\u00ad++ The Mojahedin Khalq websites have been on overdrive this past week in support of the Saudis. The MEK repeats the crude propaganda of Saudi outlets like Al Arabiyeh which claims that Iran was responsible for the deaths of pilgrims during Hajj. Even the most anti-Iran Farsi commentators have responded with disgust and accused the MEK of sinking to new levels.<\/p>\n
++ This week the MEK started forcing people in Tirana to call their families in Europe, North America and Iran to extract money from them. Using such stories as, we need money for hospital or, I\u2019m in prison or, I need money to pay a smuggler to get to Europe. Anything to get money. If a family agrees to send money, the MEK offers various ways to pay. But when two families asked their relatives if they received the money they were told they hadn\u2019t. The families then traced the money they sent and found it had gone directly to MEK bank accounts about which their relative had no knowledge. After this was exposed, some families have answered phone calls by their relatives by saying \u201cyes, we\u2019ll give money, but only if we can see you and give it to you directly. We are not rich enough to pay for John Bolton or Rudi Giuliani to make speeches in Paris!\u201d The Farsi Commentariat has reacted with disgust that families who only want a visit after thirty years are being labelled \u201cagents of the regime\u201d and \u201cIran\u2019s Intelligence agents\u201d and accused of visiting Camp Liberty to \u201ckill\u201d the MEK there, but are now being contacted and told lies by their relatives in an effort to fool them into paying to sustain Rajavi\u2019s cult empire.<\/p>\n
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++ The MEK\u2019s planned demo in New York on 28th has been so dismal they didn\u2019t even cover it on their own websites. It was a complete disaster \u2013 they couldn\u2019t even bring outside people to swell the ranks like before, no poor black or homeless persons. There is evidence that this demo was backed by the Israeli Defence League in the US and that they are severely disappointed with Rajavi that he couldn\u2019t bring anyone to stand against Iran at that critical time.<\/p>\n
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++ Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad who is based in Paris wrote in his Blog to say he has been informed by those close to the MEK and others that Maryam Rajavi has booked a large salon in Paris for October 10th to commemorate the \u2018day of the abolition of execution in France\u2019. She clearly intends to create another carnival event with foreign paid speakers. People say they found out about it when the MEK started recruiting in refugee camps and paying people to come. Hossein Nejad reminds us of the MEK\u2019s own papers which boast how many people they killed in Iran and Iraq during Saddam\u2019s era. He also gives the names and documentary evidence for people who were executed inside the MEK after being tortured in Abu Ghraib and Camp Ashraf. The title is: \u2018Rajavi celebrates abolition of execution \u2013 joke of the year\u2019.<\/p>\n
In English:<\/p>\n
++ Fars News covered the exposure of letters sent by Massoud Rajavi and the Mojahedin Khalq to the Soviet Union: \u201cThe three letters which date back to 1985 were sent to the Soviet Union and the communist party 4 years after Rajavi escaped to France. A copy of each letter can also be found in Stanford University\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these letters, Rajavi and Farhad Olfat, an MKO representative, have demanded $300mln aid and granting asylum to the MKO members who had fled Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what attracts attention in these letters, is Rajavi\u2019s crystal-clear confession that he had ordered the killing of over 10,000 Iranians across the country which proves Tehran\u2019s claims that the MKO has killed over 12,000 Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Nejat Bloggers\u2019 article \u2018Mojahedin Khalq and Islamphobes, Strange Bedfellows\u2019 analyses the irony and paradox that \u201cthe MKO leaders endeavor to pass themselves off as democratic progressive Muslims as an alternative for the government in Tehran. However, the majority of the group\u2019s supporters in the West is consisted of anti-Islam politicians who detest Islam and particularly Islamic Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ \u2018Brace Yourself, New York! The Annual Anti-Iran Terrorist Freak Show Is Back in Town!\u2019 The title says it all. Although the MEK were too embarrassed to give coverage to their own disastrous demonstration outside the UN building, Caleb T. Maupin writing in Countercurrents.org had no hesitation in exposing the debacle. The gratuitous nod to the cultic LaRouche movement adds spice the piece:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would think that individuals claiming to be \u201cIslamic Marxists\u201d \u2014 former members of an illegal Zionist terrorist organization \u2014 and Republican elected officials would generally not associate with each other. However, once a year for the last decade or so, they all gather together in front of the United Nations during its General Assembly to display their insanity to the world by calling for greater hostility between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlready on September 21, some of the early arrivals were out in front of the United Nations. With sandwich boards and like carnival barkers, a few blocks down from where the Lyndon LaRouche movement was set up, a group of elderly, agitated Persians tried to pass themselves off as \u2018Human Rights Activists.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAll it takes is a little bit of research to discover that the psychologically disturbed protesters in bright yellow shirts with \u201cNo to Rouhani\u201d on them are members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (People\u2019s Holy Warriors). This is a violent cult whose members claim to be \u201cIslamic Marxists\u201d while they openly collaborate with Israel\u2019s Mossad and the US Central Intelligence Agency. (http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/OPINION\/09\/12\/abdi.dont.delist.mek\/)\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Juan Cole\u2019s piece \u2018Things Like Ted Cruz\u2019s Threat to Kill Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Are Why Iranians Don\u2019t Trust the U.S.\u2019 doesn\u2019t need deep analysis to explain why \u201cIf the UN Security Council can implement in a fair way the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for inspecting Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear enrichment activities so as to make impossible down the road any weaponization of the program, it will start the process of overcoming decades of American dirty tricks and dastardly plots against the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cole simply lists some of these \u201cdirty tricks and dastardly plots\u201d, including:<\/p>\n
\u201c5. In the 1980s the group the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq or People\u2019s Jihadis) committed several dramatic acts of terrorism. In 1981 it bombed the HQ of the ruling civilian Iranian party and killing over 70 high officials, including several cabinet members and a supreme court justice. Saddam Hussein gave the group a camp in Iraq from which they struck into Iran in the 1980s, when the US was actively allied with Saddam. After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US kept the camp in place, essentially deploying a terrorist group against Iran. Several mysterious bombings took place in Iran after 2003. The State Department delisted the MEK as a terrorist organization, apparently under Israeli pressure, in 2012, and the MEK has now bought a number of US congressmen (there is an obvious overlap between politicians supported by the Israel lobbies like AIPAC and politicians who support the MEK). So Cruz\u2019s threat to send Khamenei to paradise, i.e. murder him, is not actually crazy talk from an American politician.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Nejat Society reported the visit of two fathers of MEK hostages to the Mayor of Auvers-sur-Oise last week. The two were escorted by police for protection after two previous visits had been met by violent attacks by MEK operatives in the streets of the quiet French tourist village.<\/p>\n
++ Massoud Khodabandeh wrote an explanation in Iranian.com \u2018What does it mean when we say ISIS operates as a mind control cult?\u2019 Using a quote from Chapter nine of Judit Neurink\u2019s book \u2018The war of ISIS: On the road to the Caliphate\u2019, Khodabandeh describes the internal dynamics of ISIS and the methodology used to convert brainwashed recruits into suicide bombers and beheaders.<\/p>\n
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