MKO admits involvement in Iran's protests

[BunkerHill24]

Source: aljazeera

30/12/2009 08:48:00 PM GMT

The Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday's violent anti-government protests in Iran.

MKO followers cooperated with the demonstrators and coordinated the protests, the organization's leader Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris on Tuesday.

Rajavi also urged unity among those bent on overthrowing the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

"It's a call for solidarity among all those who reject the rule of the supreme leader, the Velayat e-Faqih," she told AFP in Paris.

"What we call the 'Green movement' against the electoral fraud quickly disappeared to be replaced by a deeper movement whose goal is the total overthrow of the regime," she claimed.

The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years.


Read more: http://aljazeera.com/news/articles/34/MKO-admits-involvement-in-Iran-s-protests.html

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[Arctic Dave]

3. Money, hell, I'm buying them ammo. What's your name so I can make a donation for you.

[Barack_America]

4. Such a short stay.

Better luck at Free Republic.

[HuckleB]

5. It went on far too long.

[AverageJoe5]

6. The reason for reading Al Jazeera

You need to be exposed to diverse news sources to get a balanced perspective on current world newsworthy events. Al Jazeera provides that diversity. Don't be influenced by the U.S. news media's unwarranted trashing of Al Jazeera. Have an open mind.

[WhiteTara]

8. oh please. Don't be such a narrow minded fool

if you only read what YOU agree with, you'll never learn a single thing...come to think of it, I'll bet you think you already know it all.

[daleo]

9. It counter balances Fox news

Add them together, divide by two, and you get Truth.

[EFerrari]

11. There's a good news show about the Middle East on Link TV.

It's called "Mosaic" and it's a run down of the days top stories in the region from local outlets there. Where the broadcast is in another language, there are English subtitles or voice over.

[bananas]

13. This is "Aljazeera Magazine", not related to "Al Jazeera TV"

"Al Jazeera TV" is www.aljazeera.net
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljazeera.com

[Barack_America]

2. Not helpful.

This will be used against the protesters, 99.99% of whom want nothing to do with this woman or her "movement".

[EFerrari]

7. I wonder if this is what Chavez meant.

Good grief. Those poor people.

[Downwinder]

10. Who is funding MKO, IRI?

[David__77]

12. Of course they're involved.

I don't see this as a reason not to support the protesters, but it does mean there is a serious need for new political formations to lead the opposition. Hopefully these will be progressive, secular, and anti-imperialist. But hopes have little to do with it...