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West has a duty to take care of its retired terrorists from the MEK

According to the Tehran Times, the IRI has raised concerns that the Americans want to transfer the MEK en masse to a new terrorist camp in another neighbouring country, probably Azerbaijan. West has a duty to take care of its retired terrorists from the MEK

Since these people are in fact too feeble to be actually used for anything, the intention behind such a move would be to antagonise the IRI and increase political tension. Such a move though would also suit others – Iraq, the EU and North America – by enabling them to wash their hands of this intractable problem; send them to a remote desert location where they can rot until death, circumventing the need to find homes for them in western countries.

Even dreaming of such a ‘solution’ would reveal that the dreamers are happy to ignore the human rights of these victims in the name of political gain or simple expediency.

So far European and North American countries have been reluctant to offer to take in the mostly elderly and sick former fighters. They should remember that it is their governments and other Western political pundits who have gleaned the greatest benefit from these victims. The MEK have been exploited relentlessly in the interminable political wrangling against Iran. Most have lost the best years of their lives trapped in the MEK’s Iraqi camps. It is now only fitting for these countries to pay back their debt to these victims by allowing them to retire with some dignity and ease, and with access to health care, in the West.

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Former members of the MEK

3 other MKO members flee from camp Liberty

Three other members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization fled from Camp Liberty [Temporary Transit Location], a former U.S. military base near the Baghdad International Airport, the Persian service of the Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.

It had been decided that 3200 MKO members living in Camp New Iraq be relocated to Camp Liberty [TTL] in eight groups, each consisting of 400 members.

The Iraqi government has recently evacuated the fifth batch of 416 members of the group from Camp New Iraq.

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Iraq

Iraq urges Int’l cooperation for rapid expulsion of MKO

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari underlined that his country is determined to expel the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR), and asked the world states to help Baghdad with the rapid expulsion of the terrorist cult.

"Iraq has fulfilled its international undertaking with regard to the transfer of these elements to Liberty Base and it is now the turn of the European, North American, and generally foreign states, to accept resettling the residents of Ashraf Camp in their countries because their stay in Liberty Camp is temporary and transitional," Zebari said during a meeting with Beat Schweizer, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq, a statement by Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

The MKO is seeking to transfer its members to another country, but no world state, including the US and the European countries, has accepted to lodge the terrorist group.

To date, almost 1200 MKO terrorists have been transferred from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty which lies Northeast of the Baghdad International Airport, in three groups of 400 each, on February 18, 8, and March 20. About 2,000 members still remain in Camp Ashraf. Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.

The MKO cannot find a shelter outside Iraq as it 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.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

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.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The MKO was in Iraq’s Diyala province for nearly three decades before it was moved to Camp Liberty.

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Former members of the MEK

Rajavi cult victims in Ashraf garrison need help

Open letter of Yaran Association to director of United Nations’ office in Paris- France

Honorable director of United Nations’ office in Paris- France Rajavi cult victims in Ashraf garrison need help

Respectfully,

We as the former members of people’s mujahedin organization ,which each one of us had spent 15-20 years in mujahedin’s bases and garrisons throughout Iraq and according to our knowledge which pmoi leaders do not submit enough and accurate information to you and other international organizations regarding to their members’ situation and according to the notorious essence of the leadership of this organization which have never allowed the famous and credible or independent news agencies enter Ashraf-garrison to produce a documentary program of the life in Ashraf and according to the captivity of thousands of our brothers and sisters and friends who are under severe control and supervision of this notorious cult and its leadership and deprived of any freedom of speech and being under horrifying collective trials which we have witnessed and observed and according to this fact that more than 70percent of Ashraf residents do not want to stay in Iraq by no means and the majority of them want to separate from this notorious cult, but the leadership of this cult by begetting tensions and scuffles with Iraqi government and Iraqi forces , have created fear of Iraqi government among its members so no one can easily make a decision to free himself from this notorious cult by surrounding to Iraqi police or escape .

