Author Archives: Iran Interlink
2021/09/11
Iran Interlink, September 11 2021:... The trial of Hamid Nouri in Sweden has again thrown up questions about the neutrality of the Swedish judicial system. Examining conditions pertaining to this trial, it is clear that it is not about justice, but is being held as an anti-Iran loudspeaker. Iran has not politicised the trial, that has been done by the…
2021/08/29
Iran Interlink, August 29 2021:... Khodabandeh said that according to sources inside the camp, the MEK are facing the concept that Iraj Mesdaghi has taken over from Maryam Rajavi in terms of importance and prominence. This concern is directed at the ones who are paying; Mesdaghi will get the money rather than us. Again, the payers cannot control the MEK…
2021/08/23
Dalia Al-Aqidi, Arab News, August 23 2021:... After the war in Iraq in 2003, the MEK lost its major supporter, and was under attack by both US troops and Iraqi security forces. The group is no longer welcome in Iraq since most Iraqi people remember it as another brutal faction that Saddam’s Republican Guards used to crack down on Iraqi…
2021/08/18
Janes North, Mondoweiss, August 18 2021:... The People’s Mujahadeen of Iran (MEK) is a cult organization, based in Albania with no real presence inside Iran, other than small groups of commandos who are probably responsible for sabotage and assassinations. The MEK does have funds — the rumours are that Saudi Arabia contributes — which it has used to lure people like…
2021/08/16
Philip Giraldi, Islamic Times, August 16 2021:.. Given the fact that Iran continues to be the Biden Administration’s enemy du jour, it is perhaps not surprising to observe that the US also supports terror groups that are capable of attacking targets in the Islamic Republic. To that end, recently a number of former senior government officials and politicians were involved…
2021/08/12
France 24, Paris, August 12 2021:... Mujahedin fighters have claimed responsibility for several operations in Iran, including against oil installations in 1993, and have been blamed for dozens of murders. After Saddam was toppled in 2003, the Mujahedin was disarmed by US forces and allowed to regroup at the Ashraf refugee camp north of Baghdad, which became the PMOI's largest…
2021/08/11
Christian Mamo, Emerging Europe, August 11 2021:... “Albania will continue to host the MEK paramilitary base on its soil for as long as the Americans need them to,” says Olsi Jazexhi. “If one day the United States makes peace with Iran, MEK will be forgotten, dismantled, de-radicalised and its remaining members will finally live a peaceful civilian life. But for…
2021/08/05
Fars News, August 05 2021:... Al-Ahwaziyah, an Arab separatist group, has long has ties with Saudi Arabia and has run joint operations by the ISIL in the last several years as well. Human Rights Lawyer and Director of Partners for Rights Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks, a member of the US-backed opposition of the Islamic Republic based in the western countries, wrote on…
2021/08/01
MEK Politically Illiterate - Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Jul 30, 2021:.. However, all this does is to reveal the MEK’s stupid idea of politics: oppose any and everything to do with Iran because ‘the regime’; when the Republicans are in power, attack Democrats, when Democrats are in power, attack Republicans. Michael Rubin published a dignified response to the MEK’s…
2021/07/31
Michael Rubin, The National Interest, July 31 2021:... The MKO is correct to condemn incoming Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for his role in the 1988 massacres of several thousand political prisoners. Everyone should. But having been the victims of persecution in the decade after they helped bring Khomeini to power does not change the fact that the MKO’s tendency to…
2021/07/25
Iran Interlink, July 25 2021:... Coordination between the MEK and Ahwazi group goes back a long time. Before this was a joint operation during a military parade to mark the anniversary of the Revolution, when the Ahwazi group opened fire on the audience. Iran International TV – a Saudi outlet based in London – invited both groups to a programme…
2021/07/19
Socialists and Democrats.eu, July 19 2021:... Tonino Picula S&D spokesperson on foreign affairs and Jytte Guteland, S&D shadow rapporteur on Iran, made the following statement: “Support for a group with such a violent, anti-democratic record, at the level of the prime minister of a country holding the rotating presidency of the EU, is extremely irresponsible and grave. It undermines the…