{"id":10004,"date":"2019-07-13T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T08:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:57:53","slug":"teaming-up-for-mek-cult-conference-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/10004","title":{"rendered":"Teaming up for MEK Cult conference in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rudy Giuliani, Joe Lieberman Team Up For Albania MEK Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has joined buckraking forces with former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), speaking at an event in Albania for a bizarre, cultish Iranian group that fashions itself as a government-in-exile for the Islamic Republic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) \u2014 once designated as a foreign terrorist group \u2014 hosted the conference at a compound that MEK operates in Albania.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn addition to Giuliani and Lieberman, former Colombian Senator and longtime FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt appeared at the event, along with former Marine Corps Commandant James Conway.<br \/>\nBilled as \u201cThe 120 Year Struggle Of The Iranian People For Freedom,\u201d the conference appears to focus in part on extolling the virtues of MEK leader Maryam Rajavi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rajavi styles herself as the \u201cleader of the Iranian resistance,\u201d but has faced criticism for alleged brainwashing by the group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a video posted to Twitter, Giuliani says that \u201can alternative exists to the theocracy in Iran. It\u2019s our responsibility to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In March, the Trump Administration reportedly shifted its position to no longer rule out MEK as a potential replacement for Iran\u2019s current government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Giuliani seems to have gone straight to the conference from a Thursday evening call-in appearance on Sean Hannity.<br \/>\nGiuliani also spoke at an anti-Iran rally in Warsaw in February, saying that he was representing MEK, and not Trump. He did some work for Trump on the sidelines of the event, however, meeting with a Ukrainian prosecutor who was claiming to have dirt on presidential candidate Joe Biden.<br \/>\nAt Friday\u2019s conference, Lieberman echoed Giuliani\u2019s statements.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I\u2019m here I feel that I\u2019m representing the spirit of my great friend, the late Senator John McCain, who was warned by the establishment to stay away from this organization, but he spent time learning about it,\u201d Lieberman said. \u201cHe came to Ashraf 3, believing in this organization and its cause.\u201d<br \/>\nThis isn\u2019t Giuliani\u2019s first time in Albania. In May 2018, he traveled to the southern European country for another MEK event. The relationship has gone on for years.<br \/>\nBy Josh Kovensky,talkingpointsmemo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani, Joe Lieberman Team Up For Albania MEK Conference President Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has joined buckraking forces with former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), speaking at an event&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[21405,680,52,20],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organizations-propaganda-system","tag-ashraf-3-camp-mek-base-in-albania","tag-mko-members-in-albania","tag-mujahedin-khalq-destructive-cult","tag-third-view-mek","module-article","ctype-story","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}