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Iraq premier reiterates necessity of MKO’s expulsion

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has urged the expedition of MKO members’ expulsion from the Iraqi soil within the framework of the agreement signed with the United Nations.
Iraq premier reiterates necessity of MKO’s expulsion
The office of the Iraqi Prime Minister released a statement saying, “In his Monday visit with Martin Kobler head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), premier Nuri al-Maliki underscored the necessity of ending the terrorist MKO group’s presence in Iraq before year-end.”

According to the statement, Maliki urged the United Nations to speed up the closure of MKO’s case in Iraq.

The relocation of roughly 3400 members of terrorist MKO group from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty is in line with the memorandum of understanding signed on 25 December between Iraq and United Nations to temporarily transfer them to a former US military base in Baghdad for the UNHCR to determine their refugee status.

Iraq’s forthcoming elections and excluding the country from chapter VII of the UN charter were among other issues discussed at the meeting.

Thursday, 22 November 2012 Habilian

November 22, 2012 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

PMOI: a cult in heart of the Republic

A member of French Senate has written a book on the Mujahedin Khalq (People’s Mujahedin of Iran/PMOI) earlier this year. Senator Nathalie Goulet of Orne published the book "PMOI: a cult in heart of the Republic" to warn her comrades in French Assembly and Senate about the threat of the cult of Mujahedin.

She writes of the MKO’s violent background and its devotion to armed struggle and terrorism, noting that the group has never published a statement or confession letter to officially denounce violence.

Revealing facts on cult-like practices of the group, she warns that a full-scale cult exists in the heart of Republic of France. She describes the MKO’s efforts in her working place, French Senate and Assembly:

"…in December 2011, a petition was being circulated in French parliament. It was signed by 74 senators and 282 members of the Assembly. It demanded support for the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran and its leader Maryam Rajavi, as well as guarantee for international protection of camp Ashraf in Iraq.

” As I know, a large number of these representatives think that they are supporting democracy in Iran by embracing the PMOI. However, I should emphasize that the signatories know almost nothing about the history of the PMOI. So I found it useful to notify the history of the group which is Marxist Islamist"

The author refers to the MKO’s treasonous cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against Iranian people and Iraqi Kurds and Shiits and notices the lack of support for the group among Iranian community. She poses questions to those French officials and governmental bodies who are involved with the cult of Rajavi:

"How can a group which has had no base in its county since long time, suggest analysis and advice on the current situation of the country?

Can you count on any party or organization that claims to be democratic?"

Ms. Goulet concludes: "Regarding the past of the PMOI, it’s hard to believe that such a group that still suffers all symptoms and problems of a totalitarian cult of personality, violent activities, hidden financial resources, lie, threat, accusation and destruction of civilians under the pretext of enlightening, has turned into a democratic organization!"
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November 21, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Exhibition on MKO Cult in Shiraz University campus

Islamic Society of Shiraz University held an exhibition on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in Fajr hall of the campus from November 4th until November 13th.
The exhibition included films, banners, posters and articles on the substance of the cult, its violent past and its current approach in today world as well as Q&A meetings with defectors of the cult and university professors.
The event was welcomed by students and scholars. Former members of the MKO were constantly present in the gallery hall to discus students’ questions. Visitors were eager to know who the mujahedin Khalq were, how the members were fist recruited by the group and what motivated them to leave the group. Trying to reveal cult-like nature of the cult and its threat against the international community, they described how they were victims of a full-scale manipulative system under the order of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh was one of the cult defectors who was received at Shiraz University to enlighten the minds of students who rarely had any idea of the MKO. He described cult-like techniques Rajavi uses to manipulate his members in order to achieve power in Iran.
As experts believe that the threat of cults is a crucial issue in the world today, the objective of the organizers of the exhibition was to illuminate the minds of their audience about the danger posed to the victims of Rajavi’s destructive cult and the risk of involvement of any ordinary person with mind-control cults including the MKO.
Exhibition on MKO Cult in Shiraz University campus