According to this fact that the leadership of this notorious cult without the international pressures do not allow the Ashraf residents to move to another place where they can easily decide for themselves and their future and have access to the international organizations directly and without pmoi interference and according to this fact that the pmoi leadership utilizes variety of deceptions and tricks to keep the Ashraf residents in a oppressive environment to prevent them sending their thoughts about this cult to others throughout the world, I urge you ,as a humanitarian organization ,by condemning the leaders of this organization put pressure on them to force them to respond to the international demands , the members families and Iraqi government . your organization should help to ease the relocating process of pmoi members to an adequate place where they can directly and easily get in touch with international organizations .

We , the for members of this notorious cult who rescued ourselves from this cult , are ready ,if it is necessary ,to reveal all tricks and deceptions which the leadership of this cult utilize to prolong this process, and we can explain why Maryam Rajavi tried her best to keep and conserve Ashraf garrison by all means and why she does not want the international organizations to carry out the shutting down of this garrison by a peaceful manner and why she obstructs in this peaceful relocating process .

At the end , we thank you and your organization for helping our friends in Ashraf to have a peaceful relocation to a place where they can easily and freely get in touch with their families and the international organizations as well as having access to the free world and we are ready to cooperate with you utterly regarding Ashraf and its internal facts .

With many thanks, waiting for all necessary measures

Yaran Association, Paris

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Iran

Transferring MKO to neighboring states unacceptable to Iran

Iran on Tuesday warned that it will show strong reaction to a transfer of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members from Iraq to other neighboring countries, Azerbaijan in Transferring MKO to neighboring states unacceptable to Iran particular.

"If the US-Zionist plot is to be followed again and the members of the terrorist group (MKO) are to be stationed inside our neighboring states, we will show reaction as we are highly sensitive to their presence in these countries," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said, alluding to media reports about MKO’s possible transfer to Azerbaijan.

"We expect our neighboring countries to understand our nation’s high sensitivity and avoid conducting moves that impair our good relations with them through their highly negative consequences," he noted.

Earlier reports said that Zionist lobbies are seeking to shelter members of the MKO in Azerbaijan as the US administration is trying to station the terrorists in five neighboring countries of the Islamic Republic.

Authentic reports from sources privy to the MKO disclosed that the US administration is consulting with five of Iran’s neighboring states to persuade them into sheltering the MKO terrorists.

After nearly three decades, Iraq is now expelling the MKO from its soil, while no world country has accepted to shelter the terrorist group.

The US allies in the Middle-East, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Qatar and Pakistan, are likely to be the destination of the MKO terrorists, the sources added.

The sources also pointed out that Zionist lobbies are pressuring the US and Baku officials to station MKO terrorists in bases and desolated air fields, and added that the issue was a topic of recent discussions between Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Azeri officials.

Zionist lobbies are seeking to create Camp Ashraf-like conditions in Azerbaijan to save MKO from complete dissolution.

The MKO’s main stronghold was a training center called Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Northern Diyala province, but the post-Saddam Iraq decided to close the camp specially due to the MKO’s massacre of Iraqi Shiites during the Saddam era and its terrorist operations against Iran in the last 33 years. Iraq started expelling the group a few months ago.

The MKO is seeking to transfer its members to another country, but no world state, including the US and the European countries, accept to lodge the terrorist group.

The MKO cannot find a shelter outside Iraq as it is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

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USA

MKO remains on US FTO list

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to rule on whether to remove an Iranian dissident group from a U.S. terrorism blacklist about two months after its refugee camp in Iraq closes, the Obama

U.S. to decide MEK’s fate after camp closes

administration said on Tuesday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments on a petition from the group, Mujahadin-e Khalq, or MEK, which is seeking an order forcing the State Department to either remove it from the list or require action within a specified period on its request to be delisted.

Iranians who belong to the group have been moving out of its Camp Ashraf base in Iraq to a processing center at a former U.S. military base in Baghdad, and the remaining 1,200 or so are expected to be moved in the next nine weeks or so, the administration said.

Clinton plans to decide on the group’s request to be delisted from the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organization list "no later than 60 days after the last move," Robert Loeb, a Justice Department lawyer representing the administration, told the appeals court that heard oral arguments on the issue.

