Tag Archives: British parliament
2020/12/23
Tehran Times, Tasnim News, Mehr News and IRNA, December 23 2020:... Referring to the European Parliament's request to Iran to receive a special rapporteur, he said "It is not necessary to travel to Iran to observe human rights violations. It is enough to walk in the corridors of the European Parliament to see terrorists whose hands are stained with the…
2019/08/02
Iran Interlink, August 02 2019:... A few Iranian outlets have referred to the MEK cyber group and troll farm and the photos of them that were leaked and spread on social media. MEK’s internal propaganda shows them as loyal workers. Commentators point out that MEK might have started out as something to be paid for, but the reality is that…
2019/07/28
Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye, London, July 28 2019:... The most important of these facts is that the MEK is a cult which keeps its members in Albania in conditions of modern slavery. If the MEK’s supporters want to believe that after not being paid for three decades, they are just ‘volunteers’, then there is not much else they won’t…
2019/05/20
Lachlan Markay, Daily Beast, May 20 2019:... Source of MEK cash in London. According to domain registration data, the Iran Focus website was maintained by Mohammad Hanif Jazayeri, whom the NCRI website identifies as a spokesperson, until at least 2015, when the site anonymized that registration information. Neither Iran Focus nor Jazayeri responded to questions about the news outlet’s relationship with…
2019/03/14
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, March 14 2019:... A charity organisation registered in London called the “International Liberty Association” has launched a widespread campaign under the title “Support the Voice of the People” to collect public donations for a television channel belonging to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (aka MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA, Rajavi Cult). London is well known for having been a haven for the…
2018/11/09
Arron Merat, The Guardian, London, 09 november 2018:... When we spoke recently, Soltani accused Maryam Rajavi of helping Massoud to abuse female MEK members over the years. “[Massoud] Rajavi thought that the only achilles heel [for female fighters] was the opposite sex,” Soltani told me. “He would say that the only reason you women would leave me is a man. So,…
2018/07/10
Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye, July 07 2018:... Three Tory MPs – along with one Labour MP – travelled to the event, organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a front organisation for Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organisation (MEK), once listed by the US as a terror organisation. There is no question that these reflect a powerful and vocal body of sentiment inside…
2017/08/19
Guido Fawkes, UK, August 19 2017:... “[The MEK] is a bizarre organisation. As it is today, it resembles a kind of religious cult, brainwashing its adherents, taking their money and property, and separating them from partners and families… It originated in the 1960s as a violent Marxist-Islamic group opposed to the Shah; in the 1970s, it killed US servicemen in Iran,…
2017/07/26
Iran Interlink, July 26 2017:... The UK government has again rejected any possibility of Maryam Rajavi, de facto leader of the Mojahedin Khalq (MEK), entering the UK. Rajavi is currently based in France but visited Albania over several weeks earlier this year to be with her followers who are now based there. This emphatic stance from the UK government toward Rajavi and…
2016/12/12
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Open Minds, December 12 2016:... As a Farsi speaker I am sure you will understand when I describe Lord Alton’s contribution as throwing a mouse in the stew (moosh andakhtane Lord Alton dar dige hoghoogh bashar); he ruined it for everyone. Rather than enjoying a free and productive discussion about human rights in Iran, the whole debate was…
2016/08/11
Mazda Parsi, Nejat society, Shiraz, Iran, August 11 2016:... International reports on the truth of the MKO including HRW’s “No Exit”, indicate the very undemocratic atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajavi, as well as many other reports, testimonies and memoirs of former members of the group who reveal the most inhumane violations of human rights in the MKO camps. The British advocates…
2016/06/03
British Parliament, June 03 2016:... provision of life support systems such as water, electricity and food continue to be well in excess of basic humanitarian standards. They have reported that the relocation of protective bunkers and installation of additional protective concrete walls, to increase the security and safety of the residents, has been completed ... Residents’ representatives have confirmed this to be…