Tag Archives: weekly
2017/10/06
Iran Interlink, October 06 2017:.. Iran Interlink and Sahar Family Foundation are receiving many requests for help from individuals who have left the MEK in Albania. They tell us that nobody from the UNHCR or the Albanian authorities give them any answers. It is clear these bodies don’t know what to do with such people. Iran Interlink advises ex-members to be…
2017/09/30
Iran Interlink, September 29 2017:... The MEK have announced a message by Massoud Rajavi in which he begs the members not to leave for the next five or six months. He promises that by then they will “definitely topple the regime”. Derisory reactions to this news remind us that Rajavi has said this for 35 years. “He is not a lucky…
2017/09/15
Iran Interlink, September 15 2017:... In Albania, after the MEK said it would no longer pay UNHCR allowances to the former members, seventy people visited the UN office to demand their right to get their refugee allowances directly. Others have joined the protest to the point that Maryam Rajavi withdrew the threat and her lawyers have told the UN there had…
2017/09/09
Iran Interlink, September 08 2017:... A glance at the statistics in Albania reveal that although Rajavi has travelled there to save the MEK, the rate of disaffection is accelerating. There are just over one persons per week now leaving the group. The MEK, openly backed by the CIA, is pushing desperately for the Albanian Interior Ministry to give the go ahead…
2017/09/01
Iran Interlink, September 01 2017:... In Albania, Gazeta Impakt YouTube channel broadcast an hour and a half interview with Ehsan Bidi and Manuchehr Abdi. Both are ex-members there. They detailed how they were treated before coming to Albania and now by the MEK. Their main complaint concerns their current situation in Tirana. They are coming under pressure from the MEK and…
2017/08/25
Iran Interlink, August 25 2017:.. Sahar Family Foundation (SFF) along with some families of MEK members met with Albanian officials in the Interior Ministry of Albania. Officials told SFF that there are now around 240 former members who have left the MEK. One official said that in addition, tens of families have come to Albania and that his department has tried…
2017/08/18
Iran Interlink, August 18 2017:... In Albania, formers and disaffected MEK members have been posting letters on social media. These mostly complain about the deeply corrupt government of Albania. They say the country is run by MOSSAD and the CIA and that the Albanian people are hostages to them. Even the UNHCR staff admit privately that they cannot act because ‘they’…
2017/08/05
Iran Interlink, August 05 2017:... Reports from Albania reveal that the MEK has issued new mobile phones to those members who are allowed to leave the camp. They must stay in groups of two or three in order to monitor each other. They are instructed not to talk to anyone Iranian, especially ex members or the families. But the members have…
2017/07/28
Iran Interlink, July 28 2017:... In Albania last week two people left the MEK - Siavosh Seifi and Mahmoud Mambini. This week another two individuals have left - Pouria Nouri and Jaafar Aghai. There are currently fewer than 2100 MEK members in Albania. The disintegration of the group is gaining momentum and formers in Albania predict it will be only…
2017/07/21
Iran Interlink, July 21 2017:... In Albania two new people, Siavosh Seifi and Mahmoud Mambini both with over 39 years’ membership, have run away from the MEK camp and joined other ex-members there. Some speculate that they escaped because they had reached their limit over the Villepinte event. In Albania ex-members have reported on the efforts of the MEK to infiltrate the…
2017/07/14
Iran Interlink, July 14 2017:... Lebanese cleric Allameh Sayed Mohamad Ali El Husseini had acted as the chief advisor to Maryam Rajavi on Islamic and Arabic issues. He participated in many events and meetings with Rajavi and she heaped praise on him for many years. This week he came to Paris to take part in Islamic Scholars Against Terrorism week. While…
2017/07/07
Iran Interlink, July 07 2017:... Iran – politics and media - has exploited the Villepinte occasion to the full. The main theme has been to bring up the western accusations against Iran on human rights issue and then relate that to allowing the gathering of Rajavi who is a known terrorist. Iran this week made a one-off documentary about the 7thTir…