It appeared to be the first time that the State Department had publicly given a rough timeline for making a decision on the matter.

Loeb acknowledged that a 60-day period for a decision "may not be realistic" because they could find additional evidence that needs to be weighed, but that Clinton had authorized him to tell the court of her plan.

Loeb said the administration has been carefully weighing whether the group has fully renounced its violent past and given up any weapons. He denied that the process was without an end. Clinton said in February the camp move was a "key factor" to making a decision.

"We’re not citing world peace" as a goal to determine the fate of the designation, Loeb said.

Also known as the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran, the group led a guerrilla campaign against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran during the 1970s that included attacks on U.S. targets. It was added to the list in 1997, but the group has said that it has renounced violence.

UNWELCOME IN IRAQ

The group, which has pushed for the overthrow of Iran’s clerical leaders, found itself no longer welcome in Iraq under its new Shi’ite-led government that came to power after Saddam Hussein’s downfall in 2003.

As a result of the MEK’s listing as a foreign terrorist organization, Americans are barred from supporting the group, and its members or representatives are banned from entering the United States.

A lawyer for the group, Viet Dinh, pressed a three-judge appeals court panel to force the Obama administration’s hand and said that the terrorism designation has "severe implications on constitutional liberties" for the group.

He denied that the MEK members at the base were armed and saying that "the group for a decade has renounced violence."

The three judges appeared skeptical of both sides during the arguments, acknowledging that it was not as if the Obama administration was "sitting on their hands", as Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson put it during the nearly hour-long arguments.

Judge David Tatel raised the possibility of establishing a deadline for when Clinton must rule or take the Obama administration’s backup suggestion to require regular progress reports to the court.

But he questioned whether the group wanted a decision that could go against the group now but in a few weeks or months could be reversed.

Dinh argued that the law required Clinton to make a decision within short order and that the group wanted a decision made even if it was not to delist it because then it could appeal it in the courts. "Any decision would be better," he said.

Tatel also pressed Loeb on why the administration just did not deny the application so the appeals process could move, but the lawyer said that the situation was "fluid" and did not want to risk hurting cooperation to close Camp Ashraf.

(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Editing by Philip Barbara)

By Jeremy Pelofsky

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The cult of Rajavi

MKO tries to set up a new garrison in Iraq

Leaders of the Munafeqin terrorist group (MKO) are trying to take a new building like Camp Ashraf in Iraq, says Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad. MKO tries to set up a new garrison in Iraq
Discussing the current degrading conditions of the terrorist group after their relocation from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty, Habilian Foundation Secretary-General Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad told YJC that the conditions at Camp Liberty are not similar to the ones at the notorious Camp Ashraf, since it restricted the activities of its members like a fence and there they were working in an organizational manner.

“Camp Liberty meets the necessary requirements, therefore according to the international rules and regulations the asylum seekers of the Camp should cut themselves off from the cultic affiliations,” added Hasheminejad.

Referring to MKO leadership propaganda campaign to misrepresent the conditions at Camp Liberty, Secretary-General of Habilian Foundation said the reason behind these misrepresentations is that “the conditions at Camp Liberty do not allow the members of the group to keep on their terrorist activities.”

Most of the members of the garrison are trying to defect from the terrorist group, so the leaders have announced that if a member of the group disobeys the orders of the terrorist group has to be removed.

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Iraq

Europe, North America are now required to accept the MKO

Minister of Foreign Affairs Meets Representative of UNICEF, Head of ICRC in Iraq

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari met today 6/5/2012 Mr. Maritseo Babel, UNICEF new Representative in Iraq.

Both sides discussed the joint state program of Iraq for the period 2011-2014, development assistance, and the importance of updating the public policies in the basic service sectors that affect children’s lives; education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and child’s life.

Iraq’s position in achieving the development goals of the millennium in 2015 were tackled in addition to issues of malnutrition and fatalities rates among children under the age of five.

The Minister stressed Iraqi government’s keenness on supporting the activities and programs of UNICEF to achieve the required cooperation and coordination with the competent ministries.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs met Mr. Biat Schwiser, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq, and reviewed with him the activities and programs of the mission in Iraq.

