On the afternoon of 23 June, 2012, Maryam Rajavi spoke in front of a group of foreign nationals most of whom have been paid to attend a salon in Villepinte in the north of Paris.
The MKO’s propaganda arm, National Council of Resistance called it “the largest Iranian pro-democracy gathering”! Organizers of the rally said that more than a thousand buses arrived bringing Iranians from all over Europe. But, the buses brought people not Iranians.
5000 rent-a-crowd audience gathered in Villepinte for Maryam Rajavi’s speech as head of the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist cult.
On the afternoon of 23 June, 2012, Maryam Rajavi spoke in front of a group of foreign nationals most of whom have been paid to attend a salon in Villepinte in the north of Paris.
The MKO’s propaganda arm, National Council of Resistance called it “the largest Iranian pro-democracy gathering”! Organizers of the rally said that more than a thousand buses arrived bringing Iranians from all over Europe. But, the buses brought people not Iranians.
Purple flags and purple vests were waiting for people to take them in Villepinte, a hall in Parisian suburbs. Who is supposed to take these “Maryam & Massoud” – printed purple flags and vests? The Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) says “tens of thousands of Iranian”! A look at several pictures taken by some of the attendees verifies that the hall was –not fully– crammed by travelers of countries around Europe. Not a single photo shows a large group of Iranian exiles but one can see groups of black people, Afghans, Arabs, etc… The gathering was held after a long-term multi-million propaganda campaign publicized it. The MKO’s propaganda arm, National Council of Resistance called it “the largest Iranian pro-democracy gathering”! Organizers of the rally said that more than a thousand buses arrived bringing Iranians from all over Europe. But, the buses brought people not Iranians.
The MKO spokesman wrote a report of his organization’s so-called gathering .He presents a list of guest speakers who spoke at the event to call Secretary Clinton to remove the group from the FTO list of the State Department.It doesn’t seem odd that dozens of former Western politicians accepted a free first-class flight to Paris with a luxurious hotel room and tens of thousands of dollars for a 10 minute speech in a Parisian outskirt. For ordinary Afghan Arab or polish citizens a free bus-trip to French capital seems enough to wear those purple vests and wave those purple flags.
The world media should be careful about how to deal with the MKO and even how to name it. They should never call them Iranian dissidents or opposition group or exiles. Do they ever call Cambodia extremist followers of Pol Pot, “dissidents” or “activists”? Mujahedin e khalq are at best a group of zealous members of the cult around Massoud Rajavi’s personality who betrayed their countrymen to one of the most notorious dictators of the history, Saddam Hossein and unsurprisingly, lost the majority of its supporters.
The group propaganda machine had to work hard to magnify Villepinte gathering. Days before the event they publicized for the rally spending huge amounts of money to bring rented crowds to Paris. A week after the event held you can find on the group’s websites very few photos and highly edited videos of the gathering. You may see the 1300 buses the MKO propaganda claimed of but you never see who got off the buses, Iranian exiles or hired Arabs and black Africans.
The MKO’s last rally proves that the group’s impact and credibility has dwindled to a trickle and it is totally far from a pro-democracy popular political organization. Regardless of its prominent powerful western supporters, the MKO has no base among Iranians whether inside or outside Iran.
By Mazda Parsi
The Mujahideen-el Khalq (MEK) could soon be removed from America’s list of terrorist 
organizations. However, the controversial decision is being hindered by reports that the embattled group has failed to evacuate the remaining 1,400 group members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The MEK has long fought Iranian governments, in what they claim is a struggle to establish a democratic Iranian state.
The decision to remove the MEK from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations has been promoted by some politicians, both Democratic and Republican. Many of the group’s supporters in Washington see the group as fighting a common Iranian enemy. Conversely, critics have said the MEK has used coercion and bribery to win supporters. Should the U.S. choose to delist the organization, the decision would likely inflame tensions between Washington and Tehran during already tenuous negotiations to de-escalate the standoff over the supposed Iranian nuclear program.
Operating in exile
The U.S. has issued a warning to the MEK, requesting that they vacate Camp Ashraf, the main headquarters of the group. Camp Ashraf was protected by the United States during the occupation of Iraq from 2003-2011. This military protection was extended despite the “terrorist” listing of the group. However, U.S. officials have claimed that the protection was extended under the auspices of the Geneva Convention’s provision on “protected populations,” that is, refugees and political exiles. Other foreign governments, including the United Kingdom, do not recognize the MEK as a protected population.
