Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Iran exiles say will move group to new Iraq site

An Iranian opposition organisation said on Saturday it is ready to move another group of its Iran exiles say will move group to new Iraq siteIraq-based members to a new site near Baghdad after a delay which has dragged on for several months.

"As a gesture of goodwill, the residents of Ashraf will commence the 6th convoy of 400 residents from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty on August 23," Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran which includes the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, said in a statement.

In return, Rajavi said she expects Washington to renew "its commitments to the approach to delisting" the PMOI as a terrorist group, resolving "humanitarian issues" at the new site and ensuring "the safety and security" of its residents.

The PMOI and its affiliates have issued a torrent of statements complaining about living conditions at Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad to which its Iraq-based members estimated to number 3,200 began relocating from their long-time base of Camp Ashraf in late February.

For several months, the 1,200 PMOI members remaining in Ashraf have refused to move to Liberty as a result of those complaints. Were the 400 to move on Thursday, it is not immediately clear when the remaining 800 would be transferred.

They are moving from Ashraf to Liberty as part of a deal between the United Nations and the Iraqi government that aims to see the exiles relocated outside the country.

The US has said that moving from Ashraf could facilitate the group’s removal from the terror blacklist.

UN envoy Martin Kobler, who has been working to resolve the issue but has been the target of a barrage of PMOI attacks for the alleged poor conditions at Camp Liberty, welcomed the announcement that the 400 exiles were ready to move.

His office said in a statement that "the United Nations calls upon the remaining residents of Camp Ashraf to also start preparations for additional convoys to Camp Hurriya (Liberty), in order to peacefully complete the relocation process."

The leftwing PMOI was founded in the 1960s to oppose the shah of Iran, but took up arms against the country’s new clerical rulers after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Now-executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the PMOI to establish Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border after he launched the 1980-1988 war against Iran in which the group reportedly fought alongside his forces.

He also provided financial backing to the group, which has since said it has renounced violence.

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UN

UN envoy welcomes latest transfer of MEK to transit centre

The United Nations top official in Iraq today [18 August 2012] hailed the announcement of a further transfer of Iranian exiles currently located in a camp outside of the capital, Baghdad.UN envoy welcomes latest transfer of MEK to transit centre

“I welcome the announcement that the next group of 400 residents are willing to commence the move from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya immediately after the Eid holiday,” the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Iraq, Martin Kobler, said in a news release issued by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which he also heads.

A Muslim holiday marking the end of the month of fasting known as Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr is observed on Monday in various countries around the world.

In line with a memorandum of understanding signed in December by the UN and the Iraqi Government, some two-thirds of the residents, or nearly 2,000 people, have been relocated from Camp Ashraf – now known as Camp New Iraq – to a temporary transit location near Baghdad, known as Camp Hurriya, where a process to determine refugee status is being carried out by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Close to 1,300 individuals – Iranian exiles, many of whom are members of a group known as the People’s Mojahedeen of Iran – are still awaiting transfer from Camp Ashraf to the transit centre.

“I request the Government of Iraq to be generous with regard to the humanitarian needs of the residents,” Mr. Kobler said. “I also reiterate my appeal to Member States to accept the residents for resettlement in their countries.”

In addition to Mr. Kobler, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has also previously urged all parties to avoid violence and work together to peacefully conclude the transfer of the remaining Iranian exiles.

The UNAMI news release also noted that there has been continuous progress in efforts to improve the living conditions in Camp Hurriya.

“The United Nations continues to support a peaceful solution to the issue of Camp Ashraf, continues to monitor the relocation process, and provides 24/7 monitoring in Camp Hurriya,” the Mision stated, adding that it calls upon the remaining residents of Camp Ashraf to “also start preparations for additional convoys to Campy Hurriya, in order to peacefully complete the relocation process.”

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Iraq

Iraq Arrests MKO Spokesman

Iraqi security forces arrested the spokesman of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization Iraq Arrests MKO Spokesman(MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) in Iraq, local media reports said.

According to "Ashraf News" website, Mohammad Eqbal was arrested after the office of the Iraqi prime minister issued an arrest warrant for him on charges of provoking MKO members against the Baghdad government and the terms of the Baghdad agreement with the UN on the presence of the terrorist group in Iraq.

Eqbal has also been charged for resistance against the Iraqi government’s decisions, specially evacuation of the MKO terrorists from the group’s main training camp, Camp Ashraf (now the Camp of New Iraq).

Earlier in July, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the UN Secretary-General’s Representative in Iraq Martin Kobler agreed to put an end to the dossier of MKO’s presence in Iraq in accordance with the deadlines announced last year.

According to a statement issued by the prime minister’s office, Maliki met with Kobler in his office. During the meeting, the two sides emphasized the importance of cooperation and coordination between the Iraqi government and UN representation to help it perform the tasks entrusted to it.

