The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq

Can Albania deradicalise Mojahedin Khalq Rajavi cult

It is impossible to ignore the fact that MEK members are radicalized to the core. They are not ordinary refugees. Enough of them have been trained in Iraq by the former Saddam regime for terrorist activities as well as forgery, intelligence, military operations and even torture methods, to make them extremely dangerous. Above all, the nature of the MEK leadership style is cultic. This means the followers …

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PCG’s readers are ill-served on Mujahedin-e Khalq

PCG has been so hostile to Iran that they have failed to alert their readers about the controversies and disturbing authoritarian behavior of one group opposed to the current governmental in Iran, namely the Mojahedin-e-Khalq…the Mojahedin-e-Khalq killed 12,000 people during the course of their armed insurgency to overthrow the government

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US admits Mojahedin Khalq are their terrorists, moves to protect them

the official said Kerry would not talk publicly about the resettlement effort, which remains a sensitive issue. The U.S. has assisted Albania in its efforts to resettle the MEK/MKO/PMOI, a group that has supported the U.S. in military operations in the Middle East and in its fight against terrorism. The U.S. assistance includes a donation of $20 million to the U.N. refugee agency to help resettle the MEK, said the State Department official …

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Anne Khodabandeh: Deceptive Recruitment – from Canada to Colorado

anyone who met Neda could instantly see that she wasn’t that kind of person. Her parents should have been tremendously proud of this kind, thoughtful, ambitious young woman …Instead the MEK tricked them into believing that their harsh military camps in Iraq were the ideal place to keep her safe from bourgeoise Western corruption. The MEK, they were told, promoted women…

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Iraqi Newspaper on families of MKO hostages

Following the recent trip of the third group of Liberty residents’ families to Iraq, the Iraqi mass media widely covered the news of the event.Iraqi newspapers and websites published reports on grieves of families of residents, who are not allowed to visit their loved ones taken as hostages by leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/the cult of Rajavi)…

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Howard Dean Says He’s Not a Lobbyist But He Sure Acts Like One

the Wall Street Journal reported that Dean was receiving speaking fees from the group. Around that time, Dean began vociferously arguing on behalf of the MEK/MKO/PMOI, even though he conceded that he had known little about the group before joining its cause.That year, Dean traveled along with other paid MEK supporters, including Rudy Giuliani, to appear in Berlin with the group and demand that Western nations recognize the MEK leader Maryam Rajavi as the president of Iran.

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Two, Three, Many Chalabis

..MEK/MKO/PMOI was only removed by the State Department from the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2012, after heavily lobbying Congress. The group is communist and is often described as a cult. It is so extreme and so unrepresentative of the Iranian opposition in general that other regional experts testifying before Congress refused to appear on the same panel.

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Beware of Exiles and Their Promises

The ongoing rehabilitation of the MEK/MKO/PMOI is a good example of this. Most Iranians in Iran and around the world detest the MEK for good reason, but to listen to their many fans in and out of government one would think that they area democratic government-in-waiting and that cult leader …

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IAEA Intelligence Acquisition Practices

Gareth Porter has written in A Manufactured Crisis that, according to a former German foreign ministry official, German intelligence obtained the “alleged studies” that underpinned the PMD case against Iran from a member of the Mujahideen E-Khalq (MEK) in 2004. MEK/MKO/PMOI hostility to the Islamic Republic is well-documented. Is it inconceivable that this source forged or fabricated that material?..

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The IAEA’s “Final Assessment”

German intelligence had obtained the documents in 2004 from a sometime source whom they knew to be a member of the Mujahideen E-Khalq (MEK). A cult-like Iranian exile terrorist group, MEK had once carried out terror operations for the Saddam Hussein regime but later developed a patron …

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