Maryam Rajavi headed a ‘protest’ in Paris yesterday using paid participants to promote her regime change agenda against Iran. Rajavi is afraid of being overlooked by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Iran Action Group run from inside the State Department. Pompeo will hold a summit in Warsaw next week where it is predicted Iranian opposition groups will feature. Sadly for Rajavi, she has not been invited. Wonder why? Here’s a timely reminder of just who the Mojahedin-e Khalq are. In 2012, Owen Bennett-Jones from the BBC conducted an in-depth investigation into the group, including interviews with top MEK members, as well as critics and victims. This is his reporting.
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++ Much Farsi writing this week concerned Pompeo’s Warsaw summit. Some highlighted Pompeo’s meeting with the controversial Masih Alinejad. Comments relevant to MEK point out that America has dumped Maryam Rajavi. Faramarz Dadras, a security analyst, commented that nowadays everybody can take photos with Pompeo except Maryam Rajavi. Therefore, those who paid MEK have wasted their money. When it comes to it, she cannot be touched. Other comments say that no wonder Iranians are laughing at America when ex-CIA chief Pompeo has become the leader of the Iranian opposition. As long as people like Pompeo exist, even the hard-core regime change Iranians inside Iran would hesitate to take action in case the Americans impose something like Maryam Rajavi on the country.
++ Maryam Rajavi’s MEK event in Paris is today. Over the past week and beyond, many people have written open letters to the authorities in Germany, France, Albania and Poland to report that MEK, which pays people to attend as the audience, are even taking under age kids to Paris. They should be stopped.
++ The mother of Ali Hajeri who has left MEK in Albania, wrote an open letter published by Nejat Society addressed directly to Maryam Rajavi. The mother lists her grievances. “‘For so many years you held him captive. When he came out and we Skyped, I told my son ‘change your clothes and anything else you have brought from in there, just throw it away!’ I can’t stand to see such things.” She tells Rajavi “you spend so much money on your events and your clothes and cosmetic surgery and dentistry. But, one of your guys, my son, who has worked for free for decades, couldn’t even buy some decent clothes, so he wouldn’t have to sit in front of his mother wearing these scruffy clothes.” She continues, “Now he is out, you are filling your sites and loudspeakers saying he is an ‘agent of the regime’. By ‘regime’ you mean his country Iran. I thank God that my son is no longer a second-hand agent of Saddam, Mossad, Saudi and the Americans and anyone else who pays you. He is not an enslaved agent for them anymore, he is a free man.”
++ Massoud Khodabandeh wrote a Farsi blog titled ‘Why is nobody questioning Maryam Rajavi about the murder of Mohammad Reza Kolahi?’ Khodabandeh says, “As somebody who knew him personally – the MEK member who bombed the Republican Party HQ in Tehran in 1981 – I can say that Maryam Rajavi knew exactly who he was, where he was and what he was doing right up to his death. MEK would not allow someone like him to leave and just do what he wanted. The ironic aspect of this is that everyone in the West is knocking at the door of the Iranian embassy in the Netherlands for answers, but nobody is making enquiries from Maryam Rajavi who was his master and knew everything about him. Why is nobody asking: ‘How did he end up in Holland. Was he still doing work for MEK. Had MEK allowed someone with his background to just leave and get out of Iraq unsupervised. As a potential target for Iranian revenge, why didn’t MEK let the secret services in Holland know about his past. Or did you let them know but they were too afraid of Mossad and the CIA to protect him?’ Khodabandeh concludes: “To my mind, the only person who benefitted from his murder was Rajavi. Kolahi was eliminated like Malek Sharai and Massoud Dalili and many others because of what he knew. The benefits are that, one, you get paid to kill someone which is then blamed on Iran. And two, you get rid of another witness to your crimes and terrorism as you try to change into a new propaganda tool for the Saudis.”
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++ Robert Azzi in Concord Monitor warns that the neo-conservatives who “invaded Iraq in 2003 with disastrous consequences… are back in power today”. Azzi identifies John Bolton (“a longtime supporter of the Mujahedeen Khalq”), Mike Pompeo (“a well-known Islamophobe and supporter of ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques”) and Elliott Abrams (“convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair”) as the “unreconstructed cheerleaders and apologists” who are “advancing regime change in Iran and Venezuela” today. Azzi asserts, “The truth is that the true evangelical calling of such rapacious men is not to serve God but to serve Mammon, to serve the narrow, imperialist and hegemonic interests of selfish and ignorant men.”
++ Borzou Daraghi writing in The Independent examines the evidence behind the alleged terror plot against the MEK in Paris last year. Daraghi at least avoids the usual western journalists’ script of reflexively blaming Iran: “European countries have tabled evidence that cannot easily be dismissed, although they cannot easily prove it either”, the article quotes from Iran’s former ambassador to Germany. But although Daraghi acknowledges that “… European anger over alleged Iranian clandestine operations targeting dissidents and its missile programme threaten to diminish support for the nuclear deal”, the article does not question what motive Iran might have to conduct such alleged terrorism in Europe when it is working with Europe to maintain the JCPOA and to use a trading system, Instex, to “that bypasses US controls on the global financial system”. Daraghi, like other western journalists, accepts uncritically the MEK’s pose as ‘victims’ and fails to examine the MEK’s long history of false flag ops and murders of dissidents that might point to their involvement in this alleged plot.
++ Behnam Gharagozli in Iranian dot com seeks to untangle the web of the Saudi-Israeli-US propaganda war on Iran and cannot do so without reference to the role of the MEK. Identifying groups that would benefit from regime change “quickly harmonizes the disparity between facts and reporting”, says Gharagzoli. He points to the fact that the mainstream media belongs to only a handful of large corporate entities to demonstrate that although “there are few commonalities between a Zionist, Saudi royalist, Iranian monarchist, MEK member and a Neocon … Nevertheless, many of these various groupings have found a loose yet committed confederation in their quest for regime change… One manifestation of this trend is witnessing how the MEK was somehow transformed from a terrorist organization to a dissident Iranian organization after only a short time. This transformation from terrorist to dissident just so happened to occur after the MEK’s base in Iraq was sacked (the MEK had been an ally of Saddam Hussein) and the calls for regime change in Iran grew louder.”
