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  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     OP - February 11, 2021, 12:04 AM

    As requested here's a thread on the MEK, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, starting with a long report from the Guardian:

    Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK

    podcast: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/nov/30/terrorists-cultists-or-champions-of-iranian-democracy-the-wild-wild-story-of-the-mek-podcast

    transcript: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/09/mek-iran-revolution-regime-trump-rajavi


    A report from Channel 4 News:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIChqqSgzo
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #1 - February 11, 2021, 12:42 AM

    Translation of a book about the MEK, written I think in 2003:

    Antoine Gessler - Autopsy of an Ideological Drift

    https://st.nejatngo.org/file/Book_EN/autopsy_of_%20an_%20ideological%20_drift1.pdf

  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #2 - February 11, 2021, 12:51 AM

    The link above comes from a site run by ex-members of the MEK:

    https://www.nejatngo.org/en/about-us
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #3 - February 11, 2021, 07:16 PM

    Quote

    Hello zeca...... the organization People's Mujahedin of Iran started in 1965.. It continuously opposed Mr. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi  regime that had full support from US of A . until 1980. and then it opposed Mullah baboonism and and baboons that ruled Iran  and it is still fighting today.  today we are in 21st century ..

    and and YOU HAVE ONLY FOUR LINKS AGAINST IT??  Did you read wiki link and contrast/compare  it with   links you posted??

    well they are NOT good enough to change my opinion on it..   you have to read all of your links and come up with better links in support of what you are saying/thinking., I am not sure how you know MEK   but I am of the opinion you have not  given a fair chance to it .. PLEASE READ WIKI LINK AND WRITE REBUTTAL AGAINST IT*   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran

    or or you just DO NOT LIKE THE WORD Mujahedin???

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  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #4 - February 11, 2021, 09:34 PM

    Hello zeca...... the organization People's Mujahedin of Iran started in 1965.. It continuously opposed Mr. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi  regime that had full support from US of A . until 1980. and then it opposed Mullah baboonism and and baboons that ruled Iran  and it is still fighting today.


    Obviously it's right to have opposed the Shah and to have opposed the Islamic regime that followed. That doesn't justify the means used, the form of organisation, the alliances made, the sources of funding, the manipulation and abuse of its own supporters. Being against the right enemies isn't enough.
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #5 - February 11, 2021, 10:15 PM

    Obviously it's right to have opposed the Shah and to have opposed the Islamic regime that followed. ....That doesn't justify the means used,

    Ok.. good.. now .,

    Quote
    1). the form of organisation, the alliances made,

    2). the sources of funding,

    3). the manipulation and abuse of its own supporters. Being against the right enemies isn't enough.

      again you need to give me more information on those three points ., . the links you gave are NOT good enough,... 

    1). what do you mean by the form of organization?? 
    you don't like the founder and his brother ( BOTH WERE MUREDRED) and his wife??.. reasons please..

    2). the sources of funding, ??

    what do you know about it?? who funded it?  US OF A?? Israel??  Mossad?? Shah of Iran??  ... France?? Russia??   That guy Saddam Hussein Money??  who funded it??


    3).  the manipulation and abuse of its own supporters. Being against the right enemies isn't enough.

    sorry info on that from your links   is not clear.. more links please...

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    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #6 - February 11, 2021, 10:16 PM

    Interview with ex-MEK members in Albania.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHLhGDa1GDk
    Quote
    Following the accusations that the mojahedin commander Ali Safavi made against three mojahedins who have escaped from the mojahedin camp in Albania: Golam Zadeh Shekari, Hassan Heyrani and Rrahman Modammadi, as Iranian agents who should be arrested and deported from Albania, the MEK defectors have given interviews to different Albanian media. They respond to MEK claims, by showing that they do not want to do jihad for Maryam Rajavi against Iran and they are not agents. They want to live civilian live and do not want to be soldiers of jihad. They appeal to UNHCR, Amnesty International, the European Union etc to ask the Albanian government to give them work permits and residency permits and respect their decision to abandon the jihadi camp of the Mojahedin el-Halk in Albania.


  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #7 - February 11, 2021, 10:21 PM

    Ok.. good.. now .,
      again you need to give me more information on those three points ., . the links you gave are NOT good enough,... 

    1). what do you mean by the form of organization?? 
    you don't like the founder and his brother ( BOTH WERE MUREDRED) and his wife??.. reasons please..

