Tag Archives: massoud khodabandeh press tv
2019/09/14
Aljazeera and CNN, September 14 2019:...In 2015, he penned an editorial in the New York Times entitled "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran." He was a regular (paid) speaker at the annual meetings of Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian exile group which for years was hosted by Saddam Hussain, and which until 2012 was on the US State Department's terrorist list.At his most recent…
2019/09/11
Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, September 11 2019:... His absence also means that the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a reviled Iranian opposition group that long lived on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist groups, no longer has a powerful ally in the White House... The MEK can claim no popular support, and among Iranians of nearly all political orientations, inside the…
2019/09/05
Cyrus Shamloo, The Wilson Times, September 05 2019:... MEK terrorists, allied with sympathizers in Albania and Kosovo, have targeted Shi’a and Sufi Islamic institutions. It is also believed by some Albanian journalists, who have been intimidated by the Albanian government and MEK, that Ashraf 3 and Camp Bondsteel are being used to train MEK and other Middle Eastern mercenaries for…
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…
2019/08/24
Iran Interlink, August 24 2019:... This week suddenly the MEK’s websites – such as Iran Efshagar (notorious for swearing and bad language) have started attacking this man with foul language, swearing at him, his daughter, his wife and trying to silence him by defamation and swearing. MEK has filled Google (Farsi) with it. Akbarinsab replied, all very well and good,…
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…
2019/08/22
Reza Alghurabi, Mehr News, August 22 2019:... The terrorist People's Mojahedin Organization (MEK) is a leftist political organization that was formed in the 1940s and gradually changed in nature into a true cult. The leader of this cult, Masoud Rajavi, has been missing in the past 13 years, just after the US-led war against Iraq in 2003 that toppled Saddam,…
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…
2019/08/05
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…
2019/08/03
Catherine Shakdam, Citizen truth, August 03 2019:... In an interview for Al Bawaba in 2018 Masoud Khodabandeh, a former high-ranking MKO/MEK official, shed light on Saudi Arabia’s financial support for the group, explaining how Riyadh regime has funneled, gold bars, cash and other valuables worth hundreds of millions of dollars through various third parties. Among other revelations, Khodabandeh described how after the…
2019/07/16
Reza Alghurabi, Press TV, July 16 2019:... All of the Iranian Americans at the meeting, however, knew the group well and detested it. They knew its murderous history in Iran.” wrote Limbert. “They knew that a MEK-ruled Iran would bring them all the horrors of Stalinism—gulags, one-man (or -woman) rule, confiscations, and executions for being a member of the wrong…