They are against the current Iranian regime, but not because they are pro-US. They are against the Iranian regime because they don’t consider it to be radical enough.
We did work with them in the past, in the same vein as how we supported Stalin to defeat Hitler. Doesn’t make them good.
I never thought I would write something defending the MEK but the above statement is nonsense.
1. They are as bad as the Mullahs. Worse? No.
2. They used to be really bad guys, the tool of the Soviet Union, via Tehran Embassy, to destabilized the late Shah. And killed chosen targets.
3. They had some 30,000 of their followers rounded up on Khomeini's and mass murdered in prison, so they have an inbred hate (with reason) to hate the Mullahs.
4. Whatever their beliefs they are Iranians and their attack on Iran was aimed at the Mullahs and not the population. BUT ... the Mullahs used Iranians to oppose the attack.
5. As the ONLY group with military trained followers and deep seated anti-Mullah regime sentiments, they could have been a useful lethal tool against the Mullahs.
6. After they were disarmed by US Forces and basically confined to Camp Archery in Iraq and to a headquarters in France, they evolved into a Mariam Rajavi (founder's wife and now leader) CULT. Here they were as bad or worse than the Mullahs toward their own followers, treating them as slaves.
7 Here, though, it needs noting that the Mullahs have infiltrated them and created a major split with pro-Mullah leadership in some areas, spreading Mullah talking points.
8. They then began trying to rehabilitate themselves and get off the Terrorist lists in various coUntries including the USA, where they recently pled guilty to end an 8-year trial for a variety of money laundering and similar charges. (Judge David Carter, who will hear the Obama birth certificate, presided over that trial and will sentence them within the next couple of months).
9. France has since taken them off their terrorist list and returned all money they had confiscated from Mariam Rajavi and the MEK organization in France. Along the lines of a cult, when the French arrested Mariam, two folllowers set themselves on fire in public as an act of protest at the arrest.
10. Britain has also removed the appellation of terrorists from the group.
11. Thus in Europe they have been “restored” mostly because France recognized them as a useful tool to have in hand against the Mullahs. Plus they supplied the West with intelligence, specially about the nuclear sites.
12. The Mullahs who have always been terrified of the MEK, have spent the last 20-years undermining them and planting hate of the MEK into the Iranian populace's psyche.
13. There are some 70,000 MEK adherents inside Iran and other than their philosophy they are part of the general public and do not walk around with a brand on their foreheads. Many of them have been in the student riots.
If nothing else, they make a good TEMPORARY strike force, and source of intelligence which can later be set aside fairly easily as “killers”, since they would wipe the Mullahs off the face of Iran in revenge.
Finally as someone surmised, the attack on Camp Ashraf was authorized as part of Obama’s plan to make nice with Mullahs and this was a gesture of appeasement. As was the recent release of one of the very most senior Iranian Qods (Special Forces) commanders, who was captured a year or two ago in Iraq. His release was disguised by also releasing four other lower grade Qods agents. All of whom were directly responsible for killing HUDNREDS of Americans in Iraq.
Unbelievable Oba-Hussein-Khomeini a$$ kissing attitude toward the Mullahs and throwing the freedom seeking students under his bus.