++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers warns that the MEK’s ability to pay large sums to American lobbyists also poses a threat to Europe. The recent revelation that the MEK channelled hundreds of thousands of Euros to the electoral fund of the extreme right-wing Spanish political party Vox. France is also criticised for harbouring the MEK; “the French government is following the American hypocrisy”, writes Parsi. Many western analysts acknowledge that allowing the MEK to interfere in relations between Europe and Iran creates problems. According to Parsi, this is a reckless policy since “European countries may be haunted by the cells of terrorist extremists of the MKO someday.”
++ Muhammad Sahimi in Lobelog exposes the flaws behind Pompeo and Bolton’s support for Iran’s “fake opposition”. After clarifying that “the true opposition that includes the reformists, religious-nationalists, secular leftists, various labor groups, human rights activists, and others, believes that it is up to the Iranian people living in Iran how to change the political system in their country”, Sahimi examines and trounces the kind of artificial opposition groups touted by America, Israel and Saudi Arabia. He dismisses the MEK thus: “All Iranians despise the MEK for collaborating with Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the war with Iran in the 1980s, for revealing information on Iran’s nuclear program and facilities, for working with Saudi Arabia, and for collaborating with Israel in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.”
February 08, 2019
Some members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (MKO) have regrouped in Iraq with the help of U.S. military forces, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on January 10.
The information was initially given four days earlier from Mohammed Al-Baldawi, a member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Security and Defense Committee, who said: “More than a dozen members of the MKO currently live and receive training at U.S. military bases in northern Iraq. U.S. forces in Iraqi Kurdistan have started arming and training the MKO members as soon as they arrived at the military bases.”
Mr. Al-Baldawi said “reorganizing the monafeghin [hypocrites, a reference to MKO members] was part of a sinister plot,” and called on the government to stop the U.S. from using Iraqi soil to launch operations against its neighbors.
Under pressure from the French government, the MKO moved its headquarters from Paris to Baghdad in 1987. President Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) allowed the MKO leader Massoud Rajavi and his organization to establish a base in Camp Ashraf in northeastern Iraq, 80 kilometers from the Iranian border.
Close to 3,000 members of the MKO lived in Camp Ashraf (1987-2012) and later at a U.S. military base known as Camp Liberty (2012-16) before relocating to Albania in 2016 with the help of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
There has been no official response to the news either from the Islamic Republic or the MKO. However, Ahmad Salek, a Majlis (Iranian Parliament) deputy representing Isfahan, recently said: “A string of military setbacks which led to a recent decision to pull the U.S. troops out of Syria has prompted Donald Trump to find other ways of maintaining U.S. influence in the region, including the reestablishment of the monafeghin in Iraqi Kurdistan.”
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++ Edvard Termador wrote an open letter to the Pope explaining how he was forced as a POW to join MEK in Iraq, and how he managed to escape. He tells of two other Christians who were killed by MEK. They were being forced to renounce their religion before they were killed. Termador writes that MEK is still repeatedly threatening to kill him because he speaks about these things. He says the group is basically living on mercenary means and what a shame it is that people pay them for promoting war and sanctions. More important though is the situation of the people in Albania. Termador says he managed to escape, but these people have no opportunity. He asks the Pope to help the people trapped there.
++ There were two more deaths this week in Albania. Every week two or three members are dying. On one side it can be put down to their age, but on the other hand some deaths are suspicious. There is no oversight or inspections to find out what happened to them. We have only to accept what MEK say about them. Behzad Massoudi, who died this week, was with MEK for over forty years. Everyone who knows him says he had no illness as the MEK claim. But he was a critic during all his time with them. His death is suspicious. Albania is such a country that there is no authority to appeal to and ask them to investigate. Who issues the death certificates in the MEK camp? God knows! The law does not apply to that camp.
++ Criticism of the flawed Amnesty International report on the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran has picked up. More people are now complaining about AI’s cosy relation with the MEK. Some have revealed that this is not new and some of the people in that section of AI have been paid for the past decade by MEK. Some writers have given names, places and amounts of these payments. This criticism has now reached Wikipedia’s ‘Criticism of Amnesty International’ page where this report has now been added as well.
++ Several people have written about MEK suddenly coming out of their shell after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to the Middle East. Saber of Tabriz explains in more detail. He reminds MEK that ‘if the previous anti-Iran coalitions helped you, this one will surely help you as well’. Starting from Saddam and coming to the recent western efforts to make an Arab NATO or trying to create a Kurdish coalition, Saber says that each time, Rajavi jumps up and says, ‘Iran is finished, they’ll give Iran to me now’. Well, surely this lot will help as all the previous ones did. Isn’t that why you are still where you are.
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++ Several open letters were written in support of comments made by Roald Sturla Naas, former Norwegian ambassador to Iran after he criticised the MEK in Today’s Business publication. Naas stated that Iranians regard MEK as a worse option than today’s regime.
++ Mehr News agency reported an Iraqi MP’s claims that the US has started training MEK members in northern Iraq. Mohammad al-Baldawi told Almaalomah newspaper that the US is seeking to “ignite the region” following its failures in Syria. Farsi News agency reported that the “Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani rebuked members of the Trump administration for speaking more of their dreams than realities …He also blasted US National Security Adviser John Bolton and Israel for making decisions and devising strategies on Iran based on the bulletins released by the Mojahedin-e Khalq … terrorist group, advising them to at least change the terms and words used by the MKO in their bulletins and not to insert the same words exactly in their National Security Strategy.”
++ Giovanni Giacalone wrote a lengthy analytical piece in Italy’s Gli Occhi Della Guerra asking ‘Were the Iranians really ready to carry out an attack in Europe?’ Giacalone examines the evidence behind such claims, quoting Albanian investigative journalist Gjergji Thanasi who showed that the MEK’s claims have no substance. As such this casts doubt on why two Iranian diplomats were suddenly expelled from Albania as per MEK and American demands. The article concludes that the clash between Israel and Iran which is now taking place on Albanian soil, with the MEK playing a major role, threatens to increase destabilization in the Balkans… to the detriment of Europe.
