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Parents met their child in Albania, defect the MKO Cult

Among these couples were Ameneh Haqiqat and Akbar Rabiei who joined the MKO/MEK/PMOI group in mid 1980s along with their young child…Ms. Haqiqat’s brother says:” my head whistled when I hear that the ‘family’ is disintegrated within this horrible cult. My head whistled when I heard that my little niece left far from parental love…”

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Iran-Interlink Weekly Digest – 186

This week marked the anniversary of the death of General Sayad Shirazi – a war hero during the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam Hussein ordered the MEK/MKO/PMOI to assassinate Shirazi for a specific amount of money which was then paid to Massoud Rajavi. At the time of his assassination Shirazi was retired and living as an ordinary citizen without any security. The head of the terror team, Zohreh Ghaemi, was later deliberately left in Camp Ashraf without …

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Crown prince Reza Pahlavi: Mojahedin Khalq, a cult-type structure

Pahlavi said he had yet to meet with the Trump administration despite his letters. Another Iranian exile group, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq/MKO/PMOI, previously paid a member of Trump’s Cabinet $50,000 for giving a speech. However, the MEK’s siding with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and its killing of Americans before the revolution, which the group now denies, makes it an unsuitable partner …

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The MKO cheers Trump’s Syrian missile attack

About three decades ago, Saddam Hussein – the then military and financial sponsor of the MKO- attacked his own people in Kurdish areas in the North of Iraq and the people in the Western town of Iran, Sardasht. While those chemical attacks at the time, were much more catastrophic than the one in Khan Sheikhan, the MKO/MEK/PMOI not only didn’t condemn Saddam Hussein…

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What’s going on in MKO Camps in Albania?

Defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq residing in Europe, reported that five hundred people have left the MKO/MEK/PMOI since its relocation in Albania. According to the source, two hundred of the defected group could not manage to leave Albania. “They are still under the control of the cult”,…

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Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 185

Reports from Albania indicate that in spite of Maryam Rajavi sitting with MEK/MKO/PMOI members trying to convince them to stay, the situation is getting worse to the point that just about everyone wants to leave. She has resorted to bringing in the ‘big guns’, that is using threats of ‘the CIA’ to intimidate dissidents. They are told, you can stay in a separate building where …

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AIPAC Gave $60K to Architect of Trump’s Muslim Ban

Shortly after the group launched, my colleague Ali Gharib and I noticed that the group’s website featured two items promoting an exiled, ex-terrorist Iranian opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) aka MKO/PMOI. CFNI even used b-roll footage from a press conference held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which the State Department deemed the MEK’s …

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CIA Veteran examines the myth of regime change using MEK cult

Paul Pillar, a CIA academic and veteran explains how certain American think tanks, particularly in the Bush and Trump administrations are stuck in the “myth” of changing the Iranian government by supporting the Cult of Rajavi. His recent article on the National Interest titled “Evolution, Not a New Revolution, in Iran”, analyzes the futile efforts of the MKO sponsors for regime change:

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