2020/09/03
Paul Brian and Arthur Bloom, The American Conservative, 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. We worked as a…
2020/08/16
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,…
2020/07/17
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…
2020/06/10
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…
2020/05/21
Terror Spring, May 20 2020:... Massoud Rajavi travelled to Jordan as an interpreter of the expedition to Fatah, and returned to the second quarter of the cadre after returning on April of 1971. He mentioned the date of his arrest was on the afternoon of 1971/08/26, but in his detention center ID, his detention was announced on 1971/07/23, about a…
2020/05/12
Anne Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, May 12 2020:... A petition addressed to Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has reached over ten thousand signatures. The petition was created by estranged families who need help to contact their loved ones trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) cult’s closed camp ‘Ashraf 3’ in Albania. The families are demanding that PM Rama ensures they get this contact. Now…
2020/04/25
Massoud Khodabandeh, Responsible Statecraft, April 25 2020:... The Albanian authorities, including the security services, do not have access to the camp. According to investigative journalist Gjergji Thanasi, who lives in Durres county near the MEK camp, the Health Ministry “deals with Camp Ashraf 3 as if it does not exist. There is not a single line in the Durres Municipality…
2020/03/29
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…
2020/03/22
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…
2020/03/01
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) , Iranian.com, March 01 2020:... From its first arrival in Albania in 2013, the MEK continued its antagonistic anti-Iran political activities. In 2017, the Trump administration overturned plans to de-radicalize the MEK members. Instead, the MEK built an extra-territorial garrison to house the enslaved members so they wouldn’t escape. Emboldened, the MEK was able to coerce the…
2020/02/16
Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times, February 16 2020:... I wasn’t shown the computer suites, which defectors had portrayed as a kind of troll farm: junior members using multiple accounts on Facebook and Twitter, typing messages that criticize the Iranian government, lionize the M.E.K. leadership and promote its paid lobbyists. When Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Bolton made public speeches in…
2020/01/08
Massoud Khodanbandeh, Responsible Statecraft, January 09 2020:... In another reckless act of overturning Obama’s legacy, the new Trump administration halted Hillary Clinton’s plan to de-radicalise the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania. Since then, American anti-Iran politicians have stuffed the MEK down the throats of the international community as the regime change opposition that will bring freedom and democracy to Iran. Since Iranians hate…
2019/12/12
Suddaf Chaudry, Middle East Eye, December 12 2019:... Gjergj Erebara, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, said the press conference - which he attended - was unusual, to say the least. “Albanian police gave no proof to substantiate its claims. They said they have discovered the “terrorist cell”, but they didn't make any arrests,” Erebara said. Hassan Heyrani,…
2019/11/18
Terror Spring, November 18 2019:... Another issue was the hostage’s trial which MEK supported: “…so let us repeat for several times that if our disclosure does not proceed with complete assurance and without any fear or expediency of all the evidence you have obtained, if the hostage trial wouldn’t resolve properly and immediately wouldn’t promote to the break off colonial…
2019/11/11
Linda Pressly and Albana Kasapi, BBC News, Tirana, November 11 2019:... For six years, Albania has been home to one of Iran's main opposition groups, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK. But hundreds of members have walked out - some complaining about the organisation's rigid rules enforcing celibacy, and control over contact with family. Now, dozens languish in the Albanian capital, Tirana,…
2019/08/23
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, August 23 2019:... So, when Giuliani says we should be “comfortable” with this group, right-minded people the world over can honestly and unequivocally answer, “No, we are not comfortable ignoring this harsh reality just because the MEK amplifies an anti-Iran message to the world, and no, we don’t believe the MEK have any kind of future…
2019/07/22
Reza Alghurabi, American Herald Tribune, July 21 2019:... Listed for 17 years as a terrorist organization in the United States and the European Union, with various reports published about its violations of Human Rights and acts of violence and terror, the MEK enjoyed a significant increase in its activities during the first term of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s cabinet . The…
2019/07/16
Shaun Walker in Tirana, The Guardian, July 16 2019:... For example, you would have to say: ‘I saw a girl on television and I got an erection,’ or ‘This morning I masturbated,’” said Hassan Heyrani, one of the defectors. He said there was no specific punishment for such admissions except scolding and embarrassment. “If you admit to it too often…
2019/07/06
Terror Spring, July 06 2019:... While the group continues to proclaim it holds great popularity within Iran, it could not be further from the truth. Iranians never could overlook the series of betrayal and treasonous acts the MEK / MKO committed in the name of power – enabling Saddam Hussein’s forces by siding with him against Iran remains to this…
