The MKO cult enclave is surrounded by the families of the people inside who are asking to have contact with their loved ones. The worst fear of Rajavi is for his cult members to have contact with the outside world.
Now, in order to prevent them from contacting the ordinary members, Rajavi has introduced an extra security system to try to force them back.
These days, news based on MeK interactions is about UNHCR statement on handling asylum 
applications of Camp Ashraf residents.
UNHCR has entered to the issue with the legal preconditions for individual interviews with the troops, an event that if done, could be considered as retreat of MeK from the unreasonable and illegal demand of mass refugee, the inquiry which was asked until recently.
According to the international laws, international institutions’ Work areas should not violate the sovereignty of states. Undoubtedly, MeK leadership has welcomed the UNHCR intervention in order to find a way to abuse, but soon he will not tolerate the interference of international organizations.
Entry of international organizations to this issue will provide arrangements and conditions for adjudication of Ashraf residents’ personal rights, the matter that is strongly opposed by MEK leadership, so he will try all his efforts to abrogate it.
In this area there are numerous issues that must be addressed, but the very important point in this regard is that it was proven once again that Mujahedeen should Adopt civilized behavior, also they should stop medieval and sectarian relations, even for survival of themselves.
Note this statement of Mr. Struan Stevenson, a Scottish conservative in the European parliament:
I hope that individual requests for refugee status would lead to resettlement of Ashraf residents in the European Union and in third countries.
They have long since given up any pretense of being a military force and they have long abandoned any idea of remaining together.
MeK’s 8 years of futile efforts to gain Western support reveal that the world does not accept a terrorist group and a violent cult.
In order to get relieved of the pressure imposed on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization; because of its being listed as a terrorist group by the US and the Iraqi determination to shutdown their 
base camp Ashraf in Iraq, these days Maryam Rajavi is talking nonsense, particularly in her recent interview with the Swiss Television, TSR she continues to repeat her previous delirious words.
Misusing the recent atmosphere ruling the Middle East, she presents herself as the representative of the Iranian people!!! Introducing her cult as the alternative of the Islamic Republic, she speaks of certainty of Iranian spring!
However, it’s been widely broadcasted that camp Ashraf will be soon shutdown by the Iraqi government based on its legal decision and all repetitive claim by Maryam Rajavi about Iranian spring is a resort to deviate the public opinion from the case of MKO left on the table.
She claims that “Camp Ashraf and its residents” are “ the center of gravity for the aspiration of the Iranian people”(!!!) while, the majority of members imprisoned in Ashraf are thinking of a plan to escape ,according to the reports and revelations made by recently defected members. Also, international bodies and Iraqi government are trying to find a solution to help remove camp Ashraf from Iraqi territory. Thus the MKO’s entire activities focus on this issue.
A large part of her interview was about the debate on the terrorist designation of the MKO and the shutdown of Camp Ashraf. So, how can Camp Ashraf – a container of 3000 terrorist designated people – be “the center of gravity for the aspirations of the Iranian people”?!!
The leaders of the cult of Rajavi who were armed by Saddam Hussein , fought for him for years and killed Iraqis and their own Iranian country-men, used to consider Camp Ashraf the strategic center of struggle for the world.
Today, the MKO leader–disarmed, humiliated and in decline – claims that Ashraf is “the center of hope, strength and perseverance for the Iranian people and also the people of Middle East.”(!!!)
In fact, Maryam Rajavi speaks of Iranian spring while 3000 hostages of the organization are held under the mind control system by herself and her disappeared husband. The majority of these people suffer various mental and physical diseases. Some of them committed suicide to release themselves from such pressure imposed by the cult system. The rest are waiting for a way out of this long winter dominating Camp Ashraf in order that they can start a new life.
A senior member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) called on the Baghdad government to adopt more serious measures in line with the expulsion of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq’s soil.
"Iraqi government has not adopted a decisive and crushing stance on the MKO thus far," Jalaleddin al-Saqir said in a meeting with Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, the secretary-general of Iran’s Habilian Association – a human rights group formed by the families of 17,000 terror victims in Iran.
