Tag Archives: Struan Stevenson MEK MKO NCRI PMOI terrorism lobby for Maryam Rajavi

Luisa Hommerich, Zeit Online, November 16 2021:... Iranian Mojahedin Khalq . The cult headquarters is evidently located in the respectable Berlin district of Wilmersdorf, in a quiet cross street between two tennis clubs. The villa is painted beige, neatly trimmed bushes adorn the front garden, flower boxes the window sills, behind the windows hang blue curtains. Here, behind the bourgeois… 2021/11/16

Iran Interlink, October 16 2021:... In Albania, the issuing of ID cards to all non-Albanians has started. Officials have entered the camp and one by one are taking fingerprints and identity details from each resident. The MEK and its backers are desperate to stop this, but it seems they can’t do much as this is a blanket issue covering everyone… 2021/10/16

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, October 14 2021:... Clearly, the MEK are no longer needed as a brand either for funding or fronting anti-Iran efforts. To make matters worse, in Albania, Maryam Rajavi is beset by internal dissatisfaction among the members. Whether as a reaction to losing political and monetary support or as a distraction to divert the attention of… 2021/10/14

Michael Rubin, Washington Examiner, July 18 2021:... It may not be illegal to participate in a Rajavi rally or to attach one’s name to a ghost written Mujahedin-e-Khalq piece in the same way that Gen. Mike Flynn did with Erdoganists, but it does signal an embrace of greed above principle and a willingness to sell out the freedom agenda. Giuliani’s transformation of… 2021/07/18

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, June 25 2021:... Rudi Giuliani is the latest in a long list of people who have advocated for Rajavi and the MEK, who have fallen from grace. Giuliani is, of course, the architect of his own downfall. His support for the MEK played only a small part in his long, often unsavoury career. (Sacha Baron… 2021/06/26

Iran Interlink, June 20 2021:... Although the collapse of the Reformists in Iran and the rise of the Principlists is mostly down to the Reformists putting their trust the Americans, the US is to blame for this shift. The Americans tried to convince the Iranian population in Iran to trust them, but then they assassinated the host (Muhandis) and guest… 2021/06/20

Tehran Times, April 11 2021:... Sayyad Shirazi was assassinated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in 1999 while serving as the deputy chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, the second-highest military office in Iran. He led a counter-offensive called Operation Mersad against the MKO militants, who, with the help of Saddam Hussein, launched an attack in the summer… 2021/04/11

Lachlan Markay, The Daily Beast, February 12 2020:... Brian Hook, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. Special Representative for Iran, met on January 31 with Robert G. Joseph, a former senior State official who now represents the National Council of Resistance of Iran, according to a foreign agent filing that Joseph submitted to the… 2020/02/12

Walid & Theodore Shoebat, Shoebat.com, December 22 2019:... MEK Money Laundering . Vox in fact received a substantial amount of cash from the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (the MEK) which, until recently, was classified as a terrorist organization but nonetheless has been getting American backing thanks to people like Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton and Newt Gingrich. With such high level… 2019/12/22

Benjamin Weinthal, The Jerusalem Post, October 31 2019:... The institute’s scholar added that “indeed, many Iranians continue to insist that the only thing worse than the regime under which they suffer now would be the MEK.” Rubin, who spent time in Iran during the presidencies of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, wrote that “there was only one… 2019/10/31

Jonathan Broder, Newsweek, August 28 2019:... Many independent scholars say the MEK's alliance with Saddam in that long and bloody war turned the group into traitors in the eyes of most Iranians. In the 1990s, the Rajavis instituted a number of cult-like measures to prevent defections. According to a 2005 Human Rights Watch report based on interviews with several defectors,… 2019/08/28

Dave DeCamp, Anti War, July 21 2019:... The controversial Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq(MEK), held their annual “Free Iran” conference at their headquarters Ashraf 3 in Tirana, Albania on Saturday. They call their Iranian opposition coalition the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The NCRI’s “president elect” is the MEK’s leader Maryam Rajavi. Among the many speakers were several former… 2019/07/21