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2019/02/19
Luisa Hommerich, Des Spiegel (Spiegel Online), February 19 2019:... Members of the Trump administration have been providing support to a political sect that aims to topple the Iranian regime in Tehran. Around 2,000 of its members live in a camp in Albania. Former members say it is subjecting followers to torture and psychological terror. In 2007, units of the People's Mujahedin began…
2019/02/15
Robert Mackey, The Intercept, February 15 2019:... Off-stage, the U.S. president’s lawyer admitted that he was paid by the exile group, but stressed to reporters that he was in Warsaw on behalf of the MEK in his personal capacity and would not be attending the diplomatic conference organized by the State Department. The Israeli prime minister described the gathering as primarily a meeting of…
2019/02/06
Behnam Gharagozli, Iranian.com, February 06 2019:... One manifestation of this trend is witnessing how the MEK was somehow transformed from a terrorist organization to a dissident Iranian organization after only a short time. This transformation from terrorist to dissident just so happened to occur after the MEK’s base in Iraq was sacked (the MEK had been an ally of Saddam Hussein) and the…
2019/02/05
Borzou Dargahi, Independent, February 05 2019:... MEK, a bizarre but influential Iranian political cult dedicated to overthrowing the government in Tehran. The group has cultivated strong ties to the Trump administration and others in Washington, as well as to Saudi Arabia, Iran’s arch-nemesis. Several leading Trump administration figures including John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani spoke at the 30 June event, though neither…
2019/01/29
Voltair Net, January 29 2019:... The Founder of the Sect was Massoud Rajavi. He flees to France after organizing a bloody massacre of the Islamic government on 28 June 1981. He obtains the protection of President François Mitterrand (who secretly bombed Iran) before being expelled by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. The sect then took refuge in Iraq (at the height of…
2019/01/18
Daniel Iriarte, El Confidencial, Madrid, January 18 2019:... According to Massoud Khodabandeh, a former member of the group who now helps those who want to leave, the MEK continues the practices of control and torture in the camp, which he describes as "political slavery". "For years, the cult was funded by Saddam Hussein. Now the Saudis finance it”, says Abrahamian. Although neither…
2019/01/12
Tehran times and Mehr News, Tehran, January 12 2019:... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to be behind murder plot allegations. Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group (MKO/MEK/ Maryam Rajavi cult) and Al-Ahvaziya group how took responsibility for the latest terror attack in Iran are free in Europe. Last summer, they held their held their annual forum in Paris with the presence of Trump…
2019/01/05
Various sources, January 05 2019:... Dear Roald Sturla Næss, former Norwegian ambassador to Iran. mek fought with Saddam Hussein during the Iraq war against Iran in the 1980s and currently being financed by Saudi Arabia and working closely with Iran's enemies also shows lack of legitimacy in the Iranian population”, and I have to say it considered by most Iranians as…
2018/12/29
Nejat Society, December 29 2018:... Since the fall of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) has turned into the strange bedfellow of the US and Israel. The MEK’s Camp Ashraf was placed under the protection of the US military after the collapse of Saddams’ regime although the group…
2018/11/29
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…
2018/11/13
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…
2018/11/09
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…