Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi ex-Minister urges execution of arrest warrants for MKO criminals

Former Iraqi Minister of National Security urges the implementation of warrants of arrest issued against the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) criminals. Iraqi ex-Minister urges execution of arrest warrants for MKO criminals

Referring to the issuance of arrest warrants for MKO criminals by Iraq’s Justice System, Shirwan al-Waeli, former Iraqi minister of national security, in an interview with Habilian called for the implementation of the injunctions.

Al-Waeli made reference to the Constitution of Iraq and its direct prohibition of any terrorist activities, adding that the Constitution of this country explicitly expressed its opposition to any terrorist activities on Iraqi soil, and Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization is named as a terrorist group.

The senior member of Iraq’s National Alliance pointed to the West’s obstructionism in the MKO expulsion from Iraq, and said, “Both Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights have repeatedly proposed the expulsion of the Organization. “In fact, we wanted the expulsion of the group from the very beginning, and we have conducted negotiations with Western organizations, but they were opposed to it.”

In the end, Shirwan al-Waeli who is currently a member of Iraqi Parliament referred to the arrest warrants issued by the Iraqi Judiciary and noted that during his time at the Ministry, he did judicial actions and research on this issue, and he further reiterated that he believed the injunctions should be implemented.

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Ali Jahani Fard letter to the Iraq Prime Minister

Yours Excellency, Dr. Nouri al Maliki the honorable and distinguished Prime Minister of Iraq
Ali Jahani,MKO former member
I, Ali Jahani Fard, am one of the victims of Rajavi’s cult who spent and wasted twenty years of my best years of my life, the youth period, inside the notorious and horrifying relations of this cult in Ashraf fort which was established and organized by the leaders of this cult specifically the Rajavis.

I am very thankful and grateful to you and your popular and elected government because of all your peaceful efforts and endeavors in relocating the Ashraf people to camp Liberty.

Honorable Prime Minister , as all we know that the leaders of this notorious cult specifically the Rajavis after the fall of the former dictator of Iraq , Saddam Hussein , have played their role as the opposition of your legitimate and popular government and these leaders according to their violent essence and content have tried their best to preserve Ashraf , the pmoi most sensitive facility and the breeding ground of their cult , by creating bloody scuffles and violent conflicts with your forces to beget bloodshed and make fake propagandas in favor of themselves and against your government in western countries by showing themselves as innocents and oppressed and your government as tyrants and as suppressive forces .we also observed and witnessed that the leadership of this cult tried its best to interfere and obstruct and slow the relocation process as much as possible but fortunately by your awareness and by your government close cooperation with the officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), all those tricks , deceptions , and excuses did not work and thwarted and despite of all those tricks the relocation process is underway .

Honorable Prime Minister , I got informed recently that some of the victims of this cult have escaped from Liberty camp and they surrendered themselves to the Iraqi police ,therefore I ,with twenty years of experience in this notorious and horrifying cult , should inform you about these escapes which substantiate and prove this concrete fact that pmoi leadership after losing their main breeding ground of their cult , Ashraf, are trying their best to convert and change the liberty camp to another Ashraf to continue their cultic life , therefore in my point of view ,to prevent such a thing from happening , I urge you to continue their relocation process peacefully without any bloodshed and I urge you to order to your officials to separate the ordinary members ,which are the majority in the camp , from the criminal operatives and the ringleaders of this cult . If you separate the victims from the ringleaders, you will succeed to prevent conversion of the liberty camp to another Ashraf and beyond all, in this atmosphere these victims can decide freely about their future and their destiny without any interference and obstruction of the ringleaders who always try their best to put those victims under severe pressures and intimidations to prevent them from thinking about their future freely.

I also urge you to beget an opportunity for those stranded victims to meet their loved ones and their families without the presence of pmoi ringleaders and the operatives so they can consult with their families about their future freely.

