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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 the help of his wider family. He since returned to normal life, married a German woman and has now had a baby. He sent a video to Iran Interlink asking for our help by broadcasting it. Which we did. Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – September 28, 2019
MEK Impunity Undermining Democracy
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – September 27, 2019
++ Sana Bargh zahedi from the MEK wrote a piece for Elaf dot com a small, insignificant Saudi outlet in London. He criticizes the police and judiciary for not taking the 2018 Villepinte bomb threat seriously. He says they are “appeasing the mullahs”. Saber from Tabriz responds with an explanation of the events at that time and makes the following comments. 1. The outlet MEK are using is an extreme anti-Iranian platform. MEK deliberately used it and deliberately refer to the Gulf not the Persian Gulf when writing for it. 2. You, MEK and Prince Turki, hatched this plot without the knowledge of the European security services. They stopped because they know you did this yourselves and they have since prevented you from doing it again this year by banning your Villepinte event. The security services of the EU, looking at you and your masters and seeing what happened in the Khashoggi case, are well within reason to curtail your activities. 3. You didn’t have to get into this mess if you would just accept that you are born in Iran and just act as an Iranian, not a Saudi etc. Iranians who oppose the regime don’t normally surrender their nationality to do so.
++ Following the drone attack on Saudi oil installations, Rajavi has been supporting the Saudis and Aramco this week by asserting that no real damage has been done. She has said more than the Saudis themselves to nullify the effects of the strike. The Saudis admitted that half the production was stopped. But while the MEK are absolutely sure that Iran did this attack and that there should be retaliation, at same time they say no damage was done. Some commentators highlighted this hypocritical stance and said Rajavi has become more Catholic than the Pope. Others say that it’s interesting that if you hit the Saudis you hear the ouch from Rajavi.
++ 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 the help of his wider family. He since returned to normal life, married a German woman and has now had a baby. He sent a video to Iran Interlink asking for our help by broadcasting it. Which we did. In the video he explains that this is my newborn child and all I want is to talk to MEK to let me take my baby to Albania so my mother can see him. I am not asking to allow her to come her. He says that after a long push and pull with Ali Malek their contact in Germany, my mother called for a few minutes saying she had asked her supervisors for permission, but they said it is not possible for me to see you if you come here. Hamid says, I know my Mum, it’s not that she doesn’t want to see her grandson, they just won’t let her. My wife wanted to talk with our MP and get higher authorities involved. But I resisted this path as I know the MEK and thought that quietly talking directly with them would be the best way. I tried to convince Ali Malek of my good intentions. He simply replied, “You’ve had your fair share, a call from your mother, she called you once and that’s more than enough”. After that he won’t answer my calls anymore and there is no other way to contact someone from the MEK. After all this effort, this is why I am broadcasting this video. All I want is for the MEK to allow my mother to see her grandson, wherever and however they want. The video is just to ask for help. Maybe there are still people in the NCRI with enough influence to help. I don’t want more than this. Frankly, my wife and I are mind boggled. Why are they doing this. That we are forced to put a video out. Why does the MEK make enemies out of friends. A simple human act could have been done and gone away. But you have failed.
In English:
++ English language coverage of MEK activities was dominated this week by the controversy caused by the MEK’s presence at a summit of the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) in New York on the fringe of the UNGA. The controversy was not that the MEK were present – they will invade any useful space which does not actively prohibit them – but about which groups and individuals were willing to share a platform with them. Undaunted by the MEK’s reputation (“a notorious Iranian cult which has murdered at least six American civilians and spent over 20 years protected by Saddam Hussein’s regime”), several speakers went ahead and addressed the meeting, including Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Rudi Giuliani, Joe Lieberman and Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir.
Suzanne Maloney dropped out of UANI event due to presence of MEK
But for others in the high-stakes world of political extremism, the ultra-extremist MEK are simply too toxic to side with. Iranian Kurdish parties under the umbrella organisation ‘Cooperation Center of Iranian Kurdistan’s Political Parties’ along with Suzanne Maloney of Brookings Institute boycotted the meeting. CodePink activists staged a vocal, visible protest.