++ Nejat Bloggers said that letters of complaint to Amnesty International over its flawed report have gone unacknowledged. When approached in person, AI staff referred the complainants to the authors of the report – some of whom are known to be working for or sympathetic toward the MEK. Complainants point out that there is no mention of the MEK’s war crimes in 1988, nor its current human rights abuses against its own members. Nor does AI show any interest in the fact families continue to be denied contact with their loved ones in the MEK.
++ Press TV reported remarks by Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who “lambasted the European Union (EU) for harbouring notorious MKO terrorists, warning that ‘accusing’ Iran and imposing sanctions against the Islamic Republic will not ‘absolve’ Europe of responsibility for housing members of the terror outfit.” His remarks came after Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said in a tweet that the ‘EU just agreed to enact sanctions against an Iranian Intelligence Service for its assassination plots on European soil’. “Tehran has time and again strongly denied any involvement in the purported plots, saying the accusations were merely intended to damage EU-Iran relations”, said Press TV.
++ According to Nejat Society another MEK member publicly announced his escape from the cult in Albania. Abdorrahman Mohammadian said he had been a POW in the Iran-Iraq war before being deceptively recruited by the MEK. Discovering that MEK’s propaganda was completely false was “like the collapse of a mirage”, he said. “It was a pity that we had no way out despite the entire hypocrisy we witnessed there,” he asserts. After being held hostage for 28 years he finally could not tolerate the situation and walked out in November 2018.
++ Press TV reported Ayatollah Khamenei’s address to a gathering in Qom. Khamenei asserted that Iran would not be cowed by American sanctions. He mocked John Bolton’s claim that he and the MEK would celebrate in Tehran before 2019, saying “Christmas was a few days ago. This is how US calculations work …Some US officials pretend that they are mad. Of course I don’t agree with that. Rather, they are first-class idiots,” he said.
January 11, 2019
++ Maryam Rajavi held a meeting in Albania where she announced that Iranian communities in 44 other countries support her. Snippets of this ‘support’ were broadcast on MEK media. The reality is, nobody attended except their low-level paid lobbyists and there were no Iranians except themselves. Commentators say they notice a big difference from some years ago. Now MEK don’t have the known lobbyists they used to. This lot really were nobodies. ‘If they take the sweets away, the flies will go as well’ sums up the comments. ‘In all these films there was not a single sentence of anything about strategy, tactics, what they want. MEK are lost people.’ Some commented that Maryam Rajavi is still trying to pose as a fifteen-year-old girl walking the catwalk, but instead of being paid she has to pay people to watch her.
++ Mohammad Seyedi Kashani, one of the original Mojahedin members, died in Albania aged nearly 80 years old. Some who knew him wrote their memories of him. They say he had nowhere to go so stayed with MEK until the end. He never voluntarily endorsed the Rajavis but was forced, like everyone else, to stand in meetings and say things. People see his death as a welcome release from this forced submission.
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++ Nejat Bloggers uses the recent public protests in France and in Iran to argue that while such protests do take place in democratic societies, there have never been protests inside MEK because the group is run on inhumane and undemocratic lines. Any dissent is immediately suppressed using “prolonged incommunicado and solitary confinement to beatings, verbal and psychological abuse, coerced confessions, threats of execution, and torture…” The piece concludes that Maryam Rajavi’s so-called support for Iranian workers contradicts what is going on in her own destructive cult.
++ Iran Interlink wrote about Maryam Rajavi’s efforts to counter the many media reports this year which have exposed the MEK’s human rights abuses against the members. Rajavi’s films only made things worse as they exposed the very abuses she tried to ignore – gender apartheid, gendered work roles, illegal work by slave labour, medical treatment by unqualified people, etc. But the best gaffe was the film showing an elderly MEK member carrying two shopping bags containing Tena incontinence pants. ‘Donald Trump’s Tena Revolutionaries’ tweeted Anne Khodabandeh.
++ Philip Giraldi in the American Herald Tribune goes to town with a withering denunciation of retired U.S. Army Colonel Wes Martin whose apparent ignorance and stupidity, Giraldi shows, is a glaring example of ‘why the United States has not won a real war since 1945’. Giralidi uses Martin’s unquestioning support for the MEK, in the face of all available facts, to expose him. “It apparently never occurred to Martin that the group had a whole lot of history before he appeared on the scene…”
++ Eldar Mamedov writes for Lobelog to expose how ‘Europe’s Extreme Right Is In Bed With MEK’. “Vox received a donation of 500,000 euros from MEK… This money allowed the party to kick-start its election campaign for the European Parliament. The person who played a key role was Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a veteran Spanish politician. At first sight, Vidal-Quadras and Rajavi would make strange bedfellows…”
++ After Amnesty International published a report on events in Iran thirty years ago, many Iranians whose family members were involved in those events, but who do not support the MEK, wrote to criticise the methodology of the report’s investigations. Some of these were the families of MEK in Nejat Society. Why, they ask, have nobody but MEK supporters been interviewed? Why, indeed, does the report refer throughout to the MEK as PMOI, a designation only the MEK uses? Why does Amnesty International apparently deliberately refuse to talk about abuse of human rights and war crimes committed by MEK themselves, particularly sending non-combatants to be slaughtered in the hopeless Eternal Light operation of 1988?
++ Gazeta Impakt of Albania published a scathing criticism of the Rama government’s focus on support for MEK in spite of widespread anti-government protest in the country. Pandeli Majko, Minister for the Disapora, comes under attack for attending a rally hosted by Maryam Rajavi in Tirana and attacking Iran as though that was the most important issue for Albania at the current time. The article concludes “Pandeli’s speech…, which broke international law and domestic law by saying ‘I do not care that you are terrorists, etc.’, tells of Rama’s arrogance, bribery and thievery. At a time when Tirana and all of Albania are consumed by protest, Pandeli and Maryam Rajavi have chosen to pretend to be a whore when a village burns.
++ The unexpected expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Albania prompted several articles. Iran’s Press TV said the Balkan country “fell prey to a scenario fabricated by the US and Israel” which was, according to Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi, “in line with previous such scenarios meant to damage Iran-Europe relations at the current sensitive juncture.”
