When a who’s who of Washington heavyweights spoke at a panel two weeks ago on behalf of the MEK, an Iranian opposition group currently considered a terrorist organization by the State Department, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge made a claim that the members of the group who currently reside in Iraq enjoy special protection under the Geneva Convention. But the State Department tells TPM that’s not true.During his remarks, after reading aloud portions of the MEK’s ten-point plan for the future of Iran, which includes calls for a “pluralist system,” “separation of church and state,” and an Iran “devoid of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction,” Ridge made a plea:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=115210