Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The Cult of Rajavi, a tool for Iran hawks

Although the MKO’s propaganda usually does not succeed to run its anti-Iranian agenda in the international community –because of its very insignificant role in the region—there are some groups who indulge it. The American Iran hawks as well as Saudi authorities try to coddle the MKO in response to material and spiritual services the group offers them…

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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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Grow the MKO, Harvest Terrorism!

Hilary Clinton was the then Secretory of State who ordered the removal of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations of the Department of State in September 2012. Following the decision, the assets of the once designated terrorist MKO with a dark history of violence and cult-like attitude became unfrozen…

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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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