Although some 2,000 MEK members have left the camp, between 1,200-1,400 remain. The MEK has sought to shed its “terrorist” label, insisting that it has renounced violence and sought major reform. While the U.S. has not clearly enumerated the remaining steps the group must take, closing the camp is seen a necessary first step on a path that some hope will ultimately lead to removing the group from the list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTO). The MEK has been on the FTO terrorist list since 1997.
The group has been involved in targeted assassinations as recently as January 2012, previously working with Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to carry out five known targeted killings since 2007, according to Iranian state sources as well as U.S. government officials. The most recent attack in January of this year killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a nuclear scientist.
Speaking frankly about the close Mossad-MEK relationship, Mohammad Javad Larijani, a senior aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says, “The relation is very intricate and close. They (Israelis) are paying … the Mujahedin. Some of their (MEK) agents … (are) providing Israel with information. And they recruit and also manage logistical support.”
The MEK was founded in 1965 by leftist university students in Iran who sought to overthrow the monarchical rule of the Shah, supporting instead the creation of a democratic Iranian government. Following the 1979 Iranian revolution, the group was banned by Ayatollah Khomeini … .
Forced into exile, the group established a foothold in France and in neighboring Iraq. During the Iran-Iraq war, the group operating under the “National Liberation Army”. (NLA) attacked Iranian forces carrying out several incursions on Iraqi soil.
While the group shares the legitimate democratic aspirations of most Iranians, Reza Marashi, Research Director of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) notes in a recent MintPress statement that the “terrorist” designation is not one handed out haphazardly by the United States. The label, Marashi contends, is accurate and necessary until there is significant reform within the ranks of the MEK organization.
Indeed, a 2009 report by the Rand Corporation describes the numerous attacks carried out against various Iranian governments, including against the Shah. One such attack reportedly killed six Americans during the 1970s.
Additionally, an independent report by Human Rights Watch describes the excesses and abuses within the organization.
“Human rights abuses carried out by MEK leaders against dissident members ranged from prolonged incommunicado and solitary confinement to beatings, verbal and psychological abuse, coerced confessions, threats of execution, and torture that in two cases led to death.”
Nonetheless, the group, which has been labeled by critics as a “cult”, has exerted significant effort lobbying lawmakers to recognize their membership as legitimate opposition. Several politicians, including former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Edward Rendell, are accused of openly supporting a group classified as a terrorist organization. In March, the Treasury Department began an investigation into speaking fees Rendell received from the MEK. It is, not surprisingly, illegal for an American to receive money from a known terrorist group.
The US-MEK relationship
The effort to engage Iranian exiles committed to overthrowing the religious theocratic establishment is one promoted by many in Washington. While the MEK has petitioned actively to delist its organization, other groups, operating in exile have supported removing the group from the U.S. terrorist list.
Historically, the United States has not shied away from supporting dissidents and terrorist groups when the relationship is deemed politically expedient. Very often, these relationships have been cultivated as a means to overthrow or challenge unfavorable governments. For example, the United States previously backed the Afghan Mujahideen during the Cold War fight to rid Afghanistan of Soviet colonial rule. The loose mujahideen resistance movement grew later to include the ranks of the Taliban, a group with alliances to the transnational al-Qaida terrorist network.
This “Regan doctrine” promoted a rollback of Soviet influence in countries around the world. This foreign policy lead to the U.S. support of armed groups in Nicaragua, Angola, Cambodia and the aforementioned Afghanistan, among others, in an effort to curb the influence of America’s Cold War adversary.
However, on this issue, it appears that MEK delistment has received small support from other, disparate Iranian exiles. For example, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), representing “a broad coalition of Iranian organizations” claims more than 500 members and has petitioned actively on behalf of the MEK. According to the NCRI website:
“National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a broad coalition of democratic Iranian organizations, groups and personalities, was founded in 1981 in Tehran upon the initiative of Massoud Rajavi, the Leader of the Iranian Resistance.The NCRI has over 500 members, including representatives of ethnic and religious minorities such as the Kurds, Baluchis, Armenians, Jews and Zoroastrians, representing a broad spectrum of political tendencies in Iran. Acting as parliament in exile, the NCRI aims to establish a democratic, secular and coalition government in Iran. Women comprise 50 [percent] of the council’s members. Five organizations are also members of the NCRI, including the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, the largest and most popular resistance group inside Iran.”
