One hundred and fifty U.S. congressmen on Thursday came out in support of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), an Iranian group the Bush administration has officially called a terrorist organization.

A statement on Thursday, organized by Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and supported by more than one-third of the 432 current members of the House of Representatives, read: "The time has come for evaluating the democratic opposition in Iran. As a majority of our colleagues in the House have repeatedly underscored, the Mojahedin is a 'legitimate resistance movement," Reuters reported.

The Mojahedin are a terrorist group whose record is absolutely black. They planted a bomb at the headquarters of the Republican Party of Iran, assassinating 72 top Iranian officials, including the late chief justice Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti.

They assassinated former president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and ex-prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, by planting a bomb in the Premier's Office. They assassinated the deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, Ali Sayyad Shirazi. Their hands are also stained with the blood of countless Iranian civilians.

We believe that there are at least two main trends in the U.S. political landscape: The pragmatists, and the pro-Zionist group.

The above figure shows that the pro-Zionist group is in the minority, but unfortunately, the very minority, with the assistance of the Zionist lobby, has hijacked the U.S. politics.

Ironically, the same minority calls such an organization with such a black record, which is practically on the terrorist list of the State Department, a "democratic opposition" and "legitimate resistance movement".

The pro-Zionist group, in effect, believes that terrorism is tantamount to democracy and a terrorist group can "legitimately work" for the "establishment of democracy": "We are concerned that the ... designation will cause unnecessary harm and will undermine the efforts of those legitimately working to establish democracy in Iran," the statement of the lawmakers read in part.

If we accept this line of argument and share the opinion of more than a hundred U.S. congressmen, then any terrorist group in any part of the world can work for the establishment of democracy; and any terrorist act can be considered a legitimate effort to establish democracy.

But the genuine people of the world will not accept this line of argument and will look into the issue from a different angel. The MKO is a terrorist organization and is on the black list of the U.S. State Department. Therefore, any group or individual supporting this terrorist group is a sponsor of terrorism. The support of the lawmakers of a country for a terrorist organization is tantamount to state terrorism. Now it is up to the world public opinion to judge who the real terrorists are.