November 21, 2012 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

MKO members fate as the victims continue to remain unsolved

The Humanitarian Cause Remaining Unsolved
Mojahedin Khalq is de-listed but the fate of its members as the victims continue to remain unsolved

In its November 2012 edition, Afrique Asie wrote; “The State Department bowed to the judicial The Humanitarian Cause Remaining Unsolved court ruling obligating it to a revisal of the PMOI designation. It was a historic victory for the Iranian Resistance at the end of a legal and political journey in Europe and then the US, with many ups and downs. Justice provided a positive answer everywhere to the PMOI’s demands”. It appears there are still agencies misinformed as to the true cause of a terrorist group’s removal from the list. The real story is in direct contradiction to the group’s diffusion of disinformation propaganda.

A US appeals court had ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to decide within four months by October 1, whether to remove the designated terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization MKO/MEK/PMOI from the US FTO’s blacklist. Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, coordinator for counter-terrorism, had told reporters earlier in a conference that the group had misunderstood a recent court order that required the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to decide whether to remove the MEK from the terror list. According to the judges’ order, the Secretary of State had to make her decision by October 1 to keep the group on the list or remove it, but the order “did not mandate any particular result.”

The decision, however, was taken on the ground of a humanitarian move and MKO appears to have totally forgotten that in the process of its years-long lobbying efforts almost majority of the American former officials on the group’s payroll urged for removal of the group for the humanitarian cause of the people of Camp Ashraf and then Camp Liberty as a top agenda to facilitate their resettlement in third countries as soon as possible. Michael Mukasey, the former Attorney General, speaking in a Washington meeting arranged to urge delisting of MKO stated:

“The point of this move, of course, is to make it easier for the residents to be relocated outside Iraq. That’s the goal, as we all know. And that goal cannot be achieved so long as the State Department continues to make the United States the only country in the civilized world to designate the MeK as a terrorist organization. … it’s time to end this. The continued listing of MeK is the main obstacle to resettlement… .”

In a message sent by General James Jones to the same Washington Symposium, he stressed that “The right thing to do, the humanitarian thing to do, is for the United States to remove the terrorist listing currently ascribed to the people of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, and to champion a program of third country repatriation as soon as possible”.

Or when Dennis Hastert, another former Congressman, tried to make a logical argument for delisting MKO at the same meeting, he said:

“But when there’s liberty and life of human beings at stake we have to make that the exceptional focus on what is their well-being and what is the right thing to do. And to try to sacrifice a group of people’s well-being, their life, their ability to have a decent life, a humanitarian existence, should not be stopped by some political considerations in trying to massage a political or diplomatic situation.”

And MKO was removed from the list. But did it change the fate of Ashraf and Liberty’s residents to be sent and resettled in other countries? Absolutely not. The residents are now placed in a humanitarian plight that can be condemned as inhumane and practiced only in cultic settlements. And of course, the brag and show of those meetings in which American advocates lauded delisting of MKO as initiative to end the agony of its members has come an end; their mission is fulfilled, the cashes paid, and they have no obligation to feel any sense of responsibility towards these enslaved people.

Maybe these officials are also amazed to see that how MKO has managed to promote a humanitarian cause overnight to be demonstrated a historic victory for its propaganda machine and the humanitarian move of the State Department as a bow to its demands. They were paid their share in a massive campaign to abuse human rights for unjust political causes. However, it is not all the story. Sometimes it is the US that decides which group is terrorist depending on how that group suits national and political interests. And of course, the only thing nobody cares about is the fate, agony and plights of who under the pretext of human rights issues continue to be abused and remain the real victims.

November 20, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Camp Liberty resembles a prison?

MKO’s well funded disinformation campaign is seeking support in minor European capitals. The group’s lobbying efforts in Britain, France, Belgium,… is nothing new and to some extent they Camp Liberty resembles a prison? have won the support of a number of unaware or narrow-minded authorities of Europe. The most important success was the removal of the MKO from the terrorist list of European Union following long term lobbying activities in 2009.

