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After the “gift” that John Kerry gave Albania, now CIA director John Bernnan has warned Tirana of the possible huge risk that the Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) terrorist group poses to Albania through its presence in the capital.
According to Fatos Klosi, former director of the National Intelligence Service, the American CIA chief has warned Albania that Donald Trump will renounce support for the MEK terrorists and it will be the Albanian Government itself which must deal with internal security and must confront a group trained militarily from the time of Saddam Hussein. Fatos Klos said, “The visit to Tirana of the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Brennan, has not gone unnoticed, as it could not have been intended that a state senior discuss only small and unimportant issues”. The former head of the National Intelligence Service, Fatos Klos, said in a statement to the newspaper Today, that he has listed three main issues for which the head of the CIA is believed to have arrived in Tirana. According Klos, one of the issues that has been the subject of discussion between the head of the CIA and top state officials, it is the question of the Mojahedin. The former Albanian head of espionage argues that the new president of the United States, Donald Trump has said he will pursue a new policy, focusing on economic growth in the country and that every member of NATO should contribute financially toward its own security.
In these conditions, Klos explained that America will not protect Albania, nor will it finance the Mojahedin. According to Klos, a change of US policy on the issue of the Mojahedin will increase the risk to Albania from Iran after the Albanian government undertook to accommodate three thousand representatives of the Iranian opposition, that the country considers terrorists. On the other hand, there is a risk from the Mojahedin itself. A lot of these issues would have been discussed, including the Iranian issue. “The new American president will escalate tensions with the Iranians and the Iranians will raise complaints against us because Albania has undertaken to accommodate these terrorists. The head of the CIA comes to discuss such issues. His visit to Tirana is an assessment of Albania’s role and partnership with the US, “said Klos”.
Gazeta Impakt
Translated by Iran Interlink
The endless propaganda of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO/ MEK/the Cult of Rajavi) seems to be running out of new ideas for its disinformation champagne against the Iranian government. The new so-called revelations published by the MKO and then echoed by the Washington Times on what they call “Iranian crimes and 
atrocities” in Syria, clearly indicates that the group is making too much effort to show itself off as a reliable source of intelligence on Iran. However, its recent propaganda was almost completely ignored by the mainstream media –except its two main paid western tribunes, the Washington Times and Fox News. [1]
Today, even the Western propaganda about Aleppo is denounced. Peter Ford was the UK’s Ambassador to Syria from 2003 to 2006.In an interview with Radio BBC he challenges the West-run misinformation about conflicts in Syria. He criticizes the West for its wrong policy — to “have clung for too long to the illusion that the so-called ‘moderate opposition’ would overcome Assad”. [2]
“Surely now, with the Government’s recovery of Aleppo, the veils should fall from our eyes and we should look reality in the face: Assad is not going to be removed by force of arms or at the negotiating table,” Peter Ford tells BBC. This is what frightens the MKO. While this British politician suggests that the West should stop supporting a failed and divided opposition and moreover the newly elected president of the Unites States Donald Trump is seeking a normalized relation with Russia and fighting against ISIS in Syria, the MKO agenda to demonize Tehran’s role in Syria is an already failed tactic. [3]
The MKO’s hasty propaganda shows its severe concerns about a normalized Iran-West relation. Massoud Khodabandeh, former MKO member and Director at Middle East Strategy Consultants write in the Huffington Post, “The MEK pretends it has some kind of insider knowledge which it can apparently tap into whenever it needs to make a point. Iran, however, has made no secret of its involvement in the Syrian conflict. Newspapers and state-run media probably tell us in much greater detail than the Washington Times report about the deployment of fighters and how they are funded. The dead from this conflict are mourned very publicly inside Iran. It is disingenuous of the MEK to merely recycle this information as a ‘revelation’.” [4]
Khodabandeh accurately labels the US journalists and officials who are deceived by the MKO propaganda as “gullible” but it should be noted that sometimes the biased media just seek to falsify facts in line with the agenda of certain politicians. “We’ve seen not what some allege to be a meltdown of humanity but a meltdown of sanity,” says Ford about the allegations of the West. “Where are, where’s any evidence of the alleged atrocities, of the Guernica, of the massacres, the genocide, the holocaust?” [5]
And about the fabrications made by the Cult of Rajavi on the Iranian government, Khodabandeh asserts, “the MEK is notorious for its role as a misinformation and propaganda outlet.” He denounces the MKO writing, “Variously over the years, the MEK has been exposed for false reporting and intelligence in issues such as the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran. After passing one piece of genuine intelligence in 2002 which it was given by Mossad, the MEK continued to pass fake information to the IAEA so as to disrupt the negotiation process, and to enable the US to impose severe sanctions against Iran.” [6]
Although, the MKO tries “to muddy the waters of truth” and the West “flies in the face of reality” on the issue of Syria, the truth is concretely clear and verifiable.
