Based on the agreements between Albania and US, The Albania government accepted to accommodate 210 members of the MKO in Albania.
Former vice president of the EU Committee on Foreign Affairs Baroness Emma Nicholson says the heads of 
terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) do not allow members in Iraq to return to Iran and rejoin their families there.
The British life peer said in an interview with Iranian NGO the Habilian Association that the terrorist groups’ members are not allowed back in Iran by their leaders in the knowledge that they will not face persecution there.
The MKO terrorists, formerly based at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, now face expulsion from the country.
Nicholson said that “western European states are not at all wishful of receiving them because of their recent past history” with just two European countries, Germany and Albania, giving a lukewarm response to the UN Secretary General requests for asylum to the members of the terrorist MKO.
The terror cell has, however, turned down the two offers asking to be relocated to the US, where they are most ardently supported.
Last year, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said there is space for discussion of some MKO members return to Iran if officials give their approval.
He added that would only be possible if they “regret their past mistakes” as many MKO members have been kept at Ashraf Camp against their will.
MKO terrorists are notorious for carrying out terrorist acts and assassinations of lay people and top officials in Iran.
The Habilian Association, which represents part of families of the victims of MKO terrorism, estimates that it has assassinated over 12,000 people in Iran.
Those lobbying to return MKO members to Ashraf are building the altar to scarify them
It is no more the question of keeping forces on alert near the Iranian borders looking for an opportunity to strike at the pillars of the regime to inherit the reins of power after its fall. Rather, it is a desperate need to protect very same disarmed forces against any attack that threaten their life just in the middle of Iraq. The members of MKO deserved any form of confrontation when they were fully armed with Saddam’s donated weapons to be used against Iranian and Iraqi people. Now the deplorable condition of these poor men, the outcasts of a failed militia with a countless record of bloodshed, call for a universal decisiveness to save them, now wallowed in the mire of a personality cult.
The UN special envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler, knows well, if not better than anybody, what is going on within Camp Liberty, the temporary camp that houses these people, when he expressed concern at human rights abuses therein. In his latest remarks, Mr. Kobler cited reports from some residents that camp leaders are keeping residents from leaving, from participating in the resettlement process, from contacting family members outside Iraq, and from medical treatment.
And what is the response by the group’s leaders to end the sufferings of the members? We witness everyday protests and demonstrations by sympathizers and supporters of MKO outside UN headquarters and on the streets of the European countries calling for the protection and guaranteed rights of the residents as well as condemning Mr. Kobler. In her recent attack, Maryam Rajavi, the self-appointed president elect of the group, strongly condemned Kobler for what she referred to as deceitful efforts to present false reports to the Security Council and the UN Secretary-General.
The heavy propaganda and lobbying struggle by MKO’s widespread network in European countries demanding to return Camp Liberty residents to their previous camp, Camp Ashraf, is no more considered a humanitarian gesture to save suffering members. Everybody knows that Camp Ashraf does not qualify a more secure place than Liberty. The number of the insiders killed in Camp Ashraf when MKO’s leaders deliberately provoked a few confrontations with Iraqi forces, many of whom were happy to avenge the ethnic cleansing raids the group carried out for Saddam back in the day, exceeds those killed in Camp Liberty’s mortar attacks. Mr. Kobler had also provided a warning of the group’s potentiality in provoking and waging violence at the time.
Is Camp Ashraf really a sanctuary and does MKO care about the safety and protection of the abandoned insiders in Iraq? The first reaction the Iraqi Government received from MKO after announcing its decision to close Camp Ashraf in a decision to expel its residents from the country was an angry backlash and threatening tone. And the first practical approach by MKO was to provoke the Iraqi forces, not acquainted with the group’s self-destructive tactics, to mount an aggressive response to evacuation of Ashraf. Then, anyone can say what would be the fate of the insiders if they were ever permitted to return to Camp Ashraf.
MKO is at the end of line in Iraq and it has enough devoted members active under a pro-democracy masquerade around the world. But MKO is facing a conundrum over the insiders’ future uncertainty in Iraq, a big bulk of members still waiting to be accepted as refugees in third countries. The problem can be solved in the way that would best benefit MKO. What the group needs at the present to fuel its propaganda machine for a full move is sacrifice. Where else can MKO leaders find a better slaughter house than Camp Ashraf to make about 3000 martyrs? In fact, those lobbying to return members to Ashraf are building the altar for MKO to scarify poor insiders.