Respectfully

Ali Jahani Fard/ The former veteran member of Rajavi’s cult

Iran pen association, Germany, May 30 2012
http://www.iran-ghalam.de/2Haupt/6149-
ali%20jahani%20fard%2029.05.2012.htm

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Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

MKO Collaborating with Iraqi Dissidents

Defected Member:
MKO Collaborating with Iraqi Dissidents, Al-Qaeda to Topple Maliki Gov’t

A defected member of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MKO Collaborating with Iraqi DissidentsMEK, PMOI and NCR) disclosed on Wednesday that the group’s ringleaders are collaborating with the leaders of Iraq’s dissident groups as well as the Al-Qaeda network in the country to topple Nuri al-Maliki’s government.

"The MKO and its ringleaders have high hopes for toppling Maliki’s government and are using every possible method to achieve this goal," said Ali Hosseinnejad, a highly trusted veteran member of the MKO who accompanied MKO ringleader Maryam Rajavi as her personal interpreter in talks with Iraqi government officials during Saddam’s era.

"They (the MKO ringleaders) have so specially strong contacts and relations with one of Iraq’s political lists and also with certain political figures within the government that Rajavi has officially declared a 40-day deadline for the overthrow of Maliki’s government," added Hosseinnejad who has just very recently defected from the terrorist group and surrendered to the Iraqi forces.

Hosseinnejad revealed that the MKO has still ties with the remnants of Saddam regime as well as other terrorist groups, specially the al-Qaeda network in Iraq.

The defected member had also earlier this month revealed that the leaders of the MKO were acting in full subordination to Iraq’s security services during the era of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

Hosseinnejad unveiled that MKO ringleader Massoud Rajavi received direct orders from the chiefs of Saddam’s security services.

"The Istekhbarat (security) service of Iraq always considered the MKO as one of its subordinate units and a subdivision of Istekhbarat and was present in all high-level meetings of the MKO as the dominating side," Hosseinnejad said.

Despite the propaganda campaign by MKO ringleaders about the importance of the terrorist cult, Rajavi was unable to do a move before it was Okayed by Saddam’s security services, he reiterated.

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

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; A proxy force

The Attempt to Befriend an Enemy

MKO might be the promising option from amongst the terrorist enemies to be befriended

Some powers believe that enemies are not always as bad as they may seem, since in some occasions they are even much more profitable than the friends. It reminds Friedrich Nietzsche saying that “Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy staying alive”. An imaginary enemy to combat is even more profitable because by tilting at windmills, it creates an opportunity of attempting to solve a pseudo-problem with a pseudo-solution by aiming at that enemy. Consider al-Qaeda terrorist group on the US State Department’s list of FTO for instance. Whoever they were and under whose protection and aiding they evolved and were commissioned, they occupied the place of an outright enemy to be antagonized and became the alibi for a verity of controversial invasions against other lands where they were suspected to have taken a safe haven.

Then, not all the terrorist groups on the United States’ FTO seem to be maintaining a potential threat against the US; in all probability there is an interest in their staying on the list. Now, what happen when a group on the list is removed or a disputable battle goes on to remove it? Some are of the opinion that such a move is precisely what America must do to turn foes into friends. But some others argue that it is not friends that America needs but enemies. But a third party believes that both enemies and friends are needed but those befriended from among the enemies are even more worthwhile as this new type of friends, once betraying the trust, are the trusted and loyal servants that have to be saved to be manipulated in malicious cold and soft wars against the adversary.

In the prolonged wrangle over the removal of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (a.k.a. MKO, MEK. PMOI, NCRI) between the group and its advocate on one side and the US State Department on the opposite, an attempt is made to prove that MKO has since long denounced terrorism and poses no threat against neither America nor any other party in the world. As three senior commanders of military operations in Iraq have recently argued while standing behind the group, “It is now time to recognize that the MEK are our friends and we must save them. The first step is for the State Department to de-list the MEK from the terrorist list”. Their pleading in favor of the group is a notification that it has served its time of militarism and has to be saved to be employed in covered fronts sometimes operating under a deceptive coat of democracy.