    2). the sources of funding, ??

    what do you know about it?? who funded it?  US OF A?? Israel??  Mossad?? Shah of Iran??  ... France?? Russia??   That guy Saddam Hussein Money??  who funded it??


    3).  the manipulation and abuse of its own supporters. Being against the right enemies isn't enough.

    sorry info on that from your links   is not clear.. more links please...



    Yeez - have you read, or listened to, the Guardian report in my first post?
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #8 - February 11, 2021, 10:26 PM

    The latest video from that Albanian journalist.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCVLEUI4RU
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #9 - February 11, 2021, 11:31 PM

    Unless you speak Albanian skip to six minutes in for the start of the interview in English.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLJznna4NME
    Quote
    Emir Aslan Hasanzadeh is an Iranian mojahedeen taken by MEK in 2002 (1381) when he was 21 years old. Now he is 38 years old. Not married. Kept in isolation as a jihadi by the Maryam Rajavi mojahedeen gang in Manza, Albania. His mother Sorayah Abdollahi wants to meet him. But Albanian authorities who obey to the Mojaheeden command do not allow her and hundreds of other Iranian mothers to come to Albania and see their sons. In the following video she explains to Dr. Olsi Jazexhi her story and the struggle that this Iranian mothers do in order to liberate their children from the Mojahedeen el Halk terrorist organization. Sorayah pleads like a mother to her son, the Albanian government, international community to allow them to meet their children.

  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #10 - February 12, 2021, 12:29 AM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vvSO7YFXQ
    Quote
    Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi respond to allegations that the Mojahedeen, MEK, #FreeIran​, #MaryamRajavi​ cult command which is based in Albania makes against these two Albanian journalists.

  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #11 - February 12, 2021, 01:04 AM

    Olsi Jazexhi responds to Maryam Rajavi.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd1x_0Jca_M
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #12 - February 12, 2021, 09:54 AM

    Yeez - have you read, or listened to, the Guardian report in my first post?

    hello zeca.. I guess you are talking about Arron Merat in Guardian.. I mean this one

    ........................................................................
    transcript: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/09/mek-iran-revolution-regime-trump-rajavi
    ...................

    yes I did read through that transcripts  and casuallly went through that PDF file/book of that Swedish guy on that MEK...  but NOT your tubes and podcasts

    first of all I admit the fact I am not related neither I now much about this MEK  business in Iran as well as out of the country ., AND I AM ONLY GOING THROUGH THE IMGAERY /Speeches/transcripts of Maryam Rajavi through internet and through some friends..

    beyond that  I have NO relationship with that organization., the only thing I like about it is.,  it opposed    old regime as well new Islamic regime..., I will read through and go through more on that MEK ., BUT MY PROBLEM WITH YOUR LINKS IS THEY ARE NOT FROM IRANIAN .. they are from either Swedish  or Italian or Albanian.. whatever  and it only presenting one side of the story

    I certainly do not like such pictures as this



    they have to be open ..with open mind and open debates for the future of that country as well as betterment of its neighbors  ..

    as far as she is concerned .. I only know about her from web.. such as this
    *********************************************************************************


    Rajavi in the election poster of 1980
    4 December 1953 (age 67)

    1). her political activism began when she was twenty-two after her sister Narges was killed by SAVAK  Then she became a member of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and began her political career.

    2).  On 22 October 1993, the NCRI elected Rajavi to be "Iran’s interim President" if the NCRI were to assume power in Iran


    3).  Rajavi served as an organizer of the anti-Shah student movement in the 1970s. In 1979, she became an official of the social section of the PMOI/MEK, where she served until 1981. Rajavi was a parliamentary candidate in 1980

    4).  n 1982, Rajavi was transferred to Auvers-sur-Oise, Île-de-France where the political headquarters of the Mojahedin was located.  In 1985, she became Joint-Leader of the PMOI and served as the Secretary General between 1989 and 1993

    5).  Rajavi presented her plan at the Council of Europe in 2006, which supports complete gender equality in political and social rights and, specifically, a commitment to equal participation of women in political leadership.

