Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri and Hamed Sarrafpour, former leading MEK members, were married in Iran in October.Members of the MEK Cult are deprived by the cult leaders of their most basic rights such as marriage, having child, maternal love and family life as they contradics the Cult’s so called ideology.
Caleb Maupin is a political analyst from New York City and is an activist with the International Action Center and Workers World Party. He has worked against police brutality and mass incarceration.
The forgotten history of a group of “Iranian dissidents” being promoted in Western media shows the hypocrisy 
of the so-called “War on Terror.”
The Associated Press published an article entitled “Iran Dissident: Tehran Continues Nuke Arms Work” earlier in October. The piece quoted Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) members, who insist that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
The claims are rather fantastic, as the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have always declared extreme opposition to nuclear weapons, and endless inspections from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirm that Iran is not pursuing them. Iran has every right, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to pursue peaceful nuclear energy. These facts are largely unknown to the US public, and absent from discussion of Iran in the mainstream press.
The AP’s news report is not the only place the MEK has been given such polite treatment in the Western press. On September 17th, when the French government dropped money-laundering charges against the organization, the headlines reporting the case continued to refer to its members as “Iranian dissidents.” The articles in Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal contained nothing about what this “Mujahadeen-e-Khalq” organization is – or what kind of activities it has engaged in.
The most extreme example of hypocritical treatment for this organization comes from Murdoch-owned, ideologically neoconservative FOX News. FOX News hosts and commentators are known for stirring up rumors of US President Barack Obama’s alleged links to Marxism and Islamic radicalism. Recently, FOX News host Megyn Kelly interviewed Professor William Ayers, demanding to know why he wouldn’t “take responsibility” after she listed various terrorist acts she claimed he was involved in. Kelly also recently berated Ward Churchill, Native American Professor at the University of Colorado, claiming words he wrote in a 2001 essay emotionally harmed the families of 9/11 victims.
However, on June 16, FOX News anchor and senior correspondent Eric Shawn sat down across from an actual, self-proclaimed “Islamic Marxist” named Maryam Rajavi, who is linked to the death of thousands of innocent civilians in Iran, as well as many Americans, who were killed by the MEK in the last few decades. While facing this real life, violent terrorist extremist, the FOX anchor threw softballs. He allowed the spokesperson for MEK to spew her rhetoric against the Iranian government without interruption. In his questions, Shawn even compared Rajavi to the resistance forces that fought the Nazis.
If cable news viewers and consumers of US print media knew who these “Iranian dissidents” actually were, they would begin to ask some serious questions about US foreign policy.
What is the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq?
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (People’s Army of God) organization was founded in the 1960s as a student group opposed to the Shah. It eventually began work toward achieving its aims with isolated acts of violence such as assassinations, bombings, and kidnappings. Its beliefs included a bizarre mixture of Islam and Marxism. One of the group’s primary beliefs is in the brilliance of its founder and leader, Massoud Rajavi, who is worshipped in a cultish manner. At recent rallies in France, for example, placards carried by MEK members contained the simple slogan “Massoud Rajavi Is Our Leader.” Massoud Rajavi’s location is unknown, and he has not made a public appearance since 2003. Rajavi’s spouse, Maryam Rajavi, now acts as the primary public representative of the group.
In its early years, MEK primarily targeted people from the United States. The group attempted to kidnap the US ambassador to Iran. It carried out an attempted assassination of a US Air Force General. In 1976, the organization attacked a car and killed the three American hotel employees inside. These terrorist acts were done in the hope of damaging the US backed Iranian monarchy.
However, it was not the isolated acts of adventurist violence from MEK members, but a rather broad explosion of popular resistance that toppled the US-backed Shah in 1979. After Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, when it became clear that the MEK would not become the new ruling party, the organization responded with a vicious bombing campaign against the new government. In 1981, the group bombed a meeting of the Iranian Republican Party, killing 72 people, including many high-ranking government officials.
During the Iraq-Iran War, the group became very friendly with Saddam Hussein. With money pouring in from the Iraqi regime, the group formed an armed outfit called the “Iranian National Liberation Army.” They went through Iran committing war crimes, hoping that they could secure victory for the US-backed Iraqi invaders that used chemical and biological weapons against Iranian civilians.
In one particularly brutal war atrocity, the MEK group killed nearly all the residents of a village called Islamabad-e Gharb. The group staged this cowardly attack on July 26th, 1988 – six days after Imam Khomeini had announced he was accepting a ceasefire with Iraq.
The number of innocent civilians slaughtered by the MEK or its various front groups such as the Iranian National Council of Resistance, is likely to be in the tens of thousands, if you include the number of civilians killed during the bombing campaigns, the number of people MEK linked groups slaughtered during the Iraq-Iran War, and the number of victims of MEK terrorism against Iran throughout the 1990s and up to today. Human Rights Watch has issued condemnations of the group for routinely torturing those it holds captive.
