Oh look, the GOP are consorting with terrorists again

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

I'm loving your sarcasm, by the way. :P

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[Lenin McCarthy]

I prefer tinfoil hats.
Or perhaps a Faraday burkha.

[Cain]

Republicans are now getting paid to talk on MEK's behalf:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cc6d5774-b23d-11e0-9d80-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1TsZZTAF9

An Iranian exile group is spending millions of dollars in a lobbying effort to be removed from the US's list of foreign terrorist organisations, recruiting a group of US national security luminaries to be its advocates.

Dozens of former officials across the political spectrum – from conservative John Bolton to liberal Howard Dean – have been paid tens of thousands of dollars to speak at events organised by supporters of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or People's Mujahedin, in the US, the Financial Times has learnt.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/us-move-to-delist-mek-as-terror-group-worries-irans-opposition?pageCount=2

Iran specialists are baffled by the vocal backing the MEK enjoys among some heavy-hitters in Washington. Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University in New York, said: "Their [the MEK's] support inside Iran is very, very limited."

"The fact that they're against the government in Iran doesn't make them good," he added in a recent telephone interview. "The only thing that I can think of that would be worse than the present government of Iran is a government of the MEK."

This is also stupid and counterproductive because:

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/iran-innuendo-secret-deals-5676

The Treasury announcement also does not address Iranian motives in fooling around with al-Qaeda, notwithstanding the sharply different interests and objectives between the regime and the group. The motives have to do with shared antagonism from the United States. In particular, they have to do with the United States' own fooling around with the terrorist group-cum-cult known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, which some in the United States foolishly believe should be accepted as a legitimate actor because it opposes the Iranian regime. Tehran is in effect saying, "If you are going to flirt with a terrorist group that is of particular concern to us, we will flirt with a terrorist group that is of particular concern to you." It is important to remember this amid the renewed push, backed by vigorous lobbying on Capitol Hill and the paying of fat fees to notables who will speak on the MEK's behalf, to get the group off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. If delisting were to occur, the harmful effects would include substantial damage to the pro-democracy movement in Iran. An additional effect would be to increase the incentive for Tehran to flirt even more with Sunni terrorists including al-Qaeda types, to the point that some actual secret deals might be struck.