Human Rights Activists "Scrambling" to Understand Bachmann's Support for Terrorist Group

Last week we wondered what was up with Bachmann's support for the terrorist organization People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI, MEK, MKO).

Josh Shahryar, journalist and human rights activist writes in this Pajamas Media article that he too is puzzled:

As recently as last week, Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called for the U.S. to remove the Iranian resistance organization from the State Department’s terror list. “We have shackled this freedom-seeking group which has the ability to help Iranians rise up against that tyrannical regime,” were her exact words.

A resolution is already in the works in the House supported by Democrats and Republicans, and several GOPers have come forward to support the claim that the MKO is a peace-loving opposition group that wants nothing but human rights and needs U.S. support. Sometimes, though, the truth is far more sinister than what it appears. Not only is the MKO not peace-loving, it is also perhaps the most hated organization active in Iran — even more hated than the institutionalized mullahcracy that governs the country.

While the public is outraged by the persecution of Iran’s opposition Green Movement activists, members of the MKO are universally abhorred by mullah and non-mullah alike. This isn’t some group that opposes Iran’s dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei through peaceful means. This is a group that actively joined forces with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War in the ’80s and killed their fellow Iranians — including civilians. They also assassinated Americans in Iran during the shah’s regime.

That's right, folks. Bachmann supports a terrorist group that has killed Americans.

Josh Shahryar goes on to cite the Human Rights Watch report on the PMOI/MEK.

Siding with the MKO does absolutely nothing but make the Iranian public suspicious of America’s motives. So bad is its reputation that even America’s peacenik neighbors up north in Canada refused to take them off the terror list. At a time when the GOP needs to formulate a plan sympathetic toward the Iranian populace, Rep. Bachmann and others are out to further energize the Iran’s mullahs. Imagine how easy it would be for Iran to further stoke hate against the U.S. if the MKO were to be removed from the terror list and received active U.S. support.

Read the whole thing.

Bachmann supporting a terrorist organization that's killed Americans... remember when Bachmann was against the terrorists?