2019/06/17
Aljazeera News, June 17 2019:... As the Trump administration continues with its hawkish talk on Iran, we need to look at how that story is being crafted and by whom: Heshmat Alavi was once cited by the White House as a credible commentator on Iran. Shame he doesn't exist. It turns out he is a fictional persona reportedly created by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK),…
2019/05/15
The New York Times, May 15 2019:... Bolton's Alternative is Mujahedeen Khalq, M.E.K.. Tensions between the United States and Iran have sharply increased. John Bolton, the national security adviser, has long pushed for regime change in Iran. One of his chosen replacements is the dissident group Mujahedeen Khalq, known as M.E.K. Bolton Vs. Zarif On MEK Link to the source Skeptical U.S.…
2019/05/14
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, May 14 2019:... MEK operatives, brought from Albania, will be deployed to carry out false flag ops that can be blamed on Iran – such as a suicide attack. Albania is now home to the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist cult (MEK) and John Bolton has long believed he can use the MEK to facilitate regime change in Iran. One of those ways is…
2019/05/03
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, May 03 2019:... Hillary Clinton did not take money from the MEK while it was listed as a terrorist entity. And taking the group off the U.S. terrorist list, though controversial at the time due to the MEK’s own well-funded pressure campaign, was not wrong, as it enabled the UNHCR to relocate the members to the safety of…
2019/04/21
Borzou Dargahi, THE INDEPENDENT, Originally published September 28 2018:... An Iranian exile group that is a darling of Washington conservatives has set up what critics describe as “a state within a state” inside the tiny Balkan nation of Albania. From a well-guarded 84-acre (340,000 square metres, or 34 hectares) property it has forged on a hillside in the Albanian countryside, the group – called…
2019/04/05
Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg, April 05 2019:... While in Warsaw, just outside the official Iran conference, Rudy Giuliani spoke at a rally organized by the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a political front controlled by the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, which has agitated for regime change in Tehran. It was a cold and gray day when Giuliani, his trademark U.S.-flag pin…
2019/03/14
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, March 14 2019:... A charity organisation registered in London called the “International Liberty Association” has launched a widespread campaign under the title “Support the Voice of the People” to collect public donations for a television channel belonging to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (aka MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA, Rajavi Cult). London is well known for having been a haven for the…
2019/03/09
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe log, March 09 2019:... Hommerich reported that inside the camp in Albania, MEK militants were still practicing the deadly techniques for combat taught them by Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard—“cutting throats with a knife,” “breaking hands,” “removing eyes with fingers,” and “tearing the mouth open.” In 2017, the Trump administration reversed a 2013 plan by former Secretary…
2019/02/19
Luisa Hommerich, Des Spiegel (Spiegel Online), February 19 2019:... Members of the Trump administration have been providing support to a political sect that aims to topple the Iranian regime in Tehran. Around 2,000 of its members live in a camp in Albania. Former members say it is subjecting followers to torture and psychological terror. In 2007, units of the People's Mujahedin began…
2019/02/17
Tehran Times, Febrauary 17 2019:... MEK IRAN - A German magazine has revealed that members of the MKO, also called MEK, undergo horrific training in a camp in Albania, the Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. Der Spiegel said the members held in the camp practice “cutting throats with knife”, “breaking hand”, “removing eyes with finger” and “tearing down mouth”.…
2019/02/16
TRT, February 16 2019:... The MEK (Mojahedin Khalq, Maryam Rajavi cult) fought alongside Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. That led to them being branded traitors by the Iranian government, who executed thousands of political opponents, including MEK supporters, at the end of the war in 1988. The US State Department added the MEK to its list of terrorist organisations in 1997, and the exact…
2019/02/15
Robert Mackey, The Intercept, February 15 2019:... Off-stage, the U.S. president’s lawyer admitted that he was paid by the exile group, but stressed to reporters that he was in Warsaw on behalf of the MEK in his personal capacity and would not be attending the diplomatic conference organized by the State Department. The Israeli prime minister described the gathering as primarily a meeting of…
2019/02/11
Hamid Debashi, Aljazeera, February 11 2019:... The atrocities of the Islamic Republic over the past 40 years have created an expatriate opposition equally atrocious in its treacherous powermongering. The People's Mojahedin Organisation (MEK), the monarchists, and their various incarnations have come together collectively to form and discredit the Iranian political opposition. These organisations are now actively collaborating with the US, Israel,…
2019/02/11
