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  1. JOHN BOLTON WAS PAID BY TERRORISTS THAT KILLED AMERICANS
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  3. The MEK is a terrorist movement that seeks to overthrow the government of Iran. Its ideology is an eclectic mix of Islamism, Feminism, Marxism, and personality cultism. It was listed as a terrorist organization for the murder of several Americans in the 1970s. In the 1980s the MEK fought against Iran and has no support in Iran because of this betrayal.
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  5. The MEK was delisted as a terrorist organization by the US and other Western governments after years of lobbying that involved paying many politicians "speaking fees". One of the greatest supporters of the MEK while they were listed as a terrorist group by the US government was John Bolton. This was patently illegal to coordinate with and take money from a terrorist organization, yet no one has been charged.
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  7. John Bolton's support of this organization should be of concern to everyone. His willingness to consort with terrorists and cultists reflects poor judgement at best and disloyalty at worst. He has routinely subverted American interests and the cause of international peace.
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  9. MEK paid John Bolton while they were listed as a terrorist organization.
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  11. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/john-boltons-arrival-means-the-iran-deal-is-on-european-life-support
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  13. http://archive.is/nbJYy
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  15. Previously recognized by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, the MEK spent vast sums paying high profile U.S. politicians to speak in favor of its cause. Bolton has spoken for the group on numerous occasions and one source tells me he was paid significantly for doing so.
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  17. MEK paid many US politicians “speaking fees” notably Rudolph Giuliani. John Bolton spoke and attended numerous functions during this time.
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  19. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/us/politics/lobbying-support-for-iranian-exile-group-crosses-party-lines.html
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  21. http://archive.is/TBxJl
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  23. http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Speakers_0.pdf
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  25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110928125447/http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Speakers_0.pdf
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  27. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/speaking-fees-from-mek-come-under-government-scrutiny
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  29. http://archive.is/IzttH
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  31. https://thinkprogress.org/romney-adviser-john-bolton-campaigns-for-alleged-terror-group-13fe7d12ac37/
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  33. http://archive.is/Mror7
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  35. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0808/Iranian-group-s-big-money-push-to-get-off-US-terrorist-list
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  37. http://archive.is/QxY5j
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  39. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/john-boltons-arrival-means-the-iran-deal-is-on-european-life-support
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  41. http://archive.is/nbJYy
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  43. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/06/iranian-terrorist-group-mek-pays-big-to-make-history-go-away-iranian-group-mek-lobbies-hard-pledges-peace-as-it-pleads-case-to-be-delisted-dc-listening-terror-group-pays-to-make-history-go-awayseries
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  45. http://archive.is/xYB52
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  47. http://www.voltairenet.org/article166102.html
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  49. http://archive.is/X9RHU
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  51. http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/165921-top-lobby-firm-works-to-remove-group-from-terrorist-list
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  53. http://archive.is/RBazo
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  55. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/when-terrorist-group-not-terrorist-group/
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  57. http://archive.is/Uqqw7
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  59. MEK Continued Terrorism
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  61. http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/peoples_muhajedin_of_iran_mek/
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  63. http://archive.is/mk5HG
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  65. The group formally renounced the use of violence in 2001, but an FBI investigation found MEK members to be “actively involved in planning and executing acts of terrorism” as recently as 2004. In February 2012, NBC News reported that the Israeli government had coordinated with MEK to launch a series of assassinations against Iranian nuclear scientists.
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  67. https://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3027ledeen_iran.html
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  69. http://archive.is/ppxNz
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  71. On June 23 [2003], France's Secret Service launched a crackdown on the Iranian Mujahadeen e-Khalq (MEK, or MKO), an anti-regime group that has been on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 1997. Simultaneous with recent confrontations in Iran, some 150 MEK members were arrested at their "international headquarters" near Paris, and accused of plotting terrorist attacks against Iranian embassies and diplomats throughout Europe. The MEK members arrested by the French authorities were operating under the cover of the National Council for Resistance in Iran, the MEK's international front group. Among those arrested were MEK cult leader Maryam Rajavi and her husband, MEK military chief Massoud Rajavi. Following the arrests, nine members of the group set themselves on fire in protests in Paris. One died.
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  73. MEK Cult Behavior
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  75. https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/iran0505.pdf
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  77. https://web.archive.org/web/20170201075932/https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/iran0505.pdf
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  79. Human Rights Watch interviewed five of these former MKO members who were held in Abu Ghraib prison. Their testimonies, together with testimonies collected from seven other former MKO members, paint a grim picture of how the organization treated its members, particularly those who held dissenting opinions or expressed an intent to leave the organization.
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  81. The former MKO members reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members. The MKO held political dissidents in its internal prisons during the 1990s and later turned over many of them to Iraqi authorities, who held them in Abu Ghraib. In one case, Mohammad Hussein Sobhani was held in solitary confinement for eight-and-a-half years inside the MKO camps, from September 1992 to January 2001.
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  83. The witnesses reported two cases of deaths under interrogation. Three dissident members—Abbas Sadeghinejad, Ali Ghashghavi, and Alireza Mir Asgari—witnessed the death of a fellow dissident, Parviz Ahmadi, inside their prison cell in Camp Ashraf. Abbas Sadeghinejad told Human Rights Watch that he also witnessed the death of another prisoner, Ghorbanali Torabi, after Torabi was returned from an interrogation session to a prison cell that he shared with Sadeghinejad.
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  85. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf
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  87. https://web.archive.org/web/20120724031355/https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf
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  89. The MeK leadership requires members to study MeK ideology and to participate in indoctrination sessions that are characterized by a mix of propaganda and fear tactics. Group members are required to watch films of the Rajavis’ speeches and footage of various street demonstrations throughout Europe. The MeK broadcasts from its own radio and television stations. MeK leaders permit group members to listen only to these stations and to read only internal reports and bulletins, such as the MeK-produced Mojahed newspaper and other approved texts. Violators are punished. To reduce the appearance of brainwashing, MeK leaders describe these restricted activities as opposition to the IRI or as exercises in military theory.
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  91. More on the MEK
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  93. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran
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  95. http://archive.is/HiN6e
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  97. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Resistance_of_Iran
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  99. http://archive.is/J8idO
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  101. http://www.delistmek.com/MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALQ-AN-INDEPENDENT-ASSESSMENT.pdf
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  103. https://web.archive.org/web/20170223152631/http://www.delistmek.com/MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALQ-AN-INDEPENDENT-ASSESSMENT.pdf
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  105. https://auislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/1011capstones%3A108/datastream/PDF/view
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  107. https://web.archive.org/web/20180324071739/https://auislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/1011capstones%3A108/datastream/PDF/view
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  109. https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/iran0505.pdf
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  111. https://web.archive.org/web/20170201075932/https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/iran0505.pdf
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  113. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/23/heres-john-bolton-promising-regime-change-iran-end-2018/
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  115. http://archive.is/Kg35E
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  117. http://m.dw.com/en/iran-and-north-korea-the-return-of-john-boltons-axis-of-evil/a-43105152
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  119. http://archive.is/Mg9bo
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  121. http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/peoples_muhajedin_of_iran_mek/
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  123. http://archive.is/mk5HG
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  125. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/bolton-and-the-mek/
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  127. http://archive.is/Wo2dY
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  129. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article115495118.html
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  131. http://archive.is/kGYyh
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  133. http://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=9406
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  135. http://archive.is/yGMzh
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  137. https://sputniknews.com/us/201803231062841135-top-seven-john-bolton-facts/
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  139. http://archive.is/1TiSH
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  141. https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
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  143. http://archive.is/lzcFP
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