Tag Archives: regime change Bolton Pompeo MEK MKO NCRI PMOI Rajavi cult terrorism
2019/11/07
Eldar Mamedov, Lobe Log, November 07 2019:... NCRI is an umbrella for the Mujahedeen-e Khalk, or MEK, also known as MKO, and People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI), an organization of Iranian dissidents in exile that seeks to overthrow the Islamic Republic. It was on the European Union list of terrorist organizations until 2009 and on the U.S. list until…
2019/11/01
Lucien Bruggeman and Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, November 01 2019:... Perhaps Giuliani’s most controversial foreign client has been the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group designated by the State Department in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a foreign terrorist organization. Giuliani’s affiliation with the MEK predates the Trump administration by several years, but reflects the breadth…
2019/10/27
Press TV, October 27 2019:... In March 2018, two people were held in Albania but set free for lack of evidence. At the time, an opposition leader denounced the announcement as a ploy by Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to divert attention from Tirana’s failure to start entry talks with the European Union. The accusation was similar to those made…
2019/10/24
Exit, Albania, October 24 2019:... In a statement today, the Albanian State Police and the Anti-Terrorism Directorate claim to have uncovered a “terrorist network directed by the Iranian regime” in Albania. The network allegedly consists of 4 Iranian citizens forming an “active terrorist cell of an external operations unit of the Iranian Quds Forces, which are part of the Islamic Revolutionary…
2019/10/21
NBC News, October 21 2019:...One of Giuliani’s longest running paid relationships belongs to a fringe Iranian group accused of killing six Americans in the 1970s. Giuliani has been delivering paid speeches and meeting with representatives of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) since at least 2010, he previously told NBC News. The dissident group launched attacks against Americans and the Iranian government…
2019/10/19
Barbara Boland, The American Conservative, October 18 2019:... We know that investigators have been looking into his ongoing paid work for foreign clients (while he’s served as the president’s personal lawyer), including wealthy Ukrainian businessmen and the Mujahidin e-Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iranian militant group that has paid millions to American politicians and celebrities over the years—including Giuliani—to lobby and give…
2019/10/17
Muhammad Sahimi, Lobe Log, October 17 2019:... The meeting was, however, dominated by the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a group that until 2011 was listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization and is despised by all Iranians due to its alliance with the regime of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War and other acts viewed by virtually all Iranians…
2019/10/07
James Bovard, The American Conservative, October 07 2019:... Federal law prohibited taking money from or advocating on behalf of any designated terrorist group. Yet a 2011 Huffington Post headline reported, “Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorist Organization.” That didn’t seem to matter much to former FBI boss Louis Freeh, former CIA boss Porter Goss, co-chair of the 9/11…
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…
2019/09/30
Reza Sadeghi Jabali, Brussels, September 30 2019:... Dear Mr President, I am writing to you now to express my deep concern that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended this terrorist organization’s gathering on Wednesday September 25 in New York. In particular considering the MEK’s past record of assassinations of American military and civilian personnel. As President and Commander-in-Chief, it would…
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…