Looking at the controversy of MKO from a different angle, MKO must have verged on proving an unviable and incompetent enemy to occupy the terrorist list or maybe MKO lacks the needed weight and potentiality of a blatant terrorist group to be regarded a potential enemy to be utilized in its real and literal profile. When a terrorist group turns pro-democratic, as MKO claims, in fact it is preparing to leave the minority of the enemies to join the majority of the favorite friends. But it will not be a start from the scratch; MKO has already proved, by cooperating with American forces in Iraq, providing valuable intelligence and collaboration in soft-war and cyber terrorism, that it might be the promising option from amongst the enemies to be befriended.

By M. Nelson

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Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

No ties between Iraqi Kurdistan, MEK

A leading member of the Kurdistan Coalition in the Iraqi Parliament on Monday denounced allegations by some Iraqi authorities of the Kurdish officials having contact with the Mujahedin-eDr. Mahmoud Othman, leading member of the Kurdistan Coalition Khalq, calling Kurds as “the major victim of MKO’s presence in Iraq.”

Following the latest reports regarding the President of Kurdistan Region’s ties with the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, Dr. Mahmoud Othman, leading member of the Kurdistan Coalition, told Habilian on Monday that the “Kurdish people have suffered a lot from the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group,” and the Kurdistan Coalition has nothing to do with these terrorists.

Othman’s comments come as Saad al-Matlabi, political advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in an interview with Habilian claimed that Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, was likely to have relationship with the MKO terrorists.

Othman reminded that the Kurds are the major victims of MKO’s presence in Iraq, adding, “Some media have recently talked about the relationship between the Kurds and Mujahedin-e Khalq, (but) the claim is not true.”

He then raised the question that how it is possible to have contact with a group that is designated as a terrorist group?

“We call on all parties to respect the rights of Kurdish people, and do not make such accusations against Kurds,” added Dr. Mahmoud Othman.

He went on to remind that at the time of Saddam’s dictatorship, Kurds were the victims of Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist grouplet.

“The New Iraq does not allow by any means the terrorist groups on its soil,” he added.

Another senior member of the Kurdistan Coalition in the Iraq’s parliament made similar comments in a Sunday interview with Habilian Foundation (families of Iranian terror victims).

“Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region, has no relationship with the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization as the group has targeted Iraqi people, and besides the Kurdistan Coalition insists on the good relations with neighboring Iran,” Mahma Khalil said.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Delisting the MKO, another level of hypocrisy

Overwhelmed with the Mujahedin Khalq’s money, Capitol Hill is on the verge of delisting the group. Who is next to getting delisted? Al-Qaida? Definitely by delisting the MKO, hypocrisy will be Delisting the MKO, another level of hypocrisyraised to a higher level in the “land of double standards”. Naturally we should wait for the removal of other Foreign Terrorist Organizations from the list at the proper time!

And soon the so-called former terrorists would be mercenaries fighting against America’s enemies.

Regarding the powerful campaign of deception and propagandas of the MKO, Chris McGreal of Guardian writes about the group’s lobby in the US Congress:”A banned terrorist group is conducting what members of the congress describe as the most effective lobbying campaigns seen on Capitol Hill, winning support from politicians even in the face of a government investigation of its legality" .[1]He points out the subpoenas issued by the Treasury Department to investigate whether campaign amounts to material support for terrorism. The reason for such an investigation, according to McGreal is “the openness of the campaign and the large amounts of money backing it, with donations to congressional campaign funds and large payments for speeches in support of the MEK”.[2]

While the MKO says the funds for the group campaign come from Iranian Americans, ”there are some US officials who suspect that because of the amounts involved , money is also coming from other sources, mostly like Saudi Arabia or Israel".[3]

Referring to the famous report by Semour Hersh [3]on secret military training offered to MKO operative by US joint Command of Special Operation Forces– another level of US hypocrisy–Justin Raimondo of editor of Antiwar website concludes that “the MEK were turned over to the Mossad, who utilized them to carry out the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran.”[4]
As a cult of personality, the MKO’s leadership has not changed. They – Maryam and Massoud Rajavi – are the same people as when they cooperated with Saddam Hussein to suppress Kurds’ and Shiites’ uprising in Iraq. and, the world never forgets previous experiences of duplicity in US policy when George W. Bush said,” I’ve set a clear doctrine :America makes no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbor them. If you harbor a terrorist, you’re just as guilty as the terrorists, and you are an enemy of the United States of America.”[5]

