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Press TV, July 28 2020:… The recent list released concludes the people who were martyred by the MKO in these three military operations and other sporadic offensives in 1988 along the western borders of the country. The MKO has conducted many assassinations and bombings against Iranian officials and civilians since the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. It notoriously sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his 1980-88 war on Iran. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Revolution, about 12,000 fell victim to the MKO’s acts of terror. For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
The file photo shows Maryam Rajavi, ringleader of the US-backed anti-Iran terrorist cult of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) (C), and US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani (R) during an annual MKO gathering in Paris.
An Iranian human rights NGO has for the first time released the names of 1,503 martyrs killed by the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in western parts of the country some 32 years ago.
Citing a report by Habilian Association, the Nournews agency on Monday said the MKO terrorists and a large number of “fugitive prisoners” who were released on Islamic compassion had been called to Iraq from different countries in 1988.
These terrorists carried out several military incursions from Iraq against Iranian territory. The operations included three rather massive military attacks named Aftab (in Fakkeh region in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan on March 28, 1988), Chelcheragh (in Mehran region in western Ilam Province on June 18, 1988) and Forough Javidan (targeting the western city of Kermanshah on July 25, 1988).
The recent list released concludes the people who were martyred by the MKO in these three military operations and other sporadic offensives in 1988 along the western borders of the country.
The MKO has conducted many assassinations and bombings against Iranian officials and civilians since the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. It notoriously sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his 1980-88 war on Iran.
Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Revolution, about 12,000 fell victim to the MKO’s acts of terror.
The terrorist outfit was on the US list of terrorist organizations until 2012. Major European countries, including France, have also removed it from their blacklists. The anti-Iran terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe, and even hold meetings with American and EU officials.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry late in June lambasted both Europe and the United States for aiding and abetting the MKO terrorist group.
MEK terror group funded by American taxpayers’ money: Tehran
“Europe is home to this rogue entity & American taxpayers’ money has funded the atrocities of this corrupt grouplet,” it said.
The ministry added that as a result of their full support for the MKO, Europe and the US “both have [their] hands in the massacre of innocent Iranians” by this terrorist organization.
Meanwhile, recent leaked images have shown social media influence campaigns conducted by the US-backed MKO against Iran.
MEK Troll Factory in Albania . aka Mujahedin Khalq MKO Rajavi Cult
The images revealed for the first time part of the organization’s secretive social media influence campaign targeting Farsi-, English- and Arabic-speaking users on social media.
In addition to the US and Europe, the Paris-based MKO, regarded as the most abhorrent terrorist group among the Iranians, also receives huge support from Saudi Arabia.
The group throws lavish conferences every year in the French capital, with certain American, Western, and Saudi Arabian officials in attendance as guests of honor. These include former US national security advisor John Bolton, US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal.
For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
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Press TV, July 19 2020:… Baeidinejad said both the interview and the Friday broadcast “has been conducted on the orders of the network’s Saudi owners.” “Money, however, is not everything,” the envoy added in reference to the hefty sums that Riyadh allocates to such anti-Iran efforts. The Reuters’ report, meanwhile, refused to identify the Paris-based MKO by its name, instead referring to it as “an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile.” The attempt at glorifying the ferocious outfit and glossing over its history was, however, met by furious reactions among Iranian social media frequenters. Utterly Shameless London Based Saudi Network Glorifying Terrorism
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Saudi network ’utterly shameless’ in airing anti-Iran terrorists event: Iranian UK envoy
This undated picture shows former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki Al Faisal, and former US national security advisor, John Bolton (1st and 2nd R) paying respect to the terrorist anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO)’s ringleader, Maryam Rajavi (L) during an annual MKO gathering in Paris.
Iran’s ambassador to the UK decries a Saudi-funded London-based television network that has been set up with the aim of smearing the Islamic Republic for its “utter shamelessness” in broadcasting the annual gathering of an anti-Iran terrorist cult.
