++ There has been a great deal of commentary about the terrorist attack in Ahwaz pointing out that, apart from the Saudis and Emirates, everyone \u2013 even Americans \u2013 condemned it. The only Iranians who didn\u2019t condemn the terrorist act were MEK and Iranian ISIS, who claimed to have carried it out.<\/p>\n
++ Some commentators have laughed at Maryam Rajavi\u2019s Skype chat with Rudi Giuliani in New York. They say that as much as Giuliani says Trump is going to help their agenda, even if they kill themselves to work for it he can\u2019t even get a visa for her let alone anything else. Referencing Giuliani\u2019s affair, taking Maria Rosa Ryan to Paris, they joke about Maryam: \u2018it\u2019s a sad time for them now their love affair is conducted over Skype\u2019.<\/p>\n
++ After the disaster of people laughing at Trump\u2019s UN speech, MEK have been on overdrive to support Trump and attack everyone else \u2013 Europe, China, etc. Farsi comment is that at least when Trump is attacked he takes it on the chin. MEK just get hysterical.<\/p>\n
++ The Farsi speaking representative of the US State Department speaking with Deutsche Welle laid out what the US wants. She said that at the Iran desk in the State Department we have no relation with MEK and we have no delusions, we know that MEK has no support at all in Iran. Asked about Giuliani\u2019s support of MEK, she said \u2018yes, he spoke on his own behalf for money. The Stated Department has no connection to that.<\/p>\n
In English:<\/strong><\/p>\n ++ Gazeta Impakt, MEK brings American bomber L. Todd Wood to Albania to show that it is not a terrorist organization but is a baker\u2019s organization. \u201cAs a man trusted by MEK, L. Todd Wood in an internet video he produced, calls Manzas camp a residential complex \u2013 like Sunny Hill or the Malaysian palaces in Tirana. Unlike other journalists who were beaten, expelled, treated as Iranian agents and attacked by Argon\u2019s private armed police, L. Todd Wood gives the impression that the terrorist camp of Manzas is a five-star resort where some angels sleep and not the devils of jihad. The idea is given that the camp is open and anyone can enter there.\u201d MEK showed members working in a bakery, completely forgetting they do not have work permits in Albania.<\/p>\n ++ Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh, Balkans Post, Secret MEK troll factory in Albania uses modern slaves. \u201cBut, back in Albania if the Al Jazeera interviewer had asked \u2018how much money does an MEK member make for spending all day, every day as an internet troll?\u2019 The answer would be \u201cnothing\u201d. MEK does not pay its members anything. It never has and never will. This is because it operates as a cult to which members belong rather than are employed by \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Whitney Webb, Mint Press, Former MEK Official Exposes Saudi Arabia\u2019s Covert Funding of Iranian Terror Group. \u201cIn an interview with Jordan-based news outlet Albawaba News, former MEK head of security Massoud Khodabandeh detailed the covert means through which the Saudis helped fund the group, including regional smuggling networks and black market transactions. According to Khodabandeh, gold and other valuable commodities, such as Rolex watches, were shipped from Saudi Arabia \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Hossein Jelveh, Press TV, Traitors to the homeland. \u201cKhodabandeh, the former MKO member, told Al Jazeera that the group had \u2018changed from a terrorist military organisation to an intelligence-based propaganda machine\u2019. He is wrong. MKO continues to be the terrorist organization that it has always been. The only difference now is that, facing Iranian power like never before, the group and its sponsors can only attempt online subversion against Iran. Like Saddam Hussein of Iraq, MKO and the House of Saud will have their expiration dates for the US. And until that day arrives, they can wiggle only as much.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Dr. Kevin Barrett, Press TV, Why Western media silent on Ahvaz terrorist attack. \u201cUS scholar and political analyst Kevin Barrett: \u2018Innocent people being killed by terrorists is front page news in the West; but, in the case of terrorism against Iran, suddenly, everything changes and the media tends to ignore and downplay it\u2019, Barrett told Press TV in an interview on Saturday. Barrett sees the attack as another terrorist operation launched by the United States and its regional allies\u2026 Barrett concluded that US-sponsored terrorist attacks were going to be counterproductive in the long run because \u2018terrorism doesn\u2019t work \u2026 Iranian people are not going to stand it. People like Bolton and Pompeo may have failed to learn that lesson and they will be learning it in the future\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Press TV, US envoy to UN denies Giuliani\u2019s claim that Trump wants \u2018revolution\u2019 in Iran. US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says Washington is not seeking to overthrow Iran\u2019s government, denying claims by President Donald Trump\u2019s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that the US favored a \u2018revolution\u2019 in Iran. \u2018The United States is not looking to do a regime change in Iran\u2019, Haley told CNN on Sunday\u2026 Giuliani, Trump\u2019s attorney and former mayor of New York City, told an anti-Iran event on Saturday that Trump\u2019s policy of economic pressure and sanctions against Tehran could spur on a regime change. \u2018I don\u2019t know when we\u2019re going to overthrow them\u2019, Giuliani said during the so-called Iran Uprising Summit at a hotel in Times Square. \u2018It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years. But it\u2019s going to happen\u2019. Giuliani\u2019s remarks went against the Trump administration\u2019s declared policy of not seeking a change of government in Iran despite imposing strong economic sanctions against the country.