Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

++ Several MEK survivors have published accounts of recentevents, in particular Mohammad Azim Mishmast and Gholamali Mirzaei. The news isabout the people who have left MEK but are still paid…

Maryam Rajavi has spoken! Based on what John Bolton said at the Villepinte rally in Paris ­last year – that the overthrow of the Iranian government will not take 40 years – Rajavi told her people to “wait, don’t leave, Bolton knows something!” This has caused something of a dilemma for Rajavi since the 40th anniversary is fast approaching and there is not a sign of Iran falling. Apparently, John Bolton …

++ In Albania over the last two weeks, the number of escapes from MEK has been gaining momentum. Three new people have already gone public and named themselves: Mohammad Azim…

MEK invited Albanian MP Dashamir Shehi to visit the Manez camp. He reported that everything was wonderful there. Many ex-members have written Open Letters in Farsi and English pointing out that MEK never tell the truth and that over the years many foreign persons have been fooled or paid to promote the group in spite of its horrifying reality for members …

This week saw Farsi commentators ridiculing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for his gaffe: holding up a picture of an alleged Iranian nuclear site which turned out to be a carpet washing gallery. One of the best jokes was that this was indeed a place where Iran could sweep its nuclear programme under the carpet! This, say commentators, is not the first time Netanyahu and MEK …

here has been a great deal of commentary about the terrorist attack in Ahwaz pointing out that, apart from the Saudis and Emirates, everyone – even Americans – condemned it.

++ Channel 4 News broadcast a segment about the MEK in its 7 o’clock news programme on Thursday, ‘The shadowy cult Trump advisors tout as an alternative to the Iranian…

In Albania, the harassment of reporters and media owners has continued and even increased. MEK operatives Behzad Saffari and Totounchi are those doing the harassing, they tell everyone that ‘the Americans are with us and the CIA will destroy you’. From Paris, Homayoun Kohzadi wrote that ‘the consequence of supporting a terrorist cult like MEK is not confined to Iran’ …

++ The manager at the hotel where the parents of Somayeh Mohammadi are staying in Tirana invited them to dinner one evening. He told them, ‘today the police visited me…

++ A pro-MEK piece was published by Fox News in response to the multiple exposures and articles about MEK in Farsi, English and Albanian language media. Sources close to MEK…