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Giulani Says America Will Invade Iran, Has Ties To an Iranian Cult



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On September 22, at least 25 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Ahvaz, Iran, during a military parade.


ISIS has claimed they were responsible for the terror attack, while "Members of a anti-government group dubbed the Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahvaz," writes the Washington Times. And Iran has blamed the United States and it's Persian Gulf allies of being behind the attacks.


Iran has its problems, but they are not wrong to worry about the United States or it's allies invading Iran. Not only does Iran find itself on opposite sides of Saudi Arabia in the civil war in Yemen, but people in and around Washington have displayed inflammatory rhetoric.


Two days before the terror attacks, the US Mission to the UN tweeted, with no sense of irony:



On the same day as the terrorist attack, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, said: "I don't know when we we're going to overthrow them. It could be in a few days, months or a couple of years, but it's going to happen." Adding, "They are going to be overthrown. The people of Iran obviously have had enough."


The people of Iraq were sick of Saddam Hussein, but that didn't prevent them from fighting against the United States, even though the U.S. captured and executed him. What idiots like Giuliani can't understand is that when the United States invades a Muslim country, you're guaranteeing the hardliners getting power in those countries.


Unfortunately, Giuliani is a hard liner.


On CNN, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that "The United States is not looking to do a regime change in Iran."


The story is not about whether or not the U.S. will invade Iran. My advice, always prepare yourself for the eventuality that the U.S. will invade Iran one day.


This story is Giuliani and other hawks connection to a group called the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, also known as the MEK. The MEK is "an extreme Iranian opposition group" that use to be listed as a terrorist group by the United States and Europe.


The group has often been referred to as a cult, and reporting from Human Rights Watch shows characteristic of a cult, on top of the human right violations (emphasis mine on cult characteristics):


Human Rights Watch interviewed five of these former MKO members who were held in Abu Ghraib prison. Their testimonies, together with testimonies collected from seven other former MKO members, paint a grim picture of how the organization treated its members, particularly those who held dissenting opinions or expressed an intent to leave the organization.


The former MKO members reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members. The MKO held political dissidents in its internal prisons during the 1990s and later turned over many of them to Iraqi authorities, who held them in Abu Ghraib. In one case, Mohammad Hussein Sobhani was held in solitary confinement for eight-and-a-half years inside the MKO camps, from September 1992 to January 2001.


The witnesses reported two cases of deaths under interrogation. Three dissident members—Abbas Sadeghinejad, Ali Ghashghavi, and Alireza Mir Asgari—witnessed the death of a fellow dissident, Parviz Ahmadi, inside their prison cell in Camp Ashraf. Abbas Sadeghinejad told Human Rights Watch that he also witnessed the death of another prisoner, Ghorbanali Torabi, after Torabi was returned from an interrogation session to a prison cell that he shared with Sadeghinejad.


Back in June, "Giuliani spoke to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)," according to the Guardian. The NCRI is largely controlled by the MEK.


The Guardian reports:


“We are now realistically being able to see an end to the regime in Iran,” Giuliani told a crowd of about 4,000, many of them refugees and young eastern Europeans who had been bussed in to attend the rally in return for a weekend trip to Paris.


“The mullahs must go, the ayatollah must go, and they must be replaced by a democratic government which Madam Rajavi represents,” Giuliani said. “Freedom is right around the corner … Next year I want to have this convention in Tehran!”


Murdering dissidents doesn't sound like pro-Democratic values to me, but I'm not on the same moral plane as someone like Giuliani.


The founder of the National Iranian American Council, Trita Parsi, wrote of what would happen when the U.S. government would remove the MEK from the terrorist list:


When my organization, the National Iranian American Council, campaigned against the delisting of the MEK in 2012, I gathered that some in Washington were uncomfortable with our position even though they had no sympathy for the group. They viewed the MEK as irrelevant and felt that resources should not be spent on fighting to keep the group on the list. Others feared the harassment that inevitably follows speaking up against the MEK. But we remained firm in our opposition and pointed out that if the MEK was taken off the list, the warmongers in Washington would be able to throw their full support behind the organization and use it to advance its policy of confrontation against Iran.


Propping up a terrorist group with the promise of democracy is as American Imperialist as one could get...

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