MKO terrorist group postpones two-day summit until further notice upon Tirana recommendations; Dr. Olsi Jazexhi explains:
The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq
After a sophisticated cyber-attack brought Albanian government and citizen services to a halt over the weekend, the government has sought to reassure the public that there has been no security breach or lasting damage.
On Sunday (17 July), the Albanian National Agency for Information Services was forced to shut all online public services and government websites because of the attack. On Monday, the government released a statement detailing the full scope of the matter.
“The methods used by these malicious actors are similar to [attacks] observed in the international cyberspace…Fortunately, the rapid detection and response to these attacks meant that government systems emerged unscathed,” the government wrote in its Monday statement.
The statement also clarified that all information systems are backed up and secure and will be restored to full functionality, although it did not specify when. They also said that the systems were not actually breached, meaning personal data should not have been impacted.
In the media, portals supportive of the government have speculated that the attack came from Russsia, while others have said Iran due to the government’s sheltering of a dissident group of Iranians in a camp not far from the capital of Tirana.
The shutdown has affected the websites of parliament and the prime minister’s office, as well as e-Albania—the government portal that all Albanians, as well as foreign residents and investors, use to access a slew of public services.
The ministry of education had to pause online registration for school children, while the ministry of foreign affairs was forced to halt all online services at its consulates abroad.
As of 1 May, e-Albania has taken on the role of many institutional counter services from across the country. Matters such as residency, tax, and business activities can now, in theory, all be carried out via the portal rather than face-to-face in institutions.
Albania has been rocked by a number of data protection and privacy scandals in the last 18 months, including leaks from government institutions that have seen the names, phone numbers, car registration plates, employers, salaries, and more, in the public realm.
In January 2022, the government signed an agreement with US Company Jones International to strengthen the country’s digital security systems. At the time, the company’s founder James L.Jones said, “Albanians must be responsible for their own safety. We look forward to working in accordance with your priorities to liberate Albania from the worry of cyberattacks.”
By Alice Taylor and Barbara Halla | EURACTIV.com and exit.al
Gjergji Thanasi and Olsi Jazexhi discuss the latest attacks that Maryam Rajavi, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran are doing against their defectors in Albania. While DAESH / Jahbat al Nusra in Syria used to kill their defectors, the Mojaheden are using Albanian security officials to attack the defectors.
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MEK fights from Albania a proxy war with Iran on behalf of Israel. MEK claims that in March 2018 Iran wanted to attack it, and used this justification together with Israel to deport the Iranian ambassador from Albania. MEK claims that Pasdar, Iranian secret service operates in Albania to attack Maryam Rajavi and her foreign fighters. Rajavi is particularly nervous with defectors of her cult. Many Iranians have escaped from MEK and now live in freedom in Albania. This creates a major existential crisis for MEK since the defections are causing the death of the organization. Maryam Rajavi and her first husband Mehdi Abrishamci claim that the defectors of jihad are supported by a number of Albanians. In the past years and with the support of US institutions they have managed to push Albanian authorities to fight on behalf of MEK against the defectors.
On July 15, Maryam Rajavi managed to convince Albanian prosecutor Vladimir Mara and judge Etleva Deda to raid the homes of Iranian defectors. During the search, the police did not find anything illegal. The search warrant released by judge Etleva Deda shows that 400 mojahedens have abandoned the ex-terrorist organization and 300 foreign fighters have smuggled themselves into the European Union. Thanks to the Zionist lobbying on behalf of MEK, Albanian authorities do not jail MEK commanders who have been caught smuggling drugs and humans into Europe and do money laundering.
Olsi and Gjergji make fun of the ways how Maryam Rajavi tries to do money laundering in Albania. They even claim that even if Maryam Rajavi earns money by doing porn, she must justify the source of her income before she can deposit money in Albanian banks.
They ridicule the hysterical attacks of MEK against the Albanians who denounce the illegal activities of MEK and appeal to Albanian authorities to not become tools at the hand of an ex-terrorist organization.
