We view the MEK as a terrorist organization and we are treating it as such.
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One of the most prominent MEK endorsers was former Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), but the list includes many Republicans.
As part of the delisting, assets the MEK holds in the US are no longer blocked, as of Friday.
That demand is being complied with, and the MEK forces are being disarmed.
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The MEK murdered two American military attaches in the 1970s and still commemorates the killings every day during morning reveille.
Shahriar Kia, an MEK spokesman, said the incident left six dead and more than 100 injured, some of them critically.
The MEK was given refuge in Iraq by former leader Saddam Hussein, but has fallen out of favour with Iraq's new Shia-dominated leadership.
The MEK led a guerrilla campaign against the US-backed Shah of Iran in the 1970s and also opposed Iran's clerical leaders who replaced the Shah.
And it was also a way of making sure that these MEK forces were not going to get into a clash with the pro-Iranian forces.
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The MEK is an updated version of the Sequential Circuits Pro-One, probably the coolest widely available and affordable vintage synth, and they were both designed by Dave Smith.
"If we wanted to show the double standards of the American government, we couldn't have done it better ourselves, " Mr. Ahmadinejad said, in reference to the MeK's delisting.
Accordingly, we demanded the surrender of MEK forces in Iraq.
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The MEK's supporters, despite this U.S. ban, launched an extensive lobbying campaign inside Washington over the past 18 months to get off the list, including paying former U.S. officials to give speeches.
"We have no evidence and we have no confidence that the MEK is an organisation that can promote democratic values that we would like to see in Iran, " the unnamed official told reporters.
In November, about 150 Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives issued a statement saying that the MEK should be taken off the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, calling it a legitimate democratic opposition group.
The state department said its decision had been taken in view of the MEK's public renunciation of violence, the absence of any confirmed acts of terrorism by the organisation for more than a decade and its co-operation in the closure of their paramilitary base in Iraq.
Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.
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Now, because of that local decision to work out this temporary arrangement, there were some people who believed that we were giving the MEK special treatment, and there were even news stories that said that the Defense Department planned to use the MEK as a Northern Alliance-type organization making the analogy to Afghanistan as a Northern Alliance-type organization against the government of Iran.
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Now, because of that local decision to work out this temporary arrangement, there were some people who believed that we were giving the MEK special treatment, and there were even news stories that said that the Defense Department planned to use the MEK as a Northern Alliance-type organization -- making the analogy to Afghanistan -- as a Northern Alliance-type organization against the government of Iran.
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