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Israel Using Mojahedin Khalq From Albania

Olsi Jazexhi: West, Israel Using MKO to Counter Political Islam

Olsi Jazexhi, Albanian historian and journalist, says Zionists in Israel, the US and UK are supporting Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI or NCRI) terrorist group to destroy Islam and Iran.

Speaking in an interview with FNA, Jazexhi said, “MKO is an Islamophobic and terrorist cult like ISIS, Al-Qaeda or Jahbat al Nusra… These cults denounce political Islam, the struggle for decolonization of Muslims, demand for the separation of religion from politics, ask for the secularization of Muslim societies and want to violently de-Islamize the Muslim world… MKO is the best terrorist and radical organization which can do such a horrible crime.”

Olsi Jazexhi, PhD, is a Canadian-Albanian university lecturer and historian who is specialized in the history of Islam, nationalism and religious reformation in Southeastern Europe.

Canadian-Albanian university lecturer and historian; Olsi Jazexhi

Below is the full text of the interview:

Q: We know Albania, like most of the Balkans, was historically anti-Israel, and rather pro-Palestine. Why do we see policy shift in Albania in the last two decades?

A: The reason why most Balkan countries were supporting the Palestinian issue and not Israel is very complex. The most important reasons were Ottomans and Socialism. Before World War I Palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The British had not yet invented Israel and the activities of the Zionists to occupy the Holy Land were denounced by peoples of the Balkans. Palestine with Jerusalem were considered holy places by Christians and Muslims who used to go to Jerusalem for pilgrimage. 120 years ago – the idea that one day the British will invent a state called Israel and only for the Jews, was unimaginable.

After the Second World War most of the Balkan countries joined the Socialist Block headed by the Soviet Union. Having fought and won over Nazi Germany, the communist governments of Southeastern Europe could not support the newly invented apartheid state of Israel. For the communist/socialist governments and peoples of the Balkans Israel was perceived as racist and aggressor state and supporting it was morally unacceptable.

The war of liberation that Palestinians were making against Israel, reminded the people of Southeastern Europe to the war that they made against the Nazi occupation. Communism came to the Balkans as a liberation ideology. A major theme of the Marxist ideology was the national liberation of the oppressed people. The struggle for independence of the Palestinians was seen through Lenin’s advocacy of anti-imperialism and self-determination of all peoples who were suffering under the colonial rule in Asia and Africa.

During the era of socialism the Palestinian struggle was not seen as a fight between the Israeli theocratic regime and Muslim Palestinians, but as a struggle between a native colonized population and Israel which was depicted as a tool of Western imperialism against the Arab world.

However, after the defeat of communism and triumph of Western imperialism, most Balkan countries have been forced by the Americans to abandon the plight of the Palestinians and follow the Evangelical/Zionist religious dictate which does not allow the people of our planet to even question the crimes that Israel commits against the Palestinians.

After the fall of communism, Albania lost its independence and became an American colony. Albania today is like Iran in the time of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh or like Hungary under Soviet rule. No politician or political party, which does not obey the US Embassy dictates in Tirana can survive and enter the parliament. Albanian politicians, like our president Ilir Meta today, know very well that if they do not obey American dictates they might end like Imre Nagy in Hungary, Mosaddegh in Iran or Salvador Allende in Chile.

Unlike Iran where since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 the people of Iran have won independence and enjoy a free national democratic system, where foreign powers are not allowed to interfere in local elections, in Albania people are not free. The US Embassy in Tirana which behaves like an occupying power controls the whole political establishment of the country. It vets every politician who wants to enter in the parliament, every businessman who wants to invest in the country, every minister and even every Mullah for what they preach inside their mosques. People like Abdolnaser Hemmati, Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Mohsen Rezaee or President Ebrahim Raisi, if they were to run for elections in Albania, they would have not been allowed by the US Embassy to enter into politics. They would have been jailed since they believe in political Islam. The US Embassy of Tirana is not as tolerant as the Guardian Council of Iran which vets your politicians. While the Guardian Council vets Iranian politicians for their loyalty to Islam and the nation, the US Embassy in Tirana vets our politicians for their Islamophobia, disloyalty to the country and obedience to the American agenda. A condition to be elected as a parliamentarian in Albania is total obedience to American dictates. You have to say yes to their LGBT, pro-Israel, imperialist, anti-religious agenda if you want to enter into politics and became an important player of our society. These facts can be read in the Wikileaks section of Albania.

While Islam is the dominant religion of Albania, it is not allowed to play any role in our society. Americans and Israelis consider Islam a dangerous ideology. In Albania and Kosovo we have mullahs and believers who have been jailed for their Islamic political convictions. Political parties like Levizja Islame Bashkohu (the Islamic United Movement) in Kosovo have been closed and its activists and leaders jailed. American officials consider Islam a hostile ideology, since Islam does not accept the Zionist occupation of Jerusalem–al-Quds, rejects the international interest base monetary system, colonialism, imperialism, the LGBT agenda, etc.

