Tag Archives: human rights watch
2017/09/18
Massoud Khodabandeh, Huffpost, September 18 2017:... While it is by no means clear that Donald Trump actually wants war with Iran – given the huge risks involved for the whole region – his strategy of brandishing the threat to destroy the JCPOA is certainly an attention-grabbing negotiating tactic. So too is brandishing the MEK as a terrorist threat against Iran. It…
2017/09/09
Iran Interlink, September 08 2017:... A glance at the statistics in Albania reveal that although Rajavi has travelled there to save the MEK, the rate of disaffection is accelerating. There are just over one persons per week now leaving the group. The MEK, openly backed by the CIA, is pushing desperately for the Albanian Interior Ministry to give the go ahead…
2017/09/04
Sahar Family Foundation, Tirana, Albania, September 04 2017:... Accepting the risk of not being able to return to Paris, Maryam Rajavi made her second trip to Albania to sort out the catastrophic situation of the group and ease the internal tensions and persuade people to move to the remote base. Everyone who is even slightly familiar with the situation of the…
2017/08/31
Nejat Society, Tehran, August 31 2017:... With reference to the abusive nature of the Rajavi cult, as evidenced by many former members, and the fact that the members are subject to psychological manipulation, we urge you to respect our basic humanitarian rights and let us visit our loved ones. We also urge you to let our loved ones, held captive…
2017/08/28
Habilian Association, August 28 2017:... Ebrahim Khodabandeh, a former senior member of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who defected from the group in 2003, provided details of some less known aspects of the MEK in a speech delivered to scholars of Astan Qods Razavi endowment in Mashhad. In the first part of his speech, Ebrahim Khodabandeh referred to the cultish nature of MEK…
2017/08/27
Sahar Family Foundation, Tirana, Albania, August 27 2017:... An official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tirana meeting with Sahar Family Foundation spoke about the situation of the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) and the former members of the group. He said that currently there are around 240 separated MEK members living outside the organization in…
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…
Warning about threats against the families and former MEK members (aka Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult)
2017/08/14
Sahar Family Foundation, Albania, August 14 2017:... Unfortunately, we are also witness to brutal behavior by the Albanian government and police towards the families. The families come to Albania to visit their loved ones. Where on earth is visiting loved ones considered a crime so that in your country these suffering families have been interrogated by the police and been…
2017/08/13
Mehr News, Tehran, August 13 2017:... Due to the covert and over support of US government and its intelligence and military forces to terrorist groups, and repeated confessions by some American officials ... Iran considers the following individuals subject to punishments included in Article 6 of the bill: ... 4- American individuals who sponsor Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO), or any other…
2017/08/04
Dan Kovalik, Huffington Post (Huffpost), July 04 2017:... As the London Guardian notes, the MEK has “claimed responsibility for murdering thousands of Iranians” since 1981 (my friends in Iran put the figure of those killed at 17,000); supported the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979 and the holding of the American hostages; joined Saddam Hussein in fighting Iran during the…
2017/08/01
Mazda Parsi, Nejat society, August 01 2017:... The MEK is hated in Iran for its role in the war and for its terrorism against Iranians over the years,” Daniel Larison of the American Conservative writes. “No one genuinely interested in the freedom of Iranians would have anything to do with such a group, but of course Saudi and American hard-liners couldn’t…
2017/07/27
F.W. Burleigh, Western Free Press, July 27 2017:... A 2009 RAND study, commissioned to help the military understand what it had inherited, painted an unflattering, deeply disturbing picture of life in the camp: “(Rajavi transformed) the MEK from an activist dissident group into an inward-looking cult. Rajavi instituted what he termed an “ideological revolution” in 1985, which, over time, imbued the…