Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MKO Using Former US Officials, Retired Generals to Pursue Terrorist Objectives

Sources revealed that the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is using former US officials and retired Generals to advance its terrorist goals.

According to a report published by the website of the Habilian association – a human rights group formed of the family members and relatives of the Iranian victims of terrorism – the Washington-based ‘Iran Policy Committee’ is one of those agencies that serve the interests of the terrorist group.

Established in February 2005, the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) is comprised of former officials from the White House, State Department, Pentagon, intelligence agencies, and experts from think-tanks and universities.

Members of the IPC, a nonprofit and bipartisan organization based in Washington DC, include R. Bruce McColm; Lt. General Thomas McInerney USAF (ret.); Captain Charles T. "Chuck" Nash, USN (ret.); Lt. General Edward Rowny, USA (ret.); Professor Raymond Tanter; Major General Paul E. Vallely, USA (ret.).

The Habilian report said the IPC’s overt and covert policies are highly influenced by the MKO.
The report stated that the IPC’s stance on the MKO even runs counter to the declared policies of the White House, specially when the interests of the MKO are in danger.

The IPC members even embark on taking such stances which are completely in opposition to the policies that they adopted during the years of their service, the report noted.

The committee also is trying to portray the MKO as an alternative for the Islamic Republic and is trying to convince the US administration to take the MKO off its list of terrorist groups.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, 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, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

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.

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Iran

MKO terrorists have nowhere to go

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi says the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group is at the end of the road and has nowhere to stay any longer.

“The MKO members should know their days are numbered, and they have nowhere to stay anymore,” Moslehi was quoted by the IRIB as saying on the sidelines of a ceremony in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Saturday.

He made the remark in response to a question by a reporter who had asked him about the expulsion of the MKO members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq and the possibility that some countries may offer to host them.

“The United States and its allies are supporting them (MKO members), but MKO members should know they have nowhere to stay any longer,” the Iranian intelligence chief underscored.

The Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has carried out numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The MKO is also known to have cooperated with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

Iraqi terror victim families to sue MKO

Families of Iraqi victims of terrorist attacks by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) are to file a lawsuit against the terrorist group with the Iraqi Judiciary.

Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein (L) and MKO leader Massoud Rajavi

A number of the families of the victims of the March 1991 massacre are to file a lawsuit against the MKO, reported Habilian — an association that groups the families of those killed in terror operations across Iran — on its website.

The families seek the prosecution of the perpetrators of the massacre and want the leaders of the organization to be brought to justice, the report added.
They reiterated that the MKO had a hand in the 1991 crackdown of Iraqis. They said that they have evidence at hand proving the MKO’s crimes, adding that they would present the evidence to the Iraqi Judiciary.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border.

The organization is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

According to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, 5000 members of the MKO joined forces of Saddam in the battle for Kirkuk to help the suppression of Iraqi Kurds.

Several defectors from the group have also verified that the group played a significant role in repressing the Iraqi Kurds.

Batoul Soltani, a former member of the MKO leadership council, told a press conference in 2009 that the MKO played a prominent role in repressing the Iraqis in the southern Iraqi cities in 1991, adding that Saddam’s regime did not rely on its soldiers more than relying on the MKO militants in this particularly respect.

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Iraq

Zebari assures Eu ambassadors of humanitarian services to Camp Ashraf

Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad on Thursday met with EU ambassadors to Iraq, and discussed the joint relations and the political situation in Iraq and Arab countries.

During the meeting, Minister Zebari reviewed his government’s plans and programs during the next stage.

He also addressed the issue of Camp Ashraf, which houses members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization.

Zebari said that the authorities are in full control have taken a series of measures to ensure the provision of humanitarian services, health care and food to residents of the camp…

Alhorra Television, translated by Iran Interlink

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France

Ms. Batoul Maleki Open Letter to president of France On MKO

The honorable president of France, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy

Respectfully,

I am utterly confident that you are completely familiar with the name of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran which is a destructive Iranian organization based in your country, France .
Mrs. Batoul Maleki Open Letter to president of France On MKO
I am the former member of this notorious organization who separated from them during the Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991 also known as Operation Dessert Storm).

