Tag Archives: middle east eye
2020/04/25
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye, April 25 2020:... The US president's post was celebrated by an MEK-linked account. Trump retweeted that response, taking a dig at the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. "The mullahs' regime ruling Iran harasses UN [sic] Navy ships for propaganda purposes," Heshmat Alavi, a popular MEK-linked Twitter account, responded to Trump's post. "Thank…
2019/12/12
Suddaf Chaudry, Middle East Eye, December 12 2019:... Gjergj Erebara, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, said the press conference - which he attended - was unusual, to say the least. “Albanian police gave no proof to substantiate its claims. They said they have discovered the “terrorist cell”, but they didn't make any arrests,” Erebara said. Hassan Heyrani,…
2019/07/28
Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye, London, July 28 2019:... The most important of these facts is that the MEK is a cult which keeps its members in Albania in conditions of modern slavery. If the MEK’s supporters want to believe that after not being paid for three decades, they are just ‘volunteers’, then there is not much else they won’t…
2019/07/18
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye, July 18 2019:... "Iran Maryam, Maryam Iran," the protesters chanted back, holding up posters of Rajavi in a show of admiration bordering on religious devotion to the leader of the Iranian Mujahideen-e Khalq, commonly referred to as MEK or PMOI. Dressed in yellow, the MEK supporters were lively but disciplined, standing in military formations as…
2018/11/16
Belen Fernandez, Middle East Eye, November 16 2018:... The video report provides relevant footage of Trump-men at previous MEK rallies - among them John "Bomb Iran" Bolton, who prior to assuming the post of national security adviser, appeared at a pro-MEK function in Albania last year with the wildly applauded opinion that “the declared policy of the United States should be regime…
2018/07/10
Peter Oborne, Middle East Eye, July 07 2018:... Three Tory MPs – along with one Labour MP – travelled to the event, organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a front organisation for Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organisation (MEK), once listed by the US as a terror organisation. There is no question that these reflect a powerful and vocal body of sentiment inside…
2017/08/22
Belen Fernandez, Middle East Eye, August 22 2017:... German citizen Khaled el-Masri, was flown to Albania when the CIA apparently didn’t know what else to do with him after having wrongfully abducted him from Macedonia to Afghanistan. el-Masri was “sodomised” and otherwise subjected to “torture” by CIA agents, according to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. Albania has also been referred to as a…
2017/06/08
Richard Silverstein, Middle East Eye, june 08 2017:... The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a long-standing Iranian opposition group, has collaborated with the Israelis on those earlier operations. So they are likely to have played a role as well. The group retains thousands of secret supporters within Iran who would have helped smuggle arms into the country, stashed them once they arrived, located…
2015/02/25
Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye, February 25 2015:... “News from this group is often good for getting right-wingers to show their “O” face and belittle the EU3’s diplomacy with Tehran, but it’s probably good that we’re not banking on these exiles for too much intel,” he opined. Gareth Porter said that the US intelligence community had been divided over ...…
2015/01/11
Gareth Porter, Middle East Eye, January 11 2015:... Contrary to the cover story that the documents were passed on to Western intelligence by a participant in a covert Iranian programme or by a German spy, a former senior German foreign office official has now revealed that the German intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, obtained them ... Israel Provided IAEA with Fake Documents on Iran’s…
2014/12/19
Gareth Porter, Middle East Eye, December 19 2014:... Support for that virtually unknown part of the Iran nuclear story has come from a surprising source: a popular Israeli account, celebrating the successes of the Mossad’s covert operations. “Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service,” first published in Hebrew in 2010, and then published ... Israel Provided IAEA with…
2014/06/02
Mahan Abedin, Middle East Eye, June 02 2014: ... Rajavi, a self-appointed “president-elect” of the Iranian “resistance”, is a leader of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, formerly proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the West and widely reviled by Iranians on account of the group’s two-decades old alliance with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Jarba’s meeting with Rajavi ... Ahman Jarba brands Mojahedin…