Nejat Society, February 11 2019:... A former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/MEK/PMOI/Cult of Rajavi) Nabi Ahmadi states new dimensions on the death of Malik Sharaei in the group’s camp in Albania. Malik Sharaei, 47, was one of the few remaining witnesses of the mysterious death of 53 MKO members in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Nabi Ahmadi asserts that Malik…
2018/11/09
Arron Merat, The Guardian, London, 09 november 2018:... When we spoke recently, Soltani accused Maryam Rajavi of helping Massoud to abuse female MEK members over the years. “[Massoud] Rajavi thought that the only achilles heel [for female fighters] was the opposite sex,” Soltani told me. “He would say that the only reason you women would leave me is a man. So,…
2018/09/16
Aljazeera, September 16 2018:... For all the accusations of disinformation and fake news from both sides, it is rare that we can point to facts, a location, and actual personnel explaining the modus operandi of an organised troll factory. The Listening Post's Will Yong investigated this story and the trail has led him, surprisingly, to Tirana. the Twitter accounts doing the trolling may…
2018/09/07
Channel 4 News, September 07 2018:... National Security Advisor John Bolton said US policy should be regime change in Iran. He and other Trump advisers have long touted a shadowy exiled cult as an alternative to the Iranian government. The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) has had a very active propaganda wing for years, but now they have influence at the highest level.…
2018/07/19
Iran Front Page, July 19 2018:... MEK IRAN, A new survey reveals that nearly 100 percent of Iranian diaspora in Canada maintain that Ottawa officials shouldn’t have taken part in the annual gathering of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), an anti-Iran terrorist group, which was recently held in Paris. According to the survey conducted by the Iranian-Canadian Congress, 98.90 percent of 1,551…
2018/07/04
Richard Engel, NBC, May 25 2018:... How did a fringe Iranian opposition group with a history of assassinating Americans get so cozy with the likes of John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani? By paying them thousands to speak at its events, where they advocate for MEK-led regime change inside Iran ... Link to the source A report by Richard Engel On assignment…
2017/11/21
Massoud Khodabandeh, Huffpost, November 21 2017:... But a more sinister turn of events is taking place right now. The MEK is moving over 2,500 members to a remote camp in the north of Albania far away from any local communities. This desperate act serves several purposes. One is to recreate the isolation the cult enjoyed in Iraq where coercion and brainwashing…
2017/01/10
Gazeta Impakt, Albania, January 10 2017:... You have to treat a group like Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, ....) as dangerous. Because for one thing they are all radicalized. Until we de-radicalize them they are a danger. But in terms of their behavior. OK. There are many many levels to this danger. The group has been trained by Saddam ... Qytetarët shqiptarë…
2016/08/19
Iran Interlink, August 19 2016:... This short film clearly reflects the increasing mental struggle of every member of the Mojahedin Khalq at this time after hearing that their leader, Massoud Rajavi, is dead. On July 9th at the annual gathering of the Mojahedin Khalq to celebrate armed struggle, Maryam Rajavi begins by praising her husband Massoud Rajavi's leadership of the organisation.…
2014/11/01
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, November 01 2014: ... When a supporter of ISIS sits in the French parliamentary building and attacks President Obama, the cracks are seriously beginning to show in the West’s approach to resolving the whole Middle East situation. Observers may not be sufficiently informed to tell Western governments what to do in ... European MEK Supporters…
2014/02/04
Dave Seminara, The Washington diplomat, February 04 2014: ... The Israelis have a long history of using the MEK as a sort of foil,” the historian said. “In 2002, when the allegations about Iran’s nuclear programs hit the headlines, they were presented to the world as having come from the MEK, but they probably came from Israel. The revelations were…
2014/01/23
UNAMI, Baghdad, January 23 2014: ... UNAMI has continuing concerns about human rights abuses committed by the PMOI/MeK leadership within Camp Hurriya against the residents. These claims have been made to United Nations Monitors during interviews with residents who had managed to leave Camp Hurriya, as well as in a number of private discussions with residents ... Families demand UNHCR…
2014/01/03
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, January 03 2014: ...It is ludicrous to assert that an attacking force would need to rely on Dalili as a guide two years after he left the organisation when this information was already in the public domain, and ludicrous they would take him along as he was over 50 years old. It is ludicrous that an attacking…
2013/12/20
Iran Interlink, December 20 2013: ... Iraqi Security Advisor, Faleh Al-Fayad, and Martin Kobler, Head of UNAMI hold a Press Conference in February 2012 to extend the deadline for the relocation and expulsion of the Mojahedin Khalq from Iraq. The residents were transferred to the temporary transit Camp Liberty during 2013, consequently the camp was opened to reporters in ...…
2013/10/28
Nejat Bloggers, October 28 2013: ... it seems that all parties concerned have reached to the consensus that the only way to resolve situation of Camp Liberty residents is to relocate them somewhere out of Iraq. However there are two main obstacles on the way of the Camp residents’ relocation, one of which is the reluctance of third countries to…