However, while Islam is considered a “dangerous ideology”, we have many Evangelical Christians and priests who serve as deputies in the parliament, city mayors, ministers, TV presenters, etc. Their theological religious identity is promoted and appreciated by the Americans even though the Evangelicals are less than 1% of our total population. While they are promoted, if you are a believer of Islam, a Muslim cleric, etc. you are not allowed to work in state institutions, army and enter into politics. You are investigated by counterterrorism police as a potential terrorist, you are not allowed to create a Muslim political party and you cannot even post such ideas in your mosque or in Facebook. If you speak about political Islam, the rights of the Muslims, the plight of the Palestinians, etc. you will be immediately banned.

The Muslim majority of Albania but even in Kosovo live in apartheid like regimes. Islam is not allowed to have its say in the country.

Q: Why is Albania hosting MKO? Is hosting a terrorist group in the national interest of the country?

A: Albania is hosting the MKO on orders by the Americans. Israel is very happy with Albania hosting the MKO since it is one of the major enemies of Iran, Islam and Palestine. If you read the Israeli media, its think-tank organizations and politicians you will see that most of them support and sympathize the MKO. Maryam Rajavi and her fighters are staunch enemies of Islam, the Vilayat al Faqih and their dream is to remove Islam from Iran and the Middle East and massacre the Muslim clergy. The MKO hatred and policies against Islam in Iran are similar to those that the Soviets did in Central Asia.

The Israeli lobby, Zionist American and British politicians perceive the MKO and its totalitarian ideology as the extremist “Bolsheviks” that are needed to destroy political Islam once and for all in Iran and in the Middle East. People like John Bolton, Mark D. Wallace, Joseph Lieberman, Frances Townsend, Giulio Terzi who want regime change in Turkey and in Iran have a common thing in mind: the Muslim World should not be allowed to have Islamic political parties in power. That is why the West supports MKO against Iran and the Gulen movement against Turkey. Both these cults denounce political Islam, the struggle for decolonization of Muslims, demand for the separation of religion from politics, ask for the secularization of Muslim societies and want to violently de-Islamize the Muslim world. Western Zionists want to kill Islam like they did with Catholicism and the MKO is the best terrorist and radical organization which can do such a horrible crime.

For as long as Muslims practice political Islam, the theocratic regime of Israel will have problems to find a ‘final solution’ for Masjid al-Aqsa and its Palestinian population.

Q: How does MKO recruit Albanians?

A: MKO runs a paramilitary camp in Albania. It has a huge spy network and uses Albania as a base to attack Iran and political Islam. With American support it has turned Albania into a no-go zone for Iranians. Many Iranians who travel to Europe via Albania are arrested and jailed – since MKO claims that any Iranian who enters Albania – without the approval of Maryam Rajavi – is an Iranian spy.

MKO spends millions of dollars in propaganda. It hosts conferences to promote its image as a “democratic” and anti-Islamic movement that will finish once and for all Islam and the clergy in Iran. It sponsors many newspapers and portals in Albania and has a multi-million-dollar budget through which it pays politicians in USA and Europe to demonize Iran. Its major job for the time being is to incite Europeans and Americans to go to war with Iran and turn Iran into a second Libya, Syria or Iraq.

MKO is an Islamophobic and terrorist cult like ISIS, Al-Qaeda or Jahbat al Nusra. If you read and listen to the speeches of Maryam Rajavi you can understand that MKO’s dream is to destroy Islam in Iran, execute the clergy and turn Iran into an American–Israeli colony like Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. In the latest conference that Rajavi held from Albania – she and her American supporters revealed their plans to divide Iran into different states. They want to create a state for the Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis and other ethnic groups and divide Iran like Libya, Syria or Iraq.

Thanks to the American-Israeli-Saudi support, MKO like ISIS and Nusra in 2011–2013 has managed to recruit and radicalize many Albanians in its cause. Like ISIS which turned many Europeans into suicide bombers and terrorists who entered and destroyed Syria – MKO has radicalized many people in Europe, who one day might enter Iran and commit terrorist attacks. MKO uses the Syrian takfiri playbook to radicalize its supporters. They promise freedom, democracy, liberation and accuse the leaders of Iran as brutal rulers, dictators and butchers. Exactly what Daesh propaganda did in Syria. The end result behind MKO’s propaganda will be the total destruction of Iran and millions of Iranians who will die, abandon their country and seek refuge in Europe.

March 3, 2022 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

The MEK Failing to Win Support of Even Iran’s Enemies

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Anne Khodabandeh, political activist, says the practice of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI and NCRI) terrorist group to pay huge amounts of money to former officials to speak at their conference proves that it has no support even among countries hostile to Iran.

