The MEK's terrorist activities - Page 21 of 72

A communist terrorist group in Albania must be condemned by all friends of Iran

Nejat SocietyJune 13, 20170203 views

The MEK, although with difficulty, have managed to penetrate into Iran many times before and carry out terrorist atrocities. They know the internal geography of the country far more than the average ISIS commander. Furthermore, studies have shown that like ISIS, the MEK also receives funding from Saudi Arabia.Consequently, there is every possibility that ISIS and the MEK have forged some sort of alliance or at minimum an agreement on the sharing of intelligence….

Iran Unites as Tehran Struck by Middle East’s Proxy Wars

Nejat SocietyJune 13, 2017073 views

But terrorist attacks are not new to Iran. In the early years of revolutionary turmoil, the leftist-Islamist Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) resorted to violence. In the 1980s, up to 120 terrorist attacks occurred in Tehran perpetrated by MEK/MKO/PMOI and other violent groups, killing hundreds of Iranian officials, including the president and prime minister in August 1981. Even the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was targeted …

Terrorism in Tehran: Reality Confounds Rhetoric

Nejat SocietyJune 11, 20170120 views

The principal perpetrator of terrorism in Iran over the past four decades has been the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), the Marxist/Islamist cult/terrorist group that prior to the revolution had claimed Americans among its victims. Thanks largely to the MEK’s activity, Iran necessarily has had much experience in countering terrorism.

Consequences of attacks in Tehran will be felt around the world

Nejat SocietyJune 11, 2017068 views

Well-documented covert efforts by George W Bush’s administration in the 2000s to destabilise Iran by funding militant internal opposition groups are not forgotten in Tehran. Nor is unofficial, on-off American support for the Mujahedin e-Khalq aka MKO/MEK/PMOI, or People’s Mujahadin of Iran, a group formerly backed by Saddam Hussein that was responsible for numerous armed attacks inside Iran.

Tehran Was Always America’s And Thus The Islamic State’s Final Destination

Nejat SocietyJune 11, 20170107 views

Despite this, and admissions that MEK/MKO/PMOI remained indisputably a terrorist organization, recommendations were made to de-list it from the US State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization registry so that more overt support could be provided to the group for armed regime change. Based on such recommendations and intensive lobbying ….

ISIS Attacks in Tehran Expose US-Saudi Lies About Iran

Nejat SocietyJune 10, 20170102 views

Iran has long been a victim of terrorism. In the 1980s the Mujahidin-e Khalgh Organization, usually referred to as the MEK or MKO, murdered up to 17000 people in Iran. Even the United States listed the MEK/MKO/PMOI as a terrorist organization for well over a decade. The Baluchi terrorist group Jundallah staged several terrorist attacks in Iran from its bases in Pakistan, killing scores of civilians. Just last month, Jaish al-Adl …

Iran terror attack: Who gains?

Nejat SocietyJune 10, 2017099 views

The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a long-standing Iranian opposition group, has collaborated with the Israelis on those earlier operations. So they are likely to have played a role as well. The group retains thousands of secret supporters within Iran who would have helped smuggle arms into the country, stashed them once they arrived, located safe houses for the attackers, and helped scout out the targeted …

Fallout from Iran attacks spells trouble to come in wider Middle East

Nejat SocietyJune 10, 2017093 views

Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO/PMOI) is an Iranian terrorist group dedicated to violently overthrowing Iran’s government and which had been expelled from the country since the early 1980s. The Obama administration removed it from the US’s list of terror groups after an intense lobbying campaign in Washington DC, but its involvement in violence is well-known in Iran. In 1981, it was blamed for planting a …

Revolutionary Guards blame Saudi Arabia for Tehran terror attack

Nejat SocietyJune 10, 2017079 views

Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a senior politician close to Tehran’s hardliners, blamed a combination of Saudi Arabia, the US, Isis and the exiled opposition group MEK for Wednesday’s attacks. “Saudi Arabia is definitely playing the leading role in these incidents, considering that its foreign ministry threatened Iran two to three days ago,” he said, referring to a call by Riyadh for Iran to be punished for supporting terrorism …

US Media & The Terrorists Who Cried Wolf

Nejat SocietyJune 1, 20170101 views

While various groups organized resistance to the Shah in the form of guerrilla warfare, strikes, and protests, the MEK/MKO/PMOI conducted adventurist acts of violence and terrorism. In addition to Iranians, Americans were also victims of MEK’s terrorism prior to the Iranian revolution of 1979…