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Gjergji Thanasi, Facebook page, February 17 2022:... Iranian terrorist Mohammad Sadat Darbandi was the head of the MEK prison in Camp Ashraf in the Diyala Governorate in Iraq. In collaboration with Saddam Hussein's Mukhabarat (military intelligence) operatives, he tortured dozens of members of the MEK organization, who were theoretically his comrades-in-arms against the Iranian government. From Torturer to Petty Thief… 2022/02/17

Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, November 30 2021:... Zahra Moini, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ NCRI/ Cult of Rajavi) was in charge of taking care of the children who have been smuggled by the MEK agents from Iraq to Germany during the first Gulf war. Zahra Moini got to know about the MEK immediately after she… 2021/11/30

Iran Interlink, November 28 2021:... On 24th November in Albania, the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) was launched. Founding members of ASILA, Dashamir Mersuli (president), Gjergji Thanasi (Secretary), Hassan Heyrani (Executive Head), with some former members of the MEK held their first meeting. In an interview for SCAN-TV on YouTube, Mersuli and Heyrani explained the… 2021/11/28

State Department, (First Published Dec 20 2011), Well, I mean, like the North Koreans, are they running around kidnapping people and bringing them to Camp Ashraf? How do you get there involuntarily? How would one get there? AMBASSADOR FRIED: There – well, let me refer you to some of the outside studies that have been written – the Rand Corporation… 2021/11/22

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, November 08 2021:... The Mojahedin’s fake Twitter account ‘Heshmat Alavi’ has surfaced again. This time to attack Representative Ilhan Omar and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) advocacy group. The MEK (through the Heshmat Alavi account) accuses Omar of “appeasing” the Iranian regime by advocating for diplomacy over war as a policy aim. The MEK… 2021/11/08

Iran Interlink, October 01 2021:... Swiss media and the MEK’s own sites reported that the investigation into the assassination of Kazem Rajavi in 1990 has been re-opened. Last week, Massoud Khodabandeh wrote a lengthy piece outlining the various stages in which Massoud Rajavi and his family were slowly but surely ousted from their leadership of and involvement with the MEK.… 2021/10/02

Habilian Association, September 09 2021:... In the history of religious and destructive cults, children have always been the first victims. Whereas, among militant political groups around the world, there are few cases whose stories are as tied to children as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK). In 1990 and 1991, the MeK separated about 700 children from their parents and sent… 2021/09/09

Olsi Jazeshi and Syed Mohsin Abbas, Press TV, July 10 2021:... “The thing is that the MEK is being used by Israeli secret services and certain groups in the United States to harass the security of Iran,” Olsi Jazexhi said in an interview with Press TV’s News Review program on Saturday, ahead of the annual meeting of the terrorist group,… 2021/07/10

ABANA, June 30 2021:... The ant-terror movement's parade was held at a camp in Diyala that was once called Camp Ashraf and hosted anti-Iranian terrorist organization, Mujahideen Khalgh Organization (MKO) harbored by dictator Saddam Hussein. The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Defense Minister Juma Anad, Interior Minister Othman al-Ghanemi, National Security Advisor Qassem al-A'araji, the Chief of… 2021/06/30

Nejat Society, May 21 2021:... Assassinations of the American military advisers and civilians in Tehran in 1970s, the statements and declarations of the group about assassinations and sabotage in various cities of Iran in Mujahed journal during the 1980s and 90s, the group’s military operations against Iraqi Kurds and Shiites and its cross-border operations against their own Iranian fellow countrymen… 2021/05/21

Iran Interlink, February 28 2021:... The recent disappearance of former MEK member Hadi Sani Khani from Albania is not a new phenomenon as this Special Briefing shows. Ten years ago, Ambassador Daniel Fried, US Special Advisor for Camp Ashraf in Iraq, acknowledged that Camp Ashraf had been “a kind of independent, self-governed, autonomous, extraterritorial facility… for many years”. This state… 2021/02/28

Nejat Society, Tehran, February 28 2021:... My wife, who is seriously ill, and I ask you to act immediately to find out about my forced disappearance son in Albania. The Albanian government must be held accountable. I am impatiently waiting for an answer from you to ask the Albanian government where Hadi Sani Khani is now and how his condition… 2021/02/28