the so-called National Council of Resistance accused the US State Department of “targeting the victims” because the department hadn’t appreciated “the efforts of the leadership” of the MKO. This time the secretariat of the NCR published an alleged “rebuttal” to the LA Times and once again accused it of “targeting the victims”. Why? Because Paul Richter of the LA Times reported that “The group leadership was not cooperating in the departures….
it has been revealed that the MEK applied for and have been registered under the name of the NCRI as a lobby group in Washington. The MEK have not yet announced it. But everywhere else this news has been published Iranians from all sides have shown their disgust and have not been shy of saying that through this action the MEK has openly become a mercenary of the Israeli side ..
… The MEK remained silent about Albania until two days ago and many people have given their analysis as to why this was the case: either Rajavi has given up and had to let these 14 people go, or he has sent the sick and needy to get rid of them, or he has sent 14 loyal members to prepare the ground to establish the cult in Albania. A few days ago the namesof the fourteen individuals were …
What is of considerable importance to be discussed is the unspoken consensus of Western countries on the least probability of recognizing MKO/MEK/PMOI as an alternative for Iranian government as they have come to know the futility of instrumental use of the organization against Iran. It remains a question that the European countries, despite their fundamental fraction….
a State Department official told Congress on Wednesday that the group’s[MKO/MEK/PMOI] leadership was not cooperating in the departures, despite the risks to the members’ lives in Iraq.Beth Jones, acting assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs, told a House foreign Affairs subcommittee that although U.S. officials have worked hard to persuade the group’s leadership to cooperate in the departures,”very few have been allowed to move.”
After the departure of the 14 Ashraf residents, the United States again expressed “its appreciation to the Government of Albania…Heated with the Press Statement of the US Department of State, the MKO propaganda arm, the NCRI accused Martin Kobler of deceiving the DOS. The NCR website also blame the Department that….
Under pressure from neocons and Israel, the US State Department continues to protect the interests of the Mojahedin’s leaders. In a statement on the relocation of 14 individuals to Albania, the State Department accepts the rule of the hostage takers over the hostages by addressing them as legitimate leaders of people who are in fact hostages not
MKO is referred to as a cult 88 times in this report. It is stated in the report ‘an examination of MKO activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies.’ Elsewhere in the same document it is stated: ‘Rajavi instituted what he termed an “ideological revolution” in 1985, which, over time, imbued the MKO with many of the typical characteristics of a cult, such as authoritarian control, confiscation of assets, sexual control (including mandatory divorce and celibacy),
Criticism in the MKO is unheard-of. While the group first founders started out with the rather good intentions, its current leaders Massoud and Maryam rajavi have definitely lost sight of the early presumable goals – the freedom of Iranian people, freedom of speech…. .In the face of any sort of criticism the MKO leaders and members – well manipulated – immediately respond with the same threadbare accusations that….
the only use of the MEK’s new Washington office near the White House is to keep the members trapped a bit longer. But that doesn’t seem to be working because they continue to run away whenever possible. He gives himself as an example of a typical member saying that he joined when the MEK believed in anti-Imperialism struggle. When they killed post-revolution government officials on 7th Tir, 1360 with a bomb, the MEK said it was ‘destroying America’s nest in Iran’ ….