Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris ("a forum for informed discussion and lively debate about international law and international relations") explored the legal and political ramifications.
Money quote(s):
"(P)recisely because it is a blockbuster that makes Israel and the MEK’s vast number of Democratic and Republican supporters in the U.S. look bad, (it) has been basically ignored in the “liberal” media"
A surprising number of very prominent politicians and former high government officials have come out in favor of "de-listing" the PMOI. It's something of a puzzlement to me.
"(I)n a rational world it should complicate efforts by the MEK’s U.S. friends to have the MEK de-listed as a terror organization"
So one would imagine.
As I've mentiond, I think, before, one of my major objections to de-listing the PMOI is that it's never come clean about the terrorism that it's known to have committed; in particular the assassinations of U.S. personnel in Iran.
"(B)ombings conducted by a civilian intelligence service such as the Mossad are not excluded from the Convention’s definition of terrorism. So yes, the Mossad’s actions in using MEK to kill the Iranian nuclear scientists qualify as terrorism."
Prof. Heller is referring to something called the "Terrorist Bombing Convention," of which CAA is completely (if momentarily) ignorant. To which the U.S. is a state party.
2/11
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