Tag Archives: troll factories Mojahedin Khalq Rajavi cult Albania
2020/04/28
Balkans Post, April 28 2020:... Murtaza Hussain: Heshmat Alavi is a persona used by the MEK to continue its public relations work in the Western countries, aiming to sway elite and public opinion by placing news articles and running social media campaigns promoting its vision for itself as the future government of Iran. The MEK is a very secretive organization…
2020/04/27
Tehran Times, April 26 2020:... U.S. President Donald Trump has shared an appreciative tweet for his anti-Iran policies by a fake account belonging to the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK). The tweet, posted by Heshmat Alavi on Wednesday, read: “The mullahs' regime ruling #Iran harasses UN Navy ships for propaganda purposes.” “Thank you, President Trump, for reminding this regime that…
2020/04/21
Tehran Times, April 21 2020:... MEK is a deeply unpopular group including among opponents of the Iranian government ... Heshmat Alavi, who wrote dozens of articles for right-wing outlets, appears not to exist. Alavi’s persona is a propaganda operation run by the MEK, he quoted two sources as saying ... Heshmat Alavi is a persona used by the MEK to…
2020/04/18
Iran Interlink, April 18 2020:... The Heshmat Alavi account - the MEK’s notorious troll farm alias - retweets large scale MEK propaganda. One Heshmat Alavi RT is of MEK claiming that 30,000 people have died of Coronavirus in Iran. Commentators say if that were true, Iranians would know about it. Therefore, the only audience for this Twitter account are those…
2020/04/15
Wayne Madsen, Strategic Culture Foundation, April 15 2020:... The influence of the cultish terrorist organization, Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), which used the pandemic to increase pressure on Tehran, is strong within the Trump White House. In addition, the right-wing Florida Republican senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, used the pandemic to coordinate with wealthy Cuban and Venezuelan expatriates in south Florida to…
2020/03/29
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, March 29 2020:... But, as destructive as the MEK presence has been in Albania, the group has inevitably played a greater role in the West’s confrontation against Iran. In June 2019, Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept revealed that an internet troll farm was operating from the MEK’s closed camp in Manez. The enslaved members, sitting behind…
2020/02/19
Press TV and TLAV, February 19 2020:... Oddly empty. Inside the group, they (the former members) said romantic relationships and sexual thoughts were banned, contact with family highly restricted, and friendships discouraged,” the correspondent reported. “All recounted being forced to participate in self-criticism rituals, whereby members would confess to their commanders any sexual or disloyal thoughts they had. “Little by…
2020/01/19
Russia Today, January 19 2020:... Twitter removed state-backed media outlet Al-Alam News’ account, as well as that of the popular Iran-backed Spanish-language media outlet HispanTV, only reinstating the latter after a massive public backlash. Dozens of individual Iranians who supported their government were also deplatformed on Twitter, while anti-government users – many linked to notorious exile terror group Mujahedin e-Khalq…
2020/01/16
Daniel Moattar, Mother Jones, January 16 2020:... Trump was bragging about his tweet in Persian being the most retweeted Persian-language tweet. But much of that retweeting happens by these bots, and through these online activist cyber armies like the MKO (Rajavi Cult, MEK, NCRI, ...) . Their activism, now, is basically tweeting. They have these halls of aging activists sitting behind computers and…
2020/01/04
Matt Novak, Gizmondon UK, January 04 2020:... What is even more mysterious is the person or people behind Alavi’s Twitter account. The Intercept reported in June that Alavi, who has been used as a source by the White House, does not appear to be a real person. A former member of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iranian organization, told the Intercept that…
2019/10/31
Nejat Society, October 31 2019:... Fortunately Jowhari won the election. However, the so-called Heshmat Alavi is the outcome of a team work by the MEK members who slur each and every person who advocates for peace and diplomacy with Iran. This team never stops demonizing all those who believe in engagement rather than war and sanctions and Jowhari is not…
2019/10/26
Shenaz Kermalli, Ricochet Media, October 26 2019:... And on Thursday, a highly followed but fake Twitter account associated with the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), a cult-like group from Iran that has a history of engaging with Canadian politicians, added to an ongoing online smear campaign against Jowhari by tweeting a long thread urging Canadians to unseat him. MEK Trolls in Albania are activated against Canadian MP Secret…