US officials suspect that Israel is funding terrorist groups inside Iran
MEK winning support in Congress – but questions raised over whether lobbying campaign amounts to support for terrorism.
Among those under investigation are the former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, General Hugh Shelton, the former FBI director, Louis Freeh, and Michael Mukasey, who, as attorney-general, oversaw the prosecution of terrorism cases. The heavyweight political backing for the MEK has surprised some US officials because of the organisation's past as a Marxist-Islamist group responsible for the killing of Americans. At one time the MEK supported the Islamic revolution in Iran. Later it allied itself with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The group was banned in 1997.
PressTV: Israel funds terrorist MKO: Investigation - The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986 where it enjoyed the support of the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp, known as Ashraf, near the Iranian border. The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The terrorist group has as well conducted numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials. Israel has been funding the MKO for the past two decades in return for the organization’s providing Tel Aviv with intelligence, security and, if required, operational services.