2013/10/22
Tasnim News, October 22 2013: ... Iraqi Ambassador to the US Lukman Faily stressed that his country is determined to put an end to the presence of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members in line with an agreement reached between Iraq and the UN. The envoy said the Iraqi government is committed to coming up with a plan to…
2013/10/17
Iran Interlink, October 17, 2013: ... Experts in MEK behaviour however, believe this could trigger rogue activity and continue to advise western security services to maintain vigilance over the group’s members. Operating as a cult, the MEK leaders depend on retaining members through priming them for and involving them in specific activities which include aggression and acts of violence. Although…
2013/10/09
Nejat Society, October 09 2013: ... Daniel Herman received from the terrorists in the same spirit precise instructions on what to say and how to proceed and how to use his network of contacts to support the Marxist Islamic movement, the author reveals. Solis refers to Herman's interview with a Czech radio show where he was questioned for his support…
2013/09/11
ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press, Bagdad, September 11 2013: ... Ali al-Moussawi, the spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said he had no information about any missing residents. He denied there are any plans by Iraq to forcibly send former Camp Ashraf residents to Iran, and he pressed for help in resettling them safely abroad. "These new allegations are baseless. The…
2013/04/18
... Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated since 2007. M.E.K. spokesmen have denied any involvement in the killings, but early last month NBC News quoted two senior Obama Administration officials as confirming that the attacks were carried out by M.E.K. units that were financed and trained by Mossad, the Israeli secret service. NBC further quoted the Administration officials as…
2013/04/17
Anne Singleton (Khodabandeh), Middle East Strategy Consultants, March 06 2013: ... These women face a backlash of ‘power and money’ to stop them talking, while the same ‘power and money’ grooms the perpetrator, Maryam Rajavi, to talk about the rights of women and criticise marriage laws and say how they should be changed in the favour of women. ‘Power and money’…
2013/03/26
... The problem for Rajavi is that this didn’t happen. The report was leaked to the press as planned, but there was no media fest. Instead the report was pulled back "for revision" when the Library of Congress realised the shoddy piece of work was ripe for investigation: how was it possible for a group like the MEK to…
2013/03/26
... Rajavi's veteran translator Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad escaped Camp Liberty two months ago. He is now in Baghdad and has exposed the relationship between Rajavi and the Saddam regime. He is also helping UN, EU, U.S. and Iraqi officials by exposing the lies which the MEK are telling them. He has two daughters, one in Iran and one…
2013/03/26
Protestors say MEK paid them to go to demo ... Gridlock at the United Nations of New York ... Crowds and supporters of the Iranian Mujahidin-i-Khalq, an anti-Tehran cult, were bused in from far and wide. I asked a black American wearing a yellow vest with pictures of the cult’s leader why he came. “They paid me to,” he…
2013/03/26
MEPs warned not to fall victim to misleading Mojahedin Khalq lobby in European Parliament (who are Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Struan Stevenson?) . ... This infatuation with the PMOI also diverts our energy and attention away from the civil society movement known as the ‘green movement’ whose leaders have rejected any link with the PMOI. The PMOI lost all its credibility with…
2013/03/26
... One young woman in a white ‘Chanel’ headscarf weeps for her lost father. He has been, she explains, in Camp Ashraf for23 years. He was captured as a POW in Iraq 25 years ago and after two years was among those transferred to the MEK camp where he has been ever since. She hasn’t seen him for 25 years.…
2013/03/26
... The MKO is currently demanding that U.S. Army or the U.N. take control of Camp Ashraf from the GOI. Following publication of the RAND Report it should be the duty of the U.S. Army to help and facilitate in any way possible the immediate closure of Camp Ashraf and the removal of the MKO personnel from Iraq. The…
2013/03/26
. . . RAND, August 05, 2009 http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871/ (Camp Ashraf) A new document (133 pages) was released today by RAND About RAND: ... For more than 60 years, the RAND Corporation has pursued its nonprofit mission by conducting research on important and complicated problems. Initially, RAND focused on issues of national security. Eventually, RAND expanded its intellectual reserves ... * …
2013/03/26
Reuters, April 06, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS149616+06-Apr-2009+PRN20090406 Iraq's National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al Rubaie LONDON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In an interview with Anne Singleton of Iran-Interlink, Dr. Mowaffak al Rubaie, Iraq 's national security advisor clarified his approach to the Government of Iraq's decision to remove the Iranian terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK, aka MKO, PMOI) from the country. Responsibility for…
2013/03/21
Statement on Responses to Human Rights Watch Report on Abuses by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) Human Rights Watch, February 2006 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/02/15/iran12678.htm In May 2005, Human Rights Watch issued a report on alleged human rights abuses committed by an Iranian opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK),1 inside its military camps in Iraq from 1991 to February 2003, prior…
