President of the Supreme National Defense University of Iran described Takfiri (extremist) movements as a scheme to impede Iran’s regional influence, saying Takfiris even look for intelligence aid from the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (aka: Mojahedin Khalq, MEK, Rjavi cult) to harm Iran. Addressing a cultural ceremony in Tehran on Friday, Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said there is clear evidence that …
Iranian media reported on Wednesday that the MKO/MEK/PMOI member had been arrested the day before in the central city of Isfahan. The terrorist had been identified by Iranian security forces before entering the country, according to the reports. The individual had come to Iran with the aim of creating chaos during the funeral of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who passed away on Sunday and …
As long as they do not speak out about their experiences in the MEK/MKO/PMOI as other former members have, the MEK will accommodate them. However, the number of such defectors is growing almost daily and it is clear that the MEK is slowly falling apart.
An Iranian man, Mousa Jaberifard, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Court of Tirana, Albania after being convicted for the offense of sexual harassment and attempted rape of a minor. He was arrested in March this year after the parents of an 11-year-old boy called the police. Jaberifard arrived in Albania in 2014 as one of the Mojahedin Khalq/MKO/MEK members from Iraq. A local family became friends with him. The family’s 11-year-old son told police …
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.
Yesterday the last 280 Mojahedin/MKO/MEK/PMOI members from Camp Liberty, Iraq, arrived in Albania. Senator McCain welcomed the completion of the mission of transferring the Mojahedin, and thanked the Albanian government. “In 2003, the United States made a commitment to protect thousands of members of the Iranian dissident organization. Today marks the culmination of this commitment with the safe and successful relocation of all these Iranian …
“The international community has now successfully achieved the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents from Iraq to third countries,” said William Spindler, the spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday.Back on August 25, another 155 members of the group, including a number of its senior leaders,….
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau thanked the governments of Albania and Iraq.“We are grateful to the Government of Iraq for facilitating the departure of the MEK/MKO/PMOI. And we are specially appreciative of the extraordinary efforts of the Albanian Government,…
Under a deal brokered by the United States and the United Nations refugee agency, almost 2,000 dissident Iranians have been resettled in nearly a dozen European countries since the start of 2016. Until a few years ago, PMOI, also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), was listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union. The group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war with Iran in the 1980s but …
A group of 35 MKO/MEK/PMOI members residing in Camp Liberty, Iraq transferred to Albania during the last week, Neday-e Haghighat Website reported.In addition, two Camp residents relocated in Canada.The names are as follows: Hasan Sanaei, Behrouz Kazemi Aghcheh Kohl, Aliakbar Ghaffari, Morteza Khalili…