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2020/09/03
Paul Brian and Arthur Bloom, The American Conservative, September 03 2020:... “Amir Basiri and Heshmat Alavi are two fake accounts,” Hassan Heyrani, an MEK defector told TAC. “At Camp Liberty, near the BIAP airport in Iraq, I was in the political unit of the organization with some of the persons who grew up in America and Canada. We worked as a…
2020/08/16
Iran Interlink, August 16 2020:.. Olsi Jazexhi, a prominent Albanian historian and media personality, named Sandër Lleshaj as one of the politicians colluding with the MEK against Bidi. Jazexhi gathered support from several members of parliament who are strongly opposed to the MEK presence in their country. Journalists willing to investigate the case were also called into action. Gjergji Thanasi,…
2020/06/27
Nejat Society, Tehran, June 27 2020:... From Alborz province (north of Iran), a number of families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama simultaneous with the petition of over 11,000 signatures, urging him to lift the obstacles in order to let them meet their…
2020/02/16
Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times, February 16 2020:... I wasn’t shown the computer suites, which defectors had portrayed as a kind of troll farm: junior members using multiple accounts on Facebook and Twitter, typing messages that criticize the Iranian government, lionize the M.E.K. leadership and promote its paid lobbyists. When Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Bolton made public speeches in…
2020/01/31
Iran Interlink, January 31 2020:... In Albania, former MEK member Hasssan Heyrani wrote a note which explained that “MEK used to lobby the Albanian security services with tales, saying that we ex-members are agents of the Iranian regime and are plotting against them and up to no good. The security services would come and interview us. Little by little they…
2019/11/11
Linda Pressly and Albana Kasapi, BBC News, Tirana, November 11 2019:... For six years, Albania has been home to one of Iran's main opposition groups, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK. But hundreds of members have walked out - some complaining about the organisation's rigid rules enforcing celibacy, and control over contact with family. Now, dozens languish in the Albanian capital, Tirana,…
2019/11/10
Shqiptarja dot com, Tirana, Albania, November 09 2019:... Three Iranian refugees, former members of the Iranian opposition MEK in Albania, who have left the organization, deny the allegations made against them. Hassan Hayrani, Abdurrahman Mohammad Jan, Gholam Reza Shekari were all described by Ali Safavi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as agents of the Iranian…
2019/11/08
BBC World Service, Assignment, November 08 2019:... Who are Albania’s Iranian guests? In July, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani visited an Albanian village just outside Tirana. At a tightly-guarded encampment, he addressed the Iranian group who live there - the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), or People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). Meanwhile, dozens of Iranian MEK members have defected but…
2019/10/26
ABC News and Ora News, Tirana, Albania, October 26 2019:... On 23 October, the Albanian Chief of Police exposed himself to ridicule by reading out badly a prepared statement written by the MEK disseminating fake news. The statement claimed that a terrorist cell run by an individual in Iran, helped by several named individuals involved in organised crime and a…
2019/10/25
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, Gazeta Impakt, Tirana Albania, October 25 2019:... Ali Safavi has also attacked MEK defectors in Tirana, or more precisely those former Mojahedin who have abandoned terrorism against Iran and have decided to lead a civilian life. Ali Safavi has denounced as Iranian agents some of the deradicalized Mojahedin who live in Tirana and who have given interviews…
2019/08/26
Costantino Ceoldo, Pravda, August 26 2019:... The MEK is not independent of Washington. The Ashraf-3 base opening was attended by many senior-level U.S. officials. National Security Advisor John Bolton told the MEK at its 2017 conference in Albania, "Before 2019, we here will celebrate in Tehran". He was wrong. But John Bolton still intends to overthrow Iran. I am not…
2019/08/10
Balkans Post, August 10, 2019:... If you ask in private any Albanian politicians – including those who attend the MEK meetings with Maryam Rajavi – as to how much democratic MEK is, they will laugh. The most enthusiastic supporters of the MEK will tell you in private “we know that they are terrorists. But America has told us to support…