In the authenticated news , it has been mentioned that the Judicial court of France has exonerated 24 members of pmoi who were detained as a result of the money laundering as well as terrorist activities in 2003 in France .

Among those exonerated members there is also the name of Maryam Rajavi the ringleader of pmoi , the wife of Massoud Rajavi the fugitive spiritual leader of pmoi.

Mr. President

Pmoi was constituted to fight against the monarchy regime of Iran who was ruled by the Iranian king, Mohammad reza shah .All its founders and leaders were captured and finally executed by the Shah’s regime except Massoud Rajavi the second rank member of pmoi who his fully cooperation with SAVAK , The Shah’s Intelligence Service Agency ,and revealing the name of his comrades to the SAVAK rescued him from being executed by the shah’s firing squad so he was sentenced to life in prison.

After the revolution 1979 in Iran, Massoud Rajavi in the absence of the pmoi founders ,took over the leadership of the organization. As a result of his mismanagement and making lots of mistakes in his decision making little by little he diverted the organization from its main path .As a result of his huge mistakes thousands of Iranian people paid the price of his mistakes by incarceration , torture and execution. He and some of his close colleagues and friends escaped from Iran and they took refuge in your country, France. During the war between Iran and Iraq he left France to Iraq and according to the documentary films and authenticated documents at hand he began cooperating with the late dictator of Iraq , Saddam Hussein and he sold lots of Iran’s substantial military and civil information to Saddam Hussein government and in return he received lots of military equipments and arms.

Mr. President

The pmoi leaders , Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam , not only betrayed Iranian people during the war between Iran and Iraq by giving vital information to Saddam Hussien government and fully cooperating with the Iraqi government then, but also they incarcerated and tortured their dissident members inside their organization and they instructed and ordered the killing of many of them in different ways.

They ordered the compulsory divorce inside their organization and they forced 700 to 800 children to be separated from their mothers forcibly by the pretext of the war and its dangerous consequences. Those children dispersed around the world. Some of those children were returned to Iraq again while they were very young. some of those children were killed in different occasions . pmoi incarcerated many of my comrades and I who had a baby in 3 prisons in Iraq for 4 months and also I had been sent in exile for one year and half . Finally I could go to Switzerland by I’ONU.

Pmoi has incarcerated and tortured many of my comrades even they killed some of them. Some of my comrades had been sent to the Iraqi notorious prison , Abu ghorib, and later those comrades were exchanged with the Iraqi soldiers who were prisoner of war in Iran in a transaction with Iranian regime , meaning , the PMOI dissident members who were incarcerated in Abu ghorib were exchanged with the Iraqi soldiers who were prisoners of war in Iran .PMOI by the direct order of Saddam Hussein also participated in killing of many Iraqi Shea and Kurds who were participating in popular uprising against Saddam Hussein government.

During invasion of Iraq led by USA, Mujahedin gave up and surrendered themselves to the United states army and Massoud Rajavi himself ran away. Maryam Rajavi and some of her close friends and colleagues entered to your country , France.

Since one year ago many Iranian families who have loved ones inside Ashraf Garrison have come from different locations to see their loved ones whom they have not seen them more than twenty years but so far the PMOI leaders and operatives have not allowed those families to meet their loved ones PMOI has incarcerated its members and do not allow them to go and meet their families . Recently the members of PMOI skirmished with Iraqi solders that as a result of that a number of PMOI members got killed .Until now that I am writing this letter to you it has passed one month from the skirmish between PMOI and Iraqi soldiers but so far the PMOI has not allowed their deceased members to be buried just because they want to put pressure on Iraqi government by keeping the dead bodies as hostages to force Iraqi government to allow them to stay in Iraq, like Saddam Hussein who took his own people as hostages to put pressure on United states to leave Iraq.

