Tag Archives: Radio Free Europe
2021/12/22
Iran Interlink, December 22 2021:.... “The good news is that the president of Albania Edi Rama and the president of Kosovo signed an agreement, the day before yesterday, based on which the border between the two countries will be opened.” Hassan Heyrani told families of MEK members in an online meeting. “Therefore, families will be able to take a flight…
2021/02/01
Press TV, February 01 2021:... It has reminded Europe of the atrocities that have been carried out by the very “human rights” campaigners that the continent supports and provides with refuge. These include members of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist cult, responsible for killing about 17,000 Iranian people and officials throughout the group’s dark history, and members of separatist…
2020/05/08
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, May 07 2020:... The siblings of a detained Iranian student have dismissed a judiciary claim that their brother has ties to the exiled opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MKE). Speaking on May 5, judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaili accused two students detained last month of contacts with the MKO, which is considered a terrorist…
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…
2020/02/11
Russia Today from Tehran and Radio Farda from Washington DC, February 11 2020:... Mujahedin Khalq organization known as MEK gathered outside the White House in Lafayette Park to show solidarity with dissidents persecuted in Iran and highlight the importance of the killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone in Baghdad on January 3. They heard…
2019/06/22
Iran Interlink, June 21 2019:... Today, 21 June, marks the MEK’s annual celebration of armed struggle. Not only did France not allow the MEK to rally at Villepinte, the group’s planned street demonstration was also banned. An advertised demonstration in Germany was also not allowed to go ahead. The only place MEK gathered in Europe was in Brussels. Except for…
2019/05/02
Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, May 02 2019:... The MEK was removed from the U.S. terrorism list in 2012, in no small part due to a campaign by dozens of former senior U.S. officials, who received tens of thousands of dollars in speaker’s fees that experts say were secretly bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and Israel. Pro-MEK speakers included Mr. Giuliani and John…
2019/01/31
A spokesman for the Dutch prosecution service told the BBC: "We have two men in custody who are suspected of being involved in the death. The investigation has not led to any signs of involvement of Iranian authorities." The 56-year-old is suspected of being Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi, who was accused of planting a bomb that resulted in the deadliest attack…
2018/07/10
Eldar Mamedov, Lobe Log, July 07 2018:... Deprez acted on behalf of MEK rather than his political faction. In the end, only the far right and assorted MEK supporters, including Deprez himself, voted to support the blocking motion. In truth, there was never a realistic chance that the motion would pass. The clout of MEK has been on the wane…
2013/09/12
Radio Free Europe, September 12 2013: ... Reports say 42 MEK members have now been relocated to Camp Hurriya near Baghdad airport in a move welcomed by the U.S. State Department. Many MEK members left Camp Ashraf and relocated to Camp Hurriya last year. The MEK opposes the clerical regime in Iran and was granted sanctuary inside Iraq by Saddam…