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Fakharzadeh, MKO members left the group after 20 years

Mehdi Fakharzadeh escaped Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty) and surrendered himself to Iraqi forces. Fakharzadeh, MKO members left the group after 20 years

After twenty years of membership in the Cult of Rajavi, Mr. Fakharzadeh stated at UN mission office in Iraq that he has defected the group and did not intend to stay in the MKO anymore.

He was handed to Iraqi authorities after he passed legal process in UNAMI and UNHCR. It is worth to mention that MKO leaders usually hold 3 to 4 hours meetings to manipulate members before they go to UN office to fill out asylum seeking forms and then they will let them go there, because they fear their defection.

Mr. Fakhar Zadeh is the second person who has escaped the Cult since last week. The other defector was Mr. Houshang Mirzaqorbani who last week escaped the Cult after two decades.

Translated by Nejat Society

October 30, 2012 0 comments

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh Funds Satellite Channel for MKO Terrorist Group

Riyadh is financing the launch of a satellite channel for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, NCR and PMOI), an informed Iraqi diplomat said. Riyadh Funds Satellite Channel for MKO Terrorist Group

"Our information shows that Saudi officials are behind the financial backings for the launch of a satellite TV network for the MKO terrorist group with the aim of propaganda against the ruling system in Iran," he told Ashraf News Website.

"MKO members living in Europe have met Saudi ambassador to London Mohammed bin Nawaf al-Saud and asked him to support the channel," the source said, adding that the Saudi official has accepted to provide financial backup for the project if the channel’s policies are set by Riyadh.

The channel named "Raha" will work in line with the policies of the al-Arabiya News Channel’s editorial policy. At least 45 people are currently working in the office of the TV channel in London.

The MKO terrorist 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.

Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 33 years of violent struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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.

October 30, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The New Order in Renunciation of Terrorism

No statement of renunciation is needed as only definition of terms has changed

The terrorist organizations that for national causes decide to forswear violent campaign and practice of terrorism may be granted the opportunity to accomplish their political demands through peaceful avenues. The groups and organizations that claim to have renounced armed campaign are mostly judged by their actions rather than the words. There are groups that indeed mean what they say and declare it publicly for the world to see and judge. On the contrary, there exist groups that their non-proclaimed but quoted claims of renouncing terrorism corroborate the intention of evading a just judgment rather than adhering to non-violent practices to fulfill the rightful objectives.

The removal of Mojahedin Khalq Organization MKO/MEK/PMOI from the State Department’s FTO has been seen as the result of a costly campaign by members of Congress, Washington lobby groups and influential former officials to bury the MKO’s bloody history of bombings and assassinations that not only killed American military personnel and businessmen but also Iranian personalities and thousands of civilians. It was also assumed a hard campaign to portray it as a loyal US ally against the Islamic government in Tehran. In fact, there does exist a credibility gap between the taken decision and the existing fact about the nature of MKO; it is impossible to consider a heavily armed and militant group transformed into a pro-democratic campaigner overnight with no officially made statement.

Consider the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) for instance. Through an officially issued statement, UVF declared that “as of 12 midnight, Thursday 3 May 2007, the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando will assume a non-military, civilianized, role”. Formed as an armed group in Northern Ireland, it declared war on the IRA and made note of the fact that they were “heavily armed Protestants dedicated to this cause”. In the course of its forty-year long armed activities, UVF had been reportedly responsible for the killing of some 550 people. Whatever the cause, it had created a nightmare of terrorism threat that led to its proscription as a terrorist group. Although the group had already declared a 13-year long ceasefire, it was still known responsible for a variety of scattered murders and crimes.

Transformation from a terrorist to a civilian organization includes measures as stated in the group’s issued statement: “All recruitment has ceased; military training has ceased; targeting has ceased and all intelligence rendered obsolete; all active service units have been de-activated; all ordinance has been put beyond reach and the IICD instructed accordingly”. The statement seems to be a sensible recognition of a new political reality that the world is no more a place for armed or violent actions, rather any pro-democratic move is welcomed if the repentant armed groups really mean it.

