Mahmood Ghandi was born on August 29, 1944 in a religious family in Tehran and received his primary and secondary education there. He earned his high-school diploma with an average score of 19.80. He completed his MA in Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Tehran in 1966. Due to the lack of higher degrees in the field, Mahmood Ghandi travelled to the US to further his studies. Because he was always the top student, his expenses were covered by the university.
In 1971, Ghandi
In 1979, the people of Iran successfully and mainly peacefully overthrew the United States-supported government, led by the brutal autocrat, the Shah of Iran. In ridding themselves of this repressive dictator and freeing themselves from the shackles of U.S. imperialism, they established the Islamic Republic of Iran.
While the revolution had widespread popular support, as does the government to this day, it was not without opposition. One group, the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq, or the People’s
Abdolkarim Bekhradian was born on August 10, 1938 in the southwestern city of Ahwaz. He was Director of Islamic Martyrs Foundation in Behbahan, Khuzestan Province. On August 03, 1981, he left the mosque and was on his way to home, when he was attacked and assassinated by armed terrorists.
Dean of the faculty of world studies at the University of Tehran said the MeK members were murderous traitors fighting alongside Saddam and they are not in any way regarded as dissidents.
Asked about the human rights groups’ allegations against President-elect Ayatollah Raeisi’s involvement in ‘mass-killing of dissidents in the late 1980s’, Professor Mohammad Marandi said in an interview with Al-Jazeera, “This is not the international community. These are western regimes. Western regimes that
Habilian Association, an Iranian center for research on terrorism, has recently published a study on the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK)’s monthly expenses during the recent years and achieved significant numbers.
This study investigates the costs of an organization as large as the MeK with 2300 uniformed members resident in a vast compound in Southeast Europe, over 200 others in France and the US, a 24/7 satellite channel, several web-sites and thousands of real and fake social media
By Habilian Association staff writers
June 2021
In a world where terrorists have engulfed us and killed legions of innocent civilians everywhere for their ideologic and political purposes, financial backing plays a key role in maintaining their existence. Terrorists adopt numerous ways and methods for financing their activities. The traffic in human, organs, drugs, arms and smuggle in artefacts and gasoline are among the methods employed by most of the terrorist groups and what’s more
An Irish lawmaker has apologised for delivering an address to a “cult-like” Iranian dissident organisation that has been linked to terrorism.
Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill addressed an online event hosted by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day (IWD).
The People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq), which is committed to overthrowing Iran’s Islamic Republic, has been described as a cult by disaffected former members and was once
In a cult, both women and men suffer in the iron grip of charismatic and authoritarian cult leaders, however, women followers face a unique set of life-altering issues — and those unique issues often become the focus of media coverage of cult cases.
According to Alexandra Stein, the author of “Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems”, Women’s right to control their bodies, their child-bearing, their sexuality and their mothering are all taken away in cults as
Setting up a tent in front of the Grand Hotel Wien, where the nuclear negotiations are ongoing, a small group affiliated with Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO also known as MEK), insulted Iran's negotiation team.
This is while intensive negotiations continue between Iran and P4+1 to reach an agreement on the full revival of JCPOA and the lifting of oppressive sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Resorting to some tools such as insulting the Iranian negotiation team and
Iranian intelligence forces have arrested 10 Takfiri and anti-revolutionary terrorists affiliated to foreign spy services in the southeastern city of Kerman.
Kerman Province’s Prosecutor Dadkhoda Salari told reporters on Wednesday that the terrorists were attempting to carry out acts of terror and harassment, create insecurity through violent measure, but were identified by Iranian intelligence forces.
“A number of these Takfiri elements had entered the province from abroad in order to
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hailed the role of Martyred Lieutenant General Ghasem Soleimani in establishing stability and security in the region.
In an Instagram message in Persian, Zarif said that he has paid tribute to martyrs Soleimani and al-Muhandis at a site where is the symbol of Donald Trump’s criminal ‘despair’. “I felt proud of the heroes of this land.”
“The honor of deep friendship and cooperation with Haj Ghasem continued for more than two decades and our relations
The FBI has carried out searches at the home and office of Rudy Giuliani, a prominent lobbyist for the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK) terrorist group.
The raid is part of a probe into Mr Giuliani's dealings with Ukraine. His lawyer says he denies breaking the law.
Before the 2020 presidential election Mr Giuliani led an effort to find incriminating information about Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine.
Mr Biden won the election and he and his son have denied any
Iranian Foreign Minister said that US sanctions and medical terrorism have prevented global vaccination to control the coronavirus.
In reaction to the role of illegal and unilateral US sanctions against Iran, as well as the Zionist regime's brutal actions against the Palestinian people, Mohammad Javad Zarif in a tweet on Sunday wrote, "Global COVID-19 pandemic should've had a global vaccination response. But many have been left to fend for themselves, whether due to sanctions &
IRGC forces have eliminated a terrorist ring in Sistan and Balouchestan province.
In a statement on Saturday, Quds HQ of IRGC Ground Forces announced that a terrorist team that had earlier entered Iran to conduct terrorist moves was eliminated in an ambush by the HQ’s forces early on Saturday.
According to the statement, three members of the terror team were killed in the operation and a number of weapons and a supply of ammunition were also confiscated.
No further detail of the
List of 256 fake Twitter accounts owned by the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization was released by Habilian.
These accounts, most of which operating from Albania, were identified by the cyber monitoring division of Habilian Association, which is engaged in monitoring online activities of anti-Iranian terrorist groups.
According to Habilian, at least hundreds of other fake accounts affiliated with the Mujahedin-e Khalq are operating in Twitter.
the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK) is a
The Prosecution service of Denmark held three members of Alahvazieh group accountable for financing and spreading terrorism against Iran.
According to sources, these three people were charged with working with Saudi security services in this field.
Earlier, Danish Security and Intelligence Service announced that it had arrested three members of the group with the charge of espionage for Saudi Arabia.
Intelligence officials of Denmark have said that these people have done espionage acts on Danish
Review of The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization by Hossein Ahmadi Rouhani (Part Fourteen)
The Blow on Bahram Aram and its Effect on the Organization’s Leadership
On November 16, 1976, Bahram Aram, one of the potent leaders of the organization, committed suicide with a grenade during a clash with the patrol officers of SAVAK and Shahrbani and this incident inflicted a severe blow on the organization. His death resulted in the disruption of all the affairs in Tehran, which were under his
Review of The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization by Hossein Ahmadi Rouhani (Part Thirteen)
After the ideological change and adoption of Marxism, the organization still believed in armed struggle and the assassination plot of American advisors took place within that belief system.
However, when its experienced and efficient military team was hit in the summer of 1975, the organization was no longer able to form another team with that level of expertise and therefore, could not carry out high-level
The Secretary of Iranian Judiciary's Human Rights Headquarters took to Twitter to criticize the impunity of MEK terrorist group in Germany and published photos of the three-year-old girl who was burned to ashes by MEK terrorists.
“3-year-old Fatima, burnt alive in 1980s, was one of 1000s victims of Nazi-style massacre by MKO terrorist group in Iran,” Ali Bagheri Kani wrote.
“To serve justice, Germany should establish trials as huge as Nuremberg, not granting MKO impunity,” he stated, adding
Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said at a Monday news conference accused Israel of being behind an attack on the Natanz nuclear facility and vowed revenge for the attack of sabotage that outside critics is clearly aimed a scuttling diplomatic effort between Tehran, the U.S., and others.
Iran's Foreign Ministry said Monday that an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility over the weekend, which it accused Israel of carrying out, could have led to a catastrophic "crime against humanity" if the