The internal workings of the group are equally frightening. A Human Rights Watch report from 2005 describes how, within its various bases and camps, the group subjects members to summary execution for violations of its bizarre regulations and practices. According to ex-members of MEK, it functions as a very dangerous cult. All members are required to divorce their spouses, as family life is considered a distraction from the cause of overthrowing the Iranian state. The words of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are interpreted as divine and infallible, and members are encouraged to seek martyrdom to advance the ideological and religious goals.
The coddling of dangerous extremists
Frequently, Iran is declared to be a “state sponsor of terror” by US officials and media outlets. However, it is leaders of the United States that are currently promoting the cause of the dangerous and violent MEK.
Hillary Clinton played an important role in removing the group from the official state department list of “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.” Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, promotes its cause by acting as MEK’s spokesman. Tom Ridge, former head of the Department of Homeland Security, has played a similar role for the group. Very few US media commentators have highlighted the irony of “America’s Mayor” embracing a group of “Islamic Marxist” militants – and the truth about MEK and its relationship with figures in Washington DC is largely unknown.
Occasionally, US officials will try to justify the coddling of this group of violent extremists with vague claims that it “renounced violence.” However, the group is very open about continuing its armed underground activities inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. Reports indicate that it was members of MEK, in cooperation with the Mossad that assassinated scientists working on Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program in 2012.
While MEK denies it works with the Israeli government, a fact that should shatter the credibility of anyone claiming to be an “Islamic Marxist,” the truth was leaked to NBC by the Obama Administration.
The US press largely treats MEK like romantic pacifist freedom fighters. In her interviews, Maryam Rajavi seems frighteningly confident that she will be successful and her organization will someday come to power.
In her interview with FOX’s Shawn, she said, “I am confident the mullah’s religious dictatorship will not last and will be overthrown.” In the interview, a woman who oversaw the slaughter of thousands compared herself to Jefferson, Lincoln, and even pacifist civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. FOX’s Shawn sat in front of her nodding, never questioning her words or intentions.
If one looks at Libya after the US/NATO “regime change,” or the state of Syria after four years of US-funded civil war against the government, it should be clear what “regime change” in Iran will mean. The fact that the US media is openly promoting extremists like MEK – and their fantastic claims about nuclear weapons – should be a warning call to all who would support US efforts in the region.
The promises from US officials of “stability” made before the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, or the overthrow of Gaddafi, never materialized. Instead, the various US- and NATO-installed collaborators and extremists turned their guns against each other. With chaos and destruction in the region, the US and Israel remained secure in their control of the oil profits and world markets.
The poster children for the US/Israeli crusade against the Islamic Republic, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are hardly capable of bringing peace and stability. The MEK is much like ISIS in Syria, or the US-backed insurgents in Libya. They are bloodthirsty extremists who would destroy Iran’s existing stability and independent economic development, replacing it with chaos, destruction, and death.
The promotion of such extremists, who unleash violence and chaos, fits perfectly with the realpolitik strategy laid out by former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski: “Maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” (Zbigniew Brzezinski “The Grand Chessboard,” p. 40)
The program of the United States and Israel for the Middle East is permanent civil war, chaos, and death. Part of implementing this program is the rallying cry of “regime change in Iran,” and the promotion of violent terrorists who oppose the Islamic Republic.
Caleb Maupin,
Scores of former members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) will return to Iran following the complete collapse of the terrorist group in Iraq and after being pardoned by the Islamic establishment.
Legal procedures are underway for the return of the breakaway members of the terrorist group while a large number of others are in line to be forgiven by the Islamic Republic.
The list of the penitent members of the MKO was handed over to the special envoy of the UN Secretary General and they will be back to Iran in a near future.
Following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq (2003) which ended military and spying cooperation between MKO and Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, waves of the dissident members of the terrorist group felt deep remorse and fled its main camp in northern Iraq especially after repeated demands of their Iran-based families during the past 12 years. The trend has eventually led to the complete collapse of the anti-Iran group.
MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s. In 2009, Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km north of Baghdad – and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.
MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, 12,000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.
MKO has no public support among Iranians also because of its role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
It is not merely hyperbole when it is said the US created terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda or the so-called “Islamic State.” It is documented fact. The current conflict in the Middle East may appear to be a chaotic 
conflagration beyond the control of the United States and its many eager allies, but in reality it is the intentional, engineered creation of regional fronts in a war against Iran and its powerful arc of influence.
