Tag Archives: Iran Probe MEK Fake News

Press TV, October 01 2021:... This is once again one of the stories of the counterrevolutionary and terrorist group that is living in a safe haven in Europe and is financed by them and constantly influences the Agency by producing fake news,” he said, making a veiled reference to the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), an Albania-based terrorist outfit. IAEA… 2021/10/01

France 24, Paris, August 12 2021:... Mujahedin fighters have claimed responsibility for several operations in Iran, including against oil installations in 1993, and have been blamed for dozens of murders. After Saddam was toppled in 2003, the Mujahedin was disarmed by US forces and allowed to regroup at the Ashraf refugee camp north of Baghdad, which became the PMOI's largest… 2021/08/12

Middle East Eye, August 10 2021:... Swedish prosecutors accuse Hamid Noury of "intentionally" taking the lives of many prisoners sympathetic to the MEK while serving as the deputy governor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near Tehran. In 1988, an estimated 5,000 people were killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in response to attacks carried… 2021/08/10

Ebrahim Khodabandeh, April 08 2021:... Removing 300 fake MEK accounts, after so many years, constitutes only one percent of the actual amount of this type of account operating from Albania. Last year, on April 22, 2020, The Intercept reported on a fake identity created by the MEK in Albania called “Heshmat Alavi” whose misinformation was quoted by Donald Trump as… 2021/04/08

Iran Interlink, February 05 2020:... Not only did Fox News invite Maryam Rajavi to give advice to President Biden based on the false narrative that ‘Iran is at its weakest point’, but now CNN in Albania has also broadcast a purely MEK funded and scripted piece designed to poison diplomatic relations between the EU and Iran, Albania and Iran, the… 2021/02/06

Daniel Larison, The American Conservative, January 13 20201:... the U.S. government doesn’t understand the countries in question, it relies on bad information that is frequently offered to them by self-serving exiles and activists, and it doesn’t know how to do state-and-institution-building on such a large scale in any case. The U.S. has expended vast resources for decades on some of… 2021/01/13

Tehran Times, January 03 2021:... Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the American daily Washington Times should know better than to publish fake news, making a reference to the daily’s distortion of President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about his outgoing American counterpart. “Cowardice in assassinating foreign leaders is a US-Israeli trademark; NOT Iranian,” Khatibzadeh wrote in a tweet on Friday… 2021/01/03

Iran Front Page, October 20 2020:... The Islamic Republic of Iran considers the arrest of Mr Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat in Europe, as a move that is basically unlawful and in blatant violation of international practices and the contents of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” Khatibzadeh said. Assadi, who will go on trial in late November, was… 2020/10/20

Paul Brian and Arthur Bloom, The American Conservative, (First Published 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.… 2020/09/03

Nejat Society, August 19 2020:... Families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) in Albania from Ardabil Province (North West Iran) have issued a letter to the Albanian Interior Minister protesting the organization’s recent collusion with corrupt elements in the Albanian government regarding Mr. Ehsan Bidi, a former member of the organization. According to Feraq news-analytical website, the text… 2020/08/19

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,… 2020/08/16

Sorayya Abdollahi, Nejat society, Tehran, July 07 2020:... According to a website of the Albania based Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), you have made a speech as an MP (even though you had resigned in 2019) for “the International Online Conference on Freedom and Democracy in Iran” on June 20, 2020, in an online conference held connecting about… 2020/07/07