2020/08/08
Nejat Society, August 08 2020:... Inside This Issue: – Open Letter to the Negotiators for Albania’s Accession to the EU The letter lists MEK activities in Albania which “displays a pattern not of simple disregard for the laws and norms of the host community, but a deliberate exploitation of weaknesses in every aspect of the Albanian state from local to…
2020/08/02
Gareth Porter, The Grayzone, August 02 2020:... Nisman’s 2006 indictment of seven Iranian officials for the terror plot relied completely on the claims of senior members of the Mujahedin-E-Khalq (MEK), the Israeli and Saudi-backed Iranian exile cult. Not only were none of the MEK members in any position to provide reliable information about a supposedly high-level Iranian plot because they…
2020/08/01
Iran Interlink, July 31 2020:... Last week saw the anniversary of the 1988 Forouq-e Javidan or Mersad operation in which MEK tried to invade Iran and march on Tehran. Around half the group’s forces were killed and many injured when the Iranian military drew them into an ambush and attacked them. This week MEK said nothing about the operation in…
2020/07/31
Nejat Society, July 31 2020:... The annual gathering of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI? Cult of Rajavi) went virtual this year on Friday, July 17, 2020. In the past, the group used to mobilize hundreds of people including students, Arab and African refugees from all over Europe for a free one-day Paris tour in order to wave…
2020/07/30
Mehr News, Tehran, July 30 2020:... The Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to MKO's acts of terror. Washington and…
2020/07/29
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…
2020/07/28
Alireza Niknam, Geopolitica, July 28 2020:... After Iran agreed to the terms of UN Resolution 598[1], Saddam Hussein confessed at a closed-meeting that he fully intended to renege on the terms of the ceasefire to strike Iran when it the least expected. Wafiq al-Samarraee, then the head of the Iraqi army intelligence agency and director of military intelligence for Iran…
2020/07/27
Nejat Society, July 27 2020:... The father died longing to see his children but he did not know that Amir also would die only two years after his father died. GhorbanAli Hosseinnejad former member of the group was Amir’s Arabic teacher at Camp Ashraf. “After the defection of his father, Amir’s last name was changed into his mother’s. He was…
2020/07/26
"Tehran Times" and "Iran International" (Saudi outlet from London), July 26 2020:... London-based TV channel was strongly criticized for its live coverage of a gathering of the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq) terrorist group, which is also known as “Monafeqin” (hypocrites) in Iran. “Unfortunately, we saw in recent days that one of the satellite channels named Iran International, which is broadcast by…
2020/07/24
Alireza Niknam. The Interview With Prof. Tim Anderson, Geopolitica.ru, July 24 2020:... For example, a 1994 US State Department report said: “shunned by most Iranians and fundamentally undemocratic, the Mojahedin-e Khalq are not a viable alternative to the current government of Iran” (Shermen 1994). Even a 2018 poll of Iranian Americans showed only 6 percent support for the MEK as…
2020/07/23
Stephen Lendman, stephenlendman.org, July 23 2020:... During Friday’s conference, MEK leader Maryam Rajavi said its “mission…is to overthrow the mullahs.” The NCRI is an MEK front group. During Friday’s online session, Giuliani promoted regime change in Iran, saying the following: “(T)he mullahs are like the people who ran the mafia, the people I prosecuted who ran the mafia and extorted…
2020/07/22
Nejat Society, July 22 2020:... The propaganda media of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) published a claim against a Swedish journalist who had come to the group’s camp in Albania, labeling him as the spy of the Iranian Government. The ID cards of the Swedish journalist Ivan Blanco Bravo and two children of MEK…
2020/07/21
Dave DeCamp, Anti War, July 21 2020:... A frequent guest of the MEK, Giuliani spoke at Friday’s conference, calling for regime change and railing against the mullahs. “To me, the mullahs are like the people who ran the mafia, the people I prosecuted who ran the mafia and extorted their people,” Giuliani said. The former mayor also praised Maryam Rajavi, the MEK’s…
2020/07/20
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…
2020/07/19
Nejat Society, July 19 2020:... Khodabandeh then referred to the Rajavi cult’s response, saying that the Rajavi response to the request, like all destructive cults, was base obscenity, slander and insult. He cited the example of a mother who has not heard the voice of her son – who had one day joined the MEK for some reason – for…
2020/07/18
