Extreme right of Europe and Netanyahu's new mission to Rajavi Cult

By: Hamid Bayati

TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (MAN) – Israeli regime is providing extreme right parties in Europe with covert support to create a rift in the continent.

It’s years that extremist rightwing parties in Europe have found significant political power to the point that they have entered the parliaments of most European countries or either play a crucial role in making political decisions.

Today, Europe's dominant extremist rightwing trends have moved a bit away from their origin, i.e. traditional fascism, and reject racism selectively as a result of an ideological transformation (denial of anti-Semitism and spreading Islamophobia). This is a factor which brings Zionist leaders closer to these parties.

But which sources finance these emerging parties?

A report published some days ago in an Italian newspaper which in part answers this question. The European newspaper wrote in its report: the Vox, the extreme right wing of Spain, has been funded by the MKO (the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq). The party received € 800,000 in their 2014 campaign from MKO; a group which was enlisted as a terrorist organization in the United States till 2012.

According to this report, it is necessary now to study the sources which fund MKO.

The Guardian recently issued in a detailed report addressing the history of this terrorist group, and describe it as a tool in the hands of the United States against Iran. The report also says that Saudis are probably the source of this group's financing.

In this Op-Ed penned by Arron Merat, the members of MKO (before the Islamic Revolution) backed the revolution in Iran and then fought for Saddam. The United States and Britain used to condemn them for a time, but in the current situation, the group is a good option for the extremist policies of the Trump administration. John Bolton, the national security adviser to Trump and Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, are among those who pursue such a policy.

Under the leadership of Maryam Rajavi, the Guardian writes, the MKO has won considerable support from sections of the US and European right, eager for allies in the fight against Tehran.

Ervand Abrahamian, a professor at the City University of New York and a historian of Middle Eastern and particularly Iranian history, says “the money definitely comes from Saudis. There is no one else who could be subsidising them with this level of finance.”

MKO’s relationship with the Israeli regime

According to the Guardian, between 2007 and 2012, a number of Iranian nuclear scientists were attacked. In 2012, NBC news, citing two unnamed US officials, reported that the attacks were planned by Israel’s foreign intelligence agency and executed by MKO agents inside Iran.

According to the western media, it seems that the financial support in the recent years has largely come from Saudi Arabia and Israel (especially Saudi Arabia).

We have witnessed that Saudis have had a strong presence the meetings held by the hypocrites and their high-ranking figures have delivered several speeches supporting such groups and movements.

The Haaretz Newspaper reports Danny Yatom, the former head of the Mossad, that Israel can implement some of its anti-Iran plans through the MKO (Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization). Israel should consider all possibilities, including military conflict with Iran, but it should not exclude the capacity of intermediaries such as the MKO who have collaborated with Tel Aviv in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists. Israel is training and providing this group.

The former head of the Mossad added that the organization is apparently linked to Saudi Arabia and can be used in two ways by the Jewish nation and Riyadh.

They worked as a source of information regarding Iran's nuclear program. Israel can indirectly use the organization on social networks to influence the Iranian people.

Former Mossad head Meir Dagan, in an interview with CBS, revealed that Israel is helping the MKO and armed terrorist groups whose mission is to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Saudi Arabia behind rapprochement between Israel and MEK

Saudi Arabia has for a long time been the main sponsor of MEK as it has been shown by the attendance of the influential figures of Saudi royal family in the meetings of the terrorist group in the European countries.

In recent years, the progress of Saudi Arabia's relations with the Zionist regime and their common hostility towards Iran has become a factor for the Zionists to approach the MEK.

In the meantime, the Zionists deliver missions to the group in exchange for their financial and political support. The Rajavi group keeps an eye on Iran and spies on the country on behalf of the Israelis. Another mission that has been delivered to group is infiltrating into the far right parties in Europe to secure their support.

Of course, the Zionists themselves have had their own separate relations with European far right parties and are trying to advance their goals through the channel of the MEK. In this vein, the decline of anti-Semitism feeling among the far-right parties was also a change that resulted from Israel's approach to these parties.