Youtube page of Olsi Jazexhi
“The main reason for de-listing the MEK from British, EU & U.S. terrorist lists (FTO) was the organization’s public claim – and subsequent legal guarantee – that they had renounced violence since 2001 and would continue to do so,” Reza Nasri, an international lawyer and legal expert, wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
However, a minor explosion in a southeastern Tehran in the Malek Ashtar Basij headquarters on Saturday night, resulted in minor infrastructure damage. In a statement, the MKO claimed responsibility for the explosion.
In their statement issued on the same night, the terrorist group claimed the attack was carried out by “revolutionary cells”.
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Reza Nasri
“In light of this recent development, the UK, EU and U.S. – along with Canada – should seriously consider revising their past decision and designate MEK again as a terrorist organization,” Nasri continued in his thread of tweets.
According to the legal expert, aside from doing justice to the thousands of Iranian, Iraqi and Kurdish victims that were killed or maimed by this brutal cult over the years, designating MEK again would be viewed as a good-faith gesture that will have a positive impact on the ongoing JCPOA negotiations.
“This is the Western countries’ opportunity to show good-faith, break the negotiations’ deadlock and set the ground for a sustainable and long-term cooperation with Iran. Don’t miss it!” Nasri noted, advising the Americans.
The Avaricious Nature of Western Politicians Attending the MEK Event
The propaganda meetings of the Mojahedin-e Khalq group, known as the Kahkeshan (Galaxy), were held from 2004 to 2018 in various places in Paris, Auvers-sur-Oise (Maryam Rajavi’s residence), north of Paris, or in the Villepinte. After 2018, the group accused an Iranian diplomat of bombing this gathering and then held this propaganda meeting in the form of demonstrations or online under the pretext of Coronavirus Pandemic. The purpose of these multimillion-dollar rallies is simply to create the impression in the audience’s minds that “we exist”, but if we look closely at the faces of the members of this organization in such meetings, we will notice the broken and aging organization.
However, some European and American politicians, such as Texas Congressman Ted Poe, who received thousands of dollars in funding from the head of a pro-MEK group, in his state. At a time when he was acting as a keynote speaker on behalf of the lifting of sanctions on the MEK group at events across the United States, he introduced the organization as a ticket to regime change in Iran; But it should also be noted that, just as the MEK knows, the intelligence services supporting the MEK, certainly indicate that they have no social position among the Iranians and even its hatred can be seen obviously among the Iranian people, and raising issues such as alternatives to the Iranian system and overthrowing the government, etc., is no longer applicable and is just designed for the same stage of propaganda, but in the end, this group, with all its factors, capacities and facilities, is just a part of the opposition of the Islamic Republic, and the dissident countries, in the hope of creating disturbance for Iran, are forced to strengthen groups such as the MEK.
Although the MEK and its meeting in Paris cannot be valued as influential, and the radius of this move would be hyperbolic if we consider it further than the same Villepinte rental hall and a few hours of media coverage before and after it, examining this meeting can be an explanation for the glamor of this propaganda show.
In each time of holding this propaganda meeting, different politicians participated in it. For example, after the transfer of MEK members out of Iraq, the meeting was held on Saturday, July 1, 2017 in Villepinte, Paris. This gathering was held simultaneously with Iran’s influence in the region and the development of ballistic missiles and with the presence of the group’s supporters from five continents. Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the group of MEK, was the main speaker at the ceremony. Some of the personalities attending the ceremony included: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York, John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Senator Joe Lieberman, Louis Freeh, Tom Ridge, Michael Mukasey , Turki Bin Faisal, from Saudi Arabia, Linda Chavez, former White House Public Relations Officer, and Nasr al-Hariri, member of the Syrian opposition delegation, and parliamentary and opposition delegations from various countries.
Retired and rented speakers
Both in this meeting and in the previous and subsequent meetings of this group, all the participants in these gatherings, even if they are well-known politicians, have one thing in common, and that is not only are they now retired from the world of politics and power, but have almost no hope of returning to the power that forced them to enter into such a deal with the MEK.