“By broadcasting the gathering of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) that is the murderer of tens of thousands of innocent Iranians, the Saudi Iran International network displayed its full-scale obscenity and shamelessness,” Hamid Baeidinejad tweeted on Saturday.
شبکه سعودی ایران اینترنشنال باپخش گردهمایی گروه تروریستی منافقین که قاتل دهها هزار بیگناه ایرانی میباشد، وقاحت وبیشرمی تمام عیار خودرا به نمایش گذاشت. بعد از مصاحبه با سخنگوی گروه تروریستی الاحوازی، این برنامه نیز بدستور مالکان سعودی این شبکه صورت گرفته است. اما پول همه چیز نیست.
— Hamid Baeidinejad (@baeidinejad) July 18, 2020
The MKO has a squalid history of assassinations and bombings against the Iranian government and nation. It notoriously sided with Saddam Hussein during the former Iraqi dictator’s 1980-88 war on Iran.
Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO’s acts of terror.
Western countries, topped by the United States, have, however, taken the group out of their terror blacklists.
The group throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American, Western, and Saudi officials as its guests of honor. These include former US national security advisor John Bolton, US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki Al Faisal.
This year’s event that was aired by Iran International at its full six-hour length on Friday was being held virtually as a precaution against the new coronavirus.
In addition to Giuliani, one of the group’s staunchest supporters, 18 sitting US senators were among those who addressed this year’s event, Reuters reported.
This is not the first time that the Saudi-funded network serves as anti-Iran terrorists’ mouthpiece.
In 2018, shortly after an attack by al-Ahwaziya, another Saudi-backed anti-Iran terrorist outfit, killed 25 people in southwestern Iran, the channel allowed the outfit’s spokesman to go live on air to defend the act of terror.
This year’s event that was aired by Iran International at its full six-hour length on Friday was being held virtually as a precaution against the new coronavirus.
In addition to Giuliani, one of the group’s staunchest supporters, 18 sitting US senators were among those who addressed this year’s event, Reuters reported.
This is not the first time that the Saudi-funded network serves as anti-Iran terrorists’ mouthpiece.
In 2018, shortly after an attack by al-Ahwaziya, another Saudi-backed anti-Iran terrorist outfit, killed 25 people in southwestern Iran, the channel allowed the outfit’s spokesman to go live on air to defend the act of terror.
Baeidinejad said both the interview and the Friday broadcast “has been conducted on the orders of the network’s Saudi owners.”
“Money, however, is not everything,” the envoy added in reference to the hefty sums that Riyadh allocates to such anti-Iran efforts.
The Reuters’ report, meanwhile, refused to identify the Paris-based MKO by its name, instead referring to it as “an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile.”
The attempt at glorifying the ferocious outfit and glossing over its history was, however, met by furious reactions among Iranian social media frequenters.
“Referring to NCRI as “an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile” is verging on fabrication. Conspicuous omission of the group’s actual name: MEK (MKO),” tweeted Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder and publisher of Bourse & Bazaar– a media company supporting business diplomacy between Europe and Iran.
.@IrishJReuters you’re probably the best-sourced journo when it comes to the Quai D’Orsay + Iran.
But referring to NCRI as “an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile” is verging on fabrication. Conspicuous omission of the group’s actual name: MEK.https://t.co/3sgyQVriGc
— Esfandyar Batmanghelidj (@yarbatman) July 18, 2020
Even Reuters, itself, admitted to the questionable “nature of the support that attends its (MKO’s) gatherings, which usually draws thousands of people, and the motivations of its speaker list that includes a raft of former politicians and lawmakers.”
Numerous reports have emerged showing how the MKO lures youths around the world into the gatherings by promising them free ticket and stay. Leaks have also surfaced of astronomical paychecks handed over to the passionate-sounding former and current politicians that join the meetings.