PMOI and the national council of resistance ,the PMOI political wing, has ordered the beating or even killing the separated members in the European countries , the PMOI operatives and mercenaries attacked the separated members in FIAP in Paris and they injured some of the separated members in there and when they saw that police was coming some of them began hitting themselves by sharp items such as knife to pretend that the separated people injured them.

The PMOI operatives attacked the separated members who were participating in a peaceful and lawful picketing and demonstration in the town of Cergy and they injured some of the separated members. The PMOI operatives in different occasions attacked the separated members in different countries and injured them.

Dear Mr. President

The PMOI operatives and their mercenaries not only they did not have any mercy upon the Iranian people but also they had no mercy upon their separated members even in free countries such as France and they attack their separated members .

The PMOI has gathered lots of money from money laundering and etc and unfortunately they spent lots of those money to attract the lawyers and different people to support pmoi for their actions.

Mr. President

If all those facts which I mentioned above are not terrorist and violent acts so how can we describe a terrorist entity ?

Why did your court of law and your judges make such a decision to exonerate pmoi operatives and their leader Maryam Rajavi from the charges?

Were the separated members and the victims of pmoi present In this decision making in your court of law?

While in 2003 Maryam Rajavi and her colleagues got arrested , by the direct order of Maryam Rajavi the members of PMOI set themselves on fire in different countries while the PMOI operatives were present at the scene . As a result of that 2 members of PMOI were burned to death and some got burned badly.

Are not these violent actions unlawful in your country while someone for her release ask her followers to set themselves on fire and commit suicide?

I would like to draw your attention to this concrete fact that PMOI has 2 faces , one is its external face which tries to show itself as a political organization and the other face which is hidden purposely is their internal relations which represent completely a dangerous religious cult .

Mr. President

I as a victim of PMOI , urge you to intervene in this decision making . I urge you not to allow such a terrorist organization plays with your rules of law which represent democracy and freedom in your country just because your country has political problems with Iranian regime.

Do not allow your country become ashamed of itself in front of Iranian people and their history like United states which with its support of the shah and coup d’état against national and lawful prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh has become ashamed of itself in front of Iranian people.

 Respectfully ,

  Batoul Maleki

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Former members of the MEK

Escape of three more leaders of MEK from Ashraf

Three leaders of the MKO in Camp Ashraf northeast of Baghdad have escaped and surrendered themselves to Iraqi security forces.
Three leaders of the MKO in Camp Ashraf northeast of Baghdad have escaped and surrendered themselves to Iraqi security forces.
A source, who asked not to be named, said in a press statement on Wednesday that, "the three leaders were able to escape from Camp Ashraf", noting that one of the three defectors from the organization is a high ranking member.

The source pointed out that "there is information from the Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) which have been confirmed stating the existence of many numbers of those resident in the camp who are trying to get out".

The source said that "dozens of them managed to escape from the camp and those responsible for holding them in the camp and surrendered to the Iraqi government [asking it] to help them".
The last who managed to escape from the camp last April were three of the leaders, Mary Sanjabi, Abdel-Latif Shardari and Barat Kikhani, who escaped and surrendered themselves to the Iraqi forces. They revealed the poor conditions in which the ordinary members are treated and accused the organisation of not respecting international laws and the laws of the host country as well as its interference in the internal affairs of Iraq.

Ali Aldhargam – Translated by Iran Interlink

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European Union

European lawmakers: Try MKO members for crimes against humanity

In a statement, legislators from various factions in the European Parliament have called for the trial of approximately fifty MKO terrorists in camp Ashraf in Iraq for “crimes against humanity.”

