Former members of the MEK

Right Group Blasts US Daily for Politicizing Campaign against Terrorism

The Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism, an Iran-based right group, strongly criticized a US daily for its support for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and its politically-tainted attitude towards terrorism.

"We the families of the terror victims of the Middle-East, including Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait and thousands of Iranians who have been suffering years of pain, condemn any terrorist act, anywhere in the world and against any one, avoiding any classification between good and bad terrorism," the association said in a letter to the US daily, Boston Globe.

"Therefore, we believe that considering this phenomenon under any political issue in which the centrality and priority of human beings are sacrificed for short-term political interests brings about a challenge in the global fight against terrorism that keeps us away from the basic humanitarian goals," the letter added.

"However, countries should fight against all terrorist groups in the same way that they condemn the Al-Qaeda. They have to consider it as a humanitarian issue (beyond political ups and downs) and seriously fight against terrorist cults such as the Mojahedin-e Khlaq Organization (MKO) which has a complete record of terrorist crimes, including the murder of 7 American military counselors, thousands of Iraqis (25000 people) and thousands of Iranians (12000 Iranians) and the citizens of other countries, including Kuwait."

"In fact the danger of this group is no less than the Al-Qaeda and we, the families of terrorism victims in the Middle East who are themselves the victims of this group, consider the danger of this group far more than the Al-Qaeda," the letter concluded.

After clashes between Iraqi security forces and MKO members in the group’s main training camp in Iraq, the US daily called the attack as "massacre" and claimed that the Iraqi forces’ attack on Camp Ashraf proves what it called Iran’s dangerous influence in Iraq.

The daily also said in its editorial that the United States and its allies must act quickly to relocate abroad some 3,000 MKO members still stationed in Camp Ashraf.
"Toward this end, the State Department needs to remove the group from its terrorist list," the daily wrote.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.
Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.
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.
Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts on its own members and the alluring recruitment methods it uses.
The most shocking of such stories includes accounts given by former British MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi — the father of an Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment campaign in Canada.
Mohammadi recounts his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who disappeared several years ago – a result of what the MKO called a ‘two-month tour’ of Camp Ashraf for teenagers.
He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take part in pro-MKO demonstrations in Western countries by threatening to kill their loved ones.
Lacking a foothold in Iran, the terrorist group recruits ill-informed teens from Iranian immigrant communities in Western states and blocks their departure afterwards.

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).

Iraq had announced earlier this month that members of the terrorist group must leave by the end of 2011.
Earlier this week, the Baghdad government assured Iranian officials and people that it is determined to expel the terrorist organization 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, 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".

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Iran

US mocking its alleged support for human rights by backing MKO

Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has said that the United States is deriding its own alleged support for human rights by pressuring the Iraqi government over its crackdown on Camp Ashraf residents.

“The U.S. had better not make a further mockery of its hollow slogan of supporting human rights by pressuring Iraq over its clampdown on the members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO),” Larijani stated at the open session of the Majlis on Sunday.

On April 8, following orders of the government and in line with the new Iraqi Constitution, the Iraqi army tried to dismantle the terrorist group’s residential area, called Camp Ashraf, but the MKO members residing in the camp clashed with the Iraqi soldiers.

The Iraqi government has also set a deadline for Camp Ashraf residents to leave the country.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Larijani criticized the recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against the Islamic Republic of Iran as “weird”.

During a press conference in Berlin on Friday, Clinton said that the U.S. saw no evidence that Iran had instigated protests in the Middle East, “but we do see activities by Iran to try to take advantage of these uprisings, they are trying to exploit unrest. They are trying to advance their agenda in neighboring countries. They continue to try to undermine peace and stability, to provoke further conflict.”

Larijani said that such remarks are not based on the realities of the region.

He added that on the one hand, the U.S. and certain other Western countries voice their concern about Iran’s support for popular uprisings in the region, but on the other hand they say that Iran is seeking to exploit the unrest.

U.S. officials are in a daze and their confusion is reflected in the remarks they make, Larijani stated.

“They are in a state of confusion because they do not have or do not want to obtain a clear understanding of the realities on the ground,” he added.

He also said that the U.S. is the main culprit behind the problems facing the region since the people have risen up against the dictators who are close allies of the United States.

The fact that the U.S. is condoning the use of violence against the people in Bahrain and Yemen has complicated the issues, Larijani stated.

The people of regional nations are getting fed up with the U.S. behavior, he concluded

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Justice Minister: Iraq determined to expel MKO

The Iraqi justice minister says Baghdad is determined to expel members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Camp Ashraf.

