Author Archives: Iran Interlink
2019/10/16
Casey Michel, The New Republic, October 16 2019:... Giuliani’s been leading a crusade on behalf of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a cultish Iranian opposition group listed, until earlier this decade, as a foreign terrorist organization by Washington. Politico described Giuliani’s involvement with the group as a man “gorging at the table of Islamo-Marxist terrorists who have murdered Americans”—a relationship from which Giuliani has apparently profited handsomely,…
2019/10/11
City News Albania, October 11 2019:... Journalist Gjergji Thanasi has sued for libel and slander an Iranian Mojahed (a member of the so-called MEK cult organization) named Behzad Saffari Dehkord the son of Mohammad and Rezvan born in 1961 in the city of Esfahan, Iran. When MEK were under the protection of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Behzad has an identification…
2019/10/11
Iran Interlink, October 11 2019:... MEK supporters are falling like flies. John Bolton resigned/was pushed. Giuliani is fighting his corner over the Ukraine scandal. Netanyahu’s boast that Iran would be reduced to rubble has not materialised. And President Trump is pushing for peace, not war. For Farsi commentators this is yet another sign of the end of MEK. They lost…
2019/10/08
Davood Baghervand Arshad, No to Terrorism Cults, Germany, October 08 2019:... Your country has been kindly hosting many of my brothers and sisters and also my wife which was forcefully separated from me by Mek, saving them from being torn apart by shelling in Iraq, where Madam Rajavi brutally insisted on members to stay in order to utilize their (martyrdom)…
2019/10/07
The Leader News, October 07 2019:... Saudi relationships with the MEK became public when Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former chief of Saudi Arabai’s intelligence agency, praised the group after participating in MEK’s annual gatherings in 2016 and 2017 in Paris. It could be argued now that after MEK’s relocation to Albania, the tiny Balkan country has turned into a playground for…
2019/10/06
Mansour Nazari, Iran Interlink, Paris, October 06 2019:... The fugitive leader of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi Cult) Massoud Rajavi has been in hiding for the last 15 years. We ex-members can tell you why he is hiding. But you can ask Maryam Rajavi directly yourselves. Ask her about the prisons in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Ask her how many…
2019/10/05
Ryan McCarthy, The Gray Zone, October 05 2019:... The MEK emerged in 1960s Iran, promoting a strange mixture of Marxism and Shia Islam, and supported the 1979 Revolution until the Mullahs turned against it. MeK leadership then fled to Europe, from which they launched a series of terrorist bombings. They simultaneously maintained a presence in Iraq, where they enjoyed Saddam…
2019/10/03
Yue Stella Yu, Open Secrets,October 03 2019:... Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who served under President George W. Bush, registered last week as a foreign agent lobbying pro bono for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a major Iranian dissident group pushing to topple the country’s current administration. Mukasey’s office did not respond to a request for comment.Earlier this…
2019/09/29
Rossella Tercantin, The Jerusalem Post, September 29 2019:... The announcement followed reports that United Against Nuclear Iran's summit would include a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, which had close ties with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. According to a report by the Washington Post, the summit has sparked controversy for including a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK , …
2019/09/28
Iran Interlink, September 27 2019:… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest Hamid Ghanbari Araa is the son of Abdul Ali Ghanbari, a veteran MEK member who died in Albania from cancer a few years ago. His mother is Pari Mohammadi who is still in Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania. Hamid managed to escape the MEK and moved from Albania to Germany with…
2019/09/27
Suzanne Maloney, Tweeter, September 27 2019:... I speak to all kinds of audiences all the time & I don't impose an ideological litmus test. It's incredibly worthwhile to hear opposing points of view & engage in dialogue; I've learned a lot. This doesn't happen enough in policy & academic work on Iran, unfortunately. But I won't engage w/the MEK &…
2019/09/26
Zhelwan Z. Wali, Rudaw, September 26 2019:... ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran’s Kurdish parties say they will not take part in a conference allegedly organized by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday because the Kurdish question in Iran is not a key part of the agenda. The…