Tag Archives: Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA)
2018/12/30 • 0 comment
Iran Interlink, December 28 2018:... Maryam Rajavi used the New Year as an excuse to say something. Many commentators, however, point out that she has lost the plot and is talking out of tune because she talks about ‘oppressed Christians’ in Iran. Everyone knows, they say, that the problems for Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Muslims are the same, there is no…
2018/12/23 • 0 comment
Iran Interlink, December 21 2018:... Maryam Rajavi held a meeting in Albania where she announced that Iranian communities in 44 other countries support her. Snippets of this ‘support’ were broadcast on MEK media. The reality is, nobody attended except their low-level paid lobbyists and there were no Iranians except themselves. Commentators say they notice a big difference from some years ago.…
2018/12/20 • 0 comment
Press TV, December 20 2018:... Albania’s move was “in line with previous such scenarios meant to damage Iran-Europe relations at the current sensitive juncture.” .US National Security Adviser John Bolton was quick to publicly support Albania’s decision. “We stand with PM [Edi] Rama and the Albanian people as they stand up to Iran’s reckless behavior in Europe and across the globe,”…
2018/12/15 • 0 comment
Iran Interlink, December 14 2018:... Last week alone, MEK created ten new sites, with specific tags that will dominate Google News. The people inside MEK say the goal is to push down the recent damning media reports. The whole organisation has become one big click farm, not just Albania, including supporters. The informers say it’s all lies. MEK is trying to…
2018/11/06 • 0 comment
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, November 06 2018:... Please, make sure that the MEK leadership does not lose its mind and commit horrific acts in your country. Enforce the law and impose the authority of your government over the MEK cult and reassure the European public that Albania is a responsible country. Your reply to this letter will be that…
2018/10/25 • 0 comment
Ora News.tv, Tirana, Ocober 25 2018:... Historian Olsi Jazexhi, invited to Arena by Dritan Hila of Ora News, said that Albania has become the main base of Israel’s Mossad and the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult, Saddam’s Private army ….). Jazexhi: Albania has become one of the main bases of Israel’s Mossad and the Iranian Mojahedin (Maryam Rajavi…
2018/10/14 • 0 comment
Survivors of MEK in Albania, October 14 2018:... Mirzaei was not allowed to visit his family in all those years of his imprisonment in the MKO and before that in Saddam Hussein’s POW camps. After the relocation of the group in Albania, he could manage to find a cellphone and call his family. It was then that he realized that his family…
2018/10/10 • 0 comment
Strait Talk, TRT World, October 10 2018:... The Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in May - and last month, levelled threats against Tehran at the UN General Assembly. But caught between all this is a group based in Albania with a mission to overthrow the Iranian government. The MEK, previously in Iraq, now operates out of a…
2018/09/28 • 0 comment
Borzou Dargahi, THE INDEPENDENT, September 28 2018:... An Iranian exile group that is a darling of Washington conservatives has set up what critics describe as “a state within a state” inside the tiny Balkan nation of Albania. From a well-guarded 84-acre (340,000 square metres, or 34 hectares) property it has forged on a hillside in the Albanian countryside, the group – called the People’s…
2018/09/22 • 0 comment
Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, September 22 2018:... But, back in Albania if the Al Jazeera interviewer had asked ‘how much money does an MEK member make for spending all day, every day as an internet troll?’ The answer would be “nothing”. MEK does not pay its members anything. It never has and never will. This is because it operates…
2018/09/05 • 0 comment
Top Channel TV, Tirana, Albania, September 05 2018:... They went to the Manza camp to try and meet the MEK representatives. After many attempts, MEK finally responded with an open letter, declaring that Fiks Fare had threatened Somaihe and the members of the Manza Camp. But Fiks Fare has recorded the entire conversation, which makes it clear that the journalists are…
2018/08/29 • 0 comment
Iran Interlink, August 29 2018:... The following post republishes the story of Mostafa Mohammadi’s quest to free his daughter from the hands of MEK. The series of articles, originally published in 2006 by Stewart Bell in National Post, has now been translated into Albanian and published by one of the country’s leading newspapers, Shqiptarja.com. In 2006, MEK accused Stewart Bell of being…