Revealed: flow of funds to members of Congress in support of Iranian group
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MEK decision: multimillion-dollar campaign led to removal from terror list
Revealed: the steady flow of funds to members of Congress, lobbying firms and former officials in support of Iranian group
Source: The Guardian
Supporters of a designated Iranian terrorist organisation have won a long struggle to see it unbanned in the US after pouring millions of dollars into an unprecedented campaign of political donations, hiring Washington lobby groups and payments to former top administration officials.
A Guardian investigation, drawing partly on data researched by the Centre for Responsive Politics, a group tracking the impact of money in US politics, has identified a steady flow of funds from key Iranian American organisations and their leaders into the campaign to have the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran removed from the list of terrorist organisations.
... Prominent among the members of Congress who have received fund is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the chair of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee. She has accepted at least $20,000 in donations from Iranian American groups or their leaders to her political campaign fund.
Other recipients include Congressman Bob Filner (D-Calif.), ... Ted Poe (R-Texas), ... Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) ...
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/21/iran-mek-group-removed-us-terrorism-list
