Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The answer to your last question is no, I don't think it has anything to do with that, given the fact there is no basis for listing them that way, as I said. The standard under U.S. law is that there must be evidence they have engaged in a terrorist act within the last two years,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Again, with the history that I recited, the answer to that is no.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's the United States, and the only other country of which I'm aware is Australia. I think the only reason they do that is because the United States does it.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No. I simply want to express my gratitude to the committee and its members for hearing me today and considering this issue. The United States Congress, and certainly the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives, before which I've testified, has also heard testim

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't believe there are any children. It's mostly men, but there are a substantial number of women. Of those who have killed—there has been a total of 54 people killed from 2009 to 2011—eight were women.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There's little doubt that the Iranians would proclaim it to be a provocation, whether it were or not. Understand that this is a force in the territory of another country. Considering that a provocation, or, given the numbers, a threat, is objectively absurd.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's my understanding that the UN has neither resolutions nor a plan.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I do not. My only contact at the UN was to meet with someone in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. I must say that did not go particularly well. He pretty much threw up his hands and said that the Iraqis were insisting on this deadline. There is very little we

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's hard to know what the commissioner.... You're talking about the Commissioner for Human Rights?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. I don't know precisely. I think part of what that means is that the Iraqis are insisting on conditions for conducting the interviews that are simply not workable.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I do not know. I know that Mr. Maliki is scheduled to travel here within the next two weeks, and I'm hoping this is on the agenda.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  You say “these kinds of terrorist activities”. It's a very broad question. I think MEK members were involved in some kind of activity against the Iranian government at some point. There's no doubt about that, but I can't speak to what kind. I know the standard under U.S. law is

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The best evidence of that is what they've done and what they've said. What they've done is to surrender all of the weapons they had, voluntarily, in 2003 and 2004. They had heavy weapons and they had light weapons, and they surrendered them in return for an assurance that they wo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I will tell you that the colonel who was in charge of that area said he felt that they were a friendly force, that he could rely on them, and that they helped U.S. troops in material ways.