In an interview with FNA, Ms. Khodabandeh said, “The MKO has been forced to create audiences by paying for students and refugees to attend these conferences. These individuals have no links to Iran and no interest in the issues presented.”

Anne Khodabandeh Singleton is a British expert in cultic abuse and terrorism. She was formerly an MKO member, leaving the terrorist group in 1996.

Ann Singleton

Below is the full text of the interview:

Q: How do you interpret MKO’s practice of having former officials of different country’s deliver speeches in the terror group’s annual conferences?

A: Every year, the MKO holds a lavish and gaudy conference to advertise its leader Maryam Rajavi and its agenda. This is because the MKO exists, particularly now, as a propaganda outfit rather than as a normal opposition movement. Over the years, because it has no support among Iranians – whether inside or outside Iran – the MKO has been forced to create audiences by paying for students and refugees to attend these conferences. These individuals have no links to Iran and no interest in the issues presented. This year of course the event was held online, so this issue was not particularly prominent. However, it remains the case that the MKO is also forced to pay for a variety of political and other officials to deliver speeches which replicate the MKO’s core message of regime change against Iran. The significance of this is that Maryam Rajavi has proven incapable of winning support even among the most strident of Iran’s enemies. It does not matter whether the speakers are of the calibre and prominence of individuals like John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani or are second-rate retired officials that nobody has heard of it is not authentic genuine support, it is paid for. The real problem for Rajavi, however, is that she cannot share the stage with any other Iranian. This is partly due to the toxicity of her bloody and treacherous past, but also due to her role as the sole leader of a mind control cult. She simply cannot be seen by her own followers to be allied to other Iranian opposition groups or personalities. In subtle ways then, these rallies are an admission of Rajavi’s weaknesses and desperation rather than the magnificent advertisements she thinks they are.

Q: MKO hires lobbying groups, pays tens of thousands of dollars to the speakers at their annual meetings, and pays to have meetings with officials of different countries. How is MKO funded?

A: The MKO has gained a reputation among media and political commentators for spending huge amounts of money to stage events like their annual conference and to fund their lobbying activities among western politicians. While this has raised questions about the source of these funds, a glance at the beneficiaries of the MKO’s anti-Iran activities should give a clear enough answer to these questions – America, Europe and the UK and of course Saudi Arabia and Israel are all linked to the MKO’s anti-Iran agenda and activities. But since the MKO have apparently failed year on year to fulfil the promise of regime change, we should perhaps ask not who but why? The MKO of course was notoriously funded by Saddam Hussein for two decades up to 2003 in return for terrorist, intelligence and propaganda services. As a purely mercenary force, the MKO has currently been reduced to providing intelligence and propaganda services for its paymasters. Around 2,000 of Maryam Rajavi’s followers are imprisoned as modern slaves in a closed camp in Albania. Their role is to work in the click farm producing propaganda, misinformation and lies in relation to Iran. This is what Rajavi is paid for. But although this might appear to be the only purpose of the camp, there is a more sinister element to this mercenary group. The MKO members are mostly elderly, and many are sick and dying. But, as the saying goes, where is the best place to hide a book: a library – so it is possible to hide a small number of actively trained suicide terrorists among the 2,000 camp residents.

Q: As a Briton, do you believe attendance of ex-UK Parliament Speaker at the MKO conference would actually attract Britons and their politicians?

A: It would be an understandable mistake to believe that the flashy staging of Maryam Rajavi’s rallies and events might attract the equivalent media attention. But any actual audience for Rajavi’s shows is so small and narrowly drawn that in spite of employing a lobbying firm in America to advertise the event, it is almost certain that apart from the paid media and people whose jobs it is to keep an eye on such groups – intelligence officials and researchers – nobody else in the world paid any attention whatsoever except her own followers and supporters. As for Britain, we had a football match to watch.

December 20, 2021 0 comment

Iran

Iran Blasts Western Countries support for MEK terrorists

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Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeyee blasted the western countries allegations about violation of human rights by the Islamic Republic, saying that such claims are disgraceful lies.

Mohseni Ejeyee categorically dismissed the human rights accusations leveled against Iran by some western states and described such a move as disgraceful at a time when the West does not show any respect for human rights.

The Iranian judiciary chief, meantime, referred to the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) terrorist group which is operating against Iran in some western countries with the backing of those governments.

“The hypocrites (MKO members) who assassinated and martyred thousands of innocent people, tortured in the harshest way, and destroyed people’s property, today are welcomed and sheltered by some human rights advocates and even appreciate them while considering the Islamic Republic a violator of human rights.”

In a relevant development last month, Iran’s High Council of Human Rights in a statement on Monday rapped the US and other western states for instrumental use of terrorist groups to attain their colonial goals.

“The systematic support of the US regime and the western governments for terrorists and their affiliate streams across the world is a manifestation of their false claims about fighting terrorism and displays the instrumental use of this capacity to advance their colonial goals,” the Council said in a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the martyrdom of Iran’s late president Mohammad Ali Rajayee and former prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar by the MKO terrorist group.

