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History | Mason Companies, Inc.
Mason Companies has been owned by the Mason Family for more than 100 years. Mason Shoe was founded by August Mason and his son Bert in 1904. Bert Mason (BA) led the company until 1945 when his son, Ned Mason took over the operations. Following Ned were brothers Owen, who took over in 1960 and Victor who followed in 1976. Fourth generation family members, Bill Scobie and John Lubs led the Company from 1989 through August 2004. On September 1, 2004, a new milestone in Company history was set with the appointment of Dan Hunt as the first non-family CEO/President.
During the late 1800s, lumbering dominated life in the city of Chippewa Falls and the Chippewa Valley creating thousands of jobs. These jobs spawned numerous area businesses that provided support to the lumbermen and the lumber industry. One such industry was the boot and shoemakers.
August Mason came to Chippewa Falls from Germany in 1854 to work in the lumber camps and by 1880 he was one of the key subcontractors to the larger lumber companies. By 1903, however, the great forests of Wisconsin were cut down, and in 1904, August and his son B. A. (Bert) Mason formed the Mason Shoe Manufacturing Company. Mason got its start handcrafting logging boots for the lumberjacks and river men working in the Chippewa area and quickly became known as one of the finest boot makers in the Northwoods.
In the beginning, the Company shipped their shoes to mercantile and clothing stores that sold the shoes on consignment. When the economy soured in the 1920's, many of the stores returned their consigned shoes to the Company. Since there was an urgent need to get rid of these returned shoes along with the ones that were being manufactured, dealers were recruited to sell the overflow of inventory. The Masons devised a marketing plan that they would end up following for more than fifty years – direct sales of their shoes to consumers.
In order to assist the dealers, in 1922 the Company produced its first salesman catalog, the Mason Catalog.
The company began to grow through the direct sales of shoes by the dealers and as a result, in 1942 the Company went from a strictly home office sales operation to a home office/branch office structure. At one time there were 14 Mason Shoe branch offices throughout the United States. The branch offices were closed in 1970.
The installation of the Company's first computer, an IBM System 360 Model 30 in April 1968, paved the way for rapid growth. The computer provided an efficient way to recruit new dealers by quickly and economically identifying markets of dealers and buyers. However, in 1970 the role of the dealer changed. They were no longer full-time salesmen who sold shoes for a living. The new dealers were part-time salesmen who could earn extra money selling shoes to friends, relatives, and co-workers.
Seeing that direct selling was slowing in the 1980s, Mason started to develop a mail order business. The Company's first mail order catalog, Wissota Trader, was printed in 1985 and was followed by B.A. Mason, in 1990. Acquisitions of catalogs helped grow the mail order business. The acquisitions included Maryland Square in December of 1994, Masseys in October of 1997 and the Executive Shoes/E.T. Wright catalog in November of 1998.
In the fall of 1996, Mason Companies embarked on its initial venture of offering revolving credit as a method of payment in the Mason Easy-Pay Catalog. Mason Easy-Pay offered a credit payment plan for customers to purchase shoes over time. This tapped a new source of direct mail buyers who were accustomed to purchasing on a revolving credit plan.
With the success of Mason Easy-Pay, the Company further developed its credit offerings with the Massey's Credit catalog in 2002, the K. Jordan women's apparel catalog in late 2006, and Stoneberry, a general merchandise catalog in 2010.
For the local shoppers, the Company has a retail presence in downtown Chippewa Falls. The Mason Shoe Store sells footwear and women's apparel items and offers every Mason catalog product as well as a "store only" selection of footwear.
In October 2003, ninety-nine years of footwear manufacturing in Chippewa Falls came to an end when the plant closed. This was a result of increased competition of foreign sourcing and continued reduction of market share because of pricing competition from lower cost offshore manufacturers of footwear.
As a result of Mason's growth over the past 100+ years, we are referred to as the largest mail order footwear company in the World and are the 150th largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S. Today Mason's catalog business includes: Auditions, Maryland Square, BA Mason, Masseys Credit, Mason Easy-Pay, K.Jordan, Stoneberry, Figi's Gallery, and an internet only site – ShoeMall.com.
Mason Companies has made a long-term commitment to its customers, employees, and the community and today employs over 1,000 people. We have enjoyed over 100 successful years and look forward to a prosperous future.


MISSISAUGA, Ontario – A first time exhibitor, PayBright will showcase its point-of-sale financing system to retail buyers attending the Canadian Furniture Show, which opens for its three-day run at the International Centre here this Friday morning (25 May 2018).
In a statement, the Toronto-based company said it provides friendly, transparent financing to Canadians at the point-of-sale, both online and in-store. PayBright is partnered with over 3,000 merchants across the country and said it is also the first financing provider to offer e-commerce payment plans in Canada, working with e-commerce retailers such as Wayfair.ca as well as mattress specialists Endy and Casper.
He added merchants using PayBright have seen sales increases of as much as 30% through attracting new customers, increasing conversion rates, and increasing average order values. Customers benefit by spreading the cost of larger purchases into monthly installments. Through PayBright, merchants can also offer their customers promotional financing such as 0% interest.
PayBright provides both merchants and customers with a simple and easy process to complete transactions in-store and online. Applications can be made through a tablet, smartphone, or computer and the entire process can be completed in less than a minute.
PayBright does not require customers to sign up for a credit card, he continued, and doesn't charge hidden fees, punitive interest rates, or pre-payment penalties. Operating since 2009, PayBright is backed by major Canadian financial institutions and has approved approximately $350 million consumer credit since inception.
At the 2018 Canadian Furniture Show, PayBright will be located in booth 2274.


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A Walk Through Fire by Felice Stevens
Years after running away from an abusive foster family, Asher Davis still struggles with the guilt of leaving his foster brothers behind. He's climbed to unimaginable heights as a ruthless, high-powered attorney, creating a life of power and control. He takes whatever and whoever he wants.
Blaming himself for the death of his parents, Dr. Drew Klein retreats into a shell of loneliness, merely going through the motions of life. After a disastrous, short-lived marriage, Drew decides to leave his lucrative medical practice to set up a clinic for abused young men and women. The decision has more repercussions than Drew could ever imagine when the dark and sensual Ash Davis volunteers to help.
Although Drew isn't gay, Ash is inexplicably drawn to him. He vows to simply bed him and forget him like he's done with every other man. However, Drew's sweet and caring nature and unexpected passion both stun and frighten Ash, who questions his right to any happiness at all. And when Ash befriends an abused young man who unwittingly draws the clinic into danger, threatening Drew's safety and that of his beloved grandmother, Ash discovers that there is nothing he won't sacrifice to protect the love he never thought he'd find.
4 Star Review by Jen Skewes
A Walk Through Fire is the first book that I have read by Felice Stevens and it will not be my last. I loved Drew and Ash's story. I loved how these two men came together. There was a lot of drama, angst and back and forth between these two men but I loved it all.
Asher is a high powered lawyer who had a horrible childhood. He managed to escape the nightmare that was his life and make something of himself. But he still carries the guilt of leaving his foster brothers behind. He is a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. He never has any emotional attachment to the men he is with and that has everything to do with his past. He has a hard time opening up to anyone, both about it past as well as his heart. But then he meets Drew and things change for Ash.
Drew is a plastic surgeon who is going through a rough time right now. He has always seemed to live his life to please others instead of living to make himself happy. He is in the process of opening up a clinic for abused children. Asher, who happens to be his ex wife's lawyer offers to help out with the clinic. Drew is aware of Asher's reputation as a playboy and at first doesn't accept his offer. But in time these two form a friendship and Drew realizes that there is more to Ash than his playboy ways.
The attraction between the two of them is there but they both deny any feelings that they may have for each other. At times Drew may not understand his attraction to this man but he doesn't necessarily fear it either. He wants him and is willing to see what happens when they cross the line of friendship. Asher wants Drew like he has never wanted anyone before. The man has him all wound up. But he knows that Drew deserves better than someone who can't give him more than a physical relationship. It seems each time these two get closer one starts to pull away. It takes some time for them to both realize how deep their feelings are and that no matter how much they push they find a way back to each other.
I loved the push and pull between the two of them but at times wanted to just shake the two of them and make them see how happy they were when they were with each other. What I did love was when these two were finally all in they did not care what other people thought. Drew had been attracted to women his whole life but he accepted his feelings for Ash and they made it work. It was so genuine and so real. They had a great friendship with flirty banter that I adored. And I loved how Ash was finally able to open up to someone about his past. It made you understand a lot about who he was. I felt the connection and passion between these two men. And I think they were perect for each other.
Ash had a special relationship wth one of the teens that came to the clinic and I loved seeing that side of him. He was able to relate to these children on so many levels but seeing how much he cared for Stevie and wanted to help him just made my heart happy. Beneath the hard exterior he has a heart and I loved watching him open that heart up. I cannot write this review without mentioning Drew's grandmother. That woman I think was a major part in this story. She loved Drew and his sister but she also loved the people in their lives as if they were her own. From the moment she met Ash she knew there was this sadness to him. She knew there was past that he was trying to move on from. And I loved the bond that these two formed.
A Walk Through Fire deals with some tough issues but I think the author did an amazing job with touching upon those issues. The twist in the end completely took me by surprise. I was not expecting that at all. It was one of those moments where you had to re read it because you weren't sure it was happening, only to find out that it really did. I loved Drew and Ash's story and while they got the happily ever after Ms. Stevens left the door open for more. I cannot wait for the next book in this series. And I am hoping that at some point we get Stevie's story. See him as an adult and finding love because he deserves it. A great job by Felice Stevens.

