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Camp Liberty

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Unique Footage from inside MKO’s Camp Liberty in Iraq’s Baghdad

Al-Alam News Network has reported exclusively for the first time from inside the camp known as the”Liberty”that elements of the MKO terrorists were held there for years.

Camp Liberty is a former United States military installation in Baghdad which has been used from 2012 to 2016 to house 3000 members of MKO terrorists, Al-Alam News Network correspondent reported on Tuesday.

Al-Alam News Network correspondent Wesam Al-Tamimi has assured that the Al-Alam team was the first TV network which succeeded to produce a report from inside the Camp Liberty.

The MKO has assassinated over 12,000 Iranians in the last 4 decades. The terrorist group had even killed large numbers of Americans and Europeans in several terror attacks before the 1979 Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

Lastly, the United States has helped the last group of the MKO terrorists to escape from Iraq to Albania in September 2016.

Download Unique Footage from inside MKO’s Camp Liberty in Iraq’s Baghdad

September 29, 2016 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

US Democratic Leader entirely misled about “Families” in the MKO

While the MKO-led propaganda is making efforts to propagate its expulsion from Iraq as a “Victorious Relocation”, its western sponsors seem to be totally misled about the group and the world inside the group.

Certain sponsors of the MKO are so ignorant about the group that when they are told to write a statement about what they call the “successful relocation of all camp liberty residents” they even do not know who liberty residents are.

US democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is absolutely far from reality when she calls last residents of Camp Liberty as “last families”! She claims that the relocation “marks the beginning of a new and hopeful chapter for families who have suffered terrible persecution and violence.”

Ironically, Ms. Pelosi is right because families in the camp of the MKO such as Liberty, Ashraf and other camp of the group have always suffer horrible experiences. As a matter of fact “Family” is meaningless inside the MKO. Family is against the values of the organization –Massoud’s cult of personality.

According to a large number of reports and testimonies celibacy is mandatory in the MKO. After the so-called Ideological Revolution of Massoud Rajavi, members of the group were forced to divorce their spouses. Since then no marriage has taken place in the MKO –except those of Massoud Rajavi as polygamous leader– and no baby has been born. In 1991, all children of the MKO members were transferred to Europe. Even if two members are brothers, they are kept in different units inside the camp. Family members are only allowed to visit each other once or twice a year, mostly for New Year celebrations and for a short time under the supervision of their authorities. This is the notion of “Family” in the Cult of Rajavi.   

Nancy Pelosi as the House minority leader have to be more informed about the truth of the entity she sponsors. She might think that receiving the MKO dollars is enough for a ten minute speech on its behalf or for a short statement on the  “Victorious Relocation” but she should carefully ponder to what she says or writes. Sometimes the truth is so bright that one may sound fooled trying to hide it behind propaganda.

The truth are those suffering families who has never been able to visit their loved ones in a free atmosphere inside the MKO camps.

By Mazda Parsi

September 27, 2016 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Nothing to celebrate – MEK leader Maryam Rajavi pretends forced move to Albania is a great victory

The Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group has finally been expelled from Iraq after years of effort by the Government of Iraq, UNAMI and the US to get them to go. What is strange is that, after three years of intransigence, the group’s leader has now ordered her followers to celebrate their move. For a group which advertised itself as ready to topple the Iranian regime from Iraq and only a year ago demanded the US rearm them in Camp Liberty, it is not clear what they are celebrating.

Back in 2013, the United States – which had pledged to protect the MEK – negotiated a deal with Albania to take an initial number of 210 members and re-settle them in Tirana. The MEK refused absolutely to move. They demanded that either the whole group be moved wholesale to America, or the group be returned to its training base Camp Ashraf from which they had been moved to Camp Liberty for reasons of safety.

In spite of a number of armed attacks against the MEK by unknown assailants, which caused the deaths of about 200 and many more injuries, the MEK still refused to co-operate with US and UNHCR efforts to have the members transferred to safety in Albania.