Saqir stressed that the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki should adopt more serious and tougher actions in this regard.
He referred to the US double-standard position on the MKO, and said the American officials are well aware of the terrorist nature of the group but they use it as a leverage to pressure Iran.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
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).
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.
Since the beginning of this year, the Baghdad government has repeatedly assured Iranian officials and people that it is determined to expel the MKO from Iraq by the end of 2011.
"Expulsion of the MKO from Iraq’s soil and termination of its presence which has lasted for several years is a definite decision," Iraqi Government Spokesman Ali Al-Dabbaq told FNA in April, adding, "The MKO will be expelled from Iraq by the end of the current year."
"The only option for the members of the MKO is leaving Iraq and they have no other choice," he reiterated.
Reminding the black record of the terrorist group and its crimes against the Iraqi people, Dabbaq said, "Collaboration with the former Iraqi dictator and massacre of thousands of our people is just part of their crimes".
Dabbaq announced in early April that the cabinet is determined to shut down Camp Ashraf located North of the capital, Baghdad, and disband the terrorist group.
"The council of ministers is committed to implement the earlier decision about disbanding the terrorist group by the end of this year at the latest, and is well informed of the necessity of getting it out of Iraq," the official noted.
But, the US is trying to convince Iraqi officials to relocate MKO members within Iraq.
Under the US plan, the approximately 3,400 residents of Camp Ashraf would be temporarily relocated within Iraq, farther from the border with Iran, a US State Department official announced.
The relocation would be temporary, the official said, with final settlement of the inhabitants in other countries.
That would not include the United States, the official said, "Since US law bars anyone associated with a terrorist organization from settling there".
The Committee for Justice revealed that on Monday the government was in negotiations with some Western countries to accommodate the Mojahedin organization, and accused some 
parties of trying to keep the organization as leverage against neighbouring countries.
The Iraqi government has promised in August last, to end the presence of the terrorist Mojahedin Organization of Iran which took part in killing Iraqis.
In an interview with Shafaaq News the MP Sadegh Al Leban of the Committee for Justice said, "The government rejects the existence of any organization on its territory which works against the neighbouring countries, including the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, which stained its hands with the blood of the people," stressing that "the Government was exerting pressure such as to remove the organization from the country."
The Government of Iraq changed the name of Ashraf camp to Camp New Iraq after taking over responsibility from U.S. troops for the garrison which was established by the Mojahedin-e Khalq during the era of the former regime in the eighties and during the first Gulf War.
Al Leban said that "the government is negotiating with some Western countries to receive the organization in their own lands because it has become undesirable on Iraqi soil", pointing out that "some actors have a hidden agenda, trying to keep the Mojahedin organization and use it as leverage against the government and countries neighbouring Iraq.
Shafaaq News, Translated by Iran Interlink
The mayor of Khalis’s Diyala province revealed the names of those politicians and tribal leaders involved in supporting the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq based in Camp Ashraf garrison. 
The mayor of Khalis, Uday Alkhaddran said he would "send all the names of politicians and tribal leaders involved in supporting the PMOI to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, along with the smallest details about the organization and internal support for it".
Alkhaddran said that "some politicians in the central government following their personal interests are driven to support the PMOI at the expense of the Iraqi people". Alkhaddran pointed out that "support is still on-going by some politicians", but refused at the present time to name them.
Alforat TV, Translated by Iran Interlink
On Monday September19, Mr. Darius Balafkandeh joined his family . Embraced by his mother, he said with watery eyes:
“The MKO is nothing but a liar. Since the moment I decided to flee the strictly controlled system of Rajavi, I tried to reach Iraqi forces protecting Camp Ashraf with great difficultly. I was welcomed by families picketing in front of camp Ashraf. I have to say bravely that when I faced Iranian officials at the Embassy in Iraq, I was surprised to see their humanly kind treatment toward me. I found out that I had been influenced by Rajavi’s indoctrination and forced presence in the group. I had only heard lies during those years. I am really embarrassed now.”
An Iranian exile group is ramping up its lobbying campaign to get off a U.S. terrorist list, and the issue has sparked a fierce debate among foreign policy experts about the wisdom of such a move.