In her recent act of disinformation, Maryam Rajavi addressed Estonian Parliament calling for support for the so called resistance of the Iranian people (!) against Islamic Republic. She dares to represent herself as Iranians’ attorney, while she doesn’t comply with the most basic human rights within her own camps either in Iraq or France.
Rajavi claims that the conditions of Camp Liberty (Temporary Transit Location which was previously Saddam’s Palace and then was turned into a camp for American troops) resemble the conditions of a prison and it does not meet humanitarian and human rights standard. However, defectors of the group who recently fled TTL describe an entirely opposite condition of the camp.

Majid Mohammadi, former member of the MKO fled Camp Liberty earlier this year. In an interview with Nejat Society, he explains how they were disappointed after moving to the new camp,”When the idea of moving to Liberty was proposed, the majority of guys thought that they would finally go to another place in which they would no more be limited and controlled and they would be able to have access to the outside world…but, we didn’t know that the Rajavis intended to build another Ashraf in Liberty.”

Mohamamdi reveals that “Organizational control and cultic practices were exercised much more severe than those in Camp Ashraf.”

The former member of the cult of Rajavi notifies that the daily mind control meetings at TTL last for twelve hours a day.”

Regarding facilities and equipments at Camp Liberty Mr. Mohammadi says:
” Residents live in Conexes. Each Conex is resided by 7 people. It is worth to mention that, according to arrangement made by UNHCR’s supervisor, each Conex was supposed to be resided by two people but the cult leaders placed 7 people, instead. They wanted to prevent private meetings and to have more strict control over members.”
The rest of Conexes were allocated to offices of commandants and mind control meetings including Current Operation (a self-criticism daily meeting in which members have to confess their thoughts during the day) and Weekly Cleansing (held once a week in which members have to submit oral and written reports on their thoughts, dreams… during the whole week), based on Mr. Mohammadi’s evidences.

UN representative on Camp Ashraf affairs in Iraq, Martin Kober previously stated that Camp Liberty “meets acceptable humanitarian standards “as a Temporary Transit Location.
Besides, Ambassador Daniel Fried, Special representative of the State Department said,” the conditions at Camp Liberty is not nearly as bad as described by the MEK.”

In contrary to the reports on normal humanitarian standards in Camp Liberty, the MKO propaganda still runs petitions and lobbying campaigns to call on UN to recognize the camp as a Refugee Camp in Iraqi territory where the people and the government oppose the presence of foreign forces particularly Saddam Hussein’s mercenaries who have the blood of Iraqi Kurds and Shiits in their hands, the MKO.

Majid Mohammadi describes the equipments of TTL –once used by US soldiers – and how MKO members were barred from using them. The leaders of the cult confiscated any equipment that gives members the joy of a normal life. Here’s Mr. Mohammadi’s testimony:

“Based on the agreement signed by Iraqi government and the UN authorities, each Conex should be equipped with TV, air conditioner and telephone…until the two –supposedly two- residents are granted asylum and leave the camp. But, the leaders of the cult confiscated all telephones.

"The TVs had no antenna. We were just allowed to watch MKO channel in the eating place at specific times.”

The former member of the cult of Rajavi recalls that they even were not allowed to use the gym – highly equipped for American troops. They were told,” If we open the gym, members want to build their body and this is definitely for their desire to have wife and a normal life. So suggesting the idea of using the gym is kind of opportunistic act.”

He notifies that the commanders of the MKO did not permit members to use the exercise mats. “They have the smell of life, they shouldn’t be used,” they said!

It is obvious that the leaders of the MKO do not want a normal life for their members. They urge UN to recognize their Camp as a refugee Camp because in that case they can simply prolong their stay in Iraq and eventually maintain their Cult structure. To achieve such an objective, "Rajavi doesn’t hesitate to make a thousand people die,” Mohammadi said.