The local administration of the Iraqi town of Khalis declared plans to build a mall in Camp Ashraf – the main training center of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) – after all members of the terrorist group are expelled from the Camp.
Khalis Mayor Uday AlKhadran told a press conference that an Iraqi court has transfered the authority of the site to the local administration of Khalis which plans to build a mall in there once all MKO terrorists are expelled from the Camp.
"The Camp of New Iraq (Ashraf) still accomodates 100 members of the MKO members, and the rest have already been transferred at the order of the UN to (the transient facility in Camp Liberty in Northern) Baghdad during the last year in preparation for housing them in other countries.
He further pointed to "the suspicious political activities of Ashraf residents who refused to sell the property of Camp Ashraf in accordance with their earlier agreement with the Iraqi government, despite receiving attractive offers from Iraqi and foreign traders and companies".
The Iraqi government evacuated Camp Ashraf almost completely last Summer and moved more than 3 thousand MKO members to Camp Liberty, and kept only 100 members in the Camp of New Iraq (Camp Ashraf) to complete the sale of property and transfer the money to the MKO.
The Diyala province which hosts Camp Ashraf has on several occasions declared its intention to invest in the Camp to turn it into a tourist site and build a large commercial exchange center for trade between Iraq’s Kurdistan region and Baghdad.
The MKO was a long-standing member of the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, but after heavy lobbying the group was dropped from the list last year. The group was allied to Saddam Hussein and retains a significant presence at Camp Liberty, and formerly at Camp Ashraf (its main training camp) during the US occupation.
The MKO group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly-established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar and Judiciary Chief Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who eventually took the MKO off the US terror list.
The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September 2012, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.
In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty which lies Northeast of the Baghdad International Airport.
The military and cult bastion of the terrorist MKO is nearing the end of its days as one of the most controversial spots in Iraq. The last remaining group of the members, a total of 100, will be forced out sooner or later and leaves the camp in the hands of the local authority in Diyala Province. The province’s administration has unveiled a recent judicial decision by Baghdad courts to empty Camp Ashraf and hand it over to the local administration who have announced on several occasions the intention to turn it into a tourist attraction and a large commercial exchange center between the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Baghdad.
In a latest press conference, Uday AlKhadran, Khalis Mayor, told that an Iraqi court has transferred the authority of the site to the local administration of Khalis which plans to build a mall in there once all MKO terrorists are expelled from the Camp.
“The Camp of New Iraq (Ashraf) still accommodates 100 members of the MKO members, and the rest have already been transferred at the order of the UN to the transient facility in Camp Liberty in Northern Baghdad during the last year in preparation for housing them in other countries”. He further pointed to “the suspicious political activities of Ashraf residents who refused to sell the property of Camp Ashraf in accordance with their earlier agreement with the Iraqi government, despite receiving attractive offers from Iraqi and foreign traders and companies”.
It has to be pointed out that not all the claimed properties and assets in Camp Ashraf have a function of legal and civil purpose and many of the vehicles, instruments and machineries allocated to the group by the ousted dictator belong to Iraqi army and people living in the vicinity. In fact, the group brought nothing when it came to Iraq and all it claims to possess is out of the bundles of dollars Saddam allocated to it from the pocket of the Iraqi people when they needed the sums more than any other time.
Since the fall of Saddam, the Iraqi lawyers have filed complaints on behalf of Iraqi people and particularly by farmers living in Diyala province whose crop lands have been occupied by the group. In fact, the closure of Camp Ashraf was a legal demand by the Iraqi government and the local people, to whom the lands belong. Naturally, MKO as the occupier is reluctant to return what it had seized under the direct order of the ousted Saddam.
Eighty members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO) residing in Camp Ashraf are obstructing the implementation of the Iraqi Court’s decision to evacuate this Camp, said an Iraqi official.
Uday Khadran, the governor of Khalis, told the Al-Sumaria that an Iraqi court has ordered the evacuation of Camp Ashraf and the delivery of the Camp to the Khalis governorate.
Referring to the remaining members of the MKO in Camp Ashraf who refused to leave their long-held military headquarters, al-Khadran said, the presence of these individuals in Ashraf after the relocation of most of the group members to Camp liberty is by no means legal.
