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The Albanian Center against Terrorism lists Mojahedin Khalq as an extremist organisation

We publish a manual which the Albanian Center Against Violent Extremism in Albania has made for schools. It has added, among others, the Iranian Mojahedin organization as a violent organization. In the section “Violent Extremism in the World and Albania” the textbook lists some violent organizations.

The three violent organizations listed in this chapter are: ISIS or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) organization or Iranian Mojahedin.

Below is the text from the manual against Violent Extremism titled: With Schools for Safer Communities Reference Guide

Which can be found here:

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Violent Extremism in the World and in Albania

International Recruits of the Islamic State

During the war in Syria, some 6,000 European citizens have joined the Islamic State (known as ISIS or ISIL) since the latter announced the creation of the Islamic Caliphate in the summer of 2014. Since the first half of 2015, some media and intelligence reports suggest that the group has gathered over 30,000 fighters from over 100 countries the world, including over 5,000 to 8,000 women.

Over 1,000 people have joined this group from Western Balkan countries as foreign fighters, mostly from the majority Muslim areas in Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, but also from other populated areas with Muslim minorities in Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. About 140 people joined from Albania.

Since 2014, coalition bombing campaigns against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq have degraded the military capabilities of the group and have reduced almost entirely its territory. Iraqi allied forces came to the town of Raqqa (known as the capital of the Islamic State) in September 2017.

According to preliminary information, about 140 people have joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq from Albania.

The age groups involved range from 26 to 39 years.

Family Jihad has included about 12 women and 32 children.

Geographical breakdown: Tirana, Elbasan, Librazhd, Pogradec, Kavaja, Kukës, Shkodër, among others.

More than 1 in 5 teachers report that students use hate speech or extremist language.

1 in 12 teachers report OTHER teachers who use terms or languages from extremist ideologies.

88.5% of teachers believe that talking to students about extremism violent and consequences is the best intervention.
87.7% believe in teaching techniques for students to resolve conflicts through mediation.

85% believe in informing teachers and parents how to identify the early signs of extremism and radicalization.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) – a jihadist group known also as the Islamic State (IS), it exploded on to the international scene in 2014 when it captured large parts of the territory of Syria and Iraq. This group has become infamous for its brutality involving mass killings, kidnappings and massacres. In June 2014, the group formally declared the creation of a “Caliphate” – a state governed in accordance with Islamic law, or Shariah, which is governed by God’s deputy on earth or Caliph.

The Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham after July 2016 and described as a branch of al-Qaida in Syria or Al-Qaeda in the Levant, is a jihadist Salafist organization fighting Syrian government forces in the Syrian civil war with the aim of creating an Islamic state in the country. The group announced its formation on 23 January 2012.

Foreign Fighters are defined as “individuals traveling to a state other than their state of residence or nationality for the purpose of carrying out, planning, preparing or participating in activities for terrorist purposes or providing or training terrorist acts, including participation in armed conflicts “. They increase the intensity, duration and complexity of conflicts and can pose a serious threat to their countries of origin, transit, destination, and adjacent areas of conflict where they are more active.

The term jihad (in Arabic it is translated as effort, war, commitment) in the religious sense refers to an important concept of Islam; the struggle and effort in the way of God.

The Hijra refers to the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina and his arrival at Qubã at 12 Rabī ‘al-Wālah = September 24, 622. This event marks the beginning of the Islamic era, which was introduced only 17 years later by Caliph Umar ibn el-Chattab.

Extreme right-wing terrorism is motivated by a variety of ideologies and beliefs, including anti-communism, neo-fascism and neo-Nazism, as well as views on abortion. This kind of terrorism has been sporadic, with little or no international cooperation. Right-wing terrorists aim to overthrow governments and replace them with nationalist or fascist regimes.

Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is an opposition group in exile that supports the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Established in 1965 as a left-wing Muslim group, it strongly opposed the Shah of Iran and was involved in the protests that led to his fall and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Initially, the MEK supported the founder of the new republic Ayatollah Khomeini but soon its leader Massoud Rajavi was banned from competing in the first presidential election, making the MEK turn against the government. For years MEK was listed as a terrorist organization until 2013.

Gazeta Impakt, Tirana, Albania,Translated by Iran Interlink

January 17, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Supporting the MKO: Recycling violence in the world

Terrorism is neither unexplainable nor unpredictable. Terrorists and Extremists in the Middle East are considered as murderous and frightful by the West although they themselves are in fact sponsoring them. Paradoxically, Western sponsored terrorists are growing stronger fueled by the alleged retaliation logics of the West in the so-called “war on terror”.