With regard to Israel's rapprochement to the European far right parties, "Orient XXI" (Socialst Revolution in Arabia) website wrote “it all began on 19 December 2010, when a sizeable delegation arrived in Tel Aviv, consisting of some 30 leaders of the European Alliance for Freedom. As its name fails to indicate, this was an organization comprised of a series of parties belonging to the radical right.

Orient XXI added “it was the first time since the creation of Israel that the country had played host to such a sinister gathering, which included Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, Philip Dewinter from Belgium and Jorg Haider's successor, Heinz-Christian Strache, from Austria.”

What were these neo-Fascists, who often denied the Holocaust and even worrying the loss of the Third Reich, doing in Israel?

They [neo-Fascists] participated in a Conference organized by the right wing of Likud Party which was dedicated to fight against terrorism.

Despite the unofficial specification of this move, the then Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had long negotiated with Wilders, known for his criticism of Islam, and he also compensated his blessing with the official visit of the settlements constructed on the West Bank of Jordan River.

According to the Air France Press (AFP), a man who had the dream of banning the Holy Quran in the Netherlands, “spoke against returning the occupied lands through making peace with Palestinians and raised the proposal of the voluntary settlement of Palestinians in Jordan” and then defended the settlements on West coast of Jordan River.

Everything is crystal clear that Israeli right- and right-extremism parties are ready in their “crusade” against the Palestinians to establish unity and amity even in the most unusual ones.

What is the reason for Israel to get closer to European extremist right-wing?

The obvious features of the emerging extremist parties in Europe are their opposition to traditional practices in European countries. For example, these parties weaken the convergence in Europe and undermined the position of the European Union in the international system.

Since the traditional European parties have a special look at democratic and human rights issues, they have always been critical of the Zionist regime's actions against the Palestinians, and the European Union’s criticisms and condemnations of this regime has intensified in recent years. The Zionist regime is struggling to bring a deep divide between emerging and traditional parties through getting closer to the extremist right-wing parties in Europe, perhaps to reduce Brussels's pressure on Tel Aviv.

Reducing Europe's pressure on the Zionist regime means releasing Israel from a major dilemma. In other words, divisions among European countries and their challenge with emerging parties can be a factor in advancement of the goals of the Zionist regime at a macro level. Therefore, given the financial support of the MKO for the European extremist right-wing and the link between the Cult of Rajavi with Saudi and Israeli channels, it (Cult) has become a factor used by Zionism to create a rift in Europe.

UK-based anti-Iran TV channel linked to MBS: Guardian

Channel supported MKO, al-Ahwaziya terrorists

A UK-based anti-Iran TV station is being funded through a secretive offshore entity and a company whose director is a Saudi Arabian businessman with close links to the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Guardian said on Wednesday.

The disclosures are likely to raise concerns about the editorial independence of Iran International, and comes at a time of growing fears about a number of Saudi-linked stations operating across London.

A source has told the Guardian that Prince Mohammed, who many believe is responsible for the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is the force behind Iran International. The station, which is operating out of Chiswick, has not denied claims that it receives its funding from the Saudi royal court.

Iran International TV emerged abruptly on the London media scene last year; many of the 100-strong staff network were offered generous salaries, often double what rivals paid, but was elusive about its source of funding.

London has become a hub of such exiled Iranian channels, which also include BBC’s Persian service and Manoto TV, which has broadcast Iranian versions of The X Factor and Come Dine With Me.

The source claimed Saud al-Qahtani, the crown prince’s information tsar, who was among two senior officials removed in connection with the Khashoggi affair, was involved in the funding behind Iran International TV.

“You could have a larger picture about how those kids [Saudi media moguls] with that money being thrown around [by Prince Mohammed] trying to change the world by buying media … It is money coming from the royal court,” the source said, when speaking about the crown prince.

While Saudi Arabia shows zero tolerance for criticism of its absolute monarchy, as underlined by Khashoggi’s murder, it is setting up media organizations in other languages promoting free speech, particularly about Iran.

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, a postdoctoral research fellow in modern Iranian history at the University of Oxford, said: “… it appears that Iran International is part and parcel of the Saudi crown prince’s decision to take a more aggressive posture against Iran, emboldened, no doubt, by the Trump administration.”

