++ Last week, MEK have forgotten all about Iran have been vigorously trying to support the Neocons; it\u2019s all about Americans now. MEK is trying to support Nicky Halley and her support for Israel. Reactions against this in Iranian opposition Farsi outlets have been to universally condemn the MEK. Many refer to the Lobelog article \u2018US Forces Albania To Take IS Fighters After Hosting MEK\u2019 and say, \u2018we Iranians do not accept MEK as an opposition, they are just terrorists in Albania \u2013 mercenaries for Israel and the Neocons\u2019. Along with this there have been many open letters and articles against the 30th June carnival in Paris, condemning France for allowing this to take place. \u2018The only beneficiaries are the Iranian hardliners\u2019, they complain.<\/p>\n
++ In Albania, MEK issue statements saying, \u2018anyone who separates is an agent of Iran\u2019s intelligence ministry\u2019. Some who have recently left, and Saber from Tabriz, have written to say: \u2018Nobody buys this. Your problems are in Albania. Nothing to do with Iran or anywhere else. This is a result of your treatment of the members.\u2019<\/p>\n
In English:<\/p>\n
++ Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh wrote an article published by Lobelog warning that after Albania was forced to host the terrorist MEK, America has now ordered the country\u2019s leaders to accept ISIS fighters returning to the Balkans.<\/p>\n
++ Behnam Gharagozli, Jon Roozenbeek and Adri\u00e0 Salvador Palau in The New Arab examine John Bolton\u2019s links with the MEK, warning \u2018John Bolton\u2019s ties to Iranian MEK make him more lobbyist than statesman\u2019.<\/p>\n
++ Writing in Tsarizm in Albania, Kozeta \u00c7ika repeated the warnings about ISIS fighters being hosted in Tirana.<\/p>\n
++ Iran Interlink published a section of John Bolton\u2019s Public Financial Disclosure Report which reveals payments from MEK for lobbying for them. The piece ends \u201cLet\u2019s remind ourselves, John Bolton is now America\u2019s National Security Advisor\u201d.<\/p>\n
++ Mint Press published a piece by Wayne Madsen, originally in Strategic Culture Foundation, titled \u2018NATO\u2019s Terrorist Bases in Europe\u2019. Madsen begins: \u201cNATO and the United States, which, together, claim to be fighting some sort of amorphous \u201cglobal war on terrorism,\u201d have enabled a terrorist group to establish bases in two NATO member states \u2013 France and Albania \u2013 and one NATO protectorate, Kosovo. After evacuating forces of the anti-Iranian terrorist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq from their former bases in Iraq, the United States and NATO facilitated the group\u2019s establishment of a well-guarded military base in Manez, Albania, near Tirana. In addition to hosting MEK members, NATO has convinced Albania to accept members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who surrendered to Western special forces in Syria and Iraq.\u201d Madsen describes MEK\u2019s alliance with ISIS and funding from Israel\u2019s Mossad and Saudi Arabia as well as high level political support in the Trump administration. The article concludes: \u201cThe Trump administration\u2019s neocons, notably Bolton and Giuliani, are hell-bent on regime change in Iran. They are ramping up their terrorist army in the Balkans for such a future war.\u201d<\/p>\n
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