Pompeo supports MKO UANI Terrorists , Blames Iran for Terrorism
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – September 27, 2019
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Nobody Can Be “Comfortable” With Regime Change Involving MEK
The Many Faces of the MEK, Explained By Its Former Top Spy Massoud Khodabandeh
The MEK’s man inside the White House (Maryam Rajavi cult, Mojahedin Khalq)
Jafarzadeh has already published his suicide bombing note.
Wondering at those Americans who stand under the flag of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen
Ali Reza Jafarzadeh, Suicide bomber, Terrorist recruiter for Saddam Private Army with Mike Pompeo
Ambassador Daniel Benjamin: I was at State when we took the MeK (Mojahedin Khalq, Saddam’s Private Army) off the terrorist list. But team Trump’s ties to the group still worry me.Also read:
Juan Cole, Truthdig, September 09 2019:… This economic and financial blockade was supposed to bring Iran to its knees, push it out of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and perhaps (it was hoped by some in Trump’s circles) even pave the way to the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran in favor of the Marxist-Islamic People’s Jihadis (Mohahedin-e Khalq or… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Terror Spring, September 05 2019:… As mentioned before, on the 7 o’clock of 1976/08/28, 6 members of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq group (Islamic Marxist) blocked the way with a Volkswagen of the three American citizens residing in Tehran with the name of ((Robert Krongard, William Cotrell and Donald Smith)) that cooperating with Iran Imperial Air Force while transferring to their work place… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Cyrus Shamloo, The Wilson Times, September 05 2019:… MEK terrorists, allied with sympathizers in Albania and Kosovo, have targeted Shi’a and Sufi Islamic institutions. It is also believed by some Albanian journalists, who have been intimidated by the Albanian government and MEK, that Ashraf 3 and Camp Bondsteel are being used to train MEK and other Middle Eastern mercenaries for… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times, September 04 2019:… As a top national security official in the George W. Bush administration, Bolton was one of the architects of regime change in Iraq. He had long called not just for withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or J.C.P.O.A., as the 2015 nuclear deal was known, but… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Nejat Society, September 02 2019:… The documentary “The End of the Path” is a first-hand account of suffering families whose loved ones have been misled by a destructive cult called the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi). The victims are still taken as hostages by the cult leaders consequently living under a modern slavery. MEK… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Iran Interlink, August 31 2019:… In Albania, a source inside MEK has informed Iran-Interlink that alongside the click farm work Rajavi has ordered some members to discover who leaked the incriminating photographs which we wrote about in Lobelog last week to the Iranian media. The way this is being done is through telephone calls. They change the way they speak… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Mazda Majidi, Liberation News, August 31 2019:… Bolton may promise the MKO or MEK , his favorite pro-U.S./Israel opposition force abroad, that he will meet with them in Tehran in a few months. But even Bolton must know that the conditions in Iran are nowhere near a collapse of the state. If anything, the Trump administration’s blatant violation of the… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Adam Taylor, Washington Post, August 29 2019:… White House national security adviser John Bolton gave a speech at an event hosted by an Iranian exile group known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, MEK, or People’s Mujahedeen, where he openly called for the end of the religious regime that rules Iran. “The declared policy of the United States should be the overthrow… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Jonathan Broder, Newsweek, August 28 2019:… Many independent scholars say the MEK’s alliance with Saddam in that long and bloody war turned the group into traitors in the eyes of most Iranians. In the 1990s, the Rajavis instituted a number of cult-like measures to prevent defections. According to a 2005 Human Rights Watch report based on interviews with several defectors,… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, August 27 2019:… The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA, Rajavi Cult), an armed opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran, faced dramatic changes after Iraq was invaded by US forces in 2003, and Saddam Hussein, the only state sponsor of the leader Massoud Rajavi, was toppled. John Bolton, who served as the US government… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
Costantino Ceoldo, Pravda, August 26 2019:… The MEK is not independent of Washington. The Ashraf-3 base opening was attended by many senior-level U.S. officials. National Security Advisor John Bolton told the MEK at its 2017 conference in Albania, “Before 2019, we here will celebrate in Tehran”. He was wrong. But John Bolton still intends to overthrow Iran. I am not… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
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… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
