP or AP photo of Maryam Rajavi. Is your logic as backward as the idiots who put a newspaper editor in jail for reprinting a picture?
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