Nejat Society, July 18 2020:... Meeting of a number of the MEK members’ families captured and held in the Rajavi Cult from the Southern cities of WA province Miandoab. The gathering of suffering families whose beloved ones are being held in an isolated remote camp of MEK in Albania. The children of some of these families were either soldiers who…
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…
2020/07/15
Olsi Jazexhi, TRTWorld, July 15 2020:... On July 15, freedom-loving people in the Muslim world will commemorate the fourth anniversary of the failed coup attempt by the FETO terrorist organisation, led by US-based cult leader Fetullah Gulen.The support that European and American politicians give to their network is similar to the support that the Albania-based terrorist Mujahideen e Khalq (People's…
2020/07/14
Nejat Society, July 14 2020:... In Iran, the estranged families of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or Rajavi Cult) members who remain trapped inside the MEK camp in Albania created a petition appealing to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for help to contact their loved ones. The petition has attracted almost eleven thousand signatures. The MEK responded by attacking the families, calling…
2020/07/13
Atefeh Nadalian, Nejat Society, July 13 2020:... Saddam Hussein's regime was widely regarded as the sole state supporter of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult). Massoud Rajavi went to Iraq in June 1986 after meeting with then Iraqi Foreign Minister and Vice President Tariq Aziz, and moved his forces there, forming the National Liberation Army as a ‘private…
2020/07/12
Financial Tribune, July 12 2020:... It is in fact the US that is promoting terrorism not only in this region, but almost everywhere in the world. “The United States’ interventionist approach in our region has created chaos and an environment fertile for terrorism to grow,” he said. He blamed the US for harboring the MKO (the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization), a…
2020/07/11
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, Gazeta Impakt, Tirana, Albania, July 11 2020:... Mr. Gholam Ali Narimi from Khoozestan is an ex-terrorist Iranian who is presently in the Mojaheeden el Halk paramilitary camp of Manza in Albania. Mr. Gholam was born 1960. He joined MEK in 1976 when he was 16 years old. Today he is 60 years old. His family in Khoozestan…
2020/07/07
Sorayya Abdollahi, Nejat society, Tehran, July 07 2020:... According to a website of the Albania based Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), you have made a speech as an MP (even though you had resigned in 2019) for “the International Online Conference on Freedom and Democracy in Iran” on June 20, 2020, in an online conference held connecting about…
2020/07/04
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, Gazeta Impakt, Tirana, Albania, July 04 2020:... The family members of the mojahedeen Bahman Mohammadnezhad Caushi appeal to Albanian authorities to allow them to come to Albania and meet their cousin who has been held in quarantine at the MEK camp since 1981. Bahman family members: Said Mohamedi Nejad Caushi (nephew), Mohamed Riza Caushi (brother), Zahra Guzel…
2020/07/03
Atefeh Nadalian, Nejat Society, July 02 2020:... The websites affiliated to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, or Rajavi cult) have published an article titled ‘An open letter from a number of members of the MEK in Ashraf 3 in Manza to the Albanian officials’ on June 24, 2020, signed by a number of cult members. The focus of the…
2020/07/02
Nejat Society, July 02 2020:... In Iran, the estranged families of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or Rajavi Cult) members who remain trapped inside the MEK camp in Albania created a petition appealing to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for help to contact their loved ones. The petition has attracted almost eleven thousand signatures. The MEK responded by attacking the families, calling…
2020/06/30
Tehran Times, June 30 2020:... In 2012, the U.S. State Department removed the MEK from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated with Saudi Arabia and other regimes opposed to Iran. A few years ago, the MEK operatives were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former…
2020/06/29
Robert Fantina, American Herald Tribune, June 29 2020:... One group, the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq, or the People’s Muhajedin Organization of Iran), is one such opposition organization. It is a violent terrorist group that is currently supported by the U.S. government. Members of the MEK have never accepted the revolution, and on June 28, 1981, three years after the revolution, they…
2020/06/28
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine, June 28 2020:... Eliot Engel was one of blue America’s most enthusiastic supporters of the war in Iraq. He was an opponent of Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. After the Obama administration allowed the passage of a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, Engel introduced a House resolution condemning the U.N.…
