{"id":10376,"date":"2011-04-21T06:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/10376-dont-politicize-terror-designations"},"modified":"2023-01-13T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T20:25:36","slug":"dont-politicize-terror-designations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/dont-politicize-terror-designations\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Politicize Terror Designations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"familt-security-logo\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-37291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/familt-security-logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 5px;float: left\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/>FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS<\/strong> &#8211; Fred Gedrich April 20, 2011<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently spoke in Germany about Iran\u2019s insinuation into Arab state uprisings.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she didn\u2019t offer a meaningful remedy. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>One of the main goals of Iran\u2019s theocratic rulers is to export and\/or solidify their Shiite Islamic Revolution in Arab states currently confronted with political turbulence and violence.\u00a0 One sure way to mitigate Iranian trouble-making capabilities is for Secretary Clinton to remove U.S.-imposed legal restrictions on the one Iranian resistance group the regime fears most.<\/p>\n<p>Much to the dismay of Iran\u2019s rulers and some U.S. policy-makers, the movement to remove the Iranian Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) from the U.S. foreign terrorist organization (FTO) list gained strength in past months when more influential Americans joined the effort urging Secretary Clinton to do it.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The State Department has for 13 plus years branded the MeK as an FTO.\u00a0 The resistance group\u2019s principal crime: trying to remove Iran\u2019s terrorist rulers from power.\u00a0 The designation is used by Iran and others as an excuse to torture and execute MeK members.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Immigration and Nationality Act applies to foreign groups and nations that engage in terrorist activity and threaten U.S. security and citizens.\u00a0 The law requires the secretary of state to inform Congress of those meeting this stated terrorist criteria.\u00a0 The designation freezes assets, bars foreign nationals with terror ties from entering the United States, and criminalizes providing terrorists with material assistance. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Secretary of State Madelyn Albright designated the MeK an FTO in 1997, and Great Britain and the European Union followed suit.\u00a0 It\u2019s widely believed Albright and others thought it would facilitate better relations with hostile Iranian rulers waging a one-sided \u201cDeath to America\u201d war against the U.S. since 1979, earning the regime a richly deserved label as a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terror.\u00a0 Although rapprochement with Iran hasn\u2019t succeeded during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations or modified the regime\u2019s terrorist, hegemonic and nuclear weapons development activities, it has succeeded in disabling the\u00a0 MeK.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>However, that situation is changing.\u00a0 The EU and Britain removed the MeK from their terror listings and a U.S. appeals court in July 2010 ordered the State Department to reevaluate the group\u2019s designation.\u00a0 Court members and other Americans have raised serious doubts about the accuracy and completeness of information the Department used label the MeK a terrorist group.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Among other things, the secretary of state\u2019s most recent terrorism report to Congress fails to mention that the MEK (1) ceased its military campaign against the Iranian government in 2001; (2) voluntarily handed over its arms to U.S. forces in Iraq in 2003; (3) provides valuable information to U.S. intelligence about Iran\u2019s illegal nuclear program and activities; (4) advocates a secular, democratic, gender equality, non-nuclear, and non-death penalty state for Iran; (5) hasn\u2019t had a credible allegation of terrorism recorded in the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, RAND, and the Global Database on Terrorism databases in many years.\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The State Department\u2019s former Counterterrorism Coordinator (2007-2009), Ambassador Dell Dailey, whose former office is the main source for determining whether allegations of terrorist activities are true, casts light on the State Department\u2019s dubious FTO-designation process.\u00a0 He said, \u201cIt brings great discredit to the United States for the MeK, which isn\u2019t killing Americans, to be on the FTO list while Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban, which is killing Americans in great numbers, is not.\u00a0 The MeK listing gives protection to the Iranian leadership which has sworn to kill us.\u00a0 It\u2019s appropriate that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fix this gross embarrassment and obvious painful error by delisting the MeK as soon as possible.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Other Americans calling for MeK delisting include former and current House Foreign Affairs Committee chairs, Reps. Lee Hamilton (D-IN) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL); President Bill Clinton\u2019s UN envoy Bill Richardson, CIA Director James Woolsey, and FBI Director Louis Freeh; President George W. Bush\u2019s Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and UN envoy John Bolton; President Barack Obama\u2019s former National Security Advisor General James Jones; former Joint Chiefs Chairs Generals Hugh Shelton and Peter Pace; former DNC Chair Howard Dean; and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.\u00a0 Additionally, a bi-partisan coalition of 113 House members invited Secretary Clinton to delist the MeK (H.Res.1431, sponsored by Rep. Bob Filner D-CA) in June 2010.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>It isn\u2019t good policy to politicize State Department terror designations.\u00a0 These designations should be reserved for those nations or groups who threaten U.S. security and citizens.\u00a0 The current Iranian regime does, and the MeK doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 U.S. security is better served by treating the MeK as a legitimate resistance group like the EU and Britain are now doing \u2013\u00a0 enabling it to more easily join other Iranians in peaceably attempting to transform their native country from a religious totalitarian dictatorship to a free state.\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Secretary Clinton should heed the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King as quoted by legendary civil rights and peace champion Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) while addressing the MeK matter, \u201cThe time is always right to do right.\u00a0 Not next week, not next month, not next year, but now. \u201d <br \/>\u00a0<br \/><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Family Security Matters Contributor Fred Gedrich is a foreign policy and national security analyst and served in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense.\u00a0 He visited Lebanon on official assignment shortly after the end of the country\u2019s civil war.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS &ndash; Fred Gedrich April 20, 2011 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently spoke in Germany about Iran&rsquo;s insinuation into Arab state uprisings.&nbsp; Unfortunately, she didn&rsquo;t offer [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-10376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-iran-resistance","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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