European parliamentarians should watch out. They should be benefactors to stop human rights abuses committed by MKO leaders against TTL residents.

By Mazda Parsi

November 20, 2012 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi MP describes MKO’s crimes as “unforgivable”‎

A member of Iraqi Parliament describes Mujahedin-e Khalq’s crimes in Iraq as ‎inexcusable, and said the group’s presence in Iraq is a new challenge ‎for the government.‎
Iraqi MP describes MKO’s crimes as “unforgivable”‎
According to a report by Habilian Association, Arabic language news site Ashraf-news quoted ‎Haitham al-Jubouri as saying that Mujahedin-e Khalq is a new challenge for the ‎Iraqi government in addition to other active terrorist groups inside the country.‎

‎“Iraq’s position towards the group has not changed,” he added, calling MKO a ‎terrorist group who has perpetrated many crimes in Iraq.‎

The member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Haitham al-Jubouri went ‎on to say that, “the crimes of the group are inexcusable and will not be ‎removed from the memory of Iraq.”‎

He added that Iraq maintains complete information on MKO involvement in ‎‏1991‏‎ Shiite Intifada and suppression of Shiites and Kurds in Iraq.‎

The terrorist group assisted the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his ‎brutal suppression of Shiite and Kurd uprisings in ‎‏1991‏‎.

November 19, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Mojahedin Khalq , a Tool for Political Games

MKO has no explanation for explicitly glorifying machine-gunning American citizens

The undeniable fact in the removal of Mojahedin Khalq Organization MKO/MEK/PMOI/NCR from the State Department’s list of FTOs is that the decision is entirely a political move and has nothing to do neither with the worldwide coalition against terrorism nor with the reasons by which the group was put on the list. In its last issued statement on July 31, 2012, just two months prior to delisting MKO, the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism concerning to MKO’s activities states:

The group’s worldwide campaign against the Iranian government uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives. During the 1970s, the MEK staged terrorist attacks inside Iran and killed several U.S. military personnel and civilians working on defense projects in Tehran. In 1972, the MEK set off bombs in Tehran at the U.S. Information Service office (part of the U.S. Embassy), the Iran-American Society, and the offices of several U.S. companies to protest the visit of President Nixon to Iran. In 1973, the MEK assassinated the deputy chief of the U.S. Military Mission in Tehran and bombed several businesses, including Shell Oil. In 1974, the MEK set off bombs in Tehran at the offices of U.S. companies to protest the visit of then U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger. In 1975, the MEK assassinated two U.S. military officers who were members of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Tehran. In 1976, the MEK assassinated two U.S. citizens who were employees of Rockwell International in Tehran. In 1979, the group claimed responsibility for the murder of an American Texaco executive. Although denied by the MEK, analysis based on eyewitness accounts and MEK documents demonstrates that MEK members participated in and supported the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and that the MEK later argued against the early release of the American hostages. The MEK also provided personnel to guard and defend the site of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, following the takeover of the Embassy.

These have been the recognized reasons of perpetrating terrorist deeds just against the US interests and citizens that justified the maintaining of MKO on the list for 15 years, regardless of many more thousands of terrorist atrocities against Iranian people and then against Iraqi people when taking safe haven there. If we accept, and that is the fact, that these above mentioned anti-American terrorist operations have been considered the actual involvement in terrorist activities against the US, the fact is reaffirmed in The Secretary of State’s media note details when announcing the MKO’s delisting:

With today’s actions, the Department does not overlook or forget the MEK’s past acts of terrorism, including its involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens in Iran in the 1970s and an attack on U.S. soil in 1992.

However, neither has MKO ever renounced its anti-American stances nor has apologized the US government and the families of the assassinated. Instead, MKO devoted considerable efforts to deny what it named the accusations of “assassinating six American citizens in the 1970s” and to put the blame and responsibility on “a group (that) took advantage of the situation and expropriated the Mojahedin name” (Democracy Betrayed, 1995).