It added that silence and passivity towards terrorism anywhere in the world and the classifying terrorism into good and bad is the main capacity for the spread of terrorism in all parts of the world, and no government or nation will be safe from its consequences.

The statement lashed out at certain governments and international bodies for their silence on the cruelest crimes against the Iranian nation in the past 4 decades and sheltering the anti-Iran terrorists, and said, “They are the main culprits behind the spread of terrorism in the world.”

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then-dictator Saddam Hussein.

The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.

In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated with the Saudi regime and other regimes adversarial to Iran.

A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.

Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Riyadh.

The MKO terrorist group specified the targets as martyred Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who commanded the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Iranian Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi.

The terrorist organization said it would “welcome” their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to “join” Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran’s former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces during Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Iran.

Earlier in June 2019, leaked audio of a phone conversation between two members of MKO, revealed Saudi regime has colluded with the MKO elements to frame Iran for the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf.

In the audio, which is being released by the Iran Front Page for the first time, Shahram Fakhteh, an official member and the person in charge of MKO’s cyber operations, is heard talking with a US-based MKO sympathizer named Daei-ul-Eslam in Persian, IFP news reported.

In this conversation, the two elements discuss the MKO’s efforts to introduce Iran as the culprit behind the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf, and how the Saudis contacted them to pursue the issue.

“In the past week, we did our best to blame the [Iranian] regime for the (oil tanker) blasts. Saudis have called Sister Maryam (Rajavi)’s office to follow up on the results, [to get] a conclusion of what has been done, and the possible consequences,” Fakhteh is heard saying.

“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.

Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, 2019, and an earlier attack on four oil tankers off the UAE’s Fujairah port on May 12, 2019, have escalated tensions in West Asia and raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.

The MKO which is said to be a cult that turns humans into obedient robots turned against Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and has carried out several terrorist attacks killing senior officials in Iran; yet the West which says cultism is wrong and claims to be against terrorism, supports this terrorist group officially.

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MKO began its enmity against Iran by killing over 17,000 Iranians and terrorist activities. Several members of the terrorist group and its leaders are living in France now, freely conducting terrorist activities.

The MKO terrorist group has martyred 17,161 Iranian citizens, including late president Mohammad Ali Rajayee, former prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, late Head of Supreme Judicial Council Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, late Deputy Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff Ali Sayyad Shirazi, and 27 legislators, as well as four nuclear scientists.

September 11, 2021 0 comment

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Iran Blasts Swedish Court for Yielding to Terrorist MKO’s Plot

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Iran’s foreign ministry rapped the Swedish court’s trial of an Iranian national for the “fabricated” documents provided by the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) terrorist group.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemned the trial of Iranian citizen, Hamid Nouri, in a Swedish court.

“What is going on in Sweden is a plot designed by the Monafeqin (the hypocrites as the MKO members are called in Iran). Unfortunately, the Swedish court has paid attention to a series of fabricated stories, documents and testimonies, all by one group,” he told reporters on Monday.

Khatibzadeh further recalled that the MKO was responsible for shedding the blood of 17,000 Iranian citizens, and expressed regret over the holding of the tribunal in Sweden.

He further noted that the tribunal in Sweden is taking place at a time when a new administration is coming to power in Iran with the aim of putting pressure on the Iranian officials.

Khatibzadeh also stressed that Iran will use all diplomatic means to protect Hamid Nouri’s rights.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh

“What matters is that the Swedish court and the Swedish government should know that they have become part of a propaganda campaign led by the Monafeqin, and this is disgraceful for this state,” he underlined.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then dictator Saddam Hussein.

The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.

In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated to Saudi regime and other regimes adversarial to Iran.

A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.

Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Riyadh.

Earlier in June 2019, a leaked audio of a phone conversation between two members of MKO, revealed Saudi regime has colluded with the MKO elements to frame Iran for the tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf.

“In the past week we did our best to blame the [Iranian] regime for the (oil tanker) blasts. Saudis have called Sister Maryam (Rajavi)’s office to follow up on the results, [to get] a conclusion of what has been done, and the possible consequences,” Fakhteh is heard saying.

“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.

Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, 2019 and an earlier attack on four oil tankers off the UAE’s Fujairah port on May 12, 2019, have escalated tensions in West Asia and raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.

The MKO which is said to be a cult which turns humans into obedient robots, turned against Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and has carried out several terrorist attacks killing senior officials in Iran; yet the West which says cultism is wrong and claims to be against terrorism, supports this terrorist group officially.

August 25, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Support for MKO Terrorists within EU Condemned

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The European Union moves to distance itself from the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization after the prime minister of Slovenia participated in the terrorist organization’s annual conference. Rights activists say any support given to the MKO by EU officials must be condemned.