Iraqi Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari

Hassan al-Shammari made the remarks on the sidelines of a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Morteza Bakhtiari in Tehran on Saturday, IRNA reported.

The Iraqi justice minister noted that the decision was made in line with the Iraqi Constitution, which prohibits the presence of any militia group in Iraqi territory.

He went on to say that the parliament has voiced support for the move, and at a cabinet meeting, it was decided that the prime minister would oversee the process.

Al-Shammari also said that the MKO members are living in a very bad situation and the leaders of the organization do not allow them to leave the camp.

On April 8, a number of people were killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and MKO members residing at Camp Ashraf, which is located in Diyala province.

The Iraqi army initially said that three people had been killed and 27 wounded, among them 13 members of the security forces.

AFP reported that ten people had been killed and over 40 injured.

A source at Baqouba’s main hospital confirmed they had received three bodies.

However, the MKO claimed that 31 of its members had been killed and 300 were injured.

But Iraqi forces say there is evidence that some of the MKO members who died in the incident were killed by MKO members themselves.

On April 11, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the cabinet was determined to shut the camp down.

The MKO fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala, near the Iranian border.

Over 3,000 MKO members are currently residing at the camp. In addition, the group sends elements to Iran on spying and terrorist missions.

The MKO also cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.

Since Saddam was deposed in 2003, the Iraqi government has set numerous deadlines for the terrorist group to leave the country but the MKO has managed to maintain its base due to US backing.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against both Iranians and Iraqis.

Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has been putting pressure on the Iraqi government to block the expulsion.

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The cult of Rajavi

Camp Ashraf Escapee Says MKO Bans Marriage, Radio, Internet

Iraq’s Defense Ministry has announced that several residents of Camp Ashraf have fled the camp and appealed to Iraqi military forces for help.

Camp Ashraf, which is located some 60 kilometers from Baghdad and 100 kilometers from the border with Iran, is home to some 3,500 members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka People’s Mujahedin of Iran). Iran has banned the group, and like the United States, considers it a terrorist organization. Iraq has said the camp must go.

Last week, 34 camp residents were killed during a raid by Iraqi forces under circumstances that are not clear.

The MKO says camp residents were killed by Iraqi forces. The Iraqi government, however, says it believes about 30 people were shot dead by guards at the camp.

The UN and rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the deaths.

Amnesty International has said that video clips of the April 8 clashes that the MKO has uploaded to YouTube appear to show Iraqi soldiers indiscriminately firing into the crowds and using vehicles to try and run others down.

Iraq’s Defense Ministry said that three MKO leaders were among the camp residents who escaped.

On April 19, Defense Ministry spokesman Muhammad al-Askari reportedly told a press conference in Baghdad that "three leaders of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran managed to escape Camp Ashraf." He named them as "senior leader Maryam Sinjari, leader Abdul Latif Shardouri [Abdollatif Shadvari], and leader Ibrat Kikhai."

I interviewed Shadvari last week. He told me he escaped from Camp Ashraf two months ago and turned himself in to Iraqi forces. He also said some of the other residents of the camp were being held there against their will.

Former MKO members have described the group as a cult that promotes celibacy and martyrdom, takes away members’ children, and uses psychological methods to pressure members and force them to remain obedient and follow orders.

The MKO has rejected the claims and accuses former members of being tools of Tehran.
Shadvari, who spoke to me from Baghdad where he said he’s staying at a hotel, said he joined the MKO when he was 15 years old. Here’s some of our conversation:Abdollatif Shadvari

Persian Letters: Can you tell me something about yourself and describe how you came to join the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization?

Abdollatif Shadvari: My name is Abdollatif Shadvari, I’m from Baluchistan. I’ve been with this organization for 25 years. I joined the MKO from Pakistan and through a friend who has been martyred.
I haven’t had any contact with my family during the [past] 25 years because there was no possibility of contacting them. My family thought I was dead. Using the telephone, mobile phone, Internet, and even listening to radio is forbidden in the organization.
During these 25 years I was under a lot of pressure and I decided to hand myself over to Iraqi forces. I did that two months ago and now I’m at a hotel. I’ve been in touch with the Red Cross and also with the Iraqi government. I hope to go to another country.

Persian Letters: Do you know which country you might go to? What will be your situation once you get there?