John Bolton, Gingrich, Turki al-Faisal, etc., all of them no longer have a place in the power structures of their respective countries and only look at the meeting of the MEK with a commercial motive, with the difference that the position and background of each of these politicians is effective in increasing or decreasing amounts they would receive. A look at the MEK’s payroll, which shows the amounts of $ 80,000 for a two-minute speech, confirms this. The interesting thing is that the texts of the speeches are also prepared by the agents of the MEK, and more precisely, the speakers at the meetings of the MEK are literally reserved for a specific time.
The behavior of Rudolf Giuliani, one of the participants in the previous meeting of the MEK in Villepinte, is an example of the fact that these people do not see a political future in the power structures for themselves that they agreed to attend the meetings of the MEK, which is why they look at MEK for business matters.
Referring to words from the Turki Faisal, the Saudi speaker of this kind of meetings, increases the possibility of writing the texts of these speeches by the MEK agents and the hired politicians have no choice to read them for the audiences to get their money at the end. In his speech at the meeting, he accused the Iranian government of interfering in Arab countries, saying that Iran today is not a religious or non-religious country and is an isolated country. Unlike artists and scientists in the Sassanid era, Iranian elites today have many problems. He said in a speech to Mojahedin leader Maryam Rajavi that: “Your efforts to liberate your nation are a legendary epic that will remain in history like the Shahnameh.”
The use of words such as Shahnameh and reference to the Sassanid era is completely rooted in Persian literature and culture, not Arabic!
He said to the Iranian government that “Iran is the biggest supporter of terrorism in the world,” He stressed that the elections in Iran are “undemocratic and illegitimate because Khamenei, like all dictators, nominates candidates”! He mentioned this statement while 40 years of free elections in Iran after the victory of the Islamic Revolution have been done, but the first election in Saudi Arabia return to 2005 that was held without the presence of women and it was only to elect members of city councils and municipalities and not to elect officials and main figures! He considers Iran a sponsor of terrorism, while his country has been one of the aggressors in Yemen since 2015 and is responsible for deadly crimes and the killing of more than 370,000 Yemenis and the displacement and wounding of millions of them.
The Guardian writes in connection with the meeting of the MEK and the presence of former US officials in the gathering: “Supporters of an Iranian terrorist organization in a struggle after investing millions of dollars in an unprecedented campaign of political aid, recruiting Washington lobby groups and paying former senior government officials, have been victorious in the United States to lift sanctions on the organization.”
The Guardian’s research, based in part on data from the Center for Political Accountability, a group that tracks the impact of money on US policy, identified a steady stream of funding from key Iranian-American organizations and their campaign leaders, intended to remove the organization from the list of terrorist organizations in the United States.
The campaign to bury the bloody history of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in the bombings and assassinations that killed Americans, Iranian politicians and thousands of civilians, and to portray it as a loyal US ally against the Islamic Republic of Iran, has brought huge costs for the three groups : Members of US Congress, Washington lobby groups and former influential officials.
One of the prominent members of Congress who received the budget is Ileana Ros Lehtinen, chair of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee. She has received at least $ 20,000 from Iranian-American groups or their leaders.
Ed Rendell, the former governor of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in 2012 that he was paid between $ 150,000 and $ 160,000 for his speeches in support of the group.
Congressman Bob Filner is another MEK recipient who has twice traveled to France to address pro-MEK events, presented resolutions in the House of Representatives for them, and called for the group’s sanctions to be lifted. More than $ 14,000 was the costs of Filner’s trips to Paris was paid to him by the head of an Iranian-American group, and nearly $ 1 million was paid to a lobbying firm in Washington seeking to lift the MKO sanctions.
Texas Congressman Ted Poe received thousands of dollars in grants from the head of a pro-Mujahedin-e Khalq group in his state and tried to portray the group as an option to change the Iranian regime.
Other supporters of lifting the group’s sanctions was Dana Rohrabacher, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Relations, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, received thousands of dollars in grants in just one year to support the MEK.
The Guardian asked the pro-Mujahedin-e Khalq politicians what they thought of the money they received from MEK, but only Rohrabacher responded. She said it was easy to receive financial aid from supporters of the MEK, but that the money had no effect on her position on lifting the group’s sanctions. “I have no doubt that people will help my campaign if it benefits them and they believe in it, whether it is the group of MEK or others.”