George Bush even named “MEK” as a pretext to invade Iraq, in September 2002.[6]

Today a terrorist designated organization is freely moving around the Capital Hill to run their cause “There is an awful lot of MEK cash slashing around the halls of congress, and the cultists haven’t been shy about handing it out,” Raimondo states.[7]

The Mojahedin Khalq Organization is the same FTO listed group that the US States Department has gathered the following information about to verify its status as a terrorist entity:
“the MEK trained females at Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform suicide attacks in Karbala”;”The MEK solicits money under the false pretext of humanitarian aid to the Iranian people”;”an August 2008 US Intelligence Community Terrorist Threat Assessment clearly states that the MEK retains a limited capability to engage in Terrorist activity or terrorism”;”the MEK “publicly renounced violence in 2001,but limited intelligence reporting indicates that the group has not ended military operations, repudiated violence, or completely or voluntarily disarmed;”the intelligence community “assesses that although there has not been a confirmed terrorist attack by the MEK since the organization surrendered to coalition Forces in 2003,the MEK retains a limited capability and intent to use violence to achieve its political goals;”and “UN inspectors say that much of the information provided to the UN by the MEK about Iran’s nuclear program has a political purpose and has been wrong.”[8]

By Mazda Parsi

References:

[1]McGreal,Chris,Banned Iranian terror group lobbies for legitimacy on Capital Hill,Guardian,May22,2012
[2]ibid
[3]Hersh,Seymour,Our Men in Iran, the New Yorker,april6,2012
[4]Raimondo,Justin,Hillary’s Terrorists,Antiwar.com,May16,2012
[5]Greatmessage.com
[6] CNN,President Bush’s address to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
[7]Raimondo,Justin,Hillary’s Terrorists,Antiwar.com.May 16,2012
[8] Habilian reporting from declassified Court documents, August 12, 2010,U.S. Intelligence Community: MEK trained females for suicide attacks

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

On the Question of MKO’s Surrender or Disarmament

There is a great difference between laying down arms or being forcibly disarmed

For sure there is a great difference between surrendering, laying down arms or being forcibly disarmed. In the question of Mojahedin Khalq Organization MKO/MEK, it claims to have There is a great difference between laying down arms or being forcibly disarmedsurrendered its arms to American forces after the coalition forces invaded Iraq in 2003. But when the US officials, and in most cases pro-MKO Americans, refer to the issue of arms and Ashraf, they state that the group has been disarmed. Even those American military commanders who had responsibility for Ashraf have all attested, when coming to testify in behalf of MKO, that MKO was disarmed. For instance, as reported by MKO’s own reporting channel, “Gen. Raymond Odierno (then 4th ID commander) in a video teleconference from Baghdad on June 18, 2003, stated that MEK ‘have been completely disarmed. We have taken all small arms and all heavy equipment’.”

During a May 8 hearing before the US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia, the attorney for the U.S. Department of State, Robert Loeb, remarked that the U.S. military had “never been able to inspect it [Camp Ashraf].” He also stated that the residents of Camp Ashraf did not permit the U.S. military to inspect the camp. “The MEK did not permit it at that time, and the military was unable at the time” to inspect Camp Ashraf, and “the MEK did not permit an inspection. . . . They did not permit a sort of door-to-door inspection of looking for [caches] of weapons or to actually disarm them door-to-door.” Then, the conclusion one may grab at is that neither MKO have surrendered, against its claim, all its arms nor the US army is able to verify that the MKO has been fully disarmed.

Fairly reluctant to surrender its arms MKO submitted to be disarmed only after the calculations that it could in no way resist any probable invasion against its military camps by the coalition forces. Although it did engage in a series of unserious clashes with American forces through which left MKO with a number of casualties, at the end it was a cease-fire agreement that forced MKO to surrender and be disarmed.

