Tag Archives: MEK Iran B Team
2019/07/18
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Open Minds, July 17 2019:... The question is, can we bring cult leaders to court for cultic abuse? The argument that the behaviours exhibited by cults cannot be brought into a legislative framework is patently false when we consider that similar ‘psychological’ behaviours have been written into law. Examples are the Coercive Control Act of 2015, the…
2019/07/17
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative, July 17 2019:... President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has joined buckraking forces with former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), speaking at an event in Albania for a bizarre, cultish Iranian group that fashions itself as a government-in-exile for the Islamic Republic. Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) — once designated as a foreign terrorist group — hosted the…
2019/07/16
Shaun Walker in Tirana, The Guardian, July 16 2019:... For example, you would have to say: ‘I saw a girl on television and I got an erection,’ or ‘This morning I masturbated,’” said Hassan Heyrani, one of the defectors. He said there was no specific punishment for such admissions except scolding and embarrassment. “If you admit to it too often…
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…
2019/07/15
kurt nimmo, The Ron Paul Institute, July 14 2019:... Mujahedin-e Khalq has also conducted attacks against numerous Western targets, both in Europe, North America and elsewhere. In the early 1970s, MEK members killed several US soldiers and civilians working on defense projects in Tehran. Such victims included US Army Lt. Col. Lewis L. Hawkins who was assassinated in June 1973,…
2019/07/15
Iran Interlink, July 15 2019:... In articles about Haft-e Tir – the anniversary of Kolahi exploding the Hezb-e Jomhouri headquarters – this year, significantly, several well respected writers have raised the point ‘why is it that the issue of Kolahi’s murder which everyone knows was planned by the MEK is being swept under the carpet, with European security services pretending…
2019/07/13
Press TV, July 13 2019:... The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it enjoyed backing of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Removing a decade-long ban on the MKO, the United States and its allies, however, have sought to use the group as a tool…
2019/07/11
Reid Champlin, Open Secrets, July 11 2019:...The council was founded in the early 1980s as the political front of the MEK, which itself was started by self-described Marxist Iranian students in 1965. Initially fighting with other opposition groups to take down the Shah in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the group soon came into conflict with the new Ayatollah Khomeini’s government,…
2019/07/10
Daniel Larison, July 10 2019:... Ilan-Berman does not address much of the relevant criticism of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) in this article, and he takes the superficial “democratic” rhetoric and agenda of a totalitarian cult at face value. The article is titled “Making Sense of The MeK,” but a previously uninformed reader would come away from reading this with a…
2019/07/10
Iran Front page, Xinhua News and Mehr news, July 10 2019:... Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), which is responsible for the killing of at least 12,000 Iranian civilians and many Iraqi citizens, as well as a number of other nationalities, "continues to receive funds from certain countries in the region while enjoying the support of certain states including in Europe," he…
2019/07/09
Press TV and Tasnim News, July 09 2019:... The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK), which strongly opposes Reza Pahlavi, has warned Saudis and some sponsors of the program not to produce it, threatening to disclose some secrets behind the program if it is broadcast, the reports said. In October 2018, the Guardian revealed that Iran International is funded…
2019/07/07
Gareth Porter, Sputnick News, July 07 2019:... It was based on a series of false ideas that the intelligence communities began with and some maneuvering by high-ranking CIA officials … who interfered with the process of the assessment of Iran's nuclear program within the CIA,” Porter explained. “It culminated in the approval of this set of documents that came from…