AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BRUSSELS — A US official urged European nations Wednesday to offer shelter to Iranian dissidents housed for decades in a camp in Iraq and last week removed from a Washington terrorist blacklist. US Ambassador Daniel Fried told a media briefing he was in Europe for talks in Geneva and in Brussels on…
Month: October 2012
‘Long overdue’
THE WASHINGTON TIMES (EMBASSY ROW) Members of Congress from the left to the right applauded Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for removing a major Iranian dissident group from the U.S. terrorist list, although they complained that her action was “long overdue.” The congressional supporters of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran and…
Levin Statement on Removal of MEK from FTO List
LEVIN.SENATE.GOV WASHINGTON – Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., made the following statement regarding the removal of the MEK from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations: “Secretary Clinton’s determination regarding the status of the MEK was overdue and appropriate. According to the State Department, the Secretary’s decision is based in part on the…
Iranian group is taken off U.S.’s list of terrorists
THE WASHINGTON TIMES NEW YORK — The Obama administration has taken a group of Iranian dissidents off the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, culminating a long-running public relations campaign by the dissidents and their supporters. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s decision to remove the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK) from the list will be published…