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2018/07/19
Ashton Hashemipour, The Gate, July 19 2018:... Given this context, the relationship between some American politicians and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, is baffling. The MEK, guided by an undemocratic fusion of Marxism and Islamism, has conducted terrorist attacks against Americans and Iranians alike yet has support from a plethora of U.S. conservative and liberal politicians (including many who advocate ... National Security:…
2018/07/17
Christopher A. Preble, National Interest, July 17 2018:... Bolton skipped the meeting this year, but Giuliani’s work on behalf of the organization has caught people’s attention—and not for the first time. Daniel Benjamin, who coordinated counterterrorism efforts for the Obama administration explained to The Washington Post, “Plenty of us...found just the appearance of support for [an] organization that had American blood ... John Bolton…
2018/07/13
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, July 13 2018:... Besides, American hawks such as Rudy Giuliani – Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and former New York mayor- a number of other former US officials, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and those rented crowd from all over Europe, seemingly there were some luminaries who were not duped by the luxurious well-organized event. Anwar Abdulrahman,…
2018/07/04
Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian, July 04 2018:... Masoud Khodabandeh, a former senior MeK official, has written that MeK members in Albania are “effectively being held in a state of modern slavery”. In a recent interview, he described the group as a “destructive cult” which controls its members financially, physically and emotionally. The MeK did not respond to email queries seeking comments ... …
2017/11/26
City News, Tirana, Albania, November 26 2017:... During efforts to collect material for an investigative letter for a construction permit issued by the National Territorial Council for the ‘Iranian Mojahedin Khalq’ group known as the MEK, but officially granted to an NGO named FARA, (an extremely problematic issue for Albania and Albanians), we came across in the US media "Huffington Post"…
2017/09/11
Iran Interlink, September 11 2017:... In 2001, the day before 9/11, all members of the Mojahedin Khlaq (MEK, MKO, PMOI, Rajavi cult…) were brought to a military base in the west of Baghdad called Bagherzadeh. Long sessions of cultic indoctrination were being carried out, engaging people in what can only be described as forced brainwashing under the military rule of Saddam…
2017/08/28
Habilian Association, August 28 2017:... Ebrahim Khodabandeh, a former senior member of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who defected from the group in 2003, provided details of some less known aspects of the MEK in a speech delivered to scholars of Astan Qods Razavi endowment in Mashhad. In the first part of his speech, Ebrahim Khodabandeh referred to the cultish nature of MEK…
2017/07/10
Tehran Times, July 10 2017:... It seems that the French government should have come to an understanding about Mojahedin-e Khalq as an extreme and violent group with a repugnant record heavy with terrorist activities, and should clear up this ambiguous point in mutual relations. Needless to say, the Iranian people know that such a retrogressive and decadent organization with reactionary beliefs,…
2017/05/16
Trend, May 16 2017:... Iran has laid flat a terrorist attack by what the country’s Ministry of Intelligence has called “an anti-revolution group… whose hand is stained with the blood of thousands of people,” a possible reference to the People’s Mujahedin group, known as MKO.Through painstaking planning and operations, the intelligence forces managed to preclude the attack and confiscate explosives of…
2014/06/27
Iran Interlink, June 27 2014: ... Dr Zahra Jazayeri, a fierce critic of the MEK and its leaders, died this week in London. Zahra is the sister of Hassan Jazayeri who died in Iraq from heat exhaustion exacerbated by a heart condition in an MEK training camp in the 1980s. Zahra vociferously criticised the MEK and took action against her…