It is not Western policy that indirectly spurs the creation and perpetuation of terrorist organizations, but in fact, direct, intentional, unmistakable support.
This support would manifest itself in perhaps the most overt and bizarre declaration of allegiance to terrorism to date, US Army General Hugh Shelton on stage before terrorists of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) and their Wahabist counterparts fighting in Syria, hysterically pledging American material, political, and strategic backing. MEK was listed for years by the US State Department as a foreign terrorist organization, but has received funding, arms, and safe haven by the United States for almost as long.
General Hugh’s speech titled, “Making Iranian mullahs fear, the MEK, come true,” was most likely never meant to be seen or fully understood by Americans. In titled alone, it is clear that US foreign policy intends to use the tool of terrorism to exact concessions from Tehran. If the true nature of America’s support for terrorist organizations like MEK were more widely known, the current narrative driving US intervention in Iraq and Syria would crumble.
MEK Has Killed US Servicemen, Contractors, and Iranian Civilians For Decades
MEK has carried out decades of brutal terrorist attacks, assassinations, and espionage against the Iranian government and its people, as well as targeting Americans including the attempted kidnapping of US Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, the attempted assassination of USAF Brigadier General Harold Price, the successful assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Lee Hawkins, the double assassinations of Colonel Paul Shaffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Turner, and the successful ambush and killing of American Rockwell International employees William Cottrell, Donald Smith, and Robert Krongard.
Admissions to the deaths of the Rockwell International employees can be found within a report written by former US State Department and Department of Defense official Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. on behalf of the lobbying firm Akin Gump in an attempt to dismiss concerns over MEK’s violent past and how it connects to its current campaign of armed terror – a testament to the depths of depravity from which Washington and London lobbyists operate.
To this day MEK terrorists have been carrying out attacks inside of Iran killing political opponents, attacking civilian targets, as well as carrying out the US-Israeli program of targeting and assassinating Iranian scientists. MEK terrorists are also suspected of handling patsies in recent false flag operations carried out in India, Georgia, and Thailand, which have been ham-handedly blamed on the Iranian government by the United States and Israel.
MEK is described by Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh as a “cult-like organization” with “totalitarian tendencies.” While Takeyh fails to expand on what he meant by “cult-like” and “totalitarian,” an interview with US State Department-run Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty reported that a MEK Camp Ashraf escapee claimed the terrorist organization bans marriage, using radios, the Internet, and holds many members against their will with the threat of death if ever they are caught attempting to escape.
US Has Been Eagerly Supporting MEK Terrorists For Years
Besides providing MEK terrorists with now two former US military bases in Iraq as safe havens, the US has conspired to arm, fund, and back MEK for years in a proxy war against Iran.
Covert support for the US-listed terrorist group Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) has been ongoing since at least 2008 under the Bush administration, when Seymour Hersh’s 2008 New Yorker article “Preparing the Battlefield,” reported that not only had MEK been considered for their role as a possible proxy, but that the US had already begun arming and financing them to wage war inside Iran:
The M.E.K. has been on the State Department’s terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of the newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well end up in M.E.K. coffers. “The new task force will work with the M.E.K. The Administration is desperate for results.” He added, “The M.E.K. has no C.P.A. auditing the books, and its leaders are thought to have been lining their pockets for years. If people only knew what the M.E.K. is getting, and how much is going to its bank accounts—and yet it is almost useless for the purposes the Administration intends.
More recently, the British Daily Mail published a stunning admission by “US officials” that Israel is currently funding, training, arming, and working directly with MEK. The Daily Mail article states: Seymore Hersh in an NPR interview, also claims that select MEK members have already received trainingin the US.
U.S. officials confirmed today that Israel has been funding and training Iranian dissidents to assassinate nuclear scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Washington insiders confirmed there is a close relationship between Mossad and MEK.
In 2009, an extensive conspiracy was formulated within US policy think-tank Brookings Institution’s 2009 “Which Path to Persia?” report, proposing to fully arm, train, and back MEK as it waged a campaign of armed terror against the Iranian people. In their report, they openly conspire to use what is an admitted terrorist organization as a “US proxy” (emphasis added):
“Perhaps the most prominent (and certainly the most controversial) opposition group that has attracted attention as a potential U.S. proxy is the NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), the political movement established by the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). Critics believe the group to be undemocratic and unpopular, and indeed anti-American.
In contrast, the group’s champions contend that the movement’s long-standing opposition to the Iranian regime and record of successful attacks on and intelligence-gathering operations against the regime make it worthy of U.S. support. They also argue that the group is no longer anti-American and question the merit of earlier accusations. Raymond Tanter, one of the group’s supporters in the United States, contends that the MEK and the NCRI are allies for regime change in Tehran and also act as a useful proxy for gathering intelligence. The MEK’s greatest intelligence coup was the provision of intelligence in 2002 that led to the discovery of a secret site in Iran for enriching uranium.
