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March 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Former Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell is among a group of US officials that have accepted money to deliver speeches calling for the removal of the MKO from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The group reportedly includes former Democratic National Chairman and presidential candidate Howard Dean, former Homeland Security Director and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, and former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is also fervently pro-Israel.
“The MEK (MKO) is a designated terrorist group, therefore US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with or providing services to this group,” the Washington Times quoted a Treasury Department spokesman as saying on Friday.
Rendell and others, however, argue that the MKO should be taken off the list because the terror organization has not engaged in violence in more than two decades and shares a common enemy with the United States, namely Iran.
In 2011, The Financial Times reported that US officials, including John Bolton, George W. Bush’s ambassador to the UN, Jim Jones, President Barack Obama’s first national security adviser and Tom Ridge, the first Homeland Security Secretary, have received thousands of dollars from the MKO in exchange for their political influence and support.
Moreover, the MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.
In 1986, the terrorist group was granted a haven and a military base in Iraq by the country’s former dictator Saddam Hussain, who facilitated their continued terrorist attacks against Iranian forces during the Iraqi imposed war against Iran. After the war ended, however, the MKO members assisted Saddam to crush popular uprisings in the country by the Shia and Kurdish opponents of his regime.
The Iraqi ruler was deposed and later executed following a US-led military invasion of the country.
The United States designated the MKO as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
The group has appealed to be taken off the list, claiming that it renounced terrorism in 2001. This is while the group has been confirmed to be involved in several terrorist attacks against Iranian citizens since then.
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