Earlier this summer, the station was criticized for airing extensive live coverage of a rally by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO), a terrorist organization that espouses regime change in Iran and has links to Saudi Arabia. Senior Trump administration officials, including John Bolton, are advocates of the group.

The TV channel’s support for terrorism most boldly manifested itself after it allowed the al-Ahwaziya terrorist group’s spokesman to go live on air to justify a terror attack in Iran’s Ahvaz back in September.

The al-Ahwaziya group, which receives backing mainly from Saudi Arabia, claimed responsibility for the September 22 gun attack in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, which took the lives of 24 people, including a four-year old child, and injury of 69 others.

Following the airing of the interview, Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baidinejad said in a tweet that Iran had filed a lawsuit against the UK-based TV channel over its support for the terrorist group.

“The Iranian embassy in London has taken its official lawsuit to Ofcom to investigate the Iran International TV channel’s illegal move to broadcast an interview with the spokesman of the terrorist group,” the ambassador said.
 
Baidinejad added that the embassy had separately requested the UK government to identify members of the terrorist group, ban their activity, and expel them from the country.

US, MKO Gang Up for Abortive Social Media War Against Iran

By: Kayhan Int’l 

The US, having failed in its intricate plots of the past four decades to undermine the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the airborne invasion that foundered in the sands of Tabas, the sanctions which have yielded no result, the assassination of senior officials and scientists that failed to dent the national will, and the abortive 8-year war imposed through Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime, has now in a desperate attempt forged an open alliance with the MKO hypocrites to assist the terroristic cult in its social media campaign against Iranians. 

While Iran’s state organisations and Iranian citizens loyal to their homeland face social media bans, countless bots and anti-government accounts belonging to the terror group, MKO, whose treasonous siding with Saddam during the imposed war and its aftermath is still fresh in the minds of the nation, have been permitted to run rampant across Twitter and other platforms. 

It means the Islamic Republic of Iran is once again the target of double standards as part of the futile American effort to deprive it of access to media platforms where it can influence audiences overseas.
As a result, hundreds – if not thousands – of Iranian accounts have been removed from platforms owned by Twitter, Facebook, and Google parent company Alphabet.

On YouTube, this massive deletion includes accounts belonging to media outlets, especially IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), which operates radio broadcasts in 34 world languages and 8 TV channels such as the English-language Press TV, the Arabic language al-Alam TV and the Spanish-language Hispan TV – all of them very popular in their target areas.

This hypocrisy or blatant enmity towards Iran has drawn sharp criticisms from senior Iranian officials. Foreign Minister Zarif directly addressed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet to highlight the hypocrisy, saying:
"Hello Jack. Twitter has shuttered accounts of real Iranians, including TV presenters & students, for supposedly being part of an ‘influence op’. How about looking at actual bots in Tirana used to prop up ‘regime change’ propaganda spewed out of (Washington) DC?”

Another tweet by Iranian legislator Amir-Hussein Qazi-Zadeh Hashemi addressed to the Twitter chief said:

"You suspended my official account as MP of Iran for my alleged violation of not determined twitter rules, but why you have not blocked bots of MKO in Tirana, a group that killed 17,000 Iranian people, used to prop up ‘regime change’ propaganda?”

It is obvious that the three main enemies of Iran and the Iranian people, that is, the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, have ganged up to step up terrorism of all sorts against the Islamic Republic, especially after their decisive defeats in Syria and Iraq where, thanks to Tehran’s timely response to urgent requests for help from the governments of the two countries, the sinister takfiri terrorist plot to take over the entire territory between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea utterly failed. 

They have thus decided to give a facelift to MKO from a terror group to a propaganda machine. The MKO’s propaganda efforts have since increased under the current US administration of the dotard Donald Trump, assisted by his gangster Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the bespectacled mustachioed bozo John Bolton. 

Trump’s team of thugs includes infamous MKO supporters such as White House lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and etc., who along with National Security Advisor Bolton have regularly received thousands of dollars from the terrorist group over the years – courtesy, the ‘generosity’ of the Wahhabi minority cult of Saudi Arabia. 

It is unfortunate that despite their killing of innocent civilians, Western media horns have turned a blind eye to the fact that MKO terrorists have been trained by the US military in the past and share connections with the illegal Zionist entity’s notorious spy network Mossad.

