If you say it out loud, it seems too preposterous to be true. Four high-profile former government officials are getting paid by an Iranian dissident group that until 2012 was an officially designated terrorist organization to publicly oppose the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts with Iran.
BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray attended a briefing in the Dirksen Senate office building on Capitol Hill sponsored by “an Iranian exile group related to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).” The
Name: MohabbatAli Eshghi
Place of Birth: Zanjan
Marital Status: Single
Place of Martyrdom: Baneh, Kurdistan Province
Martyr Mohabbat Ali Eshghi was born in a village near Zanjan. He started working in an ice-cream parlor immediately after he finished the first year of junior school. He had not married. He was also a combatant of the Islamic Republic Army. MohabbatAli was assassinated by anti-revolutionary forces in Baneh, Marivan, Kurdistan province. His body was laid to rest in Zanjan.
Fearing of a friendlier US-Iran relation, Mujahedin-e Khalq and Israel lobby once again gathered on the Capitol Hill to criticize “American diplomacy with Iran”.
Featuring the former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, former Ambassador to Morocco Marc Ginsberg, General James L. Jones, and former US Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation Robert Joseph, the briefing, held on Wednesday, was sponsored by the Iranian-American Community of Arkansas, an MKO-affiliated organization in
A new Bill sponsored by Dana Rohrabacher aims to resettle Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO) members inside the United States.
According to Habilian Association, the primary objective of the Bill, H.R.3707, is “to ensure the emergency of Iranian dissidents living in Camp Liberty/Hurriya and to provide for their admission as refugees to the United States.”
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security earlier this week, the Bill says that it shall be the
Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi blasted the US for its extensive human rights violations, and said Washington is the main advocate of all dictators and terrorist groups in different parts of the world.
“The crimes you are witnessing in all countries ruled by dictators and human-rights-violating rulers are backed by the US,” Naqdi said in a ceremony held at Tehran University on Monday to unveil a Basij report on the violation
A number of members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI) failed in their attempt to run away from a hospital near the group's transient settlement facility, Camp Liberty, near the Iraqi capital.
“Over 70 members of the grouplet sought to escape from the hospital where they were treated after going on a forced hunger strike, but they didn’t succeed,” a physician at one of Baghdad’s hospitals wrote in a letter to Iraq’s human
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday suspended some of its sanctions against Iran, after the Islamic Republic began halting some of its nuclear activity as part of the historic deal with P5+1.
The U.S. Treasury said hours following news of the Iranian move that it has suspended sanctions on foreigners engaged in transactions related to Iran's oil exports, and some trade in gold and precious metals.
As nuclear deal takes effect easing international sanctions in exchange for
In a statement issued in New York on Monday, members of the Non-Aligned Movement condemned the recent assassination of an Iranian diplomat in Yemen.
The statement said, “The Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) strongly condemns the terrorist attack against Mr. Abolghasem Asadi, the diplomat of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sana'a, the Republic of Yemen, which resulted in his death.
The NAM extends its condolences and sympathy to the family of the victim
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) says the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) has a hierarchical and authoritarian structure and imposes a number of severe restrictions on the residents’ rights.
According to Habilian Association, UNAMI said in its Half Yearly Human Rights Report covering the period from January to June 2013 that it has “continuing concerns about human rights abuses committed by the PMOI/MeK leadership within Camp Hurriya
Tehran aims to sue Saudi Arabia in international organizations following the recent terrorist attacks against Iranian targets in the region, says Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.
Editors Note: I have been wondering for a long time why the current perpetrators of terrorism in the MidEast and their sponsors were not facing legal action. We know the UN is going to do nothing because it never does. Crimes against humanity prosecution are, to say the least quite selective
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani blasted the big powers for their key and leading role in the ongoing extremist activities and violence in the Middle East.
“The policies of the world powers during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the manner of dealing with the Syrian crisis have paved the way for the spread of extremist moves in the region and practically helped to the growth of such currents,” Larijani said in a meeting with Head of the Foreign Relations
Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaei has called on the UN Security Council to take action against terrorist attacks in the wake of the recent assassination of an Iranian diplomat in Yemen.
“It is crystal clear that the terrorists responsible for this crime have been influenced by extremism and blind violence, and know no limit to their criminal acts even against the diplomatic missions of other countries, which enjoy political immunity under the
Iran Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination of an Iranian diplomat in Yemen as an “inhumane and terrorist” act targeting Muslim unity.
“The terrorist incident in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a…revealed the violent and extremist face of Takfiri groups and is only in line with the nefarious interests of the enemies of the Muslim world in targeting the unity and solidarity among the Islamic Ummah,” Iran Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry says diplomat injured when he resisted his attackers and was taken to hospital, where he died.
An Iranian diplomat was killed in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday when he resisted gunmen who were trying to kidnap him near the ambassador's residence, the Iranian Foreign Ministry and Yemeni security sources have said.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told Fars News Agency that the diplomat was seriously injured when he resisted his
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have emphasized the need for uprooting “terrorism and extremism” in the Middle East.
In a meeting with the Iraqi premier in Baghdad on Tuesday, the Iranian foreign minister reaffirmed Tehran’s support for the measures adopted by the Iraqi government to counter terrorism and extremism, which is plaguing the entire region.
“If terrorism and extremism are not managed properly and based on the
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Saudi Arabia's political and religious ideology of Wahhabism threatens "the whole world."
“President Assad warned during his meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of the threat posed by Wahhabi thinking to all the world, not just to the region,” Syria’s state television reported on Wednesday.
The Syrian president also called on Syrians and other people in the region to confront Wahhabism which jeopardizes the
Former deputy prime minister of Iraq denounced Mujahedin-e Khalq organization’s (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) media attacks against the Iraqi army’sas intervention in the country’s internal affairs.
“I have no respect for politicians who are supporting an illegal entity in Iraq, Salam al-Zubaie told Habilian’s correspondent in Baghdad,” referring to some Iraqi politicians’ support for the MKO.
“We are against the presence of any group threatening the neighboring countries,” al-Zubaie
Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called Monday on countries in the Middle East to work together to combat the rising phenomenon of terrorism and stressed the need for ties between Tehran and Riyadh to ensure stability in the region.
Zarif, who spoke in Beirut following talks with Lebanese officials and political leaders including Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, also rejected outright any preconditions on Tehran taking part in talks later this
Name: Morteza Ezzati
Date of Birth: August 10, 1959
Place of Birth: Zanjan
Date of Martyrdom: August 6, 1981
Place of Martyrdom: Zanjan
Martyr Morteza Ezzati was born on August 10, 1959 in a religious family in Zanjan. Under the influence of his family, Morteza Ezzati was acquainted with the good and the evil of his society.
Martyr Ezzati finished his preliminary studies in Zanjan and after he graduated from high school, Morteza chose to become a teacher. He was an active curious man who
During his visit to the violence-stricken Iraq, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs visited the temporary residence of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) members in Iraq.
According to Habilian Association, the US Embassy in Baghdad said in a press release that Brett McGurk, along with Gyorgy Busztin, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and officials