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US Legal Sports Betting Revolution Sweeps the US
Professional sports leagues have finally landed upon a sustainable way to profit from the legal sports betting revolution that is sweeping the U.S. An attempt to seize a cut of bookmakers' turnover through the dreaded integrity fees crashed and burned, and they were unable to claim intellectual property rights on games. Yet they have now settled on selling their official data for sportsbooks to settle in-play and prop bets, an approach that can benefit both parties.
The tone of the sports leagues has shifted dramatically. They previously denounced the books and grew angry when demanding a share of revenue or even handle, but now they are starting to speak in use humble and constructive language. "Last year it was, 'Here are the leagues with their hands out,'" said Scott Kaufman-Ross, senior vice president of fantasy and gaming for the NBA. "Now we realize there's a lot we can offer each other. More and more operators are starting to see the value in this."
A Brave New Era
Some states force sportsbooks to buy official league data to settle live wagers. Michigan is the most recent state to legalize sports betting, and its new law contains this requirement. Yet many states place no such demands upon sportsbooks, so it is up to the leagues to present a compelling proposition to the firms and try to work constructively with them. This has led to a newfound mutual respect between the leagues and the books, which could work wonders for the legitimacy and reputation of the nascent sports betting industry.
It also gives the books a robust argument when it comes to settling prop bets on matters like yardage, as the official league data can be treated as bulletproof. The leagues also believe they can offer new opportunities for sportsbooks to devise increasingly exotic prop bets.
"We're collecting a lot of data," Chris Golier, vice president of business development for the NHL, told the Associated Press. "We are the only ones that can extract that kind of data and collect it. We're putting chips in pucks, chips in shoulder pads. It's a whole new manufacturing process to have a piece of rubber with a chip in it that can bounce off the wall. It's going to be 2,000 data points a second. These things will turn into prop bets over time."
Better Together Than Apart
Not everyone is convinced. "Sports books have been running in Nevada for decades without official data," said Seth Schorr, chairman of the Downtown Grand Las Vegas casino. "Having an NFL logo next to the data will not mean a thing."
Yet the leagues are able to supply data as it happens, which is crucial for a strong in-play product. They argue that third-party data is not suitable for the rapid pace of live wagering, and this could help legal sportsbooks ultimately vanquish the offshore books that flourished for years while PASPA was in place. DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, MGM Resorts, Caesars and The Stars Group are among the sports betting firms that have reached individual deals with leagues to buy their official data.
The MLB has a strong pitch too. "Baseball has always been a statistics-driven sport," Kenny Gersh, executive vice president of gaming and new business ventures for MLB, told the AP. "Are the pitches breaking as much in the third inning as they were in the first inning? What's the spin rate? We spent all this time and money to develop and implement this. Now, we can market betting products off of that data.
"My hope for baseball is that betting evolves, that you can make micro-bets: Is Aaron Judge going to hit a home run off Chris Sale in the seventh inning? What are the odds of that happening? We can market those tools so that sportsbooks can offer a better product. We're much better together than we will be apart."
Online wagering accounts for more than 80% of the handle in states that have legalized both retail and mobile sportsbooks. That has left New York well behind the curve, as it only permits sports betting at a handful of upstate casinos. Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr., who sponsored a New York sports betting bill that passed the Senate in June 2019, is now cautiously optimistic about the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo, turning to mobile sports wagering to help reduce a $6 billion budget deficit.
Last year, the governor and the Assembly refused to consider the bill, but the Empire State is now gripped by fiscal woes. "I am more optimistic this year than last year," said Addabbo. "He [Cuomo] has to understand that you're in a fiscal situation here and can't cut your way out of a $6 billion deficit. A significant source of new funds is going to be needed."
New York has proposed a $12 million licensing fee for mobile sportsbooks, and that could see the industry contribute more than $100 million per year to the state's coffers. That is not enough to wipe out the deficit, but it would certainly help. Addabbo also hopes to see three casino licenses for casinos that would be located in the New York City area. He insists he is not actually into betting, but he fights for it because the state is missing out on revenue and jobs, with residents crossing the border to bet at casinos and sportsbooks in New Jersey.
Developments in New England
It will certainly be a busy year for sports betting on the legislative front. This week a new mobile-only sports wagering bill, S. 213, was filed in Vermont. It proposes a reasonable 10% tax on gross sports revenue, which would be paid on a monthly basis, and it would see the Vermont Board of Liquor and Lottery run the industry. Sports betting has just gone live in neighboring New Hampshire, and Gov. Chris Sununu reported £3.44 million in handle during the first week, claiming his state is "happy to serve as the region's go-to destination".
This is sure to speed up the push for legalization in Vermont, mirroring a domino effect taking place across the country. In Maine, the final countdown is on for Gov. Janet Mills to either veto a sports betting bill that passed through both chambers or let it slide into law without her signature. LD 553 is a strong bill that would create a vibrant industry, but Mills has been able to put it on ice until now. Yet the 2020 session has now begun and she will be compelled to act. Rep. ScottStrom has made a passionate plea for her to endorse the bill.
It is my hope that Mills allows this bipartisan legislation that was carefully constructed with input from the administration through its Gambling Control Unit to become law and seize an opportunity to protect Mainers and deliver a huge blow to a pervasive illegal market," said Strom. "I look forward to the day when Mainers can wager on their favorite players and teams in a safe, legal way, right here in Maine. I urge Mills to allow this legislation to become law and begin eradicating the illegal operators' stronghold on our consumers. Not allowing LD 553 to become law will only serve to benefit select special interest groups and, most of all, illegal bookmakers."


