Tag Archives: About The Organization of Iranian American Communities in the US
2021/07/04
Caitlin oprysko, Politico, July 04 2021:... BGR Group has inked a $40,000 contract with the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran to help put on the controversial group’s (somewhat) annual conference, according to documents filed with the Justice Department this week. The council is an affiliate of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a opposition group that’s waged a decades-long…
2021/07/03
Irna, July 03 2021:... General Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) and al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) were targeted near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020. The terrorist act was ordered by US President Donald Trump and carried out in a drone strike.Last year, Agnes Callamard,…
2020/09/23
Habilian Association, September 23 2020:... "Mojahedin-e Khalq! You are the offspring of the Liberation Movement, you were born in 1964 while we were in prison and you went your own way, without running away from home or being expelled." This is one of the most well-known statements of Mahdi Bazargan in May 1981 addressing Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO); a statement…
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…
2020/07/17
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…
2020/06/30
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…
2020/03/09
James Bovard, Counterpunch, March 09 2020:... Bush officials and subsequent administration chose to champion the Iranian terrorist group, Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). That organization sprang up in the 1960s and proceeded to kill Americans in the 1970s and to kill large numbers of Iranians in the subsequent decades. A 2004 FBI report noted that MEK continued to be “actively involved in planning…
2020/02/27
Alireza Niknam, Geopolitica, February 27 2020:... MEK which was in the list of European terrorist organizations until 2009 and in the US list of terrorist organizations until 2012, to the testimony of many experts with the heavy costs of lobbying, and for the benefit of the US interests and their use against Iran, it goes out of the list. The…
2020/02/09
Yuram Abdullah, Dissident Voice, February 09 2020:... Another internal threat, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), was openly unhappy over the constitution, which, according to them, did not address their demands. In June 1981, the MeK declared an armed struggle against the standing government. On June 28, 1981 and again on August 30, the MeK carried out terror bombing attacks against the…
2019/11/18
Terror Spring, November 18 2019:... Another issue was the hostage’s trial which MEK supported: “…so let us repeat for several times that if our disclosure does not proceed with complete assurance and without any fear or expediency of all the evidence you have obtained, if the hostage trial wouldn’t resolve properly and immediately wouldn’t promote to the break off colonial…
2019/11/14
Press TV, November 14 2019:... The US-backed Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO , MEK) has a dark history of assassinations and bombings targeting both Iranian statesmen and people, making the country one of the major victims of terrorism in the world. The dying group, which is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, had collaborated with the…
2019/11/05
Ali Akbar Rastgou, AAWA Association, November 05 2019:... According to the information released on the Internet, the PMOI is trying to hold a meeting on Wednesday, the 6th of November 2019 in Missouri by a covert organization called the Organization of Iranian American Societies. The meeting "Iran Terrorism and Warfare" takes place in the room G50 of „The Dirksen Senate“…