Breitbart By JOSHUA KLEIN
The MEK Iranian dissident organization “poses the greatest internal existential danger to the oppressive Iranian Regime” which is “deathly afraid” of the “very committed, very organized, and very resourceful” resistance group, according to author and national security expert L. Todd Wood, whose latest book details the origins and firsthand accounts of many of its current members who seek a free and democratic Iran, all while Tehran and its proxies continue destabilizing acts that risk sparking an even broader Middle East conflict.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Wood, a political analyst, discussed the exiled People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) opposition group — the subject of his recently-published book, Paying the Price: The Untold Story of the Iranian Resistance — and its formation “as a resistance unit against the Shah,” as well as the current threats it poses to today’s theocratic regime, as he highlighted the regime’s brutality as well as the resistance as a viable alternative.
“They were working with the mullahs of Iran [then] but when the power shifted, the mullahs saw an opportunity and took power and persecuted the MEK,” he noted. “They had massive power inside the country at a grassroots level, and the mullahs went on a serious repression campaign murdering and imprisoning many of them.”
“In 1988, they killed 30,000 of them in one month,” he added, noting that he had interviewed many survivors.
Over time, Wood explained, the group “developed a force on the Iranian border and a lot of them escaped to the border inside then [Iraqi dictator] Saddam’s Hussein’s protection.”
“They had 300 armored vehicles, a 10,000-man army, [and] they conducted incursions inside of Iran, and really threatened the regime,” he said. “And when the Gulf War happened the Bush administration sent the US army there to disarm them, because they thought they were terrorists.”
Subsequently, he added, “a U.S. judge forced the Clinton State Department to take them off the terrorist list because there was no evidence [showing that to be true],” and “when the Obama administration came in they allowed the Iranian intelligence services and some of their proxy forces to begin assassinating them.”
“A lot of the operations against them were raids on the camp, where hundreds were killed at a time, and when they later moved into Camp Liberty near Baghdad, they had multiple missiles strikes on that facility,” he continued…
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