The sole move to recognize MKO a pro-democratic group that has never renounced terrorism is a decision made by the US for political considerations. MKO is a terrorist group with a forty-year long history of violence and the most vicious terrorist activities against Iranian people. There is no exact number of the victims of its atrocities but it is believed to reach thousands. Then, when reconsidering MKO’s terrorist status, if these terrors and atrocities have been interpreted as democratic deeds in a process of civil campaigns, MKO needs no issued statement of renunciation as nothing has changed but definitions of terms. Thus, according to a new definition of democracy, any group has the right to shed people’s blood for the cause of a self-defined democracy and accredited interests. But who are to assume the responsibility for the shed bloods remain an unanswered question in such a new political order.

October 29, 2012 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Abdul Hamid Raufian speaks of his years of imprisonment in the cult of Rajavi

Mr. Abdol Hamid Raufian who could manage to escape the terrorist Cult of Rajavi describes how he was first trapped in the hands of Rajavi’s gang:

I was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi Baath forces in 1988 (during Iran-Iraq war), I was then sent to Camp Ashraf following the deals made between MKO leaders and Iraqi forces. Since then we were severely kept under the group’s deceitful mind control system. Regarding their long-term programming they could cut us off the outside world, so they succeeded to change our minds about our country. These criminals could even cut us from our family who was once so precious to us. We were so extremely under pressure that we would use offensive words against our parents who were our dearest ones in life. We considered the criminal leaders of the cult, Massoud Rajavi and the evil Maryam “our everything” and we were made-up to serve them.

If you wanted to think about your family for a few seconds, they would humiliate you so severely that you would never think about them again. They would hold numerous meetings such as Current Operation where a large number of zealous members would attack you, verbally abusing you. Therefore nobody dared to talk about or even think about his family.

Four years ago, they gave me the letter my brother had sent to me via Red Cross, following my insistence on contacting my family. There was a phone number on the foot of the letter. I could call my mother under a heavy mental pressure because my contact was highly controlled by the cult leaders. I should talk with my mother after 23 years, and this was the start of thinking about an opportunity to run away from the cult. Thank God, I could find the opportunity.

Leaders of the cult tried to call families as Intelligence Ministry’s mercenaries and traitors because they had nothing else to say regarding families’ presence in front of Camp Ashraf. When the loud speakers were off, they said that they (families) ran away and then they would say that Iraqi soldiers were speaking in the loudspeakers. When they were encountered with voices of defectors via loudspeakers they had to claim, "You wont be executed or imprisoned if you return to Iran but you will have such a hard life ,you will earn so little that you will wish you would have stayed here with us to be safe.”

We were transferred to temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty) based on who the leaders chose to move. If one had declared to be volunteer to move to TTL, he should have been called to attend meeting immediately. They feared that he wanted to go there in order to be interviewed and get back to Iran, to denounce them. Thus, leaders of the cult decided who was supposed to move. Members had no choice.

Translated by Nejat Society

October 29, 2012 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Camp Ashraf after evacuation

Photos recently released after evacuation of Ashraf residents:

Salvage Equipments. A number of MKO members remained in the Camp in order to sell them

Guard Station, currently abandoned and ruined

MKO members set all documents and photos on fire before their departure

Dissident members to revenge the group leaders

Lion Statues, at Ashraf gates, stolen from a Park in Kermanshah (a city in the West of Iran)

The MKO leaders had dig a ditch around the Camp to prevent members’ escape

Members who remain in the Camp

Stones used by deceived members to throw at families picketing in front of Ashraf gates.

Conex where families were picketing, damaged by rocks thrown by group members

A metal piece, residents used to throw under vehicles to tear their wheels

Group members guarding at the Camp entry

The area in front of torturing room, the word “HARRASMENT” is seen on the ground.

Torture Room

Torture Room, closed circuit Cameras installed on the ceiling

Coffins

Camp Ashraf now

White board used for the group working schedule and priorities. Syria is circled s a crucial case for the group agenda

An example of MKO organizational structure:
Each Clothes rope is divided and named for individuals.