He called on the security services to fully carry out the court order and to purge the Camp of the terrorist elements of MKO.
Iraqi government has relocated some 3100 members of the terrorist group from their former military headquarters to Camp liberty, but 80 members have not left the camp yet.
The relocation was in line with a memorandum of understanding signed on December 25, 2011, between Iraq and UN to temporarily transfer MKO members from Camp Ashraf to Camp liberty for the UNHCR to review their refugee status and send them to third countries.
Al-Sumaria ,Translated by Habilain
A number of MKO members in Iraq wish to return to Iran and to rejoin their families there, but the problem here lies with their leaders both inside and outside of Iraq, said a member of the House of Lords of the UK parliament.
Baroness Emma Nicholson said in an exclusive interview with Habilian Association, that the MKO leadership does not allow these individuals to travel to Iran where they will not be prosecuted and their own families await them.
Referring to the expulsion of MKO members from Iraq, vice president of the EU Committee on Foreign Affairs added, “Western European states are not at all wishful of receiving them because of their recent past history. Albania has agreed to take several hundred in theory, but in practice has only accepted seventy two.”
Despite the repeated requests made by the UN Secretary General, just two European countries, Albania and Germany, offered asylum to members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq group. In late March, Albania offered to grant asylum to 210 MKO members in Iraq. But, the group’s spokesperson has immediately turned down the offer. Instead, he asked for the resettlement of all the members in the US or their relocation back to Camp Ashraf, their former military headquarters.
However, after some two months, 14 members of the terrorist group departed Iraq for Albania as the first group followed by the second and third groups which brought the total number of the group members in the southeastern European country to 71.
Germany has also offered asylum to 100 members of the terrorist group, but so far only a group of 7 individuals arrived in this country.
Israel is financing the terrorist Mujaheedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), sources in Iraq disclosed.
“Israel is providing financial support for MKO at a time when the grouplet is short of cash and financial resources …,” an Iraqi source told Fars News Agency on condition of anonymity.
“Israel, unlike the Ba’ath Party, believes that MKO is regarded as one of the main levers of pressure against Iran no matter where it is (inside or outside Iraq), while Ba’ath Party believes that if the MKO is expelled from the Muslim country it cannot serve the interests of the party as it did during Saddam’s rule,” the source added.
He noted that the groups which previously supported MKO have cut their support for the terrorist group.
The source said that head of the now outlawed Ba’ath party Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri is still supporting the MKO.
“This relationship (between the MKO and the Ba’ath party) has continued after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was toppled and executed because Al-Douri did not want to lose an important trump card like the MKO … ,” he added.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list.
The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group tortures and imprisons defectors.
The group was founded in the 1960s. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and western targets.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it came under the protection of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and helped him suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country. The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
A total number of 109 MKO members transferred from Camp Liberty, Iraq to Tirana, The Albania Ministry of Interior Affairs announced, as reported by Aria Iran Association.
The Albania Interior Ministry declared that since early July 2013 up to now, 38 liberty residents arrived safely in Tirana and resided in the Camp “Barbo”. These people departed, Iraq to “Rinas” airport in groups of 7, 14 and 17 people under the severe security measures.
The Liberty Residents relocate to Tirana by the help of the UNHCR. Albanian Government has made the Ministry of Interior Affairs as well as security and refugee organizations to supervise the humanitarian needs of the peoples transferred.
Based on the agreements between Albania and US, The Albania government accepted to accommodate 210 members of the MKO in Albania. So far 109 people have been transferred to Tirana and the remaining 101 camp Liberty residents will be relocated in small groups as well.
Following the UN Envoy Martin Kobler reports on the human rights violations by leaders of the Mujahedin-e Khalq against its members in Camp Liberty, the Albanian Interior Ministry confirmed the accusations and underlined that the offer to grant asylum to the Liberty residents is to prevent more bloodshed.
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++ Quite a few articles have been published in various Farsi sites responding to the MEK’s toadying to the Americans. Many have published documents from the start of the revolution which show that the Mojahedin Khalq were more Anti-Imperialist than the Islamic forces which came to power. The MEK criticised Khomeini and his followers for not killing the American embassy hostages. The documents include letters to the government calling for their execution and praising themselves for killing American servicemen before the revolution. Massoud Rajavi’s MEK said “Let’s make another Vietnam for the Americans”.