Despite its defenders’ claims, the MEK remains on the U.S. government list of foreign terrorist organizations. In the 1970s, the group killed three U.S. officers and three civilian contractors in Iran. During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, the group praised the decision to take America hostages and Elaine Sciolino reported that while group leaders publicly condemned the 9/11 attacks, within the group celebrations were widespread.
Undeniably, the group has conducted terrorist attacks—often excused by the MEK’s advocates because they are directed against the Iranian government. For example, in 1981, the group bombed the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, which was then the clerical leadership’s main political organization, killing an estimated 70 senior officials. More recently, the group has claimed credit for over a dozen mortar attacks, assassinations, and other assaults on Iranian civilian and military targets between 1998 and 2001. At the very least, to work more closely with the group (at least in an overt manner), Washington would need to remove it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.”
Besides US Army General Hugh Shelton, other prominent US politicians to literally stand before crowds of baying MEK terrorists and their supporters include former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Howard Dean, Tom Ridge, John Lewis, Ed Rendell, former ambassador John Bolton, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, retired General Wesley Clark, Lee Hamilton, former US Marine Corps Commandant General James Jones, and Alan Dershowitz. US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi would also stand in front of MEK terrorists to deliver to them an Iranian New Year “greeting.”
Blind Lust for Global Hegemony is Leading America Over a Cliff
What it says about American foreign policy, to trick US servicemen and women into dying in far off lands to “fight terrorism” when US politicians in the highest positions of power openly pledge support to terrorism – using it as a battering ram against its enemies abroad, and failing to topple them by proxy, using their own terrorist hordes as a pretext for direct military intervention to do so – is that such policy is underpinned by nothing more than blind lust for power, wealth, and influence in senseless pursuit of global hegemony. There is no guiding principles of peace, stability, democracy, freedom, or any confining principles of humanity that prohibit US foreign policy from exercising the most abhorrent practices in order to achieve its goals.
Failure to identify these interests blindly chasing hegemony at the cost of global peace and prosperity leads not only America over a cliff into a ravine of madness, but the entire world as well. That a US general can stand before terrorists even as the US bombs two nations in the name of fighting terrorism, is but a glimpse into this madness.For America and the Western aligned nations and interests caught in its orbit, there is no future. Chasing hegemony for the sake of hegemony alone leaves no room for actual progress. When anything and everything obstructing the path to hegemony is seen as an “enemy” to be destroyed by any means necessary, that includes setting aside resources and attention to solving some of the most pressing issues of our time – health care, infrastructure, education, better jobs, peace, and prosperity. All of these are seen as obstacles toward hegemony, and the very same interests standing before MEK terrorists pledging America’s resources to their campaign of terrorism against Iran, are the same interests calling for and implementing austerity upon the American people to continuously fuel its foreign adventures.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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Why would you have solidarity with a terrorist cult?
Dear Mr. Ryszard Czarnecki , MEP,
Dear Mr Czarnecki,
I was an active member of the Mojahedin Khalq under the leadership of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi for nearly 30 years. I was condemned to execution by the Islamic Republic of Iran but managed to run away from prison. While I was in the MEK, I was imprisoned for 6 months charged with criticising and objecting to the undemocratic policies of the leadership of this cult. I was subjected to physical abuse and torture more than 40 times. In France (where I now reside), which is famous for its culture of supporting freedom of speech, I was attacked twice by the commanders of the Mojahedin Khalq during a meeting aimed at exposing the true nature of this group.
Dear Mr Czarnecki,
As you are aware, there are still more than 2800 members of this organisation in a temporary transit camp called Camp Liberty in Iraq. The situation of Iraq is clearly a seriously dangerous situation. The commanders of the MEK under the order of Maryam Rajavi refuse to allow the stranded people to have interviews with the international bodies such as the UNHCR and IRIC so that their exit from Iraq could be facilitated. These facts are clearly laid out in the reports given out by the special representatives of United Nations and the Special appointee by the US State Department to facilitate the exit of these people to outside Iraq. Your country’s ambassador to the UN certainly knows all about these issues. It is now about 3 years that the families of these people are presenting themselves at the gates of this camp, but the leaders of the MEK, under the direct orders of Maryam Rajavi, refuse to allow them to have even a short visit with their loved ones. Some of these families have not seen their loved ones for 20 to 30 years.