By Mazda Parsi
Sources:
[1] Scarborough, Rowan, Iran brutalizing Aleppo, executing ‘most atrocious war crimes’ of 21st century, The Washington Times, December 20, 2016
[2] Former UK Ambassador to Syria Debunks Aleppo Propaganda, BBC Interview transcribed by Information Clearing House, December 26, 2016
[3] ibid
[4] Khodabandeh, Massoud, MEK’s Fake Intelligence On Aleppo Only Hinders Fact-finding Bodies Finding The Truth, The Huffington Post, 24 Dec, 2016
[5] ibid
[6] ibid
++ MEK former Mohammad Karami reported from Tirana that three women from the MEK’s Leadership Council have separated from the group. The MEK have tried to hide this and threatened the women with ‘the Pentagon’ [sic] to silence them. The MEK’s newspaper published a photograph of one of the women alongside some faked comments attributed to her so that they could accuse her of lying – character assassination. The woman has contacted her family and explained how this misinformation cannot be true. She also told them she is struggling because Albanian authorities exert pressure on anyone who leaves and have even assigned security personnel to help the MEK keep members under control.
++ There has been reaction to Rajavi’s Christmas message. Commentators remind us that over the years Rajavi sent several Christian Iranians to their death because they would not convert to become Shias in the organisation. Such victims include survivor Edvard Thermador in Germany and Phillip who was killed by the MEK in Iraq.
++ The reaction to an open letter to Donald Trump from thirty “members of the Iranian opposition, including human rights activists and former political prisoners” has been quite precisely divided. Only the MEK felt jealous and wished they had also jumped on this bandwagon. They even got frontman Ali Safavi a slot on Fox News to say as much. However, every other Iranian person, personality, group, business, charity, housewife or leader has universally condemned the letter and poured scorn on its authors in various ways – as nobodies, as traitors, as etc.
In English:
++ Massoud Khodabandeh wrote an article denouncing the MEK’s act of introducing fake information into the investigation into what really happened in Aleppo over the past few months. Such fake information can only derail a genuine fact-finding mission. Khodabandeh gives several examples of previous occasions when the MEK’s fake information undermined and impeded important issues for political reasons.
December 30, 2016
Three female members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Central Council (Leadership Council) defected the Cult in Albania, Mr. Karami of Ayaran Website reported.
Two of these wom
en are among senior commanders of the group. They defect the MKO after they were moved from Iraq to Albania.
These three women are held hostages in a clandestine place, according to the report.
Ms. Fatemeh Alizadeh is one of these recently defectors, the two others’ names will be published in a more suitable condition).
Ms. Alizadeh’s family’s attempts to make contact with her have been failed so far, since she has no access to the outside world and is held captive by the Cult.
Alizadeh family has written several letters to Fatemeh and the MKO Cult elements have replied some under the name of Fatemeh.
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Mr. Amir Hezbepour was got hostage by the MKO elements during Iran-Iraq war in 1987. [During the Iran-Iraq War the Mujahedin-e Khalq fought as Saddam Hussein’s army against their own countrymen. ]
Mr. Hezbipour is transferred to Albania along with other MKO members. His brother has written a letter to him;
My dear brother, the Iraqi national TV showed your image after you were captivated by the Rajavi’s elements in Haj Omran area. We were all sad…. It is now more than 29 years than we have had no contact with you, no news, no letter, … . we all miss you . we and esp. our parents have suffered a lot during these years. Wecant wait to see you again…
My dear brother, for years we thought that you have forgotten us . However when we heard the life story of those who have managed themselves from the MKO Camps we understood that the MKO leaders do not allow members to contact their families. Now we know that you have no access to the outside world. We are happy that you transferred from the war-torn country of Iraq to Albania. We are waiting to hear from you soon. We try our best to help you release yourself from the MKO Cult…..
