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Zionist extremists and their MKO terrorist allies

9/11 perp Giuliani joins terrorists to attack Rouhani

Islam Times – Iranian President Rouhani’s visit to the United Nations was well received by most of the world.

Normally unfriendly US mainstream media hailed Rouhani’s “well-orchestrated charm offensive” and accurately reported the Iranian president’s words – in marked contrast to the disinformation, slander, and deception that pervaded US media reports of previous president Ahmadinejad’s statements.

Even Secretary of State John Kerry, the leading Obama Administration war-monger, called President Rouhani’s exchange of letters with Obama “positive and constructive.”

Only one group reacted negatively to Rouhani’s UN speech: Zionist extremists and their terrorist allies.

Israeli PM Netanyahu stayed up till 1 a.m. Israeli time to issue what the Times of Israel called a “bitter” attack on Rouhani. According to the Times, Netanyahu “slammed the Iranian president’s address as a ‘cynical… hypocritical… PR charade.’”

Netanyahu’s Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan said: “I’m more than worried. I’m distraught…Rouhani’s language is having its effect.”

Netanyahu, who was laughed out of the United Nations last year for waving around a crude cartoon of an “Iranian bomb,” once again made a fool of himself at the UN by ordering Israeli diplomats to walk out of the hall when President Rouhani spoke. No other country joined the Israeli walkout – a perfect symbol of the Israel’s increasing global isolation.

The Israeli Likud extremists are panicking; their plans for war on Iran are slipping away.

But why are they so anxious to attack Iran in the first place?

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has declared that nuclear weapons are forbidden by Islam. President Rouhani, like President Ahmadinejad before him, agrees: “We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we are not going to do so.” The American CIA says the same thing: Iran is not building nuclear weapons.

So the nuclear issue is a red herring. There must be some other reason why the Israeli Likudniks are so eager to attack Iran.

To understand the real Israeli motive for war with Iran, we must understand the “deep politics” surrounding the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Gen. Wesley Clark has revealed that 9/11 was designed to “take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”

The plan failed.

The neocon-dominated post-9/11 US did temporarily “take out” Iraq – but today, the Iraqi government is at least as friendly to Iran as to the USA.

The neocons succeeded in “taking out” Somalia, which is now an occupied and devastated country. They also “took out” Sudan, which has been smashed into two pieces, with the resource-rich south now dominated by Israel. And they “took out” Libya before Qaddafi could undermine the Rothschild petrodollar with his gold dinar and silver dirham.

But the neocons have not been able to “take out” Syria or Lebanon – stepping stones to their ultimate goal, which is regime change in Iran.

And they almost lost Egypt – and still may lose it, as the Egyptian people wake up to the reality that they are living under Israeli occupation, thanks to Israeli puppet al-Sisi’s demolition of Egyptian democracy.

The 9/11 plan to smash the whole Middle East and install Israel-friendly regimes throughout the region has stalled. The people of the Middle East are more anti-Zionist than ever. And they want Islamic democracy – along the lines of the successful Iranian experiment in wedding democracy, republicanism, and Islam.

Iran’s Islamic democracy, and its anti-Zionism, are a model for the region…a dangerous model, in the eyes of the Israelis. Hence Netanyahu’s fanatical insistence on regime change in Tehran.

But there is another reason – a more explosive one – behind Netanyahu’s obsession with war on Iran. Netanyahu and his neocon agents know that if peace ever breaks out, and the USA ends its wartime state of emergency, the truth behind 9/11 will likely emerge. And if that happens, Israel will be finished as a Zionist apartheid state…and Netanyahu will hang.

One of Netanyahu’s minions, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, appeared to be just as panicked as Netanyahu by Rouhani’s “charm offensive” and its promise of peace. Giuliani spoke at a rally organized by the terrorist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) outside the UN in protest of Rouhani’s visit. The former New York mayor and 9/11 suspect, speaking to the terrorist group, charged that President Rouhani was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The irony of suspected 9/11 terrorist Giuliani, speaking to one of the world’s most reviled terrorist groups, charging the moderate president of Iran with terrorism, is extreme. What makes it even more extreme is that the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing has been revealed as a false-flag operation by the Israeli Mossad – the same agency that employed Giuliani in its 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.

