Iranian opposition was trained in US

On the terrain of the Department of Energy's Nevada National Security
Site, sixty-five miles north-west of Las Vegas, the Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC) has been training for members of the
Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a dissident Iranian opposition group known in the
West as the M.E.K., since 2005, the New Yorker reports.

The New Yorker's reporter said he could not get more information
regarding the current employment of Iranians trained in the US.

In 2002, the M.E.K. earned international credibility by publicly
revealing that Iran had begun enriching uranium at a secret
underground location. The M.E.K.'s ties with Western intelligence
deepened after the fall of the Iraqi regime in 2003, and JSOC began
operating inside Iran in an effort to substantiate the Bush
Administration's fears that Iran was building a bomb at one or more
secret underground locations.

In March 2012 it was reported that a number of former senior U.S.
officials, who had called for the M.E.K. to be excluded from the list of terrorist
organizations, had received money from this movement. Such suspicions have
arisen, particularly in regard to the ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh, as
well as the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton.

Originally the M.E.K. supported the Islamic revolution in Iran, which
occurred in 1979, but later this movement has come into conflict with
the new authorities.