Inspection operations , looking for the Iraqi and Iranian Missing In Action (MIA) dead bodies in Fao and Majnoon areas were discussed as well as the tripartite committee; Iraqi-Iranian-ICRC, activities.

The Minister also reviewed the results of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti talks during the Second Round Meetings of the Supreme Ministerial Committee, especially the humanitarian file, confirming that the Iraqi-Kuwaiti cooperation continues in the search for the Kuwaiti MIA and properties, adding that a number of proposals were submitted to continue the inspections as well as referring the

Iraq has fulfilled its international commitment, European, North American and foreign States are now required to accept the Mojahedin Khalq

issue to be addressed bilaterally, even if it was carried out under the supervision of ICRC or UNAMI.

The Minister also evaluated the ICRC role in communicating with the residents of Ashraf Camp and Liberty Camp, praising the humanitarian and professional role of the ICRC, confirming Iraq’s fulfilling its international commitment and that the European, North American, and foreign states are required to accept resettling the residents of Ashraf Camp in their countries because their stay in Liberty Camp is temporary and transitional.

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Massoud Rajavi

Rajavi’s Mansions – Part1

History is loaded with injustice of kings who built their mansions on bodies of deprived, poor While the MKO’s propaganda was all the time speaking of the group’s bad financial situation and the group’s urgent need for funds, Massoud Rajavi was spending millions of dollars to build mansions people. Seemingly the glory and majesty of their kingdom depends on their mansions; purity of their thought and action is revealed in the breadth, beauty and number of their mansions.

Their large ,small, red, green, white, summer, winter, country mansions, were all nothing but a tall wall that distanced them from mass’s poverty, hunger and pain and covered their debauchery and sensualism.

The common aspect of all kings including Pharos of Egypt, Roman Emperors and Islamic Califats was their luxurious lives in their palaces. They treated masses as their slaves who had to work, to even die so that their masters could live a comfortable life in their luxurious mansions.

Whom I’d like to write about here is not among those kings, emperors or Pharos but a power-crazy and delusional personality who has madly imitated those kingdoms and has built a lot of mansions for himself by victimizing and deceiving thousands of innocent individuals who act as his slaves. I write the article to record what I witnessed in the history and to awake those who may still believe in the MKO leaders’ so-called honesty, sacrifice, revolutionary, anti-discrimination and anti-exploitation ideas. They should know that their believe is just an illusion because a revolutionary leader who claims honesty and devotion should live a life like his public; he should be honest to his followers and supporters, but, it’s a pity that no honesty, no devotion and no sincerity is found in Massoud Rajavi’s personal life.

Rajavi’s appearance may not seem like Pharos, Emperors and kings but his interior life is the same as them. He has servants, maids, workers and a queen. He has torturers, prisons and turnkeys. He doesn’t admit any opposite idea and eventually threatens or kills his opponents or systematically destroy their character. He lives in expensive luxurious mansions. He thinks that it is his right to live a comfortable life but his forces should live in difficult situation to maintain their revolutionary spirit!! Maryam Sanjabi

Appreciating my friends’ cooperation, I note that this series of articles on “Rajavi’s Mansions” was authored by the help of a number of my friends who are also former members of the MKO.

While the MKO’s propaganda was all the time speaking of the group’s bad financial situation and the group’s urgent need for funds, Massoud Rajavi was spending millions of dollars to build mansions, houses and safe havens for himself and Maryam Rajavi all over Iraqi territory.

He built various houses in different parts of Iraq regarding the security and protection condition of the place. Some were used temporarily and some were his permanent mansions. I note some of them:

Badee’ Zadegan Base
This base was located near Baghdad and was founded in 1996 and named Hanif Base. It was essentially one of the five military bases established in 1996 and 1997. Since 1997, the base was turned in to the main political and propaganda headquarters. In western side of Badi Zadegan base, about one fourth of the base’s breadth was allocated to Rajavi’s private mansion. The place was built so strongly and decorated so lavishly. During following years more rooms and halls were added to the main building. The green space included a pool and very beautiful trees. The mansion was departed from other parts of the base with very tall walls.