Giuliani was forced to drop out of the 2008 presidential race when the activist group We Are Change challenged him as a 9/11 criminal. Everywhere Giuliani went, he was dogged by We Are Change members asking him the same question: “Mr. Giuliani, you stated on television on September 11th, 2001 that you were forewarned that the World Trade Towers were going to be destroyed, so you left the vicinity. If you knew the Towers were coming down, why didn’t you warn the firefighters and rescue personnel?”

At first, Giuliani lied by denying that he had been forewarned of the Towers’ destruction. But when We Are Change members posted news clips showing Giuliani confessing to his foreknowledge of the Towers’ demolitions, the former New York mayor – who was running for President under the nickname “Mr. 9/11” – was forced to withdraw his candidacy.

Giuliani’s fingerprints are all over 9/11 and the follow-up anthrax attacks. Journalist Barbara Honegger notes that Giuliani’s office planned the drills that provided cover for the 9/11 operation: “Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) preplanned a bio/chem-terrorism exercise likely involving an anthrax scenario for which personnel were (pre-positioned) in New York City on 9/11, and Giuliani’s just-recent OEM director (Jerome Hauer) urged White House staff to go on anti-anthrax Cipro on Sept. 11.”

Honegger also notes that “Rudolph Giuliani bought the Florida-building crime scene of the first anthrax attack…Giuliani thus controlled and oversaw the destruction of evidence at both the New York crime scene of the 9/11 attacks, the WTC, ordering the steel containing traces of controlled demolition explosives to be removed, and the crime scene of the first anthrax attack, America Media, Inc, in Florida.”

Today, Giuliani, who once thought he could ride his 9/11-anthrax crimes all the way to the presidency, has been forced to resort to making a living by accepting speaking engagements from Mossad-supported terrorist groups. If current trends continue, peace breaks out, and the US finally launches a real investigation of 9/11, “Mr. 9/11” may find himself swinging from a rope beside his partner in crime, Benjamin Netanyahu.

September 28, 2013 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Baghdad Determined to Expel All MKO Members

Commander of Iraqi Army First Lieutenant General Ali Ghaidan who is visiting Iran at the head of a military delegation said on Wednesday that Baghdad is determined to expel the remaining members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist organization. Ghaidan made the comment in a meeting with the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour in which the two top commanders also talked about joint combat against terrorism and border security.

The Iraqi commander who accompanied the Iraqi defense minister on his trip to Iran, referred to the recent clashes in Camp Ashraf — in which at least 50 MKO members were killed — and said his country is determined to get rid of MKO members for good.

He also praised the Islamic Republic of Iran’s progress in various field, particularly in military warfare and defense industries.

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 13 thanked the Iraqi government for its measures to close Camp Ashraf, the main training base of the MKO terrorists, and called on Baghdad to expel the remaining members of the group.

On September 1 some 52 MKO members were killed in clashes at the camp, which the Iraqi authorities blamed on infighting among the camp’s 100 residents.

The notorious camp, which in its heyday housed thousands of MKO terrorists, was fully evacuated by the Iraqi authorities from its much-hated residents on September 11.

Camp Ashraf’s residents have been relocated to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad’s international airport, under a United Nations-brokered deal that wants them resettled in other countries. A total of 162 MKO members have been resettled abroad so far, mostly in Albania.

MKO members were involved in many terrorist activities in Iran before they went to Iran in 1986, where they found a true patron in Iraq’s deposed dictator Saddam Hussein who gave them shelter and arms.

They fought along Saddam forces in the war it had imposed on Iran (1980-1988) and later turned their guns against the Iraqi citizens who had revolted against the ruthless dictator in 1991.

September 28, 2013 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

MKO survival dependent on creating crisis

Discussing the role of the Mujahedin-e-Khalgh Organization in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran;

Four former members of the Muhajedin-e-Khalgh Organization known as MKO in a press conference in Tehran shed light on the role of the MKO in eight years of Iraqi war against Iran in the 1980s. The former MKO members said that since the beginning, the leaders of the organization were looking for a source of support for the group and the Iraqi-imposed war provided them with the chance.

The press conference has been held as Iran is marking the sacred defense week which commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran back in 1980.

The group is notorious for carrying out numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, involvement in the 1991 bloody repression of Shia Muslims in southern Iraq, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north under Saddam.