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July 19, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Families of Victims Ask EU Int’l Bodies to Prosecute MKO Terrorist Group

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Families of terror victims in Iran asked global institutions affiliated to the European Union to launch legal proceedings against the Mojahedin-e Khaq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI) for terrorist operations that have claimed the lives of thousands of Iranian civilians.

Families of Iranian victims of terrorism wrote an open letter addressing the EU officials to take legal proceedings against Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group, after the group’s ringleader Massoud Rajavi reportedly ordered his terror cells to intensify their anti-Iran acts.

Iran Terror Victims

A recent statement attributed to Masoud Rajavi, presumably dead, invited top Iranian leaders to attend an international court case with him.

“We are the families of the victims of assassinations and violence of the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who lost our children, parents and grandparents in targeted and blind operations of this group,” the letter read according to Habilian Association, an Iranian human rights NGO.

“The families of terror victims in Iran call on all international officials and institutions in the European Union to, along with restricting the activities of this group in Europe, prosecute the leaders of this terrorist group in an international court with the presence of their victims,” they added.

The letter noted that Rajavi’s order depicts a “violent strategy” toward the judicial process and the court hearing on March 8 and 9, 2021, during which a number of former members filed a complaint about years of torture and violation of human rights by the terrorist outfit.

They said the MKO’s recent activities proved that it is still a “militant cult” and too far to be an “opposition group,” citing Rajavi’s recent order to the terror cells to identify Iranian citizens working in judicial and military institutions and “execute justice on them.”

They declared their full readiness to cooperate in this process by providing necessary documents to the responsible institutions.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then dictator Saddam Hussein.

The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.

In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated to Saudi regime and other regimes adversarial to Iran.

A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.

Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Riyadh.

“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.

It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.

March 17, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MEK-Israel role in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said assassination of the top Iranian nuclear scientist was a grave crime, describing the terrorist act a manifestation of the enemies’ desperation against the Iranian nation’s scientific advancement.

Rouhani said during a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday hailed Ankara’s stance against the terrorist crime against the Iranian scientist, noting that killing the prominent nuclear scientist Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh clearly shows the failure of the enemies before the Iranian nation.

“The method used in this assassination and by whom it was carried out are clear to us,”he went on to say.

Rouhani stressed that Martyr Fakhrizadeh spent most of his time in the last months in the battle against coronavirus and he completed research on production of diagnostic kits for the disease,

Murdering Iran's N. Scientist

Erdogan, for his part, said that this terrorist attack has surely targeted regional peace and calm.

He expressed hope that Iran will identify the perpetrators of the crime and will bring them to justice very soon.

Martyr Fakhrizadeh’s car was targeted by an explosion and machinegun fire in Damavand’s Absard 40 kilometers to the East of Tehran on Friday.

The nuclear scientist and one of his companions were immediately taken to a nearby hospital but he could not be saved.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Sunday that the assassination bears all the hallmarks of the Israeli regime.

An informed source told Press TV on Monday that the remains of the weapon used in the Friday assassination of senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh show that it was made in Israel.

The history of Tel Aviv’s sabotage targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program is as old as the program itself.

Israel mek relation - iran nuclear scientist terror

Many observers believe Israel is not able to carry out such dangerous operations without the prior information and support of the United States which left a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in 2015.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said that electronic equipment has been used in the “highly complicated” assassination of Fakhrizadeh, and further underlined the role of Israel and the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) in the terror attack.

“Unfortunately, the operation was very complicated and was carried out by using electronic equipment and no one (terrorist) was present on the scene. But some clues are available, and the identity and records of the designer of the operation has been discovered by us,” Shamkhani said on Monday.

“Certainly, Monafeqin (hypocrites as MKO members are called in Iran) have played a role and certainly, the Zionist regime and Mossad are the criminal mastermind of this incident,” he added.

Early in 2018, the Israeli sources had acknowledged that Mossad had tried to assassinate an Iranian nuclear scientist, but its operation faile.

According to Fars News Agency, Mossad had gained access to Fakhrizadeh’s name via a UN list which referred to him as a senior scientist of Iran’s Defense Ministry’s Physics Research Center.

After the terrorist attack on Friday, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami underlined that assassination of Fakhrizadeh may not undermine Iranians’ resolve, and said revenge for the terror attack is already on the country’s agenda.

General Salami extended condolences to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, martyr Fakhrizadeh’s family, and the Iranian nation over the martyrdom of Head of the Research and Innovation Organization of Iran’s Defense Ministry, Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated in an organized and pre-planned terrorist attack by the child-killing Israeli regime.

“The enemies of the Iranian nation, specially the masterminds, perpetrators and supporters of this crime, should also know that such crimes will not undermine the resolve of the Iranians to continue this glorious and power-generating path, and harsh revenge and punishment is on agenda for them,”the IRGC chief commander stressed.

Also, Ayatollah Khamenei in a message condemned assassination of Fakhrizadeh, ordering officials to take action to punish the masterminds and perpetrators of the terror attack.

