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2019/09/01
Iran Interlink, August 31 2019:... In Albania, a source inside MEK has informed Iran-Interlink that alongside the click farm work Rajavi has ordered some members to discover who leaked the incriminating photographs which we wrote about in Lobelog last week to the Iranian media. The way this is being done is through telephone calls. They change the way they speak…
2019/08/29
Adam Taylor, Washington Post, August 29 2019:... White House national security adviser John Bolton gave a speech at an event hosted by an Iranian exile group known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, MEK, or People’s Mujahedeen, where he openly called for the end of the religious regime that rules Iran. “The declared policy of the United States should be the overthrow…
2019/08/28
Jonathan Broder, Newsweek, August 28 2019:... Many independent scholars say the MEK's alliance with Saddam in that long and bloody war turned the group into traitors in the eyes of most Iranians. In the 1990s, the Rajavis instituted a number of cult-like measures to prevent defections. According to a 2005 Human Rights Watch report based on interviews with several defectors,…
2019/08/23
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, August 23 2019:... So, when Giuliani says we should be “comfortable” with this group, right-minded people the world over can honestly and unequivocally answer, “No, we are not comfortable ignoring this harsh reality just because the MEK amplifies an anti-Iran message to the world, and no, we don’t believe the MEK have any kind of future…
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…
2019/08/10
Balkans Post, August 10, 2019:... If you ask in private any Albanian politicians – including those who attend the MEK meetings with Maryam Rajavi – as to how much democratic MEK is, they will laugh. The most enthusiastic supporters of the MEK will tell you in private “we know that they are terrorists. But America has told us to support…
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…