As well stipulated in RAND’s research, “both the official U.S. Army Special Forces history and the official U.S. Army history of OIF indicate that the MeK engaged coalition forces in battle, presenting a “formidable threat” and demonstrating “excellent fighting qualities.” Nevertheless, on April 13, 2003, in the face of collapsing Iraqi forces, the MeK requested peace. U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) ordered the special operations unit that had received the request to demand that the MeK capitulate and be disarmed.”

Even if there are some to become reconciled to MKO’s claim that it surrendered its arms, they have to be convinced of the fact that it happened after the group’s leadership negotiated a cease-fire with Coalition Forces and surrendered their heavy-arms following which all members of the group stationed in a variety of camps were encamped at Ashraf to be under a strict control. The ultimate decisiveness of the US State Department to have a thorough inspection of Camp Ashraf after its evacuation is because it is the aware side of the party that reached an agreement with the group. For sure those who conducted the agreement with MKO have full access to the genuine classified and unclassified information about the willing surrender or forced disarmament of the group. At least the released and unclassified details by RAND’s research have enough to uncover some truth:

“Coalition officers endured a two-day negotiation with the MeK in early May. Again, the MeK presented itself sympathetically and negotiated tenaciously, succeeding in dissuading the coalition from forcing its surrender. Instead, the new agreement of May 10—which supplanted the April 15 agreement—allowed the MeK to continue to claim neutrality and to accept a lasting cease-fire. The principal differences between this agreement and the April 15 cease-fire agreement were the disarmament of MeK forces and the consolidation of all MeK personnel in Iraq at a single facility, Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province. The agreement also required each member of the MeK to sign a document renouncing terrorism and the use of violence.”

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Nonsense date given by US for fixing Mojahedin status

The US decision on whether to remove the Mojahedin-e Khalq from the US terrorism list Nonsense date given by US for fixing Mojahedin statuscontinues to be dragged out and will continue to be dragged for at least three more months, if not much longer.

The Wall Street Journal drew a lot of attention last week with a report that headlined that the State Department was “moving to remove” the group from the list of Foreign Terrorist organizations.

However, the explanation deep in the story did not day that at all. The article said that US officials had told the Journal Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will “make her final decision on the MeK’s status no less than 60 days after the last MeK member is relocated from Camp Ashraf” to the new site at Camp Hurriya near Baghdad.

That was a very odd formulation. Normally officials say they will make a decision no more than so many days or weeks in the future. The announcement that she will make the decision after no less than 60 days means the decision could be made in 100 days or 1,000 days or more. It means there is no deadline for a decision.

Clinton made a surprise announcement in February that she would take the Mojahedin’s willingness to cooperate in moving all their personnel from Ashraf to Hurriya into consideration when she decided whether to keep the Mojahedin on the terrorism list.

That was an odd posture since the only legal basis for keeping a group on the terrorism list is that it is terrorist. If the Mojahedin-e Khalq meets that threshold, it should be kept on the list regardless of whether it moves its people to Hurriya. And if it is not a terrorist organization, then it ought to be removed from the list even if it is fully cooperative in making the move.

Clinton said the group’s “cooperation in the successful and peaceful close of Camp Ashraf Ö will be a key factor in any decision” regarding its status as a terrorist organization. She didn’t say it would be the conclusive factor in the decision, just “a key factor.”

Combining that vague statement with the “no less than 60 days” time frame means there is really nothing there—no hint of what decision may be taken or when.

Back in July 2010, a federal appeals court ruled that the Mojahedin-e Khalq had not been treated fairly by the State Department when it was listed as a terrorist organization.

The court did not, however, order the Mojahedin-e Khalq de-listed. It simply said that the State Department had to go through the review process all over again and give the organization the full opportunity to defend itself.

The Mojahedin were first declared to be a terrorist group in 1997 and it has been re-designated as terrorist three times since then. Each time, the Mojahedin-e Khalq went to court and each time the courts said the State Department failed to recognize the group’s rights under the law. Each time the courts ordered the State Department to go through the review procedure again. And each time, at least up until now, the State Department has once again certified the Mojahedin as terrorist. It is that third review process that is now underway—and that has been underway for almost two years now.