2020/06/27
Tehran Times, June 27 2020:... Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has marked the 39th anniversary of an act of terror that killed over 70 senior figures by the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) terrorist group, saying the MEK has since remained under the auspices of the U.S. and Europe. “39yrs ago, today, Iran Chief Justice Ayatollah Beheshti & 72senior figures were assassinated…
2020/06/27
Nejat Society, June 27 2020:... According to several websites of the Albania based Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), an open letter dated June 23, 2020 has been written by a number of organization members, who are based in the MEK camp in Manza, to some Albanian officials. In this letter the coronavirus outbreak in Tehran and other parts of Iran…
2020/06/27
Nejat Society, Tehran, June 27 2020:... From Alborz province (north of Iran), a number of families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama simultaneous with the petition of over 11,000 signatures, urging him to lift the obstacles in order to let them meet their…
2020/06/27
Iran Interlink, June 27 2020:... Every day MEK have published a couple of articles in English and Arabic claiming that the Iranian government has confessed in this site that these people are agents of the MOIS. Today, Massoud Khodabandeh wrote a paragraph on his Facebook page in response to a video by Davoud Baghervand Arshad in Germany, who runs the…
2020/06/26
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…
2020/06/25
Nejat Society, June 25 2020:... Your country accepted the members of the MEK as temporary guests around 2016, according to an agreement reached in Geneva between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the US government and the Albanian government. These individuals were supposed to be able to move freely after the deprograming process, and to regain their independent and humane…
2020/06/23
Nejat Society, June 23 2020:... Coinciding with the recent petition of 11,000 signatures, the families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania from Kermanshah province (West of Iran), sent several letters and messages to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, calling for news and communication and possibly meeting with their loved ones. In addition to each of…
2020/06/21
Nejat Society, June 21 2020:... Simultaneous with the petition of more than 11,000 signatures by the Nejat Society, the families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania from Golestan Province (northeast of Iran), have sent separate letters and messages to the Albanian Prime Minister asking him to make grounds for them to contact and visit their…
2020/06/20
Nejat Society, June 20 2020:... An Albanian government official, in response to a question from a member of parliament who had asked why Iranians, especially families who want to visit their loved ones in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, were not given visas, said: “This decision was made out of fear of the influence of Iranian terrorists and…
2020/06/17
Iran Interlink, June 17 2020:... Maryam Rajavi’s arrest on 17 June 2003 and its aftermath gave the states and the public opinion the opportunity to see behind the pseudo-democratic face of Mojahedin. Accused of terrorist activities, association with a terrorist organization and financing terrorist operations, the French Police raided the office of MKO at Auvers-sur-Oise and arrested 164 suspected Mojahedin…
2020/06/14
Nejat Society, June 14 2020:... The families of the trapped members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania, from Zanjan Province (northwest of Iran), have recently sent letters and messages to the Prime Minister of Albania, asking him to let them to contact and receive news and, if possible, meet with their loved ones. Attached to each of these letters…
2020/06/13
Nejat Society, June 13 2020:... List of messages and letters by Qazvin families to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama requesting contact with their loved ones in the MEK camp. Simultaneous with the recent eleven thousand signature petition, the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania from Qazvin province (north of Iran), have sent separate letters and messages…
2020/06/12
Iran Interlink, June 12 2020:... Female singer Marjan ( Shahla Safi Zamir ) died this week aged 70 in Los Angeles. She came to the U.S. with her husband many years ago after they had served prison sentences for involvement with MEK. Once in the U.S. MEK used them every now and then to appear in events, but they were…
2020/06/12
Nejat Society, Tehran, June 12 2020:... From Khorasan Razavi province (northeast of Iran), a number of families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama simultaneous with the petition of over 11,000 signatures, urging him to lift the obstacles in order to let them meet…
