Depending on who you ask, the MEK is extremely popular with the Iranian population or it is a cult-like organization who lacks popular support within Iran itself. The reality is that the MEK has shown itself to be a truly moderate option to the current Iranian regime. As a part of the larger coalition of […]
The ‘facade’ behind Iran regime’s President Rouhani as ‘moderate’
‘Better’ and ‘much further sanctions’ are how National Council Resistance of Iran (NCRI) representative Dowlat Nowrouzi imagines to be the main communication tools for dealing with the Iranian mullahs’ fundamentalist regime. As tool for measuring economic and human rights compliance and talking about the this year’s nuclear deal Ms. Nowrouzi told the Parliamentary Assembly’s MediaBox […]
The fiction of moderate reform in Iran
The recent national elections in Iran have raised important issues about how foreign powers should view the case of Iran. Many international media outlets have repeated the story that the Iranian regime has sold them on; that Iran is moving towards moderation, and these “elections” are proof of that. However, anyone with even a rudimentary […]
Senator McCain unaware of the serious danger he was in with meeting with so called moderate rebels
The pictures of Senator John McCain and ISIS leader/Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are very disturbing to say the least, at least from a security standpoint, because it also demonstrates just how close operatives of the Islamic State terrorist group (then part of al-Qaeda in Iraq) got to him. I was talking with a couple of friends […]
McCain blasts Obama for “half hearted bombing campaign” against ISIS terrorists, urges president to arm so called “moderate opposition fighters” in Syria?
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today denouncing the Obama Administration’s failing strategy against ISIS and urging the President to undertake efforts to train and assist local forces and protect civilians in Syria as ISIS and other al-Qaeda affiliates continue to expand their control and gain recruits. “Jabhat al-Nusra’s victory over moderate […]
Senator Flake confirms the US is going to pay for training and equipping “moderate” Syrian rebels
I received the following email communication from Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona regarding ISIL: “Dear Mr. Tilford: Thank you for contacting me about the ongoing crisis in Iraq. In the time since the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq at the end of 2011, sectarian tensions and regional instability have fomented the rise of extremist […]
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