20 Feb, 2012
Assassination of Iranian Scientist and US Role
By Firouz Mahvi
The mysterious
assassination of an Iranian chief scientist on 12 January,
raised questions on who was obliged for a array of
similar killings.
Rumors instituted by pro-Iran bloggers
made headlines claiming it was a “joint Mossad-MEK”
operation. None of the claims were corroborated by anything beyond
an unnamed “secret Israeli source.”
A month later,
the NBC news ran a square with the same headline: Israel teams with apprehension organisation to kill
Iran’s chief scientists. A story that seemed
designed to flow fuel on an almost extinguished fire.
When
asked about a probable MEK involvement, an unnamed US
official told NBC “All your inclinations are correct.”
Another unnamed central in the same story cautioned “It
hasn’t been clearly reliable yet.”
The MEK had rejected
any impasse right after the attack. So why would this
suddenly be a news story again?
It is really apparent the NBC
pitch is designed primly to demonize the MEK/PMOI which
constitutes the principal antithesis to the Iranian regime
today.
The story stirred a array of articles both in
favor and opposite the assassinations. The common denominator
remained MEK-bashing, as intended. The mullahs and their US
lobbies were pleased as Punch.
A CNN report who attempted to determine the NBC
claim ended quoting other comparison US officials that “they are
not certain of the [MEK] connection.”
What would the MEK gain
from such apprehension acts? An classification that stopped its
military operations some-more than a decade ago, showed extreme
cooperativeness with US-led bloc army in Iraq in
handing in all its weapons, was successfully private from
European militant lists after years of consummate legal
investigations; and has won a identical U.S. Federal Court of Appeals’ ruling -
pending doing by the State Department for scarcely 20
months.
Getting concerned in assassinations would certainly
be the final thing they need at this stage.
While the MEK
remained committed to non-violent means, the Obama
Administration deserted their share of the written
commitment which was to strengthen the unarmed MEK members in
Iraq until their final disposition. This has so distant cost the
lives of some 50 MEK members who were cold-bloodedly
murdered during Iraqi army raids on their stay since 2009,
while US infantry were station by and watching.
The State
Department, incompetent to furnish a fragment of justification to back
MEK’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)
designation scarcely dual years after the D.C. Court told them
to do so, apparently feels undone by a flourishing series of
high ranking former officials publicly doubt the
Administration’s pomposity when it comes to respecting the
rule of law.
These eminent personalities, who served the
United States honorably for many years, embody former
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Former
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Patrick Kennedy and
Governor Ed Rendell from the Democrats as good as Rudy
Giuliani, Andrew Card, John Bolton and others from the
Republicans, and Former FBI and CIA Directors and Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
“I call on the State Department of the
United States to be honest, to be truthful, and to follow
the facts,” Kennedy told a conference in New York on Feb.
14, referring to MEK’s weird FTO designation.
With the
elections entrance adult in a few months, the final thing the
State Department needs is the annoyance of being seen
insincere and even unqualified of responding to final of its
own courts to yield contribution for its claims.
Attributing
assassination of Iranian scientists to the MEK which no
doubt would serve, most of all, Iran’s state of terror,
could also offer the US State Department with the
following:
A – Short of any proofs, it would help justify
MEK’s FTO nomination with novella rather than facts.
B -
Sending an surreptitious warning to those former officials who
don’t buy Tehran-orchestrated insult of the Iranian
resistance that: If you continue, we’ll assign you with
providing support for terrorism.
C – Fabricating links
between MEK and Israel would also fuel the magnanimous and the
left to furnish anti-MEK sentiments which help bringing the
State Department out of siege in the open opinion in
this case.
D – Justify abandoning insurance of the
refugees in Camp Ashraf.
Whichever of the reasons,
producing artificial novella stories about MEK genocide squads
teaming adult with Israel, makes those unnamed US
Administration officials demeanour some-more absurd than
right.
It will certainly serve supplement salt to the wounds of
those in Iran who had hopes in President Obama when they
poured in millions into the streets of Tehran following the
2009 sham presidential elections only to be disillusioned
with Obama’s “non interference” which was equal to a green
light for their vicious suppression.
Even many Iranians who
are not indispensably in love with the MEK see USA’s forsaken
promise to strengthen Ashraf and vouchsafing the unarmed refugees
to be slaughtered by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s thugs as
a betrayal.
The least approaching from this Administration is
to stretch itself from such ridiculous disinformation by
publicly disapproval these baseless
accusations.
ENDS

