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The Ideology of the MEK

Appeasement in the MeK dictionary

"Appeasement" for the remnants of Rajavi is as a comprehensive dictionary to explain all problems, for example:

Appeasement is a term that Rajavi applies it to explain organizational inabilities of the MeK.

Appeasement is applied by Rajavi to justify her unreal analysis and delusive predictions.

Appeasement is also introduced cause of the failure in terrorist strategy and radicalism against Iran.

Appeasement in discourse of Rajavi’s gang has many of these functions and its domain gets wider and wider; as far as, even, Rajavi’s refusal of Iraqi laws and UN commands and her violation of multilateral agreements recently are being justified as effects of America’s appeasement with Iran.

For a decade the MeK was accusing Europe for appeasing with Iran and not following the America’s policy, but now it is the US which is bellwether of appeasers!

Europe was being accused by the MeK leadership for appeasing with Iran, because it had placed her terrorist organization in the terrorist list, with the argument that Europe cannot lay away appeasement since it is willing to economic relationship with Iran.

In fact, any policy or action that does not agree with the logic of Rajavi is considered an appeasing behavior and, from this perspective, one can say that "appeasement" for the Rajavi’s gang is just a childish excuse to escape from responsibility.

August 23, 2012 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Close an MEK terror camp & worry Washington: Syria/Iran

You may recall the mention of MEK terrorists being present in Syria?

It was reported a day or so ago that Syria had arrested the MEK (brand name) terrorists in Syria.
You can read all about it here.

But first, read this!

Iraq’s threat to close MeK camp worries White House

Iraq’s threat to close a camp for terrorists worries the White House? Sorry, "dissidents" You can’t make this stuff up!

The Obama administration is worried about a threat from the Iraqi government to forcibly shut down a camp for Iranian dissidents(dissidents?) north of Baghdad.

Saddam Hussein allowed the dissidents to establish their paramilitary base in Iraq;( of course he did, they were attacking Iran and so was Iraq as a US proxy) however, the group has fallen out of favor with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which is close to Iran. (Additional reasoning may be they (MEK) are continuing to launch terror attacks on Iran and Syria and likely in Iraq)

Falih al-Fayadh, Iraq’s national security adviser, on Tuesday said the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MeK) must move out of Camp Ashraf immediately or be forced to leave.

The State Department urged the Iraqi government to remain “patient and flexible” and seek a voluntary arrangement for relocating the former rebels, who were disarmed by U.S. troops after the overthrow of Saddam in 2003. (We need our MEK brand terrorists to ruin Syria, you can’t ask them to leave your own country)
“The United States is concerned by the government of Iraq’s reference on July 31 to the possible closure of Camp Ashraf by involuntary relocation of its residents,” Patrick Ventrell, the State Department’s acting deputy spokesman, said in a statement on Wednesday.
The MeK, also known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), was designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 when former President Bill Clinton was trying to open talks with the Iranian government.

A U.S. federal court in June ordered Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to decide within four months on removing the MeK from the U.S. terrorist list or they will do it. (The judges will remove the MEK from the terror list. Clinton, that is Hillary in this case, will simply wait for the judges to remove the terrorists then she will appear to have clean hands)

And of course, there is a connection to France-

The Camp Ashraf leadership is not to blame for the situation, said Shahin Gobadi, a Paris-based spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition that includes the MEK.

Considering the fact that in order to sell a war in Syria the NATO/Israel/GCC nations had to employ every brand of mercenary necessary from generic “rebel” to FSA why not MEK. All terrorists. All terrorizing the Syrian people. And speaking of terrorizing the people of Syria…….

Recall these are the "freedom fighters"?

One last piece-The Irish Times – Monday, August 13, 2012

Media coverage of Syrian violence partial and untrue, says nun

A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.

Superior of the Melkite Greek Catholic monastery of St James the Mutilated in Qara, in Syria’s diocese of Homs, which is in full communion with Rome, she left Ireland yesterday after a three-day visit during which she met representatives of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth.

She told The Irish Times she was in Ireland “not to advocate for the (Assad) regime but for the facts”. Most news reports from Syria were “forged, with only one side emphasised”, she said. This also applied to the UN, whose reports were “one-sided and not worthy of that organisation”.
UN observers in Syria had been “moderate with the rebels and covered for them in taking back positions after the withdrawal of heavy equipment, as seen so tragically in Homs”, she said.
The reason the media was being denied easy access to Syria currently was because in the Libyan conflict journalists placed electronic devices for Nato in rooms used at press conferences in that country, she said. “So Syria didn’t want journalists,” she said.

Read the rest at the link above Journalists as spies. Marie Colvin?Paul Conroy? Nothing new under the sun.

