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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…
2020/04/25
Ali Harb, Middle East Eye, April 25 2020:... The US president's post was celebrated by an MEK-linked account. Trump retweeted that response, taking a dig at the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. "The mullahs' regime ruling Iran harasses UN [sic] Navy ships for propaganda purposes," Heshmat Alavi, a popular MEK-linked Twitter account, responded to Trump's post. "Thank…
2020/04/23
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, April 23 2020:... Trump’s amplification of the post was bad enough on its own: Alavi is a supporter of a militant Iranian cult called the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, known as the MEK, an organization that was designated for decades as a terrorist organization and is widely hated inside Iran. What makes it even worse, however, is that Heshmat…
2020/02/12
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…
2020/01/16
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…
2020/01/14
Betsy Swan, Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast, January 14 2020:... Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani—who the MEK hired to help it get off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist groups and who recently called the group “my MEK people”—welcomed the reversal. “[The MEK] is very supportive of a free…Iraq. It’s run by a great woman who is committed to…
2020/01/10
Tom Porter, Business Insider, January 10 2020:... The MEK — officially the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or the People's Mujahideen of Iran in English — has waged war against the Islamist regime in Iran since it seized power in 1979. Formerly based in Iraq, the group is believed to have killed thousands of Iranians in terror attacks. But far away from the battlefields…
2020/01/10
Ramin Mazaheri, Press TV, January 10 2020:... If Washington assassinated Soleimani because he was a “terrorist”, then logically they should now de-list ISIL as a terrorist group. Why not just come clean, finally? The entire world acknowledges that Soleimani fought terrorism, but if he must be rebranded as a “terrorist” in the West - in Orwellian fashion - then the…
2019/12/09
Washington Post, December 09 2019:... The former New York mayor had robust work overseas before Trump took office. His companies, Giuliani Partners and Giuliani Security & Safety, provided security and emergency management consulting to governments in Peru, Chile, Argentina and Ukraine, among others. He gave paid speeches around the world, including to Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian resistance group operating…
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…
2019/10/03
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…