This is what the Washington Times reported in March 2013:

“…The U.S. wants the MeK leadership to ‘accept the government of Albania’s humanitarian offer immediately, and urges the residents of Camp [Liberty] to resume participation in resettlement interviews to ensure that individuals avail themselves of safe and secure relocation opportunities outside Iraq,’ said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. The dissidents are housed at Camp Liberty, a temporary location near Baghdad’s international airport. ’We further urge the MeK leadership to place the highest priority on the safety and security of the former residents of [Camp] Ashraf through full and unconditional cooperation with the resettlement process,’ Mrs. Nuland said. The MEK has rejected the offer.”

MEK leader Maryam Rajavi is now facing questions from her followers about this move and about their futures. In order to distract their minds from these troubling doubts, over the past week she has paid millions to lobbying groups and individuals in the West to send congratulatory messages about the move. She has also ordered her followers to stage celebrations. She hopes this will be enough to convince them or at least numb them enough to forget their predicament.

September 26, 2016 0 comments
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Albania

Iranian Opposition Ex-Fighters ‘Transferred to Albania’

Iranian media reported on Thursday that a plane has flown 155 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People’s Mujahedin of Iran), an exiled opposition movement that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic in Iran, to Tirana.

The Fars news agency claimed that a total of 676 of the organisation’s members are scheduled to be transferred to Albania this month.

The Albanian Interior ministry didn’t deny the report, although it refused to specify the number of People’s Mujahedin of Iran members expected to be transferred to Albania during August.

“The Albanian government has an agreement signed in 2013 for the accommodation of the group so we are continuously expecting them to come to the country in accordance with it,” an interior ministry source.

The agreement is believed to have been signed with the US, and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran members are believed to have been transferred to Tirana from Camp Liberty in Iraq.

The interior ministry source said that it was not allowed under the agreement to give the numbers of those arriving as this was considered a sensitive information gave the risks involved.

In March 2013, former Prime Minister Sali Berisha disclosed part of the agreement in an official statement after meeting the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Barbara Leaf, and the UN envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler.

At the time, the government said it had offered asylum to 210 members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran.

After that, no more information about the agreement or the opposition fighters’ arrival has been officially released.

Voice of America reported in February this year however that the number of People’s Mujahedin of Iran members coming to Albania might be as many as 3,000.

“In the last two years, Albania has accepted around 1,000 members of this group, and according to a high official of State Department, the country has promised that is going to accept also 2,000 others,” wrote journalist Pam Dockins in an article for Voice of America after she was part of the press entourage accompanying US Secretary of State John Kerry to Tirana on February 14.

Dockins’ article also said that during the visit, Kerry thanked the Albanian government for its effort in the taking the Iranians, although the issue was not publicly mentioned while he met the country’s political leaders.

The People’s Mujahedin of Iran is a controversial resistance group. Founded in 1965 as a left-leaning opposition to the Shah’s regime, it turned against the Islamic Republic following the 1979 Revolution.

The US listed it as a terrorist organisation in 1997 but it was removed from the blacklist in 2012 after it renounced violence.

Several thousand of its members left Iran for Iraq, where former dictator Saddam Hussein, used them as a tool against the Iranian regime.

After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, alliance forces offered the Iranians protection. Since then, about 3,000 have lived at Camp Ashraf while others were sheltered at Camp Liberty near Baghdad.

Fatjona Mejdini, Balkan Insight, Tirana (Albania),

September 25, 2016 0 comments
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Iran

Iran’s approach toward Saudi hostility

Saudi Arabia has intensified its anti-Iran rhetoric over the past years.

The kingdom has also been spreading Iranophobia to achieve its regional objectives.

Riyadh has attempted to brand Iran as a country which intends to plunge the region into turmoil. It accuses Iran of fanning the flames of conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Yemen.

But it is Saudi Arabia that launched a military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, claiming thousands of lives and causing a severe humanitarian crisis in the impoverished nation.