Iran’s Fars News also commented on the move saying “surprisingly, the news on the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador from Albania was first declared by White House National Security Advisor John Bolton on Twitter.” Fars News said “The move by the Albanian government came after months of warnings by Albanian activists and media about the growing influence of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization among Tirana officials. The MKO and the White House had both requested the Albanian government to expel Iranian diplomats and cut off ties with Iran.”
++ From inside Albania, criticism of the Rama government as a puppet of the US was voiced by Olsi Jazexhi in Iranian.com who asked ‘Has Donald Trump Appointed Maryam Rajavi As Foreign Minister of Albania? Jazexhi pointed out that the “news of the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats caught everybody by surprise in Tirana”, in particular Prime Minister Rama and his government who only learned about it via Twitter. The article describes how MEK have been able to establish a state within a state (Camp Ashraf 3) in Albania from where it dictates US/Israeli foreign policy toward Iran to government ministers and officials. “MEK has managed to terrorize not only the media but even many Albanian MPs… The whole history of the expulsion of the Iranian diplomats from Albania seems like a Trump–Netanyahu desperate affair which uses poor, corrupt and obedient Albania for their global confrontation with the European Union and other major world powers against Iran.”
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – December 21, 2018
It has been a terrible year for MEK as various media exposed the human rights violations in the organisation: National Geographic, NBC, Channel Four, the Independent, the Guardian, TRT World, Albawaba and others including Italian and Albanian media.
MEK tried to counter this with its own propaganda films designed to show Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Albania as a happy, friendly and well run refugee community.
First MEK invited American bomber L. Todd Wood to make a propaganda film in the camp. Then MEK arranged for a delegation of “former” German politicians to visit the camp, followed by “former” members of the European Parliament.
What the MEK did not expect was that these films would reveal even more scandalous and damning detail about life inside the camp. Exactly the opposite of their intended purpose.
For example:
The films clearly show the gender apartheid in operation in the camp, as male and female members are shown living completely separately.
Men and women perform gendered roles which expose the falsity of the MEK’s claim to feminism: men work on computers, women work in the sewing room.
The computer room, with its banks of computers and male operatives, revealed without doubt that the Twitter troll factory exposed by Al Jazeera was indeed in operation there.
The medical room and dentist were of particular concern since neither the so-called doctors nor the so-called dentists in the camp have full and proper medical qualifications.
However, the bakery, manned by elderly MEK members, was particularly revealing as it reminded us that none of the MEK in Albania have work permits or identity papers or travel documents, yet are working inside the camp. This is because none of the MEK in Albania are paid for the work they do. They are modern slaves. They do not get paid and therefore do not pay taxes. Which reminds us again that MEK never contribute to whatever society they forcefully embed themselves in. Rather than get their bread from a local Albanian bakery thus providing much needed income, they keep all their resources in-house.
But even these gaffes were not as embarrassing as the next film that MEK made to try to repair its image.
The MEK paid Sokol Balla, presenter of The Real Story in Vision Plus TV to make another film inside the camp. This time, MEK were careful to eliminate the previous gaffes outlined above. Instead, they introduced new gaffes.
After the MEK propaganda film was broadcast, viewers soon discovered that the presenter Sokol Balla had been involved in many sex scandals. Balla was revealed through a web chat in which he is filmed masturbating in front of an adolescent girl. This is not the first time MEK has had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find apologists. Who else would take money from a terrorist cult which enslaves its members except corrupt and morally bankrupt people?
But the best gaffe of all, which perhaps only an eagle-eyed nerd might discover, was when the MEK wanted to show that their members are free to leave the camp and go shopping. But the lonely man trudging up the road looking thoroughly defeated with his two shopping bags is carrying supplies of Tena incontinence pants.
Which begs the question, is this a camp where warriors and freedom fighters are striving to overthrow the Iranian government, or is it a residential care community for the elderly, ailing and disabled?
++ Over the past two weeks MEK has played out its fear of the recent media reports by NBC, Al Jazeera, The Independent, The Guardian and others through Google Wars. Last week alone, MEK created ten new sites, with specific tags that will dominate Google News. The people inside MEK say the goal is to push down the recent damning media reports. The whole organisation has become one big click farm, not just Albania, including supporters. The informers say it’s all lies. MEK is trying to say we didn’t kill Americans, we weren’t with Saddam etc.
++ Again, though its media, MEK has launched a fundraising campaign asking for donations. Every time they do this it is obvious they have received a tranche of new money and this is how they launder it. Some ex members who were involved in MEK’s finance department have written about how MEK used to do this. Among the families, Saber from Tabriz has written a note saying Maryam Rajavi must allow families to visit and have contact with their children who have been taken hostage. Claiming that families pay money to you in these campaigns doesn’t hold water if they can’t see their kids. People are not mad to pay money to a gang who have taken their children hostage.
++ The other use of the sites created this week is to simply copy and paste what Pompeo, Bolton and Saudis say: Iran should not have missiles, the EU should not negotiate with Iran, the US should arrest all Iranian diplomats. The first page of MEK sites is just this. In reaction to this, one Farsi commentator says, we thought that after Massoud Rajavi, MEK’s ideological leader is Maryam Rajavi. It’s not, it’s Mike Pompeo. His pronouncements dominate MEK’s sites.
++ This week was the Day of Students, the anniversary to remember the students who were killed by the Shah because of their activities against American Imperialism. Ironically MEK celebrate this day as well, but don’t mention that they were against Americans at that time. Comments point out that this pretended ignorance is immature and doesn’t fool anyone.
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++ Aawa Association broadcast a panel address to the Press Club in Brussels. Anne Khodabandeh participated by making the case that MEK is being actively enabled by the Trump Administration to prevent further development of relations between the EU and Iran. This is done through propaganda in which MEK dominate the narrative on Iran by calling for violent regime change. MEK is also used to demonise Iran though false flag ops. As the previous actions failed to break EU/Iran relations, Khodabandeh warned of an escalation of this false flag activity, probably in Albania, in which some MEK members are killed, and possibly some Albanians. This would be blamed on Iran.
++ IRNA reported a meeting of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights in Kerman. Referring to the West’s double standards on human rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani said, “They spread terrorism in the region in the name of human rights. Today, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is no different from Daesh (ISIS); human rights cannot grow with bombing exploding mosques and religious centers”.