The US Circuit Court of Appeals based in the District of Columbia declined to review the substance of the State Department listing in 2010. It simply dealt with process and ruled that the State Department “failed to accord the [Mojahedin] the due process protections outlined in our previous decisions.” It said the Mojahedin-e Khalq should remain listed as a terrorist group unless and until the State Department changed its position after reviewing the case file.

The basic issue that concerned the court was that the State Department notified the Mojahedin of its latest listing only after making its final decision. But the three judges unanimously ruled that the State Department had to notify the Mojahedin of the unclassified evidence it was using to list the group as terrorist and give the group a chance to rebut the evidence before it could publish a final ruling. “This did not happen,” the court said. “That deprived [the Mojahedin] of the of the due process protections detailed in our previous decisions.”

The Mojahedin had argued that its designation should be revoked because everything had changed in 2003 when it turned its weapons over to the US Army and all its members at Camp Ashraf in Iraq signed a document rejecting violence and terror.

The court decision carried a long footnote listing some of the damaging information the State Department said it had gathered about the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in recent years: “The MEK trained females at Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform suicide attacks in Karbala;” “the MEK solicits money under the false pretext of humanitarian aid to the Iranian people;” “an August 2008 US Intelligence Community Terrorist Threat Assessment clearly states that the MEK retains a limited capability to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism;” the MEK “publicly renounced violence in 2001, but limited intelligence reporting indicates that the group has not ended military operations, repudiated violence, or completely or voluntarily disarmed;” the intelligence community “assesses that although there has not been a confirmed terrorist attack by the MEK since the organization surrendered to Coalition Forces in 2003, the MEK retains a limited capability and the intent to use violence to achieve its political goals;” and “UN inspectors say that much of the information provided to the UN by the MEK about Iran’s nuclear program has a political purpose and has been wrong.”

The court said that when the State Department reports to the court on the latest review, it must say what allegations it considers credible and is relying on for its designation of the Mojahedin as terrorist.

New reports in 2009 said that the State Department’s top counter-terrorism official at the time, Dell Dailey, had wanted to drop the Mojahedin from the terrorism list but was overruled by superiors.

By Warren L. Nelson

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Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Kurdistani Alliance denies relations between Barzani, MKO terrorists

MP, Mahma Khalil, of the Kurdistani Alliance denied the reports over "Relations link the President of Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, and the Kurdistani Alliance with the Iranian Mujahedeen-Kurdistani Alliance denies relations between Barzani, MKO terroristse-Khalq Organization."

He stated to All Iraq News Agency (AIN) "Barzani has no relations with the MKO because it targeted the Iraqis and the KA is adherence to establish good relations with Iran."

"All these reports are political accusations aim at defaming Barzani to attack him politically by declining sides," he concluded.

MKO is classified as a terrorist group according to the USA standards, but the EU decided to relief the Organization from such classification in 2009.

All Iraqi News,

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Same news on ISNA

Kurdish MP rejects rumors of Barzani, MKO relations

A senior member of the Kurdistan Coalition in Iraq’s parliament denies the rumors about the relationship between the president of Iraq’s self-rule Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, Masoud Barzani and the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI).

“Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Region, has no relationship with the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization since the group has targeted Iraqi people, and besides the Kurdistan Coalition insists on good relations with neighboring Iran,” Mahma Khalil told Habilian Foundation –families of Iranian terror victims–.

The remarks follow the claims raised by the political advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Saad al-Matlabi who told Habilian in his recent interview that Barzani was likely to have relationship with the MKO terrorists.

Earlier this month, Dr. Habib al-Tarfi, a member of Iraq’s Supreme Islamic Council, said presence of the terrorist group in Iraq was political and Saddam’s security forces had utilized it to murder people.

He further explained that Mujahedin-e Khalq supporters are “as corrupt as the terrorist group itself”.

MKO is known to have received millions of dollars in return for its services to Saddam Hussein, particularly for the suppression of 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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