Life-threatening politicians in the West are taking hostage entire societies by promoting the rhetoric that leads them to self-harming actions. In case of Iran, a group of neocons are calling on Trump to support the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/MEK/PMOI/the Cult of Rajavi) as a viable alternative to the Islamic Republic, despite the fact that the State Department designated the group as a foreign terrorist organization from 1997 to 2012 for its “past acts of terrorism, including its involvement in the killing of US citizens in Iran in the 1970s and an attack on US soil in 1992.”Certain MKO-paid former US officials have sought to convince the US administration to aid the MKO in its alleged agenda to overthrow the Iranian government.

Moreover, the recent protests in Iran provided an opportunity for fueling the US-backed MKO to foment riots inside Iran. The MKO-led violence in Iranian cities was then covered by Western media. However, unbiased media criticized the western-sponsored violence in Iran and warned about the catastrophic outcome of such sponsorship.

“Regardless of how unrealistic it is to imagine the MEK having the means to topple Iran’s regime, any effort to trigger the Islamic Republic’s collapse could fuel a major escalation of violence throughout the Middle East,” asserted Khalid Al-Jaber and Giorgio Cafiero in an article titled “Trump should not embrace the MEK” in Peninsula Qatar. “In light of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s assertion in May 2017 that any military confrontation between Riyadh and Tehran would take place “inside Iran, not in Saudi Arabia”, coupled with Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud’s endorsement of the MEK two months later, tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have reached a dangerously high level that would likely impact Tehran’s response to any foreign-sponsored efforts to topple the regime.” [1]

In fact the cycle of violence is not geographically restricted to the Middle East. Isis-claimed acts of violence that took place in different European countries is the proof that the monster of extremism can turn back to entangle its inventers. “In any event, support for the MEK, a group that carries much baggage in Iran for its history of collaborating with Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war, would almost inevitably fuel greater opposition and anger towards Trump and the US on the part of both Iranians who are supportive of their regime and those calling for Iran to transition away from the Islamic Republic nearly four decades after its establishment,” wrote correspondents of Peninsula Qatar. [2]

“Like cancer, these groups have a tendency to grow uncontrollably, and then later turn on the US and Europe, when and if the latter starts to pull funding or divorce themselves from the Court of public opinion through plausible denial”, According to Ceylon Today. “This is exactly how ISIS grew into a formidable fighting force, and eventually turned on its creators, much like the Frankenstein monster in the Mary Shelley novels.” [3]

Mazda Parsi

Sources:

[1] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7855

[2]ibid

[3] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7867

January 16, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Iran – Regime Change Agents Hijack Economic Protests

December 30, 2017″Information Clearing House”- Yesterday and today saw some small protests in Iran. They are probably the first stage of a large”regime change”operation run by the U.S. and Israel with the help of Iranian terrorist group.

Earlier this month the White House and the Zionist prepared for a new assault on Iran:

A delegation led by Israel’s National Security Adviser met with senior American officials in the White House earlier this month for a joint discussion on strategy to counter Iran’s aggression in the Middle East, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Haaretz.

Another report about the meeting quotes Israeli officials on the result:

“[T]he U.S. and Israel see eye to eye the different developments in the region and especially those that are connected to Iran. We reached at understandings regarding the strategy and the policy needed to counter Iran. Our understandings deal with the overall strategy but also with concrete goals, way of action and the means which need to be used to get obtain those goals.”

This is probably a result of the above meeting:

Hundreds took to the streets of Iran’s second largest city of Mashad on Thursday to protest over high prices, shouting slogans against the government.

Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators in Mashad in northwest Iran, one of the holiest places in Shia Islam, chanting “death to (President Hassan) Rouhani” and “death to the dictator”.

The semi-official ILNA news agency and social media reported demonstrations in other cities in Razavi Khorasan Province, including Neyshabour and Kashmar.

A video of that protest in Mashad showed some 50 people chanting slogans with more bystander just milling around.

Protests against the (neo-)liberal economic policies of the Rohani government in Iran are justified. Official unemployment in Iran is above 12% and there is hardly any economic growth. The people in the streets are not the only ones who are dissatisfied with this:

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has repeatedly criticized the government’s economic record, said on Wednesday that the nation was struggling with “high prices, inflation and recession”, and asked officials to resolve the problems with determination.

On Thursday and today the slogans of some protesters turned the call for economic relief into a call for regime change.

My hunch is that the usual suspects are behind these protests. Note that these started in several cities at the same time. This was not some spontaneous local uproar in one city but had some form of coordination.

Then there is this:

Carl Bildt‏ @carlbildt – 9:38 PM – 28 Dec 2017 from Rome, Lazio

Reports of signals of international satellite TV networks jammed in large cities of Iran. Would be sign of regime fear of today’s protests spreading.

A search in various languages finds exactly zero such”reports”. Carl Bildt is a former Swedish prime minister. He was recruited in 1973 as a CIA informant and has since grown into a full blown U.S. asset. He was involved in the Ukraine coup and tried to personally profit from it.

