NEO-CONSERVATIVE IPC REPRESENTS THE MEK TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN U.S.

"... Raymond Tanter's Iran Policy Committee has called for Washington to deploy against Tehran the Iraq-based Mujahideen-e Khalq, which is listed as a terrorist group by the State Department..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK30Ak01.html

"... The Iran Policy Committee (IPC), a think tank established in February by Raymond Tanter, professor of political science at Georgetown University, is supported by several neo-conservative politicians and analysts, including Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Tom Tancredo and Bob Filner... The case for regime change in Iran has been most enthusiastically taken up by the IPC.. (and) the IPC has been tasked by the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a proscribed terrorist organization, to provide professional lobbying and public relations services... IPC gives the impression that it has gone beyond advocacy and is now, to all intents and purposes, representing the MEK in the US..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK30Ak02.html

U.S. RELYING ON MEK

"... the MEK (Mujahideen-e Khalq) is the largest and the best-organized Iranian opposition group, with realistic estimates between 6,000 to 10,000 fighters, members and supporters combined. More importantly, the MEK demonstrated its ability to deliver reliable information when it revealed, on August 14, 2002, that the Islamic Republic possessed an advanced nuclear program that included facilities at Natanz and Arak. The MEK now finds support within parts of the American government as a "third option".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK18Ak02.html

PREPARATIONS FOR NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST IRAN

"... The US has been provocatively sending unmanned Predator aircraft into Iran... mapping Iranian radar systems, information the US would need before launching an attack... the US has already targeted missiles at Iranian power plants at Natanz and Arak... Some 4,000 fighters of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), an armed organization that seeks to overthrow the current regime in Tehran, have a base north of Baghdad near the Iranian border. The US has thrown a protective umbrella over the MEK's soldiers and equipment..."

"Vice President Dick Cheney has even suggested that Israel might do the job... The Israeli right has been spoiling for a fight with Syria for some time... One Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times, "It could be a race who pushes the button first - us or the Americans." What that official meant by "the button" is not clear, but the logical candidate is a nuclear strike."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK17Ak03.html

IRAN PROTESTS TWO U.S. SPY PLANES CRASHED IN IRAQ

"Iran has found the wreckage of two U.S. unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months... accusing Washington of violating its sovereignty through illegal overflights. Iran "strongly protests against such unlawful acts and emphasizes the necessity to observe the principles of international law concerning the sanctity of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states," its Foreign Ministry said. The Pentagon had no immediate comment to the protest, which came in letters to the U.S. government written months ago but only made public at the United Nations on Monday. They described the crash of a Shadow 200 RQ-7 drone in Ilam Province last July 4, 36 miles (60 kms) from the border, and of a Hermes drone in the Khoram Abad area on Aug. 25, found 120 miles (200 kms) inside Iranian territory."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1108-07.htm