    6). Her 10-point plan for the future of Iran stipulates that any form of discrimination against women would be abolished and that women would enjoy the right to choose their clothing freely. It also includes the ending of cruel and degrading punishments

    7).  In October 2011, Theresa May banned Rajavi from coming to Britain in a trip where she was to "explain how women are mistreated in Iran". The high court then sued Theresa May, with Lord Carlile of Berriew (the Government's former independent reviewer of counter-terrorism laws) saying that May's decision "could be viewed as appeasing the Mullahs"

    8 ) .  In 2014, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed an appeal from Lord Carlile of Berriew QC and others and upheld it to maintain the ban, which had originally being implemented in 1997. Members of the UK House of Lords argued that the Home Secretary was "violating Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention of Human Rights

    9).. Rajavi is not excluded from any other European country and engages regularly with parliamentarians in the European Parliament

    Quote
    10.  France
    On 17 June 2003, Rajavi was arrested by Paris Police Prefecture alongside some 150 MEK members.  She and 23 other people were investigated over suspicion of links to terrorism.   Rajavi denied the charges, saying "the case was mounted to appease Iran."  All charges were later dropped


    *******************************************************************************

    So let us try to read both sides of coins...  and I only watch tubes to cook  cookies/snacks for my pet dogs .. UNLESS IT IS IMPORTANT AND NECESSASARY  but I DO READ .. so please give the links of Persians/Iranians    on  Rajavi   and her cult

    such as  folks like dr. Abbas Malekzadeh Milani .. who is Iranian., knows its politics and history inside out ., he is the right person to get information on Iranian resistance organizations like MEK and on people like Maryam Rajavi. 

    please go to this link

    https://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=31702.msg890276#msg890276

    again I am NOT good at watching you tubes or  listening to podcast..  I ONLY USE THEM FOR COOKING DOG FOOD FOR MY PETS .. but I would love to read.. read .. think.. think.. and write..

    well i will try to read through some of the guardian links on that MEK  at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mek

    with best wishes
    yeezevee

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #13 - February 12, 2021, 07:47 PM

    Here’s a report about a visit to the camp in Albania by Patrick Kingsley. It comes across as a level-headed account to me.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/world/europe/iran-mek-albania.html
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #14 - February 12, 2021, 07:58 PM

    Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh - Nobody can be “comfortable” with regime change involving MEK

    https://lobelog.com/nobody-can-be-comfortable-with-regime-change-involving-mek/
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #15 - February 12, 2021, 08:22 PM

    Human Rights Watch report from 2005.

    No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps

    https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/iran0505.pdf
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #16 - February 13, 2021, 06:53 PM

    well let me add a bit of other side also.,  dear zeca.,  ideally which one you prefer for iran., Shah king., mullah king or Maryam Rajavi to head Iran??

    well let me throw other side of the coin (THAT DOES NOT MEAN I SUPPORT MEK)

    https://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/

    https://twitter.com/Maryam_Rajavi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWwGYL8jh_w

    Maryam Rajav on Feb 4th 2021' 

    Quote
    The Court of Antwerp announced its ruling on Assadollah Assadi, the terrorist diplomat of the clerical regime, and three agents of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence on Thursday, February 4, 2021. The court’s verdict followed 2.5 years of investigations into the regime’s foiled terrorist plot to bomb the Free Iran Grand Gathering in Villepinte, Paris in June 2018. Simultaneous with the announcement of this verdict, a virtual global conference connected PMOI members at Ashraf 3 with international dignitaries, private plaintiffs in the case, and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathering outside the Court of Antwerp and in other countries around the world. In her remarks to the conference, Maryam Rajavi said the conviction of the clerical regime’s terrorist diplomat confirms the regime’s state-sponsored terrorism.


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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #17 - February 13, 2021, 10:25 PM

    Maryam Rajavi’s message on  International Women's Day  Mar 8, 2019

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAEAVHUvAc

    Maryam Rajavi’s speech  on  International Women's Day   Feb 17, 2018

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHbnYAVyog

    Maryam Rajavi   on  International Women's Day  Mar 7, 2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO7Vk7wQQGc

    Speech by Maryam Rajavi at International Women's Day conf in Berlin, March 2015

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gRtMg6FgF8

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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #18 - February 13, 2021, 10:27 PM

    well let me add a bit of other side also.,  dear zeca.,  ideally which one you prefer for iran., Shah king., mullah king or Maryam Rajavi to head Iran??


    I think the answer is 'none of the above'. Regime change with the MEK sounds a bit like getting rid of the Tsar and ending up with the Bolsheviks. In reality I don't believe it would happen, or that they have much support within Iran. I do want to see the end of the current regime but I don't want to see an outcome which may be as bad or worse.
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #19 - February 13, 2021, 10:31 PM

    The MEK leadership being interviewed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9YFo2w4Ngg
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #20 - February 13, 2021, 10:38 PM

    I think the answer is 'none of the above'. Regime change with the MEK sounds a bit like getting rid of the Tsar and ending up with the Bolsheviks. In reality I don't believe it would happen, or that they have much support within Iran. ...

