LATEST BLOGS
2021/11/25
Jack Turner interviews Robert Fantina, Geopolitica, November 24 2021:... In the present interview with Mr. Robert Fantina, we address a few questions about the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which are an epitome of these inconsistencies and dual policies of the Western political community and media. Mr. Robert Fantina is a journalist and political analyst, and an author of wonderful books that…
2021/11/25
Jack Turner interviews Robert Fantina, Geopolitica, November 24 2021:... In the present interview with Mr. Robert Fantina, we address a few questions about the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which are an epitome of these inconsistencies and dual policies of the Western political community and media. Mr. Robert Fantina is a journalist and political analyst, and an author of wonderful books that…
2021/11/24
Kourosh Ziabari, Asia Times, November 24 2021:... Aside from its perfidious alliance with Saddam Hussein during the internecine Iran-Iraq War in 1980s, when it opened fire on its fellow citizens in multiple operations, MEK has worked in cahoots with some of the most reactionary politicians in the United States and far-right parties in Europe, and accepted funding from Saudi Arabia, to…
2021/11/22
State Department, (First Published Dec 20 2011), Well, I mean, like the North Koreans, are they running around kidnapping people and bringing them to Camp Ashraf? How do you get there involuntarily? How would one get there? AMBASSADOR FRIED: There – well, let me refer you to some of the outside studies that have been written – the Rand Corporation…
2021/11/20
Iran Interlink, November 20 2021:... According to observers in Albania, the situation is “chaotic” as one witness was dismissed by the judge because he suffers dementia. Another MEK member claims they witnessed the “massacre of 30,000 people”. Certainly the legal teams on both sides will have a lot of work to sort out fact from fiction in this case. The…
2021/11/16
Luisa Hommerich, Zeit Online, November 16 2021:... Iranian Mojahedin Khalq . The cult headquarters is evidently located in the respectable Berlin district of Wilmersdorf, in a quiet cross street between two tennis clubs. The villa is painted beige, neatly trimmed bushes adorn the front garden, flower boxes the window sills, behind the windows hang blue curtains. Here, behind the bourgeois…
2021/11/13
Iran Interlink, November 13 2021:... More on the Swedish court in Albania. Commentators ask why the court has gone to Albania to take witness testimony? Why didn’t they send the witnesses to Sweden? Some say that it is clear: if they get to Sweden they will run away and claim asylum there. Many know these people from MEK. They explain:…
2021/11/12
Mehr News, Tehran, November 12 2021:... Reference to gatherings in European countries and the United States organized by the MKO terrorist organization which are usually attended by the hawkish US politicians, Gharibabadi lambasted the Western countries for their double standards regarding human rights. He pointed out that while the Western governments sponsor the atrocities committed by the MKO Iranian innocent…
2021/11/10
Press TV, November 10 2021:... Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO’s acts of terror. The anti-Iran cult was on the US government’s list of terrorist organizations until 2012. Major European countries, including France, have also removed it from their blacklists. A few years ago,…
2021/11/09
Nejat Society, Tehran, November 09 2021:... More than 1,700 awaiting families of nearly 700 captured members in the MEK camp in Albania, signed a petition to the International Criminal Court, to which a list of signatures was sent. Recently, 42 former members filed lawsuits against the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) led by Massoud and…
2021/11/08
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, November 08 2021:... The Mojahedin’s fake Twitter account ‘Heshmat Alavi’ has surfaced again. This time to attack Representative Ilhan Omar and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) advocacy group. The MEK (through the Heshmat Alavi account) accuses Omar of “appeasing” the Iranian regime by advocating for diplomacy over war as a policy aim. The MEK…
2021/11/07
Nejat Society, November 07 2021:… Maryam Sanjabi who escaped the MEK’s notorious base, Camp Ashraf, in Iraq in 2011, recounts the stories of these women under the abusive ruling of the MEK authorities: A sample of nine women in Rajavi cult ... Saeedeh Keyhani. She was an educated girl who had graduated from a university in the United States. She…
2021/11/06
Iran Interlink, November 06 2021:... Several outlets reported on Mike Pence’s collaboration with the MEK. Daniel Larison, writing in the Anti War Blog, said “The willingness of so many prominent politicians and ex-officials to embrace such a group reflects how warped and toxic the debate over Iran policy is in this country.” He adds, “Any former official or retired officer…
2021/11/03
Nejat Society, November 03 2021:... Former member of the group writes of nine women of hundreds who were oppressed under the cult-like structure of the group. Maryam Sanjabi who escaped the MEK’s notorious base, Camp Ashraf, in Iraq in 2011, recalls the stories of these women under the abusive ruling of the MEK authorities. In her recent article she writes…
2021/10/30
Zeit Magazin, Germany, October 30 2021:... He says he involuntarily spent twelve years in Iraq in the infamous Camp Ashraf, the former headquarters of the People's Mojahedin. He is ready to make his story public, under his real name - as the first among the Cologne youth. “I want everyone to know what the People's Mojahedin did to me. So…
2021/10/30
Daniel Larison, Eunomia, October 30 2021:... Pence described the MEK as "a well-organized, fully prepared, perfectly qualified and popularly supported alternative" to the current government in Iran. Rajavi, he said, is "an inspiration to the world." The willingness of so many prominent politicians and ex-officials to embrace such a group reflects how warped and toxic the debate over Iran policy…
2021/10/29
Ali Alavi, Iran Interlink, October 29 2021:... Speaking at a NCRI meeting is one way to illustrate Pence's uncompromising stance on Iran and the JCPOA. Past speakers at NCRI events have included former national security adviser John Bolton, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and most recently Pompeo. His appearance is likely to draw criticism, too. Critics of the NCRI and MEK—both led…
2021/10/27
Massoud Khodabandeh, Middle East Strategy Consultants, UK, October 27 2021:... By 1996 it became clear Maryam was to be deported back to Iraq. She asked for one last face-saving event before going back. The UK granted her a 3-day visa, backed by a guarantee from France that they would take her back afterwards. The MEK announced a concert for the…
2021/10/26
Tasnim News, Tehran, October 26 2021:... Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi delivered a speech to the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly focusing on "item 74: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran", held on Monday. In her speech, Ershadi…
2021/10/24
Nejat Society, October 24 2021:... When we arrived in Camp Ashraf, a number of female commanders of the MEK received us. To our surprise, they gave us some military uniforms! We asked, ‘why’. We were answered ‘you are a member of Mujahedin Khalq now’. We protested and asked to leave the group but exit was forbidden. They said ‘You know…
2021/10/23
Iran Interlink, October 23 2021:... The MEK have gone fully overboard in trying to get their name associated with David Amess MP following his murder in the UK last week. From a different perspective, some of the MEK families have issued a warning and asked for intervention. They write that because there is a shortage of lobbyists for the MEK,…
