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2021/10/27
Massoud Khodabandeh, Middle East Strategy Consultants, UK, October 27 2021:... By 1996 it became clear Maryam was to be deported back to Iraq. She asked for one last face-saving event before going back. The UK granted her a 3-day visa, backed by a guarantee from France that they would take her back afterwards. The MEK announced a concert for the…
2021/09/20
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, September 20 2021:... Maryam Rajavi has performed a coup to take over control of the MEK and completely eliminate every trace of Massoud. The nature of this coup became clear when Zahra Merikhi, who was re-appointed for two more years as Secretary General of the MEK, named three women as co-leaders with herself – Mahnaz Meimanat…
2021/08/29
Iran Interlink, August 29 2021:... Khodabandeh said that according to sources inside the camp, the MEK are facing the concept that Iraj Mesdaghi has taken over from Maryam Rajavi in terms of importance and prominence. This concern is directed at the ones who are paying; Mesdaghi will get the money rather than us. Again, the payers cannot control the MEK…
2021/08/20
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, August 212021:... MEK was allowed to build a closed camp to house its members in the same conditions of modern slavery as they had lived in Iraq. Soon after, there was talk of Albania being used to house widows and orphans from Syria. This was a different proposition to the repatriation of Albanian women…
2021/08/16
Philip Giraldi, Islamic Times, August 16 2021:.. Given the fact that Iran continues to be the Biden Administration’s enemy du jour, it is perhaps not surprising to observe that the US also supports terror groups that are capable of attacking targets in the Islamic Republic. To that end, recently a number of former senior government officials and politicians were involved…
2021/07/09
Under Reported, July 09 2021:... The People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, known better by its acronym the MKO, is a terrorist group responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranian civilians. The notorious group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq's war with Iran in the 1980s, but fell out of favor with Baghdad after he was toppled by a US-led…
2021/07/04
Brett Wilkins, Commom Dreams, July 04 2021:... While fighting a war purportedly meant to defeat terrorism in some parts of the world, Rumsfeld supported terror elsewhere. Pursuing allies in the so-called War on Terror, Rumsfeld courted dictators including Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov—who boiled political opponents alive—and the Iranian exile militants Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a State Department-designated terrorist organization. Rumsfeld Used MEK…
2021/06/26
Dosja AL, Tirana, Albania, June 26 2020:... The following report from Albania marks a significant step in the lives of the MEK members brought to that country after being expelled from Iraq. This new legislation will make this path much easier. Moreover, this new unique permit will enable MEK members still trapped in the clutches of the camp, an escape…
2021/06/05
Tehran Times, June 05 2021:... Ayatollah Khamenei was apparently referring to former US national security advisor John Bolton's infamous prediction while addressing a terrorist MKO convention in Paris in 2017, according to Press TV. Bolton had said, “The outcome of the president’s policy review should be to determine that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution will not last until its 40th…
2021/05/23
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, May 23 2021:... The new legislation was approved by Albania’s Council of Ministers in December last year. It has now been reviewed by Albania’s Commission on European Integration, which announced that it meets EU requirements. According to Albanian officials, the legislation, which has been in the pipeline for a while, seeks to address shortcomings in the…
2021/04/13
Anne Singleton and Massoud Khodabandeh, Global Research, April 13 2021:... As the Vienna talks demonstrate, rolling back the Trump administration’s errors in relation to Iran can be difficult. In some cases, such as the assassination of general Qasem Soleimani, impossible. But direct talks are not the only means to that end. We wrote in January that a quick, effective and…
2021/03/24
Habilian Association, March 24 2021:... The group’s recent interactions with the United States are divided up into two parts: The first part was during the Trump era and the second part has been started since Biden’s entry into the Oval Office. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States and with regards to his international…