Dear Mr Czarnecki,
You are aware of the Great Purge conducted by Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have turned the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation into a destructive cult. The existing organisation is exactly like the NKD of Stalin. Massoud Rajavi in his internal meetings has over and over referred to the crimes of Stalin as «revolutionary actions». I can tell you clearly that Stalin is a role model for the Mojahedin Khalq leaders and Massoud and Maryam Rajavi themselves. Many disaffected members have been arrested, imprisoned and interrogated on the direct order of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Many of my own close friends who refused to submit and continued with their criticism and objection, have been killed by direct order of the leader. Massoud Rajavi, exactly like Stalin, has personally signed the death sentence of these critics himself. And may I remind you that these execution orders have been signed by the leader of the Mojahedin Khalq in the 21st century, simply because of criticism and objection to the cult practices of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation.
The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation deliberately misinform you and deliberately misuse your humanitarian sentiments. They are deliberately lying to you. That is why I would urge you to accept a meeting with me so that I have the opportunity to explain and provide evidence and documents. If Stalin was for Freedom and Democracy, then Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are also for Freedom and Democracy.
Yours faithfully,
Mohammad Karami, Paris, October 16 2014
++ An article by Mojtabah Rashidi explains why Rajavi now knows that the new government of Iraq is no different from the previous one as far as the MEK is concerned. Rashidi says it is ridiculous that Rajavi believes he can create a new Vatican by having Camp Liberty guarded by UN blue helmet peacekeepers as though that would automatically make it an independent enclave. Shortly after this article was published, the Head of UNAMI, Nickolay Mladenov, announced that the new Iraqi government has introduced a plan to speed up deportation of the MEK. Some days later, the MEK published some pdf files – which it claims are from inside the Iraqi government – purporting to show that Iran and Iraq are eavesdropping on MEK conversations and phone calls, etc. A couple of analysis about this situation demonstrate why the pdf files are clearly false. Three documents allegedly from the same office all have different logos and page headings and there are no signatures or stamps on them, which is not what government documents look like. One of them is also half in Farsi. Website Mojahedin.com commented that ‘as a terrorist organisation, did Rajavi expect the Iraqis wouldn’t follow what you are doing, or did you imagine in your dreams that the MEK is the government of Iraq and the government of Iraq is a terrorist organisation?!’ And that ‘after all his cries of victory when it was formed, Rajavi has now given up on the new government being any different. [Editor: Had Rajavi been reassured by agencies trying to manipulate the make-up of the new government, but whose plans failed?]
++ Shahpour Bastansiah, an orchestral conductor, announced his defection from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI aka MEK) last week. J. Saalvar found and exposed the names of two other NCRI members who have left but who didn’t make their decision public; they are Morteza Barjasteh and Mohammad Shams, both artists. After these three defections, Rajavi and the MEK held a new session with remaining NCRI members during which they were both placated and reprimanded. The NCRI proclaimed ‘there is a difference between those who leave legitimately and mercenaries. The NCRI accepts that people leave if they do it legitimately. We will not conduct character assassination if, firstly, you leave without saying anything at all about anyone or anything. (A hint to Bastansiah to keep quiet.) Secondly, only leave according to a programme made for you by the MEK which will tell you the right time and place and will coach you how and when to leave. Several reactions in Farsi commentary say this lowering of expectation is an indication of the collapse of the NCRI, that it doesn’t matter who is in or out of it, what matters is no one should expose the internal situation.
++ Hanif Heydar Nejad, an internal critic of the MEK, wrote a short article questioning ‘now that Daesh is only 10 km from Baghdad airport, what is Rajavi’s policy and what action will he take, or is he keeping his fingers crossed that the MEK all get killed by Daesh?’ Massoud Khodabandeh is visiting Baghdad and will publish a full report after concluding his meetings this week. In the meantime, he posted on his Facebook that with two car bombs in Baghdad and Daesh so close to the airport where Camp Liberty is situated, it is interesting that Massoud Rajavi has sent a message to MEK commanders at the camp saying that he has been reassured (he didn’t say by whom), that ‘Daesh will not interfere with our camp when they overrun the area’. It is surprising because no one in Baghdad has any doubt that Rajavi’s endgame is to kill all the residents of Camp Liberty.
++ Fars News reporting from the Frankfurt Book Fair, in which the IRI participated, published pictures of the MEK placing anti-Iran pickets in tents outside. The report says, ‘this time there were no logos of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi’. Fars commented that this was probably the first time the MEK have accepted to do this, and we hope it is just the start of them getting rid of the leadership and their logos and becoming a normal organisation.
++ Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri and Hamed Sarrafpour, former leading MEK members, were married in Iran last week. A week before, another famous defector, Ali Khatami, got married. People congratulated them and say these marriages are Rajavi’s worst nightmare because they contradict his rotten ideology.