The last group of MKO terrorists at Camp Ashraf was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join other members of the terrorist group in the former US-held Camp Liberty, now called Camp Hurriya, near Baghdad International Airport where they are awaiting relocation to other countries.

September 26, 2013 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

BBC interviews Arash Sametipour;MKO ex-member

I went to Camp Ashraf from America

Arash sametipour was living in the United States when he first heard of Camp Ashraf. He went there, he was trained and finally, one morning he entered Iran crossing Southern border. “The first thing to attract my attention in Ahwaz [ a city near border] were children who were playing soccer, chasing each other and speaking Persian. I noticed children’s playing in other cities too. I was really impressed … I thought when I was at their age I was experiencing war. Those days, most nights we were awaken by air raid siren and had to go to shelters. We had only two TV channels and a lot of passionate revolutionary slogans… basically I don’t think my generation can claim to have had a childhood.”

My interview with Arash Sametipour was on the phone. He lives in Netherlands so we were not able to look in to each other’s eyes. It was too difficult for me to ask questions without knowing enough about his mental conditions. I knew I had to call him a “terrorist” some time during the interview but I didn’t know that he who is now trying his best to “fight violence”, regarded such an attribute as “fair”.

“In the morning you crossed the Southern border to enter Iran; did you know that you were officially going on a mission that would turn you in to a terrorist?” I asked him. He replied,”

Arash was not willing to speak of details of the mission he had been trained for but he didn’t disagree my hypothesis when I said,”let me suppose that you were going to Iran to kill someone or technically to hit someone."

“On that day I was in the place I was supposed to be just like previous days. But that day was different from other days. I was terribly tired. My country-fellow men may not understand what I mean. It may be a little hard for them to accept that there was no motivation, there was only tiredness. I just wanted it to finish… I remember the exact words I told God:”Finish it. Please finish it.”

Arash says that an hour after saying the “prayer”, he is arrested by the Iranian Police. The cops fail to search his body completely so at the Police station, he manages to get the grenade he has with him and eventually releases the trigger.

“The moment I released the safety lock, I wondered what was going to happen. Was it the end? Would everything go dark? Or would I be born like a baby once again? Right away, my mother’s image emerged before my eyes.”

I asked him if he had talked to his mother about the path he had chosen, before joining the MKO.

“My mother was seriously against it. My family had immigrated to the United States in 1995. We all had Green Cards and soon we were qualified to receive American citizenship. I was a student and a pretty good future was waiting for me… The moment I released the trigger the image of my mother was so real to me that I forget to take the grenade near my chest – we were trained to keep the triggered grenade before our chest – but I was struck dumb by my Mum’s image , so I survived the explosion.”

Arash Sametipour was taken to hospital after he exploded the grenade in his hand. He lost a hand but doctors succeeded to keep his seriously wounded leg.

“Did the medical team of the hospital treat you with discrimination or hatred”?, I asked him.

“Well, it was and is natural. Iranian people have not forgiven the MKO yet but my medical team did their job well without any discrimination. After I was discharged from the hospital I was nearly sure that I would be sentenced to death but the then administration was reformist and the state was willing to show a moderate image. I heard that the MKO members were granted amnesty at that time. I was lucky that I was sentenced to life imprisonment. It was later reduced to 8 years and according to the law if you commit a crime for the first time you will be forgiven after you serve half of your conviction.”

“I Become a Teacher”. Arash sametipour has two important occupations now; he is awaiting the birth of his baby and meanwhile he is writing the book of his memoirs. He has his own weblog where he frequently writes of his memoirs and his daily routine.

I asked him who joined the MKO at the age of 21, “if 21 years later, your son come to you saying he has reasons to take gun and fight a government that he feels it should be reformed, what you tell him?”

“I’ve thought about it a lot. I guess if I am able to convey what I endured in the past, firstly to my child and secondly to the coming generation, they will be unlikely to repeat my experience.”

He says that if he were able to get back to the past, he would become a teacher rather than “an armed fighter against a government."

“I was not a person to change the history. I remember the words by Samad [the Iranian writer] ‘we thought everyone was in danger there but we went saw that only we were in danger!’ If I get back to Iran someday, I will become a teacher maybe I could pass my experience and the story of my life to the future generation in order to make them aware of this part of the history in which my generation and I lived our life.”

