Tag Archives: washington post
2020/09/30
Paul Sonne and Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post, September 30 2020:... “With today’s actions, the Department does not overlook or forget the MEK’s past acts of terrorism, including its involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens in Iran in the 1970s and an attack on U.S. soil in 1992,” the State Department said upon delisting the group. “The Department also has…
2019/09/24
John Hudson, Washington Post, September 24 2019:... Pompeo is scheduled to speak at an event hosted by Iran hawk and former diplomat Mark Wallace, who has drawn criticism for including a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, in his programming surrounding the U.N. gathering. Until 2012, the MEK was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United…
2019/09/11
Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, September 11 2019:... His absence also means that the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a reviled Iranian opposition group that long lived on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist groups, no longer has a powerful ally in the White House... The MEK can claim no popular support, and among Iranians of nearly all political orientations, inside the…
2019/08/29
Adam Taylor, Washington Post, August 29 2019:... White House national security adviser John Bolton gave a speech at an event hosted by an Iranian exile group known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, MEK, or People’s Mujahedeen, where he openly called for the end of the religious regime that rules Iran. “The declared policy of the United States should be the overthrow…
2019/06/11
Jason Rezaian, Washinton Post, June 11 2019:... After the report, Twitter appears to have suspended the account. But the MEK, the organization that “Team Heshmat Alavi” represents, has a nasty history. It was on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations for years before being removed in 2012. These days, it has no discernible popular support in Iran and…
2019/05/24
Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Post, May 24 2019:... MEK feed Trump Admin’s fantasy. John Bolton, Rudolph W. Giuliani, are ardent supporters of the MEK and have given speeches at their rallies. “There is a viable opposition to the rule of the ayatollahs, and that opposition is centered in this room today,” Bolton said at a 2017 MEK event in Paris.…
2017/08/05
Alexander B. Downes and Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Washington Post, August 05 2017:... The fundamental problem, as we argue in a recent article, is that foreign-imposed leaders answer to two masters — the intervener that placed them in power, and their own citizens. Interveners typically replace a government to avert or eliminate perceived security threats, hoping to install elites who will implement their…
2016/11/15
Josh Rogin, Washington Post, November 15 2016:... For years, Giuliani has been one of the most prominent American officials to advocate on behalf of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a Marxist Iranian opposition group that claims to be the legitimate government of Iran and resembles a cult. A Treasury Department investigation in 2012 examined whether speaking fees paid by several MEK front…
2015/02/25
Mehr News, Tehran, February 25 2015:... “The radical and extremist groups which see their hefty investments on securitizing Iran’s peaceful nuclear program on the verge of collapse and are witnessing the growing isolation of Iranophobic policies due to the Islamic Republic’s logical approach to international developments, attempt to spread lies and launch ... Council of Foreign Relations, 2014: Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK). Backgrounders…