He remembers how the MEK have been ‘collecting money’ for years and years and reminds us how the MEK exploited the UN Oil for Food programme by selling oil for Saddam Hussein and taking a percentage. And how the MEK received money from various other sources and had phases of so-called money collections and a few weeks later …
Esmail Yaghmai has published one of the MEK’s own propaganda rants on his weblog under the title ‘Believe you me, members and supporters of the MEK are not sheep’. The article features a photo-shopped picture conflating himself, Iraj Mesdaghi , Massoud Khodabandeh and Sa’id Shahsavandi together claiming they are all agents …
… Karim Ghassim (former NCRI member) was interviewed by Ahmad Rafat on Raha TV. This created a stir as he spoke publicly and openly about what was happening inside the MEK. Ebrahim Khodabandeh published an article about the internal problems of the Mojahedin Khalq and how they have become more and more desperate as they realise that the separation of people like Ghassim is having an effect on the people inside and around the MEK.
Behzad Alishahi has published a satirical booklet entitled ‘The typical methodology of the MEK’. As somebody who has worked in many of their organisational sections he goes into every individual case and describes how a checklist exists to counter various challenges like when they face an ideological, military or political defeat. He shows how a few …
Michael Rubin writing for COMMENTARY, America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life, points out that “No longer being considered a terrorist group does not make the MKO democratic… as anyone who has ever studied their internal workers can attest”. The article titled, ‘Yes, Mujahedin al-Khalq …
… Javad Firouzmand in France has written an article responding to the MEK’s long, long statement against Ghassim and Rowhani and the ridiculous accusations made against them. He goes into the detail s of this long ‘book’ the MEK produced and says that every part of it shows that their real problem is not the ones who left but the ones inside who want to leave …
… Martin Kobler in an interview with the Associated Press cited concerns about what he called “human rights abuses inside Camp Liberty done by the MEK themselves. ”Residents are not free to move between different sections of the camp without approval, and some are denied Internet and mobile phone access by MEK officials, he said. Medical treatment …
In an article for Reuters following the Iranian election, Susan Cornwell says that for decades the MEK has been on the wrong side of history, and has “no discernible role in politics at home”. In spite of this the MEK is now formalizing its campaign to pressure the Obama administration to maintain a hard line with the Islamic Republic. “They’ll deny it, but …
The MEK then published the text of a letter allegedly written by Akram Habib Khaani and posted on her behalf in which it is claimed that all this is the work of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. One of the proofs of this has been that Massoud Khodabandeh published a paragraph sympathising with the Yaghmai family on Facebook. Even though there is no free access to internet in Camp Liberty …
it has been revealed that the MEK applied for and have been registered under the name of the NCRI as a lobby group in Washington. The MEK have not yet announced it. But everywhere else this news has been published Iranians from all sides have shown their disgust and have not been shy of saying that through this action the MEK has openly become a mercenary of the Israeli side ..