September 26, 2013 0 comments

Iran

Iran Wants Search in Camp Ashraf for Bodies of Dead Soldiers

An Iranian official said there is information suggesting Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorists killed and buried in Camp Ashraf some of the Iranian prisoners of war who had been handed over to them by the Iran Wants Search in Camp Ashraf for Bodies of Dead Soldiers regime of Saddam Hussain, and hence the need to search the area.

General Seyed Mohammad Baqerzadeh, the commander of search committee for the lost people at the Armed Forces Headquarters, announced the news in an interview with Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, adding that three days ago his organization had a meeting with officials of the International Red Cross Society and representatives of the Iraqi defense and human rights ministries in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on the matter as well as a number of other issues.

“We reached some agreements in that meeting and it was decided that we visit some cemetries in the Iraqi Kurdistan, as some of those (Iranian prisoners of war) martyred in the camps might have been buried there. We have received some of the bodies in the past, but some of them have not been found yet – which needs search and follow-up,” he said.

General Baqerzadeh added that there is information showing that some Iranian POWs were handed over to MKO terrorists, who were based in camp Ashraf, by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussain and that some of them “were martyred and buried there,” which is why the search committee wants permission to search the cemetery of Camp Ashraf for bodies.

The official end of MKO terrorist group’s activities in Camp Ashraf came on September 11, less than two weeks after clashes in the camp left at least 50 of its members dead.

The remaining members of MKO terrorists were transferred from Camp Ashraf (now the Camp of New Iraq) to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport.

The MKO — listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community — fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, fought on the side of Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88), and was given a camp by Saddam.

The group has been behind numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, and was involved in the 1991 bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

September 25, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Former U.S. officials at MEK rally outside UN

Former U.S. officials blast diplomacy with Rouhani at MEK rally outside UN

Former U.S. officials joined an Iranian expatriate group in a rally outside the United Nations Tuesday to blast any diplomatic opening between the Obama administration and Iran.

Thousands of Iranian-American supporters of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (the People’s Mojahedin of Iran) transformed Manhattan’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, right outside the UN building where the General Assembly was taking place, into a sea of MEK flags and pictures of MEK leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. Their ranks were bolstered by some Syrian-American supporters of the Syrian opposition and others who were bussed-in from around the country. Other participants included Americans from around the country–some of whom “didn’t have a clue what it was all about,” in the words of one attendee–who had their tickets, food and hotel paid for by the organizers of the rally.

While the Iranian expatriates, some of whom fled the country in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, chanted for the downfall of the Iranian regime, former U.S. officials spoke on stage.

The stars of the rally included former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani; former Rhode Island Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy; and former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele. They had one uniform message: stop Iraq from cracking down on MEK members and halt the Obama administration from carrying out talks with the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani.

The rally was held immediately after President Obama addressed the UN–where he hinted that negotiations over Iran’s nuclear energy program might be pursued by the U.S–and just hours before Rouhani spoke. The new Iranian president said that he was open to nuclear negotiations as long as Iran’s right to enrich uranium–which is protected under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty–was respected. But those words were likely to do little to persuade hardline former U.S. officials who attended the pro-MEK rally.

“He ought to be thrown out of the UN,” Rep. Kennedy said of Rouhani. “President Rouhani and his mullahs…are waging a war not only against the Iranian people, but the Syrian people.”

Kennedy and other speakers decried the killings of 52 people in Camp Ashraf. On September 1, Iraqi security forces reportedly opened fire at the camp, where members of the Iranian group have been based since the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein supported them while they launched attacks against Iran. The majority of MEK members have moved to a different area in Iraq in anticipation of being resettled abroad.

Kennedy, along with Bolton, Giuliani and Steele have all received handsome speaking fees in the past from MEK-affiliated organizations. They were among a gaggle of former U.S. officials who lobbied the U.S. hard in recent years to take the MEK off the State Department terrorist list. The lobbying effort bore fruit last year when the State Department did just that, despite the MEK’s past involvement in violent attacks. The MEK had been trained by the U.S. in Nevada in 2005 and received U.S. intelligence that the group used to carry out the assassinations of Iranian scientists, according to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. In February 2012, NBC News’ Richard Engel and Robert Windrem reported that the MEK colluded with Israel to kill Iranian nuclear scientists.