The only response to Bildt’s tweet was from one Riyad Swed‏ – @SwedRiyad who posted several videos of protests with one of them showing burning police cars.

I am not sure the video is genuine. The account has some unusual attributes (active since September 2016, 655 tweets but only 32 followers?).

Just yesterday one lecture at the CCC”hacker”congress was about the British GHCQ Secret Service and its sock-puppet accounts on Twitter and Facebook. These are used for acquiring human intelligence and for running”regime change”operations. Page 14-18 of the slides (11:20 min) cite from obtained GCHQ papers which lists Iran as one of the targets. The speaker specifically notes a GCHQ account”@2009Iranfree”which was used in generating the protests in Iran after the reelection of then President Ahmedinejad.

Today, Friday and the weekly day off in Iran, several more protest took place in other cities. A Reuters report from today:

About 300 demonstrators gathered in Kermanshah after what Fars called a “call by the anti-revolution” and shouted “Political prisoners should be freed” and “Freedom or death”, while destroying some public property. Fars did not name any opposition groups.

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Footage, which could not be verified, showed protests in other cities including Sari and Rasht in the north, Qom south of Tehran, and Hamadan in the west.

Mohsen Nasj Hamadani, deputy security chief in Tehran province, said about 50 people had rallied in a Tehran square and most left after being asked by police, but a few who refused were “temporarily detained”, the ILNA news agency reported.

Some of these protests have genuine economic reasons but get hijacked by other interests:

In the central city of Isfahan, a resident said protesters joined a rally held by factory workers demanding back wages.

“The slogans quickly changed from the economy to those against (President Hassan) Rouhani and the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei),” the resident said by telephone.

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Purely political protests are rare in Iran […] but demonstrations are often held by workers over layoffs or non-payment of salaries and people who hold deposits in non-regulated, bankrupt financial institutions.

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Alamolhoda, the representative of Ayatollah Khamenei in northeastern Mashhad, said a few people had taken advantage of Thursday’s protests against rising prices to chant slogans against Iran’s role in regional conflicts.

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“Some people had came to express their demands, but suddenly, in a crowd of hundreds, a small group that did not exceed 50 shouted deviant and horrendous slogans such as ‘Let go of Palestine’, ‘Not Gaza, not Lebanon, I’d give my life (only) for Iran’,” Alamolhoda said.

Two videos posted by BBC Persian and others I have seen show only small active protest groups with a dozen or so people while many more are just standing by or film the people who are chanting slogans.

Videos published by the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq [MEK], 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, also show mostly small protests despite the MEK’s claim of Tens of thousands of people chant “death to dictator”. The MEK, or its”civilian”organization National Council of Resistance of Iran , seem to be most involved in the current protests. Its website is currently filled with the protest issue with a total of ten reports and its head figure issued a supportive statement:

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, saluted the heroic people of Kermanshah and other cities who rose up today chanting “death or freedom”, “death to Rouhani”, “death to the dictator”, and “political prisoners must be freed”, and protested against high prices, poverty and corruption.

She said, “Yesterday Mashhad, today Kermanshah, and tomorrow throughout Iran; this uprising has tolled the death knell for the overthrow of the totally corrupt dictatorship of the mullahs, and is the rise of democracy, justice and popular sovereignty.

This very early engagement of the MEK -its first report was published yesterday at 10:26 am- is extremely suspicious.

In 2012 it was reported that Israel had used the MEK terrorist organization to assassinate nuclear scientists in Iran:

On Thursday, U.S. officials speaking to NBC news claimed that Mossad agents were training members of the dissident terror group People’s Mujahedin of Iran in order assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, adding that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama was aware of the operation, but had no direct link to them.

The U.S. officials reportedly confirmed the link between Israel and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), with one official saying:”All your inclinations are correct.”

In October a CATO Institute paper analyzed (and rejected) several options for U.S. handling Iran. Under Option Three: “Regime Change from Within” it noted:

In this approach, the United States would pressure the Iranian regime and simultaneously back groups that oppose it-whether the exiled extremist National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), pro-democracy Green Revolution factions, or ethnic minorities within Iran-a strategy advocates often compare to Reagan’s support for civil society groups in the Soviet Union.

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[A] proponent of “coerced democratization,” the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Mark Dubowitz, urged President Trump to “go on the offensive against the Iranian regime” by “weakening the Iranian regime’s finances” through “massive economic sanctions,” while also “undermin[ing] Iran’s rulers by strengthening pro-democracy forces” inside Iran. This option appears to be gaining traction in the Trump administration’s ongoing Iran policy review and has received public support from Tillerson. CIA Director Mike Pompeo also favored such an approach during his time in Congress.

The MEK/NCRI noted that Senator Tom Cotton, who will likely replace CIA chief Pompeo when Pompeo moves to the State Department, issued a supportive statement for the protests.

