Tag Archives: Lobby Mojahedin Khalq Rajavi cult
2017/05/10
Press TV, May 10 2017:...“All the families of the victims of terrorism are shocked by how [US] senators and officials are linked with and support the MKO leaders and consider it as a blatant support for terrorism in the international arena,” an ADVT member said at the meeting. Another activist underlined the important role of international organizations in alleviating the problems…
2017/04/14
Jon Gambrell, Associated Press, April 14 2017:... Pahlavi said he had yet to meet with the Trump administration despite his letters. Another Iranian exile group, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, previously paid a member of Trump's Cabinet $50,000 for giving a speech . However, the MEK's siding with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and its killing of Americans…
2017/03/26
Nejat Society, March 26 2017:... The myth often is connected to a faith in exile groups as instruments for quick transition to a completely different type of regime. Many of those hoping for regime change in Iran look in this way to the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a cult-cum-terrorist group that actually has almost no popular support within Iran. Some of the same…
2017/02/16
Associated Press, February 16 2017:... The group at one point successfully infiltrated the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, according to a State Department report. And a series of bombings attributed to the MEK accompanied visits by presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter to Iran, including one to target an American cultural center. In 1973, MEK assailants wearing motorcycle helmets shot dead U.S.…
2017/01/25
Iran Interlink reporting from Top Topic and Huffington Post, January 25 2017:... Articles mention the MEK as a potential advisor for the new US Administration, no government apart from that of dictator Saddam Hussein has ever openly engaged with them at any time during their four decades of existence. NIAC and the other groups mentioned in these articles are properly…
2017/01/20
Iran Interlink, January 20 2017:... In Tirana, the MEK have printed and distributed maps and plans for the members. These show that the MEK is purportedly planning to build a replica of Camp Ashraf in Albania. The MEK claims they will be given the land soon by the Albanian government and that the Albanians have got no say in this ‘because…
2017/01/17
Iran Interlink, January 17 2017:... Sources close to the MEK have revealed that Maryam Rajavi has promised the Saudis that if she gets paid enough, the MEK, NCRI (whatever they call themselves), will be able to gather all the Iranian opposition under their wing and be the voice of all these various groups - whether based in London and Washington writing…
2016/12/30
Iran Interlink, December 30 2016:... The reaction to an open letter to Donald Trump from thirty “members of the Iranian opposition, including human rights activists and former political prisoners” has been quite precisely divided. Only the MEK felt jealous and wished they had also jumped on this bandwagon. They even got frontman Ali Safavi a slot on Fox News to say…
2016/12/16
Iran Interlink, December 16 2016:... A further backlash occurred in Tirana. Maryam Rajavi has been pumping up her followers with promises that now Donald Trump has been elected as US President he has ‘personally assured me’ that he will help the MEK. However, now that Rudy Giuliani is out of the picture, it is clear there is no substance to her…
2016/12/12
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Open Minds, December 12 2016:... As a Farsi speaker I am sure you will understand when I describe Lord Alton’s contribution as throwing a mouse in the stew (moosh andakhtane Lord Alton dar dige hoghoogh bashar); he ruined it for everyone. Rather than enjoying a free and productive discussion about human rights in Iran, the whole debate was…
2016/12/10
Will Bredderman, Observer, December 10 2016:... Priebus stated that America’s mayor “was vetted by our team for any possible conflicts and passed with flying colors”—despite the payments he and his company Giuliani Partners have received from the Islamic State-funding government of Qatar or the registered terrorist group Mujahedin e-Khalq, a banished Iranian political party. Instead, the president-elect ... Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Mojahedin Khalq…
2016/12/08
Orlando Crowcroft, International Business Times, December 08 2016:... suggested that the former New York mayor's active public campaigning for the role may have put Trump off. Giuliani has faced searching questions about his international business ties, including revelations that he has earned more than $11m (£8.6m) from lucrative speaking contracts... he has also given speeches to the Iranian MEK, which ... Document…