The statement was issued in response to comments made by MKO sympathiser and Vice-President of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who accused Barbara Lochbihler, the Chair of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Iran, of making “unfounded accusations against” Ashraf residents and the MKO, referring to her comments as “a disgraceful attempt to attack this democratic opposition movement at a crucial time”.

The PMOI is known by a number of different names including Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organisation (MEK) or (MKO), The National Liberation Army of Iran (the group’s armed wing) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a front group for the PMOI.

In April 2011, the Iraqi military raided terrorist group’s headquarters at Camp Ashraf, sixty kilometers north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The United Nations says 34 people were killed during the raid on the camp at which some 3,500 cult members are stationed.

Shortly after this raid, German MEP Barbara Lochbihler wrote a letter to fellow MEPs and maintaining “the claim by Ashraf residents to be cut off from water supplies was incorrect.” She stated that the “inhabitants of the camp [were] themselves victims of this totalitarian cult”.

In their most recent statement, the MEPs called for a fair trial for the fifty people in the camp wanted by the Iraqi authorities for alleged “crimes against humanity.” “Instead of boosting the PMOI, with all its criminal activities, we should urge the High Representative and the member states to help to find a humanitarian solution for the remaining camp residents (screening by the UNHCR and individual resettlement) and a fair trial for the approximately 50 persons in the camp wanted by the Iraqi authorities for alleged crimes against humanity.”

The letter was signed by members from the parliament’s European People’s Party (EPP); Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats (S&D); Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE); the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) and European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL).

The statement added: “The PMOI was protected by Saddam Hussein who hosted them from the mid-1980s until his demise. They collaborated in his internal repression against the Kurds and Shiites and have since that time had a military camp known as Camp Ashraf. When the US disarmed the camp in 2003 it housed over 3000 PMOI fighters.”

The MEPs also cautioned fellow legslators that the terrorist group had “developed a very strong lobby in the European Parliament over the last couple of years claiming to be the only serious Iranian opposition group.”

They said the recent bloodshed at Camp Ashraf “should not … distract us from an objective and level-headed analysis of the PMOI’s track record,” urging “all members [of parliament] to seriously consider the history, actions and behaviour of the PMOI before signing any declarations or letters of support in favour of this group in the future.”

“Their method is very simple: they mobilise MEPs’ justified outrage at the nuclear issue, the human rights violations and they very character of the Iranian regime, but instrumentalised such opinion for a different purpose – the political legitimation of the Mudjahedin organisation itself.”

In their letter, the lawmakers criticise the lack of attention to the “massive human rights violations inside” the terrorist group. “According to overwhelming evidence the former militant group has turned into a repressive sect far removed from the respectable image the representatives of this group display when visiting the European Parliament.”

“The human rights violations the leaders are committing against the group’s members are amply documented, starting with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and many witness reports of ex-members who were able to flee (including testimonies in the European Parliament).”

In a serious blow to the European Union’s credibility and standing in the eyes of Iranians, in 2009, the union removed the death cult from its list of terrorist groups and lifted restrictions on the group’s funds.

However, according the statement by MEPs, the European Court of Justice’s decision to remove the PMOI from the EU terrorist list in 2009 was based “on a formality,” taking note of the fact that “Member States who asked them to be included on the list refused to transmit the evidence on which their request was based to the court.”

“This ruling does not make any statement as to the group’s practice of internal repression.”

The MEPs voiced their concern over how PMOI sympathisers within the parliament had developed an “infatuation” with the cult, arguing, “The support the PMOI receives from members of Parliament allows its leadership to perpetuate their absolute power over the rank and file, of which most are believed to want to desperately leave the group. The hundreds of members who have managed to escape from Ashraf and have been screened by the UNHCR bear witness of their plight.”

The statement maintains the cult “lost all its credibility with the Iranian people when they formed an alliance with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.”

“The only actor inside Iran who nowadays accords any importance to the group,” the MEPs say, “is the Iranian government.[..]

