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2021/07/19
Socialists and Democrats.eu, July 19 2021:... Tonino Picula S&D spokesperson on foreign affairs and Jytte Guteland, S&D shadow rapporteur on Iran, made the following statement: “Support for a group with such a violent, anti-democratic record, at the level of the prime minister of a country holding the rotating presidency of the EU, is extremely irresponsible and grave. It undermines the…
2021/07/18
Michael Rubin, Washington Examiner, July 18 2021:... It may not be illegal to participate in a Rajavi rally or to attach one’s name to a ghost written Mujahedin-e-Khalq piece in the same way that Gen. Mike Flynn did with Erdoganists, but it does signal an embrace of greed above principle and a willingness to sell out the freedom agenda. Giuliani’s transformation of…
2021/07/15
Daniel Larison, AntiWar, July 15 2021:... This show of support for the MEK reflects the extent to which our foreign policy debates are distorted and corrupted by the lobbying efforts of foreign groups and governments alike. No one knows for sure where the MEK gets its money, but there is reason to believe that it may be coming from the Saudi government…
2021/07/14
Iran Interlink, July 14 2021:... Richard Medhurst reports on the MEK online annual conference. Guest Anne Khodabandeh explains why Maryam Rajavi and her fellow MEK members were expelled from the EU in 2018, and are now headquartered in Albania. Medhust outlines MEK’s bloody history and questions why Americans support the group which had previously killed six Americans in Iran. EU…
2021/07/14
Iran Press, July 13 2021:... Iran's government spokesman, Ali Rabiei said that the gathering of the MKO (Mojahedin-e-Khalq) terrorist group was an opportunity to identify and expose hypocritical American politicians who, despite repeated slogans, have not paid little attention to the principles and history of terrorism and human rights abuses in other countries. Hypocritical American Politicians Joined Terrorists In Albania…
2021/07/13
Tehran Times, July 13 2021:... This may explain why the Iranian people feel offended when they see Western officials advocate for “freedom” in Iran to be achieved by a group having the blood of thousands of Iranians on its hands. The main reason why Iran usually accuses the West of sponsoring terrorism is their continued, brazen support for MEK, which…
2021/07/10
Olsi Jazeshi and Syed Mohsin Abbas, Press TV, July 10 2021:... “The thing is that the MEK is being used by Israeli secret services and certain groups in the United States to harass the security of Iran,” Olsi Jazexhi said in an interview with Press TV’s News Review program on Saturday, ahead of the annual meeting of the terrorist group,…
2021/07/09
Under Reported, July 09 2021:... The People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, known better by its acronym the MKO, is a terrorist group responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranian civilians. The notorious group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq's war with Iran in the 1980s, but fell out of favor with Baghdad after he was toppled by a US-led…
2021/07/07
IRNA, July 07 2021:... “Since 1979, more than 17,000 of our innocent citizens, including the President, the Prime Minister, the Head of Judiciary, several ministers and members of Parliament as well as several nuclear scientists, have been assassinated by terrorist groups that are being sheltered and provided safe havens in Europe and North America with unimpeded access to and connections…
2021/07/04
Brett Wilkins, Commom Dreams, July 04 2021:... While fighting a war purportedly meant to defeat terrorism in some parts of the world, Rumsfeld supported terror elsewhere. Pursuing allies in the so-called War on Terror, Rumsfeld courted dictators including Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov—who boiled political opponents alive—and the Iranian exile militants Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a State Department-designated terrorist organization. Rumsfeld Used MEK…
2021/07/04
Caitlin oprysko, Politico, July 04 2021:... BGR Group has inked a $40,000 contract with the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran to help put on the controversial group’s (somewhat) annual conference, according to documents filed with the Justice Department this week. The council is an affiliate of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a opposition group that’s waged a decades-long…
2021/07/03
Irna, July 03 2021:... General Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) and al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) were targeted near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020. The terrorist act was ordered by US President Donald Trump and carried out in a drone strike.Last year, Agnes Callamard,…