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Iran Interlink, July 14 2021:… Richard Medhurst reports on the MEK online annual conference. Guest Anne Khodabandeh explains why Maryam Rajavi and her fellow MEK members were expelled from the EU in 2018, and are now headquartered in Albania. Medhust outlines MEK’s bloody history and questions why Americans support the group which had previously killed six Americans in Iran. EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
US Supporting MEK Terrorists In Albania
EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
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Richard Medhurst reports on the MEK online annual conference. Guest Anne Khodabandeh explains why Maryam Rajavi and her fellow MEK members were expelled from the EU in 2018, and are now headquartered in Albania. Medhust outlines MEK’s bloody history and questions why Americans support the group which had previously killed six Americans in Iran.
.@RichiMedhurst talks to @AnneKhodabandeh about the #MEKTerrorists and the U.S. support
Full: https://t.co/jMZMbrx3HW pic.twitter.com/WNWxqU41Mj— The Communiqué with Richard Medhurst (@TheCommuniqueRM) July 13, 2021
Isn’t it strange, then, that the U.S. removed the group off its terrorist list?
It was not just the Iranians who were targeted by #MEKTerrorists. There were also Americans@RichiMedhurst explainshttps://t.co/jMZMbrx3HW pic.twitter.com/SJxprGfAQk— The Communiqué with Richard Medhurst (@TheCommuniqueRM) July 13, 2021
Who are #MEKTerrorists?@RichiMedhurst gives a brief history
Watch in full here: https://t.co/jMZMbrx3HW pic.twitter.com/MXc6HFMGIX— The Communiqué with Richard Medhurst (@TheCommuniqueRM) July 13, 2021
EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
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After Being Deported From EU, Maryam Rajavi Threatens Albanians
D. Olsi Jazexhi, Tiranan, Albania, September 01 2020:… The ex-terrorist Mujaheden el-Halk organization has attacked Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi two Albanian journalists who investigate the illegal and terrorist activities of MEK from Albania. They level a number of accusations against Olsi. He responds to all these accusations and invites the Mojahedin military command and their supreme jihadi leader Maryam Rajavi to face Olsi in a public debate about their criminal and illegal activities in Albania. After Being Deported From EU, Maryam Rajavi Threatens Albanians
Gjergji Thanasi Olsi Jazexhi Ask For Protection Against Mujahedin Terrorists In Albania
After Being Deported From EU, Maryam Rajavi Threatens Albanians
Olsi Jazexhi responds to threats @ slander that Maryam Rajavi and her ex-terrorist gang make to him
The ex-terrorist Mujaheden el-Halk organization has attacked Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi two Albanian journalists who investigate the illegal and terrorist activities of MEK from Albania. They level a number of accusations against Olsi. He responds to all these accusations and invites the Mojahedin military command and their supreme jihadi leader Maryam Rajavi to face Olsi in a public debate about their criminal and illegal activities in Albania.
Remember: MEK was an American excuse to invade Iraq
After Being Deported From EU, Maryam Rajavi Threatens Albanians
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Olsi & Gjergji discuss the threats that Maryam Rajavi & MKO do to media and democracy in Albania
EU Denies Rajavi Entry – Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Aug 28, 2020
Iran Interlink, August 28 2020:… Now Rajavi is trying to escape this mess. Some days ago, she attempted to return to France, where she had previously had her headquarters, but was turned back. Rajavi was expelled from France and MEK activity severely curtailed two years ago after several incidents – including a suspicious bomb plot in 2017 – caused EU security services to reassess the risk of hosting this maverick group. Rajavi joined the bulk of MEK members in Albania and established a new headquarters there. EU Denies Rajavi Entry – Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Aug 28, 2020
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EU Denies Rajavi Entry – Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Aug 28, 2020
After Being Deported From EU, Maryam Rajavi Threatens Albanians
Following the humiliating failure to force the illegal deportation of former MEK member Ehsan Bidi from Albania, reports indicate that Maryam Rajavi is facing difficulty containing doubt and criticism among the members in the Manez camp. Rajavi boasts to the members that she can order the Albanian establishment to fulfil her demands because she is backed by the CIA. So confident was she of her powers that she had already published news of Bidi’s deportation on her websites – pages she was forced to quickly retract, though not before implicating herself in the plot along with some of Albania’s corrupt politicians and officials. The members felt the crushing blow of being betrayed and deceived.