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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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Karen R. Koenig
"Bittersweet grants us permission to explore and experience sorrow and longing by transforming them into acceptable, inspiring, even hopeful emotions that help us heal and grow."
In Bittersweet Susan Cain explains why it's crucial to embrace all our emotions, especially those that are bittersweet. She takes on this nation's pursuit of perpetual positivity with the same gusto, erudition, compassion, and thoughtfulness that made her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, a bestseller.
Cain describes the emotion of bittersweet as "longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world" along with recognition that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired." She even provides a short quiz to help readers determine if they lean temperamentally toward sanguine or bittersweet or travel between the two states.
A lifelong devotee of Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen, Cain uses examples from his life and evocative works to illustrate how sorrow and longing come together time and again to produce something altogether beautiful and magical. Born of Cohen's own pain, his work manages to touch us all deeply and remind us of our suffering while at the same time lifting us out of it because it is shared. His is among the numerous fascinating stories, including her own very personal one, that Cain uses to bring home her points.
Part one of the book is about sorrow and longing. Cain describes all the good sadness can do for us, including triggering compassion, which is hardwired into humans to help us bond with each other. Experiencing our own sadness allows us to empathize when others feel sad, increasing our connection to them.
The author details how "negative" emotions, those that cause pain rather than pleasure, have been viewed through the lens of modern psychology. While Sigmund Freud analyzed angst and neuroticism, psychologists Abraham Maslow and Martin Seligman aimed to lift our spirits by teaching us to focus on positive emotions such as gratitude.
Cain and others in the field have intentionally swung the pendulum back to embrace sorrow and longing, giving these feelings their rightful place in the emotional arena. She explains that longing and sadness should not be conflated with depression or malaise, maintaining that "If we could honor sadness a little more, maybe we could see it—rather than enforced smiles and righteous outrage—as the bridge we need to connect with each other."
Exploring longing, Cain explains how yearning for a "soul mate" is perhaps universal, but not reality-based where the best we can do is appreciate the partners we have. She explores creativity born of longing—in art, literature, poetry and music—as movement from darkness to light and as desire sparking momentum in a quest for union or transcendence. And in both theoretical and practical terms, she teaches us how best to cope with longing due to lost love.
Part two of the book examines how our culture came to fear emotions like sorrow and longing and single-mindedly embrace positivity while other societies opened their hearts and minds to a fuller range of emotions. She views American contempt for "negative" emotions as stemming from our rigid cultural beliefs about rugged individualism in which "we're encouraged to see ourselves, deep down, as winners or losers—and to show, with our sanguine-choleric behaviors, that we belong to the former group."
She illustrates how this country has buried the horrors of its history and spun its tragedies and failures into distortions to avoid feeling discomfort and shame: The point of our American exceptionalism is to blind ourselves and others to everything but our successes and the good we've done and to outrun failure by achieving perfection. Sadly, this has turned us into a culture so bereft of compassion that we must distance ourselves from our losses and those who are losers and, in doing so, have forsaken our humanity. Paradoxically, this armored mindset has left us with more, not less, depression, anxiety, anger, addiction, and suicides, as ghosted emotions come back to haunt us as we should have known they would.
Cain describes how the "tyranny of positivity" in the workplace squelches authentic emotion—especially vulnerability and sadness which are equated with weakness—and refuses to accept failure. She then provides examples of workplace and community leaders who are reversing this trend by using self-expression, compassion, and sharing emotional pain to help people become more whole and mentally healthy to fulfill their roles more successfully.
Part three takes us more deeply into bittersweetness: the recognition that what once was will never be again and accepting that life is impermanent while trying to live it to its fullest. Cain examines the growing Immortalism movement—death defiers who believe we can and should live forever. And she gives voice to their challengers, some of whom fear we would be less human without mortality.
Cain's resolution for the dilemma of having life thrust upon us while knowing we will die is human connection. "We transcend grief only when we realize that we're connected with all the other humans who can't transcend grief." She proposes that "living in a bittersweet state, with an intense awareness of life's fragility and the pain of separation, is an underappreciated strength and an unexpected path to wisdom, joy and especially communion." We do this by allowing ourselves to enter a state of poignancy, by letting our perspective narrow and deepen to what really matters, which generally happens as we age.
Last, Cain tackles "how we can transform the sorrows and longings we inherit from the generations who came before us." This inheritance is all too real, passed down from parent to child, according to research, psychologically and physiologically and exemplified by a genetic effect called "preconception parental trauma." Because of this inheritance, post-traumatic stress travels through generations, but Cain explains, so does transgenerational healing which comes through understanding traumatic inheritance, helping others who are wounded, and making meaning of suffering.
The book ends with Cain describing her own longings to write and what made her finally honor them. Encouraging readers to identify and attend to their longings and dreams, she asks, "What is the thing you long for most, your unique imprint, singular mission, wordless calling? What is your closest approximation of home?" She asks readers to question who they love and admire, what their melancholy is trying to wring from them, and what is left for them to do or be in life.
Challenging our individual and cultural beliefs, Bittersweet grants us permission to explore and experience sorrow and longing by transforming them into acceptable, inspiring, even hopeful emotions that help us heal and grow.
Karen R. Koenig, MEd, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, psychology of eating expert, and eight-book international, award-winning author. Her most recent book is Words to Eat By: Using the Power of Self-talk to Transform Your Relationship with Food and Your Body (Turner Publishing, 2021).


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Although my main focus as a webmaster is maintaining English language websites directed at the U.S. market, I also maintain two Japanese language websites aimed at Japanese speakers. This site started out as a place on the internet to park what was becoming a large OmniOutliner file of "memos to self" about how to improve the search engine rankings of these two websites. Whenever I came across some new information or discovered an informative site or tool, I would add it to the OmniOutliner file.
"Japan SEO will help web developers and promoters who themselves have a bit of Japanese language ability and web knowledge, or who have access to someone else who does, to improve their rankings in Yahoo! Japan and in the Japanese search results of Google and Bing, relatively cheaply and without the expense of hiring a professional. It will explain basic search engine optimization techniques in the light of how the Japanese search engines and internet differs from that of the United States and will provide access to links, tools, and resources."


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Заре́чье (до 1948 года Мана́й; , ) — исчезнувшее село в Белогорском районе Республики Крым (согласно административно-территориальному делению Украины — Автономной Республики Крым). Располагалось на северо-востоке района, в степном Крыму, на правом берегу реки Кучук-Карасу, примерно в 1 км ниже (севернее) современного села Павловка.

История
Первое документальное упоминание села встречается в Камеральном Описании Крыма… 1784 года, согласно которому в последний период Крымского ханства Менай входил в Карасубазарский кадылык Карасубазарского каймаканства. После присоединения Крыма к России (8) 19 апреля 1783 года, (8) 19 февраля 1784 года, именным указом Екатерины II сенату, на территории бывшего Крымского Ханства была образована Таврическая область и деревня была приписана к Левкопольскому, а после ликвидации в 1787 году Левкопольского — к Феодосийскому уезду Таврической области. После Павловских реформ, с 1796 по 1802 год, входила в Акмечетский уезд Новороссийской губернии. По новому административному делению, после создания 8 (20) октября 1802 года Таврической губернии, Манай был включён в состав Уроскоджинской волости Феодосийского уезда.

По Ведомости о числе селений, названиях оных, в них дворов… состоящих в Феодосийском уезде от 14 октября 1805 года в деревне Монай числилось 9 дворов и 65 жителей, исключительно крымских татар. На военно-топографической карте генерал-майора Мухина 1817 года обозначена деревня Мунай с 15 дворами. После реформы 1829 года, согласно «Ведомости о казённых волостях Таврической губернии» от 31 августа 1829 года, Манай отнесли к Борюсской (варианты: Бёрюсской, Бурюкской) волости того же уезда. На карте 1836 года в деревне 12 дворов, а на карте 1842 года Монай обозначен условным знаком «малая деревня» (это означает, что в ней насчитывалось менее 5 дворов).

В 1860-х годах, после земской реформы Александра II, деревню приписали к Шейих-Монахской волости. В «Списке населённых мест Таврической губернии по сведениям 1864 года», составленном по результатам VIII ревизии 1864 года, Монай — татарская деревня с 14 дворами, 76 жителями и мечетью при речке Малой (Кучук) Кара-Су (на трехверстовой карте Шуберта 1865—1876 года в деревне Монай обозначено 17 дворов). В «Памятной книге Таврической губернии 1889 года», включившей результаты Х ревизии 1887 года, записан Монай с 32 дворами и 209 жителями. По «…Памятной книжке Таврической губернии на 1892 год» в безземельной деревне Монай, не входившей ни в одно сельское общество, было 97 жителей, за которыми домохозяйств не числилось, а на подробной военно-топографической карте 1892 года в Монае обозначены 37 дворов с русским населением.

После земской реформы 1890 года, Монай отнесли к Андреевской волости. По «…Памятной книжке Таврической губернии на 1900 год» в деревне Монай, входившей в Васильевское сельское общество, числилось 116 жителей в 22 дворах. По Статистическому справочнику Таврической губернии. Ч.II-я. Статистический очерк, выпуск пятый Феодосийский уезд, 1915 год, в селе Монай Андреевской волости Феодосийского уезда числилось 40 дворов с русским населением в количестве 235 человек приписных жителей и 13 — «посторонних». Согласно энциклопедическому словарю «Немцы России», на 1915 год Монай русско-немецком селение, но в дальнейшем в доступных источниках упоминаний о немецком населении не встречается.

После установления в Крыму Советской власти, по постановлению Крымревкома от 8 января 1921 года была упразднена волостная система и село вошло в состав вновь созданного Карасубазарского района Симферопольского уезда, а в 1922 году уезды получили название округов. 11 октября 1923 года, согласно постановлению ВЦИК, в административное деление Крымской АССР были внесены изменения, в результате которых округа ликвидировались, Карасубазарский район стал самостоятельной административной единицей и село включили в его состав. Согласно Списку населённых пунктов Крымской АССР по Всесоюзной переписи 17 декабря 1926 года, в селе Монай, в составе упразднённого к 1940 году Тогайского сельсовета Карасубазарского района, числилось 28 дворов, из них 26 крестьянских, население составляло 110 человек, из них 79 русских, 25 болгар, 6 греков, действовала русская школа. По данным всесоюзной переписи населения 1939 года в селе проживало 216 человек.

В 1944 году, после освобождения Крыма от фашистов, согласно Постановлению ГКО № 5984сс от 2 июня 1944 года, 27 июня крымские болгары и армяне были депортированы в Среднюю Азию. 12 августа 1944 года было принято постановление № ГОКО-6372с «О переселении колхозников в районы Крыма», в исполнение которого в район завезли переселенцев: 6000 человек из Тамбовской и 2100 — Курской областей, а в начале 1950-х годов последовала вторая волна переселенцев из различных областей Украины. С 25 июня 1946 года Монай в составе Крымской области РСФСР. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 18 мая 1948 года Монай переименовали в Заречье. 26 апреля 1954 года Крымская область была передана из состава РСФСР в состав УССР. На 15 июня 1960 года село числилось в составе Васильевского сельсовета. По данным переписи 1989 года в селе проживало 48 человек. С 12 февраля 1991 года село в восстановленной Крымской АССР, 26 февраля 1992 года переименованной в Автономную Республику Крым.