Our parent are waiting impatiently to hear you voice….
++ Over the past week the MEK continued its support for Al Nusra fighters in Aleppo and its condemnation of Iran’s role in freeing the city. In addition to internet promotion, the MEK sent small teams, buttressed by paid support, to wave flags at pickets outside various locations including Iranian embassies in Western capitals. There was no official reaction from Iran although the Iranian ambassador in London broke off from an interview about other matters to mention the MEK. He explained that the MEK is being used by a group called United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) in the hope that this kind of thing will provoke popular hatred in Tehran and people might come out in the streets and demonstrate against Britain or other countries. They should be sure that will never happen, said the ambassador.
++ Several people commented on the MEK’s photoshopped promotion of the flag-waving activities mentioned above. They say, what Maryam Rajavi really meant by her announcement in Tirana of the ‘Political Assault’, is actually an advertising campaign to find a buyer for her group. This buyer could be linked to Syria or any other area of conflict, she doesn’t care. But apparently, she has no buyers lined up. Some writers also say that Maryam Rajavi was faced by questions in Tirana, such as ‘why has Iran slipped off our agenda?’ She answered that ‘yes, we will topple the Iranian regime, but first we [sic] have to topple the Syrian regime’. Commentators remind us that she said something similar while the MEK were in Iraq. She insisted the MEK remain in Iraq because the MEK could only topple the Iranian regime after toppling the Maliki regime in Iraq.
++ In Iran, the University of Maybod, Yazd, held a symposium on ‘threats to society’. The event included the MEK and the culture of cults, how they operate and what students should be aware of. Ebrahim Khodabandeh delivered a keynote speech and conducted a workshop with the students. He highlighted two important issues as particularly relevant. 1. Now that the MEK has lost its stronghold in Iraq the group is trying to buy or fool Iranian students to join them just to prove the group is still alive. The MEK uses telephone and social media etc to try to recruit unsuspecting youth. 2. Khodabandeh emphasised that one of the benefits of the MEK move to Tirana has been that they are safe from the dangers of Iraq. But the down side is that Tirana is not open to the families as Iraq was. It is a closed environment and is under the influence of Israel and the supporters of the MEK. This does not mean, however, that the families will not prevail and rescue their loved ones, just like hundreds before them have.
++ MEK formers from Tirana report that Mehdi Abrishamchi (Maryam Rajavi’s ex-husband) has been dispatched to Albania where he has staged compulsory meetings for all the members. He has adopted the role of ‘thug’ and screamed and sworn and threatened the members to intimidate them so they will not run away.
++ On 9 December, Maryam Rajavi had a closed-door meeting in the European Parliament along with the one MEP who booked the room for her. The permanent Iraqi reporter at the EP tried to get in the room to report the meeting. He was insulted and refused entry. He complained to the office of the Head of the EP which intervened. Maryam Rajavi ran away and hid in the MEP’s office. They later smuggled her out so she would not have to answer any questions. The reporter said he will pursue this issue further.
++ Nader Naderi from a group of MEK formers in France has written a detailed comment on the MEK’s reports on American anti-Iran warmongers and the UANI group. Under the title ‘from killing Americans to begging for a low-grade job from them’, he reminds us of where the MEK were and where they are now. He details their history with evidence – the slogans, publications and songs glorifying killing Americans which the MEK promoted even after the revolution (which they deny). Now, says Naderi, the MEK’s campaigns on their current sites promote Israel and Netanyahu. Commenting on the warmongers and UANI group which support the MEK he says ‘We must wonder at those Americans who for a few dollars will sell their dignity like this’.
In English:
++ Mazda Parsi writing for Nejat Society writes ‘How dogmatism stops the production of thought in the MKO’. The article explores the role of dogmatism and closed-mindedness in cult organisation. Parsi explains that Massoud Rajavi’s own dogmatism was replicated across the whole MEK organisation and tolerance was replaced by violence which extended through the whole existence of the group including against its own members. Other effects of this are the damage to the minds of members who protect their beliefs and never question them. Parsi, however, points out that such dogmatism is usually founded on fallacy which the fanatic refuses to question with debate or argument. Such mentality damages not only the victim but their family too since they are deliberately estranged by this uncompromising way of thinking. The result will be the inevitable decline of the members and the group.
