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Albanian Paper: Last of the Mojahedin Khalq arrived to Albania – USA thanks Albania

Yesterday the last 280 Mojahedin members from Camp Liberty, Iraq, arrived in Albania.

Senator McCain welcomed the completion of the mission of transferring the Mojahedin, and thanked the Albanian government.

“In 2003, the United States made a commitment to protect thousands of members of the Iranian dissident organization. Today marks the culmination of this commitment with the safe and successful relocation of all these Iranian dissidents in Albania.

“I express my deepest thanks to the Albanian Government for its hospitality and courage in its efforts to resolve the humanitarian crisis. Albania’s readiness to provide shelter for dissidents is a true testament to the spirit and values of the Albanian people”, he said.

The Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) is an Islamic movement founded in September 1965 to oppose the Shah of Iran and later to fight against the Islamic regime which came to power through violent revolution and murder in 1979.

The group moved to Iraq in 1986 and built Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border, after being granted refugee status by the then president Saddam Hussein.

Washington described the MEK as a terrorist organization in 1997 which had killed six Americans in 1970. In August last year, the United States removed it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.

The decision was taken by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who argued at the time that the Mojahedin had renounced violence and terrorist acts and worked for the closure of Camp Ashraf, after which the MEK engaged in violent protests with Iraqi security forces.

Shqiptarja, Tirana, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

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Vijnë muxhahedinët e funditSHBA falenderon Shqipërinë’Testament për vlerat e shqiptarëve’Çfarë janë muxhahedinët?

Dje kanë mbërritur në Shqipëri 280 muxhahedinët e fundit nga “Kampi i Lirisë” në Irak.

Senatori amerikan McCain ka përshëndetur përfundimin e misionit të muxhahedinëve, ndërsa ka falenderuar qeverinë shqiptare

“Në vitin 2003, Shtetet e Bashkuara ka bërë një angazhim për të mbrojtur mijëra anëtarë të organizatës disidente iraniane.

Sot shënohet kulmi i këtij angazhimi me zhvendosjen e sigurt dhe të suksesshëm të të gjitha disidentëve iranianë në Shqipëri.

I shpreh falënderimet e mia më të thellë të Qeverisë së Shqipërisë për mikpritjen e tij dhe guximin në përpjekjet e saj për të zgjidhur këtë krizë humanitare.

Gatishmëria e Shqipërisë për të siguruar strehim për disidentët është një testament i vërtetë për frymën dhe vlerat e popullit shqiptar’ shprehet ai.

Muxhahedinët (MEK) është një lëvizje islamike e themeluar në shtator të vitit 1965 për të kundërshtuar lëvizjen “shah” në Irak dhe më tej për të luftuar kundër regjimit islamik i cili erdhi në pushtet nga revolucioni i dhunshëm dhe i vrasjeve në vitin 1979.

Ky grup u vendos në Irak në 1986 dhe ndërtuar kampin Ashraf pranë kufirit iranian, pasi i është dhënë statusi i refugjatëve nga presidenti i asaj kohe Adam Hyseni.

Uashingotni e ka cilësuar si një organizatë terroriste pasi në 1997 vranë 6 amerikanë në vitin 1970. Në gusht të vitit të kaluar, Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës kanë hequr nga lista e organizatave të huaja terroriste, një grup muhaxhedinësh iranian të vendosur në Irak (Mojahedin-e-Khalq) ΜΕΚ.

Vendimi është marrë nga Sekretarja e Amerikane e Shtet, Hillary Clinton, i cili u argumentua në atë kohë me faktin se muhaxhedinët kishin hequr dorë nga dhuna dhe nga aktet terroriste dhe bashkëpunuan për mbylljen e kampit Ashraf, për shkak të të cilit ka pasur protesta të dhunshme me forcat e sigurisë të Irakut.

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

‘MKO was expelled from Iraq in disgrace’

Majed Ghamas, the representative of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council in Tehran, has said that the Iraqi nation disgraced the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) by expelling their remaining members from Iraq, Tasnim reported on Saturday.

The top Iraqi envoy described the MKO as one of the shadowy groups that sought to launch a new wave of terrorist activities in the region.

He said the MKO must stop their terrorist activities as they want to enter other countries.

“The MKO reminds Iraqi people of very painful memories. This is a mutual feeling between Iraqis and Iranians,” Ghamas said.