But what the group publicized in its papers published in Farsi was altogether different and approves the veracity of American’s claims and facts stated in the published reports and findings. In Mojahed No. 18 dated 8 January 1980, under an article entitled “Under the reign of repression and dictatorship, the fire of whose machine-guns targeted the American hirelings and attache?” we read:

The criminal Americans themselves have no doubt about the organization’s anti-imperialist stances because from the very beginning years of the organization’s armed operations (from 1970 onward), they have experienced the fire of Mojahedin Khalq machine-guns shot through the hearts of their hirelings and attaches. … From the very beginning of the occupation of America’s spy-den, the organization willingly mobilized all its forces to protect the move.

Then, has MKO any justifiable explanation for what it has explicitly stated and glorifying about machine-gunning American citizens and supporting the takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran? Unless it totally denies its gazette and the contents and makes another effort to attribute all to a different group! Although it is removed from the terror list and allowed some privileges to be utilized as another possible bullying force in a political game, as it is a truth that MKO is a fierce militant and dictatorial group maintaining high terrorist potentialities, MKO is never trusted with anything on the US soil as the reports and findings are still in effect.

Mojahedin.ws, November 15, 2012
http://www.mojahedin.ws/en/?p=16795

November 18, 2012 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Camp Ashraf is under the control of Iraqi government

The Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Danaiifar, has said that Camp Ashraf, which was formerly inhabited by members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), is now under the control of the Iraqi government.

Iraqi officials announced on September 16 that the Iraqi government had evacuated the seventh and final convoy of 680 MKO members from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty (Hurriya), a former U.S. military base near Baghdad.

It had been decided that 3200 MKO members living in the camp be relocated in eight groups, each consisting of 400 members, but the relocation of the MKO members was done in seven groups.

The relocation of the group was part of an agreement reached between the United Nations and the Iraqi government in December 2011.

In an interview with the Mehr News Agency published on Tuesday, Ambassador Danaiifar said that it has not been announced yet how many MKO members intend to return to Iran.

Danaiifar said on April 13, 2011 that MKO members could return to Iran under certain conditions.

“These persons can travel to Iran or any other country if they are willing to do so and if no criminal case has been filed against them in Iran or Iraq. They will also be given passports,” the Iranian ambassador said at the time.

The MKO started its activities as a terrorist group based in Iraq in the early 1980s. In addition to the assassination of hundreds of Iranian officials and citizens, the group cooperated with Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime in its repression of the Iraqi people.

November 18, 2012 0 comments

MKO leaders bar the visit of two sisters who have never met

Two sisters, 34 and 30, who have never met demand permission to visit one another

Mr. Ban Ki Moon

R: Zainab Hussein-Nezhad, 34, single, living in MEK Camp Liberty in Iraq – Baghdad
L: Mona Hussein-Nezhad, 30, married, living in Iran,

These two sisters know about one another but have not yet seen each other

UN General Secretary

With regards
I, Gorban-Ali Hussein-Nezhad, spent 30 years in the MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization) and managed to escape from Camp Liberty while moving from Ashraf Camp with the aid of UN human rights monitoring delegation, and gain my freedom.

I bear witness and wish to inform you and the international community that the MEK is by no means a freedom fighter and democracy seeking organization but a destructive mind control cult working against all internationally known humanitarian and democratic norms and values.

To give an example, the cult leader Massoud Rajavi, as a cultic practice to secure the existence of the cult and prevent it from elimination has banned all outside communications particularly family relations whether by phone or writing letters. In this organization contacting the outside world and especially family members is strictly forbidden. All means of gaining information such as papers, publications, television, radio, mobile, telephone, internet, post and etc. are banned and followers are only fed information through the cult’s own sources.

Through such limitations the cult has managed to keep more than 3000 individuals captive within their mental boundaries in a remote location in Iraq. Their families and the humanitarian organizations have accepted a great responsibility to rescue these individuals. Surely the UN has the biggest burden in this respect.