October 28, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Mujahadin-e Khalq: America’s protected terrorists gearing up against Iran

Unsatisfied in "crippling" Iran with sanctions, the US looks to be set for active operations there – and already has an in: a group called the Mujahadin-e Khalq, which in the near future could become the Persian equivalent of the Free Syrian Army. Mujahadin-e Khalq: America’s protected terrorists gearing up against Iran

On September 21, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton passed Public Notice 8050, de-listing the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) from the State Department’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, effective September 28.

What is MEK? Mujahadin-e Khalq is an Iranian Islamic militant organization in exile that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since its inception in 1965 in Iran, the group conducted assassinations of US military personnel and civilians working in Iran in the 1970s, jubilantly supported the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and opposed the release of American personnel, calling for their execution instead, fought against the Islamic Republic together with Saddam Hussein during the Iraq-Iran War (1980-1988) and set up headquarters in Iraq at Camp Ashraf.

In recent years, according to various sources including NBC, MEK teamed up with the Israeli secret service to kill Iranian nuclear scientists. NBC reported that US officials confirmed that “the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign but has no direct involvement”.

In 1994, the State Department sent a damning 41-page report to Congress on why the MEK is a terrorist organization; that designation was enacted in 1997. The report concluded: “It is no coincidence that the only government in the world that supports the Mujahadin politically and financially is the totalitarian regime of Saddam Hussein.” Well, the MEK’s mission to overthrow Iran’s leadership has not changed since, but the US agenda has: In a vertiginous about-face, Washington became the powerful protector of the Mujahadin-e Khalq.

Over the past few years, a formidable fundraising operation and campaign to de-list MEK from the Specially Designated Global Terrorist register gathered some high-caliber US supporters including General James Jones, President Obama’s National Security Advisor from 2009 to 2010; Bill Richardson, Energy Secretary and UN ambassador in the Clinton administration and Obama’s Special Envoy to North Korea; Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security; General Wesley Clark, former supreme commander of NATO; Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI; three former directors of the CIA – Michael Hayden, James Woolsey and Porter Goss; Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City; former UN Ambassador John Bolton; General Hugh Shelton, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002; and many others.

Top Washington lawyers and lobbyists made the case for the terrorist group as well: Akin Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld, Patton Boggs and others. Robert Strauss, of the firm of the same name, was US Ambassador to the Soviet Union during the critical months of August 2, 1991, through December 26, 1991. A senior member of the firm Tobi Gati was also head of the intelligence branch of the US State Department.

When speaking about terrorist groups, one might think of MEK as a ragtag bunch of cutthroats in shreds and tatters, confined to an unsanitary tent city. The truth is nothing of the sort. Watch this report by CNN’s Michael Ware dating back to 2007: You will see a marching army in crisp brand-new white-and-blue and khaki uniforms, entering a spacious parade ground framed by sculptures of lions. Camp Ashraf itself is one of the best-kept military facilities in Iraq and a sprawling city of 4,000 people, with shopping centers and hospitals, gardens, monuments, fountains and illuminations quite unexpected in the war-torn deserts of Iraq. The MEK is also armed with more than 2,000 well-maintained tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft guns and armored personnel carriers. Its supplies are guarded by US military police, and the camp itself is guarded by the American military.

Indeed, “The coalition remains deeply committed to the security and rights of protected people of Ashraf,” US Major General Gardner said, according to a Headquarters Multinational Force Iraq document dated March 11, 2006. Michael Ware calls the MEK “the US’ officially protected terrorists.” Another film of Australian origin shows Camp Ashraf’s own parliament and hundreds of tanks on the camp’s parade ground.

Well-versed in American political mores, the MEK’s leadership says the group is ‘pro-democracy.’ However, even the New York Times disagrees: In the middle of the 2011 de-listing campaign, it described MEK as “a repressive cult despised by most Iranians and Iraqis.”

‘Totalitarian cult’ is indeed the most frequent label applied to the MEK by people who come in contact with the group. And American support for MEK is not limited to military protection. Seymour Hersh, in his New Yorker piece“Our Men in Iran?” revealed that beginning in 2005, MEK fighters were trained in Nevada by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

Why is Washington backing the MEK? As General Shelton said at a conference in February 2011, “When you look at what the MEK stands for, when they are antinuclear, separation of church and state, individual rights, MEK is obviously the way Iran needs to go. … By placing the MEK on the FTO [Foreign Terrorist Organizations] list we have weakened the support of the best organized internal resistance group to the most terrorist-oriented anti-Western world, anti-democratic regime in the region.”