“Saddam, as the key sponsor of the MKO, was ousted and then the Iraqi government attempted to expel the terrorist group from Iraq, and today, with the Iraqi people’s support, the MKO has been expelled from the country,” he added.

The MKO has existed as an Islamist-Marxist group in Iran since 1965, when it fought against the former Shah of Iran. It performed a number of attacks against the United States soldiers stationed in Iran and then it was put on the U.S. State Department terrorist list.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the group resorted to bombings and assassinations. It then sided with the Saddam Hussein army the war against Iran in the 1980s.

Backed by the Saddam regime, the MKO launched a military attack on Iran in 1987, one week after UN Resolution 598 brought the war between the Iraq-Iran to a halt.

Iran accuses the group of being responsible for 17,000 deaths.

Saddam also used the group against Shias in the south and Kurds in the north.

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Albania

Last remnants of anti-Iran MKO terrorists relocated from Iraq to Albania

The last remaining members of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have been relocated from a camp in Iraq to Albania.

According to a Friday statement released by the terror group, the last 280 MKO terrorists were all flown to Albania after leaving Camp Liberty (Hurriya), a former US military base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

“This final round of departures marks the successful conclusion to the process of relocating members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) outside of Iraq,” it said.

The UN refugee agency also confirmed that all the remnants of the group had left the Arab country.

“The international community has now successfully achieved the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents from Iraq to third countries,” said William Spindler, the spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday.

Back on August 25, another 155 members of the group, including a number of its senior leaders, had fled Iraq for Albania.

Iraqi leaders had long urged MKO remnants to leave the Arab country, but a complete eviction of the terrorists had been hampered by the US and European support for the group.

The MKO, the most hated terrorist group among the Iranians, has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000, including many top officials, have fallen victim to MKO’s acts of terror.

The terror group fled Iran for Iraq shortly after the Islamic Revolution and began receiving support from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, while siding with him in his eight-year bloody war against Iran in the 1980s.

In December 2011, the UN and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province to Camp Liberty. Another group of the MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government in September 2013 and relocated to the camp to await potential relocation to third countries.

On August 4, Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Danaeifar said that the Iraqi government with the cooperation of the UN had expelled 65 percent of the MKO terrorists and the rest would be deported in the next 45 days.

There has also been a deep-seated resentment toward the group in Iraq both for its criminal past and its full support for Saddam in the brutal crackdown on his opponents.

The terrorist group, which has built a cult-like following, is also known for the brutal elimination of its own members over dissent.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Final group of Iranian dissidents leaves Iraq camp

BAGHDAD — A camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group in Iraq was officially closed after the last 280 residents were flown to Albania on Friday, the group said.

FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization seen inside the Liberty refugee camp in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iranian opposition group said Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 that a camp housing its members in Iraq has been officially closed after the last 280 residents were flown to Albania. The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq has been based in Iraq since the 1980s, when they received arms and support from Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. (Hadi Mizban, File/Associated Press)

The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq has been based in Iraq since the 1980s, when they received arms and support from Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. U.S.-led forces disarmed the group after the 2003 invasion and settled them at a base north of Baghdad.

Late Friday night a car bomb targeting a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad killed 11 people and wounded 28, according to police and hospital officials. Three Iraqi policemen were among the dead, the officials added.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the press.

The attack comes as Iraqi ground forces are moving into position around Mosul ahead of a planned operation to retake the militant-held city from the Islamic State group.

The Iranian opposition group, whose members who were flown out of Iraq Friday, was listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department for years over its killing of Americans. The MEK was also accused of taking part in the brutal suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam, allegations denied by the group.

The MEK says it renounced violence in 2001. The U.S. military in Iraq signed an agreement with the group in 2004, promising that members would be treated as “protected persons” under the Fourth Geneva Convention. The State Department removed the group from its list of terrorist organizations in 2012.

On Friday, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau thanked the governments of Albania and Iraq.

“We are grateful to the Government of Iraq for facilitating the departure of the MEK. And we are specially appreciative of the extraordinary efforts of the Albanian Government, the Albanian Prime Mister Rama, to welcome these people who are in need of international protection,” Trudeau said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon thanked member states and international organizations for “the successful resolution of this humanitarian issue,” in statement issued by his spokesman.

Iraqi forces raided Camp Ashraf, the group’s longtime base north of Baghdad, in 2009, shortly after U.S.-led forces handed over responsibility for the camp to the Iraqi government. The group was later relocated to a former military base in the capital.