The scene at the UN rally was standard for events put on by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political branch of the MEK. It was a well-orchestrated affair, and the group seems flush with cash. There were security barriers and guards preventing people from moving towards the front, where a row of yellow-hatted MEK supporters and members sat listening to former U.S. officials give speeches. There was free water and food, and large television monitors showing the speeches in the front set up throughout the plaza. Balloons at back of the rally were fashioned to spell out, “Viva Rajavi,” a reference to Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the MEK who spoke via video link at the protest. Rajavi has been criticized for running the MEK like a cult; Elizbeth Rubin, a New York Times contributor, described the camp in Iraq where the MEK was based as “a fictional world of female worker bees” where “acolytes of Rajavi” lived.

But the cultish aspects of the MEK–or their violent attacks on Americans and Iranians–have not deterred former U.S. officials from supporting them in the hopes of fomenting regime change, despite the fact that most Iranians dislike the group.

At the rally, Giuliani warned of the U.S. falling “under the spell of the mullahs” and the catastrophe of allowing “nuclear armed Iran” to exist. After denouncing the attacks at Camp Ashraf, the former GOP presidential candidate launched into blasting any chance of diplomacy with Rouhani.

Giuliani also repeated a charge aired by neoconservative groups that Rouhani was linked to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina that killed 85 people. “Rouhani…was certainly aware of it, certainly involved. Their blood is on their hands, and just wishing people ‘Happy Rosh Hashanah’ doesn’t wipe away the blood of these Jewish martyrs from Iran’s hand or Rouhani,” said Giuliani. But while Iran has been implicated in the attack, Rouhani himself “did not participate” in the meeting that approved the bombing, according to the Argentine prosecutor of the case.

Other former U.S. officials echoed Giuliani’s dismissal of diplomacy with the new Iranian leader. “I do not understand and I do not accept the president meeting with the leader of a terrorist state,” said former Senator Robert Torricelli.

While chances of an Obama-Rouhani meeting faded by day’s end, Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif will get together Thursday as part of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear energy program.

By Alex Kane ,Mondoweiss.net

September 25, 2013 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Urgent Action Needed to Break the Spell of Rajavi’s Cult

There is no guarantee that MKO leaders will stop inciting violence and tragic events

Finally, after a quarter of century Camp Ashraf, the military bastion granted to the terrorist MKO by the fallen Saddam, was closed on 21 September. The fall of the stronghold, after nearly a decade of resistance that took many victims in protecting Rajavi’s Alamut, was in fact a matter of ideological crash. However, the closure was not so simple an issue and Rajavi sent 52 of the group’s members to the altar of sacrifice in the last provoked crusade.

Rajavi knew well that he had to surrender the camp sooner or later but he also needed to buy time and keep his group’s propaganda machine running; and the price was paid by hundreds of the members’ blood before the gates were closed. The victims were all the individuals who had put their trust in Rajavi as the ideological guru who, from the seclusion of his hiding place, encouraged his followers to make the sacrifices. Not only Rajavi accepts no responsibility for the bloodshed and the killed victims but also claims that the tragedy was a heroic deed carried out spontaneously by the volunteered members.

In contrast to Rajavi’s claim and to unravel a fact, none of the group’s insiders have a choice of free will to act by themselves in any personal and organizational affair. They are human-like robots that just follow the preplanned orders. Through their organizational instructions, it has been instilled into them that there’s no place for the will of the members themselves (to think and decide) and it is just the leader who has the right to choose and decide, even for the life and death. But for the outsiders, the leaders depict a different picture of the organization as if any action by the members is a matter of free choice. Speaking to European Parliament on March 2013, for instance, Maryam Rajavi, playing the role of leader in her husband’s absence, stated:

“I must say here that it is time to understand and respect the free choice of the residents of Liberty. They do not take orders from anyone. We can talk to them and advise them, but they are the ones who decided for themselves.”

But in his messages specially recorded and delivered to the Camp Ashraf and Liberty residents on July 2013, Massoud Rajavi emboldened his followers to fulfill their pledge of loyalty to the leader and be prepared to make their noble share of sacrifice whenever the appropriate time to defend Ashraf camp. Referring to previous human tragedies he said:

“Once (to defend Camp Ashraf) you lay under the tanks and once again our brothers and sisters, I mean the burning torches, set themselves on fire as a matter of free choice. And in future Mujahedin will keep their promise if anyone tries to test them; they will fight and bathe in their blood and nothing can deter their determination to protect this land, which is a town of honor and prosperity.”