++ Sarah Lazare, In These Times, slates Nancy Pelosi for turning her back on advocates for peace and negotiation and backing a hawkish foreign policy toward Yemen. Lazare points out that Pelosi “has also repeatedly vocalized her support for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), alongside John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich. With virtually no legitimacy within Iran, the MEK is a favorite among neocons because it aggressively lobbies for U.S. military confrontation with Iran, and arguing that its head, Maryam Rajavi, is the rightful leader of Iran. The organization, which supports the U.S.-Saudi war in Yemen, has been described as a cult. According to a Human Rights Watch investigation from 2005, members reported ‘abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings and torture of dissident members’. As recently as July, when the MEK held a conference in Paris, Pelosi sent a video message conveying her ‘warm regards’.”
++ Tasnim news agency reported that Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN denounced the US government’s ‘addiction’ to sanctions and warmongering. Eshaq Al-e-Habib said the US withdrawal from the JCPOA was a clear violation of the resolution that calls upon “all States without exception”, which include the United States, not only to “take actions as may be appropriate to support the implementation of the JCPOA” but also to “refrain from actions that undermine implementation of commitments under the JCPOA”. Therefore, the Council should consider the US illegal acts as a flagrant violation of the resolution and hold it accountable for such violations. The diplomat also condemned the US’s policy of spreading war and chaos in order to sell more weapons. Also, its support for terrorist groups. “Who can also forget the US role — as openly confessed by its President during his campaign — in creating the ugliest face of terrorism, the monstrous ISIS. If it was not for Iran’s support and help, the black flag of ISIS was still flying around the Middle East. In reaction to Iran’s prominent role in fighting terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, such groups have conducted a few terrorist attacks in Iran in 2017 and 2018.
“Today, in addition to transferring ISIS elements to Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, the US has extended its sponsorship of terrorism to a vicious terrorist cult, the MKO, that has murdered more than 17,000 Iranians and many Iraqis and who currently cozy up to the highest political figures in Washington to destabilize Iran through terrorist activities.”
++ David William Pear, The Greenville Post, ‘US politicians get money from Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) who killed US citizens’. This piece briefly covers recent decades of Iranian history under the Shah before saying that “Now that the Shah is gone, the US propaganda machine and the mainstream media put out a flood of stories about how wonderful life was under the Shah. The propagandists use economic indicators of inflation, employment, gross domestic product, oil exports and the upper-class standard of living. Anybody who puts out those kinds of comparative economics deserves to flunk Economics 101.
“Iran has been under sever US-imposed economic sanctions for 40 years. The US has been threatening Iran with war and “all options are on the table” for decades. The US has also instigated instability inside Iran and supported external attacks by terrorist groups such as Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK.
“MEK was on the US State Department’s list of terrorist organization until it was removed by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2012. The fact that MEK has killed US citizens in terrorist attacks did not hinder some US politicians from accepting large speaking fees at their conventions, even when MEK was still on the US terrorist list.”
++ Iran Interlink republished a piece from the archive. An interview with Iraq’s National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al Rubaie from 2009. The item starts with an explanation of the situation of the MEK in Camp Ashraf before interviewing al Raubaie who headed Iraq’s efforts to expel the MEK as remnants of Saddam Hussein’s repressive apparatus. Dr. al Rubaie’s plan for the difficult task of dismantling an extremist cult has revealed an enlightened, humanitarian approach which could become a blueprint for tackling similar organisations worldwide. In part of the interview he discusses the cultic nature of MEK.
“AS: You have spoken of ‘detoxifying’ the people in Camp Ashraf. Could you explain what this means and why you feel it is necessary? What do you hope to achieve?
MR: As you know from observing the behavior of the MEK and from their history, this is an indoctrinated and tightly disciplined organization of extremist zealots who have employed terrorism and at times even self-immolation to secure their aims. In normal everyday language we can say that they have been “brainwashed”. As is common in organizations of this type, the indoctrination and discipline rely on the continuous pressure of their leaders and the total control by them of their environment. Therefore, individuals have little ability to exercise their free will because they exist in this closed environment and fear for personal reprisals if they are discovered to have deviated from the approved line of responses. As we strive to determine from each individual where they wish to go since they cannot remain in Iraq, we are conducting individual surveys and a census which are open to oversight by the ICRC and the UN. We believe that if we can separate individuals from the all-encompassing domination by their leaders, we can allow them to begin to exercise their rights as individuals and make appropriate choices. That is, we hope to remove them from the toxic effects of their indoctrination and leaders.”
December 14, 2018
++ Several MEK survivors have published accounts of recentevents, in particular Mohammad Azim Mishmast and Gholamali Mirzaei. The news isabout the people who have left MEK but are still paid by the group on conditionthey remain silent and do not speak about the group. This week when they wentto collect their MEK money they were shown photographs of Mishmast, Mirzaei andsome others alongside their families and children who are not in Albania. MEKtold them, ‘If you talk to these people you will get no money’. They were thenbriefed on behalf of Maryam Rajavi that ‘the enemy’ are the ex-members. Theyare the forefront and we are keeping our bullets for them. The writing of thesurvivors say it is obvious that even their supporters in America no longergive a damn about them, so in order to keep people on board they threaten themlike this to divert attention from the main issue which is that even as amercenary force they are not needed.
++ Zahra Mirbagheri from Nejat Association has published a screen shot from an MEK site which shows Maryam Rajavi, Struan Stevenson and a couple of other permanent lobbyists, with the title ‘They meet each other, they take pictures and they pretend it’s a discussion’. Mirbagheri gives links to every one of these people who have openly lobbied for MEK for years and who each head different organizations which have been created by MEK. Mirbagheri goes on to say that this is the level they have been reduced to after they have achieved nothing. They have even lost the actual support of the likes of McCain and Bolton etc.
++ A week-long Exhibition and introductory Speakers panel were held at the Press Club in Brussels this week, organised by Aawa Association of Germany. The panel was chaired by Reza Jabelli, Service Etat Civil et Population. Panellists were Anne Khodabandeh, Open Minds, De-Radicalization Consultant, and two female MEK survivors, Batoul Soltani and Homeira Mohammad Nejad.