Supporters of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq see it as a potentially useful group in countering Iran. It has provided the U.S. information about Iran’s nuclear program, for instance. Others see it as a dangerous cult and warn that taking it off the Foreign Terrorist Organization list would undercut peaceful Iranian dissidents, who want nothing to do with the MEK.
Despite sanctions against it, the MEK has managed to enlist members of Congress and some high-profile former U.S. officials to press its case.
The U.S. State Department is under court order to review the MEK’s status, and officials say that review is continuing.
Obligation To Protect?
The group’s supporters, meanwhile, often stand vigil outside the State Department. At one such event this week, MEK supporter Farah Salehi, a software engineer from Berkeley, Calif., said that the group should never have been on the terrorist list in the first place.
"The MEK designation was a wrong designation that was made in 1997 as a goodwill gesture to the Iranian government," Salehi says.
She calls this an urgent matter because thousands of MEK members live in Iraq in a place called Camp Ashraf. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants them out, though Camp Ashraf residents fear there are few places they could safely go. If they returned to Iran, the MEK says its members would be jailed, or worse.
"Maliki is using this label as an excuse or justification that these are terrorist people and they don’t need to be protected and it’s OK to go ahead and massacre them," Salehi says.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean agrees, saying the U.S. promised to protect residents of Camp Ashraf.
"They are unarmed. And 47 of them over a two-year period were mowed down by Maliki’s people. And I don’t think the United States should be permitting those kinds of human-rights abuses," Dean said in a recent interview with NPR’s Talk of the Nation.
Dean and other former officials have accepted large speaker fees from groups linked to the MEK.
But he insists, "This is not a scary group of people. And in the past, who knows what they did. But the fact of the matter is they’re not a terrorist group."
May Send Wrong Message To Iranian Activists
The U.S. government has linked the MEK to the killing of several American military officials and civilians who were in Iran in the 1970s. But the group says it renounced violence long ago.
Robert Hunter, a retired ambassador now with the National Defense University, says the residents of Camp Ashraf ought to be protected. But, he adds, "getting into bed with these people, I think, would be a profound mistake."
Hunter describes the MEK as a Marxist cult, whose members have learned the ways of Western public relations.
"This organization is not a friend of the United States and it never has been. Even though their tactics have changed, they now smile sweetly on us and others, their basic strategy and leadership has not changed at all," Hunter says.
If the U.S. takes the MEK off the terrorism list, Hunter worries that this would send the wrong message to Iranians seeking more democracy. He says the MEK is hated by many Iranians because it was once a tool of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein during and after the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Others feel that taking the group off the list would put more pressure on the Iranian government.
Kenneth Katzman, an analyst with the Congressional Research Service, says Iran watchers have been debating the ramifications of such a move and there are two sides of the argument.
He points out, though, "the Foreign Terrorist Organization list is supposed to really be decided on the technical question of, is the group a terrorist group or not."
And that is the only question the State Department is supposed to decide.
by Michele Kelemen
The international PR firm that repped Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad takes on a new controversial client: supporters of the Iranian opposition outfit Mujahideen-e-Khalq.
Over the years, the Iranian opposition group and State Department-listed terrorist organization Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) has won a bizarro patchwork of high-profile supporters. John Bolton, Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.), big-time Republican lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, Tom Ridge, Howard Dean, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel have all called on the US government to stop treating the MEK, also known as The People’s Mujahideen of Iran, as a terrorist group. This obscure Paris-based outfit—labeled a cult by its critics—that has assembled such an impressive roster of backers now also has the help of Brown Lloyd James, a major international PR firm with a track record of taking on controversial clients.
In late August, hundreds of MEK supporters descended on Washington, protesting the group’s foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) listing in front of the State Department with attendees yelling slogans like "We want justice, we want peace, we want MEK off the list!" Speakers including former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell held forth on why they believe the group is the best hope for secular democracy and human rights in Iran. (The MEK’s FTO status is currently being considered by a court-mandated review.)
