Review of “The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization” by Hossein Ahmadi Rouhani (Part Two)
The Political and Social Contexts for the Formation of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) of Iran
With Kennedy entering the White House as the President of the United States in January 1961, a new policy, which was disregarded in the last two presidencies, was pursued by the U.S. Democrats, known as Political Open Space.
This policy was made to protect the interests of the United States and its
Introduction
Formation of guerrilla groups in Iran in the late 1960s and adoption of an armed strategy were the outcomes of the inefficiency of previous (peaceful) forms of fighting against the Pahlavi Regime. Reviewing the political activities of Marxist and National parties reveals their failure to maintain a relationship with people and inability to assess the Shah’s regime. The demonstrations of June 6, 1963 and Shia Maraji coming into the political scene, as well as the Shah’s severe
Former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has admitted to receiving money from the cultish Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) group, at a time when the group was still not removed from Washington’s blacklist.
“How much of your antipathy towards Iran is to do with geopolitics, and how much is to do with the fact that you have a long association with a group called MEK which was once a terrorist group banned by the State Department while you worked there?” Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hassan asked
The spokesman of Iran's foreign ministry expressed sympathy with the government and people of Pakistan due to the terrorist attacks on Pakistani troops in Ormara and Quetta over the past two days.
Condemning all forms of terrorism, Saeed Khatibzadeh stressed the need for the participation of all countries in the region in the ongoing fight against the perpetrators, organizers, supporters, and sponsors of terrorist acts.
A gun and rocket attack targeting a Pakistani paramilitary escort on Thursday
IRGC's Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada headquarters announced that its forces have mounted two operations against terrorist groups in Kamyaran and Marivan during the current week.
In a statement on Monday, IRGC's Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada headquarters announced that its forces have launched two successful operations against terrorist groups in Kamyaran and Marivan in Kurdistan province.
Three terrorist elements were killed and three others were injured, one of whom was captured by the IRGC.
The statement
Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, has denounced Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran as an example of “state terrorism” with the aim of fomenting unrest in Iran.
“The policy of maximum pressure by the U.S. on Iran is designed to deliberately and indiscriminately target innocent civilians with the aim of creating suffering and hardship, as well as stoking social unrest in accordance with the flawed policy of regime change,” Takht-Ravanchi said at a
Introduction
According to dictionary definitions, militia is a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. Also, it has been defined as a military force that engages in rebel or terrorist activities in opposition to a regular army. What is meant by militia in this article is the latter definition i.e., the organized armed insurgent forces in the first years of the Iranian Revolution. After the Islamic Revolution, the term militia
By Finian Cunningham
Thousands of Turkish-backed militants from Syria’s Idlib province have been recruited as mercenaries to support Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia.
Several reports indicate that the Syrian fighters were already dispatched to Azerbaijan before the latest flare-up in hostilities with Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan and Armenia are each blaming the other for the eruption of violence which unconfirmed reports suggest has caused hundreds
US President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court is said to have represented the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group in a case pursing the removal of the notorious anti-Iran cult from the State Department’s list of designated foreign terrorist organizations.
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Judge Amy Coney Barrett disclosed her legal work for the MKO in the Senate questionnaire she submitted during her 2017 confirmation process to join the US Court of Appeals
The US claims that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, but the US military is nothing more than well-funded and well-organized terror organization with uniforms, said Leah Bolger, a retired US navy commander on Tuesday.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with IRNA, Bolger said that Iran has not attacked another country in the past 300 years, and is not a threat to the US.
When Trump withdrew the US from the Iran Nuclear Deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), he undid years of
Secretary General of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), top Shia party in Pakistan, warning against the secret plans of the common enemies of the Islamic world affiliated with arrogant powers, including the Zionist regime, says weakening government and creating political crisis are the major goals of Takfiri supporters in the country.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA in Islamabad on Monday, Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri said that the recent events in Pakistan, although not unprecedented, have
During the eight years of the Iran–Iraq War, the Mojadedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) committed treacheries which were unparalleled at any point in history. Despite claiming to support Iranian people, they withheld no help and support from the enemy and joined them to invade Iran’s borders during an unequal war against their homeland. Throughout the Imposed War and especially in the final years, the MKO had an effective presence on the frontlines and functioned as a fifth column for the
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused the United States of impeding his country’s ability to fight coronavirus, explaining that US sanctions have prevented the purchase of critical medical supplies.
Washington’s efforts to stop Tehran from exporting oil have limited the government’s ability to respond to the global health crisis and provide relief to the Iranian people, Zarif said in an interview with ‘Worlds Apart’ host Oksana Boyko. The top Iranian diplomat noted that
39 years ago, with the entry of the MKO into the armed phase, they manifested certain actions which were quite similar to those of the ISIS in recent years. In this report, we address part of this group's strategy in creating terror.
The last days of June 1981 (first days of Tir 1360 according to Persian calendar) were some of the most inflammatory days in the political history of Iran. The day before the ouster of Bani Sadr from the presidency by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the MKO set
Saudi Arabia is the ideological birthplace of terror as well as a financial and logistical supporter of terrorism in the region, Iran has said in a scathing criticism of the kingdom.
“As the base and birthplace of the ideologies of Takifiri terrorist groups, Saudi Arabia has, for years, been pursuing a blame-game policy and seeking to distort realities …not to be held accountable for its crimes,” Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement on
"Mojahedin-e Khalq! You are the offspring of the Liberation Movement, you were born in 1964 while we were in prison and you went your own way, without running away from home or being expelled." This is one of the most well-known statements of Mahdi Bazargan in May 1981 addressing Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO); a statement that was intended to pacify them.
Even though this quotation from Bazargan is generally used to pinpoint the origin of Mojahedin-e Khalq i.e., the Liberation Movement
As the condition on the front line of the war with Iraq worsened and simultaneously with the political crisis that led to the ouster of the first president of Iran Abolhassan Banisadr, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) which thought that the Islamic Republic is in a weak position, turned the summer of 1981 into a bloody season for Iranian people.
According to the Holy Defense Research & Document Center, the summer of 1981 (1360 in Persian calendar) is one of the most crucial
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Europeans should turn down the US economic terrorism imposed against Islamic Republic of Iran.
In his twitter account on Thu., Zarif wrote, “Europeans should reject US economic terrorism just as they've rejected its vandalism in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).”
Iran rejects nuclear weapons for religious & strategic reasons—far weightier than any “deal". But if E3/EU want full implementation of CBMs & enhanced
Habilian Association, an Iranian Human Rights NGO conducting studies on terror victims in Iran, has released its first annual report on terrorism in Iran.
Tehran Times
“The report covers terrorist activities and counter-terrorism measures in Iran between March 2019 and April 2020 (1398 in Persian calendar [year]). The first annual report on terrorism in Iran provides the audience with information on terrorist groups’ operations against Iranian targets in chronological order. According to this
The Ground Force of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) destroyed bases of counter-revolutionary terror groups during a series of large-scale multi-pronged military operations along the country’s northwestern borders.
The IRGC ground forces have carried out a series of large-scale multi-pronged military operations against positions of terror groups along the country’s northwestern borders in the past week.
They destroyed strongholds of counter-revolutionary terror groups during the