The White House and the Netanyahoo regime agreed on a strategy towards Iran. Major members of the Trump administration are in favor of”regime change”by”pro-democracy forces”in Iran. A few weeks after an agreement was found, coordinated economic protests start in Iran which are soon hijacked by small groups of very active regime changers. A group of Iranian exile terrorists, well known for deadly collaboration with Israeli spies as well as for having operation cells in Iran, is highly engaged in the protest from very early on.

If this the”regime change”operation I presume, the protests will soon get bigger. When the people need money a few thousand dollars are enough to create a large crowd. Small groups will riot while hiding within the larger protests of maybe genuinely concerned people. The”western”media will engage with their usual pseudo liberal humanism and concern trolling. When the police in Iran tries to arrest those rioters who are raising havoc the media will scream”brutality”. Some”martyr”will be created and iconified. Rumors of censorship and suppression will be raised (see Carl Bildt above), fake news will come from everywhere and hundreds of sock puppet Twitter and Facebook accounts will suddenly be”Iranian”and breathlessly report”from the scene”of their Langley offices.

For the Iranian politicians and police the issue is tricky. Economic protests are clearly justified with even Khameni voicing support for the issue. But rioting in the streets must be suppressed before it further escalates and becomes uncontrollable. Weapons on the protesters site firing in all directions may soon become a problem. The Mossad and the MEK are not shy of killing random people.

But the Islamic Republic in Iran has genuine support in large parts of the society. There are big civil organizations that support the government – not on every issue but in its general framework. Most Iranian’s are proud nationalists and will be difficult to divide. If this is indeed the”regime change”attempt I suspect, I predict that it will fail.

By Moon Of Alabama,

January 15, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

French prominent journalist reveals MKO blackmailing politicians

Following the sabotage acts by operatives of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO/MEK/PMOI) and the propaganda operations the group launched on its websites, the prominent French journalist denounced the group.

Georges Malbrunot, a reporter of le Figaro, specialized on the Middle East and Israel-Palestine conflicts tweeted a post on the MKO multi-million dollar campaign of propaganda, on January 4^th, 2018. The post was accompanied by a picture of the self-assigned president of the group Maryam Rajavi meeting Western high profiles such as Rudi Guilliani, former mayor of New York and Newt Gingrich former US congressman etc.

Malbrunot tweeted: People’s Mujahedin. The Iranian opponents, very active in their communication. The American participants receive 25000 dollars and the French ones 12500 dollars in their grand gathering near Paris,” reveals a French diplomat close to the case in lo Figaro.

January 14, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

New US-Israeli Scheme Aims to Destabilize Iran with Sanctions, Black Operations

“As for Mr. Trump, his national security team and foreign policy advisors are riddled with Zionist interventionists, of whom Nikki Haley is arguably the most blatant and obvious. The game plan is this: Attempt to destabilize the Iranian government with draconian economic sanctions and black intelligence operations there. If that fails, utilize a false flag operation to falsely pin something on Iran that would sell the general public in the United States and the West with an overt military operation against Tehran. This is the Netanyahu plan. This is the plan of his operatives in the American government,” Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas, told the Tasnim news agency.

Mark Dankof is a broadcaster for The Ugly Truth Podcast. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, the son of a United States Air Force Colonel, he graduated from Valparaiso University in 1977 and from Chicago’s Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1983. In recent years, he has pursued post-graduate work in systematic theology and theological German at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Formerly the 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle and later an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996, he entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.

Following is the full text of the interview:

Tasnim: In recent weeks, peaceful protests over rising prices and economic problems broke out in some Iranian cities, but the unauthorized gatherings turned violent after a number of opportunists, some of them armed, vandalized public property and launched attacks on police stations and government buildings. Siding with the rioters, a number of US officials, including Trump and US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, did their best to hype up the unrest. Do you see any connection between the rioters and US continued support for them as Iran says it has hard evidence that the riots were directed from abroad? Kindly explain.

Dankof: Paul Craig Roberts is absolutely correct. It is obvious that the unrest in Iran is being exploited and exacerbated by elements who desire the overt overthrow of the Iranian government and its replacement with something that would do the bidding of the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. The distant past gives us the roadmap for understanding the present, namely the 1953 coup d’etat sponsored by the United States CIA and the British MI6 in Iran. Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men, or the papers released by the CIA because of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), demonstrate this history and its implications. One of the tools being used by the United States and Israel in these ongoing efforts is the MEK. As for Mr. Trump, his national security team and foreign policy advisors are riddled with Zionist interventionists, of whom Nikki Haley is arguably the most blatant and obvious. The game plan is this: Attempt to destabilize the Iranian government with draconian economic sanctions and black intelligence operations there. If that fails, utilize a false flag operation to falsely pin something on Iran that would sell the general public in the United States and the West with an overt military operation against Tehran. This is the Netanyahu plan. This is the plan of his operatives in the American government.