In English:
++ Arron Merat’s Long Read article for The Guardian ‘Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK’ was released as a podcast. The article says MEK are promoted by Trump White House hardliners as tools for regime change, but ex members accuse Maryam Rajavi of coordinating routine sexual abuse inside the cult.
++ After Sokol Balla, a presenter on Vision Plus TV in Albania, was taken to the camp in Manez by the MEK, several people wrote objecting to his report. The writers accused Balla of taking part in a whitewash of MEK history and gave accounts of their own experience inside the MEK. One said, “I suggest that the next time you want to report about the MEK, it would be better to ask them about their past, about forced divorces, working with Saddam Hussein, and imprisonment and torture inside Camp Ashraf. And in addition, invite investigative delegations to establish the truth.”
++ Mazda Parsi of Nejat Bloggers writes about the interview by Der Spiegel with MEK survivor Gholam Reza Shekari who left thegroup in Albania in 2017. Parsi refers to the 2005 Human Rights Watch report‘No Exit’ which detailed torture and murder of internal dissidents in the MEK.Shekari is one of those victims who can now recount his experience andknowledge of what the MEK did at that time. “Shekari spent 27 years of his lifein the cult-like MKO. He was only 20 years old and willing to find a good jobin Europe when he was recruited by the MKO in Iraq. The MKO agents promised tohelp him get the European visa only if he stayed in their camp for a fewmonths.
As soon as he entered the organization, they confiscated his ID documents and never gave him back. ‘whenever I asked for my ID, they would say that they had no idea where it was’.
Thus, Shekari had no way out of the MKO camp but he frequently used to ask the leaders when he could leave the cult. This question was considered a sin by the leaders. Departure from the MKO was forbidden and showing your willingness for leaving the group would be faced with suppression, imprisonment and torture. So he was imprisoned in solitary confinement.”
++ James Carden with Dr. Trita Parsi, The Nation, ‘The Trump Administration Rattles the Saber at Iran’ This is a Q&A with Dr. Trita Parsi, author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy. Parsi analyses current US policy toward Iran, saying he believes Trump does not want war or regime change, but wants ‘regime collapse’ in which Iran is plunged into chaos but America is not responsible for creating an alternative government. According to Parsi, MEK’s role in this scenario is thus: “Whereas the MeK is of little use if the objective is regime change, due to their immense unpopularity in Iran, the Trump administration seems to believe that they can be helpful for regime collapse and a potential Civil War, mindful of this terrorist organization’s extensive experience in sabotage, terrorism, assassinations, and even regular warfare.”
1- Mansour Nazari, Iran Interlink, France, December 02 2018:
http://iran-interlink.org
Mr SOKOL BALLA
President of Vision Plus TV in Albania
Mansour Nazari
I am Nazari Mansour, a former member of the MEK organization who separated many years ago from the Mojahedin-e Khalq.
You recently provided a report on the Mojahedin camp in Albania, but this report is not real. Why?
The MEK are trying to whitewash their past. Surely they have not told you anything about their past. Why?
This organization has a black history and for this reason the MEK organization is trying to erase it. Why? Because they have a terrible past of violence and terrorism.
Its terrorist operations targeted American-owned businesses, and it killed six American citizens, in addition to its far more numerous Iranian victims.
After the victory of the Iranian revolution and the beginning of the war between Iran and Iraq the MEK joined Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The Iraqi dictator also gave the group weapons, cash, and a compound called Camp Ashraf in return for its continuing attacks inside Iran as well as helping Saddam suppress his own domestic opponents.
Within this organization are many things that you have not been told, for example: compulsory divorce, meetings to confess dreams in which everyone must describe their dreams, family contact is forbidden, having a phone was forbidden. If anyone wanted to leave the organization, they would have to spend two years imprisoned in Ashraf, then eight years in Abu Ghraib prison, then be handed over to the Iranian government. WHY? Just because they want to leave the MEK organization.
I suggest that the next time you want to report about the MEK, it would be better to ask them about their past, about forced divorces, working with Saddam Hussein, and imprisonment and torture inside Camp Ashraf. And in addition, invite investigative delegations to establish the truth.
Yours Sincerely
Mansour Nazari
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2- Mir Bagher Sedaghi, Vatanam association, Switzerland, December 02 2018
Dear Mr Sokol Balla, presenter of the Real Story in Vision Plus in Albania.
Mir Bagher Sedaghi
Your program was brought to my notice in which you visited the Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, PMOI and many other pseudonyms) terrorist organisation and held an interview with Mr Hassan Naybagha.
I noted that Hassan Naybagha falsely claimed that all foreign media are now trying to mislead the international community and claimed not only that the group is not a military group but the group and its members in the camp are from among the intellectuals of Iranian society, who have only resisted the regime in Iran by intellectual means (not military).
As an ex-member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MEK, MKO, or more properly known as the Rajavi cult),I can testify to you that the MEK is nothing more or less than a terrorist group. When I was with the group, I was regularly encouraged to carry out violent acts of terrorism. I have also been witness to the despatch of MEK terror teams from Iraq to Iran to carry out bombing campaigns, using mortars to attack buildings in residential areas. I am available to testify in any court of justice should there be the opportunity.
Please don’t be fooled by the charm offensive of this terrorist cult. Due to the defeat of Saddam Hussein who was the benefactor and the main strategic ally of Mojahedin Khalq, the group is now incapable of taking up arms. But make no mistake, they still have the dangerous potential to start terrorist operations should the time and the place by favourable to them.
Mir Bagher Sedaghi
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3- Ghafoor Fatahin, Peyvan Rahaee, Paris, December 02 2018
To officials of the Albanian Vizion Plus television network,
Respectful greetings,
Ghafoor Fatahian
I am Gafoor Fatahian, a former member of the Iranian People’s Mojahedin Khalq organization (MEK). I spent twenty years in the headquarters of this organization in Iraq and I am an eyewitness to this organization when they were sending terrorist teams into Iran to kill innocent civilians.
