Tag Archives: 40th anniversary of Islamic Republic of Iran Revolution Mojahedin Khalq MEK MKO Rajavi cult
2019/09/01
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…
2019/08/30
Tehran Times and Tasnim News, Tehran, August 29 2019:... Rouhani visit took place on Government Week. It commemorates the late President Mohammad Ali Rajaei and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar along with other government officials who lost their lives in a terrorist bombing by MKO (also called MEK) in Tehran on August 30, 1981. Larijani also warned against the enemy’s…
2019/08/29
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…
2019/08/28
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,…
2019/08/27
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…
2019/08/22
Iran Interlink from Asieh Namdar, CGTN, August 22 2019:... AN: Let me move on to Bolton and Giuliani, Rudi Giuliani’s relationship with this group, that calls itself an opposition group. Many inside Iran have deep distrust of the MEK. They consider it a cult. Giuliani and Bolton have taken payments from this group. Members of Trump’s inner circle though Ambassador…
2019/08/13
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Iranian Oral History, August 13 2019:... According to the Iranian Oral History website, the 304th ‘Night of Memorials of Holy Defense’ was held on Thursday evening, July 25, 2019 at the Sureh Hall of the Hozeh Honari. In this meeting, Bakhshali Alizadeh, Ibrahim Khodabandeh and Mohammad Mosaheb, related some of their memories of Mujahidin Khalq Organization and Mersad…
2019/08/12
Fars News, August 12 2019:... An ex-member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) said the terrorist group moves in line with the White House policies and is now seeking to empty the Iranian society from hope. Khodabandeh, a former high-ranking MKO element, made the revelations in an interview with FNA on Saturday.…
2019/08/11
Jonathan Harounoff, Haaretz, August 11 2019:... Massoud Khodabandeh, tells Haaretz in an email interview that the group was no longer the highly organized and influential student-led movement of the ’70s that opposed the shah. By the ’80s, Khodabandeh says, the MEK had evolved almost unrecognizably into a violent, anti-ayatollah and pro-Saddam guerrilla organization that had no clear objectives other than…
2019/08/09
Bakhshali Alizadeh, Iranian Oral History, August 09 2019:... In this meeting, Bakhshali Alizadeh, Ibrahim Khodabandeh and Mohammad Mosaheb, related some of their memories of Mujahidin Khalq Organization and Mersad Operation. Bakhshali Alizadeh was the first narrator. ‘I was captured by the Ba'athist forces in the Musian zone at the front of the Iraq war against Iran in the March of…
2019/08/07
Zeng Ziyi, CGTN, August 07 2019:... Over the years, the self-described "pro-American" John Bolton has fostered a close relationship with the MEK, which the U.S. designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization partially for assassinating six American citizens during the Iranian Revolution. For the uber-hawk, almost any means is justified for waging war. John Bolton MEK Desperate Attempt to Awaken the U.S.…
2019/08/05
Giorgio Cafiero, Inside Arabia, August 05 2019:... The People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or Mujahedin-e Khalq ( MEK ), has a dark history of violence and acts of terrorism against American interests. Established in the 1960s, the Marxist-Islamist group killed members of the Shah’s security apparatus on the streets of Iranian cities. Anti-American to its core, the MEK quickly earned a…