Mohammd Abad Base in Kefri
The base included some trenches and ramparts in Kefri hills which apprently looked like a village and used by the Rajavis during Kuwait War. When the coalition forces attacked Kuwait, the trenches were camouflaged like a village. It was soon equipped for the Rajavis.
Rajavi spent most of that 40-day long war and bombardment in the place while other forces guarding the base had no trenches and had to stay in tents or shelters.
After the war ended, the base was destroyed by the group because they didn’t want the Kurds to reach it.

Forough Base in Karbala
Forough 1 was a villa that was given to the Rajavis by Iraqi Intelligence service to protect them from coalition forces’ bombardment.
As the coalition troops didn’t target religious cities like Karbala, the rajavis moved to the base where an Iraqi Intelligence official always accompanied them. Following the Iraqi shiits uprisings in Southern cities, the Rajavis were forced to flee the base. Some of Rajavis’ guards stayed at the base, they were then killed by people. It was later said that those guards had gone there on mission because they didn’t want anyone to know about Rajavi’s covert base in Karbala.

A Large Base Near Border
There was a large base near Baquba not far from Iranian border. It was turned in to a green zone with elegant buildings that a 5-member team was always guarding.
I went to the base a few times but I could never know about its exact name and address. The base was never used publically and just a few members of Rajavi’s guards had information about it.

Tikrit Palace
As the result of Rajavi’s hard work to gain one of saddam’s palaces, this palace in Tikrit was given to him. Large amounts were spent to make it more luxurious but the base was never used by the Rajavis because of the threatened geographical situation. It only satisfied his greed.
Samira Palace
It was a two-story villa in Samira, called “Agha”. It was used for Rajavi’s pilgrimage time at this religious city. Although it was highly luxuriously equipped, it was not used more than two times.

Alavi Base
The base was originally an anti-bomb trench and the headquarters of Saddam’s Northern front. It had a lot of rooms, a conference hall and an eating place. It was completely reconstructed and furnished but it was destroyed following the American occupation of Iraq. The base had been granted to Rajavi as a gift for the services he offered Saddam Hussein during Iraq-Iran war.

By Maryam Sanjabi ,MKO defector – Translated by Nejat Society

May 7, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Relocation, A Humanitarian Concern or An Assets Dispute

The humanitarian issue of relocation is different from the material assets dispute

The Iraqi government is reported to have evacuated the fifth group of 416 members of the The humanitarian issue of relocation is different from the material assets dispute Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from Camp New Iraq, Camp Ashraf, and transferred them to a Temporary Transit Location (TTL) near Baghdad. Unlike the four past groups transferred, overwhelming majority of this convoy were women, 350 out of 416.

In a bid to escape from any accusation of refusing to cooperate to peacefully speed up the process of evacuation, MKO announced it “showed utmost cooperation and agreed to the transfer upon the requests of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi”. But the unnecessary interval of 19 days between the transfer of the fourth and the fifth group was mainly because of MKO’s providing of unreasonable impediments and invention of excuses. In its latest statement delivered a few days prior to transfer, MKO offered new suggestions which clearly indicated that it was walking on a path of delaying the process of relocation and prolonging its stay at Ashraf.

The suggestion it intended to impose on the Iraqi Government stressed on moving a big bulk of utilities and instruments from Ashraf to TTL and selling the unmovable at a big price. However, the Iraqi Government disregarded MKO offers and disappointed it in what the group refers to as “two weeks of negotiations and repeatedly changing the draft agreement with Ambassador Kobler”. The Iraqi Government seems to have learned how to deal with petulant demands of the group and the utility vehicles MKO had prepared to take were stopped at the gate and returned back to Ashraf. Like the previous convoys supervised by the UN monitors nothing but the personal belongings, as stipulated in the MoU signed between the Iraqi Government and the UN, were permitted to pass the inspectors at the gate.

The agreement reached at the present is relocation of Ashraf residents to TTL. The question of properties and holdings MKO claim to possess and insists to take is not so simple an issue to be negotiated simultaneous with the relocation process. The humanitarian issue of relocation is different from the material assets dispute.

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