Tag Archives: MEK
2019/10/03
Yue Stella Yu, Open Secrets,October 03 2019:... Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who served under President George W. Bush, registered last week as a foreign agent lobbying pro bono for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a major Iranian dissident group pushing to topple the country’s current administration. Mukasey’s office did not respond to a request for comment.Earlier this…
2019/09/29
Rossella Tercantin, The Jerusalem Post, September 29 2019:... The announcement followed reports that United Against Nuclear Iran's summit would include a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, which had close ties with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. According to a report by the Washington Post, the summit has sparked controversy for including a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK , …
2019/09/28
Iran Interlink, September 27 2019:… Iran Interlink Weekly Digest Hamid Ghanbari Araa is the son of Abdul Ali Ghanbari, a veteran MEK member who died in Albania from cancer a few years ago. His mother is Pari Mohammadi who is still in Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania. Hamid managed to escape the MEK and moved from Albania to Germany with…
2019/09/27
Suzanne Maloney, Tweeter, September 27 2019:... I speak to all kinds of audiences all the time & I don't impose an ideological litmus test. It's incredibly worthwhile to hear opposing points of view & engage in dialogue; I've learned a lot. This doesn't happen enough in policy & academic work on Iran, unfortunately. But I won't engage w/the MEK &…
2019/09/26
Zhelwan Z. Wali, Rudaw, September 26 2019:... ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran’s Kurdish parties say they will not take part in a conference allegedly organized by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday because the Kurdish question in Iran is not a key part of the agenda. The…
2019/09/25
Julian Pecquet, Al Monitor, September 25 2019:... But attendance was dominated by the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK) and its allies. Iran considers the MEK a terrorist group, as the United States did until 2012.. Openly embracing the MEK could also put the Trump administration in an uncomfortable spot. The administration does not officially support regime change, but recently stopped ruling out the MEK as…
2019/09/25
Iran Front Page IFP, September 25 2019:... On Wednesday, Mike Pompeo is scheduled to speak at an event hosted by Iran hawk and former diplomat Mark Wallace, who has drawn criticism for including a fringe Iranian terrorist group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MKO, in his programming surrounding the UN General Assembly in New York. Until 2012, the MKO was listed as…
2019/09/25
Mitch Prothero, Business Insider, September 24 2019:... US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to attend an event at the UN General Assembly tomorrow that is linked to a notorious Iranian cult which has murdered at least six American civilians and spent over 20 years protected by Saddam Hussein's regime. The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (or People's Mujahedin of Iran) "is an organisation…
2019/09/24
John Hudson, Washington Post, September 24 2019:... Pompeo is scheduled to speak at an event hosted by Iran hawk and former diplomat Mark Wallace, who has drawn criticism for including a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, in his programming surrounding the U.N. gathering. Until 2012, the MEK was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United…
2019/09/21
Iran Interlink, September 20 2019:... Commentators’ reactions to the MEK’s anniversary celebration of the founders of the MEK say ‘how ridiculous it is to attach yourselves to the founders as they have nothing to do with what you are now. You are now mercenary force for Israel, Saudi and the US. The reason you can’t move beyond your own past…
2019/09/20
Nebojsa Malic, Russia Today, September 20 2019:... The examples are legion. Razavi herself mentions (though not by name) “Heshmat Alavi,” a supposed expert on Iran who recently turned out to be a construct – an online persona operated by the Iranian exile group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). This is an outfit that seeks regime change in Tehran, and has been endorsed…
2019/09/19
Tehran Times, September 19 2019:... Bolton’s thirst for war against Iran was so high that he favored Mojahdin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK) - a cult group that some analysts have likened to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge - as a replacement for the Islamic Republic system. Trump’s administration is fraught with repeated mistakes. Trump knew beforehand that Bolton had pushed for the Iraq…