{"id":21582,"date":"2016-11-29T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/21582-democratic-senator-giuliani-serves-the-u-s-in-supporting-the-mek"},"modified":"2023-01-17T00:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:39:18","slug":"democratic-senator-giuliani-serves-the-u-s-in-supporting-the-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/democratic-senator-giuliani-serves-the-u-s-in-supporting-the-mek\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senator: Giuliani serves the U.S. in supporting the MEK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a stinging rebuke to Daniel Benjamin\u2019s article critiquing the Mujahidin e-Khalq (MEK), and, by extension, the potential choice of Rudy Giuliani as Trump\u2019s secretary of state, former Democratic Senator for New Jersey, Robert Torricelli, argued<\/a> that Giuliani had served the U.S. well by participating in a broad coalition of American policy-makers committed to the MEK as a legitimate democratic opposition to the current Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

That coalition, Torricelli wrote, \u201cincludes two former chairmen of the joint chiefs, two former CIA directors, a former attorney general and the former chairs of both political parties,\u201d and spans the \u201cideological range,\u201d comprising \u201ceveryone from Howard Dean and Patrick Kennedy to Newt Gingrich and John Bolton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torricelli explained the history of the MEK, and concluded that \u201cthe MEK did take part in legitimate political and military action against the Iranian regime.\u201d There is no evidence, he said, to support Benjamin\u2019s assertion that the MEK committed terrorist acts against Americans or Iranians.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Torricelli disputes Benjamin\u2019s claim that the MEK assisted in Saddam Hussein\u2019s repression of the Kurds. This, he said, is denied by U.S. Army leaders in Iraq. In addition, with the arrival of U.S. forces in 2003, \u201cthe MEK willingly handed over its weapons, accepted U.S. protection and actively exposed the Iranian regime and its proxies\u2019 terrorist activities. This included saving American lives by identifying IED locations.\u201d Hence, the MEK enjoys the support of former U.S. military personnel, \u201cincluding the former army anti-terror officer and the U.S. military police general assigned to the camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torricelli was a member of the Foreign Relation Committee in 1997, when \u201ca group at State succeeded in convincing President Bill Clinton to place the MEK on the State Department list of terrorist organizations.\u201d Torricelli said, \u201cSome claimed<\/a> at the time that this decision was mainly intended<\/a> as a goodwill gesture to Iran.\u201d He reviewed the State Department file on the MEK, and \u201cfound no evidence, no testimony and no reason for the designation except placating Tehran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torricelli pointed out that Giuliani was thanked by \u201cSenator McCain, Secretary Clinton, Deputy Secretary Blinken and John Kerry\u2019s own personal representative on the MEK, Jonathan Weiner,\u201d when he paid his own transportation costs to be part of a delegation to the MEK\u2019s leader, Maryam Rajavi, to persuade her to assist U.S. diplomacy in 2012.<\/p>\n

The fact that Giuliani sometimes accepted speaking fees is a non-issue: \u201cby this standard the views of Thomas Paine, Elie Wiesel and Winston Churchill\u2014all of whom accepted speaking fees from various international organizations\u2014would have been silenced as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torricelli called the hope of reconciliation with the mullahs \u201can illusion\u201d; \u201cthe most likely crises facing the new president is an escalation in the struggle with the fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran.\u201d Rudy Giuliani, he said, \u201chas lived that struggle for a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torricelli concluded, \u201cThe president-elect may or may not choose Mr. Giuliani as secretary of state. What shouldn\u2019t happen is for countering Tehran and assisting our country to be anything other than a valuable contribution to his consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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