Tag Archives: Lord Alton Mojahedin Khalq Lobby terrorism
2018/12/26
Nejat Society, December 26 2018:... According to the Human Rights Watch report “No Exit”, in the early 1990s, dissent was on the rise Camp Ashraf. Former MKO members interviewed for this report cite the following reasons for their decision to leave the organization: military failure of the MKO to dislodge the Iranian government during the July 1988 military operation, forced mass divorces…
2018/12/18
Eldar Mamedov, Lobelog, December 18 2018:... Vox received a donation of 500.000 euros from MEK, acting under the umbrella of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) This money allowed the party to kick-start its election campaign for the European Parliament. The person who played a key role was Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a veteran Spanish politician. At first sight, Vidal-Quadras and Rajavi…
2018/12/16
Nejat Society, December 16 2018:... the propaganda media of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) do not give a shit to the France protests but they exaggerate the workers protests in Khuzestan, Iran, because Maryam Rajavi is sheltered in France and launches her anti-Iran campaign from France territory. However, she should be asked what about…
2018/12/11
Sarah Lazare, In These Times, December 11 2018:... She has also repeatedly vocalized her support for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), alongside John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich. With virtually no legitimacy within Iran, the MEK is a favorite among neocons because it aggressively lobbies for U.S. military confrontation with Iran, and arguing that its head, Maryam Rajavi, is the rightful leader of…
2018/11/17
Jonathan Manthorpe, i politics, November 17 2018:... Bolton, Pompeo and others in the Trump regime seem to be going down the same quagmire path with a strange Iranian exiled dissident group called the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK. MEK has a turbulent history. It was founded in the 1960s in opposition to the shah of Iran and was part of the Islamic Revolution…
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…
2018/11/09
Arron Merat, The Guardian, London, 09 november 2018:... When we spoke recently, Soltani accused Maryam Rajavi of helping Massoud to abuse female MEK members over the years. “[Massoud] Rajavi thought that the only achilles heel [for female fighters] was the opposite sex,” Soltani told me. “He would say that the only reason you women would leave me is a man. So,…
2018/11/03
Iran Interlink, November 03 2018:... Maryam Rajavi has spoken! Based on what John Bolton said at the Villepinte rally in Paris last year – that the overthrow of the Iranian government will not take 40 years – Rajavi told her people to “wait, don’t leave, Bolton knows something!” This has caused something of a dilemma for Rajavi since the 40th…
2018/10/13
Iran Interlink, October 12 2018:... MEK invited Albanian MP Dashamir Shehi to visit the Manez camp. He reported that everything was wonderful there. Many ex-members have written Open Letters in Farsi and English pointing out that MEK never tell the truth and that over the years many foreign persons have been fooled or paid to promote the group in spite of…
2018/10/08
Marwa Osman, Alahed News, Beirut, October 08 2018:... US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about supporting the Iranian people has always been void, but promoting someone with Bolton’s views and connections to the highest level of government shows just how devious that rhetoric is. Whenever Bolton talks about supporting “the Iranian opposition,” these cultists are the people he’s talking about. When he…
2018/10/06
Iran Interlink, October 06 2018:... This week saw Farsi commentators ridiculing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for his gaffe: holding up a picture of an alleged Iranian nuclear site which turned out to be a carpet washing gallery. One of the best jokes was that this was indeed a place where Iran could sweep its nuclear programme under the carpet! This, say…
2018/10/06
Ty Joplin, Albawaba, October 06 2018:... The MEK, more than being a terrorist cult, militia or pro-democratic freedom fighters, seems to be a brutal tool of realpolitik, a blunt instrument to be used by the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf to antagonize their geopolitical rival, Iran.To understand the this, Al Bawaba spoke with Massoud Khodabandeh, who was one of the groups…