Tag Archives: Iran Interlink Weekly Digest Anne Khodabandeh Singleton
2020/06/27
Iran Interlink, June 27 2020:... Every day MEK have published a couple of articles in English and Arabic claiming that the Iranian government has confessed in this site that these people are agents of the MOIS. Today, Massoud Khodabandeh wrote a paragraph on his Facebook page in response to a video by Davoud Baghervand Arshad in Germany, who runs the…
2020/06/12
Iran Interlink, June 12 2020:... Female singer Marjan ( Shahla Safi Zamir ) died this week aged 70 in Los Angeles. She came to the U.S. with her husband many years ago after they had served prison sentences for involvement with MEK. Once in the U.S. MEK used them every now and then to appear in events, but they were…
2020/05/30
Iran Interlink, May 30 2020:... MEK leaders this week used the MEK’s TV programme to officially announce that ‘the assassination of families and critics is a duty wherever possible’. In this programme Parviz Khazaei – Rajavi’s NCRI representative in Scandinavia who had been a diplomat in the Iranian embassy at the time of the Shah, and later worked for the…
2020/05/16
Iran Interlink, May 15 2020:... Eighty percent of this week’s MEK Farsi output has been dedicated to attacking the families and their petition addressed to Albanian PM Edi Rama asking for help to contact their loved ones in the MEK camp. The other twenty percent has been the usual; repeating what the Saudis and Americans say with gross exaggeration. Many…
2020/05/09
Iran Interlink, May 09 2020:... The petition addressed to Albanian PM Edi Rama has gathered over ten thousand signatures. In response, MEK have put all their Farsi efforts into swearing at Ebrahim Khodabandeh and the families. In response, some commentators have pointed out that MEK are becoming so wobbly that they are ‘vaccinating’ the members by making them write against…
2020/04/25
Iran Interlink, April 25 2020:... covid-19 MEK Albania . In Albania MEK has ceased all financial support for some of its former members. MEK used to give small payments to some of those who abandoned the cult on condition they do not speak about their experiences in the cult and/or to perform certain activities, such as spying on other former…
2020/04/18
Iran Interlink, April 18 2020:... The Heshmat Alavi account - the MEK’s notorious troll farm alias - retweets large scale MEK propaganda. One Heshmat Alavi RT is of MEK claiming that 30,000 people have died of Coronavirus in Iran. Commentators say if that were true, Iranians would know about it. Therefore, the only audience for this Twitter account are those…
2020/04/03
Iran Interlink, April 03 2020:... Sputnik Farsi published an article referring to some of these things MEK are claiming, placing them alongside Pompeo’s pronouncements and social media blocking of every account except the MEK and such like. This paints a picture of a cohort coming together for a misinformation and demonisation campaign against Iran of which MEK are part. For…
2020/03/29
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, March 29 2020:... But, as destructive as the MEK presence has been in Albania, the group has inevitably played a greater role in the West’s confrontation against Iran. In June 2019, Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept revealed that an internet troll farm was operating from the MEK’s closed camp in Manez. The enslaved members, sitting behind…
2020/03/21
Iran Interlink, March 21 2020:... Everyone in the world is affected by the Coronavirus crisis and the MEK are not excepted. Massoud Rajavi has issued yet another message ‘Payam number 22’, which prompted a lot of reaction. Commentators say, ‘there’s no way he’s written this because none of it matches up, every sentence is ridiculous’. For example, Rajavi claims “the…
2020/03/08
Iran Interlink, March 08 2020:... For the last two weeks the MEK has been working hard on damage limitation over the New York Times article. Those answering back against the MEK point out that all the MEK’s attacks are against the reporter. The only thing MEK says is that ‘because the NYT published this, the regime will come and kill…
2020/02/23
Iran Interlink, February 23 2020:... ++ With the elections in Iran, the MEK sided with Brian Hook, demanding that people don’t vote, etc. Farsi reaction to this included those who ask ‘why don’t you have elections? If Iran’s elections are not good enough for you, why don’t you and your benefactors in Saudi Arabia hold elections yourselves? None of you…