2020/06/11
Matt Friedman, Politico, June 11 2020:... Amy Kennedy’s main opponent in the 2nd Congressional District’s Democratic primary, Brigid Harrison, has made Patrick Kennedy’s finances a campaign issue, and is calling the fee he earned from the opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) for the speech he delivered in February 2019 “dirty money.” MEK paid Patrick Kennedy — the…
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…
2020/06/09
Nejat Society, Tehran, June 09 2020:... Inside This Issue: – Families with loved ones trapped inside the MEK cult plea for a visit or at least a phone call One mother wrote: “It is hard to believe that you are under such a control that you are not able to contact your parents. What a life do you have? Are…
2020/06/08
Human Rights Watch (HEW), June 08 2020:... Gholamhossein Esmaili, the judiciary’s spokesperson, accused the two students, without citing any evidence, of having ties to anti-revolutionary groups, including the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and of pursuing “destructive” actions. The MKO is an Iranian opposition group currently based in Albania. In 2005, Human Rights Watch documented abuses by the group against its own members when it maintained…
2020/06/06
Nejat Society, Tehran, June 06 2020:... A number of families of the members of the Rajavi cult from Markazi province (central Iran) have written separate letters to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, calling for communication with their loved ones at the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in the country. They also called for the abolition of visa bans for Iranian citizens…
2020/06/03
United World International, June 03 2020:... There was also information that MEK was giving money to Rudy Giuliani. MEK and its subsidiary, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, have openly advocated a change of power in Iran, promising to establish democracy and the rule of law. At the same time, inside MEK itself, there is truly totalitarian order, and the…
2020/06/02
Nejat Society, June 02 2020:... Alongside the 11000 signature petition, a number of families of the members trapped in the MEK camp in Albania from Khuzestan province (southwest of Iran), have sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian Prime Minister, urging him to let them to have a visit or at least a phone call with their loved ones.…
2020/05/31
Nejat Society, May 31 2020:... Messages and letters from a number of families in West Azarbaijan Province, addressed to Albanian PM requesting communication with their loved ones in the MEK Camp . It should be noted that in recent years, many families in West Azarbaijan Province have died while waiting to visit their loved ones and have never been able to…
2020/05/30
Iran Interlink, May 30 2020:... MEK leaders this week used the MEK’s TV programme to officially announce that ‘the assassination of families and critics is a duty wherever possible’. In this programme Parviz Khazaei – Rajavi’s NCRI representative in Scandinavia who had been a diplomat in the Iranian embassy at the time of the Shah, and later worked for the…
2020/05/30
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…
2020/05/28
Nejat Society, May 28 2020:... In Iran, the estranged families of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or Rajavi Cult) members who remain trapped inside the MEK camp in Albania created a petition appealing to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for help to contact their loved ones. The petition has attracted almost eleven thousand signatures. The MEK responded by attacking the families, calling…
2020/05/25
Mehr News, Tehran, May 25 2020:... Mousavi then pointed to the US’ all-out support for the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has assassinated 17,000 Iranian citizens and officials over the past four decades. He also cited the creation of and support for the savage and bloodthirsty ISIS terrorist group as another example of the historic American crimes in recent years.…
2020/05/24
Paolo de Donno, europeanaffairs, May 24 2020:... Secondly, since 2016 the headquarters of the People's Mujahedin-e of Iran (MEK) has been established on Albanian soil in Manez, near Durres; Historically, this group had supported the struggle against the Shah in 1963 and then participated in the Khomeinist revolution of 1979. From an ideological point of view, it is a synthesis…
2020/05/24
Iran Interlink, May 24 2020:... In Iran, the estranged families of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or Rajavi Cult) members who remain trapped inside the MEK camp in Albania created a petition appealing to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for help to contact their loved ones. The petition has attracted almost eleven thousand signatures. The MEK responded by attacking the families, calling…
2020/05/23