"They also discussed issues of common interest," said the statement.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

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).

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

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.

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Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

MKO Crisis Mongering in Syria

While the ongoing Syrian civil war faces the most serious phases, the news media report of the intervention of terrorist group in the battle against Syrian government. As the international community apparently makes efforts to open peace talks between Assad government and the opposition, members of terrorist groups like Mujahedin Khalq Organization are mobilized to Syrian borders to join the opposition forces.
On August12, 2012 PressTV quoted an unnamed Syrian security official that five MKO members were arrested as they attempted to enter Syria. [1]
A few months earlier on May29, PressTV had also reported that the MKO was organizing operations in Syrian territory. PressTV quotes Mohamamd Javad Hasheminejad the director of Habilian Association – data base of 17000 terror victims in Iran- as saying, ”we have conclusive proof and documents showing that the MKO has a strong and significant presence in Syria.”[2]
The MKO acts as a mediator to funnel arms and money to Syrian armed opposition, according to Mr. Hasheminejad. [3]
Syrian officials warned about MKO’s training of terrorists in Turkey as well as the semi-antonymous Kurdistan region in Northern Iraq. [4]
In his famous article in New Yorker,”Our Men in Iran”, Seymour Hersh reported of an MKO training Camp in Nevada, America. Hersh spoke to various sources to verify his allegations for instance he writes of a senior Pentagon consultant who explained how the MKO got so much efficient for the West. ”Part of it is the training in Nevada. Part of it is logistical support in Kurdistan, and Part of it is in Iran,” he told Hersh. [5]
There are other reports on US-MKO-Kurds relations.
In the early August, Habilian reported of a meeting between a number of US and Turkish officers and some high ranking members of the MKO. The report cites from an Iraqi security source that the meeting decreed that Peshmarga forces transfer a number of MKO elements from Iraq to Turkey and then to the northern parts of Syria in order for these anti-Iran terrorists to join the so-called Free Syrian Army. [6]
Some areas in Iraqi Kurdistan have been turned into military bases to train armed groups fighting Syrian government, according to Arabic language Ur News Agency. [7]
Reportedly the MKO is not the only terrorist group which is activated in Syria to oppose Assad’s regime. “The most shocking development to come out of the conflict in Syria is that Washington is openly supporting Al-Qaida, militarilly, financially and politically,” writes Saman Mohammadi of the Excavator.[8]
Mohammadi also points out Toney Cartalucci’s article in which he writes of a Libyan terrorist group that is paid by the UK government to join Syrian Opposition. [9]
“Washington’s support for MeK terrorism against Iran and Al-Qaida terrorism against Syrian cannot be legally, morally and politically defended,” Mohammadi asserts.[10]
Terrorist groups including Al-Qaida and the MKO are notoriously known opportunists who lie in wait to fan a spark of division and crisis into fire.
Mazda Parsi

Reference:
[1] PressTV, Syrian security forces arrest five MKO terrorists: report, Aug12, 2012
[2]PressTV, MKO planning major terrorist operation in Syria: Report, May29, 2012
[3] ibid
[4] PressTV, Syrian security forces arrest five MKO terrorists: report, Aug12, 2012
[5]Hersh, Seymour, Our Men in Iran, The New Yorker, April6th, 2012
[6]Habilian Association, Report: MEK to join terrorists in Aleppo, Aug7, 2012
[8]Mohammadi, Saman, Washington’s Anti-terror Narrative Comes Unglued in Syria, The Excavator, Aug12, 2012
[9] ibid
[10] ibid

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MEK May Remain on U.S. Terror List

WASHINGTON — State Department officials are preparing for a possible decision by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to redesignate an Iranian opposition group as a terrorist Iran Group May Remain on U.S. Terror Listorganization, in part because of the group’s resistance to abandoning its camp in Iraq, two American officials said Wednesday.

The group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen, has mounted a costly campaign to be removed from the terrorist list, enlisting an array of prominent American politicians and former military officers to press the case that the group abandoned violence years ago.

The two officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter involves litigation, said Mrs. Clinton had not made a decision yet. But they said the group’s refusal to complete a move from Camp Ashraf to the former site of Camp Liberty, near the Baghdad airport, may doom its bid.

Under a court ruling, Mrs. Clinton must make a decision on the terrorist listing before Oct. 1. While the group, also known as M.E.K., carried out bombings in Iran in the 1970s against the shah’s government and later against the Islamic government, causing the death of several Americans, by most accounts it has not engaged in terrorism in recent years.

Asked why the M.E.K.’s failure to move from Camp Ashraf was relevant to the terrorist designation, one official said that the group had long used the facility for paramilitary training. Though the group was disarmed after the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he said, a refusal to move would raise questions about whether the group has truly changed its intentions.