But the important thing about this is whether it is right to receive this funding, and whether it benefits the people of the United States at all?
Regarding the multiple policies of the MEK, the killing of several Americans, their change of attitude towards the United States and their “time-serving” and “go-with-the-tide” policies after the fall of Saddam, the answer is definitely no, but the group’s dollars and financial aid to American politicians in their change of opinion and taste has been effective.
“The MEK’s past attacks on the Americans, their bombings in Tehran and the killing of politicians and civilians, and their support for Saddam Hussein, are past and historic,” Rohrabacher said.
The three major lobbying companies in Washington have received nearly $ 1.5 million to pressure the US government and lawmakers to support the group of MEK and protect their members in the Iraqi camp.
Many former US officials have received up to $ 40,000 to speak out in support of the MEK’s removal from the sanctions list. Among them are Gen. Hugh Shelton, former chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, and Michael Mukasey, who oversaw the prosecution of terrorism cases, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Randall, received more than $ 150,000 to speak at events in support of the lifting of sanctions for the MEK. Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page received $ 20,000 to speak at the rally. Other people in the United States or other countries only accepted travel expenses, although in some cases it included expensive trips to Europe.
Some of these payments prompted an investigation by the US Treasury Department. The organization is examining the costs incurred by Shelton, Freeh, Mukasey and Randall and others to see if they are violating the “financial support for a terrorist group” law. However, in cases involving links to other banned organizations, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, individuals have received long prison sentences for indirect financial support.
Politicians and those invited to the gathering rarely mention the Mujahedin-e Khalq’s violent and anti-American past, portraying the group not as terrorists but as freedom fighters and pioneers of regime change in Iran. Some of them even admit that they had little information about this group before being invited to speak and led by MEK supporters.
A State Department official familiar with speech contracts explains the mechanism of this process: “Your lecturer will call you and say you will receive $ 20,000 for a 20-minute talk. They will send you a private jet and you will receive $ 25,000 more when you are done. They also send a team to explain to you what to say.”
A former US diplomat says he was offered $ 25,000 to speak in Paris, but he declined. He was told that he could make general statements about human rights in Iran and did not have to name the MEK, although “the MEK’s connection to this speech was clear and could not be concealed.” In this case, he was told that “rich Iranians in Europe” would pay the money. Several others spoke to the Financial Times and confirmed that they had received cash for the speech, including John Bolton, the former US national security advisor.
The presence of some former government politicians at these gatherings was sometimes criticized by those country’s media. Like the presence of former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government considered the MEK a terrorist organization until 2012.
Thomas Juneau a professor at the University of Ottawa and a former Department of Defense analyst, wrote that Harper openly supports a former terrorist group and a completely undemocratic and illegitimate religious group that is in no way a substitute for the current Iranian regime.
Farzan Sabet, an Iranian policy expert at Stanford University’s Center for Security and International Cooperation, said Harper’s presence showed the complexity of the MEK’s political operations and the naivety or avaricious nature of Western politicians attending the event.
Finally, after much effort and lobbying by the organization, which had been on the US terrorist list since the 1970s for killing US personnel in Iran and its links to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the group was officially recognized by the US and Canadian Foreign Ministries and by the rejection of violent behavior in late 2012, they removed the MEK from the list of terrorist organizations. However, in a statement issued at the same time, the US State Department stated that they still had serious concerns about the MEK.
After the MEK was recognized in the United States, former politicians easily supported the organization and participated in its propaganda campaigns by receiving large sums of money.
Jack Turner, Gopolitika.ru
“Family, I hate you”. This citation from André Gide, the French author and 1947 Nobel Laureate can be described, with no exaggeration at all, as Massoud Rajavi’s motto. After all, the People’s Mojahedin sacrificed everything for their revolution.
In order for the individual to give himself up body and soul to the cause, the MEK intervened directly in its militants’ daily lives. This was to enforce the arbitrary decisions of the ‘Great Teacher’.
As Figaro reported:
“Founded on the cult of its spiritual leader, Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, the Mojahedin organisation has often been compared to a sect by former members, forced to divorce and break with their family to join the ranks of fighters”.
