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Audit the Mujahedin-e-Khalq

By Michael Rubin

Published December 30, 2022 11:00am ET

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Audit the Mujahedin-e-Khalq — Protesters demonstrate over the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Jan. 4, 2020. Iran has vowed "harsh retaliation" for the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Tehran's top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing. | (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

The Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) is a barometer of Washington corruption.

While the group describes itself as dedicated to freedom in Iran, it is anything but. Its roots lie in a combination of Islamism and Marxism. In the run-up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the group both allied with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and conducted terrorism against Americans and American companies.

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