++Iraq based Sahar Family Foundation published a short article about Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad. Since the time he left and owing to the vicious character assassination conducted against him by Massoud Rajavi there has been a growing awareness inside Camp Liberty of the mismatch between the person they knew and these attacks, which has led many to reject them. Rajavi has been forced to perform some damage limitation. He has now issued several messages which, while still attacking Hossein Nejad, backtrack on the more vicious lies.
In English:
++ IRNA reports: A professor in Rome University and Chairman of World Study Institute Nicola Pedde, who has written a book about the activities of MKO terrorist group, says the group will never have a place in Iran. The Italian author in his book ‘MEK’ has, in detail, underlined the terrorist nature of MKO and has written about their historical background and development of the group since 1965.
++ Ehsan Roshanzamir, Iraian Pen club (Ghalam), wrote an Open Letter to UK MEP Emma McClarkin alerting her to the true face of the Mojahidin, and warning, “please don’t let your political consciousness be humiliated by them”.
++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat bloggers identifies the MEK as one of several proxy forces used by America and the West against Iran and in other arenas. Listing various scenarios and collating reports about these events, Parsi’s article demonstrates this, but warns, “US support for the MKO does not seem to be productive for both the MKO and the US because of the group’s lack of popular backing in Iran. [Antony] Cartalucci asserts that the West’s “mystery gunmen” are found in Iraqi Camp liberty, Libya and Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, Thailand and now Hong Kong. As a matter of fact, he should notice that the same pattern probably cannot be operative in case of the MKO because the majority of Iranian nation do not care about the MKO if they do not detest it.”
++ Writing in RT, Caleb Maupin, a political analyst from New York City and an activist with the International Action Center and Workers World Party, critiques an article published ealier in October by The Associated Press entitled “Iran Dissident: Tehran Continues Nuke Arms Work”. According to Maupin, “The forgotten history of a group of “Iranian dissidents” being promoted in Western media shows the hypocrisy of the so-called “War on Terror.”… the piece quoted Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) members, who insist that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Maupin identified other media such as FOX News in which the MEK are being promoted in spite of their past and that they are universally hated by Iranians.
++ Former MEK member Mohammad Karami, resident in Paris, writes an Open Letter to Polish MEP, EyszarCzarnecki, asking why he would have solidarity with a terrorist cult? “You are aware of the Great Purge conducted by Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have turned the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation into a destructive cult. The existing organisation is exactly like the NKD of Stalin. Massoud Rajavi in his internal meetings has over and over referred to the crimes of Stalin as «revolutionary actions». I can tell you clearly that Stalin is a role model for the Mojahedin Khalq leaders and Massoud and Maryam Rajavi themselves. Many disaffected members have been arrested, imprisoned and interrogated on the direct order of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.”
October 17, 2014
The war on terror declared by the United States on September 11 only made international terrorist groups stronger and even made them come to power in some countries. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria became 
victims of US anti-terror fight.
Today, the United States is seen globally as the main supporter of terrorists. The «Western foreign legion» represented by terrorists allows the United States to achieve a number of objectives, including weakening the chief competitors – Russia and China.
The myth of «fight against terrorism» creates a pretext for United States intervention against any other state having accused it of supporting terrorists. At that, the critical state of US economy makes international terrorism an effective instrument of intimidating Americans and introducing police state.
Like many other terrorist groups the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) has been preserved by the United States and Israel to be used as a proxy force against the Islamic Republic. “Some Western backers believe the group serves as a strategic counterweight to the clerical regime in Iran,” states Jonathan Masters, Deputy Editor of Council on Foreign Relations. However, he mentions that critics of the MKO question the group’s motives and commitment to nonviolence and human rights.
Jonathan Masters asserts that even State Department noted some “reservations” upon delisting the MKO in September 2012. "With today’s actions, the Department does not overlook or forget the MEK’s past acts of terrorism…The Department also has serious concerns about the MEK as an organization, particularly with regard to allegations of abuse committed against its own members, " he quotes from the State Department’s statement to announce the removal of the group from the black list in 2012.
Meanwhile Antony Cartalucci, a geopolitical researcher and writer based in Bangkok, Thailand, warns about “color revolutions” engineered by the United States to overthrow governments around the world. He suggests that attempts to escalate chaos and provoke or perpetuate violence is generally the next step after the alleged revolutions. Cartalucci believes that the chaos in Hong Kong is an example of US intervention in the world politics.
To prove his idea he refers to a “documented fact”. “It was the 2009 Brookings Institution document titled, “Which Path to Persia?” that stated unequivocally in regards to toppling the government of Iran”, he writes. “The policy document would also openly conspire to fund and arm listed terrorist organizations including the notorious Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)’’.
