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2018/11/29 MEK (Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult) Sources of funds are Iran’s regional rivals: ex-CIA official
Tehran Times, November 29 2018:... If the MEK is opposed to the current political order in Tehran, that's all that matters to the Trump administration. The sources of funds always have been unclear. The most likely sources are states that are regional rivals of Iran. terrorist group is still a terrorist group even if the blood it spills is not American blood. The MEK certainly has been involved in lethal political violence since 2009 ...
2018/11/13 Bolton’s Favorite Deranged Cult (Mojahedin Khalq, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult …)
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative, November 13 2018:... Daniel Benjamin, who was then the head of counter-terrorism at the state department, told me that the US decided to remove the MEK from the list of foreign terrorist organisations not because it believed it had abandoned violence, but to “avoid them all getting killed” if it remained in Iraq[bold mine-DL]. After the MEK was no longer designated a terrorist group, the US ...
2018/11/09 Khashoggi killed for disclosing Saudi funding of anti-Iran TV channel: Guardian
Press TV, November 09 2018:... Earlier this summer, the Iran International came under fire for praising a terrorist attack in Iran’s Ahvaz and broadcasting live coverage of a rally by the anti-Iran terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). At the time, the Guardian took note of Press TV's complaint that the Western and Saudi media were refraining from terming the deadly attack as a terrorist act despite the large number of civilian ...
2018/11/01 Concern over UK-based Iranian TV channel’s links to Saudi Arabia
The Guardian, November 01 2018:... Earlier this summer, the station was criticised for airing extensive live coverage of a rally by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a cult-like organisationthat espouses regime change and has links to Saudi Arabia. Senior Trump administration officials, including John Bolton, are advocates of the group, which was listed as a terrorist group in the US until 2012. The insider claimed the editorial content of ...
Iran Press, Novmeber 01 2018:... he said: "Whenever relations between Iran and the European Union begin to expand, invisible hands taking their cue from certain countries go to work, trying to harm these relations. Thus, the Danish government's accusations against Iran, and recalling of Denmark's ambassador from Tehran can all be looked upon from this angle." On Tuesday, Danish intelligence chief Finn Borch Andersen ...
2018/10/28 Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi Murder (U.S. also backs Mojahedin Khalq MEK Terrorists)
Robert Fantina, Counter Punch, October 28 2018:... U.S. spokespeople have praised the Mujahedin-E Khalq organization (MEK), which is responsible for thousands of deaths in Iran since 1979, and is now active outside that country, attempting to foment the overthrow of the government. The U.S. would be only too happy to see them succeed, and turn Iran into the chaos and disaster that Iraq and Yemen are today. Fortunately for Iran ...
Ty Joplin, Albawaba, October 06 2018:... The MEK, more than being a terrorist cult, militia or pro-democratic freedom fighters, seems to be a brutal tool of realpolitik, a blunt instrument to be used by the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf to antagonize their geopolitical rival, Iran.To understand the this, Al Bawaba spoke with Massoud Khodabandeh, who was one of the groups most senior leaders for decades, before ...
2018/10/03 Ofcom investigates TV network over interview praising attack in Iran
Saeed Kamali Dehgahn, The Guardian, London, October 03 2018:... This is not the first time Iran International has been heavily criticised. The television previously gave extensive live coverage to a rally by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK), a cult-like organisation that espouses regime change and has links to Saudi Arabia. The controversy over the coverage of the MeK rally led to the channel ceasing its cooperation ...