The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq

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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Update on camp Hurriya Temporary Transit Location (TTL)

1- 2015 has seen the largest number of relocations out of Iraq in a calendar year since the international community and the Government of Iraq began efforts to find relocation opportunities for residents of the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location (TTL) in 2011. 2- By the end of 2015, more than 1,100 residents will have been …

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It is time to declare an information world war on terrorism

Thirty-four years ago – on August 30th, 1981 – a bloodthirsty terrorist group assassinated the most popular President in history. You say you haven’t heard about it? Maybe that’s because it was “their” president … and “our” terrorists. The MEK/MKO/PMOI terrorists who murdered Iranian President Rajai (and thousands of other Iranians) still enjoy the protection and support of Western authorities.

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Who are the Iranian dissident group MEK?

During the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the MEK carried out several armed attacks on Iran in coordination with Saddam’s army, losing much of its domestic support in the process. The MEK’s relations with the West have been complex. The United States and European Union listed the group as a terrorist organisation during the …

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The New Yorker Doesn’t Factcheck What ‘Everyone Knows’ Is True

Neither NCRI/MKO/MEK/PMOI official nor Nisman himself offered any explanation for how an exiled armed opposition organization could have penetrated the highest level of the Iranian government—or why Argentine investigators had been unaware of such crucial alleged intelligence for nearly a decade. Furthermore, the NCRI had by then a long history of publicizing intelligence claims..

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