Although the NCRI is rarely discussed in Washington, its open public support for delisting the MEK could position them as a key ally of those with vested interest in Iranian regime change. However, MEK support within Iran, and even in the Iranian diaspora, remains limited. In fact, those involved with Iran’s 2009 “Green Revolution,” have categorically rejected the tactics of the MEK.
However, in the U.S., the ongoing discussions about the classification of the MEK continues amidst increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Iran. Some lawmakers have promoted aggressive military action should negotiations fail to dissuade Tehran from supposedly pursuing nuclear weapons. Lobbying by the group is intimately tied to the hardline policies U.S. lawmakers take vis-a-vis engaging Iran.
MEK lobbies Washington
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., published an article on Tuesday, linking MEK lobbying efforts to a recent bipartisan letter circulating through the Senate. The letter, signed by 44 U.S. senators, strongly urges President Barack Obama to abandon negotiations with Iran if the minimum parameters laid out at the recent Baghdad negotiations are not met.
The immediate action, or “absolute minimum”, outlined by the senators is to shut down the Fordo uranium enrichment facility near Qom, freeze all uranium enrichment above 5 percent and ship all uranium enriched above 5 percent out of the country.
Speaking about the actions, Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) commented on the letter in a recent statement, saying, “Absent these steps, we must conclude that Tehran is using the talks as a cover to buy time as it continues to advance toward nuclear weapons capability. We know that you share our conviction that allowing Iran to gain this capability is unacceptable.”
Previously, Congressmen Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Walter Jones (R-NC) co-authored a letter in February, urging President Obama to exercise diplomacy fully before considering other ways in which to engage Iran. The letter gathered 35 additional signatures from congressional representatives and drew popular support from a number of prominent peace organizations. However, a public weary of prolonged negotiations may be more willing to embrace a hardline stance pushed by the MEK and more hawkish lawmakers. A Gallup public opinion poll shows that Americans consider Iran to be America’s top enemy. Thirty-two percent ranked Iran as America’s number one enemy, followed by China with 23 percent and North Korea with 10 percent.
This finding corresponds with a May 18 Pew Research Center Poll showing that a majority in the U.S., Britain, France and Germany would support a military strike against Iran as a means to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. While majorities in Russia and China oppose an Iranian nuclear weapons program, a majority, around 70 percent in both countries, oppose any kind of military action against Iran, even if it meant preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
By Martin Michaels ,MintPress
Iran announced that its intelligence forces have identified and arrested all terrorist elements behind the assassination of the country’s nuclear scientists.
"All the elements involved in the assassinations of the country’s nuclear scientists have been identified and arrested," Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement on Thursday.
A number of countries, whose territories and facilities had been misused by the Mossad-backed terrorist teams, have provided the Iranian officials with relevant information, the statement added.
Over the course of the investigations, all other elements behind the assassinations of the Iranian scientists Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Majid Shahriari and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan as well as Reza Qashqaei (Roshan’s driver) have been apprehended, the statement read.
Some of the perpetrators of the assassination of Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi, the current head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, are among those arrested, the ministry added.
According to the Thursday statement, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has detected some of Mossad’s bases within the territories of one of Iran’s Western neighbors, which provided training and logistic support to the terrorist networks.
Earlier this month, Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi had announced that the country’s security forces have arrested at least 20 terrorists behind the assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientists.
Moslehi stated that the arrests were made following the identification of two terrorist groups and through multiple sting operations across the country.
Iran has so far arrested several suspects in relation to the assassination of its scientists.
Western spy agencies, collaborated by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have assassinated several Iranian scientists in the last three years.
In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, terrorists killed a 32-year-old Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and his driver on January 11.
The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.
The assassination method used in the bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani – who is now the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization – and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred.
Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011.