“Mr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent nuclear and defense scientist of the country, was martyred by criminal and cruel mercenaries. The unique scientific figure gave his dear and precious soul in the way of God for his great and lasting scientific efforts, and the high position of martyrdom is his divine reward,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in his message on Saturday.

“Two important issues should be seriously put on the agenda by all relevant officials; first, probing the crime and the definite punishment of those who perpetrated and ordered it; and second, pursuing and continuing the martyr’s scientific and technical efforts in all the sectors in which he was engaged,” he added.

Ayatollah Khamenei also extended his condolences to martyr Fakhrizadeh’s family, students and the scientific society of the country, wishing him the highest position before God.

President Rouhani had on Saturday condemned assassination of Fakhrizadeh, vowing retaliation for the criminal act.

“All think-tanks and enemies of Iran should know well that the Iranian nation and officials are too brave and too couragous to leave this criminal act unanswered,” Rouhani said, addressing a meeting of the national coronavirus campaign headquarters in Tehran.

“The relevant officials will give a response to their crime in due time, and in addition, the Iranian nation is too wise and too smart to fall into the trap of the Zionists’ plot,” he added.

President Rouhani said that it seems some parties are after stirring chaos but “they should know that we are aware of their plots and they will not succeed in attaining their malicious goals”.

“The Zionist regime and those standing against Iran should know that the path of the country’s development and research will be paved rapidly” and a large number of other Iranian scientists like Fakhrizadeh will emerge to help, he added.

Iranian nuclear scientists have been the target of the western and Israeli spy agencies’ assassination attempts in recent years.

In June 2012, Iran announced that its intelligence forces had identified and arrested all terrorist elements behind the assassination of the country’s nuclear scientists.

“All the elements involved in the assassinations of the country’s nuclear scientists have been identified and arrested,”Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement.

“A number of countries, whose territories and facilities had been misused by the Mossad-backed terrorist teams, have provided the Iranian officials with relevant information,”the statement added.

“Over the course of the investigations, all other elements behind the assassinations of the Iranian scientists Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Majid Shahriari and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan as well as Reza Qashqaei (Roshan’s driver) have been apprehended,”the statement read.

“Some of the perpetrators of the assassination of Dr. Fereidoun Abbasi, the current head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, are among those arrested,”the ministry added.

According to the statement, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry had detected some of Mossad’s bases within the territories of one of Iran’s Western neighbors, which provided training and logistical support to the terrorist networks.

In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, terrorists killed a 32-year-old Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and his driver on January 11, 2012.

The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.

The assassination method used in the bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani – who became the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization – and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred.

Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011.

In a relevant development in January, 2015, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it had thwarted an attempt by the Israeli intelligence forces to assassinate an Iranian nuclear scientist.

“In the last two years, the Zionist enemy (Israel) was trying hard to assassinate an Iranian nuclear scientist, but the timely presence of the IRGC security forces thwarted the terrorist operation,” Deputy Chief Liaison Officer of Flight Guards Corps Colonel Ya’qoub Baqeri told FNA in 2015.

December 5, 2020 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO Framing Defected Members as Agents from Iran

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A Canadian-Albanian researcher revealed on Saturday that the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) sets its defected members up in plots to frame them as agents of Iran.
Canadian-Albanian historian Dr. Olsi Jazexhi released a video of his interview with several individuals who said they had defected the MKO, but were now being framed by the terrorist group as Iranian agents sent to attack the camp near Durres, Albania’s main port.

Albanian police on Wednesday claimed that they had foiled planned attacks by Iranian agents against the MKO, but several former members of the group have come forward to reveal that they are the real individuals being accused of the plot.
Since 2014, some 3,000 MKO members have settled in a camp in Albania after being transferred by the US from Iraq. Earlier this week, Albanian authorities claimed that they had discovered an active cell of the Iranian Quds Force and prevented their”plan of March 2018″to attack the camp.
In March 2018, two people were held in Albania but set free for lack of evidence. At the time, an opposition leader denounced the announcement as a ploy by Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to divert attention from Tirana’s failure to start entry talks with the European Union.
The accusation was similar to those made against Iran in Europe, including by France in October 2018 which accused Tehran of plotting to attack an annual MKO rally outside Paris.
The timing of the accusations was suspicious. They came as European governments apparently sought to save a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran after the US abandoned the agreement.
From the outset, Tehran vehemently dismissed the claims as false flag operations, while those detained in connection with the alleged plots were released later due to lack of evidence.
Jazexhi, who carried out the interview, explained that a “cold war” is underway in Albania between former MKO members and the ringleaders of the terrorist organization.
Jazexhi, who specializes in the history of Islam, nationalism and religious reformation in Southeastern Europe, described those speaking in the interview as former terrorists who have abandoned terrorism against Iran and decided to lead a civilian life.
He has already aired a TV show called the “Opinion” in Albania, which said the MKO runs its own secret service in the impoverished European country, and that it spies on former members of the organization who live there.
A former member of the MKO in the video, labelled as an agent of Iran, is heard saying, “I don’t want to fight anything, any side. I want my own life, personal life, civilian life and I don’t want to fight.”
“For this reason, the MKO does not want us to live here. They put pressure on us to leave this country because if another member in the MKO comes out for anything or any work and see us we have a free [life], maybe they want to come out and have a free life. For this they make fake news against us, accuse us of being agents and mercenary of Iran,” the man says.