22 марта 2007 года решением ВР АР Крым село Заречье исключено из учётных данных.

Динамика численности населения

 1805 год — 65 чел.
 1864 год — 76 чел.
 1889 год — 209 чел.
 1892 год — 97 чел.
 1902 год — 116 чел.

 1915 год — 235/13 чел.
 1926 год — 110 чел.
 1939 год — 216 чел.
 1989 год — 48 чел.

Будёновка
Село Будёновка впервые упоминается в Списке населённых пунктов Крымской АССР по Всесоюзной переписи 17 декабря 1926 г., согласно которому в Будёновке, в составе Тогайского сельсовета Карасубазарского района, числилось 15 дворов, из них 14 крестьянских, а население составляло 74 человека, все русские. В период с 1954 по 1960 годы Будёновка была присоединена к селу Заречье (согласно справочнику «Крымская область. Административно-территориальное деление на 1 января 1968 года» — с 1954 по 1968 годы).

Примечания

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Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Juan Cole, Common Dreams, June 04 2019:… Iran has not had a weapons program since 2002, and that program was rudimentary. The cult-like People's Jihadis (Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK) outed the program in that year, and the Iranian government mothballed it. The People's Jihadis are a small fanatical Iranian dissident group once hosted by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which has carried out large terrorist attacks. Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
The Iran Nuclear "Threat": Trump's Recycled Fake News
Mojahedin-e Khalq MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
If Trump Really Only Wants 'No Iranian Nukes,' Then He Should Just Rejoin the Nuclear Deal
Destroying the JCPOA will simply remove the restrictions on Iran's enrichment program, the opposite of what you would do if you don't want them to have weapons
Trump said in Japan that he is not looking for regime change in Iran.
Trump said at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister ABE Shinzo, "We aren't looking for regime change – I just want to make that clear. We are looking for no nuclear weapons. I really believe that Iran would like to make a deal, and I think that's very smart of them, and I think that's a possibility to happen. It has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership."
Trump breached the treaty the US and other members of the UN Security Council signed with Iran in 2015, which aimed precisely at forestalling Iran from having nuclear weapons.
Editors and journalists and US politicians seem perpetually confused about the difference between a civilian nuclear enrichment program and a weapons program.
Iran has not had a weapons program since 2002, and that program was rudimentary. The cult-like People's Jihadis (Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK) outed the program in that year, and the Iranian government mothballed it. The People's Jihadis are a small fanatical Iranian dissident group once hosted by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which has carried out large terrorist attacks.
So what Iran does have is a civilian enrichment program for producing fuel for its three nuclear reactors at Bushehr, built by Russia. These are light water reactors.
Uranium in nature comes mixed as U235 and U238. It is U235 that is volatile and useful as a fuel. But to run a reactor, the proportion of U235 in the uranium has be to increased to 3.5 percent. This is accomplished by putting the uranium in a centrifuge, gassifying it, and whirling it around so as to separate out the U235 from the U238.
This civilian nuclear enrichment for fuel is what Iran has been doing for the past 16 years. It is very different from making a bomb, which requires a whole set of other technologies.
Iran did enrich some uranium to 19.5 percent as fuel for a small medical reactor, to produce isotopes for treating cancer. That level is still considered LEU or Low enriched Uranium.
The problem with centrifuges is that they are potentially dual use. If you had enough centrifuges and could secretly keep feeding the ever more enriched uranium through them, you could eventually enrich to 95% to make a bomb.
You could also theoretically make a bomb with a heavy water reactor, and Iran had one planned at Arak.
So the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action closed off Iran's avenue to a bomb in four ways:
1. It is restricted to 6,000 centrifuges, so few that it would take a very long time to enrich uranium with them to bomb grade.
2. It is subject to regular UN International Atomic Energy Agency inspections. These inspections involve sophisticated technology that can detect the signature of plutonium or HEU (High Enriched Uranium). The equipment cannot be fooled, since the signatures are powerful and stay around.
3. Iran was forced to brick in its planned heavy water reactor at Arak. It isn't being built, though Iran is threatening to revive the project if it goes on being subjected to severe sanctions.
4. It had to cast its 19.5% enriched uranium stockpiles in a form that makes it impossible to further enrich them.
The CIA has never found any evidence since 2003 of Iran even wanting a nuclear weapons program, much less practically embarking on one. And the four restrictions of the JCPOA make it impossible to establish such a program as long as they are in place.
So if what Trump wanted was "no nukes," then he already had that in the form of the JCPOA, which he has tried to destroy!
Destroying the JCPOA will simply remove the restrictions on Iran's enrichment program, the opposite of what you would do if you don't want them to have weapons.
Iran did not mothball 80% of its enrichment capacity out of the goodness of their hearts. They did it because they were promised an end to international sanctions. Instead, Trump has ratcheted up the sanctions far beyond where they were in 2014.
Iran was screwed over by the US– it gave up its only deterrence card to forestall a US invasion and regime change. And then once that was done, the US slapped back on the sanctions at an even more powerful level.
There is almost no incentive for Iran now to remain in the deal. For Trump to go around the world forbidding other countries (including Japan) to buy Iranian oil is, contrary to what he says, an attempt to overthrow the government, which has been heavily dependent for its revenues on oil exports.
I suspect Abe Shinzo [Japanese put their last names first] told Trump all this, and he is probably carrying a message from Trump to Tehran next month. In the meantime, the Iranian economy is deeply hurting and Iran has little reason to make yet another deal with someone who lightly reneged on 3 years of work on the last one.
Juan Cole teaches Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His new book, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East (Simon and Schuster), will officially be published July 1st. He is also the author of Engaging the Muslim World and Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (both Palgrave Macmillan). He has appeared widely on television, radio and on op-ed pages as a commentator on Middle East affairs, and has a regular column at Salon.com. He has written, edited, or translated 14 books and has authored 60 journal articles. His weblog on the contemporary Middle East is Informed Comment.
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Pssst, Whisper It, Even Iran's Enemies Don't Want Regime Change
The MEK's dirty past includes the anti-Imperialist inspired murder of six Americans in pre-revolution Iran which it later celebrated in songs and publications
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/remember-mek-was-an-american-excuse-to-invade-iraq-ali-safavi-ncri/
Remember: MEK was an American excuse to invade Iraq
Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, May 31 2019:… Bush branded Iraq part of an "axis of evil" for harboring, financing and aiding terrorists Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK. Bolton's first encounters with the MEK took place in Iraq, where for a period it had aligned itself with Hussein's government, which was fighting a war with Iran. The Iranian opposition group Bolton was referring to in his New York Times opinion article is the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a controversial Paris-based political organization also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK . ( Also Ali Safavi NCRI )
Ali Safavi, commander of Saddam's Private Army, Mojahein Khalq NCRI Now writting as Dr. Safavi!!
Escalating Iran crisis looks a lot like the path US took to Iraq war
The U.S. military's guided bombs brought "shock and awe" to Baghdad in 2003 when American forces invaded Iraq 16 years ago to hunt for weapons of mass destruction. They never found any. Many observers, today, consider that war a failure.
Now, half of all Americans believe the U.S. will go to war with Iran "within the next few years," according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released in late May amid increased tensions between the two countries, longtime geopolitical foes.
The escalating Tehran-Washington crisis comes as the White House claims, without providing detail or public evidence, that Iran poses an increased threat to American forces and facilities in the Middle East – one year after Trump withdrew from an accord between Iran and world powers aimed at limiting Tehran's nuclear capabilities.
Trump's hawks: Bolton amps up Iran sabotage claims, desire for nuclear weapons
Is Iran doomed to be an Iraq redux? This is just one of the questions raised by a crisis that has eerie parallels to the missteps that led to the Iraq War in 2003, where the buildup to conflict was precipitated by faulty intelligence and confrontational foreign policymakers such as John Bolton in President George W. Bush's administration.
To make sense of what's happening now, here's what happened then:
Operation Desert Storm – the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War – came to an end 42 days after a U.S.-led offensive was launched in response to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's invasion of neighboring Kuwait. Iraq's dictator accused Kuwait and Saudi Arabia of conspiring to keep oil prices artificially low for western consumers. President George H.W. Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28, 1991, as Iraqi forces in Kuwait surrendered or fled back to Iraq. About 700,000 American service members were deployed to the Gulf for the short war; 383 were killed.
When President George W. Bush became president in 2001, Hussein was back on the agenda. "There were a number of people in the Department of Defense who wanted to pursue a certain policy course. I don't think they ever took their eyes off of Iraq," former CIA Director John Brennan said in a 2007 National Geographic documentary about the 2003 Iraq War. "There was still a great deal of residual feeling that we should not have stopped the first Persian Gulf War when we did, but rather continue into Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein," ex-Senator and ex-Florida governor Bob Graham said in the same documentary.