In an interview with Germany’s WDR TV back in 2005, ex-CIA operative Ray McGovern explained the logic: “Why the U.S. cooperates with organizations like the Mujahadin, I think, is because that they are local, and because they are ready to work for us. Previously, we considered them a terrorist organization. And they exactly are. But they are now our terrorists and we now don’t hesitate to send them into Iran …. for the usual secret service activities: attacking sensors, in order to supervise the Iranian nuclear program, mark targets for air attacks, and perhaps establishing secret camps to control the military locations in Iran. And also a little sabotage.”

Karen Kwiatkowski, formerly with the Department of Defense, makes a long story short for WDR TV: “MEK is ready to do things over which we would be ashamed, and over which we try to keep silent. But for such tasks we’ll use them.”

Now is the time for Russia and the world community to take active political measures preventing the United States from launching another proxy war in the Middle East. The MEK is much better trained and prepared for war than the Syrian rebels were at the beginning of the conflict, or even today. The MEK has all the necessary capabilities to become the military arm of an American attack against Iran. This time – unlike in Syria – the world should not ignore the march to war, and must take steps to prevent it from happening again.

By eronika Krasheninnikova, Director General of the Institute for Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives in Moscow, for RT

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

October 27, 2012 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Most Iranian Exiles Relocated From Northern Iraq Base

The United Nations’ special representative for Iraq says 3,000 residents of the camp that’s served as a base for an Iranian exile group have moved to a transit site.

Martin Kobler told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq that there are 100 people staying in Camp Ashraf in northern Iraq “until the technical handover is arranged.”

Kobler said all the residents will have interviews at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad, before getting the status of internationally protected persons from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Camp Ashraf has been the base of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an Iranian opposition group that has been designated as a terrorist organization by Tehran.

The United States removed the MKO from its list of foreign terrorist organizations in September.

October 25, 2012 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqis react over the removal of the MKO from the terrorism list

Ending the presence of the MKO in Iraq and the consequences of their remaining in the country are among the main topics discussed in Iraq’s political circles.

A number of Iraqis have come together to discuss the consequences of the removal of the MKO from the international terrorist Organizations list and its reflections on the country’s future.

In a conference organized by the Iraqi Center for Media Development, a number of Iraqi officials and ordinary people came together in the capital Baghdad to talk about the efforts of the US government to remove the MKO from the international terrorist organization’s list.

The tribal leaders criticized the silence of the United Nation’s towards this act and said that such step is raising doubts about the US intentions in the region and reveals the US future plans especially against Iran.

The organizers showed frustration toward the intervention of the US government in this issue, saying that the US is putting pressures on the Iraqi officials to keep the MKO in Iraq.

They said the main motive is to use MKO to launch attacks against the neighboring country.

Political observers say that the Iraqi government should take some serious steps toward the expulsion of the MKO.

The group is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

The attendees have condemned the efforts of the US government’s efforts in removing the MKO from the international terrorist Organization’s list and criticized the response of the United Nations towards such behavior, moreover many political observers have warned of the consequences of the remaining of the MKO in Iraq saying that the step has been taken to keep them in the country.

0Wisam al-Bayati, Baghdad

October 25, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Is the U.S. Administration hiding Massoud Rajavi?

Open letter of Iran Pen Association to Mr. Barack Obama, The President of USA

Dear Mr. President,

We are from Iran Pen Association in Europe that consists of defectors from the Iranian group Is the U.S. Administration hiding Massoud Rajavi? MEK which was just until recently in the US State Department FTO list. The majority of us have each spent more than twenty years inside the MEK and each one of us has abundant experience and knowledge of the MEK leadership, its cult nature and terrorist activities.
We believe that your administration has made a grave mistake by delisting the MEK and due to the terrorist nature of this group; the consequences of this decision will in near future harm many people, including US citizens.

