Christian Science Monitor
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Covert war against Iran’s nuclear scientists: a widow remembers
Alimohammadi knew he was being monitored by some Western nations and the opposition Mojahidin-e Khalq (MKO/MEK), which in 2002 first exposed the existence of Iran’s uranium enrichment program. In 2006, for example, a colleague at a conference in Britain was questioned for 24 hours about…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
For former Iranian ‘terrorists,’ a warm Washington welcome
Some US critics of the NCRI [MKO/MEK/PMOI]say there are no grounds for believing the group has anything of a positive image, let alone actual support, in Iran. Going further, they point to the high speaking and lobbying fees that some of the group’s prominent American…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
30,000 Iranian spies? Library of Congress withdraws report
Massoud Khodabandeh, is a former-member-turned-fierce-critic of the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), a small exile group ..The report's source for the spy claim is a 2007 essay published on a now-defunct website by Rabbi Daniel Zucker, who is chair of a group called Americans for Democracy in…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Lobbyists for listed Iranian terror group face new scrutiny
While ex-US officials are receiving money from the MEK/MKO/PMOI, rather than providing it, the tolerance of the close work with the group has been a Washington oddity for some time. There's some "enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic around this ..and some of…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
United States’ two-faced approach to terrorism
US officials confirmed in an MSNBC report that Israel’s Mossad and the Iranian terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) have been collaborating on assassinating Iranian scientists and attacking military bases.The attacks appear to represent tit-for-tat responses to a long-term covert war against Iran by Israel, along…
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Camp Ashraf
With deadline looming to close MEK’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq, what next?
Recent MEK defectors from the camp interviewed by the Monitor say further dramatic acts may take place, as the deadline nears."It's clear to me, [Mr. Rajavi] wants people to get killed, and send it to the media," argues Shahram Heydari, who left the camp two…
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System
MKO’s big-money push to get off US terrorist list
A roster of influential former US officials is speaking at rallies in support of removing the MEK, an Iranian opposition group with a violent anti-American history, from the US terrorist list. A decision is expected within weeks.A high-powered array of former top American officials is…
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UN
UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group
..An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Saad al-Matalabi, said forensic tests that included US experts have been completed on the bodies[of MKO/MEK/PMOI members] to determine whether a medical team’s initial findings had been correct...“They were shot execution-style,” Mr. al-Mutalibi told the Monitor. “The first…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Israeli Lobby,American Neocons and Terrorist MKO Join forces to lobby USG to bomb Iran
... lobbyists, and propagandists have spent nearly two decades pushing the lie that Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and Israel. After a brief respite in the intensity of the wolf cries over the past two years, the neoconservative movement has…
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Iraq
Who are the MKO and why did Iraqi forces storm their camp?
Iraq flexes its muscles at Camp Ashraf and shows military independence from America, as the Iranian exile group's long strange trip draws to a close..Camp Ashraf, the object of the raid, has been the principal home of the MKO since the Iranian group allied itself…