The document introduces the MKO as a proxy force to overthrow the Islamic Republic: “The United States could work with groups like the Iraq-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its military wing, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), helping the thousands of its members who, under Saddam Husayn’s regime, were armed and had conducted guerrilla and terrorist operations against the clerical regime. Although the NCRI is supposedly disarmed today, that could quickly be changed.”
According to the theory suggested in “Which path to Persia” the MKO does deserve the label of a terrorist group but its capacity to be the US mercenary shouldn’t be ignored! Cartalucci proposes that the Brookings Institution’s report is a “signed confession – a documented conspiracy that was demonstrably executed not only in Iran but also in neighboring Syria”. Notice what the report reads: “Undeniably, the group has conducted terrorist attacks—often excused by the MEK’s advocates because they are directed against the Iranian government. For example, in 1981, the group bombed the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, which was then the clerical leadership’s main political organization, killing an estimated 70 senior officials. More recently, the group has claimed credit for over a dozen mortar attacks, assassinations, and other assaults on Iranian civilian and military targets between 1998 and 2001. At the very least, to work more closely with the group (at least in an overt manner), Washington would need to remove it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.” And Washington finally removed it from the FTO list two years ago.”
Nevertheless, The US support for the MKO does not seem to be productive for both the MKO and the US because of the group’s lack of popular backing in Iran. Cartalucci asserts that the West’s “mystery gunmen” are found in Iraqi Camp liberty, Libya and Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, Thailand and now Hong Kong. As a matter of fact, he should notice that the same pattern probably cannot be operative in case of the MKO because the majority of Iranian nation do not care about the MKO if they do not detest it.
Mazda Parsi
References:
*Cartalucci, Tony, Hong Kong: Beware of Staged Violence, Land Destroyer Blog, October 6, 2014
* Masters, Jonathan, Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Council on Foreign Relations, July 28, 2014
Dear Ms McClarkin,
I would like to congratulate you for your effective part in the European future and global affairs as MEP.
As an ex-high ranking member of the Iranian Mujahidin e Khalg lead by Maryan Rajavi and her Husband 
Masoud Rajavi with almost 30 years inside the so called organization, and also ex member of the so called National Council of Resistance of the Mujahidin, having seen your support for this organization seriously disturbed me to the extent that forced me to write to you and inform you more about them.
I am sure you remember that the September 11 tragedy masterminded and put to action by people who lived in USA and looked like civilized people. Now days many people from civilized world join the most barbaric terrorist groups in the Middle East region and elsewhere. And the world has paid and is still paying a heavy price as a result.
What I would like to point at is that, it is time for everybody in the west and around the world to face international and regional terrorism with open eyes. Terrorism has changed face and is adopting new tactics to destroy the civilization. They have learnt how to deceive the world and utilize every means to reach their mediaeval barbaric goals.
Especially as a MEP that have great responsibility on your shoulders on behalf of your constituents and contemporary world, with great facilities at reach to investigate about the nature of the people and groups, facing them blind folded or be deceived just by their appearance or pretense of supporting democracy or women’s rights … is no longer acceptable by the public opinion and the future generations.
ISIS (DAESH), (which Mujahidin are their true supporter and call them freedom fighters), in the region used to pretend to fight for democracy in Syria, having got what needed from financial to military support now showing their real face.
Mujahidin believe in Caliphate rule, Masoud Rajavi it the Caliphate. Mujahidin believe in separation of sexes in any common ground of activity. They force their women members to divorce their husbands and marry Masoud Rajavi as the Caliphate who owns them! Mujahidin believe in destroying the Western Civilization as Western Imperialism, oppose and compete with ISIS and Al Qaeda as being more anti-Western and anti-Imperialistic than they are.
Masoud and Maryam Rajavi having watched the September 11 barbarism live on CNN, commented within their 4000 members then “…don’t think Al Qaeda is more progressive than we are, because they can harm Imperialism better than us,”. They believe in violence to reach their political goals, look at their emblem.
All members are denied from any public and free media, books, newspaper, contacting their families, even their children. They must only love Masoud and Maryam Rajavi as their Caliphate and if anything else went through their mind but that, must be daily reported. They are a Cult group and not a political entity.
There is much has been said in the media and internet about the true face of the Mujahidin. But please don’t let your political consciousness be humiliated by them.
Sincerely yours,
Ehsan Roshanzamir
Shapour Bastansiar (a musician) has published a copy of his resignation letter from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on his Facebook status, which is dated about two weeks ago.
The MEK (aka NCRI) have
not only ignored it up to now but have been trying to coerce him into retracting it. As far as internal news is concerned, Iran-Interlink has the names of two more members of the NCRI who have resigned but will not publish their names unless they decide to go public themselves.