Time for a reality check
For years Massoud Rajavi – that supreme egocentric – has tried to bend reality to suit his own
version of how the world should be, and when actual manipulation of events has failed, has created myths to invent a reality more suited to his cultic agenda. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in the MEK’s grand vision of itself as the ‘only alternative’ or the ‘main opposition’ and the mythical tale that the MEK will ‘overthrow the Iranian regime in its entirety’. Year after year Rajavi has perpetually pretended, whether to himself or to his followers, that this is a reality. And the myth has depended on the willing suspension of disbelief of world public opinion – or at least a few political pundits – who enjoy such hatred of Iran and Iranians that they are happy to participate in the game; though not without financial recompense of course.
In the eighties the MEK used to organise mass demonstrations in Western countries to celebrate its armed struggle. The main event was the anniversary of 30 Khordad (21 June) 1981 when the MEK abandoned its ambition to lead the revolutionary forces and began to oppose the new constitutional government under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini using terrorist tactics. The mass demonstrations in Western countries were popularly supported. But as time passed by and reality impinged on Rajavi’s dream of taking over Iran, instead of bending to reality and adjusting his group’s activities accordingly, he tried to bend reality to reflect his egotistical view of himself in the world. As the MEK’s violence became more and more futile and hence more savage, the demonstrations attracted fewer and fewer actual supporters and instead became more gaudy and showy. As western governments cracked down on the MEK’s illegal and undemocratic activities they were forced to downsize – while inflating advertised attendee figures by the power of ten – and hire (ironically) exhibition halls rather than take to the streets in public.
The latest event at Villepinte in Paris on June 23 was such a spectacle. But it was a spectacle of spectacular failure. Probably the most embarrassing event the MEK has yet had to outlive (and Maryam Rajavi has a series of embarrassing public and private gaffes to her name). Most of the VIPs, who had been rounded up to promote the MEK under the false ‘democratic change’ front groups, called in sick after being briefed by government officials where the money was really coming from and that the support was for a terrorist cult. (For future reference, where the word ‘appeasement’ is used, the article/speech/policy was most probably written by the MEK and is shorthand for ‘let’s declare war on Iran’.)
The VIPs who did turn up could, quite reasonably, have been expecting to address the ‘tens of thousands of Iranian exiles’ who, the MEK declared, had arrived in a ‘thousand buses from all over Europe’. Pictures from the event, which was held in a salon with a capacity of 10,000 standing, show a very different story. No wonder the MEK has been unable to publish film or photographs from inside the salon.
The linked photographs and film were taken by former members who had slipped in unnoticed among the crowd. Several minutes into the film Maryam Rajavi is heard addressing the crowd who are still milling around and clearly disinterested in the performance on the stage. The fervent cheering comes from the actual MEK loyalists ranged in the front few rows. Behind them no one is listening or even sitting down in the places where flags have been placed on every seat for them to wave to create a spectacle to film. The MEK have paid millions of Euros to create the crowd but couldn’t organise them when they arrived. The majority ‘rent-a-crowd’ element of the audience didn’t care much where the money came from or what the event was as long as they enjoyed a free weekend trip to Paris. Even the ever-supportive anti-Iran media could only realistically describe the event as ‘Iranian led’ to disguise the fact that right minded Iranians, inside and outside Iran, actively shun the MEK.
Now, how must it have felt for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and former US Senator Robert Torricelli to address this crowd about regime change in Iran. How much is their dignity worth?
If the MEK had not held this event it would have been better for them. Even to have a small gathering of their own members and supporters would have looked better, less desperate, less like the failing cult the MEK have become. Rajavi could have spent his money on many more effective means to plead his case for removal of the MEK from the US terrorism list. But although external reality has dramatically impacted on Rajavi’s fortunes, it is the leaking evidence of desperation in the MEK’s internal situation that is the most significant.
Unusually this year the MEK’s Photoshopped pictures of the meeting have been sloppily, shoddily perhaps hastily put together; several wide angle pictures concatenated to show a mass audience. But with the blurred join lines obvious on the pictures, the cracks in the MEK’s vision are exposed. And there are more fault lines in the MEK world.
Over the past few weeks the MEK has issued several frantic press releases related to the slow, inevitable demise of Camp Ashraf (where Rajavi has defiantly stopped cooperating with the UN and US like a truculent teenager). The significant aspect of these missives is their dire English style and grammatical mistakes. Clearly, just as with the Photoshopped pictures, Rajavi has lost some key personnel inside his organisation and has had to make do with sub-standard replacements to create the means to perpetuate his myths.
