Thousands of Iraqi people held a demonstration in Tahrir square in central Baghdad to demand the immediate expulsion of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country.
The families of the people taken hostage inside Ashraf Garrison have been picketing outside the gates of the camp for the last two years in a bid to have free and unfettered access to their children.
Relatives of Ashraf prisoners are ready to endanger their life to help with salvation of their family members imprisoned in the cult of Rajavi.
The Iranian families said they have come thousands of kilometers to see their relatives, and now they are few meters away and are unable to meet them. According to reports by Iraqi NGOs and the defected MKO members, the group’s members inside the camps have been living in dire conditions and deprived of their basic rights. The UN and the Iraqi government signed a deal to relocate more than 3,000 MKO members living in Camp Ashraf while their refugee status is determined.
While the situation at Camp Ashraf remains uncertain and the relocation of the residents is hanging in balance, families concern over the fate of their loved ones grows. They are truly worried about the future awaiting for them and their children.
Due to many contacts to Nejat Society Gilan Branch made by families, Gilan office held two gatherings in which families of Ashraf residents and former Ashraf residents took part.
The attendees in the meeting discussed crucial approaches to help rescue their family members imprisoned in Camp Ashraf.
Some former members of the MKO including Akbar Mohebi, Hamid Haji pour, Ghaffar Balafkandeh attended the meeting. They spoke for the families offering them suggestion to help release their loved ones.
The ultimate result of their discussion was that families’ active presence in front of the camp is a very effective tool for residents’ salvation and seems like a nightmare for the Rajavis.
One of the families who is an active member of Nejat Society Gilan Branch also prepared a paper to demand the international and human rights bodies to support the case of Ashraf residents. Other participants of the meeting signed the paper.
At the end of the meeting, the attendees congratulated Mr. Khavari the father of Sadeq Khavari on the release of his son from the cult of Rajavi. Sadeq recently could escape Ashraf. He hasn’t returned home yet because he has engaged to stay with families picketing at camp Ashraf and accompany them with their cause.
Nejat Society offers sympathy to all families who await salvation of their beloveds, hoping for a day they can visit them as soon as possible.
After months of excruciatingly nit picking and slow negotiations to finally reach an agreement to 
peacefully and securely move the residents of Camp Ashraf to another safe facility in which their individual claims for refugee status and relocation can be worked out, Rajavi has (inevitably) come up with yet more excuses and stalling tactics to prevent any movement of residents from the camp.
Rajavi has been sidelined because neither she nor her husband, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi, actually represent the interests of the residents and are only interested in maintaining their cultist control over the camp’s residents. Moving the residents is the first step to these individuals regaining their rightful freedoms.
Because of this Rajavi is still trying to delay the inevitable by creating all kinds of outlandish excuses.[..]
U.S. special adviser on Camp New Iraq (which was formerly known as Camp Ashraf) has said that
the members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) will not stay in Camp Liberty for a long time.
Daniel Fried said that Camp Liberty, a former U.S. military base near Baghdad International Airport, is the Iraqi government’s property and the MKO members are not authorized to reside there for a long-term period, the Fars News Agency reported on Monday.
Palais de la Cour de Justice
Boulevard Konrad Adenauer Kirchberg 
LU-2925 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Arrêt dans l’affaire C-27/09 P
France / People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
Honorable President of the European supreme court of justice
I , Mohammad Karami , had been a member of pmoi( People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran) since 1976.
In 1977, I got arrested by the S.A.V.A.K ( the Shah’s security service) and after a while I got released.
I got arrested in 1980 as a result of political activities in Iran and I was sentenced to death by Islamic Republic ,but fortunately I could escape from the Islamic Republic prison along with some of my friends . In 1984 as a result of my disagreements and objections with the policies of pmoi leadership, I got arrested for 6 months and during imprisonment I was under severe torture . During my membership in pmoi as a result of my objections against the dictatorship policies of the pmoi leadership , I got beaten up more than 40 times and I was put on trial many times. In the last two trial , I was sentenced to death by Massoud Rajavi himself. After the downfall of Saddam Hussein government as a result of turbulent conditions inside pmoi , I along with some of my friends could escape from pmoi and we took refuge in American camp , TIPF.