Let us ask you of the whereabouts of MEK leader, Massoud Rajavi. Is he hiding under US Administration’s support?

The information and evidence given by the MEK defectors in recent years together with the views of analysts close to US administration suggest that by hiding and helping Massoud Rajavi in order to tame the MEK and utilize it as a tool; the US Government generates a terrible image of itself amongst the Iranian people and opposition groups. The Iranian opposition parties and personalities consider the MEK and its leadership as an authoritarian and religious cult which is light years away from the basic values of democracy. Therefore, the US Government support of the MEK and Rajavi ruins any reputation of your administration. Please note that many of the MEK defectors have legal cases against Massoud Rajavi for which he has to be brought to justice in any international court.

The reasons why we believe delisting this terrorist cult is a grave mistake by the US Administration, include:

1. The MEK has never put aside aggression and armed struggle. The MEK and its leadership has not officially and publicly announced that it is rejecting aggression and armed conflict and has never criticized its past and recent acts of terror. Indeed, every year the MEK celebrates the start of its terror campaign. In many European countries and in France specifically, by orders sent out by Maryam Rajavi; legally held meetings and gatherings of the MEK’s opponents are attacked by MEK members carrying sticks and bats, injuring peaceful protestors.

2. Rajavi has said many times that the MEK will regain all its weapons and bases it had to give up by the force imposed by the US Army. He is hoping he will have the arms and strategic barracks like Ashraf back and start his terrorist activities again.

3. Before the downfall of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, Massoud and Maraym Rajavi had always their "anti-Imperialist" slogans and in every morning parade and training, the MEK forces had to sing MEK composed anti US songs such as: "Yanki go home or your blood will be spilt" or "the battle against America". On September 11, 2001 when US came under Ben Laden’s terrorist attacks and the twin towers in New York were destroyed, leaving many of your compatriots dead, wounded, shocked and in tears; MEK Camp in Iraq was the only place in the world that Massoud Rajavi ordered celebrations and festivities. On that very day during one of his general gatherings, the horrific scenes of ruins and explosions were repeatedly shown many times while Rajavi rejoiced saying: "this (attack) is done by the reactionary Islam, just wait and see when the Revolutionary Islam and the Organization (MEK) set out to do its job"!

4. A python never gives birth to a dove. So, how can MEK with its cult leadership and structure all of a sudden change its course over a night? The MEK was founded with the aim of fighting what it called US Imperialism and the Imperialist paper tiger. Then, on the eve of Saddam Hussein’s downfall by US, Rajavi ordered all anti US documents, books, films, songs and archives be wiped and burnt and then set out his new policy saying the MEK should tactically show it is moving in parallel to US policy.

5. When the MEK was designated a foreign terrorist organization in President Clinton administration, Rajavi used to wear his military uniform and colt gun in the MEK general gathering , calling for an all-out war against USA, saying he is the iron fist against US. This was due to the fact that he had Saddam Hussein’s support by means of funds, weapons and several bases and barracks in locations in Iraq. But nowadays he has been forced to take off his military uniform and his forces at the transit camp in Baghdad await possible acceptance as refugees by other countries. Thus, Rajavi is now on his knees and begging you to save himself from the quagmire in Iraq.

6. MEK has no tolerance whatsoever to the slightest criticism from inside or outside. Inside the cult and under Rajavi’s absolute rule, any disagreement or opposition has always been ruthlessly suppressed by imprisonment, torture and execution. The members have no basic human rights and are cut off from the outside world. They have no access to radio or TV stations, no access to any means of communications. The members have been denied even the very basic right of contacting or meeting their families and Rajavi has branded the families as mercenaries and does not allow any contacts. So has such an entity with such a leadership exercising these gross violations really changed into a decent political group? Is it not naïve to think or suggest that the MEK has distanced itself from its dark and bloody history, while there is not any statement from its leader regretting its past?