Armed groups have repeatedly attacked the group since Saddam’s ouster, killing scores of its members.

While the casualty figures could often not be independently verified, the United Nations repeatedly expressed concern about the safety and security of residents of the group’s camps.

The group said last year that more than 20 members were killed in a missile attack on their camp, but the figure could not be independently verified and the MEK has made exaggerated claims to the media in the past.

By Qassam Abdul-Zahra , Associated Press writer Murtada Faraj contributed to this report.

September 10, 2016 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 160

++ Picketing took place in the city centre of Cologne by MEK formers who say the terrorist group is misusing the newly transferred people in Albania against their knowledge and will. They are unable to contact the outside world as the MEK is re-building its terror camp on the edge of the European Union. Its members are not being allowed to reintegrate into normal society as the UN/US backed agreement requires. People in Albania that Iran-Interlink has contact with say that in the past few weeks over twenty people have separated from the MEK, but that they are afraid to talk because they are convinced the MEK is an American force and that the Americans will harm them if they speak out.

++ Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Taghi Modaressi of Iraq was interviewed. The section in which he talked about MEK was translated by Habilian. In it he refers to the time of Saddam Hussein. He reveals that “they [MEK] kidnapped me and because they were working for Saddam they interrogated me. Even then I knew they were not themselves and I tried to help them come out of this atmosphere [of brainwashing] by talking about facts and logic. At one point my interrogator said ‘you are talking over my head. I have been with the MEK for 20 years and I don’t know anything about the outside world’. I posed the question for him ‘why not?’ After this he was replaced by other high ranking people like Abbas Davari who continued the interrogation.”

++ It is noticeable that in the last week the Saudis have dropped the MEK altogether and as much as the MEK is trying to support the Saudis in their websites, the Saudis are not giving anything back. Analysts say the Saudis have realised what a deep problem they made for themselves. From one side the leading Saudi religious leader has announced that Shias are worse than non-believers and Iranians are not Muslims and they should be killed. With this Wahhabi background they have recruited a group which claims to be Shia and is Iranian – it doesn’t match. On the other side the KSA is accused by the whole world of backing Daesh in Iraq and Syria. So that supporting a terrorist group like the MEK and putting its Marxist logo next to Daesh doesn’t match with that support either. In one way, openly supporting the MEK endorses and affirms their support for Daesh – they will not balk at using any terrorist group. The Saudis have backed away from supporting the MEK to the point that now it is Eid it has become apparent that Maryam Rajavi will not be invited to attend Haj as she had boasted some days ago. Instead, the Saudis have paraded some other Iranians to praise their royal leaders. Interestingly, Iran is translating all this propaganda into Farsi and insists it is done by the MEK. In this way Iran is using the MEK for its own benefit in this situation. The real problem for the Saudis after Ayatollah Khamenei’s recent speech is that they have lost the claim to be leader of the world’s Sunnis. In addition, their support for the MEK is backlashing badly now as some analysts compare the Saudis with Saddam. Saddam denounced Jews and Persians as the burden on humanity who should be killed. At same time, Saddam did host Massoud Rajavi as an Iranian Shia. Apparently the Saudis can’t even do this.

In English:

++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers asks ‘When is Rajavi’s turn?’. His analysis draws on several examples of cult leaders – from Israel, Britain and America – who have been prosecuted for polygamy and abuse of women. But the West – while it bemoans human rights abuses elsewhere – still apparently supports the MEK even though its leader Massoud Rajavi is accused of exactly these crimes.

++ Mehr News (Iran) reported Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi in response to the latest remarks of Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir against Iran, calling them ‘extremely repetitive and unfounded’. Ghasemi said ‘it is better for Saudi Arabia to make serious revisions to its approach to the region and to replace illusion with intellection’.

++ Tehran Times (Iran): Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, accused UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shahid of ‘embedding his latest report on the situation of human rights in Iran with a ‘pack of lies’ to present to the European Parliament. “In addition to the negative report drafted by the UN rapporteur, there are other pens depicting a gloomy picture of Iran, according to the Iranian official. ‘Saudi Arabia and the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (which Iran has designated as a terrorist group) have prepared material on Iran in tens of pages and under 400 articles so as to present their reports to the European Parliament’, said Rezaee.

++ Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters, ‘To Iranian eyes, Kurdish unrest spells Saudi incitement’. The article links accusations that Saudi is backing Kurdish opposition taking up arms against Iran.“(Saudi Arabia) gives money to any anti-revolutionary who comes near the border and says ‘Go carry out operations,’ Mohsen Rezai, the former head of the Revolutionary Guards said after one round of clashes, according to the Tabnak website. ‘When they ask, ‘Where should we carry out operations?’ they say, ‘It’s not important. We want Iran to become insecure’.” A further example is the Saudi backing for the MEK which was recently made public.

++ Arash Reisinezhad, The National Interest, ‘Saudi Arabia Wants to Roll Back Iran’. Efforts by Saudi Arabia to curtail Iran’s growing power and influence in the region is being pursued through Saudi support for Jihadi-Salafi groups and the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group.

++ An interview by Muslim Press with political commentator Yuram Abdullah Weiler in which he discusses the MEK. Weiler says “Washington uses the Mojahedin Khalq to fight a cover war against Iran”.

++ Iran-Interlink’s title says it all: ‘Rajavi’s lobbyist [French MEP Robert Rochefort] caught pleasuring himself in front of two teenage girls’, reported by The Express newspaper.

++ One of the families of the MEK hostages has written an Open Letter to the Foreign Ministry of Australia urging that the MEK not be removed from the country’s terrorism list when it comes up for review.

++ Rudaw (the Netherlands) writes that tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been fought out by proxy actors across the region, notably Syria and Yemen. Richard LeBaron from the Atlantic Council think tank told Rudaw “both countries have an interest in working toward stability and normal diplomatic relations”. Philip Smyth, a researcher at the University of Maryland, acknowledged that Riyadh is searching “for all types of allies it can use in campaigns to put pressure on Tehran”. Smyth describes Saudi support for the MEK as ‘pragmatic’ but says it shows ‘poor strategic planning in response to Iranian successes in Iraq and Syria”.

++ Mehr News (Iran) reports that Iran has arrested a twelve-member terrorist team backed by Saudi Arabia in the northeastern city of Sardasht wich was armed and planning terrorist attacks inside Iran. Press TV reported that Noam Chomsky, political activist and philosopher has accused the United States and its Western allies of knowing about but choosing to turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s support for terrorist groups. In a separate item, Press TV also quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghassemi saying that “The world has learned that Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism, the radical ideology freely preached in the Arab country, are to blame for the violent acts of extremism in the Middle East region and elsewhere”.

September 09 2016

September 10, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Mojahedin Khalq finally expelled from Iraq

The remaining members of an exiled Iranian opposition group based in Iraq for decades left on Friday for resettlement in Albania following several attacks on their camps in recent years.

More than 280 members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) living at Camp Liberty, next to Baghdad International Airport, departed from Iraq, the group said in a statement.

Under a deal brokered by the United States and the United Nations refugee agency, almost 2,000 dissident Iranians have been resettled in nearly a dozen European countries since the start of 2016.

Until a few years ago, PMOI, also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), was listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union.

The group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war with Iran in the 1980s but fell out of favour with Baghdad after he was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

A rocket attack claimed by a Shi’ite Muslim militia in October killed 23 PMOI members.

The group has offices in the United States and Europe.

The remaining Iranian dissidents in Iraq, who seek the overthrow of Iran’s clerical leadership established by the 1979 Islamic revolution, were disarmed after Saddam’s fall and later moved to Camp Liberty.

September 10, 2016 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Former members denounce the MKO cult in Koln

Former members who actively denounce the MKO destructive cult held a protest gathering in Koln, Germany on Saturday, September 3rd, 2016.

Participants at the rally declared their support for the MKO hostages’ families’ certain right of visiting their loved ones. Sympathizing with the suffering families, they urged the human rights bodies to facilitate their visit with their beloved family members.

They also warned Europe about the threat of the MKO destructive cult entry and spread through their states.

The MKO destructive cult is spreading throughout Europe as its members who are under severe Cult manipulations are entering Europe, ex-members reiterated.

Holding brochures and photos of the MKO Cult’s high-ranking members in Germany and France and also giving some information on their clandestine activities, former members sought to reveal the true face of the MKO destructive cult to the audiences.

Hundreds of brochures handed out to the visitors. The brochures included compendious reports on the terrorist activities of the MKO Cult, smuggling terrorists to Europe by fake identities, self-immolation of the Cult members in 2003, … .

