Gareth Porter
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Back to the future? Bolton, Trump and Iranian Regime Change
Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Adviser John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe he has…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The Untold Story of John Bolton’s Campaign for War With Iran
a former senior German official revealed the true story to this writer: the documents had been given to German intelligence by the Mujahedin E Khalq, the anti-Iran armed group that was well known to have been used by Mossad to “launder” information the Israelis did…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The IAEA’s “Final Assessment”
German intelligence had obtained the documents in 2004 from a sometime source whom they knew to be a member of the Mujahideen E-Khalq (MEK). A cult-like Iranian exile terrorist group, MEK had once carried out terror operations for the Saddam Hussein regime but later developed…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The New Yorker Doesn’t Factcheck What ‘Everyone Knows’ Is True
Neither NCRI/MKO/MEK/PMOI official nor Nisman himself offered any explanation for how an exiled armed opposition organization could have penetrated the highest level of the Iranian government—or why Argentine investigators had been unaware of such crucial alleged intelligence for nearly a decade. Furthermore, the NCRI had…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Behind the Scenes: How the US and Iran Reached Their Landmark Deal
But one set of documents had originated in Israel, and the other had been submitted by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), the cult-like Iranian terror group that had been known to act as a client for Israel. The authenticity of both sets of documents was extremely…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The “Possible Military Dimensions” Bomb That Could Blow Up the Iran Deal
A popular Israeli history of the most successful covert operations by Israel's Mossad, originally published in Hebrew in Israel, asserts that Mossad provided some of the documents to the MEK/MKO/PMOI that later become the centerpiece of the case against Iran.ElBaradei also reveals in his memoirs…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The Terror Bombing, the Prosecutor, the Spy and Mossad
The MEK officials claimed to know the exact day, hour, place and agenda of the meeting (although two different dates were mentioned). But an exile group, which had been at war with the Islamic regime for 13 years, obviously was not in a position to…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The Nisman Murder and the AMIA Terror Bombing: A Tangled Thread
Nisman asserted that the highest Iranian officials had decided to carry out the bombing at a meeting on 12 or 14 August, 1993, primarily on the testimony of four officials of the Mujahedeen E-Khalq (MEK), the Iranian exile terrorist group that was openly dedicated to…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
Four ways the West got the Iran nuclear issue wrong
Contrary to the cover story that the documents were passed on to Western intelligence by a participant in a covert Iranian programme or by a German spy, a former senior German foreign office official has now revealed that the German intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, obtained…
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
How the Iran-Nuke Crisis Was Hyped
former senior German foreign office official Karsten Voigt confirmed in 2013 that the Iranian exile opposition group, the Mujahedeen E-Khalq (MEK), gave the original set of documents to the German intelligence service (BND) in 2004. The MEK has been reported by Seymour Hersh, Connie Bruck…