A spokesman for the M.E.K. in Paris, Shahin Gobadi, said in a statement that linking the group’s cooperation in relocating and its designation as a terrorist group would be “illegal and illegitimate.” He said that to relist the group would be a “license” for Iraqi forces to “massacre” the group’s members in Iraq, and that the State Department would bear responsibility.

Under orders from the Iraqi government to vacate Camp Ashraf, which was given to the M.E.K. by Saddam Hussein, the group moved about 2,000 of the 3,200 residents to the new location to await a possible move as refugees to new countries. But the convoys stalled in May after M.E.K. leaders said conditions at Camp Liberty were inadequate.

The Iraqi government has close ties to Iran, which has complained about the presence of its sworn enemies at Camp Ashraf. A reported 47 M.E.K. members have been killed in previous clashes with Iraqi security forces, and both American and United Nations officials have urged the group to complete the move to avoid further violence.

On July 15, a 26-truck cargo convoy delivered air-conditioners, furniture, video games and other supplies from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty with the permission of the Iraqi authorities, a breakthrough that American officials hoped would persuade the M.E.K. to finish the transfer of the remaining 1,200 residents.

Instead, M.E.K. officials voiced new complaints about the conditions at Camp Liberty, which they described as a “prison,” and so far they have refused to resume the move. Dozens of members of Congress have written to Mrs. Clinton to express concern about the state of the camp, but American officials who have visited it report adequate conditions, including ample water and electricity and even a recent shipment of 200,000 cans of soda.

By SCOTT SHANE

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The cult of Rajavi

What’s new at Camp Liberty in Baghdad?

Liberty base is a huge military facility near Baghdad International Airport, which was originally created as part of a bigger base called Victory, to house American troops in Iraq. Formerly named Victory North, after September 2004 it was renamed Liberty. Over the current year some 2000 inhabitants of Camp Ashraf of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, Rajavi cult), were moved to this base as a United Nations Temporary Transit Camp from where they are to be eventually transferred out of Iraq. In May the MKO stopped cooperating with the relocation process and at the present time around 1200 members of the MKO have remained stuck in Camp Ashraf.

Information received from inside both Ashraf and Liberty relates that all other tasks can be stopped inside the MKO so that the process of mind manipulation and brainwashing sessions are not stopped. These reports state that each member attends 3 to 5 meetings of this kind each day. In these meetings – under the label of opportunism – the issue of escaping from the cult is discussed and everyone is continuously told that leaving the cult is the most severe sin that a follower can commit. The MKO argues that leaving the cult undermines the resistance against Iran and damages their struggle. By doing this they intend to create mental barriers for the members to keep them captive inside the organization.

Comparing
These reports from inside the MKO indicate that there is an ideological argument within the Organization which forbids the members to compare themselves with others.

Since the relocation process began in February several members who have been transferred to Camp Liberty have had routine interviews with UN officials in Iraq. These people were put forward by the MKO and the process is still ongoing. Others were puzzled as to why some people have been sent for the interviews and they haven’t. They have been asked to report to their superiors if they have such sinful thoughts.

The same argument has been introduced in Camp Ashraf. Some are wondering why they have not been sent to Camp Liberty and are made to remain in Ashraf. They also have to report that they are comparing themselves and their situation to that of others.

Possibility of going abroad
Another argument amongst the residents of the Liberty is about the possibility of their being sent abroad. Since the camp is located near to the airport, most inhabitants watch the airplanes taking off with sorrow and regret.

The cult leaders have asked the members to report such sinful desires to their superiors as a cultic practice. These kinds of thoughts are severely denounced and are considered as ideological weakness.

Keeping the members busy
One method of manipulation used by destructive mind control cults is to keep their followers busy with useless tasks all the time in order to prevent them from thinking freely. This method is used systematically inside the Rajavi cult to render the members so exhausted that their minds cannot function properly.

When members were transferred from Ashraf to Liberty they were only permitted to take personal possessions. But the MKO managed to also take some stretchers as medical equipment. These stretchers are now used to shift sand. They have the members move sand which is stored in one place and which is meant to be used to pave the passageways between the bungalows. The members are forced to relocate this sand from one place to another using the stretchers, and they keep doing this using various excuses. They are also asked to separate out large pebbles from the sand with the excuse that when they pave the pathways these would hurt the elderly residents.

The exhaustion caused by this kind of hard work prevents the members from thinking about their uncertain future and the deadlock they are in.

Conflicts
The reports from Camp Liberty also indicate that there is constant conflict between the members and their superiors. Such conflicts are due to the tense situation inside the camp caused by the uncertainty of almost everything and manifest in swearing and name calling. The extent of this conflict is at a stage that one can predict they will soon turn into physical conflict.

