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Iranian Opposition Ex-Fighters ‘Transferred to Albania’

Nejat SocietySeptember 25, 2016075 views

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 …

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

Nejat SocietySeptember 21, 20160145 views

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…

US Resettles Last MEK Members in Albania

Nejat SocietySeptember 19, 20160130 views

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.

State Department Removes Last MEK Members from Iraq

Nejat SocietySeptember 17, 20160219 views

.. 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.

What’s next for Baghdad-Tehran ties as last MEK members leave Iraq?

Nejat SocietySeptember 17, 20160130 views

Fatima al-Zarakani, an Iraqi member of parliament for the State of Law Coalition led by Nouri al-Maliki, told Al-Monitor,”The MEK is a terrorist group. They had great cooperation with the Baathist regime to exterminate the Iraqi people. Their departure from Iraq is a major positive step toward getting rid of the Baathist regime’s affiliates in the war against Iraqis.

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

Nejat SocietySeptember 14, 20160100 views

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 ….

Albanian Paper: Last of the Mojahedin Khalq arrived to Albania – USA thanks Albania

Nejat SocietySeptember 11, 20160234 views

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 …

‘MKO was expelled from Iraq in disgrace’

Nejat SocietySeptember 11, 2016090 views

Majed Ghamas, the representative of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council in Tehran, has said that the Iraqi nation disgraced the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) by expelling their remaining members from Iraq, Tasnim reported on Saturday. The top Iraqi envoy described the MKO as one of the shadowy groups that sought to launch a new wave of terrorist activities in the region. He said the MKO/MEK/PMOI must stop their terrorist activities as they want …

Final group of Iranian dissidents leaves Iraq camp

Nejat SocietySeptember 10, 20160142 views

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,…

Mojahedin Khalq finally expelled from Iraq

Nejat SocietySeptember 10, 20160153 views

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 …