Tag Archives: MEK Iran USA
2020/03/23
Murtaza Hussain, Matthew Cole, The Intercept, March 23 2020:... MEK-affiliated social media accounts periodically share videos of graffiti tags appearing to show support for its positions inside Iran. While such videos are a dubious metric for gauging public sentiment in any country, they are frequently used by partisans in the United States to argue over the political views of the…
2020/03/22
Murteza Hussain and Matthew Cole, The Intercept, March 22 2020:... From 1997 to 2012, the United States designated the MEK a foreign terrorist organization. But the group, which once opposed U.S. intervention in Iran, has effectively switched sides, becoming a convenient proxy force for Tehran’s enemies, particularly American neoconservatives, the Gulf Arab states, and Israel. The current MEK leadership maintains…
2020/03/21
Iran Interlink, March 21 2020:... Everyone in the world is affected by the Coronavirus crisis and the MEK are not excepted. Massoud Rajavi has issued yet another message ‘Payam number 22’, which prompted a lot of reaction. Commentators say, ‘there’s no way he’s written this because none of it matches up, every sentence is ridiculous’. For example, Rajavi claims “the…
2020/03/19
Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, March 19 2020:... The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) is an exiled Iranian opposition group with a sprawling complex in the hills of Albania. The United States labelled it a terror group until deciding to delist it in 2012. But while the MEK now has influential friends in Washington, others warn that the group is not…
2020/03/15
Financial Tribune, March 15 2020:... “A regime whose president proudly issues the order to assassinate the most decent children of Iran, and his accomplices … shamelessly host the most hated anti-Iran terrorist groups and attend their meetings, has nothing to do with the elevated concept of human rights,” the spokesman was quoted as saying by IRNA. Mousavi was referring to…
2020/03/14
Nejat Society, Tehran, March 14 2020:... The MEK with this secrecy is now considered as a health and hygiene threat for Europe in general and for Albania in particular. Unlike the South Korean cult, the MEK consists fewer than 2,000 members. Most of these are contained in a closed camp to which Albanian authorities have no access. The authorities must…
2020/03/09
James Bovard, Counterpunch, March 09 2020:... Bush officials and subsequent administration chose to champion the Iranian terrorist group, Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). That organization sprang up in the 1960s and proceeded to kill Americans in the 1970s and to kill large numbers of Iranians in the subsequent decades. A 2004 FBI report noted that MEK continued to be “actively involved in planning…
2020/03/08
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, March 08 2020:... In a similar way, leading members of the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) which is based in Albania, make frequent visits to Italy, which has the largest cluster of infections after China, South Korea and Iran. Although the members live in a secretive closed camp named Camp Ashraf 3, some…
2020/03/04
Press TV (And other sources), March 04 2020:... Tehran’s ambassador to the UK says the notorious Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group and other foreign-based anti-Iran movements have launched a propaganda campaign over a coronavirus outbreak in the country with the goal of misleading the Iranian public opinion. The MEK was established in the 1960s to express a mixture of Marxism…
2020/03/03
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, March 03 2020:... Extremism means the advocacy of extreme measures or views. In the world of politics, extremist parties include far-left politics or far-right politics as well as radicalism, reactionism, fundamentalism and fanaticism. The Mujahein Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi, NCRI) can belong to all of the extremist agendas in the…
2020/03/01
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society, Tehran, March 01 2020:... I address you on behalf of thousands of suffering families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, better known as the Rajavi cult) residing in a remote isolated camp in Albania, about the severe abuses of basic human rights there. The MEK finished the process of transferring from Iraq to…
2020/03/01
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) , Iranian.com, March 01 2020:... From its first arrival in Albania in 2013, the MEK continued its antagonistic anti-Iran political activities. In 2017, the Trump administration overturned plans to de-radicalize the MEK members. Instead, the MEK built an extra-territorial garrison to house the enslaved members so they wouldn’t escape. Emboldened, the MEK was able to coerce the…