Tag Archives: Maryam Rajavi MEK terrorism Albania
2019/08/20
Anne Khodabndeh (Singleton), The Iranian, August 19 2019:... President Rama is unrepentant. In an interview with FaxNews (see translation below), journalist and activist Aulon Kalaja commented that Rama has used hosting the MEK for America as an excuse to remain in power and delay the reforms to the judicial system which are necessary if Albania is to accede to the EU.…
2019/08/19
Professor Tim Anderson, Balkans Post, August 19 2019:... Yes it is quite possible that Albania will de destabilized by U.S. proxies the MEK, and also by DAESH members. Between 2013 and 2016 Washington moved the 2,900 Camp Ashraf MEK members to Albania, where they had also moved some former DAESH/ISIS fighters (Spahiu 2018; Khodabandeh and Khodabandeh 2018). The U.S. and…
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…
2019/08/10
Iran Interlink, August 09 2019:... John Bolton has become like Brexit for the British – impossible to ignore. Another article featuring him is published by the Daily Beast. Written by Lachlan Markay and Adam Rawnsley, this focuses on the response of American intelligence officials to a social media disinformation “that attempted to falsely implicate the White House National Security Adviser…
2019/08/05
Giorgio Cafiero, Inside Arabia, August 05 2019:... The People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or Mujahedin-e Khalq ( MEK ), has a dark history of violence and acts of terrorism against American interests. Established in the 1960s, the Marxist-Islamist group killed members of the Shah’s security apparatus on the streets of Iranian cities. Anti-American to its core, the MEK quickly earned a…
2019/08/05
Iran Interlink, August 05 2019:... Maryam Rajavi paid for an advert to answer an article in the Los Angeles Times. Evidence that neither she nor her group have any credibility, otherwise a fact based reply would have been possible in the newspaper. Rather than answer the allegations against the MEK, Rajavi twists the facts to blame Iran for its lack…
2019/08/01
Iran Front Page, August 01 2019:... Rouhani has denounced the United States’ imposition of sanctions on Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, saying the move ran counter to Washington’s claim it is ready for unconditional talks. On the other hand, it seems that a visit by Maryam Rajavi, leader of the MKO terrorist group, and the launch of the recent…
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…
2019/07/29
Melissa Etehad, Les Angles Times, July 29 2019:... For decades, the United States categorized the Mujahedin Khalq, or MEK, as a terrorist organization. In the Trump era, members of the Iranian dissident group, which seeks to topple the government in Iran, have found key allies in Washington. People close to President Trump, including national security advisor John Bolton, and Trump’s…
2019/07/28
Tehran Times, July 28 2019:... Government spokesman Ali Rabiei draws a parallel between the MEK’s false belief that it had popular support in Iran when it launched attack on Iran in late July 1988, and the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement, which President Rouhani has attributed to Washington’s false belief that the Iranian people were fed-up with the…
2019/07/28
Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye, London, July 28 2019:... The most important of these facts is that the MEK is a cult which keeps its members in Albania in conditions of modern slavery. If the MEK’s supporters want to believe that after not being paid for three decades, they are just ‘volunteers’, then there is not much else they won’t…
2019/07/27
Iran Interlink, July 27 2019:... It’s become a fashion. Every week someone in the MEK’s Albania camp dies. This week two people died in the camp. Interestingly there is no doctor, no coroner, no investigation and no involvement with any Albanian whatsoever. When asked about it the authorities say they are afraid of the Americans and that anyway the inside…