Sweden

MEK involvement in massacre of Kurds on record

Open letter to the Chairperson of the Swedish Parliament

Greetings,
MEK involvement in massacre of Kurds on record
In a brave and humanitarian move, the Swedish Parliament passed a resolution on 5 December, 2012 acknowledging the massacre of Kurdish people. We as members of the Iran Pen Association salute this decision by the Swedish Parliamentarians and ask you to set up further investigations and research into the disastrous killings of Kurds, so that more people around the world would learn and realize how badly the Kurds have suffered under tyranny and therefore; similar atrocities against them in future could be prevented.

Among the ruling regimes in the Region which have suppressed the Kurdish people, the Iraq’s ousted dictator Saddam Hussein had committed the most savage crimes. Especially, by the chemical bombardment of the town of Halabche and later by attacking the Kurds with heavy weapons and artillery, tanks and missiles when they rose up against Saddam’s despotic rule at the end of the Kuwait War. In fact, it was in this very brutal war against the Kurds that Saddam Hussein used the Iranian group of PMOI/MEK armed forces to savagely suppress the Kurds’ uprising and widespread massacres followed.

We, the writers of this letter, are from Iran Pen Association in Europe that consists of defectors from this Iranian group PMOI/MEK led by Masoud Rajavi. Our activities include Human Rights promotion and helping Iranian refugees. The majority of us have each spent more than twenty years inside Rajavi’s cult in Iraq and each one of us is a living witness and has abundant experience and knowledge of the PMOI/MEK leadership (Masoud and Maryam Rajavi), its cult nature, terrorist activities and its rule of terror, deceit and humiliation inside the Organization and also its grave involvement in massacre of Iraqi Kurds. After the brutal suppression of the Kurds, Masoud Rajavi told his followers in a meeting in Iraq that Saddam’s deputy, Ezat Ibrahim, had personally hailed and thanked him for the killing of the Kurds and putting down their uprising. Furthermore, in video tapes discovered of meetings between Masoud Rajavi and General Haboush (the chief of Saddam’s secret Inteligence Service), Haboush thanked Rajavi for suppressing the Kurds and told Rajavi that he was then considered as a member of Saddam’s Baath Party leadership. In those days of waging war against the Iraqi Kurds, Maryam Rajavi ordered the PMOI/MEK armed forces to “run over the Kurds by tanks”.

The truth and reality is that due to the religious-cult nature of the PMOI/MEK, the extent and depth of its crimes in and outside the Cult, including its involvement in bloody massacre of Kurds; has still mainly remained uncovered and untold. Therefore; in order to shed light on Rajavi’s involvement in killings of the Kurds in Iraq during Saddam’s era, we are ready and willing to provide you with witnesses and documentation for this cause.

With best wishes for Christmas and a New Year of Peace and Freedom.

Yours sincerely,
Iran Pen Association

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Former members of the MEK

17 MKO members defect from terrorist group, reports say

A group of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members have reportedly defected from the terrorist group as internal dissensions intensify within the MKO. 17 MKO members defect from terrorist group, reports say

At least 17 MKO members have fled Camp Liberty near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad so far in December.

They have requested UN officials in Baghdad to help them leave Iraq and seek asylum in a European country.

A former MKO member, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he managed to escape from the former US military base near Baghdad International Airport on December 5, despite strict measures and tight controls on the movements of all MKO terrorists.

The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.

The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Canada drops MEK from list of terror groups

Move to delist Mujahedeen-e-Khalq follows similar decisions by US and EU

Canada’s government said Thursday that it has removed an Iranian opposition group once allied with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime from its official list of terrorist organizations.

The government’s move to delist Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, follows similar moves by the United States and the European Union.

The MEK, a small, armed exile group, has said it wants to replace Tehran’s clerical regime with a secular government through peaceful means.

The MEK, also known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, carried out a series of bombings and assassinations against Iran’s regime in the 1980s and fought alongside Saddam’s forces in the Iran-Iraq war. But the group says it renounced violence in 2001.

The United States noted when delisting the Paris-based group in September that the MEK had not engaged in terrorism for more than a decade.

Any person or group on Canada’s terrorist list may have their assets seized, and there are criminal penalties for assisting organizations that are on the list.

Critics of the MEK say it has cult-like characteristics and that delisting it would be seen even by moderate Iranians as an endorsement of terrorism.

Maryam Rajavi, the group’s leader, welcomed the decision.

“The designation of the most anti-terrorist and anti-fundamentalist movement in the world only emboldened the real terrorists and the godfather of terrorism and fundamentalism, namely the dictatorship ruling Iran,” she said in a statement.

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Iran

Canada’s Blind Obedience to British Foreign Policy

Iranian MP Deplores Canada’s Blind Obedience to British Foreign Policy

A prominent member of the Iranian parliament censured Canadian officials for their blind support and obedience to Britain’s foreign policies, particularly in dealing with Iran’s issues. Canada's Blind Obedience to British Foreign Policy

"The Canadian government is not an independent government and all its measures are rooted in the British government’s moves," member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Saleh Jokar said Saturday.

