Obama positioned to adopt 'Regime Change' in Iran, with MEK as its cornerstone ...

More DC Bigs Join Cause To Take Iranian Group Off U.S. Terror List

Several prominent former lawmakers, government officials and military leaders have added their names to the growing list of political heavyweights backing an Iranian opposition group currently considered a terrorist organization by the State Department. The group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK, has a history of support in Washington. But a recent series of events organized by a group called Executive Action, LLC, has brought in some surprisingly marquee names. At an event in Washington D.C. on Saturday, several of those speakers argued that the MEK is critical to any chance of regime change in Iran.

Among the new faces: former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton (D), who once chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and who served as vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission; Ambassador Dell Dailey, who was the State Department's Coordinator for Counterterrorism from July 2007 to April 2009; General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA from 2006 to 2009; and not one, but two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Walter Slocombe and ex-Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) also spoke...

What was key in Egypt, Shelton said, is that the Army refused to side with Mubarak. In Iran, meanwhile, he said the only people who don't want change in Iran are the people who are armed and in control. "In Iraq we had this very same issue," Shelton said. "It was very difficult for them to make that change until we intervened."

"Iran's issue is compounded by the fact that the largest organized resistance to Iran's current regime has been put on the FTO list, the MEK," he said. He called for that "mistake" to be "rectified immediately," and said that the "MEK is obviously the way that Iran needs to go."

"The MEK is not a perfect organization, they've made mistakes -- so have we," he said. "But I think the MEK, when you look out into the big picture, they provide hope for the Iranian people that far exceeds anything that we or our allies can offer, excluding direct intervention, at this point.".."