Tag Archives: Bob Filner Terrorism lobby
2020/01/16
Elis Gjevori, TRT World, January 16 2020:... In 2014, under US pressure, Albania took in more than 4,000 members [Correct number is 2100 - Iran Interlink] of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) a secretive group formerly based Iraq. “Albania is hosting one of the most dangerous terrorist organisations on behalf of the United States,” says Dr Olsi Jazexhi, an…
2019/12/20
Iran Interlink, December 20 2019:... Iran International TV ran an interview with Massoud Khodabandeh about the rumour that France would be deporting Maryam Rajavi to Albania. Khodabandeh explained that a false Tweet about this issue was sent from a hijacked official account. But the news is true and for the past year the MEK has been severely curtailed in France…
2019/11/19
. Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT, Russia Today, November 19 2019:... Support for the protests by US-backed exiles such as MEK, who are angling for regime change in Tehran, will do little to dissuade those in Iran inclined to see Washington behind the violence. It is no secret that Washington has been opposed to the Islamic Republic ever since…
2019/10/27
Press TV, October 27 2019:... In March 2018, two people were held in Albania but set free for lack of evidence. At the time, an opposition leader denounced the announcement as a ploy by Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to divert attention from Tirana’s failure to start entry talks with the European Union. The accusation was similar to those made…
2019/10/21
NBC News, October 21 2019:...One of Giuliani’s longest running paid relationships belongs to a fringe Iranian group accused of killing six Americans in the 1970s. Giuliani has been delivering paid speeches and meeting with representatives of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) since at least 2010, he previously told NBC News. The dissident group launched attacks against Americans and the Iranian government…
2019/10/18
NBC News, October 18 2019:... The group, whose name translates as “People’s Holy Warriors of Iran,” is accused of killing six Americans before the 1979 Iranian revolution and assassinating Iranian diplomats in the subsequent years. A longtime ally of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the MEK was placed on the State Department’s terror blacklist in 1997. The group enlisted an…
2019/10/16
Casey Michel, The New Republic, October 16 2019:... Giuliani’s been leading a crusade on behalf of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a cultish Iranian opposition group listed, until earlier this decade, as a foreign terrorist organization by Washington. Politico described Giuliani’s involvement with the group as a man “gorging at the table of Islamo-Marxist terrorists who have murdered Americans”—a relationship from which Giuliani has apparently profited handsomely,…
2019/10/08
Davood Baghervand Arshad, No to Terrorism Cults, Germany, October 08 2019:... Your country has been kindly hosting many of my brothers and sisters and also my wife which was forcefully separated from me by Mek, saving them from being torn apart by shelling in Iraq, where Madam Rajavi brutally insisted on members to stay in order to utilize their (martyrdom)…
2019/09/25
Julian Pecquet, Al Monitor, September 25 2019:... But attendance was dominated by the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK) and its allies. Iran considers the MEK a terrorist group, as the United States did until 2012.. Openly embracing the MEK could also put the Trump administration in an uncomfortable spot. The administration does not officially support regime change, but recently stopped ruling out the MEK as…
2019/09/25
Mitch Prothero, Business Insider, September 24 2019:... US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to attend an event at the UN General Assembly tomorrow that is linked to a notorious Iranian cult which has murdered at least six American civilians and spent over 20 years protected by Saddam Hussein's regime. The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (or People's Mujahedin of Iran) "is an organisation…
2019/09/09
Juan Cole, Truthdig, September 09 2019:... This economic and financial blockade was supposed to bring Iran to its knees, push it out of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and perhaps (it was hoped by some in Trump’s circles) even pave the way to the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran in favor of the Marxist-Islamic People’s Jihadis (Mohahedin-e Khalq or…
2019/09/05
Cyrus Shamloo, The Wilson Times, September 05 2019:... MEK terrorists, allied with sympathizers in Albania and Kosovo, have targeted Shi’a and Sufi Islamic institutions. It is also believed by some Albanian journalists, who have been intimidated by the Albanian government and MEK, that Ashraf 3 and Camp Bondsteel are being used to train MEK and other Middle Eastern mercenaries for…