Iranian Opposition Balks at Terror Label (given by Fundamentalists)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- The main opposition to Iran's government should not be labeled a terrorist organization, Iranian protesters said Friday.

At a rally in the Capitol, thousands of Iranians gathered to call on world governments to denounce the terrorist label that has been applied to the People's Mujahedeen, or Mujahedeen Khalq.

If any group deserves to be called terrorists, they say, it's the Islamic fundamentalist government whose power in Iran the Mujahedeen opposes.

"Every day they are killing people and stoning people. We don't believe in that. Nobody believes in that," said Mansoor Askari, who came to the protest with his wife and two young sons from Miami.


http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-iran-protest,0,7840733.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[AlamoDemoc]

1. Yeah right!

Haven't we heard enough of these so called opposition groups from Middle East? This group has no credibility just like Chalabi and his cohorts before the Iraq war

[rodeodance]

2. i do not we should transfer Chabali characterists to all Iranian groups in

the US.

[bring_em_home_bush]

3. The U.S. called MEK a terrorist organization, once upon a time

Considering their stock in trade is bombing and assassination, the designation appears to be quite accurate.

Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) is the largest and most militant group opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also known as the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, MEK is led by husband and wife Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. MEK was added to the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist groups in 1997.



The group has targeted Iranian government officials and government facilities in Iran and abroad; during the 1970s, it attacked Americans in Iran. While the group says it does not intentionally target civilians, it has often risked civilian casualties. It routinely aims its attacks at government buildings in crowded cities. MEK terrorism has declined since late 2001. Incidents linked to the group include:

The series of mortar attacks and hit-and-run raids during 2000 and 2001 against Iranian government buildings; one of these killed Iran’s chief of staff
The 2000 mortar attack on President Mohammad Khatami’s palace in Tehran
The February 2000 “Operation Great Bahman,” during which MEK launched 12 attacks against Iran
The 1999 assassination of the deputy chief of Iran’s armed forces general staff, Ali Sayyad Shirazi
The 1998 assassination of the director of Iran’s prison system, Asadollah Lajevardi
The 1992 near-simultaneous attacks on Iranian embassies and institutions in 13 countries Assistance to Saddam Hussein’s suppression of the 1991 Iraqi Shiite and Kurdish uprisings
The 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party and of Premier Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, which killed some 70 high-ranking Iranian officials, including President Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and Bahonar Support for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Iranian revolutionaries
The 1970s killings of U.S. military personnel and civilians working on defense projects in Tehran

In the early 1970s, angered by U.S. support for the pro-Western shah, MEK members killed several U.S. soldiers and civilians working on defense projects in Iran. Some experts say the attack may have been the work of a Maoist splinter faction operating beyond the Rajavi leadership’s control. MEK members also supported the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, in which 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/mek.htm

[HysteryDiagnosis]

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