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State Department Removes Last MEK Members from Iraq

Nejat SocietySeptember 17, 2016088 views

.. the MEK fled to Iraq and supported Saddam in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. That decision earned the undying enmity of most Iranians – a fact that MEK/MKO/PMOI leaders sought to conceal in their efforts to cultivate support in the United States…it is hard to find Iranians who would switch from the current system to one led by the MEK. Hopefully, the former residents of Camp Ashraf will be able to construct new lives outside Iraq and memories of the movement will fade.

US, EU Back Albania’s Regional Center to Fight Radicalism

Nejat SocietyApril 23, 2016084 views

During his visit, Rama praised the United States for its strong support of Albania since the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. Albania, a NATO member since 2009, enjoys a strategic partnership with the United States. The Balkan nation has been helping relocate thousands of members of the exiled Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition group. Over the past year and a half, Albania has taken in about 1,000 members of the group …

US admits Mojahedin Khalq are their terrorists, moves to protect them

Nejat SocietyFebruary 23, 2016079 views

the official said Kerry would not talk publicly about the resettlement effort, which remains a sensitive issue. The U.S. has assisted Albania in its efforts to resettle the MEK/MKO/PMOI, a group that has supported the U.S. in military operations in the Middle East and in its fight against terrorism. The U.S. assistance includes a donation of $20 million to the U.N. refugee agency to help resettle the MEK, said the State Department official …

MKO is a Cult and should remain in the list

Nejat SocietySeptember 15, 2011089 views

In my opinion, delisting the MKO is harmful to the youth in the US. Why? Unleashing the group opens the way for them to deceive the Iranian youth– a lot of whom have no information on the history of Iran. The organization has had a awkward life .They have always been imprudent, they have never cared about people’s lives

Raid on MEK Refugee Camp in Iraq Raises Questions

Nejat SocietyApril 23, 2011068 views

… Founded by Iranian students in the mid-1960’s, the People’s Mujahedin mixed Marxist, left-wing and Islamic ideology. In those early days they fought against the then-Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, then briefly sided with the country’s new rulers after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. According to the U.S. State Department, the Mujahedin were linked to the killing of at least six U.S. military and civilian personnel in Iran before the revolution and were involved in the invasion of the U.S. Embassy and the capture of U.S. diplomats as hostages in the months that followed. The State Department put the group on its list of foreign terrorists in the 1990s and it remains on the list to this day …

Iraqi Forces Blockading Iranian Opposition Camp

Nejat SocietyMarch 18, 2009078 views

The Mojahedin-e Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, said the blockade of Camp Ashraf began Thursday. In late January, Iraq’s National Security Advisor Mouwaffak al-Rubaie said the group must leave Iraq within two months. He added the decision to close the camp, home to about 3,500 people, was irreversible.

Nazi Biglari’s interview with Rayan Crocker

Nejat SocietyApril 10, 20080151 views

there are two Iranian dissident groups in Iraq: Mujahedin-e-Khalq and the Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan. Do the Americans have any links with these two?

Iranian Resistance Group Challenges EU Terror Listing

Nejat SocietyMay 14, 2007061 views

At a news conference Thursday in Brussels, lawyers representing the People’s Mujahadeen Organization of Iran complained that the EU continued to list the group as a terrorist organization, despite a court ruling annulling that designation.