In the 80s, the group joined forces with the invading army of Saddam Hussein and developed an intimate relationship with the Iraqi dictator during Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq. The MKO’s grisly crimes against the Kurds and Marsh Arabs in Iraq, as well as their traitorous alliance with one of Iran’s greatest enemies, have turned them into one of the most despised groups in the country.

by Cyrus Green – oyetimes.com

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MEK Camp Ashraf

US seeks to keep Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq

Five weeks after the Iraqi army mounted a lethal assault on Iranian dissidents who’ve been stranded in a sealed-off camp north of Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. government has offered to help relocate the 3,400 residents elsewhere in the country to avert a bigger bloodbath when Iraq closes the camp in December.

Leaders of the group, known as the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran or MEK by its Farsi language initials, have rejected the move as a transfer into "a concentration camp." But the offer brings renewed attention to the April 8 raid, which left at least 34 people dead, amid questions about the U.S. role in what took place there.

Iraqi authorities have claimed that many of the dead were the victims of their own people, a charge MEK leaders call outlandish. Investigators for the United Nations said that most of the dead were shot, though an unspecified number were crushed to death when Iraqi troops and armored personnel carriers moved into the camp.

What is clear is that the assault reduced the size of Camp Ashraf, the MEK’s enclave, by about one-third, to about six square miles.

Two days after the massacre, a combined U.S. civilian-military team went to the scene and performed forensic examinations of 28 of the victims and interviewed dozens of the wounded, MEK officials say. A U.S. military spokesman said some of the injured were taken to U.S. facilities for medical care. U.S. officials do not dispute the U.N. assertion that Iraqi forces are responsible for the mass killings.

U.S. troops were at Camp Ashraf up until the eve of the attack. According to Mohammad Mohaddessin, a senior official in the Paris-based political umbrella group, 40 to 50 uniformed U.S. troops arrived at Ashraf on April 2 and departed on the afternoon of April 7. Iraqi forces struck shortly before 5 a.m. the next morning.

A U.S. military spokesman said the U.S. units were not aware of any impending Iraqi operation at the camp. He said the U.S. troops had been sent to Ashraf to assist a new Iraqi army unit that was rotating into the area to replace another unit. When they left April 7, "there were no major concerns about the capability of the new Iraqi Army unit to assume the mission," said the spokesman, Col. Barry Johnson.

The MEK is one of the most controversial lingering legacies of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Originally a Marxist-Islamist group that advocated the violent overthrow of the Shah of Iran, the group later broke with the post-Shah Iranian government and took refuge in Iraq, where it fought alongside Saddam’s forces as a mechanized division during the Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988.

The U.S. declared the MEK a terrorist organization in 1997, citing a series of attacks in Tehran.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 it disarmed the group, seizing thousands of weapons from Camp Ashraf. The residents lived an almost monastic life, separated by sex and observing a strict ban on alcohol and smoking. Iran has demanded that camp residents be repatriated to Iran and has promised to reintegrate them into Iranian society, a pledge few MEK members trust. The camp residents have refused to leave Iraq, even though an estimated 300 to 400 of them have passports or residence permits from other countries.

They’re highly vulnerable, "living on land they don’t own, in a country where they’re not wanted, and they’re refusing to go," said a senior U.S. official, who insisted on anonymity so as not to jeopardize future negotiations.

Lawrence Butler, a senior adviser to James Jeffrey, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, presented the plan to relocate the MEK to north or central Iraq on Thursday. Mohaddessin, the MEK’s Paris spokesman, said the plan would lead "to a concentration camp" and "the ultimate result will be a new Auschwitz."

An MEK supporter, Struan Stevenson, a British Conservative Party member of the European Parliament, said relocating the MEK away from Camp Ashraf, which is 35 miles north of Baghdad, was "not an acceptable alternative," because it would cost the group the attention it currently receives and make it easier for the Iraqis to send them back to Iran or to conduct other attacks on the camp.