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Dan Friedman, Mother Jones, Giuliani Has Been Told to Stop Advocating for Foreign Interests but Just Did It Anyway. \u201cEarlier this month, seven Senate Democrats asked the Justice Department to investigate whether President Trump\u2019s lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, is breaking the law by lobbying for foreign interests without registering as a foreign agent. One of Giuliani\u2019s foreign clients that the senators cited is Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group that the State Department once included on a list of organizations that support terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Caitlin Johnstone, Iranian.com, Trump War Whore Celebrates Starvation Of Iranian Civilians At MEK Rally. \u201cJust when you thought this administration couldn\u2019t get more cartoonishly villainous, Trump lawyer and Simon Bar Sinister stunt double Rudy Giuliani takes to the stage and enthuses about how US sanctions are making Iranian citizens so desperate they are offering to sell their internal organs for $500 in order to stay alive. \u2018Probably a fortune in Iran today. This is truly pitiful!\u2019 he crowed triumphantly to the crowd at the Iran Uprising Summit in New York on Saturday, pleased as punch by the US government\u2019s success in torturing everyday Iranians with starvation. Giuliani, who is basically what you\u2019d get if necrophilia and racist police shootings had a baby, fumbled his way through a paid speech for the MEK terror cult with all the grace of a drunken creepy uncle MCing his way through a family wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Catherine Shakdam, Citizen Truth, The Other Face of Terror: Why is Washington Entertaining the MKO\/MEK as a Political Alternative. \u201cIn her documentary for Channel 4 (UK) [Lindsey] Hilsum produces documents enouncing in no uncertain terms how dangerous Albania believes the MKO\/MEK to be \u2013 highlighting the length foreign governments will go to secure an alliance with the U.S. \u2013 SECRET DOCUMENT OBTAINED BY CHANNEL 4 JOURNALIST LINDSAY HILSUM EXPOSING THE THREAT POSED BY THE MKO\/MEK. With so many dangerous unknowns revolving around the MKO\/MEK \u2026 notwithstanding the group\u2019s proclivity to shed blood \u2013 including that of its members should they wish to leave, Washington\u2019s wholehearted support boggles the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Gazeta Impakt, Kastriot Myftaraj: Maryam Rajavi calls for uprising, should be arrested. \u201cIn the latest issue of Moscow Speaking in Ora News, Kastriot Myftaraj commented on the recent threat of war that Iranian Mojahedin dictator Maryam Rajavi has made against Iran.<\/p>\n Myftaraj comments on the recent call by Maryam Rajavi for an uprising in Iran that was made from the Mojahedin camp in Manzas, citing the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania to denounce Rajavi\u2019s terrorist demand. Article 221 of the Criminal Code of Albania imposes imprisonment for 15 to 25 years, while the head of the insurgency can be sentenced to life imprisonment for such demands\u2026 Myftaraj notes that calls by Maryam Rajavi and the Iranian jihadists in Manzas for war against Iran provokes the latter to attack Albania with its missile system.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Borzou Dargahi, The Independent, The \u2018political cult\u2019 opposing the Iranian regime which has created a state within a state in Albania. \u201c\u2019We are supposed to be living in a free and democratic country. But they have built a state within a state that implements its own laws\u2019, says Olsi Yazici, an Albanian writer who is part of the legal team attempting to find out more about the group. \u2018They are behaving in Albania like a mafia \u2013 breaking laws, blackmailing, paying people off, beating people, threatening defectors, accusing anyone who questions them of being an Iranian agent and controlling their members in the camp through Stalinist totalitarian methods. And at the end, they claim to be democrats who will save Iran\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n ++ Press TV, MKO is destructive mind control cult pursuing US policy: Ex-member. Ebrahim Khodabandeh: \u201cActually the policy of the White House along with Saudis and Israel has always been regime change in Iran, and they think they can do this by imposing severe sanctions on the Iranians\u2026 They think by making the people of Iran suffer they can reach their goal. This inhumane policy cannot be expressed officially, of course. This must be asked by a so-called Iranian group first. The MEK are always ready to betray their country if they think this would reach them to their goal and to power, as they cooperated with the assaulting enemy, that is Saddam Hussein.\u201d<\/p>\n September 28, 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" here has been a great deal of commentary about the terrorist attack in Ahwaz pointing out that, apart from the Saudis and Emirates, everyone \u2013 even Americans \u2013 condemned it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669],"tags":[180],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[117],"class_list":["post-8821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-interlink-weekly-digest","tag-iran-interlink","module-news","ctype-story","blog-iran-interlink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821","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=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}