Honorable judges
The French government appeal of the European Union verdict of 4 of December 2008 related to revoking terrorist label against pmoi, it was a just and correct request. The French government has a very good recognition of the pmoi activities which its headquarter based in Auvers-sur-Oise .The French government has distinguished perfectly that pmoi is a terrorist organization. For this reason Maryam Rajavi with other 160 pmoi operatives and officials along with a great amount of documents( such as 8 million euro which was inside a drawer of Maryam Rajavi’s worktable and many plans which pertained to their intention of attacking to places in Europe and occupying them) got arrested by French police on 17 June 2003, truly the US state department has listed them as a foreign terrorist organization.
Honorable judges
I ,as a former member of pmoi who has almost 30 years record of service and membership in pmoi, had been witnessing many terrorist activities of pmoi such as the suppression and slaying of the Iraqi Kurds in Northern part of Iraq in 1991, suppression and slaying of Iraqi Shiae in Southern part of Iraq in 1991, slaying and killing of Iranian defenseless people, slaying of Iranian people in pretext of having beard ( the pmoi operatives were guessing that the people with beard were working for Islamic Republic government ), targeting the Iranian oil pipes with explosives , begetting and creating intimidation among ordinary people, suppressing and killing of the dissidents inside their relations , sending their dissidents to the notorious Iraqi prison , Abu ghrib, beating up their opposition and dissidents , issuing execution order to kill and assassinate the dissidents and separated members of pmoi ….
I am completely ready to participate in any international court of law which intend to investigate about the pmoi crimes and I am ready to stand as a reliable witness with 30 years record of service and membership in pmoi and testify about those crimes in that court of law . I am a victim of pmoi who has been beaten up and threatened many times by the pmoi operatives and supporters in Europe which its files and dossiers are accessible in police station.
All the best
Mohammad Karami- Paris/ France
As you know, an agreement has been struck between UNAMI, the Iraqi Government and the 
leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation according to which the camp should be evacuated by the end of year 2011.
Also, according to this agreement the deportation of Mojahedin Khalq will be delayed by another 6 months in which time the UNHCR would be able to register the residents and carry out individual interviews in preparation to transfer them to other countries.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding, an initial 400 of the residents of Camp Ashraf are to be transferred to the former American Camp Liberty adjacent to Baghdad Airport, but to this day, 30th December 2011, the leaders of the Rajavi cult have rejected the planned transfer by bringing all sorts of reasons and excuses, clearly against the agreements accepted by the other two parties involved (UNAMI and the GOI).
Today it is clear to everyone that the leaders of the Rajavi cult like all similar cults anywhere in the world which use destructive mind control methods do not see themselves bound by their words or their signatures. It is now clear that they are more than anything else afraid that their forces (hostages) would run away during this transfer. Sooner or later, Rajavi will have to give up Ashraf garrison – which is situated on land illegally and forcefully confiscated by his benefactor Saddam Hussein where he built a military base which he later gifted to the Mojahedin Khalq. Sooner or later he will have to face the fact that the members will be deported from Iraq.
It is worth mentioning the continuous hard work of the families of the people trapped inside the camp who have stayed by the camp for the last two years and demanded their human rights from their base, which they call Freedom City, built adjacent to Camp Ashraf. They exposed the lies of Rajavi and they proved that the leader of the Mojahedin Khalq cult has no respect whatsoever for the people and the loved ones taken hostage inside the camp.
It is now clear to everyone that it is the fathers, mothers, children and spouses of the trapped people who represent the best interest of the hostages and not the leaders of the cult.
