Tag Archives: AMIA MEK Rajavi cult
2019/07/20
Jolson Lim, Ipolitics, Cananda, July 20 2019:... It’s opportunism in the most cynical way possible . According to a 2009 RAND Corporation analysis, the MEK turned toward cultlike practices after its leadership relocated to Paris in the mid 1980s. It included engaging in “near-religious devotion” to the married Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Its members were said to engage in “public…
2019/07/19
Iran Interlink, July 19 2019:... A few outlets have published pieces about the FBI report of MEK members applauding the downing of civilian flight 655 in 1988. Massoud Khodabandeh spoke about this on Iran International TV in London. He explained what the MEK were doing in Iraq at that time and how this tied up with their other activities at…
2019/07/19
Balkans Post, Tirana, Albania, July 18 2019:... On the last Saturday, 13 July 2019, the annual "Free Iran" conference was held for the first time at Ashraf 3 in Albania, the headquarters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or MKO), a notorious terrorist cult known by several other different names and acronyms, including People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI), National Liberation Army…
2019/07/19
Dutch News, July 19 2019:... Massoud Khodabandeh: In 2015, in the Netherlands, Mohamad Reza Kolahi was killed by a criminal gang on the order of MEK. Investigators confirmed that Kolahi was responsible for the 1981 bombing of the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in Tehran in which 72 high-ranking politicians and party members were killed . Kolahi Murder by MEK,…
2019/07/18
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye, July 18 2019:... "Iran Maryam, Maryam Iran," the protesters chanted back, holding up posters of Rajavi in a show of admiration bordering on religious devotion to the leader of the Iranian Mujahideen-e Khalq, commonly referred to as MEK or PMOI. Dressed in yellow, the MEK supporters were lively but disciplined, standing in military formations as…
2019/07/18
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Open Minds, July 17 2019:... The question is, can we bring cult leaders to court for cultic abuse? The argument that the behaviours exhibited by cults cannot be brought into a legislative framework is patently false when we consider that similar ‘psychological’ behaviours have been written into law. Examples are the Coercive Control Act of 2015, the…
2019/07/17
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative, July 17 2019:... President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has joined buckraking forces with former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), speaking at an event in Albania for a bizarre, cultish Iranian group that fashions itself as a government-in-exile for the Islamic Republic. Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) — once designated as a foreign terrorist group — hosted the…
2019/07/16
Shaun Walker in Tirana, The Guardian, July 16 2019:... For example, you would have to say: ‘I saw a girl on television and I got an erection,’ or ‘This morning I masturbated,’” said Hassan Heyrani, one of the defectors. He said there was no specific punishment for such admissions except scolding and embarrassment. “If you admit to it too often…
2019/07/15
Iran Interlink, July 15 2019:... In articles about Haft-e Tir – the anniversary of Kolahi exploding the Hezb-e Jomhouri headquarters – this year, significantly, several well respected writers have raised the point ‘why is it that the issue of Kolahi’s murder which everyone knows was planned by the MEK is being swept under the carpet, with European security services pretending…
2019/07/11
Reid Champlin, Open Secrets, July 11 2019:...The council was founded in the early 1980s as the political front of the MEK, which itself was started by self-described Marxist Iranian students in 1965. Initially fighting with other opposition groups to take down the Shah in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the group soon came into conflict with the new Ayatollah Khomeini’s government,…
2019/07/10
Daniel Larison, July 10 2019:... Ilan-Berman does not address much of the relevant criticism of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) in this article, and he takes the superficial “democratic” rhetoric and agenda of a totalitarian cult at face value. The article is titled “Making Sense of The MeK,” but a previously uninformed reader would come away from reading this with a…
2019/07/09
Press TV and Tasnim News, July 09 2019:... The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK), which strongly opposes Reza Pahlavi, has warned Saudis and some sponsors of the program not to produce it, threatening to disclose some secrets behind the program if it is broadcast, the reports said. In October 2018, the Guardian revealed that Iran International is funded…