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2021/01/05
Iran Interlink, January 05 2021:... In 2011, Iraqi police tried to reclaim land that had been illegally gifted to the MEK by Saddam Hussein. MEK leaders sent unarmed rank and file members to ‘resist to the death’. Some threw themselves under armoured vehicles, others were shot attacking the police. Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are responsible for the violence that day.…
2020/12/12
Iran Interlink, December 11 2020:... From the start of the pandemic, the MEK have refused to allow local health officials into the camp to help; there are no licenced medical staff in the camp. It is unclear how the virus was introduced into the camp, but leading members have used their Laissez-passer documents to move around Albania without hindrance, crossing…
2020/11/18
Aawa Association (Mardom TV), Novermber 18 2020:... Mr Parsa Sorbi will moderate an online debate on Mardom TV on Friday 20th November (at 11am New York time, at 17pm Germany time, at 19:30pm Teheran time). Part one: In this section, experts talk about the effect of the Trump administration on the fortunes of the MEK in America, Albania and Europe. Part…
2020/11/15
Iran Interlink, Novmeber 15 2020:... Throughout the U.S. election campaign, the whole of MEK from top to bottom, including Massoud Rajavi from his grave, backed Trump to the hilt claiming that there is no way he would lose. This, of course, was wishful thinking. When they found he had lost, MEK went quiet and didn’t make any statement. This is contrary…
2020/10/20
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), The Iranian, October 20 2020:... From deep inside its rabbit hole in Albania the MEK has created yet another Alice in Wonderland style fairy tale about Iranian spies and agents coming to get them. In doing so, Maryam Rajavi reminds us exactly why the European Union expelled her and her lieutenants from Europe and sent her into exile in Albania. The MEK presence…
2020/09/20
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, September 20 2020:... Instead of putting the lives of her followers at the forefront of her concerns, MEK leader Maryam Rajavi gleefully claimed these newly dead as “martyrs” and heaped praise on them simply for dying. Two things are significant in this callous declaration. First, the cause of death was missing, unlike all previously announced…
2020/07/17
Anne Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, July 17 2020:... MEK leader Maryam Rajavi boasts that she can organize a Zoom conference from Albania on July 17th to link up paid pundits she would normally invite to her annual rally – a cut price event. On July 16th families from every province in Iran linked up by Zoom to talk and asked ‘if Rajavi…
2020/05/12
Anne Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, May 12 2020:... A petition addressed to Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has reached over ten thousand signatures. The petition was created by estranged families who need help to contact their loved ones trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) cult’s closed camp ‘Ashraf 3’ in Albania. The families are demanding that PM Rama ensures they get this contact. Now…
2020/05/04
Olsi Jazexhi, Anne Khodabandeh, May 04 2020:... Dr. Olsi Jazexhi discusses with Anne Khodabandeh a petition that an Iranian NGO, Nejat Society has sent to the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. This petition which is being signed by thousands of persons in Iran and in the world asks the Albanian government to issue visas for Iranian families who want…
2020/04/27
Tehran Times, April 26 2020:... U.S. President Donald Trump has shared an appreciative tweet for his anti-Iran policies by a fake account belonging to the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK). The tweet, posted by Heshmat Alavi on Wednesday, read: “The mullahs' regime ruling #Iran harasses UN Navy ships for propaganda purposes.” “Thank you, President Trump, for reminding this regime that…
2020/04/25
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye, April 25 2020:... The US president's post was celebrated by an MEK-linked account. Trump retweeted that response, taking a dig at the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. "The mullahs' regime ruling Iran harasses UN [sic] Navy ships for propaganda purposes," Heshmat Alavi, a popular MEK-linked Twitter account, responded to Trump's post. "Thank…
2020/03/29
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, March 29 2020:... But, as destructive as the MEK presence has been in Albania, the group has inevitably played a greater role in the West’s confrontation against Iran. In June 2019, Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept revealed that an internet troll farm was operating from the MEK’s closed camp in Manez. The enslaved members, sitting behind…