Tag Archives: Albanian MEK Twitter Bots
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…
2021/03/13
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, March 13 2021:... Dr Illir Nezaj from the Albanian embassy in Geneva found himself reading a prepared statement defending the MEK presence in his country. In this speech, Nezaj claims ‘MEK is not a terrorist organization’. That will be news to the many thousands of victims of MEK terrorism in Iran, Iraq and beyond. Delighted…
2021/03/09
Manouchehr Abdi, Nejat Society, March 09 2021:... A close and sincere friend of mine is Mr. Hadi Sani Khani, a resident of Tirana and a former member of the MEK, who left the organization in 2016. The MEK paid him an asylum pension for a short time, but when he refused to accept an offer to work with the organization…
2021/02/20
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, February 20 2021:... Ebrahim Khodabandeh, CEO of Nejat Society, Iran, wrote a letter to the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, calling on her to raise with the Albanian authorities the issue of abuse of the most basic human rights of members and former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Albania. EU…
2021/02/18
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, February 18 2021:... When you go to the Kakavia border crossing with Greece, where you will visit the Frontex-Albania joint border control operation, please be aware of the attempted illegal deportation of an Iranian refugee across that border last year at the behest of the MEK leader Maryam Rajavi. Ehsan Bidi, who came to Albania…
2021/02/07
Nejat Society, Tehran, February 07 2021:... I have been informed that the Albanian government is one of the signatories of the “United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance”. According to the convention, the Albanian government is responsible for the actions and behavior of the MEK, which is based in that country, to the “Working…
2021/02/04
Mehr News, February 04 2021:... A doctor at Tirana's Mother Teresa Hospital told the national news agency in Albania that a member of the anti-Iranian terror group of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) had been admitted to the hospital after contacting the UK Virus Variant as the first case detected with the new more transmissible variant in the country. According to…
2021/01/26
Gjergji Thanasi, Ashraf News, Manez, Albania, January 26 2021:... Naturally, the question arises, why is our government so sensitive when Albanians protest against the MEK, while they have almost zero sensitivity, when Albanians protest for water and light, when students protest against the destruction of Albanian universities and when villagers protest for the missing subsidies in Albanian agriculture?! In the…
2021/01/24
Gjergji Thanasi, Ashraf News, Tirana, Albania, January 24 2021:... In fact, for about 30 years Mr Ansarian became a slave of the MEK organization, serving as a nurse and even as a dentist at Camp Ashraf. He was also part of the MEK's foreign relations bureau, as he was a "native speaker" of the Arabic language (classical and contemporary Arabic).…
2021/01/15
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…