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Mitra Yusefi , her husband and children
Mitra Yusufi, a long term member of the MEK, and a victim of this policy of enforced divorce, breaks the silence:
“I traveled a long road. I underwent a real brainwashing and I have to be alert all the time. The Iranian people detest Rajavi and I hate him. My story is simple. I was a young newlywed when it all started. My husband was a popular man; since he had played for the Iranian National Football team. This was the team that qualified for the World Championship in 1978 and played in Argentina. We were living in England when the revolution happened.
We returned to Iran before going to the United States. In the Eighties, we had heard bad news about things that happened to our friends. In fact, at the time, we were very cut off from the realities of Iranian society. Rajavi wanted to use my husband’s name. We agreed and we were moved to Greece to organize the movement. When Rajavi, after his divorce from Banisadr’s daughter married his comrade’s wife, Maryam, we were shocked. My husband then took a strong position, saying that you cannot take another’s wife. Two days later, though, they convinced us of the opposite.We were such fools…”.
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Nadereh Afshari
Nadere Afshari also lived inside the Mojahedin. She knows the reality:
“Rajavi used the family institution as an instrument at the service of his own power. To keep the men in the organisation, he forced them to marry. To do this, he used women as bait and ‘gave’ them to his most docile servants. Yet, at the slightest sign of disobedience, he took away their wives. Women were, therefore, objects passed from hand to hand.
Thus, a docile woman like Atefeh, who had the rank of Major, was forced to divorce four times, on the personal orders of Rajavi. Her comrade, Mahboubeh Jamshidi, divorced and remarried at least three times.
Rajavi considers the family as an integral cell in his organisation. He, therefore, feels free to intervene in the marital relations of members against their own will. The truth is that he dislikes the family which always posed a problem for his ‘regime’. This was for a very good reason: it is very difficult to keep ‘the light of love for the Leader’ burning bright.
From 1991 on, marriage changed its meaning. It became a barrier which kept the organisation’s members from loving their Leader”.
A third defector states:
“At this time, Rajavi also imposed on the leadership a fixed ceremony at the beginning of meetings: everyone had to place his hands on the table to make sure that no one was wearing a wedding ring, which he called ‘a slave ring’.”
Deconstructing the Family Of course, the MEK defended itself. The impact of these statements on its internal practices on international public opinion created a very negative impression. The National Resistance Council wrote, in its response to the American accusations:
“Further on, they claim that the Mojahedin had forced couples in Iraq to divorce and send their children to Europe and the United States. Here, it must be taken into account that the individuals who wrote this report were repeating, word for word, the allegations used by the Iranian regime and by the survivors of the Shah regime.
The National Liberation Army of Iran is based in the territory of a country where family-Iife in the camps became impossible during the unprecedented bombardments of the Gulf War and thereafter, because of the international embargo.
During the bombings, families, voluntarily and sometimes in writing, asked the organization for assistance in sending their children to Europe and the United States to live with their parents or our supporters. Despite many obstacles and risks, the movement spent millions of dollars to move these children to safe places. The alternative would have been accepting the possibility of numerous victims among them “.
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The MEK children
The facts, however, are stubborn and the eyewitness reports are very precise:
‘in the terms of the ‘Second Ideological Revolution’, children had to be separated from their families and sent abroad. Rajavi made sure personally that this order was carried out case by case, finding militants or family members living in Europe or the United States who could take the children in. In the absence of family abroad, the children were sent to orphanages or special schools established by the Mojahedin in Germany and the Netherlands. More than 500 children were sent abroad this way: they were handed over to the organization during a special ceremony in which the parents recited a text affirming: ‘I give my child to Massoud and Maryam’.”
Yet the MEK justified itself by comparison with others:
“Moreover, this policy is not without precedent. During the Second World War, children were separated from their families and sent outside London during the bombings. If this way of doing things is unacceptable, the State Department should have published a declaration criticising Winston Churchill “. (219)
The People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran could have cited two other 20Ih Century precedents, ones more troubling indeed.
During 1936-37, the evacuation of the children of Spanish Republicans fighting Franco’s Nationalists is one. To protect them from the bombings which struck some cities very hard, especially Madrid, young girls and boys were sent by convoy to the Soviet Union. But once the Popular Front Government was swept aside and taken over by the Communists, these kids stayed in the USSR for an orthodox MarxistLeninist education.