    ARE YOU FROM PERSIA???  DID YOU VISIT THE COUNTRY  IN THE LAST 10 YEARS??  OR DO YOU HAVE FRIENDS THERE?? .. do you?? did you  talk to any one from Iran   in the last 10 years??

    Quote
    I do want to see the end of the current regime but I don't want to see an outcome which may be as bad or worse.

    why?   you like the current regime?? and  what is good about it??

    and why would you say next govt in Iran  will  be as bad or worse than this??

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    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #21 - February 13, 2021, 10:42 PM

    The MEK leadership being interviewed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9YFo2w4Ngg


    WHO IS THAT Michael Ware to talk about Persia?? did he get any money from Shah?? or Son of Shah?? and why do you trust that Australian??

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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #22 - February 13, 2021, 10:46 PM

    Quote
    I will read through and go through more on that MEK ., BUT MY PROBLEM WITH YOUR LINKS IS THEY ARE NOT FROM IRANIAN


    I don't actually disagree with this. I'd really like to find some in depth analysis of the MEK from Iranians (or at least people who speak the language) who have come out clearly against the regime. It's easy enough to find comments from them on twitter about how bad the MEK is but I haven't found much that goes beyond this.
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #23 - February 13, 2021, 10:50 PM

    WHO IS THAT Michael Ware to talk about Persia?? did he get any money from Shah?? or Son of Shah?? and why do you trust that Australian??


    I've no idea who he is. The video shows MEK leaders facing questions rather than presenting a party political broadcast. That's all.
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #24 - February 13, 2021, 10:59 PM

    I've no idea who he is. The video shows MEK leaders facing questions rather than presenting a party political broadcast. That's all.

    OK.. let me give this video of that Australian guy..on MEK

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pxjbf

    please watch it...

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    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #25 - February 13, 2021, 11:01 PM

    why would you say next govt in Iran  will  be as bad or worse than this??


    I haven't said that. An MEK regime might be as bad or worse but it isn't likely to happen. A more realistic fear might be that the collapse of the regime leads to some kind of civil war. In any case I want to see the end of the regime but not at any cost.
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #26 - February 13, 2021, 11:10 PM

    ........................A more realistic fear might be that the collapse of the regime leads to some kind of civil war. In any case I want to see the end of the regime but not at any cost.

    I FULLY AGREE WITH THAT.. and I too have problem there.. The country has sizable Balouch who are Sunni   and we know the other side the country has plenty of Kurds...

    YES I HATE TO SEE COUNTRY IN CIVIL WAR Or split in to pieces ..  In that sense Maryam Rajavi is far more persuading to put together all these different groups ., As far MEK is concerned .. True it changed and changing .. because geopolitical situation around the country is changing   and ISLAM ITSELF IS CHANGING OR WILL CHANGE in the next 10... 20 years...    that is my hope

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    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #27 - February 13, 2021, 11:48 PM

    The Inside Story of America's Favorite Terrorist Group  Abbas Milani..

    dr. Abbas Milani write that August 18, 2011  with a picture of Mmaryam Rajavi on a tank.,   well let me read that carefully



    Quote
    Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Iranian MEK (short for Mujahedeen-e Khalge) has been a thorny spoil of war for the United States. Originally an armed anti-Shah movement, they came to fight the clerical regime they helped impose only to move on to supporting Iraq in its war against the ayatollah and his minions. Having targeted and killed several prominent Americans during their heyday in the 1970s, they are on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. Now, about three thousand members of the group—seasoned in fighting the Iranian regime and stationed by Saddam in a place called Camp Ashraf—are American captives in Iraq. In the last few years, their fate has been the subject of constant squabbles in Washington and between Washington and Baghdad. With an apparently endless supply of funds at their disposal, MEK members have repeatedly and unsuccessfully petitioned the federal government to have their names taken off the terrorist list. In a few days, Secretary Clinton will have to decide how to answer their pleas.
    Quote
    And so their remarkably well-oiled machine of PR firms, powerful American politicians (all handsomely paid for services rendered) and other pressure groups is now at it again. These advocates repeat what the MEK and its many front organizations claim: The group has jettisoned its violent past and is now, in its new incarnation, a key component of the democratic movement.

