By Reza Alghurabi
Among the many indicators of misdirection in the Trump administration’s policy toward Iran, one of the clearest was the fondness for the cult-like terrorist group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK.
For years, the group was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. But after an aggressive and well-funded lobbying campaign supported by a bipartisan cast of high-profile former public officials, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in
Arguing that Trump is unlikely to end up in jail, Scaramucci suggested that stripping the outgoing President of the “powers of an ex-president” might be a “good start”.
Former White House communications director Antony Scaramucci said that he would love to see Trump “go to jail”, comparing the US president to Timothy McVeigh, the man responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the biggest terrorist act on US soil prior to 9/11, which killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others.
By Paul Pillar
The Soleimani assassination and its anniversary ought to provide occasion for Americans to think carefully about the nature of what each side in this badly plagued relationship has done to the other.
Sunday marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani by the United States, using an armed drone at the Baghdad International Airport. Soleimani was a major political and military figure whose role went well beyond his formal position as commander
Albanian media reported conflicts between residents of the town of Manëz and a group of Mujahedin over the suspected land seizure in the region.
According to the international service of the Habilian analytical news agency, Albanian media, including the Shqiptarja, reported widespread dissatisfaction and serious concern among the residents of Manëz near Tirana where the MKO camp is located.
In a report by the Shqiptarja entitled "The Uneasy Coexistence with the Mujahedin-e Khalq: Iranians
A former UN human rights rapporteur commented on the assassinations of Brigadier General Haj Qassem Soleimani and Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and said that those two terrorist acts by America and Israel were based on colonial war patterns and have in a way turned the entire world into a potential war front.
According to the IRNA correspondent in London, prominent analyst of international laws in Princeton University, Professor Richard Anderson Falk made the comment in a Conference on Goal-Oriented
Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, on Saturday rejected U.S. allegations of Iran's link with al-Qaeda, saying Iran itself is a serious victim of terrorism and a pioneer in the fight against terrorism.
Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Zakharova said there is a lot of evidence suggesting Iran's serious efforts to counter terrorists, particularly in Syria and Iraq.
Zakharova also noted that the U.S. officials' silence about Iran's effective fight
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman strongly condemned US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Saeed Khatibzadeh strongly condemned the US act to put Cuba on the list of the state sponsor of terrorism and emphasized the solidarity of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Cuban government and people against the global arrogance.
According to Khatibzadeh, the claim that Cuba has been cooperating with Venezuela in the field of terrorism is a baseless accusation made by the United
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman reacted to Trump Administration Secretary of State's baseless allegations about Iran's link to al-Qaeda, emphasizing that Iran has a clear track record against al-Qaeda terrorism.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, in response to the recent accusations of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding Iran’s alleged links to al-Qaeda, on Tue., said that repeating the accusations and showing false documents under the titles of disclosing confidential information by US Secretary of
Iranian Defense Minister in a message to the defense ministers of more than 60 countries in the world on Wed. wrote that fighting against terrorism needs setting aside double-standard behaviors.
The global fight against terrorism and violence requires the elimination of dual behaviors in the fight against state terrorism, Brigadier General Amir Hatami emphasized.
Turning to the initiatives and achievements of top Iranian nuclear scientist Martyr Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the fields of science
Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has said the Islamic Republic will pursue the case of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination until all perpetrators behind the U.S. attack that killed the top anti-terror general are punished, warning that the outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump must be punished for the act of terror.
“In Iran, a special court has been established to follow up on this issue, but since the assassination took place in Iraq, we negotiated with Iraqi officials and
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement issued on Wednesday on the occasion of the anniversary of the Ukrainian plane downing that the bitter tragedy happened in the wake of the US terror attacks in the region.
Commemorating the ones that lost their lives in the incident, the statement said that a year has passed since the US terror attack, the subsequent reaction of the IRGC to hit Ain al-Assad airbase in Iraq, and the incident of the Ukrainian airliner, but the great
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf in a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the heads of the parliaments of other countries said that the assassination of Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani by the US army is a stance of organized state terrorism, overt violation of national sovereignty and independence of Iraq, and violation of Iran’s sovereignty.
Iran’s anti-terror commander Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani and the acting commander of the Iraqi
Iranian Ambassador to Brazil pointed to sacrifice and braveries of Iran's top commander martyr Lt. Gen. Soleimani and said that he stood firmly in the face of a global threat against international peace and security.
Speaking in an interview with Telesur TV Network on Mon., Hossein Gharibi called martyr Gen. Soleimani as the standard-bearer of the fight against terrorism in the international arena.
He said that efforts and international coalitions to counter serious threats of ISIL and defeat of
On Jan 3, 2020, Lt. Gen. Soleimani was assassinated in a U.S. terrorist attack near Baghdad airport shortly after he arrived in the city to meet the Iraqi Prime Minister.
The assassination was called unlawful by a UN Special Rapporteur and was a violation of security agreements between Washington and Baghdad. It caused a wave of popular protests against the American military presence in the Western Asia.
Martyr Soleimani will be remembered for his courage, wisdom and an unparalleled role in
Iran's Foreign Ministry has vowed to prosecute the perpetrators behind assassination of top IRGC commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and denounced the US for committing "Craven act of terror" against the top counter- terrorism commander.
In a tweet on Friday on the occasion of the first anniversary of general Soleimani’s assassination near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the ministry said Washington’s terrorist act was carried out in blatant violation of international law, the United
A top prosecutor in Iran has accused U.K. security company G4S of being involved in the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, the state-run Mizan Online reported.
The company has rejected the claim as “completely unfounded.”
Ali Al-Qasi Mehr said G4S, which provides security at Baghdad airport, “was responsible for securing flights” at the airport and “as soon as General Soleimani and his party arrived, elements in the company provided information about them to the terrorists,” according to Mizan
Iran's Embassy to Denmark in a statement on Wednesday marking first martyrdom anniversary of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani said that assassination of the commander is a flagrant violation of international law.
When the US government assassination of General Qasem Soleimani was first announced, US President Donald Trump, boasted the attack had taken place on his order and took credit for the extra-judicial killing of a top official of a sovereign state in the capital of another sovereign
Abdul Latif Pedram, the leader of Afghanistan’s National Congress Party (NCP) said on Monday that the US terrorist attack to assassinate Iranian Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani was a blatant violation of international law and a crime against Iranian national sovereignty.
Speaking to IRNA few days ahead of the martyrdom anniversary of General Soleimani, the Afghan politician said that the terror attack is not forgivable by any means and has to be prosecuted at international bodies.
He
Chinese Ambassador to Iran voiced Beijing’s readiness to work with the international community, including Iran, to jointly tackle terrorism under the new circumstances.
Currently, the global fight against terrorism has made important progress. However, terrorist activities remain rampant, the breeding ground is yet to be eradicated. Frequent terrorist attacks around the world remind us that terrorism has never gone away. International counter-terrorism cooperation still has a long way to go and
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. They reveal how MEK threatens journalists in Albania. MEK like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, PKK, Jahbat al-Nusra, PJAK is a violent organisation of Foreign Fighters. It is hosted in Albania and from there it wages media war against Iran, Iraq and a number of other countries.
However, the organisation has many internal