Tasnim: On Tuesday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei said a “triangle” of enemies — with the United States and Israel comprising one of its sides, a rich Persian Gulf littoral state on its second side and the anti-Iran MKO terror organization on the third side — has been plotting for the past few months to foment chaos and violence in Iran. What is your take on this?

Dankof: The evidence of the fingerprints of the United States, Israel, Saudi, and the MEK/MKO is everywhere in this situation. Several examples will give your readers the picture. First, even Newsweek Magazine has all but conceded that the United States and Israel utilized the MEK/MKO in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran. Secondly, the support of the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia for the wide range of Wahhabi extremists and terrorists used to attempt the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, in what would achieve the end of the “Shia Crescent” extending from Iran to Syria to Lebanon, is provable. The international community knows this very well. So do Paul Craig Roberts, Philip Giraldi, Pat Buchanan, David Stockman, and a whole host of honest American analysts. These various actions go back to the Oded Yinon Plan for the Middle East in 1982, and the roadmap of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) in its Clean Break Strategy document in 1996, well before the 9-11 incident in the United States. If we go back even further, the American foreign policy strategy since World War II has been to assume the previous position of Britain in the region, which was and is based on the Zionist Balfour Declaration and the Sykes-Picot Treaty. Regime change by coup d’etat, economic strangulation, land theft, and military interventionism has been the means of implementation ever since.

The present exacerbation of internal Iranian domestic political configurations by the Americans, the Israelis, the Saudis, and their MKO/MEK surrogates is best grasped and comprehended in this wider historical landscape.

Tasnim: The Leader further said that the cash for the unrest came from “one of the filthy rich Persian Gulf littoral states. Obviously, such projects need money, but the Americans won’t be willing to spend anything” as long as they have these rich allies”. What do you think?

Dankof: The United States clearly is happy with having their Saudi Petrodollar Allies picking up the tab for these nefarious actions in Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and Iran. Why? The United States is closing in on a national debt of $21 trillion, even as it has recently approved an obscene $800 billion in defense expenditures for the next year to sustain these Middle Eastern interventions, the buildup of NATO forces on the borders of Mr. Putin’s Russia, and the attempts to renew and solidify the American Empire’s position vis a vis China in Southeast Asia, North Korea, and the South China Sea. Paul Craig Roberts once observed that Empires become decadent, and overextended. The United States is awash with internal decadence, political unrest, declining infrastructure, national and consumer debt of staggering totals, even as it seeks to sustain an American military presence in 130 countries around the world. Mr. Roberts puts it well: “Empires run out of money and manpower.” He is on target. It happened to the British Empire and the old Soviet Empire. The American Empire will experience the biggest pratfall of them all. Iran may well be the breaking point, especially if Putin and the Chinese step in in ways not anticipated by the Zionist Neo-Conservatives whose miscalculations have become Legion since 2001.

Tasnim: Ayatollah Khamenei also noted that the US is angry with the Iranian nation, establishment and the Islamic Revolution due to the blows it has taken from this great movement. Why is the US after the collapse of the Islamic Establishment?

Dankof: The nefarious doctrine of American Exceptionalism explains these ill-fated policies toward Iran, Russia, Syria, and a host of others. It is based on the notion that the United States and the American Empire are the exception to the rules that have governed other Empires throughout history. The rise and fall of Ancient Israel and Judah, along with the Babylonians, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks, and the Ancient Roman Empire, along with the already mentioned modern examples of the British and Soviet Empires, show the axioms that govern the rise and fall of these entities throughout history. The American Exceptionalism doctrine which permeates the thinking of the government of the United States, its media, its military, and much of its ignorant populus, is either unaware of this rich historical past and the principles it teaches, or truly believes it is, as its name suggests, The Exception to the Rule. As has been observed time and time again, arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.

Frankly, I have given up on the people of the United States and its corrupted institutions. It seems that only a totally avoidable global catastrophe will teach the people of my country that we are not the Great Exception to the Rules for Empires in History, but a grim example of the timeless truths of these Rules. King Belshazzar didn’t understand what Daniel revealed to him about his own demise and that of the Babylonian Empire in history [Daniel 7]. The end came upon him, and his reign like a flood. I believe this is the sad and tragic destiny of the American Empire as well. It has more than asked for the consequences coming.

January 14, 2018 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 217

++ There was, as could be expected, a lot of Farsi activity on the internet this week. Much of this was shouting back at Rajavi and her misuse of the people’s demonstrations in Iran. The Twitter hashtags #shutuprajavi (along with #shutupTrump) and in Farsi ‘rajavikhafesho’ are still active in Farsi and English, inside and outside Iran.

++ Four times, the MEK has issued messages purported to be from Massoud Rajavi. Everyone is laughing, saying: ‘He’s dead! You can’t even produce his voice anymore. He is a ‘Dead man Talking’.’