Nejat Society, May 23 2020:... My children Mehri, Nahid and Mahmoud Saadat have been mentally and physically imprisoned in the MKO for 33 years. Mr. Secretary General, Please think of us for just five minutes. Our only request is a private visit. If you have emotions, if you love your children, you might understand us. Not only you should condemn…
2020/05/21
Nejat Society, May 21 2020:... Simultaneously with the nationwide signature petition, a number of families of the members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) camp in Albania from Gilan province (north of Iran), have sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian prime minister, urging him to be able to visit or at least have video or audio contact…
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…
2020/05/19
Gafour Fatahian, Paris, May 19 2020:... In addition, the Albanian government does not issue visas to Iranian people to travel to Albania in order to visit their families. Mr. Javid Rahman I am writing to you this letter; first, in order to expose this problem again, and second so as to demand your intervention to save these people and to…
2020/05/18
Nejat Society, Tehran, May 18 2020:... Your Excellency Prime Minister Edi Rama, I am Tajoddoleh Heidarian, the mother of Mehdi Hamidfar who is taken as a hostage under the cult-like hegemony of the Rajavis. My son was relocated in your country, isolated in a camp with no access to the outside world. I am not aware of my son. I…
2020/05/16
Iran Interlink, May 15 2020:... Eighty percent of this week’s MEK Farsi output has been dedicated to attacking the families and their petition addressed to Albanian PM Edi Rama asking for help to contact their loved ones in the MEK camp. The other twenty percent has been the usual; repeating what the Saudis and Americans say with gross exaggeration. Many…
2020/05/14
Nejat Society, May 14 2020:... Your Excellency Rama, The COVID-19 pandemic in your country as well as other parts of the world has made us worried more than before because we have no news of my brother’s health due to the MEK’s secretive attitudes. We, together with other families have recently took action to sign a petition. The campaign has…
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…
2020/05/10
Gjergji Thanasi, Balkans Post, May 10 2020 :... I love my country and I consider the MEK a security threat to my country,” investigative journalist Gjergji Thanasi tells the Balkans Post in an exclusive interview. I have chosen to do my bit for my country regarding the MEK threat to Albania and Albanians,” said Gjergji, who lives in Durres county…
2020/05/09
Iran Interlink, May 09 2020:... The petition addressed to Albanian PM Edi Rama has gathered over ten thousand signatures. In response, MEK have put all their Farsi efforts into swearing at Ebrahim Khodabandeh and the families. In response, some commentators have pointed out that MEK are becoming so wobbly that they are ‘vaccinating’ the members by making them write against…
2020/05/08
Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor, Veterans Today, May 08 2020:... One of these violations of workers’ rights occurred during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, when Mojahedine-e Khalq terrorist group deceived job seekers by promising them to find new jobs, education and a better life in Europe. They told the workers that the office of the company is…
2020/05/08
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, May 07 2020:... The siblings of a detained Iranian student have dismissed a judiciary claim that their brother has ties to the exiled opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MKE). Speaking on May 5, judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaili accused two students detained last month of contacts with the MKO, which is considered a terrorist…
2020/05/07
Nejat Society, Tehran, May 07 2020:... Endri Fuga is the Albanian Prime Minister’s Director of Communications and the person who runs the current government’s media and public affairs strategy. Ebrahim Khodabandeh the CEO of the Nejat Society wrote him a report on the petition “Urging Albanian government to allow the families to contact their loved ones in the MEK camp”,…
2020/05/04
Olsi Jazexhi, Anne Khodabandeh, May 04 2020:... Dr. Olsi Jazexhi discusses with Anne Khodabandeh a petition that an Iranian NGO, Nejat Society has sent to the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. This petition which is being signed by thousands of persons in Iran and in the world asks the Albanian government to issue visas for Iranian families who want…
2020/05/02
Nejat Society, Tehran, May 02 2020:... The families’ petition addressed to the Albanian government has been shared over 1000 times. The message of the families to the Albanian Prime Minister: Our children are captives in the hands of terrorists in your country. Some Tehran families of the members trapped inside Rajavi’s terrorist cult in Albania, in a message addressed to…
2020/05/01