7. Frankly speaking, because of the problematic nature of MEK, you cannot use it as a card, let alone a winning card. We believe you are betting not on a losing horse, but a dead horse. The MEK is on the verge of collapse and suffers from:
– Lack of legitimacy in the Iranian society and is much hatred by the Iranian people due to its joining Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran. MEK has no roots amongst Iranians.
– Lack of political legitimacy among Iranian opposition groups inside and outside Iran because of MEK’s terrorist activities and its leader’s personality cult.
– Being tools of other countries, like Saddam’s Iraq and some others, leaving it isolated and much detested by the people of Iran.
– MEK and its leader still believe in armed terrorist activities and savage means to reach its goals, while history shows the time of such bloody and brutal means has long expired.
– MEK’s leadership is incapable of understanding and analyzing the socio-political situation in Iran.

Based on the above mentioned reasons, we believe that your decision to delist MEK has no political justification and is irrational, lacking sufficient knowledge and insight into this cult. In our view this decision is bound to fail and it cannot help to democratize a terrorist organization which is ruled by the Rajavis’ personality cult.
Therefore, and with all respects, we ask you to revise this decision.

Yours sincerely,
Iran Pen Association, Germany

October 25, 2012 0 comments

Auver-sur-Oise

Rajavis’ Cult and the Risk of Terrorism in France

In the neighborhood of Islamic Radicals in Northern Paris, a large area of French territory is under the unofficial mandate of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. About one month ago, few Rajavis’ Cult and the Risk of Terrorism in France people could imagine that members of Muslim Rap band would bomb a Jewish super market, just a few kilometers further.

Besides, a radical Muslim, Muhammad Marah, from Toulouse, cruelly murdered a Jewish Rabi and his two children. Since last month, French news agencies have several times reported of the arrest of terrorist radicals in cities including Niece, Marseille, Toulouse, Paris and Strasbourg – according to the reports, arrested suspects are mostly France-born youngsters who have joined terrorist networks, or Christians who have converted to Salafi Islam. In other words, the origin of this terrorism pattern is undefined stemming from a spontaneous generation.

Some believe that such phenomenon is the outcome of Arabic Spring and Anarchistic tendencies running in Northern and Central Africa. Some others think of ancient reasons that are found in families and their not-so-adapted cultures. Anyway, today French people are facing the increasing threat of internal terrorism of terrorists who see themselves as Muslims like Ben Laden and their belief is very similar to that of religious people of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Al-Qaida.

But Salafis, whether related to Al-Qaida or Saudi- are not the only violent group in France. Mujahedin Khalq also consider themselves true Muslims and real opposition against Iranian government. They have the very volatile potential and motivation, according to those who lived with them. They have been living in large region in the North of Paris, running large scale propaganda to influence French community and personalities.

Iranians see the cult of Rajavi (the MKO) much more radical than Salafis of France and Europe. A look at the MKO activities indicates dangers threating European society’s particularly French Society.

In 1965 the main core of the MKO was formed by a number of religious people who advocated armed struggle against Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, America and Israel. Their major operations were the killing of 6 American citizens in which Massoud Rajavi, currently disappeared leader of the group, was direct instructor and theoricain of terror teams!

The group’s first terrorist acts were launched in the 1970’s eventually; a large majority of members and leaders of the cult were arrested. Founders and central members of the group were executed and Massoud Rajavi, the only survivor of core members, was sentenced to long-life imprisonment.

According to the recently-published memoirs of Parviz Sabeti, a high-ranking official of Shah’s Savak (Shah’s security and intelligence Service), Rajavi’s death sentence was abated to life imprisonment because of Sabeti’s interference, not because of his brother’s efforts in Europe. Sabeti reveals that Massoud’s brother Kazem Rajavi was Savak’s spy in Switzerland and directly in connection with him, he was working for shah’s Intelligence and Security organization. In the book, he reveals that Massoud Rajavi betrayed founders and central members of the group and he widely cooperated with Savak when he was imprisoned so his punishment was reduced.

A few years later, Massoud Raajvi, Mehdi Abrishamchi [ex-husband of Maryam Rajavi] and other leaders of the group who are now living in Ouver Sur d’Oise, Paris, were released following the Iranian people’s Revolution[in 1978].

The group found a new success thanks to huge waves of the revolution. It started organizing itself in Tehran and other cities of Iran ….

To be continued

By Mohammad Alavi,Translated by Nejat Society

October 23, 2012 0 comments

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