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State Department Removes Last MEK Members from Iraq

Nejat SocietySeptember 17, 20160245 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, 20160148 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, 20160125 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, 20160260 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, 20160106 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, 20160152 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, 20160172 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 …

Albanian Government gives 1.8 million Leks to buy smartphones and laptops for mujahideen

Nejat SocietySeptember 7, 20160147 views

In the anticipation of the status of asylum procedures, the mujahideen will stay for several months in the camp and then accommodated in flats on the outskirts of Tirana, set by the Albanian Government and organizations for their protection. Based on the agreement with the US, in the coming weeks is expected to arrive in Albania hundreds of other mujahideen. They are already in the process of integration in our society …

Washington uses the MKO to fight a covert war against Iran

Nejat SocietySeptember 4, 20160192 views

The MKO has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in Iran. On August 20, 1992, the terrorist organization claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on the home of the Majlis deputy in the city of Kudasht in the province of Loristan in a report broadcast on the “Voice of Mojahed” radio. On October 12, the MKO claimed responsibility for twin bomb blasts at Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum south of Tehran, which has thousands of visitors each day. On October 15, they claimed credit for blowing up a gas station….

Congressional Research Service Expert and Gulf Lobbyist Headline MEK Event

Nejat SocietySeptember 1, 20160121 views

By outward appearances, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), the ex-terrorist Iranian opposition group hell-bent on regime change, appears to be losing their influence in the media. The group’s allegations about Iran’s nuclear program are met with increased skepticism after, for example, photographic evidence of “Lavizan-3,” a secret uranium enrichment facility in suburban Tehran, was revealed …