The kingdom is also accused of backing terrorist groups which fight against the Syrian government. Riyadh has reportedly provided the terrorists with logistic and financial support in a bid to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In response to such hostile policies, Iran has called for holding political dialogue to end conflicts in Yemen and Syria. Tehran has always welcomed all moves which can help end bloodshed in these countries. The Islamic Republic has also sent humanitarian assistance to these countries to alleviate the people’s plight.

Saudi officials have also explicitly expressed support for an anti-Iran terrorist group known as Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). The MKO terrorists have carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, killing thousands of people.

Saudi Arabia also threw its weight behind the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which began an eight-year war against Iran (1980-88).

Apart from such hostile approaches, the kingdom refuses to shoulder the responsibility for last year’s Hajj stampede which resulted in the deaths of thousands of pilgrims, including hundreds of Iranians.

Despite Riyadh’s antagonism toward Tehran, the Islamic Republic has never taken approaches which could have pitted Muslims against each other.

Iran believes tensions among Islamic nations only benefit Israel and those who want to create division among Muslims.

The Islamic Republic is a regional power whose military might enables it to deter any act of aggression. Nonetheless, it prefers to follow up its complaints against Saudis through international bodies rather than get into a regional confrontation.

Iran Daily

September 25, 2016 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

The MKO relocation; victory for who?

Following the relocation of the last members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization in Albania, various arguments were stated by different sides.  MKO’s propaganda has also been active in releasing the most absurd and surprising reaction to this relocation. The move was celebrated by the group as a “Victorious Relocation”!

Regarding the background of the MKO’s presence in Iraq, the claim that the move to Albania is a victory seems bizarre. In the early 1980sthe group leader Masoud Rajavi accepted the offer by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to take shelter in Iraq in order to fight against Iranians. They joined Saddam’s troops in killing many Iranians. The irony is that they killed their own country fellow men which will never be forgotten by Iranians. They considered Saddam as the enemy of their enemy so he is a friend. This is the most ridiculous statement in justifying the killing of your countrymen.

Saddam Hussein granted land, money and military equipment to the MKO.  Camp Ashraf, Located 60 kilometers North of Baghdad, 120 kilometers from Iranian border, became the headquarters of the group from which they launched their military attack against their own countrymen. The MKO WAS Saddam’s fifth column and proxy force against Iran.

After the fall of the Iraqi dictator, the MKO agreed to offer the same service to the US and Israel. The MKO was a very good option for the US and Israel to launch their proxy wars against Iran and to pry the secret out of Iranian nuclear program. They also aided Israel to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. Obviously, the MKO received a large sum and safe haven for their services by Israel and West.

Therefore, the presence of the MKO in Iraqi territory neighboring Iran has always been advantageous for the group leaders. However, it was disastrous for the rank and file of the group because they were stuck in Camp Ashraf that was occasionally attacked by the Shiits who were seeking to revenge the supporting role of the MKO in the suppression of Shiit’s uprisings by Saddam Hussein during the 1990s.

Although the members of the Cult of Rajavi –kept in the camp as hostages—were living in a hazardous area, the group leaders denied to leave the camp. The newly established Iraqi government was determined to expel the MKO but the group leaders urged to maintain their strategic container, Camp Ashraf. Ultimately, the camp was shut down by the Iraq government after several members of the group were killed in clashes between the group and the Iraqi police or Iraqi rebels.

Camp Liberty was a temporary location near Baghdad airport that hosted the MKO. Members were supposed to be resettled in third countries by the help of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the United States. In June 2013, the then UN envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler told the Associated Press that efforts to relocate residents of an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq are being stymied in part by lack of cooperation from the exiles themselves. Besides, Koberacknowledged that a major problem in resettling camp residents is a shortage of countries willing to accept them. He repeated his call for U.N. member states, including the U.S., to do more. “We do not have enough recipient countries. … There is also reluctance from the side of the Liberty residents to cooperate with the UNHCR," he said, referring to the U.N. refugee agency. [1]

Finally, it was the US government that convinced Albanian authorities to receive the MKO in exchange for US dollars. The part of Albanian government to accept the formerly terrorist designated MKO was so significant that the US Secretary of State John Kerry praised the country’s “humanitarian” aid. Thus, based on what kind of calculation or philosophy one can consider the MKO’s relocation as a “victory”?