The agreement between all parties to sort out the problem of Camp Ashraf could not have been achieved without the hard work and the suffering of these families, especially during the last two years. They have worked flat out for the last two years in Freedom City, adjacent to Camp Ashraf for two years and intend to do so for as long as it takes. It is clear that even after the transfer of Rajavi’s hostages to a new location, the families will not rest until they achieve their minimum demand of private visits with their loved ones. The hope of reaching this goal is now greater and nearer than ever and the number of families is continually increasing in number. They have all decided to finish the quest that began two years ago and to not give up until they have achieved their simple humanitarian demand of ‘Right of Visits’ with their captured relatives.
SFF on behalf of the picketing families would like to extend its appreciation to all the survivors and ex-members, as well as human rights activists in Iraq, Iran and other countries who have been aiding and supporting the families and helping their voices be heard in the world.
With the hope that one day soon the goal of the freedom of every one of our loved ones takes the tiredness of all these years off our bodies.
translated by Iran Interlink
The Iranian families said they have come thousands of kilometers to see their relatives, and now they are few meters away and are unable to meet them.
According to reports by Iraqi NGOs and the defected MKO members, the group’s members inside the camps have been living in dire conditions and deprived of their basic rights.
Meanwhile, Iraq has agreed to United Nations demand to extend by six months a year-end deadline to close the MKO camp on its soil.
The UN and the Iraqi government signed a deal to relocate more than 3,000 MKO members living in Camp Ashraf while their refugee status is determined.
*Mujahedin-e-Khalq-e-Iran* is the Arabic term used to refer to a group called the People’s Mujahedin of Iran. The term *mujahedin* actually means holy warrior, and to take the definition a 
step further, it is this term which metaphorically submits to *jihad*, God’s struggle. For Muslims this is a righteous word, but since the attack of 9/11, it has become a rather notorious and widely misunderstood word to non-Muslims. The*Mujahedin-e-Khalq-e-Iran * (MKO/MEK) seemed to have passionate and noble intentions thirty years ago and they called themselves holy warriors with fervor. But now, they have transformed into a cult of personality and their holy warrior image no longer exists in the minds of the Iranian people. The MKO has inflicted so much damage on the Iranian people that instead of being known as holy warriors, their name, *The Mujahedin,* is synonymous with *traitor*.
Treason has always been part of the group’s strategy for struggle, and therefore remain a threat to the Iranian people. Now the MKO is supported by some United States politicians who know very well that their own United States government lists the MKO as a designated terrorist group—a group nonetheless who once despised and described the United States as imperialists, capitalists and Zionists. Dirty facts exist in the glossed over history of the MKO—one includes the murdering of American people, but that was thirty years ago.
Scott Shane of the *New York Times* describes the support for the MKO by US politicians as an “obscure cause” and notes it is a “stellar list of supporters from both parties and the last two administrations, including a dozen former top national security officials.” [1]
Shane furthers that “the M.E.K. advocacy campaign has included full-page newspaper advertisements identifying the group as ‘Iran’s Main Opposition’ — an absurd distortion in the view of most Iran specialists; leaders of Iran’s broad opposition, known as the Green Movement, have denounced the group.” [2]
The very group of Mujahedin-e-Khalq, the enemy of America’s enemy—definitely his friend—is an “anti-American, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist” group, according to Professor Paul Sheldon Foote. He calls Massoud Rajavi, who is the disappeared leader of the group, the Pol Pot of Iran. [3]
Why is it that the very US government who had despised the MEK in its early years is now coming around to shake hands with them and become an ally?