++ While western media and political circles ignored the MEK’s latest claim to new ‘nuclear revelations’, this provoked several articles in Farsi. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, in answer to a journalist’s question, dismissed the claim as unworthy of notice or answer. Ironically, many Iranian opposition figures have condemned Rajavi and the MEK for being played with in the hands of the Israelis rather than being an Iranian opposition. Many have suggested that this shows the desperation and panic of the MEK and the neoconservatives following the election result in Iran.
++ Letters have been written by various Associations to the Albanian Prime Minister thanking the country and asking Albania to give enough help to the people from Iraq and not leave them to the mercy of the MEK leaders. Many have referred to the agents of the MEK being sent from Paris to try to bully them into not speaking out about the MEK.
++ The Mojahedin Khalq continues to swear at Iraj Mesdaghi, Dr Ghassim, Rowhani and Yaghmai. Many commentators have again noted that continuation of this kind of character assassination does not work outside the MEK, but then again they are not doing it for this reason, but to keep the people inside afraid of leaving or speaking out.
++ Mehdi Khoshhaal was the guest of Mardom TV this week. He discussed the forced marriages, forced divorces and the forced separation of children in the MEK, and went into detail over some of the suspicious disappearances and deaths that have occurred over the years inside the MEK. He also talked about some of the people he knows who are still in Camp Liberty.
++ Karim Ghassim published an article in Pejvak Iran directly addressing Mehdi Sameh – who is still in the NCRI. Ghassim criticises him for blatantly lying about things. He specifically tells him that ‘we did not change sides as you try to imply, it is you and your masters who have changed sides’.
++ There have been quite a few reports in the Albanian media, including TV reports, on the arrivals from Camp Liberty some of which have been translated into Farsi. The arrivals are now living in a refugee camp alongside more refugees from other countries.
++ In a media interview, the ex-minister of national security of Iraq, Shervan Vaa’eli, said that Iraq has clear evidence that the MEK have close contact and cooperation with Al Qaida Iraq.
++ Faazel Mirani, Head of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iraq, which is affiliated to Massoud Barezani, announced to the media this week that the regional government of Arbil fully supports the central government of Iraq’s aim to expel the MEK as soon as possible. He went on to say that deleting them from the list of terrorism in America does not mean that the people of Kurdistan would ever forget their suffering at MEK hands under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
++ In addition to articles in English there have been many articles and comments about paid MEK advocate Bob Filner as someone not only anti -Iranian but also anti-women as he admitted sexually harassing several women of his acquaintance.
++ Mohammad Karami has published the second part of his ongoing articles about mysterious and suspicious deaths in the MEK. This week he talks about Mojtabah Mir Miraan, a poet who wrote under the pen name M. Baaroon. Karami explains what led up to the MEK announcing that he had killed himself. He explains the things the MEK did to him so that it resulted in him killing himself or (possibly) being killed by the MEK.
++ This week the fifth group of Camp Liberty refugees arrived in Albania. The group comprised 14 people, three of whom are notorious high ranking commanders, Hooshang Doodkhani, Afshin Ebrahimi and Akbar Chavoshi. Mohammad Karami questions, when there are so many needy and desperate people left in Camp Liberty, why, we wonder, does the MEK need torturers in Albania?
++ Nima Mihandoost’s article in Nim Negah website exposes another way the MEK have attacked Iraj Mesdaghi. The MEK published a three line paragraph followed by 255 signatures of people supposedly in prison in Iran during the 1980s. Mihandoost points out that the MEK claims that although Mesdaghi was a prisoner at this time, because all these 255 people were also in prison and all agree, then logically Mesdaghi doesn’t have the right to question the MEK over human rights abuses in Iraq.
++ Ali Keshgar, a famous Iranian opposition personality, published an article titled ‘Collaboration with invaders does not qualify as political activity’. He mentions the MEK and their mercenary role for the Israeli lobby and Americans. He goes on to say that the people who get paid by the MEK to speak in Paris are the same people who get paid from the other side to say that Israel and America should attack Iran right now.
++ UNAMI chief Martin Kobler used an outgoing speech at the UN to expose concerns about human rights abuses inside the MEK. Kobler told the Security Council that the United Nations had received complaints about the Iranian group’s leadership at the camp.
“Of increasing concern are the human rights abuses in Camp Hurriya itself by the camp leadership,” Kobler said. “Hundreds of daily monitoring reports suggest that the lives of Camp Hurriya members are tightly controlled.”
