10-07-2025
PFLP-Affiliated Designated Terror Organizations Masar Badil And Samidoun Proclaim Solidarity With Iranian Regime, Call For Attacks On U.S. Bases In Middle East, Besieging Western Embassies, Mobilizati
Responding to the ongoing Iran-Israel war and the recent U.S. intervention in Iran, Samidoun and Masar Badil have called for targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East. In addition, a delegation from Samidoun and Masar Badil in Brussels met with the Iranian Ambassador to Belgium to express their full support and solidarity with "Iranian revolutionary leadership."[1]
Samidoun is affiliated with the designated terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and in October 2024 was designated terrorist by the U.S., Canada, and other countries. It raises funds for the PFLP.
Khaled Barakat, founder of both Samidoun and Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, and a member of the latter's executive committee, has been identified by the U.S. government as a senior member of the PFLP. He is also designated terrorist by the U.S. and Canada. A Canadian citizen, Barakat has been residing in Beirut for several months after being designated in Canada in October 2024.
Charlotte Kates, Barakat's wife, is Samidoun's international coordinator. Kates was arrested in May 2024 following her speech at a rally in Vancouver, British Columbia in which she expressed support for Hamas, the PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Lebanese Hizbullah and demanded that they be removed from Canada's terror list. In August 2024, Kates traveled to Iran to accept Iran's "Eighth Annual Islamic Human Rights And Human Dignity Award," presented in Tehran on August 4 by the secretary general of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The following day in Tehran, she gave a detailed interview to Iran's Ofogh TV, discussing her arrest. Kates traveled to Lebanon to attend the funeral of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah in February 2025.
Khaled Barakat and Charlotte Kates
Following the murder of a young Jewish couple, both employees of the Israeli Embassy, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May, Barakat and Kates both expressed support for the murder and blamed "Israel's crimes in Gaza".
The following report will review recent statements and social media posts from the organizations.
Khaled Barakat's Masar Badil Calls For Attacks On U.S. Bases In The Middle East
One June 21, 2025, Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, led by Canadian-Lebanese PFLP member Khalid Barakat, published a statement on its website calling for targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East.[2] The post stated: "In light of the ongoing U.S. aggression against our peoples—most recently, the treacherous bombing of the Islamic Republic of Iran—the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement reaffirms its firm position: all American and Western military bases must be expelled from our Arab region."
It continued: "We call upon the masses of our Arab people everywhere, upon the forces of liberation and revolutionary change in the Arab homeland, and upon international liberation movements, to launch a broad popular campaign against the American military presence in West Asia. The expulsion of U.S. military bases must be seen as an urgent national and revolutionary objective, no less vital than the struggle against the Zionist project in occupied Palestine."
Masar Badil's statement calling for attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East[3]
Masar Badil: Besiege U.S. And Western Embassies, Military Bases Worldwide; Escalate "Mass Action" In "New Arenas" In Support Of Iranian Regime – Including "Standing Alongside Iran's Armed Forces And Resistance Operation"
On June 18, Masar Badil published a call for supporters around the world to "mobilize" in shows of support for Iran's Islamic regime and against the U.S. and Israel's military operations against it.[4] It called for besieging the embassies and military bases of the U.S. and other Western countries and "expanding the arenas" of the resistance.
The post read: "The Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, called on supporters of Palestine and the resistance camp in the region and the world to mobilize urgent and broad popular actions and demonstrations, and escalate political and media confrontations, against the US-Zionist aggression against Iran. We urge all to draw inspiration from the Yemeni revolutionary model in mobilizing popular power and mass action that stands alongside their armed forces and resistance operations.
"It is time to move from anticipating, watching and waiting to a position of organized mass action, and from a state of symbolic solidarity to sending a strong message to Washington and Western capitals that this aggression must come to an end and that no U.S. war on Iran will be accepted. We urge all to besiege the symbols of imperialism and colonial domination in our region and internationally, chief among them U.S. and Western embassies and U.S. military bases, and exposing the client regimes of normalization that remain subservient to the U.S.
"Victory over the Zionist-U.S. enemy cannot be achieved without a popular movement extending from Saada to Baghdad, from the Dahiyeh to Gaza, and from Tehran to Tunis. The battle of Gaza is our battle, and the battle of the entire nation. Any delay in expanding the arenas of popular action and resistance will only serve the enemy and its agents."
Masar Badil's June 18, 2025 post calling for besieging Western embassies worldwide.[5]
Khaled Barakat: "U.S. And Israel Are Launching A War That Will Be Long And Lead To Their Demise; "Zionists Should Leave Palestine Immediately Before They Are Forced To Do So"; Iran's Response Represents 2 Billion Muslims; October 7 Hamas-Led Attacks Launched New Qualitative Step In The Process Of Liberating The Arab World
The Masar Badil website published a post on June 14 summarizing what it described as statements by Khaled Barakat in "a series of interviews with Arabic and English-language media."[6]
The post quoted Barakat as saying: "The United States and 'Israel' are responsible for launching an aggressive war against Iran that will become a long, protracted war, with serious consequences for the aggressor... The Zionists must prepare themselves for the kind of war that they have never experienced before." The report added that Barakat "called upon Zionists to 'voluntarily depart' from occupied Palestine[;] 'Zionists should leave Palestine immediately and find other places to live their lives. We urge them to do so, while they can do it voluntarily and before they are forced to do so.'"
Claiming that Iran and its 'Axis of Resistance' represent the will of people worldwide, Barakat said: "The camp of resistance has never been as united as it is today. The response by Iran is a response that represents 2 billion Muslims and the free will of the people of the world, and not only the Islamic Republic of Iran." He added: "The process of liberation of the Arab world has begun a qualitatively new state on October 7, 2023."
Barakat's compiled statements on the Masar Badil website, June 14, 2025.[7]
Samidoun International Coordinator Charlotte Kates Calls For Protests, Leafletting, Postering: In This Battle For Humanity, Everyone Must Choose A Side; We Must Honor The Strategy And Heroism Of Our Martyred Leaders
On June 13, Samidoun International Coordinator Charlotte Kates published a series of posts on her X account, stating: "This is a time of war, a time of genocide. A time when everyone must choose a side: with the US-European empire and its Zionist project, or with Palestine and the people of the world. When we participate in the battle for humanity, we carry responsibilities."[8]
Kates went on to call for increased public activism: "Our public actions — protests, posting, leafleting, postering, — deserve a level of seriousness that rises to the level of this critical moment. When you speak, consider whether your words help to support the morale of the resistance and undermine that of the Zionists." She then alluded to the "martyred", "great leaders" of the resistance", calling for "honoring their strategy and heroism".[9]
Charlotte Kates' June 13, 2025 posts on X.[10]
