Tag Archives: Tirana Albania Mojahedin Khalq MKO MEK Massoud Rajavi Maryam Rajavi NCRI
2019/11/11
Linda Pressly and Albana Kasapi, BBC News, Tirana, November 11 2019:... For six years, Albania has been home to one of Iran's main opposition groups, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK. But hundreds of members have walked out - some complaining about the organisation's rigid rules enforcing celibacy, and control over contact with family. Now, dozens languish in the Albanian capital, Tirana,…
2019/11/10
Shqiptarja dot com, Tirana, Albania, November 09 2019:... Three Iranian refugees, former members of the Iranian opposition MEK in Albania, who have left the organization, deny the allegations made against them. Hassan Hayrani, Abdurrahman Mohammad Jan, Gholam Reza Shekari were all described by Ali Safavi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as agents of the Iranian…
2019/11/09
Iran Interlink, November 09 2019:... MEK’s NCRI brand issued an official statement against Massoud Khodabandeh and Iran International TV. Khodabandeh was interviewed during the news segment for his opinion about the fake French tweets. He responded, “This news is not new. From last year the MEK was being curtailed and being sent to Albania. The two events that Maryam Rajavi…
2019/11/09
Survivors of MEK Cult in Albania, Iran Azadi, November 09 2019:... Ehsan Bidi has lived in your country for 6 years, has a 10-year residency permit from the Albanian government and is a refugee by all international standards. He, as a human being, has the right to know why and with what legal authority and with what permission and for…
2019/11/08
Michael Lipin, Voice of America (VOA), November 08 2019:... Speaking to VOA Persian, OIAC board member Alex Arzabak said the group’s social media team first noticed the suspension of their account as they were preparing to tweet about Wednesday’s event. They instead shared images from the event on a smaller account run by the group’s Texas affiliate. Arzabak said it…
2019/11/08
BBC World Service, Assignment, November 08 2019:... Who are Albania’s Iranian guests? In July, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani visited an Albanian village just outside Tirana. At a tightly-guarded encampment, he addressed the Iranian group who live there - the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), or People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). Meanwhile, dozens of Iranian MEK members have defected but…
2019/11/08
TV Klan, November 07 2019:... Rahman Mohammadian, meanwhile, points out the problems with MEK and the Albanian youth. He says that through the MEK members, young Albanians are being drawn into dangerous ways. According to him, MEK is a mafia cult and chose Albania because since the country is not part of the EU, members cannot escape, and they can…
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…
2019/11/03
Nejat Society, November 03 2019:... Mahin Habibi mother of Parvaneh Rabiee, Sedighegh Najafi mother of mohammad Jaafar Najafi, Montaha Zahraiee mother of Mostafa Qaedi, continued: “You call us mercenary while you are cooperating with Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States against Iran. You call us mercenary while you sold intelligence on Iranian soldiers to Saddam Hussein during Iran–Iraq war.”…
2019/11/01
Iran Interlink, November 01 2019: ... Maryam Rajavi’s outlets have hinted that the death of Al Baghdadi is a setback for Iran in Syria. Several articles have ridiculed her for this using quotes and screenshots from when ISIS and Al Baghdadi were started in Mosul. She used to call them “Iraqi Revolutionaries” rather than ISIS. Now she’s changed her tune.…
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…
2019/10/31
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…