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2019/05/02
Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, May 02 2019:... The MEK was removed from the U.S. terrorism list in 2012, in no small part due to a campaign by dozens of former senior U.S. officials, who received tens of thousands of dollars in speaker’s fees that experts say were secretly bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and Israel. Pro-MEK speakers included Mr. Giuliani and John…
2019/04/30
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, April 30 2019:... Iranian Mujahedin, or MEK. It was listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization between 1997 and 2012, is Marxist, Its logo is the communist sickle, but the MEK uses old-fashioned greenbacks in large amounts to secure its American lobbyists. Luminaries who have spoken for the MEK include senior U.S. political figures such as…
2019/04/29
CNS News, April 29 2019:... Bolton haunted by MEK association. Zarif also brought up Bolton’s past associations with the exiled Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)/Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK). The group was a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization until delisted by the Obama State Department in 2012, citing its renunciation of violence and “the absence of confirmed acts of…
2019/04/28
Sohail Jannessar, Darren Loucaides, Foreign Policy, April 28 2019:... “You look at it and say, ‘Oh, Mojahedin are funding [Vox].’ No, they are not. The ones that are funding that party are funding Mojahedin as well.” Khodabandeh said he himself was involved in moving money for the MEK and its funders during the reign of Saddam Hussein. “I went to Riyadh…
2019/04/25
Robin Wright, The New Yorker, April 25 2019:... Bolton was also a longtime supporter of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (M.E.K.), or People’s Warriors, an exiled group that advocates overthrowing the Iranian government. The M.E.K. (aka MKO, NCRI, Rajavi cult) was on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations until 2012 and was long allied with Saddam Hussein. Bolton was a keynote speaker at its…
2019/04/25
Tasnim News, Tehran, April 25 2019:... The MKO or MEK - listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community - fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq and was given a camp by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. They fought on the side of Saddam during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88). They were also involved in the…
2019/04/24
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, April 24 2019:... Exactly fifteen years ago we wrote about how making a deal with the MEK was a big mistake by the USA. At that time, the MEK led by Massoud Rajavi was closer to Saddam Hussein than the US. Today the MEK led by Maryam Rajavi is closer the Saudis than the US. Either…
2019/04/21
Mehr News and Tasnim News, Tehran, April 21 2019:... Over the past year, the intelligence forces managed to identify and smash 144 Takfiri terrorist teams, 116 cells linked to the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK), 44 anti-revolutionary groups, and 380 drug rings, Alawi said, addressing a congregation of worshippers in Tehran on Friday. Pompeo’s Ridiculous Crocodile Tears for Iranian…
2019/04/19
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, April 19 2019:... Activities aimed at silencing these Iranian Canadians indicates that the above achievements have rattled the house of Saud and their paid MEK agents. It looks like the failure to drive a wedge between the Iranians and Europeans who insist on saving the nuclear deal against the will of Trump has angered Netanyahu and Mohammad Bin…
2019/04/17
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, April 17 2019:... Maryam Rajavi hesitates to thank President Trump directly the same way that Netanyahu did. Instead, she repeats her usual propaganda against the IRGC, although she has warm relations with US warmongers. American Iran hawks such as John Bolton, Tom Ridge and Rudy Giuliani frequently show up in the MKO gatherings where they are warmly…
2019/04/15
Massoud Khodabandeh, Middle East Strategy Consultants, April 14 2019:... In July 2018 I wrote an article for the Balkans Post titled ‘MEK rebrands by assassinating unwanted members’ in which I brought up the case of Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi as one of many examples in which the Mojahedin Khalq have got rid of an affiliated disaffected operative to 1- Cleanse themselves…
2019/04/15
Iran Front Page, April 15 2019:... Zarif pointed to the presence of the MKO terrorist group on French soil, and described it as a problem between Tehran and Paris. The Iranian foreign minister also announced the Islamic Republic’s readiness to hold talks and have cooperation with the French officials to solve the problems of the region. Pointing to the dangerous developments…