++ This week some Israeli Zionist and American Neocon media outlets published pieces saying, ‘the way forward is to arm demonstrators in Iran’. This has become a laughing stock as well – ‘as though they don’t do this already!’ Massoud Khodabandeh commented “demonstrators demonstrate – the ones who beg for US arms are ISIS and MEK”.

In English:

++ Massoud Khodabandeh posted a comment on Facebook about the MEK waving the Iranian flag from the time of the Shah at pickets outside the White House:

“MEK (Rajavi) assassinated Americans to change the flag of Iran –

Now they are waving the same flag asking Americans to bring it back”

++ Among the storm of media coverage of the Iran protests there are several which describe the MEK (and Monarchists and Green Movement) for their readers. The common themes are: ‘the MEK is deeply unpopular in Iran, the MEK is a cult-like group, the MEK is backed by regime change pundits, the MEK is paid by Saudi Arabia, the MEK killed Americans/Iranians/Iraqis and collaborated with Saddam Hussein. Perhaps the most pertinent comment comes from Newsweek: “It also remains the perpetual boogey man of the regime”. Sott Net let us know that (IRGC) “Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari also reported that ‘a large number of the arrested trouble-makers at the center of the sedition had received training from counter-revolutionaries and the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization’”. The Peninsular wrote “To be sure, the White House backing the MEK would embolden the Iranian regime’s narrative that the unrest in the country’s major cities is orchestrated by Tehran’s ‘enemies’ including the MEK, as well as the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.”

India’s APN also waded into the media waves with “Iran’s top leadership believes that the recent violent protests in Iran were the result of the coordinated efforts of a ‘triangle’ having US-Israel at one side, Saudi Arabia and Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), the designated terror group holding the other two sides.”

++ Criticism of the ‘regime change agenda’ was also rife in reporting and analysing the protests in Iran. Ceylon Times concluded “The news lately has revealed that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are openly funding, supporting, arming, training and providing logistical support to Jundullah and MEK in order to take down the current sovereign government of Iran.

“Even though the USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel may not like the current government there, what right do they have to engage in this type of state sponsored terrorist behaviour?”

++ In a very informative piece, The Corbett Report unpicks the “past, present and future of US and Israeli involvement in Iran, and the attempts to foment unrest in the country” – including involvement of the MEK. It concludes: “No, this is not about the plight of the poor Iranian people. This is about achieving a key American/Israeli/Saudi geopolitical objective.

“As the dust settles on this wave of protests, it is most likely that the Iranian government will not be toppled. The opposition is unorganized, unarmed, and not drawing the masses of crowds that we have seen in previous ‘color revolutions’. But this is an ominous sign of things to come as the recent American/Israeli agreement on Iran comes to light.

“The only question is whether the people of the world are going to fall for yet another regime change operation.”

++ On the issue of fake news and misinformation, Adam Johnson of Fair.org gives a good analysis of how “insulting and sloppy” major media outlets have used “pictures of demonstrations in the United States, France, or United Kingdom—organized by a fringe, cult-like group, Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK)—in place of images of the entirely unaffiliated protesters, 6,000 miles away, who are the topic of discussion”. He states, “The only major media faction that even pretends the MEK has any legitimacy within Iran is the Murdoch group, which routinely runs MEK’s blatant disinformation (Fox News, 1/1/18) and pro-regime change op-eds (Wall Street Journal, 1/8/18)”. Before concluding “No intellectually honest person takes MEK seriously as a viable alternative to the current government in Iran. The idea that it is an actual ‘Iranian opposition’ is a Western media fiction. But the group’s rallies outside Iranian embassies provide great visual fodder for indifferent or dishonest editors in need of high-quality ‘Iran protest’ images—without the mess of actually paying Iranian photographers, or dissecting the on-the-ground political reality in Iran.”

++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers says that the MEK were so active in promoting their propaganda during the Iran protests that “one may think that the protests were originally instigated by them but actually they acted as the proxy forces of Iran enemies surfing on the waves of Iranians’ inspirations for justice and economic welfare”. Quoting MoonofAlbama, the article asserts “These people are deeply hated in Iran but feared they are not”, before reminding us that President Rouhani asked the government of President Macron to stop hosting the MEK in France.

++ In Albania, news that Maryam Rajavi has imprisoned MEK members in a closed camp outside Tirana in a state of modern slavery prompted an article by Anne Khodabandeh, published by Balkans Post. Khodabandeh points out that a MEK training camp in Albania impacts the whole Balkan region by making Albania a frontline country in Iran’s fight against terrorism.

“At the same time, no wonder that the European Union regards Albania not as a friendly neighbour but as a security risk right on its doorstep. There is no chance whatsoever of Albania joining the European Union while it hosts the MEK terrorist group.

