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Iran Group MEK's Delisting Doesn't Signal US Approval

The US removed a controversial Iranian opposition group from its list of terrorist organizations, Barbara Slavin and Laura Rozen report for Al-Monitor, after most of its members decamped from their base near Baghdad. The move does not mean the US condones the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, which has assassinated Americans and Iranians.

Barbara Slavin
Barbara Slavin
Sep 21, 2012
A woman holds a picture of Iranian resistance leader Massoud Rajavi as supporters of the main Iranian opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the U.N. outside the U.N. headquarters in New York September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
A woman holds a picture of Iranian resistance leader Massoud Rajavi as supporters of the main Iranian opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the UN outside the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 22, 2011. — REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

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