While Maryam Rajavi calls the departure from Iran’s neighboring territory “a hammer that will descend upon the ruling theocracy”, Mustafa Saadoun of Al Monitor asserts that the Islamic Republic was the winner of the recent move criticizing the Iraqi government for its failure to take more advantages from the case. “Of course, the MEK’s departure from Iraq after they had been present there for 30 years has eliminated the threat posed against the Iranian regime, since the MEK’s proximity to Iranian interests in Iraq could not have been easy for Tehran,” he writes. [2]

Regarding Saadoun’s argument, it should be noted that the MKO has never been a real threat for Iran because of the popular base it lacks among Iranian public. The American journalist Barbara Slavin describes the MKO as “far from democratic organization it purports to be”. She reveals the cult-like nature of the MKO,”the group is a cult that forces members to be celibate, to give up personal wealth and to show complete allegiance to Ms. Rajavi.” [3]

Concerning the unpopularity of the MKO, Slavin finds it hard to imagine the MKO as the alternative of the Iranian government. “Hopefully, the former residents of Camp Ashraf will be able to construct new lives outside Iraq and memories of the movement will fade,” she writes. [4]

The relocation of the MKO may only be a victorious move for those brainwashed members who are taken by the group leaders as hostages. They are not in the danger of rocket attacks and bombings as they suffered in Iraq. Besides, living in Europe they seem to be able to find more opportunities to escape the bars of the Cult of Rajavi.

By Mazda Parsi

Sources:

[1] The Associated Press, AP Interview: UN Iraq rep urges exile cooperation, June 26, 2013

[2]Saadouin, Mustafa,What’s next for Baghdad-Tehran ties as last MEK members leave Iraq?, Al Monitor, September 10, 2016

[3] Slavin, Barbara,State Department Removes Last MEK Members from Iraq, Voice Of America, September 14, 2016

[4] ibid

September 24, 2016 0 comments
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Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 162

++ This week Farsi media has been dominated by analysis about the future of the MEK after they left Iraq. The BBC, Radio Farda, VOA and others predict the end of the MEK, as we know it, as a viable force. But as a mercenary force, we can only wait and see what they do next. At the same time, the MEK is on overdrive, using paid lobbyists, to say that ‘being deported from Iraq after thirty years is a victory’. This has been widely ridiculed by commentators.

++ There are many new films being broadcast from Albania, mostly by Albanian media, about the MEK in Tirana. Some show groups of MEK wandering about aimlessly, others are hiding behind windows and doors at the apartment block. Journalists have been able to talk with the MEK’s neighbours at their apartment block as well as other concerned citizens. The overriding message is that the MEK are ‘into themselves’ and don’t talk to anyone, not even officials. The neighbours see them as secretive people who hide behind closed doors and don’t interact with outsiders and who keep their curtains shut all day and night. The Arabic channel Akhbar Al’an managed to find a couple of MEK members outside the building and questioned them on camera. The film shows two women who are clearly ‘lost’. Asked ‘are you staying in Albania?’ One replied ‘Yes, this is our last stop’. But suddenly she looks at the other woman and then turns and says ‘No, we’re here until the regime is toppled’. The film shows the other woman hiding her face saying ‘my family in Iran are in danger’. But pictures of the same woman with posing with a Kalashnikov at the time of Saddam Hussein are all over the internet. All these reports conclude that the MEK as we know it is finished.