    At the same time, another equally well-oiled machine, this one even including lobbyists paid for by the clerical regime in Tehran, is working against delisting MEK, calling the group a dangerous cult with Iranian, Iraqi and American blood on its hands. Many in Iraq (either taking their cues from the current leadership or with an eye toward the days when MEK was an enforcer for the Saddam regime) are opposed to the group’s continued residence in their country.

    MEK was formed in opposition to the Shah in the mid-sixties, and before long virtually its entire leadership was arrested and sent to the firing squad. The only early leader to survive was Masud Rajavi, who continues to rule the group to this day. In the seventies, the remaining members sent a representative to Najaf to work with Khomeini, then living in exile. Khomeini’s supporters in Tehran, including Rafsanjani and Montazeri, convinced the ayatollah to allow the use of religious funds to support the families of those MEK members who had been imprisoned or executed. Yet Khomeini never fully trusted the group; its ideology seemed a dangerous combination of Marxism and its own interpretation of Shiism. As one Iranian critic put it, MEK is “Stalinism minus the vodka.”

    Quote
    After the revolution, MEK was amongst the most stalwart supporters of the clerical regime. It grew in number and stature rapidly, soon becoming the most formidable organization in the country. The MEK used its increasing power to pressure the government into increasingly radical action—from more summary trials and executions to the occupation of the American embassy. Simultaneously it adopted close ties with Moscow, and particularly with the KGB. One of its leaders, named Saadati, was arrested while passing to the KGB a counterespionage file the group had taken when it attacked the Shah’s secret-police offices. In return, the kgb promised to give the MEK a full list of CIA agents in Iran

    .

    But eventually MEK fell afoul of the regime and began to fight the power holders in Tehran. Young men and women were sent in droves to armed street demonstrations. Khomeini’s regime responded with remarkable brutality, slaughtering thousands of the organization’s members. The group returned the favor and killed, by its own claims, more than two thousand regime leaders. MEK was in fact the first group in Iran (and arguably in the region) to use suicide bombers.

    Eventually the group had no choice but to take its surviving cadres out of the country. On January 7, 1986, in a letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the MEK requested the Soviets “give temporary asylum” to any member of the organization that fled across the border into the Soviet Union.

    Quote
    Concurrent with the request for asylum, in another letter to the “Dear Comrades” of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, MEK asked for a loan of three hundred million dollars to continue their “revolutionary anti-imperialist” actions (see: anti-Americanism). This request came on the heels of a twelve-page letter from Rajavi to “Dear Comrade Gorbachev” in which he began by praising the Soviet Union’s efforts “against imperialist adventurism.” To support his organization’s loan application, Rajavi informed Gorbachev that the MEK “has faced the most concentrated efforts of officials from the United States” and offered supporting documents in an appendix.


    It is not clear how the Soviets responded, but MEK soon settled in Iraq, helping Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran. In 1988, the group—lead by Rajavi and his wife, Maryam—engaged in three operations, conducted with the help of the Iraqi army, against Iranian forces. By all accounts, all three were badly bungled. Several thousands were killed on both sides. Moreover, in Iranian prisons, on Khomeini’s direct order, about four thousand MEK prisoners, who were serving time on earlier charges, were summarily executed lest they help the invading MEK units.

    When American forces attacked Iraq, according to Iraqi documents captured and declassified by the U.S. military, Rajavi met with Saddam’s top intelligence operatives and agreed to use MEK forces against insurgents, freeing the Republican Guard to fight the Americans. The report of the meeting was sent directly to Saddam’s son, Odey. It is little wonder that the current Iraqi regime is opposed to the MEK—a stance constantly fueled by the Iranian regime.

    Throughout this bloody history, replete with tactical and strategic blunders, Rajavi and Maryam have remained the absolute leaders of MEK. They are worshipped by their adherents. The organization’s members and their advocates tell the world they have jettisoned their past and are now dedicated to democracy. In cults, however, leaders remain unchanged.

    The reality is that the MEK has fought the clerical regime more effectively than any other group. It is also true that throughout nearly all of its history, the same couple has ruled the organization, and there are many claims that they rule it with an iron fist. Only if there is free and fair discussion of the current leadership under democratic conditions (and under international supervision), and only after a new, fresh leadership is freely and democratically elected should the United States even consider the idea of removing the group from its terrorist list.