Moreover, MEK has eliminated many of its own members who opposed its leadership’s policies. They also imprisoned and tortured others. Many of my ex-comrades were killed inside the organization’s headquarters in Iraq by order of the leaders of the organization and by its executioners who are now in the headquarters of the organization in your country, Albania.
I am an eyewitness to the repressive practices against members within the organization. They isolated them from the outside world, especially from their families in Iran and other countries.
In fact, the real MEK is not the one spoken of by Maryam Rajavi in Europe in the present, using the buzzwords of the free world to say her organization is committed to democracy, freedom and human rights in an attempt to win support from America and European countries.
What is going on behind the scenes and behind the barbed wire surrounding the headquarters of this organization is very serious and terrible and is intended to keep the members of the organization as prisoners held inside its headquarters in Albania.
This organization is no longer a political organization fighting for the establishment of democracy and freedom in Iran, but it has been transformed into a special community by its leaders, headed by Maryam Rajavi with beliefs, ideas and duties contrary to the principles and norms of humanity and universality in the present age. For this reason and for many other reasons, including the cooperation of the organization and its alliance with the regime of Saddam Hussein and its army and its financial, military and political dependence on foreigners, the MEK has lost its popular base among Iranians inside and outside Iran, even active opponents against the regime in Iran.
Hatred toward this organization and the atmosphere of alienation and opposition prevailing within the ranks of the organization among its members, has also led to the separation of more than two thousand members of the Organization over the past thirty years. In particular after the expulsion of the organization from Iraq and transfer to Albania whereby hundreds of members have now separated from the organization and are living in the Albanian capital, Tirana. And, if you want to prove your journalistic neutrality, you can interview these members who are separated from the organization in your country. They can tell you many facts about this organization so that you will discover that everything in your report about the organization’s headquarters in Albania is nothing but fabricated lies, artificial acts and false statements uttered by the leaders of the organization who wanted to display a fiction in front of your cameras.
This dangerous terrorist community has never renounced its violent ideas and terrorist tendencies because its ideas were built on the basis of terrorism, armed struggle and violence, not freedom and democracy, which it praises in its hollow slogans.
Gafoor Fatahian is a former member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
Paris – 30 November 2018
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4- Easa Azadeh, Yaran Iran, France, December 02 2018
(Automatic Google translation)
Mr. SOKOL BALLA
President and director, vision Plus TV and host of the real story in Albania
Easa Azadeh
I am Easa Azadeh – from officials and former commander of the MEK. I’m more than thirty years in different parts of it have activity and Camp Liberty in Iraq, with the help of a UNHCR higher refugees, and the Office of the UN special of the cult, isolated and now in French I live in.french.
MEK with a history of terrorist is very dangerous, in the sight of the people of Iran, sorely hated. From the other side of the MEK by becoming a cult fanatics member himself about the most violent vexation, Singapore, gives, implying that members of the Liberator, had cut the minimum rights of members to ignore and not recognize. Even allowed to meet with the families and their loved ones to make excuses, wishful thinking has forbidden.
This cult saccate, mind control, continuous members, them, thought herself has Tank would have made that the leadership of this cult to put in place of God, and the aura of worship.
This cult basic transition operation a tehari in the world has gotten 38 years before the venture into operation a tehari in Iran and Europe.
The cult communities of the Iranians inside the country and out of country no place, and from the perspective of the people of Iran, this cult acutely unpopular and treacherous can be considered. Officials of the MKO with the costs of operation and through the media tried to downplay and white storage past full of killing and bloody. The case touts that in any way with the water hundred the sea of time, the White will not. This cult lacks the minimum principles of political is absolutely no Honesty in it, there is no continuous Heart and shanties and lie is trying to show with your silly Red Keep. And black white effects. And by bringing a number of Speaker rental and collecting the hundreds of refugees displaced with the money try to show the social base. The total human capital of this sect of about two thousand members Grime that with an average age of 55 and with cohesion of disease in the garrison the so-called Ashraf3, in the outskirts of Tirana, institutions of society.
I, as one of the commanders and authorities of the denomination to alert you to the tenth, that the lure of these cults do not eat, because these sects in Iraq together with the costs of operation and giving bribes, huge, from, media, started, and then, with the financial support into a terrorist like Al-Qaeda and ISIS to insecurity, the country of Iraq, security Iraq and killing innocent people.
This cult when the explosion of the Twin Towers in America by al-Qaeda in camps in Iraq celebrated introduced, and IT operations support for the terrorists will in time occupy a major part of the territory of Iraq by ISIS, again celebrated, and where can be found the ISIS in Iraq, about the types of support, direct and indirect.
This cult in Albany, too, the machinations of the evil his has to start ولابد you as a journalist Albanian better than we know that this cult how in the political affairs of the country, you can interfere.
This cult before any action should the situation ladder will determine the assignment that Dead or Alive. So politically, the cult of the hand her empty that death ladders the Turkish Al-Faisal, the former chairman of the information Arabia, has announced. Vine cult with tumult, the leader of his dead again, alive and has so far eleven messages appointed to he has published. Is this the same demagoguery and Heart not political?
I ask of you to think that, according to the principle of neutrality of the media, let the servant to accompany a few of my friends also facts related to this cult laid to inform people of Albania note reporters that your responsibility is one-sided and is basically a figment of the device demagogic this cult.
Please and please at least inform yourself, or a number isolated from the community representatives also interview to do. Without a doubt, a journalist, a professional from all angles to check the facts case analysis.
It is necessary to know to inform them that this sect the worst of the stifling and dictatorial toward members herself applies and now also in Albania with isolate out them in a camp context, breakeven is not out of the members unhappy.
The cult due to non-compliance with minimum human rights and transformed the MEK to a cult of terror and fanatic and use the tool parents of members, and such a divorce is mandatory and in celibacy going to be used, women and men, flawed, human rights, and have the crimes of the Ann disclosure, and under the jurisdiction used. Mr. sokol dear an organization sect and mercenary alien no time and can be seen as the opposition to mold. You, as a media can from the communities of Iranians outside through a Facebook survey. Surely more with the facts, and hated being MEK will wake.
