A recent report from The Guardian has uncovered systematic human rights abuse in the Albanian camp of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a former Iranian terrorist organization exiled from Iraq to Albania. As Exit has reported over the last years, multiple high-ranking US politicians have visited the MEK in Albania, as US administration’s interest…
Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK
Maryam Rajavi in Tirana, Albania in September 2017. Photograph: NurPhoto via Getty
They fought for the Iranian revolution – and then for Saddam Hussein. The US and UK once condemned them. But now their opposition to Tehran has made them favourites of Trump White House hardliners. By Arron Merat
Mostafa and Robabe Mohammadi came to Albania to rescue their daughter. But in Tirana, the capital, the middle-aged couple have been followed everywhere by two Albanian intelligence agents. Men in sunglasses trailed them from their hotel on George W Bush Road to their lawyer’s office; from the lawyer’s office to the ministry of internal affairs; and from the ministry back to the hotel.
The Mohammadis say their daughter, Somayeh, is being held against her will by a fringe Iranian revolutionary group that has been exiled to Albania, known as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). Widely regarded as a cult, the MEK was once designated as a terrorist organisation by the US and UK, but its opposition to the Iranian government has now earned it the support of powerful hawks in the Trump administration, including national security adviser John Bolton and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.
Somayeh Mohammadi is one of about 2,300 members of the MEK living inside a heavily fortified base that has been built on 34 hectares of farmland in north-west Albania. Her parents, who were once supporters of the group, say that 21 years ago, Somayeh flew to Iraq to attend a summer camp and to visit her maternal aunt’s grave. She never came back.
The couple have spent the past two decades trying to get their daughter out of the MEK, travelling from their home in Canada to Paris, Jordan, Iraq and now Albania. “We are not against any group or any country,” Mostafa said, sitting outside a meatball restaurant in central Tirana. “We just want to see our daughter outside the camp and without her commanders. She can choose to stay or she can choose to come home with us.” The MEK insists Somayeh does not wish to leave the camp, and has released a letter in which she accuses her father of working for Iranian intelligence.
“Somayeh is a shy girl,” her mother said. “They threaten people like her. She wants to leave but she is scared that they will kill her.”
Since its exile from Iran in the early 1980s, the MEK has been committed to the overthrow of the Islamic republic. But it began in the 1960s as an Islamist-Marxist student militia, which played a decisive role in helping to topple the Shah during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-American, MEK fighters killed scores of the Shah’s police in often suicidal street battles during the 1970s. The group targeted US-owned hotels, airlines and oil companies, and was responsible for the deaths of six Americans in Iran. “Death to America by blood and bonfire on the lips of every Muslim is the cry of the Iranian people,” went one of its most famous songs. “May America be annihilated.”
Karwan Jamal Tahir, the Kurdistan regional government’s high representative in London, was a fighter for the Kurdish peshmerga in 1991. He told me that he remembers how the MEK arrived in the town of Kalar, about 93 miles (150km) south-east of Kirkuk, just after Saddam had lost control of the north of Iraq after the first Gulf war. “They came in Saddam’s tanks,” he said. “We thought they were returning peshmerga because the tanks were covered with portraits of Kurdish leaders … but they opened fire on the town … It was a big atrocity.”
Maryam Rajavi and Rudy Giuliani at a ceremony in Tirana in March marking the Iranian new year. Photograph: Alamy
In the next decade, the MEK continued to fight against Iran. In 1992, the group launched concurrent attacks on Iranian diplomatic missions in 10 countries, including Iran’s permanent mission to the UN in New York, which was invaded by five men with knives. The MEK also settled more personal scores. In 1998, an assassin killed Asadollah Lajevardi, the former warden of Evin prison who had personally overseen the executions of thousands of MEK members.
Back at Camp Ashraf, commanders would tell wavering members that if they escaped, they would face certain death at the hands of either Saddam or the Iranian authorities. “We were far away from the world,” one member, who only escaped the MEK after the move to Albania, told me. “We had no information. No television, no radio.” Instead, within the camp, they had “Mojahedin television”, which consisted of looped speeches by Maryam and Massoud Rajavi, played “all day long”.
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In 2009, the UK delisted the MEK as a terror group. The Obama administration removed the group from the US terror list in 2012, and later helped negotiate its relocation to Albania.
In Deutschland verkauft man das dann als „Kampf gegen Terrorismus“, wo man vor aller Augen Partner ist.
***Alte Tradition im Auftrage der Amerikaner: Terroristen Partner, wie dieser Brief aus 1992 schon zeigt, an Addyl Latif Salih, der vollkommen untergetaucht ist.
The MEK’s list of advocates, most who have admitted being paid, includes Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Sen. Robert Torricelli, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations John Sano, former National Security Advisor James Jones, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, Gen. Wesley Clark, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, former CIA Director Porter Goss, senior advisor to the Romney campaign Mitchell Reiss, Gen. Anthony Zinni, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, former Sen. Evan Bayh, and many others.
Ober Terroristen Financier und Partner: John McCain in Tirana und im Kosovo. in Syrien mit den übelsten Terroristen Chef, auf dem Maidan mit dem Chef der Nazi Todesschwadronen unterwegs. Der von den USA, John McCain finanzierte Albanische ISIS Terrorist und Kopf Abschneider: Idajet Balliu wurde getödet. Wie die Geschichte zeigt und die Fakten, einer der übelsten US Amerikaner, immer mit Kriminellen und Terroristen unterwegs, welche vor Kinder Mord nicht zurückschrecken.
Intercept: MEK Has All Trappings of Totalitarian Cult
A recent article in The Intercept describes the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as a “totalitarian cult,” loved by US foreign policy hawks. Only recently, a former FBI director and US Senator John McCain visited the MEK in exile in Albania.
Wo viel Geld ist machen viele mit, sogar der Katholische Kardinal, denn Geld ohne Ende hat die älteste Terroristen und Verbrecher Organisation der Welt
Vize Innenministerin Elona Gjebrea, darf auch kostenlos essen beim Fest. Erhält mit Sicherheit genügend Bestechungsgeld, das nun die Shopping Tour ansteht.
It is known that over the past three years, the MEK have already developed relations with criminal gangs and corrupt government officials.
Promotet von vollkommen korrupten CDU Politikern, der Kurdische Barzani Verbrecher Clan, direkt von Steinmeier, mit illegalem General Konsulat in Berlin.
Die korrupte US Politik Klasse, welche sich bezahlen liess von der reichsten Verbrecher Organisation der Welt: Hillary Clinton kassierte am meisten
Die CDU erneut vorneweg, wenn man Langzeit Kriminelle Drogen- Mord- und Waffen Clans nach Deutschland holt und hat auch hier Namen und immer der Durchgeknallten Kaste des Hirnlosen Nichts aus NRW: Julia Klöckner, wo die Kurdischen Verbrecher Clans, dann ungehindert in Deutschland einreisen können. Bei Geschäften rund um Waffen, Morden, die verrottete Lügen Partei CDU immer dabei.
Julia Klöckner: Ms. Batul Soltani and Ms. Homeyra Mohammadnejad from Iran-Zanan association met Ms. Klockner in the “Landtag” building.
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