Experts say that the MEK cannot accept the resignation of Bastansiar, and would normally swear at him and label him an agent of the regime. But in this case, they cannot do this because he has not yet said anything about his reasons for resigning. The MEK are therefore simply ignoring this issue for the time being. However, past evidence suggests that if he does not retract, they will soon have to start labelling him to reinforce internal morale.
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
++ Shapour Bastansiar (a musician) has published a copy of his resignation letter from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on his Facebook status, which is dated about two weeks ago. The MEK (aka NCRI) have not only ignored it up to now but have been trying to coerce him into retracting it. As far as internal news is concerned, Iran-Interlink has the names of two more members of the NCRI who have resigned but will not publish their names unless they decide to go public themselves. Experts say that the MEK cannot accept the resignation of Bastansiar, and would normally swear at him and label him an agent of the regime. But in this case, they cannot do this because he has not yet said anything about his reasons for resigning. The MEK are therefore simply ignoring this issue for the time being. However, past evidence suggests that if he does not retract, they will soon have to start labelling him to reinforce internal morale.
++ Iraj Mesdaghi has published an in-depth review of MEK support for ISIL before they were told by their masters to change course in their outlets in the West. He reveals over ten cases of clear support through public announcements and publications – from Struan Stevenson to the MEK’s official websites and articles from members of the MEK and NCRI. [Editor: Suggesting that a long-term plan involving ISIL has been in place for some time, but that several outlets have been precipitate in their support and have had to retract to await further developments.]
++ Fars News Agency has ridiculed yet another revelation by the MEK about Iran’s nuclear programme because this time no one has taken any notice of it; to the point that even the usual suspects and paid writers have refused to cover it.
In English:
++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers writes about the ‘adventures of the Mojahedin and the warmongers’. In the article Parsi draws conclusions from reviewing several sources concerning the MEK, its sponsors and their sponsorship of sectarian violence in the whole region. Parsi argues that
“The fraudulent policy of the West to run its empire in the Middle East is very clearly seen in a recent Henry Kissinger comment about ISIS which MKO propaganda website proudly republishes it. The former US Secretary of State who is famous for his warmonger policies, expressed in an interview with NPR that he considers ”Iran a bigger problem than ISIS”. He sounds to be making this audience ready for another war in the region—which is a dream for Maryam Rajavi.”
++ Tony Cartalucci in Global Research uses the precedent of the MEK to argue that Hong Kong’s current “Occupy Central” protests are US-sponsored. Using further examples, Cartalucci argues that the American backed protestors may soon attempt to provoke the authorities into a violent response, and warns against such manipulation.
++ Pepe Escobar published a thoughtful and very interesting piece in Asia Times about his recent visit to Iran as a roving correspondent. Among personal observations about his visit he talks about the New Horizon conference he attended which, he says, “could not but be about information war. The overall theme was the fight against the Zionist lobby. Everyone knows what the lobby means and how it operates, especially in the US. And yet, in my short interventions, at the Foreign Ministry and at the conference, I preferred to focus on its global financial/economic reach. Follow the money. That’s the only way to pierce the lobby’s seemingly invincible armory.”
His article continues: “Another face of information war. Everywhere I went, I had the pleasure to see how Gareth Porter’s book – Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iranian Nuclear Scare – was received as a blessing. The book was translated into Farsi by the Fars News Agency, in only two months, with meticulous care, and launched in a simple ceremony. It’s bound to become a best seller – as it conclusively proves, for instance, how the Iranian “plot” to equip missiles with nuclear warheads was entirely fabricated by the terrorist outfit Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and then handed over to the International Atomic Energy Agency by the Mossad. Contrast the respect shown to Gareth in Tehran to the wall of silence of its US reception – just another reflection of the 35-year-old “wilderness of mirrors” opposing Washington to Tehran.”
++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers tells us that reports and documents published about the MKO camps, demonstrate that morality has been deleted from the group’s internal relations. Describing morals as the rules of society, he demonstrates – through examples like the forced divorces – how the MEK’s internal relations have not only abandoned normal morality but turned it on its head so that immorality has become the cult’s value.
++Iranian Pen Club (Iran Ghalam) has written an Open Letter to the judges in Maryam Rajavi’s French court case, Jean Duye and Marc Trevidic. The letter criticises the French judiciary saying “a great historic mistake has taken place by closing her file. This is because the Mujahidin have been transformed from a so called revolutionary-political organization to a dangerous Cult by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in the recent years. But this new face is hidden so while they are out of reach in the west by the law, they can proceed with their ominous activities to reach their political and military goals. This is why giving them an open hand in Europe is a very dangerous decision, and we hope you will realize it.”
October 10, 2014
