Following the continuous floods in Iran that started in March claiming 70 lives, destroying infrastructures and displacing thousands of people across Iran, the opportunists such as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ Cult of Rajavi) have made efforts to fish in troubled waters.<\/p>\n
The MKO\u2019s propaganda media is flooded with the news of floods in Iran particularly claims of the authorities\u2019 mismanagement to manage the disastrous rain showers and moreover the suppressive attitude of governmental forces against victims of the flood!<\/p>\n
Actually the very question is that who cares for the MKO news websites? Definitely not the Iranian nation. The fact was once more repeated by the American prominent journalist a few weeks ago. Michael Rubin has always been a criticizer to the American support for the MKO although he is a significant critic of the Islamic Republic government. In his recent article he asserts that the decisions of the Trump administration \u201cto defy long-held conventional wisdom on U.S. foreign policy\u201d may not be so harmful but \u201cwhen it comes to the Mojahedin e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group, any cooperation and coordination\u2014let alone support\u2014from the United States would be disastrous.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The main reason that he states for his argument is that there is \u201conly one item that united Iranians inside Iran: absolute hatred of the Mojahedin e-Khalq (MEK).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Rubin truly suggests, \u201cWhat really broke any remaining popular support for the MEK among ordinary Iranians, however, was their embrace of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime against the backdrop of the Iran-Iraq War\u201d.<\/strong> As he accurately states, for most Iranians, the MEK-Saddam relationship is unforgivable.<\/p>\n He frankly puts: \u201cThe Mojahedin e-Khalq are a bad bet\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In his opinion, the MKO is a bad bet because the US should not trust a group that is hated among its own country fellowmen and eventually has turned into a political prostitute. \u201cUnable to win any support from Iranians inside Iran, the MEK has turned to the gullible and greedy: they are political chameleons. When in Iran, they were a combination between Islamists and social justice warriors,\u201d Rubin writes.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Iraq, they were secularists, basically Baathists without the Arab identity. And while in France, they are Ademocrats. In reality, their behavior resembles a cult, right down to dictating where members live, whom they should marry and divorce, and the rent-a-mobs who populate their rallies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Thus, the MKO\u2019s propaganda on the recent flood in Iran has no Iranian audience but it surely has certain listeners among paid Western politicians like Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton. Stephanie Baker of Bloomberg website titles her recent article asking \u201cwhere Rudy Giuliani\u2019s money comes from\u201d. She suggests that Giuliani has \u201cmade millions of dollars while acting as Trump\u2019s unpaid consigliere\u201d including the MKO as one of the main sources of Giuliani\u2019s deep pockets.<\/p>\n \u201cGiuliani told me he\u2019s worked with the MEK since 2008,\u201d<\/strong> Stephanie Baker writes.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the time, the U.S. Department of State designated the group a foreign terrorist organization, describing it as \u201ccultlike\u201d and saying members were forced to take a vow of \u201ceternal divorce\u201d and participate in weekly \u201cideological cleansings.\u201d When the State Department revoked the designation in 2012, it nevertheless expressed serious concerns about the organization, \u201cparticularly with regard to allegations of abuse committed against its members.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n However, as Rubin states, the biggest problem is treating the MEK as anything more than a pariah because Iranians hate the group for its history, previous actions, and past allegiances.<\/p>\n According to Dr. Emile Nakhleh former senior intelligence service officer and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency,<\/p>\n \u201cThe MEK, , is a terrorist cult that has received funding from all sorts of dubious sources and is often used as a tool by outside groups, states, and organizations, including intelligence services of regional and international state actors, to further an anti-Iran agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n By Mazda Parsi<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the continuous floods in Iran that started in March claiming 70 lives, destroying infrastructures and displacing thousands of people across Iran, the opportunists such as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,52,79,178],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organizations-propaganda-system","tag-hot-topics","tag-mujahedin-khalq-destructive-cult","tag-mujahedin-khalq-declining","tag-pmoi-iran-people","module-article","ctype-story","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","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=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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