Author Archives: Iran Interlink
2019/08/22
Iran Interlink from Asieh Namdar, CGTN, August 22 2019:... AN: Let me move on to Bolton and Giuliani, Rudi Giuliani’s relationship with this group, that calls itself an opposition group. Many inside Iran have deep distrust of the MEK. They consider it a cult. Giuliani and Bolton have taken payments from this group. Members of Trump’s inner circle though Ambassador…
2019/08/15
Amil Imani, PipeLineNews, August 15 2019:... OIAC or MEK is an Islamist-Marxist cultish group headed by Maryam Rajavi, the wife of the deceased co-founder of MEK, Massoud Rajavi. During the 1970’s they rebelled against the Shah and were involved in bombing and shooting American and Iranian targets . The MEK or (OIAC) executed U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lewis Hawkins in 1973 as…
2019/08/10
Iran Interlink, August 09 2019:... John Bolton has become like Brexit for the British – impossible to ignore. Another article featuring him is published by the Daily Beast. Written by Lachlan Markay and Adam Rawnsley, this focuses on the response of American intelligence officials to a social media disinformation “that attempted to falsely implicate the White House National Security Adviser…
2019/08/09
Bakhshali Alizadeh, Iranian Oral History, August 09 2019:... In this meeting, Bakhshali Alizadeh, Ibrahim Khodabandeh and Mohammad Mosaheb, related some of their memories of Mujahidin Khalq Organization and Mersad Operation. Bakhshali Alizadeh was the first narrator. ‘I was captured by the Ba'athist forces in the Musian zone at the front of the Iraq war against Iran in the March of…
2019/08/07
Zeng Ziyi, CGTN, August 07 2019:... Over the years, the self-described "pro-American" John Bolton has fostered a close relationship with the MEK, which the U.S. designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization partially for assassinating six American citizens during the Iranian Revolution. For the uber-hawk, almost any means is justified for waging war. John Bolton MEK Desperate Attempt to Awaken the U.S.…
2019/08/05
Giorgio Cafiero, Inside Arabia, August 05 2019:... The People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or Mujahedin-e Khalq ( MEK ), has a dark history of violence and acts of terrorism against American interests. Established in the 1960s, the Marxist-Islamist group killed members of the Shah’s security apparatus on the streets of Iranian cities. Anti-American to its core, the MEK quickly earned a…
2019/08/03
Catherine Shakdam, Citizen truth, August 03 2019:... In an interview for Al Bawaba in 2018 Masoud Khodabandeh, a former high-ranking MKO/MEK official, shed light on Saudi Arabia’s financial support for the group, explaining how Riyadh regime has funneled, gold bars, cash and other valuables worth hundreds of millions of dollars through various third parties. Among other revelations, Khodabandeh described how after the…
2019/08/02
Iran Interlink, August 02 2019:... A few Iranian outlets have referred to the MEK cyber group and troll farm and the photos of them that were leaked and spread on social media. MEK’s internal propaganda shows them as loyal workers. Commentators point out that MEK might have started out as something to be paid for, but the reality is that…
2019/07/31
Al Masdar and Asharq Al-Ausat, July 31 2019:... Asharq Al-Aswat then referenced an alleged attack by the Israeli Air Force on Hashd Al-Shaabi’s Ashraf base, which was previously used by the dissident People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) The base lies 80 kilometers from the border with Iran and 40 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. Last week, Syria’s Tal al-Hara was struck…
2019/07/27
Iran Interlink, July 27 2019:... It’s become a fashion. Every week someone in the MEK’s Albania camp dies. This week two people died in the camp. Interestingly there is no doctor, no coroner, no investigation and no involvement with any Albanian whatsoever. When asked about it the authorities say they are afraid of the Americans and that anyway the inside…
2019/07/27
Iran Press, July 27 2019:... The commemoration ceremony of the 31st anniversary of MKO defeat anniversary (Mersad operation) held in Strait of Mersad, Islamabad, Western Iran with the presence of provincial officials, commanders and combatants of the eight years imposed war of Iraq against Iran. The MKO has a dark history of assassinations and bomb attacks against the Iranian government…
2019/07/20
Jolson Lim, Ipolitics, Cananda, July 20 2019:... It’s opportunism in the most cynical way possible . According to a 2009 RAND Corporation analysis, the MEK turned toward cultlike practices after its leadership relocated to Paris in the mid 1980s. It included engaging in “near-religious devotion” to the married Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Its members were said to engage in “public…