Markedly Rajavi recently lost two of his main Western stalwarts in the UK, Lord Corbett of Castle Vale who died on 19 February this year, and Lord Archer of Sandwell who died on 14 June. Such supporters have, for years, facilitated the MEK’s political lobbying in the House of Lords and of course provided other practical services and support; particularly editing English language documents. Their loss is irreplaceable. And with other Peers creaking with age and MPs subject to the vagaries of elections, Rajavi can only be staring into the well of loneliness.
Increasingly lonely too are those who have, for money, positioned themselves as MEK advocates. Anyone who looks beyond the political hype and anti-Iran propaganda will see an increasing disconnect with reality. Due to the internal demand for constant indoctrination the MEK cannot hold back from advertising its ‘martyrs’ – people who die for Rajavi. This week the MEK announced the deaths of two more people in Iraq. More than anything else it is their ages – 55 and 59 – which exposes the age group of MEK residents in Iraq. Those MEK advocates – including those addressing the Paris crowd – who continue to claim that the MEK is an essential force for change in Iran really ought to save their blushes. World public opinion is not blind or stupid. Accept reality and move on.
MKO has to be confronted as a terrorist group that is already turning into a global problem
The common point concerning the terrorist groups on the State Department’s blacklist is that 
majority of them, at least in the coverage of the media, have been downgrading from a major, serious threat as already advertised to insignificant threats or have totally changed their violent means of struggle. There are even cases in which the terrorist perpetrators are referred to in media coverage as “mass killers” or “gunmen”. But there are ones amongst them with inbred violence and have adopted terrorism as a working instrument to achieve their claimed political objectives.
Mojahedin Khalq Organization (aka. MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI, NLA, MISA), for instance, has been put on the list from its very initiating in 1997, has a four decade-long history of violence. In fact, from an ideological point of view, violence has been an innately distinguished feature of MKO from the beginning of its formation and that, the key solution to accomplish organizational and ideological achievements has been through practice of violence. That is an undeniable fact and there are irrefutable evidences to be consulted.
Even the European Union that removed it from its list of terror first and Americans who have kept it on the list are still, even with more emphasis, stressing on unrevealed aspects of its terrorist nature. But what distinguishes MKO as a terrorist-oriented organization with others on the list is that its change of position and stances depends on the circumstances and political fluctuations that enable it to command wide-ranging respect and support even from those who were in opposite fronts. Of course, it has provided the appropriate background and framework for forged non-violent and pro-democratic activities through its Paris based NCRI led by Maryam Rajavi, a suitable dummy appointed by her husband to lead the pseudo-democratic wing of a whole structure he himself leads. Taking advantage of civil liberties the democracies provide, she has freedom for maneuvering just in the heart of the arena of democracies to advertise undemocratic fancies.
While the husband Massoud Rajavi, living in hideout whose whereabouts is unknown, delivers messages addressed to veterans and encourages them to be on full alert to outface any probable forceful reaction from the Iraqi forces instead of continuation of a peaceful cooperation, the wife holds extravagant rallies for a pseudo-democratic demonstration mainly aimed at demonizing the adversaries. In his instructions given to residents in Camp Ashraf and Liberty for instance, through his message delivered on May 23, Rajavi repeatedly dares the devoted warriors to be determined in eliciting a violent reaction to repel any resolution inconsistent with group’s demands: “Then, do not be scared of the battle you have to confront, strike. Strike and go forward with confidence. … I want others to know, friends and foes, that today, the power of one thousand Mojahed is beyond that of the regime’s nuclear power they have gathered here in Iraq to negotiate about.“ These type of words totally lacks the needed sincerity to conclude that a terrorist group is truthfully inclined to denounce and decry a mentality of violence.
Although physically claimed to be disarmed, MKO can never denounce its terrorist mentality but undergo a change of tactics. And the societies among whom these mentally programmed terrorists live are more at risk since democratic systems inadvertently provide greater opportunities for these terrorists and create permissive environments in which their networks can operate more easily. More disappointing, the international community and those committed to combat terrorism are dragging their feet to be decisive about a terrorist group that is already turning into a global problem.
