This case reveals Iranian intelligence priorities in America: the Mujahedeen e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian dissident group that was once on the U.S. list of terrorism groups for its attacks on the American citizens in the 1970s. [Deep Sttes guide to Iranian intelligence agencies.] The Iranians were’n’t spying on the U.S. government. They were...
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Why Iran, Not Venezuela, Is the Likeliest U.S. War
The Trump administration is the most bellicose and active on Venezuela, but Iran has never gone away as a target. The Trump administration is trying to link Iran to al-Qaeda. The U.S. is building up anti-regime organizations, which is always a component of regime change policy. And the Trump administration (and Facebook) are playing up...
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Trump Administration Rehabilitates the MEK, Pro-Saddam Iranians
In Iran, the organization known as the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), is “understood to be widely reviled inside Iran as a leftist Islamist cult that sided with Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war,” writes diplomatic correspondent Barbarba Slavin. The Iran-Iraq war resulted in the deaths of a million Iranians, so the MEK is understandably unpopular....
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...