Der frühere New Yorker Bürgermeister Rudy Giuliani, sowie weitere prominente Republikaner sprachen sich auf einer Pariser Konferenz offen für die Unterstützung der, von den USA als terroristische Organisation eingestuften PMOI/MEK, aus:
"The Americans - former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge, former White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend and former attorney general Michael Mukasey - demanded that Obama instead take the controversial Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) opposition group off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations and incorporate it into efforts to overturn the mullah-led government in Tehran."
Leading conservatives openly support a Terrorist group