Maryam Rajavi accuses the State Department of unethical behavior for not delisting MKO
In a widespread struggle to be removed from the blacklist, Maryam Rajavi in her speech made on June 25 in objection to MKO’s terrorist tag stated: “Which law and which ethical and humanitarian
principle, would allow the State Department to defer the removal of the PMOI until Camp Ashraf is evacuated?” Has she ever been asked for what ethical and humanitarian cause did the agents of her organization sent many people to their death by planted bombs? And nothing can justify the recorded atrocities of MKO and clean its leaders’ hands of the innocent bloods even if removed from any list.
To dig up truth about the terrorist cult of Mojahedin Khalq Organization MKO/MEK, it is just anniversary of another bloody, flagrant terrorist perpetration. As disclosed in the US State Department’s Report in 1992, the group is unquestionably responsible for one of the most heinous terrorist operations in its armed warfare against Iranian regime. The report states:
“The Mojahedin initiated a wave of bombings and assassinations against the Khomeini regime that reverberates today. The most spectacular attack occurred June 28, 1981, when two bombs tipped apart the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party (IRP, the party of the clerics), killing 74 members of the regime’s top leadership, including the URP’s leader, Ayatollah Beheshti,(14) ministers, and 27 Majles deputies.
In a row of self-suicide operations and blasts, Rajavi’s agents sent many cleric and political personalities to their death. The most spectacular operations occurred on June 28, 1981, when two bombs ripped apart the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party killing 74 dignitaries of the regime including the party’s leader, Ayatollah Beheshti,14 ministers, and 27 Members of Parliament. Majority of dissident groups condemned such bloody, unethical means of opposition and the operation highlighted the terrorist potentiality of MKO as global threat to be later included on the US terrorist list.
A senior Iraqi lawmaker says the MKO’s being supported by a number of al-Iraqiya bloc members is not so important to be discussed in the Parliament of Iraq, as the national consensus is to expel Mujahedin-e Khalq group from Iraq.
“There is a national consensus in this regard, and there is also an article in the Constitution dedicated to the subject that the Iraqi soil is not a place for aggressors to the neighboring countries,” Iraqi Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Dr. Humam Hamoudi told Habilian.
Hamoudi went on to say that the terrorist group has “spilt the blood of many Iraqi people, and violated the Iraq’s sovereignty by refusing the entrance of Iraqi security forces (to Camp Ashraf) and involving in a conflict with them.”
“Iraqis have unanimously resolved (to expel MKO) which is approved and supported by the cabinet and Parliament,” he added.
“People have been called to file a lawsuit before international courts in order to force MKO to pay the damages they have imposed on the Iraqis.”
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Iraqi Parliament described the presence of MKO in the Iraqi soil as a “resolved and finished issue”, because “their continued presence on Iraqi soil is “against the country’s Constitution.”
On 28th June 1981 (7 Tir, 1360), MKO blew up the head office of the Islamic Republic Party with bombs which resulted in the death of Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Chief of Justice, four cabinet ministers (Health, Transport, Telecommunications and Energy ministers), twenty-seven members of the Majlis (Iranian Parliament), and several other government officials.
Failed to gain acceptance and popularity among Iranian nation after the Islamic Revolution, Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group resorted to terror strategy and announced officially an armed conflict with the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the nation on 20 June, 1981. On this day, Masoud Rajavi orchestrated a cruel and savage military show and ordered the armed contingents and members of his cult to rush onto the streets and begin the terrorist phase of their struggle against the government of Iran. Via this movement, they erroneously expected to spark a general uprising.
MKO terrorists blew up the headquarters of the Iran’s Islamic Republic Party (IRP) in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress on June 28, 1981 (7 Tir, 1360). Seventy-three leading officials of the Islamic Republic lost their lives, including Chief Justice and party secretary Ayatollah Dr. Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers (Health, Transport, Telecommunications and Energy ministers), twenty-seven members of the Majlis (Iranian Parliament), and several other government officials.
The bomber, who was as a young student and a Mujahedin operative named Mohammad Reza Kolahi, had long ago penetrated into the party. After planting the bomb inside the party building, kolahi fled the scene before the explosion.
During a meeting with Tahir Jalil Habbush, head of Iraqi intelligence under Saddam Hussein, MKO ringleader assumed responsibility for this terrorist operation.
