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Numerous prominent politicians from both major political parties in the United States have not only been enthusiastically promoting and advocating on behalf of a designated terrorist organization, the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK/MKO/PMOI), but they have been receiving substantial amounts of cash from that terrorist group as they do so. There is only one list of "designated terrorist organizations" under the law, and MEK is every bit as much on that list as Kashimiri Lashkar-e-Taiba or Al-Qaeda are. Yet you will never, ever see those politicians being indicted by Obama's Department of Justice for their far more extensive -- and paid -- involvement with MEK.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/04/speech/

The Finnish crane manufacturer, Konecranes, has announced that it would stop selling new equipment and services to Iran. The advocacy organisation, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), urged the company to leave Iran because one of the regime's preferred methods of execution is public hanging from construction cranes.

Konecranes follows four other crane manufacturers, -- Tadano, Terex, UNIC, and Liebherr, -- which ended their business in Iran following public calls from UANI. Another Finnish company, Cargotec, has exported ship cranes to Iran. UANI launched its "Cranes Campaign" in May 2011 to exert pressure on crane manufacturers.

http://t.uani.com/noivr6

An Iranian former non-Marxist revolutionary activist asserted that Iran's communist Tudeh Party is reorganizing among factory and government workers, and intellectuals. He claimed that many former Tudeh sympathizers hold positions in the bureaucracy and elsewhere, and opined that many still privately support the movement. He mentioned one organizer who has re-emerged behind the scenes of recent bus worker and other labor strikes.

The US has agreed to sell high-end fighter jets, helicopters, radar and missiles to Saudi Arabia. The deal is one of the biggest single US arms deals ever. Mouin Rabbani, independent writer and analyst, sees the deal as a way of "solidifying the strategic alliance between the US and Saudi Arabia" with the "underlying message" that "Iran will not be able to attack Saudi Arabia without eliciting an American response."

But Rabbani does not see the arms deal itself fulfilling Saudi defense needs. "I think with all due respect that the people who try to understand the arms purchase on the basis of Saudi military needs fundamentally misunderstand" the situation, he said. "Any military objective is entirely secondary. What this is really about is to buy regime security. Military acquisitions are an important way of recycling petrodollars."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/saudi-arabia/101022/why-saudi-arabia-stockpiling-us-weapons

Maryam Rajavi, one of the leaders of the Iranian terrorist organisation, People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), was on a visit to Finland on 11-12 March 2010. Ms Rajavi met with many Finnish politicians, public officials, church leaders, and other public figures.

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I wrote several letters to Finnish politicians and public officials urging them not to have any contact with the Iranian terrorist leader Maryam Rajavi and her representatives. Below is my letter to former Conservative MEP Piia-Noora Kauppi, who has a long-standing relationship to Ms Rajavi's organisation. Ms Kauppi is now Managing Director of the Federation of Finnish Financial Services.

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Finland's political elite has fallen under the spell of the Rajavi cult. The Iranian terrorist leader Maryam Rajavi has ensnared legislators in several countries and the European Parliament. When two MKO terrorists were detained in Finland, few really knew what the group stood for.

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A documentary about the Iranian terrorist organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The documentary was first broadcast on Al Jazeera on 17 October 2007.

Transcript: http://bit.ly/bHuHfv

Archbishop Jukka Paarma of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland met with Maryam Rajavi, leader of the CIA-backed Iranian terrorist organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), in Turku on 12 March 2010. Rajavi called on the Finnish Lutheran Church to support PMOI's base in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, the church reported.

"Around 3,400 PMOI members are living in difficult conditions in Camp Ashraf," Paarma told local daily Turun Sanomat. "Representatives of different churches have written letters about the issue. I will meet with some ministers of the Finnish government over the weekend, let us see what can be done about the matter," the archbishop said.

The church's press office reported that the goal of Rajavi's "National Resistance Council of Iran" is "to develop Iran into a democratic state that respects human rights, and where religion and state are separated." Turun Sanomat did do some googling and recalled that PMOI was, until very recently, on the EU's list of terrorist organisations.

The church quoted Rajavi as saying that religious leaders should "uphold universal ethical values." Rajavi expressed a wish that she could one day receive the archbishop in a Christian church in Tehran. Maybe she will invite the archbishop to PMOI's parade? The Finnish Lutheran Church has a long tradition of blessing military parades.