2013/03/21
'Straight From the Horse's Mouth...' Has the Mojahedin-e Khalq renounced the use of violence to achieve its political aims as Survivors' Report recently suggested? A source close to NCR says officials in Europe told: "The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation rejects armed struggle and commits itself only to non-violent means of struggle and therefore asks the relevant authorities to remove it…
2013/03/21
MKO Lies to Court to Save its Skin January 30, 2006 Letter to: Court of Justice Court of First Instance Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald L-2925 Luxembourg To the Judges of the Court of First Instance At 09:30, on February 7, 2006 in the Second Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the Court of Justice of the European…
2013/03/21
Iran: Exiled Armed Group Abuses Dissident Member Opposition Group Seeks Recognition and Support in Western Capitals Human Rights Watch Full Report (Paris, May 19, 2005) -- An armed Iranian opposition group in exile, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, has subjected dissident members to torture and prolonged solitary confinement, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 28-page report,…
2013/03/21
Some family members of the sympathizers of the Munafeqin (hypocrites) Khalq Organization (MKO) here on Monday asked the UN and the International Red Cross Committee (IRCC) to assist their children to return home. The group, comprised of some family members of the terrorist group MKO, at the end of a gathering here, wrote two letters to the United Nations…
2013/03/21
MUHAMMED MUHEISEN / AP Members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq gather by the entrance of their camp at Baqubah, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad. TEHRAN, Iran — The case of those holed up in Camp Ashraf, near Baghdad, remains a quirky piece of unfinished business left over from the American campaign to oust Saddam Hussein. It continues…
2013/03/18
The US Treasurer's Office issued a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of the Foreign Assets Control Office, requesting that the name of "National Council of Resistance" (NCRI) be added to the list of terrorist groups and that their assets be frozen. Following this is a list of some other aliases used by the Mojahedin in their propaganda campaigns which…
2013/03/18
Amendment includes two aliases of the terrorist group Secretary of State Colin Powell amended the State Department's designation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as a foreign terrorist organization in order to include two of its aliases in the designation. According to an August 15 statement by acting State Department spokesman Tom Casey, the National Council of Resistance (NCR) and…
2013/03/17
(Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, cult leaders) For more than 30 years, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Mujahedeen, has survived and operated on the margins of history and the slivers of land that Saddam Hussein and French governments have proffered it. During the 1970's, while it was still an underground Iranian political movement, you could encounter some of its members on…
2013/03/17
Lisa Bryant, VOA News - Paris 22 June 2003 In Paris Sunday, a judge ordered the continued detention of the leader of the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin and 10 of her followers who face trial for possible links with terrorism.For more than 20 years, Mojahedin members who oppose Iran's clerical regime have been treated like any other foreign dissidents living…
2013/03/17
By Charles Recknagel - 23 May 2002 Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (funded by United States Congress) The U.S. State Department has released a report charging Iran's armed opposition movement with helping Iraqi President Saddam Hussein crack down on his domestic rivals. The Iranian armed opposition, the Mujahedin Khalq, is reported to perform the security services in exchange for Baghdad giving it…
2013/03/17
Iran-Interlink is deeply concerned about reports that several members of the Iranian Mojahedin(*) organisation, led by Massoud Rajavi, have been imprisoned in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, and that many of these have been transferred to Iran in exchange for Iraqi prisoners of war.. The following information was issued in a statement in Farsi language by an ex-member of…
2013/03/17
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service Sunday, 19 May, 2002, UK There has been an explosion outside a military building in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Two people were injured in the blast, which also caused some material damage. It is not known what caused the explosion, but an armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, says it was an…
2013/03/17
Iran Aid - (Registered Charity 326460) Introduction 1. This report is the statement of the results of an Inquiry under Section 8 of the Charities Act 1993. 2. Iran Aid (the charity) was established by declaration of trust on 20 September 1983 to provide for the relief of conditions of need, hardship or distress of Iranian refugees and Iranians in…
2013/03/07
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, February 21, 2013 ... Not only is this untrue, it is yet another gaffe. The original report did not say that I was in jail at that time and the author of the article either did not bother to read the actual report, or was probably as confused as everyone else who read it as to…