++ This week Iran’s President Rouhani spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York. As expected, the MEK staged a picket in a nearby square. This year, however, the attendance was negligible. None of the MEK’s usual lobbyists turned up and they had to make do with Joe Lieberman, who has clearly lost the plot and therefore resorts to unconvincing anti-Iran rants. Every year the MEK enacts a scenario showing a prisoner and prison guard to symbolise the human rights situation in Iran. This year however the actors in the MEK’s photos were blond haired. Perhaps they couldn’t find any Iranians to take part. There was no news coverage of the event except in Saudi media; they want to show that the MEK is still alive. However, in its weekly programme, Mardom TV broadcast some of the MEK’s photo-shopped images in which they try to disguise the fact there were no more than 20 people in the square. In some pictures, images of people holding a flag in each hand have been replicated over and over in an effort to show more flags. VOA had a brief discussion about the situation of the MEK. The MEK representative was Raymond Tanter who is a laughing stock for Iranians. Many wrote comments that ‘the death of the leader has to be announced by the former Saudi Intelligence chief, and on a Farsi broadcast channel the MEK send CIA-affiliated Raymond Tanter to represent them in English, which then has to be translated to Farsi for the audience’.

In English:

++ Fatjona Mejdini, Balkan Insight reports ‘Iranian Opposition Ex-Fighters ‘Transferred to Albania’. The article outlines the known facts about the agreement Albania made to accept 210 members of the Mojahedin Khalq in 2013. But says that since then “no official statement” has been released about the transfers by the Albanian government. Instead, the writer relies on American sources to provide information. “’In the last two years, Albania has accepted around 1,000 members of this group, and according to a high official of State Department, the country has promised that is going to accept also 2,000 others,’ wrote journalist Pam Dockins in an article for Voice of America after she was part of the press entourage accompanying US Secretary of State John Kerry to Tirana on February 14. Dockins’ article also said that during the visit, Kerry thanked the Albanian government for its effort in the taking the Iranians, although the issue was not publicly mentioned while he met the country’s political leaders.”

++ Pars Today (Translated by Nejat Society), Tirana, Albania, ‘How much does it cost to keep Iran’s enemies in Albania?’ The article does not dwell on the financial cost, but raises the issue of the political and security cost to Albania and Europe as the war between America and Iran has now been brought from Iraq to the border of Europe.

September 23, 2016

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Former members of the MEK

Panel of Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult critics

On Saturday, September 17th the Rajavis’ Cult critics gathered together in Cologne, Germany to review the 30 – year life of MKO in Iraq and eventually its expelling from the Iraqi soil, Iran-Zanan Website reported.

Ms. Batoul soltani, Ms. Zahra Moeini, Mr. Ali Akbar Rastgoo, Mr. Davoud Baghervand and Mr. Nader Keshtkar participated the panel.

The participants who had all spent many years within the Cult affairs, shared their experiences.

They analyzed Massoud Rajavi’s three decade of wrong policies and analysis in Iraq.

They also reviewed the MKO Cult’s expulsion from Iraq, relocation in Albania and its consequences and how the Cult leaders deal with this issue.

The MKO critics denounced the Cult’s efforts to deceive the public opinion into considering this strategic "great defeat" as a "great victory".

The participants also examined the bright horizons ahead of MKO dissatisfied members in Albania who are awaiting an opportunity to leave the group.

September 22, 2016 0 comments
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Albania

How much does it cost to keep Iran’s enemies in Albania?

The Albanian page of Pars Today Website published a report by an Albanian periodical Parrena on the recent relocation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq members in Tirana, Albania. The report is titled “the result of receiving Mujahedin, Albania on the verge of war.”

Parrena criticizes the Albanian government for accepting the MKO in its territory. Like the Zionists who settled in the Palestinian territory in the last century, 3000 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq were relocated in Albania, according to Parrena.

The following, extracted of the report, was translated to Persian by Pars Today:

“The problem is absolutely not the MKO as a group of people with different race, religion or ethnic traits. The basic problem is that the MKO is the enemy of the Islamic Republic government. They are not only ideological its enemies but also active fighters who are officially denounced by the Iranian government as its enemy.

Having accepted the MKO in Albania, the war battle between Iran and Europe is situated in Albania. The group will soon launch its propaganda and its activities inside the Albanian borders while it is protected by the Albanian government.

Does Albania need such a danger?

