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2021/11/28
Press TV, Tehran, November 27 2021:... Iranian officials have blamed Israel for carrying out the assassinations with the complicity of the US and the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). Numerous Western reports have confirmed the veracity of the claim while Israeli officials have never denied culpability. The intention of the killings has been described as impeding Iran’s nuclear program, a…
2021/10/29
Ali Alavi, Iran Interlink, October 29 2021:... Speaking at a NCRI meeting is one way to illustrate Pence's uncompromising stance on Iran and the JCPOA. Past speakers at NCRI events have included former national security adviser John Bolton, former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and most recently Pompeo. His appearance is likely to draw criticism, too. Critics of the NCRI and MEK—both led…
2020/07/30
Mehr News, Tehran, July 30 2020:... The Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to MKO's acts of terror. Washington and…
2020/05/01
Gareth Porter, Iranian.com, May 01 2020:... In 2013, however, a former senior German Foreign Office official named Karsten Voigt revealed to this writer that the documents had been initially provided to German intelligence by a member of the Mujaheddin E-Khalq (MEK). The MEK is an exiled Iranian armed opposition organization that had operated under Saddam Hussein’s regime as a proxy…
2019/09/09
Juan Cole, Truthdig, September 09 2019:... This economic and financial blockade was supposed to bring Iran to its knees, push it out of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and perhaps (it was hoped by some in Trump’s circles) even pave the way to the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran in favor of the Marxist-Islamic People’s Jihadis (Mohahedin-e Khalq or…
2019/07/07
Gareth Porter, Sputnick News, July 07 2019:... It was based on a series of false ideas that the intelligence communities began with and some maneuvering by high-ranking CIA officials … who interfered with the process of the assessment of Iran's nuclear program within the CIA,” Porter explained. “It culminated in the approval of this set of documents that came from…
2019/04/25
Robin Wright, The New Yorker, April 25 2019:... Bolton was also a longtime supporter of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (M.E.K.), or People’s Warriors, an exiled group that advocates overthrowing the Iranian government. The M.E.K. (aka MKO, NCRI, Rajavi cult) was on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations until 2012 and was long allied with Saddam Hussein. Bolton was a keynote speaker at its…
2019/01/05
Various sources, January 05 2019:... Dear Roald Sturla Næss, former Norwegian ambassador to Iran. mek fought with Saddam Hussein during the Iraq war against Iran in the 1980s and currently being financed by Saudi Arabia and working closely with Iran's enemies also shows lack of legitimacy in the Iranian population”, and I have to say it considered by most Iranians as…
2018/12/13
Tasnim News, December 13 2018:... The US has extended its sponsorship of terrorism to a vicious terrorist cult, the MKO, that has murdered more than 17,000 Iranians and many Iraqis and who currently cozy up to the highest political figures in Washington to destabilize Iran through terrorist activities. Here, Mr. President, I would like to stress that according to the…
2018/12/06
James Carden with Dr. Trita Parsi, The Nation, December 06 2018:... The MeK is of little use if the objective is regime change, due to their immense unpopularity in Iran, the Trump administration seems to believe that they can be helpful for regime collapse and a potential Civil War, mindful of this terrorist organization’s extensive experience in sabotage, terrorism, assassinations,…
2018/11/03
Will Conroy, Intellinews, November 03 2018:... Its Iran strategy has even included aligning with the cult-like Islamic-Socialist Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK). The MeK has no support of significance in Iran. It is a fringe group which lost out on the spoils after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and achieved deep unpopularity among the Iranian people by taking Iraq’s side in the Iran-Iraq…
2018/08/07
Catherine Shakdam, Telesur TV, August 07 2018:... Flushed with interesting new friendships, the MKO/MEK is playing U.S. anti-Iranianism to increase its political capital – a move which contravenes not only international law as it plays directly into the definition of state-sponsored terrorism, but political common sense. Again, if Iran might not appeal to all political palates, Tehran has already ... The Iran…