Tag Archives: MEK History
2020/07/02
Nejat Society, July 02 2020:... In Iran, the estranged families of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or Rajavi Cult) members who remain trapped inside the MEK camp in Albania created a petition appealing to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for help to contact their loved ones. The petition has attracted almost eleven thousand signatures. The MEK responded by attacking the families, calling…
2020/06/30
Tehran Times, June 30 2020:... In 2012, the U.S. State Department removed the MEK from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated with Saudi Arabia and other regimes opposed to Iran. A few years ago, the MEK operatives were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former…
2020/06/28
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine, June 28 2020:... Eliot Engel was one of blue America’s most enthusiastic supporters of the war in Iraq. He was an opponent of Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. After the Obama administration allowed the passage of a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, Engel introduced a House resolution condemning the U.N.…
2020/06/27
Nejat Society, June 27 2020:... According to several websites of the Albania based Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), an open letter dated June 23, 2020 has been written by a number of organization members, who are based in the MEK camp in Manza, to some Albanian officials. In this letter the coronavirus outbreak in Tehran and other parts of Iran…
2020/06/25
Nejat Society, June 25 2020:... Your country accepted the members of the MEK as temporary guests around 2016, according to an agreement reached in Geneva between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the US government and the Albanian government. These individuals were supposed to be able to move freely after the deprograming process, and to regain their independent and humane…
2020/06/23
Nejat Society, June 23 2020:... Coinciding with the recent petition of 11,000 signatures, the families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania from Kermanshah province (West of Iran), sent several letters and messages to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, calling for news and communication and possibly meeting with their loved ones. In addition to each of…
2020/06/21
Nejat Society, June 21 2020:... Simultaneous with the petition of more than 11,000 signatures by the Nejat Society, the families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania from Golestan Province (northeast of Iran), have sent separate letters and messages to the Albanian Prime Minister asking him to make grounds for them to contact and visit their…
2020/06/20
Nejat Society, June 20 2020:... An Albanian government official, in response to a question from a member of parliament who had asked why Iranians, especially families who want to visit their loved ones in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, were not given visas, said: “This decision was made out of fear of the influence of Iranian terrorists and…
2020/06/13
Nejat Society, June 13 2020:... List of messages and letters by Qazvin families to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama requesting contact with their loved ones in the MEK camp. Simultaneous with the recent eleven thousand signature petition, the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania from Qazvin province (north of Iran), have sent separate letters and messages…
2020/06/12
Iran Interlink, June 12 2020:... Female singer Marjan ( Shahla Safi Zamir ) died this week aged 70 in Los Angeles. She came to the U.S. with her husband many years ago after they had served prison sentences for involvement with MEK. Once in the U.S. MEK used them every now and then to appear in events, but they were…
2020/06/12
Nejat Society, Tehran, June 12 2020:... From Khorasan Razavi province (northeast of Iran), a number of families of members trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, sent separate messages and letters to the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama simultaneous with the petition of over 11,000 signatures, urging him to lift the obstacles in order to let them meet…
2020/06/11
Matt Friedman, Politico, June 11 2020:... Amy Kennedy’s main opponent in the 2nd Congressional District’s Democratic primary, Brigid Harrison, has made Patrick Kennedy’s finances a campaign issue, and is calling the fee he earned from the opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) for the speech he delivered in February 2019 “dirty money.” MEK paid Patrick Kennedy — the…