Among the figures Brennan and Graham were referring to: Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Bolton, who had worked as a lawyer for the Bush campaign to block recount efforts in Florida that led to state officials awarding the 2000 election to Bush over Democratic candidate Al Gore.
Bolton was a lifelong staunch conservative with hawkish views on foreign policy. For a start, he abhorred multilateralism. "There is no United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that's the United States," he said of the international organization in 1994, adding: "The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." Years later, Bolton's nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the UN was blocked because of his hardline views. He would also call for the U.S. to make pre-emptive strikes against North Korea.
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York City and Washington shifted the Bush administration's focus to hunting Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban had given shelter to the al-Qaeda's leader, who masterminded the attacks. But Iraq was also on the radar of the Pentagon's military planners, who feared that Hussein might try to support or orchestrate an equally, or worse, catastrophic assault on U.S. soil "We're also working to prepare our nation for the next war," Rumsfeld said at a briefing on Afghanistan in late 2001, referring to Iraq.
In January 2002, Bush branded Iraq part of an "axis of evil" for harboring, financing and aiding terrorists, and for its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Also members of the club: Iran and North Korea. These countries, Bush said, "are threatening the peace of the world." He cast aside more dovish voices in his cabinet who urged him to pursue a diplomatic path in Iraq, saying "we can't wait for the final proof, the smoking gun, that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
Around the same time, Bolton, then serving as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs in Bush's administration, was becoming a key player in pushing for a military confrontation with Iraq, saying in a BBC radio debate that he was "confident" that Iraq had "hidden" weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons and production facilities. "The U.S. has already decided the outcome of this story – Saddam will be left with no weapons of mass destruction – but how that point is reached is up to Saddam Hussein," Bolton said in the debate in London. He was also making unverified claims about other countries he wanted included in Bush's "axis of evil," testifying to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that Cuba was secretly developing a biological weapons program that could be used in warfare against American forces and civilian targets by "rogue states." Bolton provided no details when questioned. A subsequent Senate investigation found no evidence supporting his assertions.
In the months leading up to the Iraq War in 2003, Cheney appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" with a further warning: "The situation, I think, that leads a lot of people to be concerned about Iraq has to do not just with their past activity of harboring terrorists, but also with Saddam Hussein's behavior over the years and with his aggressive pursuit of weapons of mass destruction."
Despite not being able to produce clear "smoking gun" evidence of Hussein's "hidden" program to acquire weapons of mass destruction, Bush, buoyed by key advisors such as Bolton, opted for war with Iraq. When he was not able to get an express United Nations Security Council mandate to do so he pursued a "coalition of the willing" that included Australia, Britain, Japan, Spain and others.
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, Hussein spent nine months on the run before he was found hiding in an eight-foot-deep hole near his hometown of Tikrit. An Iraqi court convicted Hussein of crimes against humanity, for using deadly gas against Iraqi Kurds and other transgressions, and he was later executed by hanging. No evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was found. The war was viewed as a fiasco, not only of intelligence, but because it further destabilized the region, contributed to the formation of the Islamic State terrorist group and led to the violent deaths of more 200,000 Iraqi civilians and at least 4,500 American troops. It added more than $1 trillion to U.S. government debt. Iraq's economy, security and government remain in a fragile state.
In an opinion article in The Guardian in 2013, Bolton wrote: "Overthrowing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 achieved important American strategic objectives. Our broad international coalition accomplished its military mission with low casualties and great speed, sending an unmistakable signal of power and determination throughout the Middle East and around the world. Despite all the criticism of what happened after Saddam's defeat, these facts are indisputable."
Meanwhile, with the failed outcome of the 2003 Iraq War still plain to see, Bolton started ramping up his outspoken criticism of Iran's Islamic Republic. In 2009, as President Barack Obama's administration entered into what would turn out to be almost five years of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, Bolton said: "Ultimately, the only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran." As the deal entered its final stages, Bolton advocated in a New York Times opinion piece that the U.S. join forces with Israel: "Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed. Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran's opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran," he wrote. The articled was headlined: "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran."
Also troubling: The Iranian opposition group Bolton was referring to in his New York Times opinion article is the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a controversial Paris-based political organization also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK. Along with Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Bolton is long-time supporter of the exiled opposition group and has been paid to speak at its annual rallies. The MEK is often described by observers of its activities, including by humanitarian groups and even a U.S. government research document from 2012, as displaying "cultlike behavior." The MEK's reported abuses – vigorously denied to USA TODAY by its senior leadership who claim they result from a vicious and protracted "disinformation campaign" by Iran's clerical rulers – range from torture and forced celibacy to holding members against their will, sometimes in solitary confinement. The MEK says its critics are often spies for the Iranian regime. Bolton's first encounters with the MEK took place in Iraq, where for a period it had aligned itself with Hussein's government, which was fighting a war with Iran.
When Bolton joined the Trump administration as national security adviser in 2018, replacing seasoned former Army officer Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, he continued his public saber rattling and criticism of Iran by releasing a video on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution via the White House's official Twitter channel. In the video, Bolton calls Iran "the central banker of international terrorism" and accuses Tehran of pursuing nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them and of "tyrannizing its own people and terrorizing the world." The video ends with a direct threat to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader: "I don't think you'll have many more anniversaries to enjoy," Bolton says.
Iran's interest in nuclear technology dates to the 1950s, when it received help from a U.S.-backed program promoted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who wanted to share U.S. nuclear expertise with other countries for peaceful purposes, such as energy production. But after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and a U.S. hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran effectively ended relations between the two nations, U.S. intelligence agencies have long suspected, without explicit evidence, that Iran has attempted to use its civilian nuclear program as a cover for clandestine weapons development. Obama's 2015 nuclear accord was designed to prevent that and the UN's nuclear watchdog has repeatedly verified through inspections and other safeguards that Iran has been complying with the terms of the agreement, even after the U.S. withdrew from it and Washington re-imposed sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy. Bolton has regularly decried those inspections as ineffectual, believes the nuclear accord was a sham and has advocated for a far bolder Iran policy that aggressively addresses Iran's support for anti-American shia militias and Tehran's ballistic missile program.
Most Iran experts, political scientists and many U.S. lawmakers believe that it is this – Bolton's desire, like in Iraq, to confront Iran – that underpins a still-unexplained decision by the Pentagon to deploy warships, B-52 bombers and missiles to the Persian Gulf earlier this month in response to unspecified threats from Iran in the region. The U.S. also plans to send 900 additional troops to the Middle East and extend the stay of another 600 who are part of tens of thousands of others on the ground there. "The previous administration appeased the Islamic Republic of Iran. So we are pushing back. And when you push back, tension does increase," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, another Iran hawk in the Trump administration, said in response to efforts to get clarity over the moves.
In recent days, Bolton also has accused Iran of being behind a string of incidents in the Persian Gulf, including what officials allege was sabotage of oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and a rocket that landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, while Yemen's Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels launched a string of drone attacks targeting Saudi Arabia. Iran has mostly avoided addressing the allegations, although it has said it doesn't fear a war with the U.S. It has also signaled that its patience with the nuclear deal is wearing thin and threatened to resume uranium enrichment at levels higher than the accord permits. Speaking in Abu Dhabi, Bolton said Wednesday that there had been a previously unknown attempt to attack the Saudi oil port of Yanbu as well. "Who else would you think is doing it? Somebody from Nepal?" Bolton said that there was "no reason" for Iran to back out of the nuclear deal other than to seek atomic weapons.