“A significant number of residents have reported to U.N. monitors that they are not free to leave the camp, to participate in the resettlement process offered by UNHCR, to contact family members outside Iraq, or to have contact with other relatives even within the camp itself,” he said, referring to the U.N. refugee agency.
Some Hurriya residents reported being denied access to medical treatment by camp leaders, while others spoke of verbal and other forms of abuse for disagreeing with camp leaders or voicing the desire to leave, Kobler said.
++ Mohammad Ali Esfahani another prominent Iranian opposition figure wrote an article also criticising the MEK for bringing the likes of John Bolton to talk in their favour since Bolton then leaves their ceremony and goes to the most right wing Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, to announce that Israel should have bombed Iran ‘yesterday’. Esfahani refers to Giuliani as another MEK paid figure working for the Zionists and mentions a few American retired military who he describes as the murders of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.
++Aryia Iran has collated reports in the Albanian media concerning the arrival of the refugees. Aryia Iran’s representative spoke with several reporters and made his own investigations. According to this report the Albanian interior ministry has said 109 have now been transferred to the refugee camp in Tirana.
++ Daniel Larison, writing in The American Conservative, criticises those who accept money to lobby for the MEK. “When the MEK was originally designated as a terrorist organization, that wasn’t wrongful. It was an acknowledgment that the group had employed and continued to employ terrorist tactics to pursue their political goals. The current pro-MEK line is that the group has renounced those tactics, which is debatable, but it’s the purest revisionism to say that the group never deserved to be labeled as a terrorist group. Given that the MEK is a totalitarian cult, it is crazy to think that their leaders have anything in common with “freedom-loving people.” In the extremely unlikely and horrifying event that the MEK obtained real power, they would not preside over anything resembling a democratic government, but would establish their own deranged brand of authoritarianism. If not because they are being paid to say it, why would otherwise sane and intelligent people repeat such obvious propaganda again and again?”
++ Akhbar e Ruz which lists every group’s activities and gatherings on its news page, added a short announcement for the NCRI’s three day annual gathering in Paris. It says that most of the announcements which followed this gathering were only to attack critics of the MEK and about Maryam Rajavi. Nothing about other members’ views have been published. It also points out that Karim Ghassim, Mohammad Reza Rowhani and Massoud Rajavi were all absent on this occasion, saying the first two resigned a couple of months ago.
++ Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) ridiculed the MEK for paying beggars to sit in their protest gathering outside the United Nations in New York.” A UN staff member who had worked in Tehran for several years and is quite familiar with the demographic and national structure of the Iranian society was quite bewildered to see people with colored skins in the terrorist MKO gathering.
“An elderly lady who was participating in the MKO gathering said that she was from South Africa and was a professional beggar.
“She said two people had asked her to come in front of the UN headquarters and wave the MKO flag in return for 20 dollars and a meal.”
++ Behzad Alishahi has published a satirical booklet entitled ‘The typical methodology of the MEK’. As somebody who has worked in many of their organisational sections he goes into every individual case and describes how a checklist exists to counter various challenges like when they face an ideological, military or political defeat. He shows how a few bullet points help the MEK to counter these threats. Alishahi describes the MEK methods for ‘how to keep forces, how to attack critics, how to attract foreigners, how to write articles, how to make sites and organisations’, etc. Item number 10 is ‘how to give a speech’ (which of course means Maryam Rajavi) and the methodology is: to scream and shout and never put yourself in a position where you would be asked a question. Then issue a paid advertisement about freedom and women’s rights and all the things you never believed in. Memorise a few sentences in the language of the country you are in – write them in Farsi font so you can read from it – and pretend you know what you are saying with a silly smile on your face. Then read out what you actually want to say, choose the relevant parts you like the most and repeat each one five times and then ask the paid audience to clap for it. The ‘toppling of the regime’ and ‘victory’ and the name of Massoud Rajavi must not be forgotten to be used. The next item is ‘how to make a speech’ for Massoud Rajavi. No 13 is ‘how to react to news’: Immediately boycott the sources of the news and announce that you imposed the boycott because you didn’t like the news. Then create some opposite news and use photoshop to back it up. Divert attention by making and editing films and photos and publishing these in made up sites, and as a last resort announce a ‘nuclear revelation’…
July 19, 2013