Members of the MEK in Albania

Mojahedin khalq at war with each other, seek help from PM Edi Rama

Estranged families of Mojahedin Khalq members seek PM Rama’s help to meet loved ones The arrival of the Mojahedin-e Khalq in our country has exposed the divisions between the members and their leaders, and now it seems their only hope is to find help from Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama. Some family members of the members of the terrorist organization Mojahedin-e Khalq from the province of Ilam in western Iran have sent a letter …

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Nothing to celebrate – MEK leader Maryam Rajavi pretends forced move to Albania is a great victory

This is what the Washington Times reported in March 2013: “…The U.S. wants the MeK aka MKO/PMOI leadership to ‘accept the government of Albania’s humanitarian offer immediately, and urges the residents of Camp [Liberty] to resume participation in resettlement interviews to ensure that individuals avail themselves of safe and secure relocation opportunities outside Iraq,’ said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. The dissidents are housed at Camp Liberty …

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Iranian Opposition Ex-Fighters ‘Transferred to Albania’

The People’s Mujahedin of Iran aka MKO/MEK/PMOI is a controversial resistance group. Founded in 1965 as a left-leaning opposition to the Shah’s regime, it turned against the Islamic Republic following the 1979 Revolution. The US listed it as a terrorist organisation in 1997 but it was removed from the blacklist in 2012 after it renounced violence. Several thousand of its members left Iran for Iraq, where former dictator Saddam Hussein, used them …

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The MKO relocation; victory for who?

While Maryam Rajavi calls the departure from Iran’s neighboring territory “a hammer that will descend upon the ruling theocracy”, Mustafa Saadoun of Al Monitor asserts that the Islamic Republic was the winner of the recent move criticizing the Iraqi government for its failure to take more advantages from the case. “Of course, the MEK’s aka MKO/PMOI departure….

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How much does it cost to keep Iran’s enemies in Albania?

The Albanian page of Pars Today Website published a report by an Albanian periodical Parrena on the recent relocation of the Mujahedin-e Khalq members in Tirana, Albania. The report is titled “the result of receiving Mujahedin, Albania on the verge of war.”Parrena criticizes the Albanian government for accepting the MKO/MEK/PMOI in its territory. Like the Zionists who settled in the Palestinian territory…

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US Resettles Last MEK Members in Albania

The MEK helped Hussein’s forces suppress Shiite and Kurdish uprisings after the 1991 Gulf War. It also attempted an attack against the Iranian mission to the United Nations in 1992 and was thought to be responsible for attacks on Iranian officials in the 1990s. The State Department designated it a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997.

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State Department Removes Last MEK Members from Iraq

.. 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.

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John Kerry: Moving Mojahedin Khalq from Iraq to Albania was an important accomplishment

And their departure concludes a significant American diplomatic initiative that has assured the safety of more than 3,000 MEK/MKO/PMOI members whose lives have been under threat. And as everybody remembers, the camp they were in had on many occasions been shelled. There were people killed and injured. And we have been trying to figure out the way forward.Well, the last 10 years have been filled with reminders of this challenge. I first became involved in this effort when I was in the Senate ….

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Iraq ‘deeply satisfied’ with expulsion of Mojahedin Khalq terrorists

Iraq has hailed the expulsion of the remaining members of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group, describing the eviction process as an “outstanding success.” In a statement released on its website on Saturday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry voiced its “deep satisfaction” with the relocation of the last group of the MKO/MEK/PMOI members from Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, “abroad …

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