Gareth Porter, Iranian.com, May 01 2020:... In 2013, however, a former senior German Foreign Office official named Karsten Voigt revealed to this writer that the documents had been initially provided to German intelligence by a member of the Mujaheddin E-Khalq (MEK). The MEK is an exiled Iranian armed opposition organization that had operated under Saddam Hussein’s regime as a proxy…
2020/04/30
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, April 30 2020:... A few days after the campaign was launched, the MEK fearfully reacted on April 23, 2020 in its website ‘Iran Probe’ with a lengthy article titled: “Iranian regime is campaigning for Albanian entry visas for its terrorists”. The article is a stream of fabricated lies trying to persuade the Albanians not to issue…
2020/04/28
Balkans Post, April 28 2020:... Murtaza Hussain: Heshmat Alavi is a persona used by the MEK to continue its public relations work in the Western countries, aiming to sway elite and public opinion by placing news articles and running social media campaigns promoting its vision for itself as the future government of Iran. The MEK is a very secretive organization…
2020/04/27
Nejat Society, Tehran, April 27 2020:... Please answer why the Albanian authorities, in cooperation with the Rajavi cult, are preventing families from communicating with their loved ones? Why has the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered all its embassies not to issue visas to Iranians so that families would not be able to travel to your country? The level of…
2020/04/27
Tehran Times, April 26 2020:... U.S. President Donald Trump has shared an appreciative tweet for his anti-Iran policies by a fake account belonging to the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK). The tweet, posted by Heshmat Alavi on Wednesday, read: “The mullahs' regime ruling #Iran harasses UN Navy ships for propaganda purposes.” “Thank you, President Trump, for reminding this regime that…
2020/04/25
Iran Interlink, April 25 2020:... covid-19 MEK Albania . In Albania MEK has ceased all financial support for some of its former members. MEK used to give small payments to some of those who abandoned the cult on condition they do not speak about their experiences in the cult and/or to perform certain activities, such as spying on other former…
2020/04/25
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye, April 25 2020:... The US president's post was celebrated by an MEK-linked account. Trump retweeted that response, taking a dig at the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. "The mullahs' regime ruling Iran harasses UN [sic] Navy ships for propaganda purposes," Heshmat Alavi, a popular MEK-linked Twitter account, responded to Trump's post. "Thank…
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…
2020/04/23
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, April 23 2020:... Trump’s amplification of the post was bad enough on its own: Alavi is a supporter of a militant Iranian cult called the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, known as the MEK, an organization that was designated for decades as a terrorist organization and is widely hated inside Iran. What makes it even worse, however, is that Heshmat…
2020/04/22
Alireza Niknam, Geopolitica.ru, April 22 2020:... This war situation in Albania becomes even more sensitive when we know that there are more than three thousand members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK or MKO) in Tirana. People who are all considered to be administrative retirees, but are confined to work in the MEK's terrorist camp. Old men and old women who…
2020/04/21
Tehran Times, April 21 2020:... MEK is a deeply unpopular group including among opponents of the Iranian government ... Heshmat Alavi, who wrote dozens of articles for right-wing outlets, appears not to exist. Alavi’s persona is a propaganda operation run by the MEK, he quoted two sources as saying ... Heshmat Alavi is a persona used by the MEK to…
2020/04/20
Nejat Society, April 20 2020:... A 2000 member Iranian militant opposition group called the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, aka MKO, NLA, PMOI, and NCR) is based in a remote, isolated camp in Albania. Over a thousand estranged families of some of these MEK members are actively seeking contact with their loved ones. For over three decades, the leaders of the…
2020/04/18
Iran Interlink, April 18 2020:... The Heshmat Alavi account - the MEK’s notorious troll farm alias - retweets large scale MEK propaganda. One Heshmat Alavi RT is of MEK claiming that 30,000 people have died of Coronavirus in Iran. Commentators say if that were true, Iranians would know about it. Therefore, the only audience for this Twitter account are those…
2020/04/18
Tehran Times, April 18 2020:... Sterilization would be a means of focusing the women’s minds. “They said that this organ of the body, the womb, has made women want to be mothers someday and return to domestic life,” Sultani said. “And so, visits with women began, to get them to go in groups of 20 or 30 to have a…
