Tag Archives: Colonel W. Patrick Lang
2018/12/18
Philip Giraldi, American Herald Tribune, December 18 2017:... Colonel Martin should have considered that A study prepared by RAND for the U.S. government concluded that there were present “many of the typical characteristics of a cult, such as authoritarian control, confiscation of assets, sexual control (including mandatory divorce and celibacy), emotional isolation, forced labor, sleep deprivation, physical abuse and limited exit options…
2017/11/10
Sahar Family Foundation, Tiran, Albania, November 10 2017:... Expressing concern about the covert agreement made between the MEK and some political bodies which apparently safeguards some kind of modern slavery. Why the content of this agreement which was signed in Geneva and is regularly mentioned must be kept secret? The necessity of looking after the former members (providing even the same minimum…
2017/11/03
Iran Interlink November 03 2017:... Homeira Mohammad Nejad from the Women’s Association wrote an analytical article in which she explains that nowadays the MEK has abandoned celebration of everything except two events - 30th June (marking the self-immolations of 2004) and 20thOctober (the anniversary of Maryam Rajavi’s internal ‘election’ as president-elect of Iran). Everything else has been abandoned. There are two reasons.…
2017/10/30
Philip Giraldi, American Herald Tribune, October 30 2017:... How did this happen as MEK was on the State Department roster of foreign terrorist organizations since the list was established in 1997? Its inclusion derived from its having killed six Americans in the 1970s, its participation in the U.S. Embassy hostage-taking and from its record of extreme violence both inside and…
2017/10/26
Iran Wire (Translated by Nejat Society), October 26 2017:... During the entire years of his membership in the MKO, Hosseinnejad was the translator of Arabic letters and papers for Massoud Rajavi. He also used to attend the meetings between the group leader and Iraqi authorities so he was aware of the amount of the group’s investments in contracts with Iraqi government…
2017/10/19
Jason Rhode, Poste Magazine, October 19 2017:... considered a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom and the European Union until 2008 and 2009 respectively, and by Canada and the United States until 2012. Various scholarly works, media outlets, and the governments of the United States and France have described it as a cult. The organization has built a cult of…
2017/10/15
Colonel W. Patrick Lang, Sic Semper Tyrannis, October 15 2017:... The MEK were classified as a terrorist group until the United States decided that as long as the MEK would help kill Iranians rather than Americans that they were no longer terrorists. The MEK’s history of terrorism is quite clear: During the 1970s, the MEK killed U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians working on…
2017/08/29
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, August 29 2017:... Yet, while the MKO has the support of a number of congressmen and a small number of analysts, it has no support in the power centers of Washington. Nevertheless, the group endeavors to demonstrate its claim of Western support by spending large amounts for luxurious trips of congressmen like John McCain to Europe. Over…
2017/08/17
Zahra Alipour, al-monitor, August 17 2017:... The film narrates events up until Feb. 8, 1982, portraying the violence perpetrated by members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), including bombings and assassinations, and intelligence agents’ efforts to identify and arrest the leaders of the group. In the years leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the MEK was the largest religious organization that espoused armed resistance against the shah’s…
2017/08/17
Houman Fakhimi, Facebook page, August 17 2017:...The Iraq War Resolution of 2002 was not only based on Saddam's alleged possession of WMDs. The Resolution also claimed Saddam had links to terrorism and both Congress and President Bush named People's Mujaheddin Of Iran (MEK) then based in Iraq as proof that Saddam was harboring terror groups (see photos1-2). 15 years later thousand…
2017/08/14
Houman Fakhimi, Facebook, August 14 2017:... John Corny , Senator Roy Blunt and John McCain can you explain to the over 4,000 dead US servicemen and womens' families whose loved ones lost their lives in Iraq because you wanted to attack Saddam for supporting terror groups like MEK (photo) how you now promote the same terror group as freedom fighters in…
2017/07/21
Iran Interlink, July 21 2017:... In Albania two new people, Siavosh Seifi and Mahmoud Mambini both with over 39 years’ membership, have run away from the MEK camp and joined other ex-members there. Some speculate that they escaped because they had reached their limit over the Villepinte event. In Albania ex-members have reported on the efforts of the MEK to infiltrate the…