Pennyforyourthoughts2

August 23, 2012 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

The MeK’s failed Blackmail

Remnants of Rajavi trying to render withdraw into goodwill

The MeK leadership’s statement reveals that her intention of sabotage in the relocation process was not to improve the living conditions of her members, but to blackmail America’s government, especially for removing name of the group from the list of terrorist organizations. (It is likely that this scenario be repeated during next steps.)

The MeK leadership already had stated that no longer she would allow the rest of the group to leave the camp, unless her 6 conditions were met, and her sabotage in the relocation process was to persuade the US and Iraqi government to accept her illegal demands, but finally she was forced to withdraw and announced that another batch of MeK members will leave Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty on August 23.

The MeK leadership’s statement on this topic clearly reveals that her intention of sabotage in the relocation process was not to improve the living conditions of her members, but to blackmail America’s government, especially for removing name of the group from the list of terrorist organizations. (It is likely that this scenario be repeated during next steps.)

In the statement, without any reference to outcome of the pre- existing conditions, the US government, three times, is asked for removing the group from the terrorist list:

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran declared: 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.

She added: The residents anticipate and expect that the completion of convoy 6 will be followed by a public statement by the United States Government that recognizes the cooperation of the Ashraf residents and reiterates continued U.S. commitment to:

(i) the approach on FTO designation and delisting outlined by Secretary Clinton on February 29, 2012, recognizing that the decision of US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit requires the Secretary of State to make a determination regarding the FTO designation of the PMOI (MeK) by October 1, 2012;

(ii) a real effort to resolve the remaining humanitarian issues at Liberty that materially affect the daily lives of the residents, including sustainable mechanisms to provide water and electricity; and

(iii) support the safety and security of the residents until they relocate to third countries outside of Iraq, in mindfulness of the fact that this universally desired outcome cannot happen expeditiously without delisting.

The MeK leadership’s statement reveals that what matter for her only are propping up the organization and self-regarding. So, the UN and the US government should not be deceived by this terrorist group and have to provide individual rights of the residents of Camp Liberty, and refrain from engaging in political considerations.

August 22, 2012 0 comments
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Iran

Collaboration with Terrorist MKO Shows Real Face of Syrian Rebels

A senior Iranian legislator reiterated that the visits and collaboration between the ringleaders and members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCR and Collaboration with Terrorist MKO Shows Real Face of Syrian RebelsPMOI) and the so-called Free Syrian Army display the real face and goals of insurgents in Syria.

"The invitation of the deputy commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army, the armed forces who are opposed to the Damascus government, to the terrorist Monafeqin (hypocrites as MKO members are called in Iran) grouplet shows that they themselves are terrorists," member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ebrahim Aqa-Mohammadi said on Saturday.

He added that the invitation of the Syrian group to the MKO to visit Damascus displays that the terrorist MKO is a role model for the Syrian insurgents.

In related remarks earlier this month, a commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) also described the terrorist MKO 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.

Informed security sources in Syria said that 40 armed elements had been arrested along the country’s borders 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 group 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 earlier this month 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.

August 21, 2012 0 comments
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Maryam Rajavi

MKO’s Demands Addressed to The US Administration

Rajavi becomes bold to address the US Administration directly to impose demands

MKO’s self-appointed leader, Maryam Rajavi, announced on 17 August that “As a gesture of goodwill, the residents of Ashraf will commence the 6th convoy of 400 residents from Camp MKO’s Demands Addressed to The US AdministrationAshraf to Camp Liberty on August 23”.

Of course, she has been either assured of some promises or expects to see the already offered encouraging gesture of the State Department that considers cooperation in relocation as a key factor in determining whether the group remains on FTO list actually accomplished. That is what has made her bold enough to address the US Administration directly to impose demands as follows:

The residents anticipate and expect that the completion of convoy 6 will be followed by a public statement by the United States Government that recognizes the cooperation of the Ashraf residents and reiterates continued U.S. commitment to:

(i) the approach on FTO designation and delisting outlined by Secretary Clinton on February 29, 2012, recognizing that the decision of US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit requires the Secretary of State to make a determination regarding the FTO designation of the PMOI (MeK) by October 1, 2012;

(ii) a real effort to resolve the remaining humanitarian issues at Liberty that materially affect the daily lives of the residents, including sustainable mechanisms to provide water and electricity; and

(iii) support the safety and security of the residents until they relocate to third countries outside of Iraq, in mindfulness of the fact that this universally desired outcome cannot happen expeditiously without delisting.

August 21, 2012 0 comments
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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.

August 21, 2012 0 comments
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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.”

August 21, 2012 0 comments
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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.

August 21, 2012 0 comments
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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

August 16, 2012 0 comments
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