The well-organized event and high-profile speakers indicated the kind of large-scale, well-funded MEK lobbying enterprise that has been suggested by various media outlets. Jila Kazerounian, one of the rally’s press liaisons, was quick to quash that notion. "There is no MEK lobby, that you read about in these articles," she said. "The closest thing we have to a lobby is the money from grassroots supporters; these Iranian Americans—educated, doctors, businessmen, lawyers, young, old." Nevertheless, in the thick of the crowd was a Brown Lloyd James account executive who told me he was taking notes on the rally for his superiors in Manhattan.
In May 2011, the firm was hired by a Germany-based MEK backer named Ali Taslimi working on behalf of Camp Ashraf, a refugee camp in Iraq north of Baghdad that houses over 3,000 Iranian MEK members and supporters. For an initial fee of $40,000, Brown Lloyd James signed on to provide political consulting services and "a broad range of public relations services for the months of May and June 2011" to Camp Ashraf, which is officially listed as the client.
Brown Lloyd James, a US-British company that specializes in government relations (i.e., lobbying), advertising, and "reputation management," handles the accounts of Al Jazeera English, the government of Qatar, Forbes, and even the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. But some of its clients are decidedly less savory. In fact, helping MEK supporters isn’t necessarily the most controversial thing Brown Lloyd James has done recently: This year, the firm made news for doing business with the Qaddafi regime in Libya and the Assad dictatorship in Syria—in the latter case, $5,000-per-month work that included landing a fawning Vogue profile of Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad. In an ironic twist, Brown Lloyd James was hired to publicize a September 23 New York bash held by the Logo for Human Rights project, a competition endorsed by Mikhail Gorbachev that aimed to crowdsource a fresh logo that would "become as iconic as the peace sign and serve to advance the global spread…of human rights." (After the news broke, which highlighted the firm’s work for clients with dubious human rights records, the project said that it would sever its ties with the firm.)
But while the company is obviously no stranger to controversy, lobbying for delisting the MEK presents uniquely tricky legal issues—particularly when it comes to the material support for terrorism statute, which prohibits providing aid or resources to designated terrorist organizations. Brown Lloyd James maintains that it works with supporters of the MEK, not the group itself. However, experts on counterterrorism law say the firm’s MEK advocacy may still be problematic.
"Whether the MEK should or should not be listed is one thing, but the law is very clear that third parties and intermediaries don’t insulate you," says David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University. "Think about how the United States would respond if [American] citizens were actively working with a PR organization to support the legitimacy of Hamas in Gaza? Here, the only thing protecting the people involved is that they include the former homeland security secretary, not the kind of people the government wants to prosecute…If circumstances were different, they would be scrambling for a good criminal defense…And the same goes for any public relations firm."
Brown Lloyd James maintains that it works with supporters of the MEK, not the group itself. However, legal experts say the firm’s advocacy may still be problematic.
The language of the material support statute is broad enough to encompass the activity of a PR firm, according to Robert Chesney, a professor and international security expert at the University of Texas School of Law. However, Chesney recognizes that a First Amendment defense might have some traction. "There is a free speech issue here, as we are talking about advocating changes to government policy and that is protected if you are doing it independent of the listed group, even if it aids the group indirectly," Chesney says. "At the end of the day, if I were a lawyer advising a PR firm, I would say you have to be very clear as to who you’re dealing with here. As a firm doing this kind of work, you have to know that how the facts appear to you might not be how they appear to those pursuing prosecution."
Brown Lloyd James denies that it’s in murky legal terrain. "Iranian-American communities are perfectly within their rights to work with anyone they want," Mike Holtzman, a partner in the firm’s New York office, said in an email. "They are exercising their First Amendment rights."
Though the MEK has built up a powerful base of political support in the West, there is still much debate surrounding the group’s true nature. The MEK and their supporters say the group is the oppressed, Western-friendly, and pluralistic antidote to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Islamic republic. But there’s more to the story. Since its founding in Tehran in the mid-1960s, the group, which began as a synthesis of Islamic principles, left-wing politics, and violent resistance to the Shah, has been accused of grave breaches of human rights, indiscriminate mass slaughter (including the deaths of three Americans in 1976), and a totalitarian, hero-worshipping culture.