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  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #28 - February 14, 2021, 02:31 AM

      Books authored by Maryam Rajavi from Amazon Jungle


    No to Compulsory Veil: No to Compulsory Religion, No to Compulsory Government Paperback – July 26, 2017




    Tolerant Islam vs. Extremism Paperback – August 9, 2016

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  • Maryam Rajavi and the MEK
     Reply #29 - February 14, 2021, 08:30 AM

    Exiles _ Exiles  from Iran By Connie Bruck on February 27, 2006 published in New Yorker Magazine

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    A REPORTER AT LARGE about how Iran's expatriates are gaming the nuclear threat. Writer describes meeting with Reza Pahlavi, the 45-year-old son of the deposed Shah of Iran, and Shahriar Ahy, Pahlavi's political strategist, in D.C. in mid-December. Ahy, who is often compared to Iraq's Ahmad Chalabi, is attempting, on Pahlavi's behalf, to unite the atomized Iranian opposition.
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    Describes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's current President, and his aggressive posturing and anti-Semitic comments. For years, the Iranian opposition has been beset by factionalism. But now Ahy is organizing a national congress, and both men believe 2006 is a critical year, with international pressure building over Iran's nuclear program. The issue of having designs on the throne dogs Pahlavi.

    Los Angeles is home to about 600,000 Iranian expatriats, and is a monarchist stronghold. The Bush Administration failed to develop a comprehensive Iran policy during its first term because of interagency disagreements and its preoccupation with the Iraq War. Opposition groups were eager to sell themselves as guides to an unfamiliar region. The exiles' prospects seemed especially tantalizing in the early days of the Iraq War, when it looked as if Iran might be next. Indeed, some Administration supporters pushing regime change in the Middle East argued that Iran, not Iraq, should be first.

    Mentions Michael Leedon. But the prevalent view among neoconservatives was that “the road to Tehran lies through Baghdad.” The heart of the exiles' support was in the Pentagon, which was preparing a draft national-security Presidential directive on Iran in 2003, encouraging opposition forces. Describes the conflict within the Administration between those who pushed for diplomatic engagement with Iran and those who pressed for regime change. The Pentagon draft of the directive exemplified the hard-line approach, whereas State Dept. and NSC drafts urged engagement.
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    Bush's statement essentially took away the engagement option. In the spring of 2003, an Iranian opposition group with cultlike aspects, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (M.E.K.), was also trying to exploit the opportunity created by the Iraq War. The M.E.K. is the best-funded and best-organized Iranian opposition group, despite the fact that it's been on the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list since 1997. Mentions the M.E.K.'s leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (N.C.R.). Mentions Martin Indyk, who argues that America's recent actions in the Middle East have strengthened Iran. Describes the nuclear intelligence M.E.K. provided the Administration.

     
    In 2003, Republican lobbying group Barbour Griffith & Rogers asked Neil Livingstone and Gregory Minjak to try to get M.E.K. off the F.T.O. list; the efforts stopped after the Treasury Dept. shut down the N.C.R.I. office. Early last year, the three co-directors of the Hoover Institution's Iran Democracy Project-Abbas Milani, Michael McFaul, and Larry Diamond-collaborated on an article which argued that the urgency of nuclear crisis called for strong diplomatic engagement with Iran It was a different approach from that espoused by monarchists. Mentions Hamid Moghadam, co-founder of the Project. Milani considers Iran's possession of nuclear weapons inevitable and he urges a strong diplomatic response.

    Until this year, the U.S. and Europe had been divided over Iran. Then, in early 2005, the Administration endorsed the E.U.-3 negotiations; afterwards, Iran rejected the European proposals and resumed uranium conversion. In February, 2006, the I.A.E.A.'s board voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council. Mentions Under-Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns. An Israeli diplomat claims that Ahmadinejad's hard line is an effort to rally the entire extremist Muslim world and increase Iran's influence.

    U.S. intelligence sources estimate that Iran is between 5-10 years away from having nuclear weapons. Less than two weeks after the I.A.E.A. vote, Condoleezza Rice announced an $85 million policy to fund Iranian dissidents and expanded media broadcasting into Iran. Michael McFaul believes the only way to make headway on both the nuclear and the regime-change tracks is through engagement.

    It is very important to note that recent history of Iran and its political organizations with in the country and outside the country  since 2nd world war must be read/put together through its year wise time line ., Western interests specially US of A interests and its foreign policy change every 4 years depending upon  which party is ruling  and who the potus is..   Council on Foreign Relations

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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
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