Tag Archives: Israel Project
2019/08/11
Jonathan Harounoff, Haaretz, August 11 2019:... Massoud Khodabandeh, tells Haaretz in an email interview that the group was no longer the highly organized and influential student-led movement of the ’70s that opposed the shah. By the ’80s, Khodabandeh says, the MEK had evolved almost unrecognizably into a violent, anti-ayatollah and pro-Saddam guerrilla organization that had no clear objectives other than…
2019/07/31
Al Masdar and Asharq Al-Ausat, July 31 2019:... Asharq Al-Aswat then referenced an alleged attack by the Israeli Air Force on Hashd Al-Shaabi’s Ashraf base, which was previously used by the dissident People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) The base lies 80 kilometers from the border with Iran and 40 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. Last week, Syria’s Tal al-Hara was struck…
2019/07/25
Neri Zilber, The Daily Beast, July 25 2019:... The account had over 2,000 followers, including the verified profiles of several prominent Israeli journalists, the French ambassador in Israel, and the French embassy in Tel Aviv. A picture of the consul general visiting a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem was tweeted out around the same time as the MEK thread; a…
2019/07/23
Mehr News, July 23 2019:...I was surprised today by the news received from a former colleague with whom I worked in Tehran; Maryam Rajavi, the co-leader of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) visited Israel,” he tweeted on July 17. “On July 17, Mrs. Rajavi left Tirana to join Tel Aviv. This trip was arranged through Rudy Giuliani, the personal advocate…
2019/06/06
Press TV, June 06 2019:... The #B_Team's boy who cries wolf is crying once again: this time Mossad is fabricating intelligence about Iran's involvement in sabotage in Fujairah. I've warned of “accidents” and false flags—we know what happens when you believe their lies. We've been here before, haven't we? Mossad MEK and Fujairah False Flag . Zarif: Mossad fabricating intel…
2019/02/06
Behnam Gharagozli, Iranian.com, February 06 2019:... One manifestation of this trend is witnessing how the MEK was somehow transformed from a terrorist organization to a dissident Iranian organization after only a short time. This transformation from terrorist to dissident just so happened to occur after the MEK’s base in Iraq was sacked (the MEK had been an ally of Saddam Hussein) and the…
2019/01/21
Dr James M Dorsey, Counter currents, January 21 2019:... The memo was written at about the same time that Mr. Bolton told a gathering of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq that “the declared policy of the United States of America should be the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran” and that “before 2019, we here will celebrate in Tehran.” The MEK was…
2019/01/15
Ulrich von Schwerin, nzz.ch, Switzerland, January 15 2019:... People’s Mojahedin (MEK, MKO, NCRI, PMOI ...) have had powerful advocates in the West, but since they have three sympathizers in the White House with Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the question of what role they play in Washington’s Iran policy is raised ,…
2019/01/13
Mesissa Etehad, LA Times, January 13 2019:... MEK, is a shadowy organization with a militant past. Up until 2012, it was deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Led by a husband-and-wife power couple — Massoud and Maryam Rajavi — the group was sheltered and armed by Saddam Hussein for nearly 20 years. Known for its female-led military…
2018/12/29
Nejat Society, December 29 2018:... Since the fall of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) has turned into the strange bedfellow of the US and Israel. The MEK’s Camp Ashraf was placed under the protection of the US military after the collapse of Saddams’ regime although the group…
2018/11/13
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative, November 13 2018:... Daniel Benjamin, who was then the head of counter-terrorism at the state department, told me that the US decided to remove the MEK from the list of foreign terrorist organisations not because it believed it had abandoned violence, but to “avoid them all getting killed” if it remained in Iraq[bold mine-DL]. After the MEK…
2018/10/25
Ora News.tv, Tirana, Ocober 25 2018:... Historian Olsi Jazexhi, invited to Arena by Dritan Hila of Ora News, said that Albania has become the main base of Israel’s Mossad and the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult, Saddam’s Private army ….). Jazexhi: Albania has become one of the main bases of Israel’s Mossad and the Iranian Mojahedin (Maryam Rajavi…