Of-course, everything has its own price. To accomplish the deal, the US Secretary of State John Kerry came to Albania. But it should be asked how much it costs Albania to locate the enemies of Iran in the heart of Albania? Such a deal would be justified only if it is done for the national interests of the Albanians just like the “Kosovo-Albania Unification”.

 However, during the past month, no changes were seen in the Albanian cities, except the mobile stores haunted by large numbers of MKO members who seek to be equipped by the newest mobile or tablets.

Albanian public opinion is not able to realize what it means to bring war to your home. This is the dream of every Albanian politician: “Good relations with the United States. Nothing else matters.” […]

For the time being, the US is seeking to normalize the relations with Iran and the European Union is taking serious actions to improve the relations with Iran. But, we, “the hometown of the MKO”, what did we do and what did we obtain?

The MKO will continue the war it started decades ago now, in the “promised land”, in the Palestine it has found in the heart of Balkan.  

Well, what will happen next? What will the media do? Do the media suffer the sever lack of information on the issue? No, it is impossible. With a slight google search, you can find out everything about the MKO and the threat they pose. Nevertheless, the media sound to have sold themselves with a very low price too.”

September 21, 2016 0 comments
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USA

US Resettles Last MEK Members in Albania

On September 12, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the last 280 members of a controversial Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), had been transferred from Iraq to Albania. Founded in 1965 as an urban guerilla group, it opposed the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The leftist group killed six Americans in Iran in the 1970s. The MEK participated in the 1979 Revolution but later broke with revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini over ideology and direction.

In 1981, the MEK went underground. Members fled to Iraq and supported Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 war with Iran. The MEK helped Hussein’s forces suppress Shiite and Kurdish uprisings after the 1991 Gulf War. It also attempted an attack against the Iranian mission to the United Nations in 1992 and was thought to be responsible for attacks on Iranian officials in the 1990s. The State Department designated it a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997. But the MEK renounced violence in 2001.

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. forces initially attacked MEK military targets. The group claimed neutrality though. As part of a cease-fire, members were disarmed and confined to their base at Camp Ashraf. The United States later designated them as civilian “protected persons.” More than 3,000 of the camp’s residents were moved to a former U.S. military base near Baghdad known as Camp Liberty in 2012 with the intention of resettling them elsewhere for their own safety. The State Department took the MEK off the terror list that same year, noting that it had not been positively linked to terrorist attacks for more than a decade. During the last few years, the United States has helped to resettle MEK members in several European countries, including Albania. 

The following is the full text of Kerry’s remarks on the recent transfer.  

Secretary of State John Kerry

John KerryOn Friday of last week, the last 280 members of the exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK, as they’re known, were moved out of Camp Liberty in Iraq. And their departure concludes a significant American diplomatic initiative that has assured the safety of more than 3,000 MEK members whose lives have been under threat. And as everybody remembers, the camp they were in had on many occasions been shelled. There were people killed and injured. And we have been trying to figure out the way forward.

Well, the last 10 years have been filled with reminders of this challenge. I first became involved in this effort when I was in the Senate, and that is why during my first year as Secretary I appointed Jonathan Winer, one of my longest-serving and most trusted advisers, as our emissary to find a way to help the MEK be able to leave Iraq.

After steady progress over a period of months, I visited Tirana earlier this year and I discussed with the Albanian Government how to assist in facilitating the transfer and the resettlement of the last group of MEK members from Camp Liberty. Albania has a proud tradition of protecting vulnerable communities, as it did during the Kosovo conflict and in sheltering large numbers of Jews during World War II. I am very grateful that in this case too Albania was willing to play an important humanitarian role. I also want to thank the governments of Germany, Norway, Italy, the U.K., Finland, and other EU countries for helping to save the lives of the MEK. And this is a major humanitarian achievement, and I’m very proud that the United States was able to play a pivotal role in helping to get this job done.   —Sept. 12, 2016, during a press briefing

Iranprimer.usip.org

September 19, 2016 0 comments
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