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A meeting of senior law-makers from both Republican and Democratic parties met at the Senate on Thursday to discuss the prospects for change in Iran. The Washington Times reported<\/a> that the event \u201cmarked another step in the remarkable evolution of its organizer, the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran and the NCRI\u2019s largest component, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (People\u2019s Mujahedeen of Iran), or MEK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Describing the MEK as a \u201cfierce opponent of the Islamic republic regime in Tehran and a source of many of the intelligence scoops detailing Tehran\u2019s clandestine nuclear programs,\u201d The Washington Times said it \u201cwas placed on the State Department\u2019s list of terrorist organizations in the mid-1990s but, backed by a growing number of supporters on Capitol Hill, was removed from the list in 2012.\u201d The MEK \u201cremain committed to the peaceful overthrow of the theocratic regime in Tehran in favor of a new secular, democratic government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the prospects for change, senior Congressional leaders argued that two factors have heightened the probability of positive change: the election of Donald Trump and the team he is assembling to take office; and the resolution of the issue of the MEK\u2019s Camp Liberty in Iraq. The latter \u2013 the release of more than 3,000 MEK members from harassment and attack from the Iranian regime \u2013 means, said former Senator Joseph Leiberman, that the NCRI \u201ccan focus on resistance and changing the regime\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n

As for Donald Trump, Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security, said \u201cThere is every reason to believe and be hopeful that the President-elect will take a new set of eyes and a new approach to this theocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, John McCain, said of Mr. Trump\u2019s choice of James N. Mattis to head the Defense Department, was a good one given that the retired Marine general has criticized the Iran nuclear deal as \u201cimperfect\u201d and had declared that \u201cthe Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Senator Joseph Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic candidate for Vice President, said, \u201cI really think a new day is dawning for the cause of a free, stable, independent and democratic Iran\u2026Now we go to an administration that is not protective or defensive of the Iran agreement, but is ready to challenge it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran has, The Washington Times reported, \u201cstepped up its warnings\u201d to a President-elect who is deeply critical of the West\u2019s nuclear deal. President Hassan Rouhani said, just this week, that Mr. Trump \u201cmay wish many things, he may wish to weaken or tear up [the nuclear deal], but will we and our nation allow such a thing? America cannot influence our path of strength and endurance.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, those at the Senate event, which included Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, a veteran of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, reiterated that Iran \u201chas already violated both the letter and the spirit of the deal, with little sign that Tehran has modified its policies or stopped sowing instability in regional hot spots from Syria to Yemen,\u201d said The Washington Times.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lieberman said Mr. Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress could take a number of steps to stop Iran\u2019s aggression, including new unilateral sanctions and designating Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which exports the revolution for the country\u2019s theocracy, as a terrorist organization. \u201cThe sanctions could hurt,\u201d The Washington Times said, \u201cbecause the IRGC has built up a major business empire in addition to its military operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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