Tag Archives: Lobby Mojahedin Khalq Rajavi cult
2016/11/27
Daniel Larison, The American Conservatives, November 27 2016:... One of the more troubling things about American MEK supporters is their willingness to whitewash the group’s past as well as its present-day behavior. They aren’t content to work with an avowedly bad group against a common enemy, but feel compelled to pretend that the group is upstanding and noble. At an appearance…
2016/11/25
Iran Interlink, November 25 2016:... A characteristic of internal American politics this past week has been for individuals notorious for being paid by the terrorist MEK, to aim a few vicious kicks at the outgoing POTUS in an effort to take the heat of scrutiny off their own past. In Farsi, commentators are describing Maryam Rajavi as confused, not knowing how…
2016/11/24
Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Politico Magazine, November 24 2016:... Press accounts of MeK support by Giuliani and these others often treat their ties as a curiosity or, at most, some kind of peccadillo, because the group was taken off the State Department list in 2012. I was the coordinator for counterterrorism at that time, and my office was responsible for leading the…
2016/11/22
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, November 22 2016:... In March 2012, Giuliani traveled to Paris to speak at an MEK conference alongside the group’s secretive leader Maryam Rajavi. While there, he called the U.S. military base in Iraq where the United States wanted to relocate the MEK a “concentration camp.” Those comments later appeared in an MEK ad in the New York…
2016/11/18
Iran Interlink, November 18 2016:... News from Tirana is that two top ranking MEK members were arrested trying to enter the country with false passports. Up to yesterday one was still in prison while the other was released with an electronic tag into the MEK camp. Rumours circulated that Maryam Rajavi had visited Tirana clandestinely. Insiders from the MEK say the…
2016/11/18
Eric Lipton and Russ Buettnernov, New York Times, November 18 2016:... The speeches that have drawn the greatest scrutiny are those he gave from 2012 through last year at events organized by the Mujahedeen Khalq. Mr. Giuliani was paid for “three or four” speeches he delivered to the group, said Robert G. Torricelli, a former senator from New Jersey who served…
2015/01/01
Ken Silverstein, The Intercept, January 01 2015:... Well, Freeh is one of many former U.S. officials who got paid big speaking fees (reportedly up to $50,000 a pop) by a creepy Iranian group called the People’s Mujahedin, also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, to successfully advocate for its removal from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations ... Link…
2014/09/09
Financial Times, September 09 2014: ... said: “I can confirm that there are legal proceedings, but I can’t discuss the contents.” Mr Khalilzad and Ms Benard are “vigorously contesting the seizure of the accounts”, their lawyers said, and she has lodged an appeal against the seizure in the Austrian courts. Mr Khalilzad, who now runs his own consultancy firm ...…