According to Justin Raimondo of *antiwar.com* “the War Party is bound and determined to drag us, kicking and screaming, into a military conflict with Iran.” Raimondo asserts that the “nexus of this network is the government of Israel and its intelligence services which is coordinating an increasingly frantic campaign to bring the Iran issue to a head.”[4]
The true face of MKO is revealed in Israel’s recent acts of hostility against the Islamic Republic. In fact, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) aggressively lobbies US politicians to stand against Iran, and has announced that the MEK has potential as a proxy force against Iran. Raimondo warns that ”The Israel lobby is an octopus with many tentacles, of which MEK is merely one: they are all attached to the same body, however and that is the government of Israel and its intelligence services.” He further quips that the US is just another “Israeli occupied territory”. [5]
If there is a goal to destabilize Tehran, the MEK has become a potential tool for both the CIA and the Mossad. As the MEK feeds them misinformation the MEK gains ground in the intelligence arena, and likewise, as the CIA and Mossad continue to use the misinformation, the MEK becomes more of an ideal proxy. Paul Joseph Watson of *PrisonPlanet.com* writes that “it’s an admitted fact that the CIA uses terrorist proxies,” and “it is widely suspected that the well-known right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), once run by Saddam Hussein’s dreaded intelligence services, is now working exclusively for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and carrying out remote bombings in Iran.”[6]
Following the explosion at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard’s missile base, west of Tehran, Israel’s Mossad was immediately accused and the Israeli government didn’t deny the accusations. Richard Silverstein, a correspondent of *Haaretz* suggests that it could have been the work of the MEK in a Mossad-led operation. Silverstein notes that it is “widely known within intelligence circles that the Israelis use the MEK for varied acts of espionage and terror ranging from fraudulent Iranian memos alleging work on nuclear trigger devices to assassinations of nuclear scientists and bombings of sensitive military installations.” [7]
The allegations about the MKO’s collaboration with western intelligence agencies were confirmed recently by an arrested Israeli spy, Mohammad Ali Lobnani who was arrested earlier this year in Lebanon. In a court hearing session, Lobnani said that he had phone contacts with Mohammad Alizadeh, an MKO ringleader, but claimed he didn’t know the number was a Mossad contact number, according to Fars News Agency. [9] Responding to a judge’s question about the link between the MKO and the Mossad, he noted, “as far as I know, the group [MKO] has been collaborating with Israel for several years and has massive interactions with the Mossad.”[8]
Western advocates of the MKO need to be aware of the group’s chameleon-like tendencies, because at some point the MKO will turn against the very ones who help them. Ultimately the MKO is a cult and the inner workings of the cult are kept secret from the various politicians they contract with to pursue their objective. Michael Rubin, an American scholar describes the MKO as a group who “sort of combined Islamism with Marxism, but it kind of just evolved into a freaky personality cult," and even warned that secretary of State, Hillary Clinton “should ignore their PR campaign.” Rubin cautions that the “Mujahedin Khalq is not only irrelevant to the cause of Iran’s democratic activities, but a totalitarian cult that will come back to haunt us.”[9]
Richard Silverstein also warns about consequences of lobbying for and working with a terror group like the MKO cult, pointing out that “It is, of course, ironic that the same MEK [which is trusted by Israel for its covert operations against Iran] is paying key political players in U.S. life hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of removing it from the Treasury Department terror list. I suppose when a terror group is harming your enemy then it’s no longer a terror group, eh? Certainly if there was another power than the Mossad willing to pay more for them to attack Israel and the U.S., guess who they’d be wreaking havoc on?” [10]
By Mazda Parsi
References:
[1]Shane, Scott, For Obscure Iranian Exile Group, Broad Support in US, New
York Times,November27,2011
[2]ibid
[3]Sheldon Fooote, Paul, American Demons,Nejatngo.org,November14,2011
[4]Raimondo, Justin, The Armageddon Network,Antiwar.com,November13,2011
[5]ibid
[6]Watson, Paul Joseph, The US Is Already Attacking Iran Through Terrorist
Proxies,Prison Palnet.com,November11,2011
[7]Silverstein, Richard, Mossad – MEK May Have bombed Iranian Missile Base
,40 dead and Wounded, Richard Silverstein.com , Novemebr14,2011
[8]Fars News Agency, Arrested spy in Lebanon Confesses MKO’s Collaboration
with Mossad, Novemebr29, 2011
[9]Rahn, Will, Strange bedfellows: Romney and the militias who hate the
mullahs, the Daily Caller, November15, 2011
[10]Silverstein, Richard, Mossad-MEK May Have Bombed Iranian Missile Base,40 Dead and Wounded,Richardsilverstein.com, November14,2011