Tag Archives: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen MEK Maryam Rajavi terrorism
2021/08/18
Janes North, Mondoweiss, August 18 2021:... The People’s Mujahadeen of Iran (MEK) is a cult organization, based in Albania with no real presence inside Iran, other than small groups of commandos who are probably responsible for sabotage and assassinations. The MEK does have funds — the rumours are that Saudi Arabia contributes — which it has used to lure people like…
2021/07/31
Michael Rubin, The National Interest, July 31 2021:... The MKO is correct to condemn incoming Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for his role in the 1988 massacres of several thousand political prisoners. Everyone should. But having been the victims of persecution in the decade after they helped bring Khomeini to power does not change the fact that the MKO’s tendency to…
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…
2021/07/13
Eli Clifton and Matthew Petti, Responsible Statescraft, and Press TV, July 13 2021:.. Former defense official Michèle Flournoy called for regime change in Iran at a conference on Saturday sponsored by the Mojahedin-e Khalq — an Iranian militant group once listed as a terrorist organization. A spokesperson for Flournoy’s consultancy, WestExec Advisors, which she co-founded with President Joe Biden’s now-Secretary…
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…
2021/06/17
Jack Turner, Geopolitica, June 17 2021:... After the arrest of Amir Saadoni and Nasimeh Naami in July 2018, the MEK’s TV channel, known as Simaye Azadi, falsely announced that the two apprehended suspects did not belong to the MEK. Furthermore, when Mahdi Abrishamchi (a leading figure in the MEK, under the alias of Bahman Tehrani) was summoned by the Belgian…
2021/05/26
Tehran Times, May 26 2021:... Eight translations of “Ambushing a Rose”, a biography of Lieutenant-General Ali Sayyad Shirazi who served as commander of Ground Forces during the Iran–Iraq war, have recently been published. The collection was unveiled on Monday at the Sacred Defense Museum during a special ceremony organized to celebrate the liberation anniversary of Khorramshahr. Assassination of Sayyad Shirazi…
2021/03/21
Press TV, Tehran, March 21 2021:... These people are former members of the most notorious anti-Iran terrorist group, known as the MKO or Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization. They fled the group years ago after spending two decades in the MKO under duress. They have now filed a lawsuit at an Iranian court against leaders of the terror group, namely Masoud and…
2020/09/13
Iran Interlink, September 11 2020:... MEK are on overdrive to fetch up anyone who can string a sentence together to attack Olsi Jazexhi, Gjergji Thanasi and other journalists. As usual, these MEK members are people who are not accessible, who are confined to the camp. MEK knows that anyone outside the camp - lobbyists and others who still have a…
2020/08/01
Iran Interlink, July 31 2020:... Last week saw the anniversary of the 1988 Forouq-e Javidan or Mersad operation in which MEK tried to invade Iran and march on Tehran. Around half the group’s forces were killed and many injured when the Iranian military drew them into an ambush and attacked them. This week MEK said nothing about the operation in…
2020/07/27
Nejat Society, July 27 2020:... The father died longing to see his children but he did not know that Amir also would die only two years after his father died. GhorbanAli Hosseinnejad former member of the group was Amir’s Arabic teacher at Camp Ashraf. “After the defection of his father, Amir’s last name was changed into his mother’s. He was…
2020/07/17
Anne Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, July 17 2020:... MEK leader Maryam Rajavi boasts that she can organize a Zoom conference from Albania on July 17th to link up paid pundits she would normally invite to her annual rally – a cut price event. On July 16th families from every province in Iran linked up by Zoom to talk and asked ‘if Rajavi…