"They say the spotlight gives a small measure of protection from the Iraqis, who are acting at the behest of the Iranians," he said.

The group remains well financed. The group has taken out full-page ads in The New York Times and The Washington Post and has paid speaker fees of between $25,000 and $40,000 to former top U.S. officials who support removing them from the U.S. list of terrorist groups, including Dennis Blair, who was President Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence until May 2010.

Speaking by phone from Hanoi, Stevenson said he’s hopeful the European Union and other friendly states will agree to take in the Ashraf residents.

The U.S. agrees that the camp residents must be relocated, saying leaving them where they are now is inviting disaster once U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq in December.

"We’re committed to averting a certain confrontation with unwanted consequences," said the senior U.S. official, who asked not to be identified.

By ROY GUTMAN

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Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

EU lawmakers urge MKO trial for crimes against humanity in Iraq

Members of the European Parliament called for legal action against dozens of MKO terrorists for committing crimes against humanity in Iraq.

In a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the legislators of five factions in the European Parliament stressed the need for a ‘fair trial for the approximately 50 persons in the camp (Ashraf) wanted by the Iraqi authorities for alleged crimes against humanity.’
The MEPs warned European countries against supporting ‘the criminal activities’ of the MKO terrorist group.

They reiterated that the MKO was a ‘repressive sect’ whose leaders were involved in massive breaches of human rights.

‘The human rights violations the leaders are committing against the group’s members
are amply documented, stating with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and many witness reports of ex-members who were able to flee (including testimonies in the European
Parliaments),’ the lawmakers said.

The European parliamentary deputies cautioned also fellow MEPs against falling prey to MKO propaganda.

‘We urge all members (MEPs) to seriously consider the history, actions and behaviour
of the PMOI (MKO) before signing any declarations or letters of support in favour of this group in future.’

The legislators pointed to MKO’s track record over the past 30 years which included
backing the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in its eight-year war with
Iran and collaborating with the ex-Iraqi strongman to crush a Kurdish and Shiite
rebellion in the 1990s.

The MKO has also been involved in wide-scale terrorist activities in Iran, killing thousands of civilians over the past three decades.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Halbawi: US Seeking Own Interests in Global Developments

Head of the Muslim Council of Britain Kamal al-Halbawi reiterated on Saturday that Washington’s so-called support for justice and peace is just a means to materialize the US interests.

"The concept of justice and peace from the United States’ point of view is safeguarding the country’s hegemony and leadership," Halbawi said, addressing the international conference of ‘International Coalition against Terrorism for Fair Peace’ here in Tehran today.

"The US has opted for inhumane goals which do not seek fair justice and it endeavors to meet its interests in the campaign against terrorism," he added.

Iran along with many other Muslim countries have criticized the western countries’ selective approach towards terrorism, specially after the September 11 attacks in the US.

In similar remarks earlier, Iran’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Eshaq Ale-Habib had also lambasted the world powers’ double-standard approach to terrorism, stressing that such policies have caused a further spread of terrorism in the world

Addressing the annual meeting of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, Ale-Habib said that certain western powers continue to take advantage of terrorist activities and groups to accomplish their political objectives and increase pressure on the other countries.

"Unfortunately, these countries do not doubt about negotiating and cooperating with terrorists whenever beneficial to them," he added.

Ale-Habib pointed to the interactions and friendship between certain western countries and the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) as an evident instance in this regard, and said such intimacy between the two sides has been developed while the MKO has launched numerous cruel terrorist attacks against the innocent Iranian citizens and has collaborated with the former Baath regime in suppressing the freedom-seeking uprisings of the Iraqi people.

In a surprising action late last month, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Iraq to ignore MKO’s terrorist activities.

Observers say that the EU has changed approach towards the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) as a pressure lever against Iran.

Certain western countries like France have sheltered some ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials.
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).

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, whose main stronghold is in Iraq’s Northern Diyala province, 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.

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