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

Iran Interlink, January 15 2021:... As the number of deaths in the MEK camp at Manez in Albania due to COVID-19 continues to rise, the MEK have appropriated a section of the local cemetery to bury their dead. This week, residents of the town protested that a piece of land which had already been designated for expansion of the cemetery… 2021/01/15

Daniel Larison, The American Conservative, January 13 20201:... the U.S. government doesn’t understand the countries in question, it relies on bad information that is frequently offered to them by self-serving exiles and activists, and it doesn’t know how to do state-and-institution-building on such a large scale in any case. The U.S. has expended vast resources for decades on some of… 2021/01/13

Robert Fantina, Global research, January 11 2021:... It took at least three years, from 2013 – 2016, for the Iraqi government and political-social activists to oust the Mujahedin from Iraq. Few countries were willing to shelter the Mujahedin. However, with the support of the United States, they relocated to Albania. This was an interesting development, because the MKO is a… 2021/01/11

Tehran Times, January 03 2021:... Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the American daily Washington Times should know better than to publish fake news, making a reference to the daily’s distortion of President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about his outgoing American counterpart. “Cowardice in assassinating foreign leaders is a US-Israeli trademark; NOT Iranian,” Khatibzadeh wrote in a tweet on Friday… 2021/01/03

Gjergji Thanasi interviews Hadi Sani Khani, Ashraf News, Tiranan, Albania, 26 October 2020:... Gjergji Thanasi interviews Hadi Sani Khani, 39 years old and formerly a member of MEK for 15 years.... HSK: Indeed, I have seen that here in Tirana, the municipality puts an identification tag on the ears of street dogs. Only we poor Iranians, who have left the… 2020/10/26

Ashraf News, October 24 2020:... Ehssan Bedi disturbs the MEK with a dance from his detention center in Albania (video) A former member and defector from the MEK, Ehsan Bedi, posted a video clip of him dancing from his detention centre in Albania after the organization's efforts to deport him from Albania to Greece failed. The video, which Bedi posted… 2020/10/24

Juan Cole, Common Dreams, October 22 2020:... The People’s Jihadis (Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK, MKO), sometimes listed as a terrorist group by the US State Department, wants to overthrow the Islamic Republic, is active inside Iran and could easily set the government up in this way. Or I’m sure that Saudi or other anti-Iran government hackers could route the emails… 2020/10/22

Iran Front Page, October 20 2020:... The Islamic Republic of Iran considers the arrest of Mr Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat in Europe, as a move that is basically unlawful and in blatant violation of international practices and the contents of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” Khatibzadeh said. Assadi, who will go on trial in late November, was… 2020/10/20

Reza Moshfegh interviewing Gjergji Thanasi, Tehran Times, September 17 2020:... An Albanian journalist reveals that MEK commanders treat their members as “serfs and as robots”. Pointing to the brutal behavior of MEK ringleaders with their members in their camp, Gjergji Thanasi tells the Tehran Times this fact is enough to predict how brutally MEK will treat the Iranian people if… 2020/09/17

Nejat Society, September 14 2020:... News received from Albania indicates that at least three Iranians were admitted to Mother Teresa Hospital in the Corona ward, who are certainly members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult). According to the latest information, at least one of them has died, and the doctors have been prevented from commenting on the… 2020/09/14

Yaran Iran Association, Paris, September 11 2020:... The 11,000 signatures and letters directed at the PM, President, and officials of the Albanian government from the families were presented in a book submitted to officials in the Embassy. Families are being refused entry visa to Albania by the direct request of leaders of Rajavi Cult. This denial of access to family… 2020/09/11

Soraya Abdollahi, Nejat Society, September 10 2020:... We are the mothers and families of those who were deceitfully transferred by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) from countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait as well as the prisoners of Iraq-Iran war during the era of Saddam Hussein to MEK camp in Iraq. These people were then transferred to Albania in… 2020/09/10