In separate interviews at the end of the protest gathering, former members reiterated their support and sympathy to those who are taken as hostages and their families. They insisted that the members should be recognized and relocated as independent individuals rather than members of the MKO.

Former members denounce the MKO cult in Koln

September 8, 2016 0 comments

Australia

Iranpur Family pen letter to the Australia FM

Foreign Ministry of Australia

With respect,

We are members of the Iranpour family. We are an ordinary middle class family living in Shiraz in Iran.

We would like to bring to your attention that two of our brothers Mr Ahmadreza Iranpour and Mr Mohammadreza Iranpour left our country at the end of 2002 and went to Turkey. They were intending to go to Europe to build a better future for themselves. In Turkey however they were spotted by the Mojahedin Khalq smugglers and fell into their trap. These smugglers falsely promised to get them residency in Germany but instead took them to Iraq. They then sold them to the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO) as slaves. We were unaware of their whereabouts until 2003 when someone who had managed to run away from Camp Ashraf (Mojahedin Khalq terror camp given to them by Saddam Hussain) found out that our children are being kept captive at this place. From that day until now we have travelled to Iraq over 10 times hoping to see our captive family members. But this notorious terrorist violent group did not let us even have a simple visit with our loved ones. It is now clear that this organisation has changed deeply and is now a classic cult which does not allow the people trapped inside to have any contact with the outside world.

Our brothers Ahmadreza and Mohammadreza are no exception and are currently kept as slaves, in the dark, with no access to the outside world or access to the media or even their immediate family. That is why they do not let us or other family members have access to their children. We are not the only ones, many others have been taken by the MKO and now have no way out.

We would also like to add that this terrorist cult has been engaged in many terror and suicide operations in our country Iran. They are responsible for the death of tens of thousands of civilian people. We have witnessed their brutality in our city, Shiraz, first hand. There was a man living in our area who had a shop making frames. He did not have any position or relation with the government but they assassinated him simply because he was religious and looked religious. We have also witnessed the burning of busses by the Mojahedin Khalq operatives in our city in which women and children were burned to death. The father of one of our friends had a shop. He too was killed simply because he was a religious man. There are more examples within the area where we live in Shiraz and you can find information and statistics about many similar atrocities simply searching the internet.

We are one of the families who have two children taken away from us who are currently captive in the hands of this notorious cult. Our knowledge of this cult comes from first-hand experience. We would like to inform your good self about the truth after which the judgment will be yours.

With the hope for the freedom of all the trapped people in this violent cult and hope for peace and friendship.

Yours,

Iranpour family,September/ 6 / 2016

Abdolhossein Iranpour; father of Ahmadreza and Mohammadreza

Taherh Taghipour; mother of Ahmadreza and Mohammadreza

Mahmonir, Homa, Narges and Raheleh Iranpour; sisters of Ahmadereza and Mohammadreza

September 7, 2016 0 comments

Albania

Albanian Government gives 1.8 million Leks to buy smartphones and laptops for mujahideen

The arrival of the mujahidin, or asylum seekers in Albania found the reception center in Babrru, Tirana, “unprepared”.

The Interior Ministry opened a tender for the purpose of buying smartphones and laptops for this center, and it is not known why these devices.

According to the documents available to the Albanian newspaper Shqip, the National Reception Centre for asylum seekers has opened the tender tittlet “Purchase of equipments and office products.”

The limit fund is 1.84 million leks and the duration of the contract or time limit for completion is 10 days from the date of the signing of the contract.

In the anticipation of the status of asylum procedures, the mujahideen will stay for several months in the camp and then accommodated in flats on the outskirts of Tirana, set by the Albanian Government and organizations for their protection.

Based on the agreement with the US, in the coming weeks is expected to arrive in Albania hundreds of other mujahideen. They are already in the process of integration in our society

ocnal.com

September 7, 2016 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult defectors take action in Germany

Former members who actively denounce the MKO destructive cult held a protest gathering in Koln, Germany on Saturday, September 3rd, 2016, Zanan-Iran Website reported.

They also warned Europe about the threat of the MKO destructive cult entry and spread through their states.

The MKO destructive cult is spreading throughout Europe as its members who are under severe Cult manipulations are entering Europe, ex-members reiterated.

September 6, 2016 0 comments

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