Tag Archives: Albanian EU accession Bid Damaged By MEK Fake News Scandal

Alice Taylor, Exit, February 17 2022:... Another member of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, MEK, resident at Ashraf 3 in Manez has admitted to two incidents of theft, just two months after other members were reportedly involved in human and drug smuggling. In December, Exit published information on a letter, sent to a Western foreign diplomat bearing the stamp of… 2022/02/17

Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, YouTube, February 11 2022:... In the following video Faezeh Balali an Iranian - Swedish citizen who is in Albania shows her struggle to meet her nephew Saeid Farajollah Hosseini who is being held as slave soldier by Maryam Rajavi and the Mujahedin command since when he was captured as prisoner of war by Saddam Hossein during the… 2022/02/11

Iran Interlink, December 19 2021:... Albanians have reacted to news that the US State Department Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: Albania, goes full out in support for the MEK “opposition group” against “Iran’s state-sponsored activity directed primarily” against the MEK, and that “On July 23 a suspected agent sponsored by Iranian authorities was declared ‘unwanted’ by the Government of Albania… 2021/12/19

Eli Clifton and Matthew Petti, Responsible Statescraft, and Press TV, July 13 2021:.. Former defense official Michèle Flournoy called for regime change in Iran at a conference on Saturday sponsored by the Mojahedin-e Khalq — an Iranian militant group once listed as a terrorist organization. A spokesperson for Flournoy’s consultancy, WestExec Advisors, which she co-founded with President Joe Biden’s now-Secretary… 2021/07/13

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… 2021/06/15

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… 2021/05/15

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… 2021/05/12

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… 2021/04/30

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… 2021/04/29

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

Habilian Association, March 24 2021:... The group’s recent interactions with the United States are divided up into two parts: The first part was during the Trump era and the second part has been started since Biden’s entry into the Oval Office. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States and with regards to his international… 2021/03/24

Iran Interlink, March 19 2021:... They raised these issues: The main issue is the Hadi Sani Khani case, because he had previously been kidnapped from Turkey and taken to Iraq by MEK on the false promise of getting a job. After many years, when MEK arrived in Albania Hadi managed to escape and became a critic of the cult. Now… 2021/03/19