As for Trump's position on Iran, nobody seems to know the president's mind, not even, perhaps, the president. Trump has oscillated between overtly aggressive rhetoric and seemingly conciliatory statements. "We have no indication that anything's happened or will happen, but if it does, it will be met obviously with great force," Trump said last week at the White House. While on a four-day visit to Japan, Trump denied he wants regime change in Iran and said it's not the goal. Some national security experts believe that Bolton's role in pushing for war with Iran has been exaggerated, and that his influence on the president has been overstated. Still, there have been few Iran-related denials from Bolton, although just hours after the publication of this story, Bolton told a group of reporters while on a trip to London: "The policy we're pursuing is not a policy of regime change. That's the fact and everybody should understand it that way."
Trump says he doesn't want war: Is Bolton driving the U.S. into a conflict anyway?
Inside Iran: America's contentious history in Iran leads to anger, weariness, worry
Ali Safavi MEK Spkesman: Am I a conman?
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/mojahedin-khalq-mekterrorist-commander-poses-as-a-human-rights-advocate-to-fool-the-financial-times/
Mojahedin Khalq (MEK)Terrorist Commander Also Ali Safavi poses as a human rights advocate to fool the Financial Times
Iran Interlink, December 12 2015:… Iranian exile Ali Safavi, who previously enjoyed infamy as a commander in Saddam's private army – the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) – and who is wanted in Iraq on charges of torture and murder, has now emerged as a 'human rights' blogger in the normally conservative Financial Times. Safavi's personal blog has …
Ali Safavi, commander of Saddam's Private Army, Mojahein Khalq
Now writting as Dr. Safavi!!
https://iran-interlink.org
Iranian exile Ali Safavi, who previously enjoyed infamy as a commander in Saddam's private army – the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) – and who is wanted in Iraq on charges of torture and murder, has now emerged as a 'human rights' blogger in the normally conservative Financial Times.
Safavi's personal blog has been reinvented as propaganda for the MEK by publishing it as article for its National Council of Resistance of Iran website – which curiously has no Farsi language on it whatsoever. This is the site the MEK uses when it wants to disguise its violent beliefs for Western audiences, posing instead as a political, now human rights, organisation.
When the MEK's main benefactor Saddam Hussein was removed from power in 2003, its leader Massoud Rajavi became a fugitive whose whereabouts are unknown. His wife, Maryam Rajavi claimed refugee status in Paris along with her former husband Mehdi Abrishamchi. Commander Safavi came along with them. They were quickly arrested on terrorism charges and are still under investigation. The rest of the organisation were left at the mercy of vengeful Iraqis who regard them as part of Saddam's repressive apparatus – his own private army – responsible for the deaths of 25,000 Iraqi civilians.
While the FT is free to publish a variety of views on Iran, the editors should be aware of the hypocrisy of this particular writer. The MEK is reviled by Iranians both inside and outside the country. (The MEK doesn't even try to pretend the NCRI represents any Iranian constituency and therefore doesn't need any Farsi on its website.) A blog by anyone associated with the MEK will certainly not enhance the reputation of the Financial Times, rather it will provoke contempt among right minded Iranians and negatively impact the already difficult work of genuine opposition groups who are advocating for their people.
Ali Safavi as the commander of Saddam's Private Army in Camp Ashraf Iraq
Daniel Zucker, Maryam Rajavi and ALi Safavi in Paris
Am I a conman? asks MEK Spokesman
Either I am right or you are wrong, there is nothing in between
Behind Struan Stevenson's book "Self Sacrifice
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/mek-doesnt-look-like-a-legitimate-group-mojahedin-khalq-mko-ncri-maryam-rajavi-cult/
MEK doesn't look like a legitimate group ( Ali Safavi Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, NCRI, Maryam Rajavi cult, …)
Iran Didban (From CODPINK), July 25 2018:… Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and national director Ariel Gold dropped in on MEK members in their Washington office, trying to meet with their officials. Ali Safavi, a senior member of MEK, surprised by the unexpected visit, did not let them in the office, saying, "go to our website". He went onto say that they were "not allowed to film this" or "I will call the police."…
Am I a conman? asks MEK Spokesman Ali Safavi. Either I am right or you are wrong, there is nothing in between
Ali Safafi Saddam's Private Army commander, wanted for war crime in Iraq now harboured and protected by CIA in Washington DC
MEK doesn't look like a legitimate group (Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, NCRI, Maryam Rajavi cult, …)
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and national director Ariel Gold dropped in on MEK members in their Washington office, trying to meet with their officials.
Ali Safavi, a senior member of MEK, surprised by the unexpected visit, did not let them in the office, saying, "go to our website". He went onto say that they were "not allowed to film this" or "I will call the police."
Benjamin said, "I think this organization is very secretive. This is the organization that John Bolton gets $ 180K from for speaking engagements."
She added, "It's the organization that Rudy Giuliani loves and says next year in Tehran. But they don't even answer our e-mails and phone calls or agree to meet with us."
"They don't even give us a booklet explaining what their organization is about. So it's very fishy. It doesn't look like a legitimate group to me."
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Secretive MKO (Mojahedin Khalq, MEK) Cult Member Refuses to Talk to Peace Activists in DC (+Video)
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Meet the Organization Pushing Regime Change in Iran—and Its Willing American Accomplices (Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult, MEK)
Christopher A. Preble, National Interest, July 17 2018:… Bolton skipped the meeting this year, but Giuliani's work on behalf of the organization has caught people's attention—and not for the first time. Daniel Benjamin, who coordinated counterterrorism efforts for the Obama administration explained to The Washington Post, "Plenty of us…found just the appearance of support for [an] organization that had American blood …
John Bolton – Defender Of Zion, Promoter Of MEK Terrorism – Fees Revealed
Will the U.S. media learn from when they supported the invasion of Iraq?
It is customary for pundits to lament how partisanship is destroying U.S. policymaking, but one area remains curiously bipartisan: Democrats and Republicans alike are quick to show their support for an organization publicly dedicated to regime change in Iran.
Late last month in Paris, for example, thirty-three senior U.S. officials and military officers, including Rudy Giuliani and former United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson, attended a meeting convened by the National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI), an offshoot of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) .
The MEK was founded in 1965 as a hard-left opponent of the secular Shah of Iran. They gained attention in the early 1970s for several acts of terrorism, including attacks against the Shah's primary patron, the United States. Civilians working for American companies operating in Iran in the 1970s, including Pepsi, PanAm, General Motors and Rockwell International, were all among the MEK's victims. Unsurprisingly, the MEK was listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 1997.
But, in recent years, the MEK has managed to rehabilitate its image. It switched sides after Saddam Hussein's overthrow in Iraq, hoping that the United States would perform a similar service in neighboring Iran. The MEK also successfully lobbied the Obama administration to be removed from the terrorist list. Today, the organization routinely feeds information to build support for regime change in Tehran.
This state of affairs is eerily reminiscent of a period in the late 1990s when a bipartisan coalition in Congress—responding to a concerted pressure campaign by Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan's Project for a New American Century—passed legislation calling for regime change in Iraq. The Iraq Liberation Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 31, 1998, also provided Iraqi exile groups direct financial assistance from the U.S. government. One of the leading beneficiaries of U.S. taxpayers' largesse was the Iraqi National Congress (INC). In 2004, the New Yorker's Jane Mayers concluded that the U.S. government steered more than $100 million to the group over a twelve-year period, with the Bush administration responsible for at least $39 million.
The INC and its leader, Ahmed Chalabi, proved to be one of the leading sources of false information that hawks deployed via a too-credulous media to build support for war with Iraq.
Years later, after U.S. troops had dislodged Saddam Hussein from power, and Chalabi and his cadre of followers were back in the country he had fled as a teenager, he famously boasted "we are heroes in error…What was said before is not important."
But Chalabi and the INC were more popular in Washington, DC than in Baghdad—or anywhere else in Iraq, for that matter. When Iraqis went to the polls in December 2005, his party secured only 0.5 percent of the vote.
So, to recap, U.S. taxpayers funded the organization whose primary objective was to feed misleading information about the nature of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. The resulting war claimed over 4,400 American lives and has cost, so far, $2 trillion , with some estimates of the eventual costs approaching $6 trillion. And Chalabi and his INC weren't able to implement the pleasing, pluralist, vision for Iraq, that they promised. Instead, many tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, and millions driven from their homes.
That doesn't seem like a very good return on investment.
The source of the MEK's funding is murkier, but the organization is flush with cash. MSNBC's Richard Engel determined that Bolton was paid $40,000 for one speech in 2017.Others report that speakers at MEK gatherings receive up to $50,000 per speech.
At last year's gathering in Paris, Bolton stated categorically "There is a viable opposition to the rule of the ayatollahs, and that opposition is centered in this room today." "The declared policy of the United States of America," he continued, "should be the overthrow of the mullahs' regime in Tehran."