Now Rajavi is trying to escape this mess. Some days ago, she attempted to return to France, where she had previously had her headquarters, but was turned back. Rajavi was expelled from France and MEK activity severely curtailed two years ago after several incidents – including a suspicious bomb plot in 2017 – caused EU security services to reassess the risk of hosting this maverick group. Rajavi joined the bulk of MEK members in Albania and established a new headquarters there.
In 2003, when Rajavi and her leading lieutenants were arrested on terrorism charges in France, it was not possible to deport her because the MEK was based in Iraq which was deemed unsafe. However, now that Rajavi and the MEK members are established in the NATO country of Albania, it has been possible to refuse her entry to the EU. The fact that Rajavi is building an even bigger MEK base near Tirana International (aka Rinas) Airport has alerted EU security services to the danger of creating a ‘bridge’ by allowing Rajavi and other members to move freely between Albania and France and the rest of Europe. Although the MEK is no longer on the EU terrorism list, the group is still regarded in security circles as a dangerous, violent extremist entity.
However, it is not only Rajavi who is trying to escape Albania and seek refuge in the west. Her top lieutenants, Mehdi Abrishamchi and Mohammad Mohaddessin have tried to make their way to the United States. It is known that Abrishamchi was turned away. Even though the top MEK members use a multiple of passports with fake identities it appears that the security services in Albania, the EU and the US have enough intelligence to thwart these tricks.
What is significant in these attempts is why they are happening now. In spite of being strictly forbidden, several members have contact with the outside world. Their reports are of disillusionment and despair among the members at every level. The Ehsan Bidi debacle is the latest in a series of disturbing and unpalatable events in the group’s recent history. In this case, experts and observers are getting indications of a breakdown in order in the camp which may be difficult to recover from. No wonder Rajavi is lining up an escape route.
EU Denies Rajavi Entry – Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – Aug 28, 2020
After Being Deported From EU, Maryam Rajavi Threatens Albanians
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Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), The Iranian, October 20 2020:… From deep inside its rabbit hole in Albania the MEK has created yet another Alice in Wonderland style fairy tale about Iranian spies and agents coming to get them. In doing so, Maryam Rajavi reminds us exactly why the European Union expelled her and her lieutenants from Europe and sent her into exile in Albania. The MEK presence… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
Paul Brian and Arthur Bloom, The American Conservative, (First Published September 03 2020) :… “Amir Basiri and Heshmat Alavi are two fake accounts,” Hassan Heyrani, an MEK defector told TAC. “At Camp Liberty, near the BIAP airport in Iraq, I was in the political unit of the organization with some of the persons who grew up in America and Canada.… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
Iran Interlink, August 28 2020:… Now Rajavi is trying to escape this mess. Some days ago, she attempted to return to France, where she had previously had her headquarters, but was turned back. Rajavi was expelled from France and MEK activity severely curtailed two years ago after several incidents – including a suspicious bomb plot in 2017 – caused EU… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
Iran Interlink, August 16 2020:.. Olsi Jazexhi, a prominent Albanian historian and media personality, named Sandër Lleshaj as one of the politicians colluding with the MEK against Bidi. Jazexhi gathered support from several members of parliament who are strongly opposed to the MEK presence in their country. Journalists willing to investigate the case were also called into action. Gjergji Thanasi,… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
Anne Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, July 17 2020:… MEK leader Maryam Rajavi boasts that she can organize a Zoom conference from Albania on July 17th to link up paid pundits she would normally invite to her annual rally – a cut price event. On July 16th families from every province in Iran linked up by Zoom to talk and asked ‘if Rajavi… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
Martin Franke, Frankfurter Allgemeine, June 10 2020:… In the camp of Albania, women and men live separately. In the evening, a small group meets with a commander for “ideological training” and for confessing sexual thoughts that members had during the day, said a former member of this group. The confession is used to create shame on members. Sometimes the commander… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
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Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, March 29 2020:… But, as destructive as the MEK presence has been in Albania, the group has inevitably played a greater role in the West’s confrontation against Iran. In June 2019, Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept revealed that an internet troll farm was operating from the MEK’s closed camp in Manez. The enslaved members, sitting behind… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
Murteza Hussain and Matthew Cole, The Intercept, March 22 2020:… From 1997 to 2012, the United States designated the MEK a foreign terrorist organization. But the group, which once opposed U.S. intervention in Iran, has effectively switched sides, becoming a convenient proxy force for Tehran’s enemies, particularly American neoconservatives, the Gulf Arab states, and Israel. The current MEK leadership maintains… EU Ejected Maryam Rajavi – Neocons Still Back MEK