Dear Secretary General
The leader of the MEK had even prevented my elder daughter Zeynab Hussein-Nezhad (34) from talking to me while we were both inside the organization in Ashraf Camp. We were only allowed to visit once a year in the Iranian New Year (March 21) for about one or two hours where our conversation was totally controlled. This year this bas banned too and it is now more than one and a half years that I have not seen my daughter and have no news about her.

Recently I tried through the office of the UNHCR in Baghdad to visit her but I did not succeed. The UN officials brought her to their interview hall but the MKO leaders did not give the permission for the visit or even a telephone conversation and she was taken back to the camp. Following this, the cult forced my daughter to write a letter against me indicating that she has no desire to visit her father or talk to him.

Now my younger daughter Mona (30) who lives in Iran has come to Iraq to visit her older sister for the first time in their lives. I wish to ask you as the highest international authority, who strives to restore and maintain justice and human rights, to do all you can to ensure this visit to takes place. I also wish to ask the ICRC, the Iraqi Government, UNAMI, and the UNHCR to do their share to guarantee that these two sisters who are both in the same place now can visit each other and that the MEK leaders in Camp Liberty cannot place any obstacles in their way.
I thank you in advance.

Gorban-Ali Hussein-Nezhad – Baghdad

November 18, 2012 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

The sole victims of MKO cult are its members and their families

Human rights are known to be the basic rights and freedoms to which all people as humans are considered entitled: the right to life, liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equal treatment before the law, among others. Such rights are said to be natural rights which means that they are not earned and cannot be denied on the basis of race, creed, ethnicity or gender and are often advanced as legal rights and protected by the rule of law. These basic, natural rights cannot be violated under any circumstances and they have been interpreted and set forth in international human rights documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

To protect human rights is to ensure that people receive some degree of decent, humane treatment. Despite what resembles a widespread consensus on the importance of human rights and the expansion of international treaties on such matters, the protection of human rights still fails to be fully accomplished. Many conflicts are sparked by a failure to protect human rights, and the trauma that results from severe human rights violations often leads to new human rights violations. However, it is evident that human rights abuses and violations continue to occur in different parts of the world, but the worst occurs when the natural rights of people are violated under the claims of being defenders and condemning others for violating human rights.

Reportedly, Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the cult of Mojahedin, held a recent first-time lobbying meeting with a few members of Estonia Parliament’s human rights support group to discuss human rights violations in Iran and to elicit their support for its struggle. It seems that the Estonian MPs are actually unaware of the members of her group’s harsh conditions and their deprivation of the very basic and natural rights in Iraq. Long enslaved in Camp Ashraf and now located in a temporary transit location near Baghdad, the members of MKO are denied of the right to life and liberty and are kept against their will. They are not allowed to have any form of contact to the world outside and even with their family members many of whom have long requested and are waiting at the gates of the camp to see their children and relatives.

Against speculations that the Iraqi government may have created bureaucratic obstructions and hindrances for the Iranian family members that have deprived them of visiting the camp and its members, it is the group’s insular cultic views and regulations that prevents and prohibits contact with outsiders unless for organizational causes and interests and only arranged for certain trusted ranking members. Noteworthy, in some cases a session of meeting with families is arranged but it is supervised by the ranks and commanders from the group and the families are not left alone with the members to have a free conversation.

Have the Estonian MPs ever asked Rajavi how she can talk of struggling for the freedom of a nation when her group fails to recognize and respect the very natural rights of the members as the humans? Now the sole victims of the cult in need of help are its members and their families play a key role in setting them free. But the cult leaders at the order of Rajavi are insisting on keeping the members in isolation from the outside world and particularly from their families; the cultic relations and internal mind manipulation is still severely practiced within the cult. To prove their good will, the least Estonia MPs may ask from Rajavi is to first recognize and respect the natural rights of her group’s members before condemning others and demonizing them for violation of rights. Otherwise, it is considered another meeting to sacrifice human rights for inhuman political causes.

November 17, 2012 0 comments

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