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6 Years ago Today: CIA, Mossad and MEK Assassinated Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Majid Shahriari

Mossad planned and prepared the killing of Shahriari and the others, attacks which were almost certainly carried out by associates of the radical Marxist group Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK). The assassinations were based on the false premise that Iran had a nuclear weapons program that could be disrupted by killing the scientists and technicians involved …

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I was at State when we took the MeK off the terrorist list. But team Trump’s ties to the group still worry me.

Press accounts of MeK/MKO/PMOI support by Giuliani and these others often treat their ties as a curiosity or, at most, some kind of peccadillo, because the group was taken off the State Department list in 2012. I was the coordinator for counterterrorism at that time, and my office was responsible for leading the effort to decide whether …

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Giuliani, the favorite for Trump’s secretary of state, has ties to Venezuela, Qatar and Iranian exiles

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012.Since MEK was a designated terrorist organization at the time ….

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Rudi Giuliani took money from Qatar, Venezuela, Iranian exiles

In 2011, an exiled Iranian political party called the Mujahedin e-Khalq, known as the MEK/MKO/PMOI, paid Giuliani to give a speech in Washington calling on the State Department to remove the group from its list of terrorist organizations. The MEK recruited a host of other formal officials to its cause and succeeded in reversing the terrorist designation in 2012. A subsidiary …

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Possible Trump Cabinet Members’ Links to the Mojahedin Khalq Could Spell Trouble for Iran

John Bolton called for a military attack on Iran and “vigorous American support” for MEK “aimed at regime change in Tehran”. Last summer, Gingrich spoke at MEK’s rally in Paris alongside Turki bin Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence. Gingrich went as far as to solemnly bow down to MEK’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, calling her by her favored title …

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America’s ironic two faced war on terror ignores US support for Mojahedin Khalq

The report would explicitly state (our emphasis): Perhaps the most prominent (and certainly the most controversial) opposition group that has attracted attention as a potential U.S. proxy is the NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), the political movement established by the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). Critics believe the group to be undemocratic and unpopular …

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Mojahedin khalq at war with each other, seek help from PM Edi Rama

Estranged families of Mojahedin Khalq members seek PM Rama’s help to meet loved ones The arrival of the Mojahedin-e Khalq in our country has exposed the divisions between the members and their leaders, and now it seems their only hope is to find help from Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama. Some family members of the members of the terrorist organization Mojahedin-e Khalq from the province of Ilam in western Iran have sent a letter …

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Iranian Opposition Ex-Fighters ‘Transferred to Albania’

The People’s Mujahedin of Iran aka MKO/MEK/PMOI is a controversial resistance group. Founded in 1965 as a left-leaning opposition to the Shah’s regime, it turned against the Islamic Republic following the 1979 Revolution. The US listed it as a terrorist organisation in 1997 but it was removed from the blacklist in 2012 after it renounced violence. Several thousand of its members left Iran for Iraq, where former dictator Saddam Hussein, used them …

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