With respect, Easa Azadeh
Paris, November 30, 2018
++ Maryam Rajavi has spoken! Based on what John Bolton said at the Villepinte rally in Paris last year – that the overthrow of the Iranian government will not take 40 years – Rajavi told her people to “wait, don’t leave, Bolton knows something!” This has caused something of a dilemma for Rajavi since the 40th anniversary is fast approaching and there is not a sign of Iran falling. Apparently, John Bolton was wrong.
++ MEK operatives have started following ex members in Tirana, harassing them, throwing things at them in the street, swearing at them. The message they give is ‘if anyone leaves, this is what we will do to you’. MEK is putting maximum pressure on formers and is trying to prevent the families helping them. MEK is contacting officials to persuade and bribe them to ensure no visas are given to families to visit Albania to help ex members or members. MEK uses the old propaganda line that ‘families want to kill us’.
++ Over the last few days, many members have left and have begun talking. This is a new development since people didn’t usually talk before. MEK is facing a serious crisis. In the last two weeks, Ali Hajeri, Mousa Damroudi, Mohammad Azim Mishmast, Gholamali Mirzaei, Hassan Shahbazi and several others who have recently left MEK have been writing – about themselves and their experiences, about conditions in the camp and about why they had to run away.
In English:
++ Robert Fantina, Counter Punch – ‘Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi Murder’: “U.S. spokespeople have praised the Mujahedin-E Khalq organization (MEK), which is responsible for thousands of deaths in Iran since 1979, and is now active outside that country, attempting to foment the overthrow of the government. The U.S. would be only too happy to see them succeed, and turn Iran into the chaos and disaster that Iraq and Yemen are today.”
++ Giovanni Glacalone, Cliocchidella Guerra, Rome, Italy – ‘The fortified headquarters of Iranian Mojahedin Khalq in Albania’ (Google translation): “In conclusion: What is the Mek then? A group of dissidents and persecuted by the Iranian regime? A sectarian force of opposition composed of militarily trained elements ready to overthrow the regime? A terrorist organization? (According to what was stated by Tehran). Where do the Mek funding come from?
“In geopolitics it is known that an organization can be considered “terrorist” or “resistance movement” based on the interests of those who support it and have seen it with many other organizations, from the Muslim Brotherhood to Hizbullah, from the PLO to the “resistance” “Syrian. What is certain is that it is difficult to combat terrorism when we cannot even find a universally shared definition of the term.
“Meanwhile, however, the presence in Albania of the Mek does nothing but further aggravate the delicate situation in the Balkans where jihadist and Islamist groups are already present. The Balkan area seems more and more a logistics and transit area in support of the war policies in the Middle East and all this at the expense of regional stability, Italy included.”
++ Daniel Larison, The American Conservative – ‘The Fanaticism of the MEK’s Cheerleaders’: “No matter what one thinks our Iran policy should be, the MEK is not a credible alternative to the current government. Seeking regime change in Iran is folly, but to promote an obnoxious cult as the answer to Iran’s problems is simply insanity. In addition to being a nasty cult, the group is responsible for killing Americans in the 1970s and aligned itself with Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. Iranians understandably view them as traitors. Anyone who is cheerleading for the MEK is advertising both his ignorance of Iran and his hostility to the Iranian people.”
++ Iran Press – ‘Zarif: Mossad wants to chill expanding Iran-Europe relations’: “Bahram Ghasemi also commented on Iran-EU relations on Wednesday October 31, when he said: ‘Whenever relations between Iran and the European Union begin to expand, invisible hands taking their cue from certain countries go to work, trying to harm these relations. Thus, the Danish government’s accusations against Iran, and recalling of Denmark’s ambassador from Tehran can all be looked upon from this angle’.”
++ Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian – ‘Concern over UK-based Iranian TV channel’s links to Saudi Arabia’: “Earlier this summer, the station was criticised for airing extensive live coverage of a rally by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a cult-like organisation that espouses regime change and has links to Saudi Arabia. Senior Trump administration officials, including John Bolton, are advocates of the group, which was listed as a terrorist group in the US until 2012.
“The insider claimed the editorial content of the station had been influenced by its secret investors who were hidden behind an offshore Cayman Islands company. The MEK coverage, the insider said, was one such example.”
++ Will Conroy, Intellinews – ‘Bully boy Trump mocks Iranians with ‘GoT’ economic winter meme’: “Game of Thrones producer HBO responded to Trump’s use of its imagery by saying it ‘would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes’.
“Some things require little analysis. Let’s just ask what kind of a jerk would take pleasure in mimicking a Game of Thrones advertising campaign — ‘Sanctions Are Coming, November 5’— in a way that will have the effect of menacing ordinary Iranians with the prospect of more economic misery.
“And let’s be done with it, for the plain fact is that on November 2, without giving any guarantees for supplies of basic foods and medicine, Donald J. Trump announced that in three days’ time all US sanctions removed under the 2015 nuclear deal would be reimposed on Iran.”
++ Faryad Azadi, Tirana, Albania – ‘Over 50 survivors of Mojahedin Khalq write to UNHCR’ (Google translate) : “In an unprecedented move, without any financial or administrative backing, the UN Commissioner in coordination with the PMOI and Maryam Rajavi has announced to the people they left this cult in Albania that they will cut off all assistance to these asylum seekers from the beginning of the New Year. And the responsibility will be with Albanian government. While these people do not have any legal qualifications and, given the situation in the Albania, there is no possibility of work or visit their family, many of these people they are old and more than 55 years old and they are not able to work and during the past years they were with this cult all of them have physical problems and they have been subjected to psychological torture also they have many mental problems and they need special attention.”
++ Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Iranian dot com – ‘Mossad To Use Mercenary MEK For Fatal False Flag Op In Albania’: “The logical conclusion would be the creation of a false flag operation involving an attack on MEK members in Albania (outside the European Union so that it cannot be thwarted or investigated) which leaves some dead, and which can be blamed on Iran. Rajavi would be happy to fulfil this order since this would fill the bank of the “blood of martyrs” as she calls the MEK’s sacrifices. It would also motivate the disaffected members who are regularly leaving the cult – last week alone 6 people managed to escape. With this in mind, Maryam Rajavi’s meetings with Israeli agents in the International Hotel in Tirana would indicate that a fatal event is imminent.”
November 02, 2018