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| MKO courting both US and Saddam: Iran |
| 2003-03-28 |
| The leading Iranian armed opposition group, the MKO [Mujahedin-e-Khalq] , is playing a double game by courting both Washington and Baghdad, Iran's Information Minister Ali Yunessi claimed on Thursday. "The Mujahadeen is cosying up to the Americans by making them think they're on their side, and at the same time trying to make (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein believe there is a danger from Iran," the minister said on state television. "The Mujahadeen have reached a dead end and they have been forced to take refuge in a region of Iraq where there is little danger of fighting." Terrorists generally aren't big on facing real soldiers. They prefer women and children. And I doubt the U.S. is going to buy any of the MKO's line. The group, based on Marxist and Shiite principals, was instrumental in the overthrow of the shah in 1979 but was later forced out of the country by the Islamic regime and set up camp in Iraq, where it boasted several bases and thousands of fighting men dedicated to the cause. Iranian opposition groups, both Kurd and Shiite, are hostile to the MKO, which has allied itself to Saddam since the mid 1980s and is classified as a terrorist organisation by Iran, the United States and the European Union. That sounds pretty much unanimous... Yunessi called on the Mujahedeen fighters to "abandon your movement's terrorist leaders and return to Iran". Good idea. And, Iran? We won't look when they get home, okay? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 You know your in trouble when Iran declares you a terroritst. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-03-29 08:11:48 |