The group’s current ringleader is Maryam Rajavi. The former ringleader, Massoud Rajavi, has made no public appearance since 2003, raising speculations that he might be dead even though the terrorist outfit does not confirm that.
In his 2016 speech at the MKO’s annual event, Al Faisal referred to the duo as “Mrs. Maryam Rajavi and your late husband Massoud Rajavi.”
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Press TV, July 19 2020:… Baeidinejad said both the interview and the Friday broadcast “has been conducted on the orders of the network’s Saudi owners.” “Money, however, is not everything,” the envoy added in reference to the hefty sums that Riyadh allocates to such anti-Iran efforts. The Reuters’ report, meanwhile, refused to identify the Paris-based MKO by its name, instead… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Mehr News and Press TV, June 26 2020:… Refuting brazen claims leveled against Iran in the US “Country Reports on Terrorism 2019,” Abbas Mousavi said on Thursday, “The Islamic Republic of Iran totally rejects and dismisses the US annual report on terrorism due to its clear dishonesty and the double standards applied by this regime to fighting terrorism.” “Iranians have… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Press TV, May 30 2020:… But Iran placed UANI on its own list of terrorist groups in 2019 after Mark Wallace and UANI hosted a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York that was mainly attended by supporters of the Mujahedin-e-Kalqh (MEK). The MEK is a group that the US government itself… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV and TLAV, February 19 2020:… Oddly empty. Inside the group, they (the former members) said romantic relationships and sexual thoughts were banned, contact with family highly restricted, and friendships discouraged,” the correspondent reported. “All recounted being forced to participate in self-criticism rituals, whereby members would confess to their commanders any sexual or disloyal thoughts they had. “Little by… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV, February 13 2020:… The United States’ point man on Iran met with a representative of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group both before and after Washington’s assassination of senior Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, a report says. Brian Hook, the US’s special representative for Iran and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, held the… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Ramin Mazaheri, Press TV, January 10 2020:… If Washington assassinated Soleimani because he was a “terrorist”, then logically they should now de-list ISIL as a terrorist group. Why not just come clean, finally? The entire world acknowledges that Soleimani fought terrorism, but if he must be rebranded as a “terrorist” in the West – in Orwellian fashion – then the… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV, Mehr News and IUVM Press, December 29 2019:… Iran’s ambassador to the UK has denounced as “fake” a recent Reuters report about the death toll from last month’s riots in the country, saying the report by the London-based agency helped shed further light on the role of the notorious US-backed Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group in the… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV, December 24 2019:… Iran says many of the rioters were found to have links to the notorious US-backed Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group, separatists besides members of organized groups trained towards staging acts of sabotage. Last week, Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, Iran’s Judiciary’s spokesman, dismissed the unofficial casualty count provided by certain sources as inaccurate. “The numbers and figures… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV and Fars News, December 14 2019:… Iran says many of the rioters were found to have links to the notorious US-backed Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group, royalists and separatists besides members of organized groups trained towards staging acts of sabotage. US leaders openly supported the rioters, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling on them to send him… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV, October 27 2019:… In March 2018, two people were held in Albania but set free for lack of evidence. At the time, an opposition leader denounced the announcement as a ploy by Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to divert attention from Tirana’s failure to start entry talks with the European Union. The accusation was similar to those made… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Reza Alghurabi, Press TV, July 16 2019:… All of the Iranian Americans at the meeting, however, knew the group well and detested it. They knew its murderous history in Iran.” wrote Limbert. “They knew that a MEK-ruled Iran would bring them all the horrors of Stalinism—gulags, one-man (or -woman) rule, confiscations, and executions for being a member of the wrong… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Press TV, June 30 2019:… A US and Saudi Arabia-backed anti-Iran terrorist group, which is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians and officials, has announced a plan to assassinate a senior Iranian military commander and the country’s new Judiciary chief. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) informed its members about the plan through a recent internal communiqué. MKO… For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
