Al-Jazeera
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Iran disinformation & the curious case of Heshmat Alavi
US-Iran debates: Fake writers and state-funded trolling | The Listening Post On The Listening Post this week: Taxpayer-funded smears and a well-published but fake activist – worrying twists in the US-Iran online battle. Plus, the YouTube influencers of the Algerian protests. As the Trump administration…
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System
Mojahedin Khalq keyboard warriors target journalists, Academics, activists
For a country that has been on the wrong end of United States foreign policy for nearly four decades, it is no surprise the debate over Iran has been polarising. The US’s decision to withdrawal from the nuclear deal this year has boosted those calling…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Is Iran really a nuclear threat?
They were considered a terrorist organisation for many years, and most importantly the MEK was working hand in glove with Israel's Mossad during the period when these documents surfaced.
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
There are no viable alternatives that Trump could bring to power in Iran
Bolton advocates bringing to power in Iran a former “terrorist” group, Mujahedin-E Khalq Organisation (MEK), which he regards as a “viable” alternative to the Islamic Republic. Bolton’s belief in the MEK is ill-founded. The group with a catalogue of human rights abuses has an ideology…
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terror group
MEK’s violent past looms over US lobby for regime change in Iran
On June 28, 1981, a huge explosion ripped through the headquarters of Iran’s ruling Islamic Republic Party, killing at least 74 government officials, including the country’s chief justice, Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti and more than 20 parliament members, gathered that Sunday evening in southern Tehran. Iran…
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Iran
Ten things Iranians can do to preempt a Trump war
Second, denounce those treacherous forces among the expat opposition – now led by the cultic People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), and Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah – that demand “regime change” in Iran. Neither of these characters has the slightest legitimacy inside…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
When it comes to terrorising people, the US beats the Islamic Republic, hands down
According to Iranian calculations, more than 17,000 persons have perished as a result of terrorist operations in the country since the Islamic revolution of 1979. The majority of these were perpetrated by the anti-government Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) aka MKO/PMOI. Casualties have included three-year-old Fatima Taleghani …
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Camp Liberty
Attack on Libery killed and wounded MKO and Iraqi policemen
The United Nations called for an immediate investigation and said monitors were following up on the deaths, the first confirmed fatalities as a result of violence at the group's new camp since they moved there last year. The MEK aka MKO/PMOI, whose leadership is based…
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UN
UN condemns attack on Mojahedin Khalq camp
Martin Kobler, the top UN official in Iraq, told Al Jazeera that he was "shocked" by the attack. "These people have to be protected," he said, calling on Iraqi authorities to "promptly conduct an investigation". ...
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Has the MEK changed?
as the US made its case for invading Iraq in 2003, it cited the Iraqi leader's support for the MEK/MKO/PMOI as evidence of his support for terrorism.But now, after a two-year lobbying campaign that enlisted many prominent US politicians and former military officers, the group…