The same scenario took place a few years later in Greece, during the civil war that immediately followed World War ii. There again, children kidnapped for the stated motive of putting them out of harm’s way remained in the USSR.
Kidnapping could also take place at home. The Hitler youth stole the minds and loyalties of children, turning them against their teachers and even their parents. The “Racially pure” S.S. breeding facilities were only a continuation of kidnap, but with the result of bringing thousands of parentless children into post-war Germany. Uprooted, far from their country and cut off from their culture, these children became wanderers without identity. They only had that given them by the movement or the organisation which took them in hand and led them where they wanted to for their own purposes.
For more than 20 years we know exactly how the MEK has used these kids: easier to lead, because they are more docile than adults who have developed their critical faculties. This included abandoning them to their fate when times went bad:
“In Evin, the model prison of Iran, built by the ex-Shah, one section is completely devoted to the ‘curables’, who undergo a reeducation programme. There, we find a certain number of inmates who discarded their former masters, like Banisadr’s embody guard. But the overwhelming majority are children. They are the ones the Mojahedin threw into the street fighting, without any military or political training at all. These kids (13-15 year olds) cracked, naturally. They turned against themselves”.
From the book: Autopsy of an Ideological Drift by Antoine Gessler, translated by Thomas R. Forstenszer
Ali Qashqaei spent five years (1995-1998) in the organization’s camps in Iraq:
“I was in a difficult financial situation. I thought the organization could help me to get out of it. I was also attracted by the leaders’ message. They claimed they were working to give freedom back to the people and to create democracy and social justice. I left Iran for Istanbul (Turkey) and from there, entered Iraq where movement officials welcomed me. I received military training to use a number of weapons, but I was never involved in operations against the Iranian army. I only took part in reconnaissance missions inside Iran”.
“From the time I arrived in Iraq, the atmosphere of suspicion in the camps shocked me. Our leaders asked us for total devotion, heart and soul, to the organization. They remote controlled us, like robots. They told us, “if you have sexual fantasies, even a dream, you must report it in writing in order to exorcise it”. In a speech repeatedly broadcast in video, Maryam Rajavi told the Mojahedin: “80% of your energy should be used in the fight against your sexual instincts”. Many of the organization’s officers, who protested against this sudden authoritarian and sectarian change of course, paid a heavy price for their insubordination. They were humiliated, tortured and imprisoned.one, named Hassan Rashedi who now lives in Iran, went insane, because of this. I knew him in prison, along with Beijan, from Kermanshah. Houshang, from Eilam, Ali Reza, from Tehran and Mahdi Eftekhari, who before his demotion, had been in charge of organizing Rajavi’s travel”.
Ali Qashqaei spent four years in prison, two months in the movement’s jail in the Ashraf Camp and the rest in the foreigner’s wing of an Iraqi penitentiary. He particularly wanted to share this eyewitness account: “in prison, I knew Parviz Ahmadi, a young man from Kermanshah. He had held senior positions in the organization. Because he refused to support Rajavi’s new ideological line, he was brutally tortured and then killed. Twenty of us were witnesses to his execution. He was only 36”.
From the book: The People’s Mojahedin of Iran: A Struggle for what? “By Victor Charbonnier
Berlin (dpa) – The journalist Luisa Hommerich has been honored with a prize for her research into the influence of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahideen in Germany. She received the 1st prize in the “The long breath” award, as the DJV Berlin − Journalists’ Association Berlin-Brandenburg announced on Thursday.
According to the information, she researched for “Zeit Magazin” and “Spiegel”. Among other things, it is about a dropout who reports on his experiences with the group.
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Luisa Hommerich
The “Staying Power” prize was awarded for the 15th time. It honors media professionals who conduct investigative research on socially relevant topics and courageously bring them to the public. The prizes are endowed with a total of 6000 euros. The prerequisite for a nomination is that you live and work in Berlin or Brandenburg.
Second prize went to reporters Adrian Bartocha and Jan Wiese from the ARD broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). They researched trafficking in Vietnamese children and young people.
