Tag Archives: Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism
2019/01/13 • 0 comment
Mesissa Etehad, LA Times, January 13 2019:... MEK, is a shadowy organization with a militant past. Up until 2012, it was deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Led by a husband-and-wife power couple — Massoud and Maryam Rajavi — the group was sheltered and armed by Saddam Hussein for nearly 20 years. Known for its female-led military…
2018/12/26 • 0 comment
Tehran Times, December 26 2018:... Your country has a bad record in harbouring Iranian terrorists, dating back to a few decades ago when you sheltered the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a MEK, NCRI, PMOI, etc.), a group that was designated as a terrorist organization by some Western countries and the European Union. To this, one could add the hosting of…
2018/11/29 • 0 comment
Tehran Times, November 29 2018:... If the MEK is opposed to the current political order in Tehran, that's all that matters to the Trump administration. The sources of funds always have been unclear. The most likely sources are states that are regional rivals of Iran. terrorist group is still a terrorist group even if the blood it spills is not…
2018/11/01 • 0 comment
Iran Press, Novmeber 01 2018:... he said: "Whenever relations between Iran and the European Union begin to expand, invisible hands taking their cue from certain countries go to work, trying to harm these relations. Thus, the Danish government's accusations against Iran, and recalling of Denmark's ambassador from Tehran can all be looked upon from this angle." On Tuesday, Danish intelligence chief Finn…
2018/10/25 • 0 comment
Tehran Times and Iran Press, October 25 2018:... Larijani also said that presence of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in France has caused a “negative mentality” of the French among the Iranians. Bonnecarrere said that France does not support the MKO. The MKO, who sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war against Iran in the 1980s, was removed from the list…
2018/10/10 • 0 comment
Press TV and Fars News, Tehran, October 10 2018:... Washington has also in the past 40 years been after defeating the country by resorting to different methods, including separatism, assassinations and sanctions, but has failed time and again. The US has in recent years attempted to use the terrorist groups, specially the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK,…
2018/10/08 • 0 comment
Nejat Society, October 08 2018:... Although Alahvazieh and ISIS claimed responsibility for the last week attack, numerous reports assert that the MKO has coordinated the attack. The fact that the MKO has the capacity to commit terror acts was previously warned by the US State Department in 2012 just after it delisted the group from FTO list. In the US State…
2018/10/03 • 0 comment
Saeed Kamali Dehgahn, The Guardian, London, October 03 2018:... This is not the first time Iran International has been heavily criticised. The television previously gave extensive live coverage to a rally by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK), a cult-like organisation that espouses regime change and has links to Saudi Arabia. The controversy over the coverage of the MeK rally led to the channel ceasing its…
2018/09/29 • 0 comment
Iran Interlink, September 28 2018:... There has been a great deal of commentary about the terrorist attack in Ahwaz pointing out that, apart from the Saudis and Emirates, everyone - even Americans - condemned it. The only Iranians who didn’t condemn the terrorist act were MEK and Iranian ISIS, who claimed to have carried it out... Some commentators have laughed at Maryam…
2018/09/25 • 0 comment
Press TV, September 25 2018:... US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says Washington is not seeking to overthrow Iran’s government, denying claims by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that the US favored a “revolution” in Iran. “The United States is not looking to do a regime change in Iran,” Haley told CNN on Sunday ... The MEK’s man inside…
2018/09/19 • 0 comment
Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast, September 19 2018:... Giuliani confirmed to The Daily Beast that his “firm” will be paid for the speech, but declined to reveal how much, saying it was “confidential, unless they want to disclose the details.” Majid Sadeghpour, a spokesman for the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, said “it is not our policy to discuss any kind of arrangements…
2018/09/18 • 0 comment
Albawaba, Ty Joplin, September 18 2018:... In 1989, a year before Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait, Khodabandeh and the MEK’s leader at the time, Massoud Rajavi, went to Saudi with an escort by Iraq’s secret police. “Rajavi was to perform pilgrimage as well as other things. At the time for our return to Iraq, we were presented with two suitcases each, presents…