He said Canada implements decisions made by the British government and follows up the UK in all fields, particularly in foreign policy.

On December 2o, the Canadian government announced that it has removed the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) from its official list of terrorist organizations.

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).

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UN

MEK terrorist organization previously hampered resettled outside Iraq

In an interview with Ashraf News, the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs in Iraq, Georgi Boston said that the delay in re-settling the MEK individuals in

Representative of the President of UNAMI: MEK terrorist organization previously hampered resettled outside Iraq

European countries is because of their former association with terrorist activities. He added that the MEK is illegal in Iraq under the Iraqi constitution.

In an interview in his office in Baghdad, Georgi Boston said that "the United Nations is working earnestly to end the presence of the MEK organization there in coordination with the Iraqi government."

Georgi Boston said that the United Nations Mission discussed with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ways to resettle MEK members in other countries, pointing out that interviews will be conducted with residents of Camp Liberty in the coming days.

The UN official revealed that dozens of members of the organization who defected and surrendered to the Iraqi authorities will be given priority in the interview process and that the legal action to resettle them outside Iraq after they obtain refugee status in European countries has been discussed with them.

Georgi Boston strenuously refuted as unfounded accusations that UNAMI and in particular Martin Kobler acted as ‘tools of the Iraqi government to put pressure on the MEK’. He said Martin Kobler had sought from the outset to move individuals of the MEK to Camp Liberty on a voluntary basis, and that this process was overseen throughout by a delegation from the UN. He said the UN worked alongside the Iraqi authorities to fulfill their mutual agreement last year to close Camp Ashraf.

He went on to say that 47 individuals had split off from the MEK after arriving in Camp Liberty and surrendered to the Iraqi authorities. UNAMI had met with them and provided records to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In addition, there are others who had left the MEK while in Camp Ashraf.

Mr Boston rejected as false the MEK’s claims that after removal from the US terrorism list, the group would be able to stay in Iraq and be granted political asylum status there. He said the Government of Iraq has said this is impossible and asked us to accelerate the removal of the MEK. The MEK was involved in terrorist acts against Iraqis and was used by the former regime as a repressive tool against the Iraqi people.

Asked about the reluctance of some European countries to accept MEK members for resettlement, Mr Boston said that the MEK’s history of terrorist activities was hindering the process, but that the UN mission was working hard to find a solution to this problem. He stressed that in the meantime the UN had information on a daily basis on the status of the situation in Camp Liberty and its residents.

Translated by Iran Interlink

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MKO Nearing Death

The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) is at the end of the road with no hope of return or survival, a senior political analyst said.

"The MKO has reached the end of its rope, and its members know well they have no opportunity either in Iran or in the foreign countries with their outdated group," said Dr. Mohammad Sadeq Koushki in an interview with Habilian Association, a human rights NGO formed of the families of 17000 Iranian terror victims.

His remarks came as the ringleader of the terrorist group, Maryam Rajavi, has embarked on a tour to deliver speeches at the Parliaments of the European countries.

Koushki said MKO’s presence in the parliaments of the European countries is not a new phenomenon, and explained that the group is seeking to "inject hope of survival" into its followers and supporters.

"The US delisting of the grouplet from its roster of terrorist organizations could be since some of its members can be useful (for Washington) in the future," he added.

The faculty member of the Tehran University added that the MKO’s prowling around inside the corridors of the European countries’ parliaments dates back to over 20 years ago, and said, "These vagabondages were merely done to inject hope of survival into their followers."

Koushki underscored that the MKO "has long been expired."

"Although some of its members have managed to take refuge in the European countries and defame the Islamic Republic of Iran, they must accept that there is no hope for them in future," he concluded.

News reports from Camp Liberty, the transient settlement facility of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) in Iraq, said that MKO ringleaders fear that members might defect and escape from the Camp en masse.

According to a report by the Iran-based human rights Didehban Center, during the last three weeks at least 9 members of the MKO have managed to escape from Camp Liberty.

Other reports revealed that the members of the terrorist group have disobeyed the orders of Massoud Rajavi, the MKO’s main ringleader, adding that disobedience among the MKO has been on the increase recently.

Also, 300 members of the MKO refrained from signing a written commitment ordered by Rajavi to accompany the terrorist group in any future event.

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the group are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

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 puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The 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 the 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 argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, 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.

Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Canada drops Washington backed MKO from blacklist

The Canadian government says it has removed the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terrorist organizations.
Canada drops Washington backed MKO from blacklist
Ottawa’s move to delist the MKO terrorist group followed similar moves by the United States and the European Union.

In September, Washington formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations one week after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move.

The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials.

Out of the 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, 12,000 of them have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.

The MKO terrorists fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where they had the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala near the Iranian border. They even helped Saddam to crush the uprisings of Iraqi Kurds and Shias in the 1990s.

The group acted as a spy apparatus for US forces in Iraq after Saddam’s fall in 2003.

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