Mujahedin Khalq as a Destructive Cult

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, a destructive cult of confession

Lifton suggests, “Through this milieu control the totalist environment seeks to establish domain over not only the individual’s communication with the outside (all that he sees and hears, reads or writes, experiences, and expresses), but also – in its penetration of his inner life – over what we may speak of as his communication with himself.” He seems to be describing the milieu of Camp Ashraf, Camp Liberty, the MKO headquarters in Paris and even its current base in Albania.

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50 Years Later (Mojahedin Khalq)

Mojahedin_Khalq_Rajavi_Cult_50_YearsPress TV, Documentary, February 23 2017:… In 1965, a number of university students in Iran decided to take up arms against the dictatorship of Mohammad Reza Shah, a proxy-war against US imperialism. To that end, they founded the “Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization,” also called “MEK” or “MKO.” It was an organization established based on Islamic ideology and tilted toward Marxist armed struggle …

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Trump cautioned against designating Iran’s IRGC as terrorist organization

…some officials from the Trump administration have received money from the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to deliver speeches in support of the terrorist group.Trump’s transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, received $50,000 in 2015 for a five-minute speech to the political wing of the MKO/MEK/PMOI, which has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades…

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MEK fits well into definition of cult

There are credible reports – including statements by Ms. Soltani, a former member of the MEK/MKO/PMOI leadership who was close to Rajavi- that Rajavi has a variety of scenarios for sexual relationship with the cult’s women. The question is that how Rajvi could do these acts despite being under political pressure and involved in covert actions. How can this …

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Trump-Rajavi manifest: My business is violence

The MKO/MEK/PMOI has for years cultivated prominent former US officials to advocate on its behalf and help it project an image as an alternative to the Islamic Republic, which it says it wants to replace with “a secular democratic republic”. However, a large number of western journalists and scholars and politicians have repeatedly warned about the group …

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Trump threatens N-deal

For those who do not know much about the MEK/MKO/PMOI, let me assure you it is one of the most discredited exile groups – nowadays more a religious cult, with practices similar to the Moonies (in recent years we have seen enforced mass divorce, enforced mass remarriage, worship of the married couple who are the cult’s leaders, a switch from supporting …

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