“The Gordian Knot of Balkan states which neither the Americans, Russians nor the EU have been able to unpick would be best served if these countries found common cause in ridding this sensitive area of the one group which serves none of their interests. Nobody wants it cut by an Iranian sword.”

++ Sahar Family Foundation, Albania, published corrections to some of the MEK’s lies in an article published by Albanian website shqiptarja.com. Most importantly that there are no ‘families’ inside the MEK. Maryam Rajavi oversees compulsory celibacy and gender apartheid while no MEK member is allowed to contact their family unless to try to deceptively recruit them or get money from them.

January 12, 2018

January 13, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Coverage of Iran Protests Illustrated With Protests Not in Iran––Organized by Fringe Cultists

When it comes to covering protests in other countries, it seems any vague picture of brown people protesting can stand in for those actually on the streets expressing their grievances.

Since the outbreak of protests across Iran three weeks ago, several major outlets have used pictures of demonstrations in the United States, France, or United Kingdom—organized by a fringe, cult-like group, Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK)—in place of images of the entirely unaffiliated protesters, 6,000 miles away, who are the topic of discussion.

These are all images of rallies by the MEK (sometimes known as the People’s Mujahedin, or its benign-sounding front-group name, National Council of Resistance) being presented as protesters in Iran. Several other outlets used their images, but noted they were simply “solidarity” marches in the US or Europe. While this is technically accurate, it’s still wildly misleading, given that it’s safe to assume most people won’t know that the organizers of these rallies are part of a US- and Israeli-aligned fringe group, and not allies of the workers and young people taking to the streets in Iran.

Casually throwing around MEK images to represent unrest in Iran is the worst combination of insulting and sloppy. It would be like a Chinese outlet, in 2012, using images of a Westboro Baptist Church protest in a story about Occupy Wall Street, because both opposed the US government. The exact ideology of those protesting in Iran isn’t 100 percent clear—they seem to represent a mix of groups and grievances—but MEK has virtually zero support in Iran itself, having been disowned by the Green Movement (the last major protest movement in Iran) in 2009, and is widely loathed for working with Israeli intelligence and fighting alongside the Iraqi army in Iran’s decade-long war against Saddam in the 1980s that killed a half-million Iranians. The MEK has carried out several bomb attacks in Iran, and was even officially listed by the US State Department as a foreign terrorist organization for 16 years, until it was removed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012, after a years-long lobbying effort by pro-regime change forces within the US.

The only major media faction that even pretends the MEK has any legitimacy within Iran is the Murdoch group, which routinely runs MEK’s blatant disinformation (Fox News, 1/1/18) and pro-regime change op-eds (Wall Street Journal, 1/8/18). Even consistent regime change partisans, such as Bloomberg’s Eli Lake (1/2/18), warn against promoting MEK:

People’s Mujahedin leader Maryam Rajavi, or supporters of the Pahlavi dynasty that fell in 1979, should not be treated as leaders or spokesmen for this organic uprising. They seek to impose an agenda on a movement they did not create. Don’t let them do it.

No intellectually honest person takes MEK seriously as a viable alternative to the current government in Iran. The idea that it is an actual “Iranian opposition” is a Western media fiction. But the group’s rallies outside Iranian embassies provide great visual fodder for indifferent or dishonest editors in need of high-quality “Iran protest” images—without the mess of actually paying Iranian photographers, or dissecting the on-the-ground political reality in Iran.

Adam Johnson,Fair.org

January 13, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MEK misinformation in Albanian media

The Albanian website shqiptarja.com published an article on January 6, 2018 about the new location of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania which included some fabricated lies as quotes by the MEK.

It is worth clearing up a few facts about the MEK regarding this article:

There are no families in the MEK camps in Albania whatsoever who might possibly move first to the new camp. In the Rajavi Cult celibacy is compulsory and contacting people’s families is forbidden unless in special circumstances such that there is a chance for deceptively recruiting members or collecting funds from them.

The cost of buying several acres of land and building new facilities and providing sophisticated security measures, as well as hiring private security firms for protection, could not be paid for by some Iranian refugees in Europe.

The security excuse to stop the families entering Albania to see their loved ones is a totally fabricated lie. The families, who can easily prove their relationship with the cult members, would never try to harm their loved ones.

The main reason for the MEK leaving Tirana and moving to a remote place is to isolate the members from the free outside world and to impose even more restrictions on their connections and relationships in order to better brainwash and control them.

The neighboring residents in Tirana were discontented with their behavior and found them unbearable. The Rajavi Cult never wishes to have contact with the local people since they are afraid that their weird cultic relations be revealed.