Last year, Albania expelled two Iranian diplomats suspected of “involvement in activities that harm the country’s security.”
Iran denounced the expulsions, saying Albania has fallen prey to a scenario fabricated by the US and Israel and certain terrorist groups.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then dictator Saddam Hussein.
The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.
In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated to Saudi Arabia and other regimes adversarial to Iran.
A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.
Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Saudi Arabia.
The MKO terrorist group specified the targets as Major General Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Iranian Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi.
The terrorist organization said it would “welcome” their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to “join” Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran’s former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces during Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Iran.
Earlier in June, a leaked audio of a phone conversation between two members of MKO, revealed Saudi Arabia has colluded with the MKO elements to frame Iran for the recent tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf.
In the audio Shahram Fakhteh, an official member and the person in charge of MKO’s cyber operations, is heard talking with a US-based MKO sympathizer named Daei-ul-Eslam in Persian, IFP news reported.
In this conversation, the two elements discuss the MKO’s efforts to introduce Iran as the culprit behind the recent tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf, and how the Saudis contacted them to pursue the issue.
“In the past week we did our best to blame the [Iranian] regime for the (oil tanker) blasts. Saudis have called Sister Maryam (Rajavi)’s office to follow up on the results, [to get] a conclusion of what has been done, and the possible consequences,” Fakhteh is heard saying.
“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.
Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, and an earlier attack on four oil tankers off the UAE’s Fujairah port on May 12, have escalated tensions in the Middle East and raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

The US, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have rushed to blame Iran for the incidents, with the US military releasing a grainy video it claimed shows Iranian forces in a patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from the side of a Japanese-owned tanker which caught fire earlier this month.
It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.
The MKO which is said to be a cult which turns humans into obedient robots, turned against Iran after the 1979 Revolution and has carried out several terrorist attacks killing senior officials in Iran; yet the West which says cultism is wrong and claims to be against terrorism, supports this terrorist group officially.
After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MKO began its enmity against Iran by killings and terrorist activities.

October 31, 2019 0 comment

Iran

Shamkhani:Bolton was a salaried agent of the MEK

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Minister: Failure of Anti-Iran Hardliners Marked by Bolton’s Dismissal

Iranian Minister of Interior Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Sunday that US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of his National Security Advisor John Bolton marked the defeat of anti-Iran hardliners in pursuing their hawkish agenda against Tehran.

In a meeting in the Northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad today, Rahmani Fazli said that Bolton’s sacking by Trump showed that the hardliners in the US failed to push forward their policies against Iran.

He added that despite the fact that all the US sanctions against Iran were observed by the European signatories to the nuclear deal of 2015, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran’s political, security and foreign policy conditions are satisfactory compared to that of six months ago or a year ago.

After the Iran nuclear deal, it became evident to the world that Iran signed an agreement with the world powers and remained committed to its undertakings whereas the US violated its commitments and withdrew from the JCPOA, Rahmani Fazli said.

He said that the enemies thought that the pressure on Iran would trigger public unrest across the country so that they said the Islamic Republic would not last to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in February 2019.

Public protests have reduced by 40% in the first five months of the current local calendar year compared to the preceding year, the minister said.

The country’s trade balance has improved, the inflation rate has reduced and the country has become capable of creating more jobs, he said, adding that all these indicate Iran’s accomplishment in the new planning.

If Iran moves in the same way, it will achieve sustainable growth, the minister said.

On Wednesday, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani underlined that the US president’s decision to fire Bolton indicated Washington’s political and moral failure against the Iranian nation.

Shamkhani said that changes in the positions and posts of officials at the White House would not change the perception of the Islamic Republic about the origins and nature of the US policies and measures.

He noted that the historic and deep-rooted hostility of the US government against the Iranian nation is beyond the role played by certain officials. As both Obama and Trump that were apparently different governments pursued the similar policy of sanctions against the Iranian nation.

Shamkhani added that Bolton was a salaried and devoted agent of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) terrorist group in the White House, and his ouster as White House National Security Adviser should certainly be considered as the US political and moral bankruptcy vis-à-vis the Iranian nation.

He said that the promise he made based on his stupidity and the illusion that the Islamic Revolution would not reach the age of forty was recorded in his political career and the US government as a document of blind biasedness.