The 3rd prize was awarded to Kersten Augustin and Sebastian Erb from the daily newspaper “taz” based in Berlin. They reported on cases of right-wing extremism in the Bundestag police. Only on Wednesday did it become known that the team of authors also received second prize in the daily press’ Guardian Prize for this research. The prize is one of the most renowned journalism awards in Germany and has been awarded since 1969.
Newsroom.de
If u are a foreign citizen, are actually living in Albania and have a special contribute, you are a great candidate to win the Albanian citizenship. The news was made public on Wednesday by the Interior Minister, Bledi Cuci, who also unveiled that during the meeting of the Government was decided that this will be a good action to attract new talents.
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Bledi Cuci
“We have decided to give the Albanian citizenship to all foreigners that have special merits. With this decision, apart from the fact that we treat in a special way personalities of education and science, we make it possible to use it as an instrument for the absorption of talents and record holders to represent Albania,” said Cuci.
Albanian Daily News
‘Mujahedin-e Khalq Uncovered; The Terrorist Group in The Eyes of International Media’, is a collection of articles on Mujahedin e-Khalq organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI, PMOI, etc.), published in major international Media outlets from 2000-2017, and reports on the group published by governments, research institutes and think tanks that helps to understand how MKO’s terrorism has been viewed by experts, journalists, politicians, governments and international organizations during the past 17 years.
Iran is estimated to have lost more than 17000 of its citizens to terror attacks since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, 12000 of whom are reportedly assassinated only by the MKO. The atrocities and crimes of the MKO set up one of the bloodiest chapters of Iranian history. Soon following the Iranian Islamic revolution, the organization started a phase of armed struggle in a bid to destabilize the newly formed government and have its revenge of failing to assume a share in the power. As a result, MKO’s dedicated terrorist teams launched numerous blind suicide operations, bombings, gun-shot assassinations as well as street gun-battles in which many innocent civilians and key officials were killed. In 2005, a report titled ‘No Exit’ was released by Human Rights Watch describing the terrorist group as a cult of personality that systematically violates the human rights of its own members.
There are also reports that members of the MKO deify Maryam Rajavi, who has already proclaimed herself “president” of Iran. Her photographs are frequently found in MKO camps, and MKO members staged forced public self-immolations to protest her 2003 arrest in Paris. MKO’s terrorist activities in Iran and abroad were not left unnoticed by global Media. The group’s terrorist nature has been widely reflected in the Media during the past 2 decades. Although the MKO has been described as a terrorist group in MEK Uncovered 13 official documents released by various governments including the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, etc, in the past few years, the group succeeded to lobby its name out of the lists of terrorist organizations thanks to its big lobbying campaigns and large sums of money paid to the people that lobby on its behalf. Considering MKO’s long history of adopting terrorism and cult-like practices as major tools to achieve its political aims, it is worth knowing how MKO’s terrorist and cult-like nature is reflected in major international Media outlets and research institutes in the past 2 decades.
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Mujahedin-e Khalq uncovered- 2
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Mujahedin-e Khalq Uncovered; The Terrorist Group in The Eyes of International Media
Mujahedin-e Khalq Uncovered 2
With the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the extremists opposing Iran in the White House were presented with an opportunity to bolster their support for the cult of MEK. On the one hand, Trump’s administration officials sided with this terrorist cult and a significant number of his close associates espoused the group. On the other hand, the MEK repeatedly incited the new administration to take severe measures and impose more sanctions against Iran, which all generally targeted the Iranian people.
Perhaps this magnitude of bilateral communications between mid-2017 and the termination of Trump’s presidency led a considerable number of Western media outlets, particularly the United States, to focus on the MEK and its relations with the Trump administration and highlight the group’s atrocious records of terrorism and deception.
Consequently, with Trump’s presidency coming to an end, an attempt was made to compile and refine all the articles in order to publish the second volume of the book.
The book, published in 830 pages, vividly demonstrates that the MEK is still a highly dubious and notorious group in the West and despite the efforts to present a different image of itself among Westerners, it has not attained much success.
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The MEK uncovered