Tag Archives: John bolton MEK terrorism Albania
2019/11/01
Lucien Bruggeman and Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, November 01 2019:... Perhaps Giuliani’s most controversial foreign client has been the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group designated by the State Department in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a foreign terrorist organization. Giuliani’s affiliation with the MEK predates the Trump administration by several years, but reflects the breadth…
2019/10/27
Press TV, October 27 2019:... In March 2018, two people were held in Albania but set free for lack of evidence. At the time, an opposition leader denounced the announcement as a ploy by Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to divert attention from Tirana’s failure to start entry talks with the European Union. The accusation was similar to those made…
2019/10/21
NBC News, October 21 2019:...One of Giuliani’s longest running paid relationships belongs to a fringe Iranian group accused of killing six Americans in the 1970s. Giuliani has been delivering paid speeches and meeting with representatives of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) since at least 2010, he previously told NBC News. The dissident group launched attacks against Americans and the Iranian government…
2019/10/07
James Bovard, The American Conservative, October 07 2019:... Federal law prohibited taking money from or advocating on behalf of any designated terrorist group. Yet a 2011 Huffington Post headline reported, “Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorist Organization.” That didn’t seem to matter much to former FBI boss Louis Freeh, former CIA boss Porter Goss, co-chair of the 9/11…
2019/10/03
Yue Stella Yu, Open Secrets,October 03 2019:... Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who served under President George W. Bush, registered last week as a foreign agent lobbying pro bono for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a major Iranian dissident group pushing to topple the country’s current administration. Mukasey’s office did not respond to a request for comment.Earlier this…
2019/09/30
Reza Sadeghi Jabali, Brussels, September 30 2019:... Dear Mr President, I am writing to you now to express my deep concern that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended this terrorist organization’s gathering on Wednesday September 25 in New York. In particular considering the MEK’s past record of assassinations of American military and civilian personnel. As President and Commander-in-Chief, it would…
2019/09/29
Rossella Tercantin, The Jerusalem Post, September 29 2019:... The announcement followed reports that United Against Nuclear Iran's summit would include a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, which had close ties with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. According to a report by the Washington Post, the summit has sparked controversy for including a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK , …
2019/09/28
Iran Interlink, September 27 2019:… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest Hamid Ghanbari Araa is the son of Abdul Ali Ghanbari, a veteran MEK member who died in Albania from cancer a few years ago. His mother is Pari Mohammadi who is still in Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania. Hamid managed to escape the MEK and moved from Albania to Germany with…
2019/09/27
Suzanne Maloney, Tweeter, September 27 2019:... I speak to all kinds of audiences all the time & I don't impose an ideological litmus test. It's incredibly worthwhile to hear opposing points of view & engage in dialogue; I've learned a lot. This doesn't happen enough in policy & academic work on Iran, unfortunately. But I won't engage w/the MEK &…
2019/09/26
Press TV, September 26 2019:... Speaking at the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) 2019 summit in New York on Wednesday, Pompeo called on world countries to stand with the US alongside Israel, announcing new sanctions against Iran and blaming Tehran for backing "terrorist groups". The summit, which was being held on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United…
2019/09/26
Zhelwan Z. Wali, Rudaw, September 26 2019:... ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran’s Kurdish parties say they will not take part in a conference allegedly organized by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday because the Kurdish question in Iran is not a key part of the agenda. The…
2019/09/25
Julian Pecquet, Al Monitor, September 25 2019:... But attendance was dominated by the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK) and its allies. Iran considers the MEK a terrorist group, as the United States did until 2012.. Openly embracing the MEK could also put the Trump administration in an uncomfortable spot. The administration does not officially support regime change, but recently stopped ruling out the MEK as…