Bolton skipped the meeting this year, but Giuliani's work on behalf of the organization has caught people's attention—and not for the first time. Daniel Benjamin, who coordinated counterterrorism efforts for the Obama administration explained to The Washington Post, "Plenty of us…found just the appearance of support for [an] organization that had American blood on its hands to be outrageous."
There is a tendency to dismiss the MEK as a fringe group. Ervand Abrahamian, a professor of Iranian history and politics at Baruch College, described it as "a cult organization." "It's like the Moonies," he said to McClatchy.
Except that the Moonies aren't trying to get the U.S. government to overthrow a foreign government, and John Bolton sits a few doors down from the President of the United States. Ahmed Chalabi would have lusted after the level of access that the MEK's Maryam Rajavi now has.
That means that Americans might have to rely on the news media to do its job. It could begin by questioning information provided by expatriate advocates of regime change in Iran.
When the New York Times reviewed its coverage of the Iraq War in 2004, the editorscalled out Chalabi by name as a source for many inaccurate or misleading articles. They noted that "information" in their stories "that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged." The worst instances "shared a common feature," the Times editors continued. "They depended at least in part on information from a circle of Iraqi informants, defectors and exiles bent on 'regime change' in Iraq."
Rob Reiner's feature film, "Shock and Awe, " tells the story of the Knight Ridder DC news bureau, one of the few outfits who, when presented with similar information from Iraqi exiles, and Bush administration officials, had the good sense to ask "Is it true?" Equally important, Knight Ridder reporters and editors dared to stand by their reporting when post-9/11 bloodlust cast full-throated support for the war as synonymous with patriotism—and skepticism as akin to treason.
Americans must wait to see which direction the U.S. news media will go in 2018, but I hope that they will be more like John Walcott, Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel, and Joe Galloway, and less like Judith Miller.
Christopher Preble is the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and blogs for The Skeptics at The National Interest.
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: We obtained never-before-seen footage of the MEK's secret base in Albania. The MEK is an Iranian opposition group with a history of terrorism. More recently it's paid thousands to @AmbJohnBolton & @RudyGiuliani. More tonight at 9PM ET @MSNBC @RichardEngel pic.twitter.com/teaGhQeVZy
— On Assignment with Richard Engel (@OARichardEngel) May 25, 2018
On MSNBC @OARichardEngel I explained that no decent American intelligence officer would say MEK is trustworthy because it is a Destructive Cult.
Examining how @AmbJohnBolton and @RudyGiuliani were paid to speak for Maryam Rajavi. pic.twitter.com/U83F12h5ko
— Massoud khodabandeh (@ma_khodabandeh) May 27, 2018
.@realDonaldTrump has always been a gambler and a showman. But now — with high-stakes bets from #Iran to #NorthKorea — he's gambling with US national security. #OnAssignment pic.twitter.com/y2E5xApnQx
MEK expert @joanne_stocker estimates that @AmbJohnBolton has been paid upwards of $180K by the group to speak at its events. Now he's in a position to advocate for it from inside the White House. @RichardEngel #OnAssignment pic.twitter.com/kxoi2FQ5dn
"It's pretty remarkable that a group with American blood on its hands — even if it is a former terrorist group — has contacts like @RudyGiuliani and @AmbJohnBolton," says former State Dept. counterterrorism official @Benjamin05055. #OnAssignment @RichardEngel pic.twitter.com/EfX2sYQkOl
Meet the MEK, a fringe Iranian opposition group with a history of assassinating Americans. Now it pays thousands to the likes of @AmbJohnBolton and @RudyGiuliani to speak at its events. @RichardEngel pic.twitter.com/08rFua1bPM
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The Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and Its Media Strategy: Methods of Information Manufacture
Iran Interlink, February 04 2015:… A review authored by Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh has been published in Asian Politics and Policy, Media Reviews. The article titled 'The Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and Its Media Strategy: Methods of Information Manufacture' looks at the MEK's historical manipulation of various media over thirty years …
ISIS supporter Maryam Rajavi attacks Obama
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A review authored by Massoud khodabandeh and Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) from Middle East Strategy Consultants has been published inAsian Politics and Policy, Media Reviews. (Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2015)
The article titled 'The Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and Its Media Strategy: Methods of Information Manufacture' looks at the MEK's historical manipulation of various media over thirty years. Other terrorist entities such as Al Qaida and ISIS have only recently shown themselves media savvy and have been able to create artificial reputations through exploiting both media and internet communications. In this review the authors demonstrate that the MEK has long pursued this propaganda strategy.
"… this overview seeks to demonstrate how and why, through a sophisticated and persistent media campaign, the MEK has created a place for itself on the Iranian political scene totally disproportionate to its capabilities and support base; and how from this aggrandized position the MEK has exerted a negative influence over Western opinion and policymaking toward the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and Iraq, which began long before and reaches far wider than its role in Tehran's nuclear dossier. Also, this review seeks to indicate that while this propaganda campaign has been highly successful for the MEK, it has been deliberately detrimental to the growth of a civil opposition movement in Iran as well as significantly affecting Western foreign policy toward the IRI in adverse ways.
"The MEK stands out as perhaps a unique example of a belligerent entity that exploits to the maximum a range of propaganda methods and outlets in the West to project itself in the international community as a constructive, almost benign, force. Far from avoiding publicity, the MEK has done everything in its power to maximize what can be described as its virtual presence. In addition to its native Farsi, the group disseminates information about and projects an image of itself in English, French, German and Arabic, in print, in broadcast and on Internet media. But insofar as it has no popular support among indigenous or diaspora Iranians, its image as a popular resistance movement has been largely invented."
Read the full article at:
Khodabandeh, M. (2015), The Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and Its Media Strategy: Methods of Information Manufacture. Asian Politics & Policy, 7: 173–177. doi: 10.1111/aspp.12164
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aspp.12164/full
Massoud Khodabandeh: America Must Make Its Underlying Intentions Toward Iran Clear
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), University of Baghdad: MEK's Western backers are complicit in their deaths
link to one of the Mojahedin Khalq songs
advocating terror and killing Americans
(In Persian)
Lets create another Vietnam for America(pdf).
(Mojahedin English language paper April 1980)
Letter to Imam (Khomeini) (pdf).
Some questions unanswered regarding the US military invasion of Iran (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper June 1980)
(Maryam Rajavi directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish people)
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Maryam Rajavi's protest is more about being left in the cold by Pompeo in Warsaw
Iran Interlink, February 09 2019:… Maryam Rajavi headed a 'protest' in Paris yesterday using paid participants to promote her regime change agenda against Iran. Rajavi is afraid of being overlooked by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Iran Action Group run from inside the State Department. Pompeo will hold a summit in Warsaw next week where it is predicted Iranian opposition…Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Pompeo, Bolton, And Iran's "Fake Opposition" (MEK, NCRI, …)
Muhammad Sahimi, Lobe Log, February 07 2019:… According to documents filed online by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the political arm of the MEK, Uskowi has repeatedly met with NCRI's Alireza Jafarzadeh. Iranians consider Jafarzadeh the "foreign minister" of the MEK leader, Maryam Rajavi. Bolton and Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, have been long-time lobbyists for the MEK, receiving large fees for their lobby…Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Watch Out The Problematic Case Of The MKO (MEK) In Europe!
Nejat Society, February 07 2019:… One of the fears expressed by many Iranians, people who detest the current regime but do not take active measures to overthrow it, is that because there is no clear alternative, they are afraid the West would interfere again and impose a regime they don't want, such as the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK)—the People's Mojahedin Organization of… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Untangling The Web Of The Saudi-Israeli-US Propaganda War On Iran
Behnam Gharagozli, Iranian.com, February 06 2019:… One manifestation of this trend is witnessing how the MEK was somehow transformed from a terrorist organization to a dissident Iranian organization after only a short time. This transformation from terrorist to dissident just so happened to occur after the MEK's base in Iraq was sacked (the MEK had been an ally of Saddam Hussein) and the… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Iranian diplomat and the alleged terror plot on MEK Gathering in Paris
Borzou Dargahi, Independent, February 05 2019:… MEK, a bizarre but influential Iranian political cult dedicated to overthrowing the government in Tehran. The group has cultivated strong ties to the Trump administration and others in Washington, as well as to Saudi Arabia, Iran's arch-nemesis. Several leading Trump administration figures including John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani spoke at the 30 June event, though neither… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Robert Azzi: America, Iran, Venezuela: Be afraid. Be very afraid