Critics claim that the MEK’s zigzagging alliances—initially supporting the clerics in the 1979 revolution, then challenging their power, then fighting on the side of Iraq throughout the brutal Iran-Iraq War—have made the group unpopular among Iranians, even those who abhor the current regime. Many also allege that MEK fighters—including current leader Maryam Rajavi herself—were part of a death squad that did Saddam Hussein’s bidding during the 1991 Shiite and Kurdish uprisings.
The group’s supporters brush off the negative press as rooted in the propaganda machines of the Shah, and later the Ayatollah, and view the continuation of the MEK’s 1997 Foreign Terrorist Organizations listing as a cynical, naive sop by the Obama administration to the Iranian government. "Some members of the media have bought all that propaganda wholesale," Ali Safavi, president of Near East Policy Research and an organizer behind the well-publicized State Department rally, said. "The Iranian regime has taken a page right out of Joseph Goebbels’ book. [The regime has] spent millions upon millions of dollars in their campaign against the MEK."
Meanwhile, though, vast sums of money have reportedly been paid out to speakers at pro-MEK events. Among the recipients is Howard Dean, who has written in support of the organization and has been a paid speaker at MEK-related events since January 2011. He says that he was hired via the New York-based Harry Walker Agency to appear at events "sponsored by groups in the Iranian American community, not the MEK." MEK supporters and event organizers stress that their advocacy is bankrolled by the "Iranian American community." But what remains a mystery is exactly where the funding that fuels these costly MEK lobbying operations comes from, or what central entity, if any, coordinates the effort.
Brown Lloyd James declined to discuss its pro-MEK work or the firm’s relationship with supporters and activists, though Holtzman did offer to field questions on "the humanitarian outrages taking place against the people in Camp Ashraf." Just the same, Holtzman’s firm has a decidedly nuanced view when it comes to the MEK’s primary oppressor. Peter Brown, the president of Brown Lloyd James, told the Financial Times in late August that he would "love to take on Iran as a client" because "there are areas of commonality that ought to be exploited."
By Asawin Suebsaeng – Motherjones.com
Rajavi: I will not let hostages out
MeK leadership is strongly opposed to any plan or program which depends on free decisions of people trapped in Camp Ashraf. 
Masood Rajavi will disrupt any legal program, in which individual interests and future of members is a priority, and through it he fails to maintain the organization; so by suppressing and control of troops, he will force them to obedience and sacrifice for its own interests.
In order to disturb any plans and programs based on the law, MeK gang leader will resort to the tactic of threat, and he will display a bloody Image of the insubordination to the world, to the price of sacrificing all the people in the Camp.
As was expected, despite the propaganda by Rajavi’s terrorist gang about statement of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, And despite the misuse of the term "refugee", Since UNHCR’s action is based on the recognition of individuals and depends on interviewing them, Propaganda maneuvering, Masood Rajavi has began disrupting it.
In this regard, in its last announcement, MeK has referred to the Maryam Rajavi’s warning on solo interviews:
Any sending out of residents from the camp, Under Any title, for registration, or interview, is unacceptable, except by helicopter and with full responsibility and protection of United Nations, like the personnel shuttle of United Nations and Western countries.
A simple and practical solution is to Separate a part of the camp and deliver it to the staff of UNHCR and UNAMI monitors, so that, under the flag of United Nations, they can perform their mission separately and independently, in order to Rapid confirmation of Ashraf residents’ refugee status, and to prevent creating another blood bath.
Opposition to the sending out of residents from the camp is the first step of MeK excuses against the United Nations’s actions. Obviously, Mujahedeen are seeking to create conditions in which they have Maximum control and effect over the actions of the United Nations.
Moreover, it is also clear that from now, through blackmail and putting pressure on UNHCR, MeK ring leaders are putting preconditions for interviews, with this pretext that Interviews must necessarily lead to the grant of asylum, only, in Iraq.
In this situation, once again the necessity to dissolution of the organizational hierarchy and remove the control of MeK leadership is emerged, which undoubtedly is the task of United Nations and Red Cross; Because If not, these institutions will never reach their humanitarian goals.
