{"id":8307,"date":"2018-05-29T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T08:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2021-01-22T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:40:10","slug":"the-meks-man-inside-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/8307","title":{"rendered":"The MEK\u2019s Man inside the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A report by Richard Engel<\/p>\n<p>On assignment with Richard Engel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8307-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/dla.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Report\/NBC\/NBC_MEK_20180525_2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dla.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Report\/NBC\/NBC_MEK_20180525_2.mp4\">https:\/\/dla.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Report\/NBC\/NBC_MEK_20180525_2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How did a fringe Iranian opposition group with a history of assassinating Americans get so cozy with the likes of John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani? By paying them thousands to speak at its events, where they advocate for MEK-led regime change inside Iran.<\/p>\n<p>(END)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8308 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Khodabandeh.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"600\"height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Khodabandeh.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Khodabandeh-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Richard Angel twitter account:<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: We obtained never-be<a href=\"https:\/\/dla.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Report\/NBC\/NBC_MEK_20180525_1.mp4\">fore-seen footage of the<\/a> MEK&#8217;s secret base in Albania. The MEK is an Iranian opposition group with a history of terrorism. More recently it&#8217;s paid thousands to @AmbJohnBolton &amp; @RudyGiuliani. More tonight at 9PM ET @MSNBC @RichardEngel pic.twitter.com\/teaGhQeVZy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img width=\"650\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8309 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Trump_Bolton.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"650\"height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Trump_Bolton.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Trump_Bolton-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSNBC_Trump_Bolton-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 On Assignment with Richard Engel (@OARichardEngel) May 25, 2018<\/p>\n<p>NBC report in Albanian media:<\/p>\n<p>Kronika e NBC\/ Pamjet me dron mbi kampin e muxhahedin\u00ebve, d\u00ebshmia p\u00ebr torturat https:\/\/t.co\/vRnIJFqHdN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Massoud khodabandeh (@ma_khodabandeh) May 27, 2018<\/p>\n<p>On MSNBC @OARichardEngel I explained that no decent American intelligence officer would say MEK is trustworthy because it is a Destructive Cult.<\/p>\n<p>Examining how @AmbJohnBolton and @RudyGiuliani were paid to speak for Maryam Rajavi. pic.twitter.com\/U83F12h5ko<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Massoud khodabandeh (@ma_khodabandeh) May 27, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Maddow, MSNBC,<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by Richard Engel On assignment with Richard Engel &nbsp; How did a fringe Iranian opposition group with a history of assassinating Americans get so cozy with the likes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,85,642,20],"module":[27],"ctype":[26],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nejat-missions","tag-mujahedin-khalq-destructive-cult","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-paid-advocacy-for-mko","tag-third-view-mek","post_format-post-format-video","module-reports","ctype-videos","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}