++ Nejat Society has published No. 41 of its News Letter. Nejat exists to help families of MEK members to find and rescue their loved ones from the Rajavi cult.
Inside This Issue:
1- MKO ex-member in Koln University
2- RC: MEK members in Albania have no access to the outside world
3- CIA, Mossad and MEK Assassinated Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Majid Shahriari
4- The MEK and Its American Fans
5- Open letters to Axel Fischer, about MKO invitation to attend Rajavi’s carnival on November 26
6- Trump’s top picks for key posts back anti-Iran terror group
7- About Nejat Society
8- On the occasion of the Int. Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
++ Nejat Society announced that Abdolreza Zahedi is the latest MEK member to leave the group in Albania. His mother confirmed this news and shed tears of joy to be in contact with her son again. She said, ‘I wished Abdolreza’s father was alive and we could share our happiness after long years of suffering’. She insisted that she will continue her efforts to help her dear son repatriate to his homeland.
December 23, 2016
An article published in the Washington Times Security section claims that (yet again) the Mojahedin Khalq (aka MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult, Saddam’s Private Army) has provided intelligence to the West on Iranian crimes and atrocities. However, in terms of actual intelligence revelations, the article should more properly have sat in the Opinion section.
In this post-truth era, it almost goes without saying that facts and fiction rub shoulders in most of the articles reporting on Syria and Aleppo from all sides. But if Western journalists had no presence in Aleppo and uncritically reported hearsay and opinion to support their own agendas, think then what the MEK’s reporting is based on.
The MEK pretends it has some kind of insider knowledge which it can apparently tap into whenever it needs to make a point. Iran, however, has made no secret of its involvement in the Syrian conflict. Newspapers and state run media probably tell us in much greater detail than the Washington Times report about the deployment of fighters and how they are funded. The dead from this conflict are mourned very publicly inside Iran. It is disingenuous of the MEK to merely recycle this information as a ‘revelation’
NCRI spokesman deceives gullible U.S. officials and journalists with misinformation
But the MEK is notorious for its role as a misinformation and propaganda outlet. Variously over the years, the MEK has been exposed for false reporting and intelligence in issues such as the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran. After passing one piece of genuine intelligence in 2002 which it was given by Mossad, the MEK continued to pass fake information to the IAEA so as to disrupt the negotiation process, and to enable the US to impose severe sanctions against Iran. In 2015 the MEK ‘shock revelation’ of a secret nuclear facility in Iran – intended to derail ongoing nuclear negotiations – when subjected to just a little bit of investigatory journalism was soon revealed as sheer fabrication. The MEK similarly muddied the waters of truth during investigations into the bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina in 1994 for which MEK supplied intelligence implicated Iran.
NCRI ‘shock revelation’ turned out to be taken from an advertising brochure
Iran and Russia’s behaviour and agendas have their own place in these issues which should be rigorously investigated and reported. But that can only happen if journalists and investigatory bodies (human rights, nuclear experts, war crimes, etc) are able to base their work on facts and not the fake and fictionalised fantasies of stooges like the MEK, which are clearly designed to misinform on these issues.
The information laundry cycle is not difficult to follow – the Washington Times takes its report from the NCRI site of Maryam Rajavi. The NCRI site then reposts its own report as though it originated in the Washington Times and both, without further verification, get taken up by Fox News.
By Massoud Khodabandeh Director at Middle East Strategy Consultants.
Mr. Reza Jebelli; former member of Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult participated the European Parliament’s meeting on countering terrorism on Thursday December 8th, 2016.
The conference held by the Social & Democrat Party of Brussels. The conference lasted from 9 am. to 2:30 PM.
Several EU Parliament members as well as officials of different countries participated the conference.
Following the speech of Mr. Krisho on the THREAT OF TERRORISM IN Europe, Reza Sadeghi Jebelli contributing from the audience said: ”you have the MEK here in this building right now (he showed them leaflets from the MEK) holding a meeting supposedly about human rights in Iran. If you have a terrorist group in your building then nothing you say about terrorism has any credibility. Clean your own house first… the terror Cult of MEK is holing such a meeting while they have confessed to the terror of more than 12000 individuals in Iran…”
