Tag Archives: Albania Accession TO EU
2021/07/14
Iran Interlink, July 14 2021:... Richard Medhurst reports on the MEK online annual conference. Guest Anne Khodabandeh explains why Maryam Rajavi and her fellow MEK members were expelled from the EU in 2018, and are now headquartered in Albania. Medhust outlines MEK’s bloody history and questions why Americans support the group which had previously killed six Americans in Iran. EU…
2021/07/10
Olsi Jazeshi and Syed Mohsin Abbas, Press TV, July 10 2021:... “The thing is that the MEK is being used by Israeli secret services and certain groups in the United States to harass the security of Iran,” Olsi Jazexhi said in an interview with Press TV’s News Review program on Saturday, ahead of the annual meeting of the terrorist group,…
2021/07/10
Press TV, July 10 2021:... House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, and Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are among those that organizers say will address the three-day event. They will be joined by Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, as well…
2021/06/15
Nejat Society reporing from Ali Shirzad in Norway, June 15 2021:... According to Ali Shirzad, MEK leaders admire two types of members, the ideologic ones and the trusted one. The former are those who ideologically are close to the leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, the later are those who are always trusted because they never question the orders; they just…
2021/05/23
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, May 23 2021:... The new legislation was approved by Albania’s Council of Ministers in December last year. It has now been reviewed by Albania’s Commission on European Integration, which announced that it meets EU requirements. According to Albanian officials, the legislation, which has been in the pipeline for a while, seeks to address shortcomings in the…
2021/05/15
Iran Interlink, May 14 2021:... For the past two weeks, the MEK’s Farsi sites have all been directed at the election in Iran. The aim of the messaging is to bring the number of voters down. To that end there is nothing they will not do or say; lies, misinformation, exaggeration, fake news. Over the past few days the MEK…
2021/05/12
Nejat Society, Tirana, Albania, May 12 2021:... The defectors seem to be very grateful to any joyful moment of their life in the free world. They cherish the Albanian journalist, Gjergjy Thanasi who gave them colored Esther eggs in one of their gatherings in coffeeshop. It is one of the few Albanian religious traditions that survived communism. Grandmothers dyed eggs…
2021/04/30
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, April 30 2021:... Iranian papers reported that a small gathering of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) supporters took up position outside the Grand Hotel which hosts the talks, where they cursed and swore to try to intimidate the Iran delegation. Their demand: an end to diplomacy and for the US to declare war against Iran. Iran’s interpretation…
2021/04/29
Aljazeera, April 29 2021:... Moreover, it says the EU should have unequivocally condemned the January 2020 assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani by the United States as a “clear example of state terrorism” that Iran believes was assisted by elements within the German government. Among other things, the council also holds that a number of European countries continue to shelter…
2021/04/15
Albanian Media, April 15 2021:... In terms of the technical infrastructure, Facebook said most accounts were run from Albania who shared the same network. This meant the same individual could run multiple accounts. Facebook said these were “some of the hallmarks of a so-called troll farm”. The report said that many of the accounts used pictures of deceased dissidents, Iranian…
2021/04/08
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, April 08 2021:... Removing 300 fake MEK accounts, after so many years, constitutes only one percent of the actual amount of this type of account operating from Albania. Last year, on April 22, 2020, The Intercept reported on a fake identity created by the MEK in Albania called “Heshmat Alavi” whose misinformation was quoted by Donald Trump as…
2021/04/08
Alice Taylor, Exit, April 08 2021:... The individuals involved posted MEK-related content on their, and others posts. They included links to international media sites and to sites affiliated with the MEK. Facebook found that they exclusively talked about Iran and “routinely praised the activity of MEK and its leaders and criticized the Iranian government.” Albanian MEK Troll Farm Exposed by…