AgGrad99 said:
I'm confused by this entire incident
Why is there a protest about the Iran regime in Las Angeles?
Why did this guy drive through people?
Why were people on the effing street?
If no one was hurt...WTH do I care about this?
Wtf is going on????
The older I get, the less I recognize my country. We need a purging.
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After exile, the MEK sought the support of prominent politicians, academics and human rights lawyers. Rajavi tried to reach as broad a Western public as possible by giving frequent interviews to Western newspapers. In these interviews, Rajavi toned down the issues of imperialism, foreign policy, and social revolution. Instead, he stressed the themes of democracy, political liberties, political pluralism, human rights, respect for 'personal property,' the plight of political prisoners, and the need to end the senseless war.[431]
Hyeran Jo, associate professor of Texas A&M University wrote in 2015 that the MEK is supported by the United States.[432] In January 1993, President-elect Clinton wrote a private letter to Massoud Rajavi, in which he set out his support for the organization.[433] The organization has also received support United States officials including Tom Ridge, Howard Dean, Michael Mukasey, Louis Freeh, Hugh Shelton, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton, Bill Richardson, James L. Jones, and Edward G. Rendell.[434][435]
As Mukasey mentioned in The New York Times, in 2011 he had received $15,000 to $20,000 to present a lecture about "MEK-related events", as well as what he listed as "a foreign agent lobbying pro bono for MEK's political arm".[436] Rendell said he had been paid to speak in support of the MEK[437] and Hamilton said he was paid to "appear on a panel Feb. 19 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington."[438] In February 2015, The Intercept published that Bob Menendez, John McCain, Judy Chu, Dana Rohrabacher and Robert Torricelli received campaign contributions from MEK supporters.[439]
Some politicians have declared receiving payment for supporting the MEK, but others support the group without payment.[440][63][441] In May 2018, Daniel Benjamin who held office as the Coordinator for Counterterrorism between 2009 and 2012, told The New York Times that the MEK offered him money in exchange for his support.[442]
Jeeper79 said:
I don't condone the truck driver's behavior, but if we didn't have all this performative outrage, he wouldn't have had a chance to do what he did.
Buck Turgidson said:
There are a lot of Iranians in LA. They are the pro-Shah people driven out in 1979. I've heard that there are a bunch of them in Beverly Hills. They were out protesting against the Islamists and for a return of the Shah. The truck had anti-Shah signs on it as he drove through the crowd. The truck driver was therefore the bad guy in this case.
Every statement on this site seems to require a disclaimer or else people will still putting words into your mouth.BadMoonRisin said:Jeeper79 said:
I don't condone the truck driver's behavior, but if we didn't have all this performative outrage, he wouldn't have had a chance to do what he did.
Wow, way to go out on a limb.
Who?mikejones! said:Protesters attempt to assault, and possibly kill, the driver of a U-Haul Truck that drove through an Iranian pro-monarchist, anti-regime march today in Los Angeles, only barely being held back by officers with the Los Angeles Police Department. pic.twitter.com/4xeVTxVl8b
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 12, 2026
AgGrad99 said:
I'm confused by this entire incident
Why is there a protest about the Iran regime in Las Angeles?
Why did this guy drive through people?
Why were people on the effing street?
If no one was hurt...WTH do I care about this?
Wtf is going on????
The older I get, the less I recognize my country. We need a purging.
Who?mikejones! said:Another angle of the truck pic.twitter.com/2fJVnsfBAb
— Los Angeles Alerts (@AlertLosAngeles) January 12, 2026U haul drove through the protest in LA. This is the aftermath once he stopped. pic.twitter.com/yVnwUrgMtX
— Wretched Sinner Saved by Grace (@WalkCloserDaily) January 12, 2026
Anyone else seeing this?
Just breaking
LMCane said:
The patriotic Iranians were protesting to end the Mullah regime in Teheran.
this guy is a follower of the MEK, which is a communist terror group also against the Mullahs wanting to take over Iran.
it's like a Nazi Groyper attacking a Tea Party rally against Obama.
in the Middle East, your enemy's enemy is not your friend!