Shamkhani went on to say that Bolton’s humiliating expulsion from the White House not only led him to the dustbin of history, but also made MKO’s plot to fail against the Iranian nation.

Head of SNSC reiterated that enemies of the Iranian nation should not forget that the unprecedented expansion of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regional power and downing of the modern American UAVs in the Persian Gulf have occurred when Bolton was attacking and threating Iran, indicating that Tehran’s strategic policies are not affected by the hostile approaches of people like Bolton.

He said that firing or appointment of officials within the US administration had no effect on changing Iran’s view of Washington’s hostile intentions, and the criterion for the Islamic Republic to evaluate its real policy and performance is their adherence to international obligations and the removal of cruel and illegal sanctions against the Iranian people.

He added that the use of iron hand in a velvet glove has lost its function for many years, and today’s situation in Iran, which is the result of a continued”active resistance strategy”, shows that the American will can no longer overshadow the interests of the Iranian nation.

US President Donald Trump abruptly announced in a tweet Tuesday that he had asked Bolton to resign, noting that he”strongly disagreed with many”of Bolton’s suggestions”as did others in the administration.”

“I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week,”Trump wrote.

The tweet came just one hour after the White House press office said Bolton was scheduled to appear at a press briefing alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Documents last year said that Bolton received $40,000 to participate and address the audience in a gathering of the MKO terrorist group in Paris in July 2017.

According to documents released by al-Monitor news website, the US Public Financial Disclosure Report in January 2018 for Bolton indicated that he had received $40,000 from the MKO as speaking fee in Paris gathering.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they received support from then dictator Saddam Hussein.

The notorious outfit has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials for several decades.

In 2012, the US State Department removed the MKO from its list of designated terrorist organizations under intense lobbying by groups associated to Saudi Arabia and other regimes adversarial to Iran.

A few years ago, MKO members were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and were later sent to Albania.

Those members, who have managed to escape, have revealed MKO’s scandalous means of access to money, almost exclusively coming from Saudi Arabia.

The MKO terrorist group specified the targets as Major General Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Iranian Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi.

Earlier in June, a leaked audio of a phone conversation between two members of MKO, revealed Saudi Arabia has colluded with the MKO elements to frame Iran for the recent tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf.

In the audio Shahram Fakhteh, an official member and the person in charge of MKO’s cyber operations, is heard talking with a US-based MKO sympathizer named Daei-ul-Eslam in Persian, IFP news reported.

In this conversation, the two elements discuss the MKO’s efforts to introduce Iran as the culprit behind the recent tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf, and how the Saudis contacted them to pursue the issue.

“I guess this can have different consequences. It can send the case to the UN Security Council or even result in military intervention. It can have any consequence,” Daei-ul-Eslam says.

Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13, and an earlier attack on four oil tankers off the UAE’s Fujairah port on May 12, have escalated tensions in the Middle East and raised the prospect of a military confrontation between Iran and the United States.

It later released some images of the purported Iranian operation after the video was seriously challenged by experts and Washington’s own allies.

The MKO which is said to be a cult which turns humans into obedient robots, turned against Iran after the 1979 Revolution and has carried out several terrorist attacks killing senior officials in Iran; yet the West which says cultism is wrong and claims to be against terrorism, supports this terrorist group officially.

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MKO began its enmity against Iran by killings and terrorist activities.

September 16, 2019 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MKO Serves White House Orders

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An ex-member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) said the terrorist group moves in line with the White House policies and is now seeking to empty the Iranian society from hope.

Massoud Khodabandeh, a former high-ranking MKO element, made the revelations in an interview with FNA on Saturday.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh

Ebrahim Khodabandeh: I was manipulated to tell lies

He explained that after hostilities between Iran and the US increased and the Iranian people showed resistance against Washington’s policies, the MKO were ordered by the White House to make the Iranians disappointed at their government and country.

Khodabandeh noted the propaganda operation of the terrorist group, and said the MKO members who are active in the social media have been trying dissuade the public in Iran from supporting any side in case war breaks out between the US and Iran.

“Such a stance is clearly understood as betrayal to your nation in any part of the world and in any country”but the MKO members are attempting to display it as legitimate with their social media propaganda, he said.

“This betrayal has directly originated from the White House,” Khodabandeh underlined.

In relevant remarks late in July, Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said Washington is using the MKO terrorists to attain its goals against Tehran until their expiry date arrives.

“The Monafeqin (hypocrites as MKO terrorists are called in Iran) have always been a plaything in the US hands and of course, they have an expiry date,”General Jalali said in Tehran.

He expressed pleasure that the MKO terrorist group had been expelled from Iraq, and said,”Their headquarters is now in Albania and they are pursuing a new plot using the internet.”

General Jalali explained that the MKO terrorists were misusing some economic weaknesses inside Iran and attempting to create chaos in the country, adding that the foreign social media have turned into a new ground for the MKO to exercise their terrorist moves.