2020/04/17
Nejat Society, April 17 2020:... Amir Vafa was born in France after his parents moved there from Iran to join Massoud Rajavi and his movement. They were then sent to the group’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq where thousands of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) were sheltered by Saddam Hussein. But Amir…
2020/04/16
Olsi Jazexhi, Balkans Post, April 16 2020:... Shahin and Behzad Safari are both liars. The Albanian journalist Gjergji Thanasi, has sued Behzad for libel and slander after the later accused Gjergji Thanasi to be an Iranian agent. I hope Shahin Gobadi and Saffari will be able to properly defend themselves in the Albanian court for their insult against Gjergji Thanasi,…
2020/04/15
Wayne Madsen, Strategic Culture Foundation, April 15 2020:... The influence of the cultish terrorist organization, Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), which used the pandemic to increase pressure on Tehran, is strong within the Trump White House. In addition, the right-wing Florida Republican senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, used the pandemic to coordinate with wealthy Cuban and Venezuelan expatriates in south Florida to…
2020/04/13
Nejat Society, April 13 2020:... I call on all international human rights organizations to help. I am Soraya Abdullahi from Iran. Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh is my only son who was abducted in 2002 by members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization from Turkish job search and transferred to the Mojahedin headquarters in Iraq under the name of Ashraf. I have traveled…
2020/04/11
Nejat Society, Tehran, April 11 2020:... With regards I would like to inform you that Nejat Society is an NGO consisting of the families of the members of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, Rajavi cult) and the former members of this cult. This society strives to establish some sort of connection between the suffering families and their loved ones…
2020/04/08
Robert Fantina, Global Research, April 08 2020:... This situation is worsened with the knowledge that there are more than three thousand members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Tirana. Most of these MEK members are all considered to be administrative retirees, but are confined to work in the MEK’s terrorist camp. Many elderly men and women are spending their senior years…
2020/04/07
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, April 07 2020:...Documented facts about a terrorist cult-like organization like the Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) not only can cause disappointment but also may undoubtedly cause disaster. Ignoring the facts doesn’t work. Looking at them, thinking about them, working through them does. The MEK has a long record of violent acts against…
2020/04/06
Nejat Society, Tehran, April 06 2020:... Inside This Issue: – POMPEO AND MEK ISOLATED BY RESPONSE TO PANDEMIC . Such reckless and futile statements in the name of regime change will not be forgotten or forgiven by Iranians. Nor will the MEK positioning itself alongside the country’s most virulent enemy, the U.S., at its time of greatest need be forgotten…
2020/04/03
Iran Interlink, April 03 2020:... Sputnik Farsi published an article referring to some of these things MEK are claiming, placing them alongside Pompeo’s pronouncements and social media blocking of every account except the MEK and such like. This paints a picture of a cohort coming together for a misinformation and demonisation campaign against Iran of which MEK are part. For…
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…
2020/03/23
Murtaza Hussain, Matthew Cole, The Intercept, March 23 2020:... MEK-affiliated social media accounts periodically share videos of graffiti tags appearing to show support for its positions inside Iran. While such videos are a dubious metric for gauging public sentiment in any country, they are frequently used by partisans in the United States to argue over the political views of the…
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…
2020/03/21
Iran Interlink, March 21 2020:... Everyone in the world is affected by the Coronavirus crisis and the MEK are not excepted. Massoud Rajavi has issued yet another message ‘Payam number 22’, which prompted a lot of reaction. Commentators say, ‘there’s no way he’s written this because none of it matches up, every sentence is ridiculous’. For example, Rajavi claims “the…
2020/03/19
Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, March 19 2020:... The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) is an exiled Iranian opposition group with a sprawling complex in the hills of Albania. The United States labelled it a terror group until deciding to delist it in 2012. But while the MEK now has influential friends in Washington, others warn that the group is not…