Link to the actual article:

http://shqiptarja.com/home/1/banesat-manza-kryeqyteti-i-3-mij–muxhahedin-ve-iranian–462194.html?pos_4

January 11, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

People protest, the US-Israel backed MKO hijack it

“Security forces have disbanded a local of the Mujahedin-eKhalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group which had carried out acts of sabotage during recent protests in some Iranian cities over rising prices and economic problems”, reported Press TV. [1]

Indeed, agents of the Mujahedin Khalq and their propaganda media were so active in the recent riots in Iran that one may think that the protests were originally instigated by them but actually they acted as the proxy forces of Iran enemies surfing on the waves of Iranians’ inspirations for justice and economic welfare.

Whitney Webb of the Mint Press News denounces the “secret deal” negotiated and signed between the US and Israel and considers the use of the MKO as a part of this deal. “Despite its record of killing innocent civilians, Western media has cited MEK spokespeople and members in its reporting on the protests as “proof” that the Iranian people are calling for regime change, while ignoring the massive pro-government rallies that have coincided with the protests,” he writes. “Little mention has been made of the fact the MEK fighters have been trained by the U.S. military in the past and share connections with Israeli Mossad.” [2]

According to a 2012 Seymour Hersh report, the U.S. military trained MEK fighters in the U.S. in sabotage and insurgency operations. Hersh’s investigated report has been the evidence for a large number of reports about the US-backed operations of the MKO in Iran. [3]

“These people are deeply hated in Iran but feared they are not,” asserts MoonofAlabamablog. “Their early engagement in the “protests” via their website and propaganda ops in Iran may point to deeper role in the riots.” [4]

That’s why, President Rouhani spoke with French President Macron asking his government to stop hosting the MKO. Macron didn’t acknowledge his country’s support for the MKO, but he did call on the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel to calm their aggressive rhetoric against Iran.[5]

According to many credible sources the MKO has the capability of committing violence. The most recent warning about the violent nature of the MKO was made by the US Intelligence veterans who wrote a letter to Donald Trump last month. They ironically suggested, “As long as the MEK would help kill Iranians rather than Americans, they were no longer terrorists.” [6]

According to the signatories of the letter, there have been terrorist attacks inside Iran bearing the handprint of support from the United States. [7]

Moreover, the history of the MKO is undeniable. They are hated by the Iranians and their detrimental part in the protests is obviously dying down.

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7828

[2] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7852

[3] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/4340

[4] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7818

[5] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7810

[6] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/7789

[7] ibid

January 11, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Is MEK/Jundullah the ISIS of tomorrow?

One would think that the United States would have learned by now, that it is never a good idea to arm terrorist groups in different parts of the world, due to the inevitable ‘blowback’ which eventually ensues after these violent groups determine that the USA is no longer in support of them, or when the USA wants to deny that they have any relationship with them.

We have seen this paradigm unfold countless times before, over the past few decades, with groups like Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, La Fenice, Avanguardia Nazionale, Ordine Nuovo, the Contras, Cuban Exiles, Colombian Paramilitary Organizations, Los Pepes, Kosovo Liberation Army, Jundullah, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and countless others designed to engage in United States sponsored terrorist activities against sovereign governments and nations that the US doesn’t like for whatever reason.

In the wake of the abject failure of the US using ISIS to destabilize, disrupt and disorient various governments throughout the Middle East, such as Syria, Iraq, Lybia, Yemen and others, followed quickly by various ISIS-attributed terrorist attacks against the US and Europe by ISIS, President Donald Trump was swept into office in large part because the American and European people discovered this via the veritable ‘sieve’ known as social media and the internet.

But rather than change US foreign policy to ban or cease using violent thugs to carry out US policy overseas, instead it appears that the US Government through the CIA have now adopted a smaller more surgically precise approach by supporting, through its proxy nations Israel and Saudi Arabia, smaller groups such as MEK and Jundullah, who operate primarily in tiny regions of the world, such as in and around Iran, without much of a global presence. But like cancer, these groups have a tendency to grow uncontrollably, and then later turn on the US and Europe, when and if the latter starts to pull funding or divorce themselves from the Court of public opinion through plausible denial. This is exactly how ISIS grew into a formidable fighting force, and eventually turned on its creators, much like the Frankenstein monster in the Mary Shelley novels.

All of this must be an abject nightmare for the US FBI, DHS, ICE and DEA pull their proverbial hair out, because they must often clean up/explain the horrific domestic messes of terrorist blowback occurring on US soil when these groups inevitably turn on their paymasters, just like they are the chief law enforcement/preventative bodies that deal with the drug war, also in large part caused by the CIA’s open and clandestine support of massive drug producing/trafficking regimes in Afghanistan, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico.

The news lately has revealed that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are openly funding, supporting, arming, training and providing logistical support to Jundullah and MEK in order to take down the current sovereign government of Iran.

Even though the USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel may not like the current government there, what right do they have to engage in this type of state sponsored terrorist behaviour?

There is a reason why various governments throughout the world have stood the test of time, and exist in their present states.

ceylontoday.lk

January 10, 2018 0 comments

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