That is how Rajavi escapes the responsibility after provoking the human tragedies. If the members are the ones to decide, then, what is the need to remind them of lying before the tanks or putting themselves on fire? The glorification of such deeds is equal to encouraging or issuing the orders for building more altars for sacrifice of the insiders. And it seems the human tragedy is a never-ending story in MKO and an evil omen to be continued in Camp Liberty.

It is only the Rajavies who enjoy telling and spreading the tragic story. But the UN envoy in Iraq thinks differently. Gyorgy Busztin has come to know the seriousness of the need to protect and survive the residents particularly after the human tragedy in Camp Ashraf: “What has happened at Camp Ashraf on the first of September is a game changer. It should be a wake-up call to all countries who are in a position to help to come forward. Resettlement is the ultimate guarantee of their security.”

Camp Ashraf was closed but what about Liberty and the unsecured destiny of its residents with hundreds of brainwashed loyal and devotees of Rajavi. Is there any guarantee that the leaders will stop inciting violence and tragic events? Only those in contact with MKO can realize the seriousness of the situation and as Mr. Busztin remarks “Resettlement is the ultimate guarantee of their security”. The optimistic forecast is, however, to expect more countries to come forward to accept more refugees to reduce the number of residents in the transit camp of Liberty. For sure, once settled in a third country, the hypnotic spell of the Rajavies cult will be broken. A good example is the defection of nearly seventy members after being transferred from Iraq to Albania.

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September 23, 2013

September 24, 2013 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq set to deport Mojahedin Khalq

The Iraqi government is planning to deport Iranian dissidents of an opposition movement in exile that had led a guerrilla campaign against the US-backed Iranian Shah during 1970s, which included attacks on US targets

BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi government is reportedly planning to deport Iranian dissidents of an opposition movement in exile, known as the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (MEK), which had led a guerrilla campaign against the US-backed Iranian Shah during 1970s, which included attacks on US targets.

The UN called on the Iraqi government earlier to do all it can to protect the Iranian exiles left in a camp north of Baghdad after confirming that 52 people were killed there.

Iraq’s government wants to shut down the facility known as Camp Ashraf (Liberty) and transfer thousands of Iranian exiles living there to another camp out of the country as it is growing impatience with a UN coordinated effort to resettle them abroad.

Undersecretary of the Iraqi National Security Falih al-Fayyaz said the Iraqi government ran out of patience as there were no international efforts to resettle them outside Iraq.

“Iraqi government will put an end to this issue soon,” Fayyaz said. “We want concrete solutions to transfer them to different countries”.

The Iraqi government had moved 3,400 MEK members to Camp Liberty in Baghdad in 2012 under an agreement with the United Nations.

Anadolu Agency,

September 24, 2013 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq to set deadline for the MKO expulsion

Faleh Fayyaz, the National Security advisor of the Iraqi government and head of the Iraqi committee for the closure of MKO case, visited US Ambassador and a group of European representatives on Sunday and Iraq to set deadline for the MKO expulsion informed them of the Iraqi government’s objection towards the MKO’s presence in the country.

Al Fayyaz reiterated: the MKO terrorists has no place in Iraq and the international society must be serious on their expulsion.

He added: the foreign organizations do not cooperate with Baghdad and at the special state meeting, Baghdad will set deadline for the group to leave.

Al Fayyaz underscored that during their presence in Iraq, mujahedin had no benefit for the country . “They should understand that they have no place in Iraq and must leave the country anyway.”

September 23, 2013 0 comments

USA

US Denies Visiting Allegedly Missing Iranians

The U.S. Embassy in Iraq says it has no information on the whereabouts of seven Iranian dissidents allegedly missing following a deadly shooting on their compound north of Baghdad this month.

The parent organization of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq dissident group says it has information that an American delegation has met the seven people held by Iraqi forces near Baghdad airport.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Rodney Ford told The Associated Press by email Sunday that the claim of an American visit is "categorically untrue." He says no one from the U.S. government has seen or visited those said to be missing.

Iraq on Friday denied that it is holding the seven former residents of Camp Ashraf said to be missing. A disputed shooting on the compound Sept. 1 left 52 MEK members dead.

September 23, 2013 0 comments

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