Guests
Further information reveals that some members who insist on leaving the cult are being coerced to stay as guests. Since they have been made afraid of the outside world and they believe they have nowhere to go, they have accepted this. This has been Rajavi’s latest technique to keep his followers inside the cult and prevent them from leaving. These people are also asked to participate in the meetings but they refuse and say that they are only guests.

Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Mojahedin Khalq new scam to collect money in the west

Open letter to the European authorities

We are informed that Mojahedin khalq, aka, National Council of Resistance, aka PMOI,aka MEK has started a fund raising program claiming that the collected money would be spend on behalf of those people who were hurt in the recent earthquake in Iran. Sources report that MEK leadership has told its activists that it is an excellent opportunity to collect a large amount of money for the organization (MEK).

According to the information we have received, MEK cell leaders in most of European countries including UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden and also in North America are told to use any possible means in order to collect money.
Mojahedin Khalq new scam to collect money in the west
MEK activists are to approach Iranian communities as well as humanitarian organizations and individuals in western countries and try to raise funds for their claim. MEK members who are active in this program have learned not to introduce themselves as the group’s members and fake their real identity.

Hereby we would like to inform all organizations and individuals about the terrorist group`s intentions that collected funds by MEK is not to support any humanitarian cause but for supporting a terrorist organization and its money laundry activities.

MEK is a Foreign Terrorist Organization and is black listed by the US government. According to US law, any financial support to this group means supporting worldwide terrorism and is subject to charges.

We would like to ask all humanitarian organizations and individuals who are willing to support Iranian victims of earthquake to send their helps through known and verified sources such as the Red Cross. Also any suspicious people who try to collect money should be referred to law enforcement organizations.

Community of Independent Bloggers

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Terrorist groups and the MEK

Commander Terms MKO Terrorists Role Model for Syrian Rebels

A commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) described the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCR and PMOI) as a role model for Syrian insurgents.

"Mojahedin-e Khalq is our role model, and we inform them that all doors of our houses are open to them," Malek al-Kurdi, a deputy commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army, said, addressing a joint meeting of the MKO and the ringleaders of the anti-Assad armed rebel groups.

According to the Habilian Association – a human rights group formed of the families of 17,000 Iranian terror victims – his comments came just days after a highly-placed security source told Arabic language Ur news agency that hundreds of terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq members have entered Syria to back the so-called Free Syrian Army.

Another senior official with the insurgent group thanked the MKO terrorist group for its support and solidarity with armed rebels in Syria.

Earlier reports from Syria said Security forces have arrested five MKO terrorists along with 35 armed insurgents, local media report said on Sunday.

Informed security sources in Syria said that 40 armed elements had been arrested along the country’s borders on Monday when they were trying to infiltrate into Syria.

"It has been revealed after interrogations that five of these armed people are members of the MKO," the source said on the condition of the anonymity.

The MKO members also confessed that the terrorist grouplet is training Syrian terrorists on Turkey’s soil and under the support of some Arab and western states.

A Saudi colonel recently apprehended by the Syrian security forces disclosed that the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization has played a major role in the recent conflicts in Syria.

According to the colonel, a number of 20,000 terrorists, among them a number of MKO members, were due to attack Damascus from four directions and occupy the city after the explosion inside the Syrian national security headquarters in the capital on June 18.

Also, the MKO terrorist group announced last week that it had hosted a number of Syrian dissidents at the headquarters of its ringleader Massoud Rajavi in France.

The attack on Damascus was foiled by the Syrian troops, but the colonel did not have any further details as he had been arrested in the midst of the attack.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.

The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.

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Iraq

Iraq: MEK affects territorial integrity

There is no way in which a compromise can be made with the Mujahedin-e Khalq and the closure of Camp Ashraf is a problem concerning Iraq’s territorial integrity, said Iraqi Prime Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's media advisor.Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s media advisor.

Referring to the final stages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) expulsion from Iraq, Ali al-Moussawi condemned as unacceptable MKO’s objections to the conditions at Camp Liberty, Habilian Association website reported on Sunday.

Al-Moussawi called on the western countries to accept the members of this notorious cult.

He went on to say that western countries’ refusal to accept MKO members in their countries contradicts their insistence on Iraq to observe human rights standards concerning them.

According to an agreement signed in December 2011 between Iraq and the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, members of the terrorist group should be temporarily transferred from Camp Ashraf to a former U.S. military base, Camp Liberty, for the UNHCR to determine their refugee status.

To date, roughly two-thirds of the members of these people have been relocated to Camp Liberty in five groups of 400; however, some 1200 of them still remain at Ashraf under the pretext of “dire conditions” at the camp.

Earlier in July, Uday al-Khadran, Mayor of Khalis, warned of a possible explosion of Iraqi people’s wrath over the delay of the expulsion of remaining MKO members at Camp Ashraf.

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