{"id":8228,"date":"2018-05-06T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:55:25","slug":"rudy-went-to-albania-to-hang-out-with-a-iran-regime-change-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/8228","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Went to Albania to Hang Out with A Iran Regime Change Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) is a notorious cult-like group of Iranian exiles which appears to have close to literally zero support inside Iran but has for years cultivated significant ties to DC Iran \u201cregime change\u201d advocates as well as a bipartisan list of shills willing to take their money (of which they have quite a lot).<\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"700\" height=\"410\" class=\"wp-image-8229 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Giuliani_Rudy_Tirana.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"700\"height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Giuliani_Rudy_Tirana.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Giuliani_Rudy_Tirana-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\n<p>It\u2019s an odd group which mixes Islam, Marxism and neocon-inflected DC Pay-to-Play values into a bizarre amalgam run by current cult leader Maryam Rajavi. Until just a few years ago the US State Department listed them as a terrorist organization. They appear to be mainly out of the terrorism business now. But they\u2019re still a treacherous and dangerous group. With all this you\u2019ll be glad to learn that one of their biggest backers is none other than Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton. And perhaps they\u2019re most high profile and ardent supporter (and recipient of their cash) is Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>I just found out this afternoon that back in March of this year Rudy traveled to Tirana, Albania to headline a major MEK event. Here you can see him with Rajavi in a North Korea-like pose at the event in Tirana.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Rudy\u2019s close ties to President Trump were played up aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Rudy at the Tirana event leading a \u201cregime change\u201d chant after promising the group that John Bolton remains loyal to them and that \u201cyou need to be in charge in [Iran].\u201d It\u2019s nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Did Rudy get paid for this speech, like he has in other cases? How much?<\/p>\n<p>By Josh Marshall , talkingpointsmemo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) is a notorious cult-like group of Iranian exiles which appears to have close to literally zero support inside Iran but has for years cultivated significant ties to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[52,85,642,20],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","tag-mujahedin-khalq-destructive-cult","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-paid-advocacy-for-mko","tag-third-view-mek","module-article","ctype-story","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","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=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}