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2021/04/11
Tehran Times, April 11 2021:... Sayyad Shirazi was assassinated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in 1999 while serving as the deputy chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, the second-highest military office in Iran. He led a counter-offensive called Operation Mersad against the MKO militants, who, with the help of Saddam Hussein, launched an attack in the summer…
2020/02/14
Catherine Shakdam, Citizen Truth, Feberuary 13 2020:... News resurfaced this February of political collusion between the infamous Iranian MEK group (Mojahedin-e-Khalq), also known as the MKO, a cult-type organisation centered around the quasi-worship of its two leaders: Maryam Rajavi and her spouse Masoud Rajavi, and Spain’s latest far-right outfit: Vox. As Vox made its entry into Spain’s political life by…
2020/01/30
El Pais, Madrid, January 30 2020:... The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) had an armed wing that was on the United States’ list of terrorist organizations until 2012, a year before the group funded Spain’s ultra-nationalist party. Founded in Tehran in 1965 by three university students, the organization's military legion, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), underwent a lengthy journey…
2019/12/22
Walid & Theodore Shoebat, Shoebat.com, December 22 2019:... MEK Money Laundering . Vox in fact received a substantial amount of cash from the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (the MEK) which, until recently, was classified as a terrorist organization but nonetheless has been getting American backing thanks to people like Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton and Newt Gingrich. With such high level…
2019/06/18
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, June 18 2019:... This is the tip of the iceberg. MEK interference in the internal affairs of America goes well beyond online attacks on Iran. In 2016, the Organization of Iranian American Communities in the US—a front for the MEK—announced a “General Elections Mobilization Effort,” publicly urging its members to “fulfill their civic duty through active…
2019/04/28
Sohail Jannessar, Darren Loucaides, Foreign Policy, April 28 2019:... “You look at it and say, ‘Oh, Mojahedin are funding [Vox].’ No, they are not. The ones that are funding that party are funding Mojahedin as well.” Khodabandeh said he himself was involved in moving money for the MEK and its funders during the reign of Saddam Hussein. “I went to Riyadh…
2019/02/03
Robert Azzi, Concord monitor, February 03 2019:... Bolton is a longtime supporter of the Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK), a cultist Iranian dissident group that advocates for regime change in Iran. MEK, which was on our State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations from 1997 to 2012, is still suspected of the assassination of six Americans and the bombings of American companies in…
2019/01/31
A spokesman for the Dutch prosecution service told the BBC: "We have two men in custody who are suspected of being involved in the death. The investigation has not led to any signs of involvement of Iranian authorities." The 56-year-old is suspected of being Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi, who was accused of planting a bomb that resulted in the deadliest attack…
2019/01/31
Thierry Meyssan, Mint Press News, January 31 2019:... John Bolton’s links with the MEK date back to the Bush administration. They were strengthened by his presence – for a price of 40,000 dollars – during their annual meetings at Villepinte (France), in 2010 and 2017. Having become the National Security Advisor, he now unites the jihadists from Daesh and the loyal…
2019/01/30
Stephen Gottlieb, WAMC, Morning Edition, January 30 2019:... The MEK has been the darling of the Administration as a potential successor to the mullahs because they both dislike the Iranian regime. Never mind that the MEK objected when Khomeini decided to release the hostages, that it has been a terrorist organization and killed Americans. Never mind that it has no support…
2019/01/30
Nejat Society, January 30 2019:... In 2014, this organization (Mojahedin Khalq MEK MKO NCRI Rajavi cult ...) financed the vast majority of the Vox campaign for the European companies led by Vidal-Quadras. The PP exec exempted did not obtain a seat and although the far-right formation directed by Santiago Abascal has affirmed that it was audited by the Court of Auditors,…
2019/01/29
Voltair Net, January 29 2019:... The Founder of the Sect was Massoud Rajavi. He flees to France after organizing a bloody massacre of the Islamic government on 28 June 1981. He obtains the protection of President François Mitterrand (who secretly bombed Iran) before being expelled by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. The sect then took refuge in Iraq (at the height of…