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\nAccording to the Albanian journalist, the group organizes money laundering and human trafficking in Europe, in addition to its gross human rights violations against its members.<\/p>\n\u201cThey are surviving, but this is their last breath,\u201d he said, adding that in spite of the group\u2019s campaign of death and destruction against the Islamic Republic, \u201cthey cannot do anything to Iran\u201d as a powerful, independent country.<\/p>\n
After it was founded more than 50 years ago, the MKO launched a campaign of bombings and assassinations in Iran. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the group\u2019s acts of terror.<\/p>\n
The ill-famed terror group is currently based in Albania, where it enjoys freedom of activity after being delisted by the European Union and the United States in 2009 and 2012 respectively.<\/p>\n
Regardless of its disrepute around the world, the MKO has in recent years held numerous big events, attended by senior American, Israeli and Saudi officials, including former US Senator John McCain, former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, former US national security advisor John Bolton, former US Senator Joe Lieberman, and former director of Saudi Arabia\u2019s intelligence agency Turki bin Faisal Al Saud.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fakhrizadeh assassination said to have MKO involvement\u2019<\/p>\n
During the News Review program, journalist Syed Mohsin Abbas also told Press TV that the high-profile assassination of Iran\u2019s nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last year is said to have had MKO involvement along with Israel\u2019s Mossad spy agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MEK have no credibility in Iran. They\u2019ve been carrying out these assassinations even to this day, even the assassination of the nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh is said to have had MEK involvement along with Mossad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abbas said the MKO is effectively an extension of the \u201cAnglo-Zionist deep state,\u201d and is basically involved in only killing, murdering and maiming Iranians.<\/p>\n
He also criticized Western countries\u2019 hypocrisy in supporting the terrorist group, saying, \u201cI think that the rest of the world, which gets cowed by American vetoes, by American sanctions, need to really grow a backbone\u201d to come to terms with such hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne would hope that such terrorist organization should be pulled up by the international community instead of being the absolute hypocrites that the Western regimes have shown themselves to be in case of MEK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the West is funding the MKO, helping them with their planning, and also giving them intelligence to carry out their operations.<\/p>\n
\u2018All Western states support MKO\u2019<\/p>\n
Mohammad Marandi, a professor of international studies at the University of Tehran, also told Press TV that the MKO receives support from all Western countries \u2013 including Canada, the United States, the EU and Australia \u2013 rather than just some European countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of them support this terrorist organization. Just as they supported al-Qaeda in Syria and ISIS (Daesh) in Syria, these countries have been supporting terrorists that have been active in Iran,\u201d Marandi said.<\/p>\n
He explained that when the MKO began its bombing campaign in Iran in the early 1980s, they had offices in Europe, in France in particular, and when they joined Saddam Hussein\u2019s army and became a part of his military, they gained even further support from Western regimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MEK terrorist organization receives funding from European governments and the United States, and the murders \u2026 they carry out and the espionage they carry out are fully backed by Western regimes,\u201d the Iranian professor stressed.<\/p>\n
He also maintained that one should not focus on the participation of certain American officials, including Bolton, when analyzing the group\u2019s links to the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no difference between Bolton and [Barack] Obama,\u201d he remarked. \u201cThey are all the same. They all support terrorism. They all support killing Iranians. They all support regime change [in Tehran].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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