Robert Azzi, Concord monitor, February 03 2019:… Bolton is a longtime supporter of the Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK), a cultist Iranian dissident group that advocates for regime change in Iran. MEK, which was on our State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations from 1997 to 2012, is still suspected of the assassination of six Americans and the bombings of American companies in… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – February 01, 2019
Iran Interlink, February 01 2019:… As Pompeo's Warsaw summit approaches, the MEK are on overdrive spewing out lies. In Farsi they have been caught out over five times putting words in the mouths of EU officials etc. which are simply lies. Farsi reaction says that US warmongers and their puppets are panicking, especially after Europe's SPV announcement on trade with Iran… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Planned Anti-Iran 'Circus' in Poland A Waste of Time: Analyst
Press TV, February 01 2019:… the utilization of the MEK/MKO terrorist organization to assassinate Iranian scientists in Tehran, even as the United States maintains high-level public contacts with the MEK/MKO leadership in Albania; the co-optation of the Trump regime by Zionist forces which has facilitated the theft of East Jerusalem, the continued illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank, and Israel's… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Dutch: No evidence of Iran Involvement in the murder of "Reza Kolahi".
A spokesman for the Dutch prosecution service told the BBC: "We have two men in custody who are suspected of being involved in the death. The investigation has not led to any signs of involvement of Iranian authorities." The 56-year-old is suspected of being Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi, who was accused of planting a bomb that resulted in the deadliest attack… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
An Unholy Alliance: The Use of Terrorism According to John Bolton
Thierry Meyssan, Mint Press News, January 31 2019:… John Bolton's links with the MEK date back to the Bush administration. They were strengthened by his presence – for a price of 40,000 dollars – during their annual meetings at Villepinte (France), in 2010 and 2017. Having become the National Security Advisor, he now unites the jihadists from Daesh and the loyal… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Handling Of Iran Is Juvenile. Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) the darling of Trump Admin
Stephen Gottlieb, WAMC, Morning Edition, January 30 2019:… The MEK has been the darling of the Administration as a potential successor to the mullahs because they both dislike the Iranian regime. Never mind that the MEK objected when Khomeini decided to release the hostages, that it has been a terrorist organization and killed Americans. Never mind that it has no support… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
Aznar, Zapatero … The Other Politicians Financed By Terrorists (Mojahedin Khalq, MEK, Rajavi cult)
Nejat Society, January 30 2019:… In 2014, this organization (Mojahedin Khalq MEK MKO NCRI Rajavi cult …) financed the vast majority of the Vox campaign for the European companies led by Vidal-Quadras. The PP exec exempted did not obtain a seat and although the far-right formation directed by Santiago Abascal has affirmed that it was audited by the Court of Auditors,… Also Ali Safavi NCRI Mojahedin MEK and Iran Nuclear deal
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Will MEK Haunt Albania ?
BY Nejat NGO, 2020/01/22
Nejat Society, January 22 2020:... Albania backed the US attack to assassinate the Iranian general Qassem Soleiman, on the first days of January 2020. Whether Albania is a democratic country or not, it is now publicly supporting the terror of an Iranian official and advocating and sheltering the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) with a…
Albanians Pay The Price For Hosting MEK Terrorists
BY DW Deutsche Welle, 2020/01/22
DW, Deutsche Welle, January 22 2020:... The US and Albania reached a humanitarian agreement and in 2013, thousands of MEK members were resettled to the Balkan country. Indeed, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said following Khamenei's threats the resettlement resulted from his country's "unwavering alliance" with the US. Rama concedes that taking in the MEK members poses a risk for…
Facebook Twitter Host MEK – Ban Critics
BY Russia Today, 2020/01/19
Russia Today, January 19 2020:... Twitter removed state-backed media outlet Al-Alam News' account, as well as that of the popular Iran-backed Spanish-language media outlet HispanTV, only reinstating the latter after a massive public backlash. Dozens of individual Iranians who supported their government were also deplatformed on Twitter, while anti-government users – many linked to notorious exile terror group Mujahedin e-Khalq…
US Imposed MEK Terrorists Put Albanians At Risk
BY TRT World, 2020/01/16
Elis Gjevori, TRT World, January 16 2020:... In 2014, under US pressure, Albania took in more than 4,000 members [Correct number is 2100 - Iran Interlink] of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) a secretive group formerly based Iraq. "Albania is hosting one of the most dangerous terrorist organisations on behalf of the United States," says Dr Olsi Jazexhi, an…
MEK Bots In Albania Main Source Of Retweeting Donald Trump's…
Daniel Moattar, Mother Jones, January 16 2020:... Trump was bragging about his tweet in Persian being the most retweeted Persian-language tweet. But much of that retweeting happens by these bots, and through these online activist cyber armies like the MKO (Rajavi Cult, MEK, NCRI, ...) . Their activism, now, is basically tweeting. They have these halls of aging activists sitting behind computers and…
Nejat Society Newsletter No. 67
Nejat Society, Tehran, January 14 2020:... After the fuel demonstrations in Iran were quashed, Iran's right wing claimed the MEK was behind the violent unrest. The MEK also claimed they were behind it. Genuine opposition groups and demonstrators said they need to have the right atmosphere and conditions so that people can demand their rights without the interference of MEK,…
Trump Admin Walks Back Anti-MEK Memo
BY The Daily Beast, 2020/01/14
Betsy Swan, Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast, January 14 2020:... Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani—who the MEK hired to help it get off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist groups and who recently called the group "my MEK people"—welcomed the reversal. "[The MEK] is very supportive of a free…Iraq. It's run by a great woman who is committed to…
Voice Of America VOA or Regime Change Channel?
BY The Intercept, 2020/01/12
Lee Fang, The Intercept, January 12 2020:... VOA Persian now provides wall-to-wall positive coverage for hard-line regime change advocates. The network provides reliably favorable coverage of Mojahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, the militant opposition that has worked with Israeli intelligence to carry out assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, even providing a platform for Heshmat Alavi, a fake persona created by MEK. The network's journalists…
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James M. Dorsey, Euro-Asia Times, January 12 2020:... A litmus test of the directive by Mr. Pompeo, known to have a close relationship with Donald J. Trump, is likely to be whether the president's personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, distances himself from the controversial National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an offshoot of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a group that was taken…
Imprisonment of Ehsan Bidi in Albania against International Laws
Survivors of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi Cult) in Albania, January 12 2020:... Ehsan Bidi, with his background, according to international laws and standards, he is recognised as a refugee. But unfortunately, he has been arrested and his human rights and asylum rights have been violated. He had chosen to remain in your country in the hope of finding a better and…
Tectonic Shift In World Order After Unforced…
Massoud Khodanbandeh, Responsible Statecraft, January 09 2020:... In another reckless…
MEK defectors raise doubts over alleged Iranian…
Suddaf Chaudry, Middle East Eye, December 12 2019:... Gjergj Erebara,…
MEK Terrorist Cult Members In Albania Who…
Linda Pressly and Albana Kasapi, BBC News, Tirana, November 11…
Nobody Can Be "Comfortable" With Regime Change…
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, August 23 2019:... So, when Giuliani…
MEK Terrorists in Albania Complicating Edi Rama's…
Reza Alghurabi, American Herald Tribune, July 21 2019:... Listed for…
In Albania Shedding Light on Bizarre Behaviour…
Shaun Walker in Tirana, The Guardian, July 16 2019:... For…
Iran : Disinformation and Fake MEK Writers
Aljazeera News, June 17 2019:... As the Trump administration continues with its…
Bolton's Alternative is M.E.K. Mujahedeen Khalq
The New York Times, May 15 2019:... Bolton's Alternative is Mujahedeen…
Bolton's Plans For A False Flag Op…
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, May 14 2019:... MEK operatives, brought from Albania,…
Bolton Vs. Zarif On MEK
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, May 03 2019:... Hillary Clinton did not…
Mojahedin Khalq MEK Rajavi Cult Iranians in…
Borzou Dargahi, THE INDEPENDENT, Originally published September 28 2018:... An Iranian exile group…
Where Rudy Giuliani's Money Comes From (…
Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg, April 05 2019:... While in Warsaw, just outside…
International Liberty Association, MEK's so-called charity breaches…
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, March 14 2019:... A charity organisation registered in London…
Are The MEK And Regime Change Finally…
Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe log, March 09 2019:... Hommerich reported…
Prisoners of Their Own Rebellion.The Cult-Like Group…
Luisa Hommerich, Des Spiegel (Spiegel Online), February 19 2019:... Members of…
Spiegel: MKO (MEK IRAN) members in Albania…
Tehran Times, Febrauary 17 2019:... MEK IRAN - A German…
MEK (Led by Maryam Rajavi): Who is…
TRT, February 16 2019:... The MEK (Mojahedin Khalq, Maryam Rajavi cult)…
As Giuliani Calls for Regime Change in…
Robert Mackey, The Intercept, February 15 2019:... Off-stage, the U.S. president's…
MEK and other fake oppositions discrediting Iran's…
Hamid Debashi, Aljazeera, February 11 2019:... The atrocities of the Islamic…
Latest Testimony On The Murder Of An…
Nejat Society, February 11 2019:... A former member of the Mujahedin…
Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian…
Arron Merat, The Guardian, London, 09 november 2018:... When we spoke…
"Faking the online debate on Iran"(Mojahedin Khalq,…
Aljazeera, September 16 2018:... For all the accusations of disinformation and…