Yet the group is seen by many as little more than a well-funded, mafia-style cult that is fueled by bots – accounts that are often fraudulent and behave in an automated fashion, amplifying messages through swarm-like behavior such as retweeting, liking, and republishing videos and articles posted alongside hashtags.

Iranians are well aware of the realities, and without the least doubt, just as the terrorist plots had failed, the social media plot of these traitors and their backers will miserably backfire. 

Terrorists Aid US Policy Objectives

By Zafar Bangash

The Paris-based terrorist cult, Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka Munafiqeen), has married into prominent American politicians in the ludicrous belief that this will enable them to grab power by bringing down the Islamic government in Iran. On June 30, the cult held another of its hugely expensive fests in Paris. Prominent American rightwingers, including such notorious figures as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (animal, vegetable or mineral?), were there.

The British daily, The Guardian reported (June 30) that about 4,000 people, many of them refugees and young East Europeans were bussed in for a weekend trip to Paris. They comprised an odd assortment of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, and Syrians who responded to a Facebook campaign promising travel, food, and accommodation to Paris for a mere €25, the paper said. The MKO terrorists’ desperation is evident if it has to bribe refugees and East Europeans to attend its rallies.

“Freedom is right around the corner… Next year I want to have this convention in Tehran!” Giuliani screamed into the microphone. There is as much chance of that happening as there is of a committed Muslim eating pig meat. The MKO is intensely hated in Iran because of its terrorist acts killing more than 12,000 people including many prominent officials.

With zero support in Iran and its ranks rapidly dwindling, how does MKO finance its programs? The Saudi regime funds them lavishly. The terrorists in turn pay tons of money to greedy and corrupt American officials and politicians. Not surprisingly it has become well known that America has the best democracy money can buy. We can add to this another truism: terrorism is an integral part of US foreign policy.

Until 2012, Washington had proscribed the MKO as a terrorist organization. After intense lobbying and bribing members of the US Congress, the group was taken off the list. Does that make it kosher now? The US has been in bed with other terrorist outfits: al-Qaeda, al-Nusrah Front, ISIS et al. These outfits have failed to achieve US military/political objectives anywhere. Why should the MKO be any more successful given its horrific record and alliance with the Iraqi tyrant Saddam Husayn when he attacked Iran in September 1980? Iranians of all political persuasions view the MKO not only as a terrorist outfit but also guilty of treason.

Most Iranians have no illusions about the true nature of the US. It is extremely hostile to Islamic Iran and has tried — unsuccessfully — since the establishment of the Islamic government in 1979 to overthrow it. Currently, the US is financing terrorists in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province, Khuzestan, and Kurdistan. Iran’s currency is being manipulated causing economic disruption. Its oil sales are being blocked and there is intense hate-filled propaganda against Iran. Any other country would take these as acts of war.

Successive American regimes have violated international law and signed agreements with Iran in their attempt to destabilize and, therefore, overthrow the Islamic Republic.

As early as January 1981, in what came to be called the Algiers Accords, the US agreed to not interfere in Iran’s internal affairs and desist from attempting to overthrow it. Washington also pledged to return all the frozen assets of the Islamic Republic amounting to some $40 billion at the time (now equal to $100 billion or more).

This was done in exchange for releasing American spies operating under diplomatic cover in the US den of spies in Tehran (aka the embassy). Once the spies were released, the Americans resumed their destabilizing activities and have refused to return stolen Iranian wealth. From sanctions and internal sabotage to assassinations, the US has done everything to undermine the Islamic Republic. The most recent example was its repudiation of the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran that was signed after years of negotiations. Five other countries were involved in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The US embrace of terrorists reveals its true nature: a sponsor of terrorism making it an international outlaw. Such tactics have not succeeded before and will, insha’allah, not succeed in the future. Iran’s governing system is based on Islamic principles; it enjoys overwhelming mass support. Far from the US and its terrorist proxies succeeding in overthrowing the Islamic government in Iran, it is much more likely the American system will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, hypocrisy, greed, and unprovoked aggression.

The world would be a far better and safer place were that to happen.

Zafar Bangash is Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT).

 

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