Shadvari: I’m supposed to discuss it with the Red Cross and the United Nations. The issue is, as [MKO leader Massoud] Rajavi has said many times, whoever wants to escape from Ashraf will be punished with death and execution. Not only me, but many of my friends who are now in Ashraf don’t have the possibility to leave the camp. Escape is the only way.
Escaping from there requires two or three months of preparation. I thought a lot about it and planned it so I could finally escape. [MKO leaders] always tell us: "You can’t enter any [other] country. Ashraf is the only place you have."

Persian Letters: Are you saying that some people are held in Ashraf against their will? They’re forced to stay there?

Shadvari: Yes, many are under pressure. They’re worried about their future; they don’t know what will be with them. I call on the Red Cross and international organizations to talk with each of the camp residents individually. This issue must be solved and the bloodshed must be stopped.

Persian Letters: Why do you think the MKO wants to keep people in Camp Ashraf? Why don’t they let those who don’t want to be there go?

Shadvari: It’s obvious. If people [leave Ashraf], the organization will fall apart, there won’t be any Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization anymore.

Persian Letters: Are you married?

Shadvari: No. I was 15 when I joined the organization. Now I’m 40.

Persian Letters: Why didn’t you get married? Was it your choice?

Shadvari: Getting married is banned in Camp Ashraf. Not only getting married, but talking to women is banned.

Golnaz Esfandiari, Persian letters, Radio Free Europe

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Germany

German HRC calls on Ashraf Camp Leader to forego violence

German Human Rights Commissioner calls on Ashraf Camp Leader to forego violence and grant access to Camp residents

press release German Human Rights Commissioner calls on Ashraf Camp Leader to forego violence and grant access to Camp residents
Human Rights Commissioner on the situation in the Iraqi Camp Ashraf
date of issue20.04.2011

Markus Löning, the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office, issued the following statement today (20 April):

“According to information confirmed by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), 34 people were killed and numerous others injured when Iraqi security forces forcibly entered Camp Ashraf.

I find this deeply regrettable, and I urge the Iraqi government to immediately commence an independent investigation into these events and to enable the injured to receive medical care. Iraqi security forces are called upon to proceed responsibly and with a sense of proportion, and without endangering any more lives.

At the same time I appeal to the leaders of Camp Ashraf to forego violence and to grant an independent investigation commission full access to the camp. The leaders of Camp Ashraf must enable all of the injured to receive medical care, and must ensure full protection of the rights of the camp’s inhabitants. This includes the right to leave the camp.”

Some 3500 members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MKO) and their family members currently live in Camp Ashraf. During the Iran-Iraq War, the MKO fought under Saddam Hussein against Iran. They are viewed as a strictly hierarchical organization which has never distanced itself from terrorist violence. It has often been reported that inhabitants of the camp have been prevented by their leaders from leaving Camp Ashraf.

The camp came under US control after American forces disarmed the MKO’s military units in 2003; responsibility for Camp Ashraf was handed over to Iraq at the beginning of 2009. The Iraqi Government is eager to establish full state sovereignty over Ashraf, and to dismantle the camp structures.

German Human Rights Commissioner, auswaertiges-amt.de

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Massoud Rajavi

Why Massoud Rajavi looks for victims?

"By mid 1987, the Mojahedin Organization had all the main attributes of a cult. It had its own revered leader when it referred to formally as the "Guide" and informally as the "present Imam". The Mujahedin had created a rigid hierarchy in which instructions flowed from above and the primary responsibility of the rank and file was to obey without asking too many questions" – Professor Ervand Ibrahamian/ ‘’ The Iranian Mojahedin ‘’

MKO’s ideological leader and the cult’s high ranks need to victimize their rank and file in order to survive. Whenever they fail to take advantage of the services they offer western Intelligence agencies by spying and working as their mercenaries, or they are not given any role in international relationships, they set off for victimization of their members so that they might be able to prolong their survival. Their victims are those members captured behind closed bars of the cult, distanced and uninformed from the outside world. Despite, their entirely inhuman terrorist background and their alliance with the most notorious region to oppress the Iranian and Iraqi people for two decades, the MKO leaders so boldly expect to stay in Iraqi territory, Camp Ashraf. They impudently do not obey the rules of Iraqi democratic government and Iraqi citizens but they cause tension and crisis. They step up their anti-security acts to favor Imperialist states.

In fact, Massoud Rajavi seems like a political prostitute rather than a politic man. He doesn’t care for the fewest moral and political etiquettes. He is determined to victimize his brainwashed uninformed forces to maintain his survival and his absolute power over the cult. He makes efforts to exploit the blood of MKO rank and files to run his propaganda machine.
He is a political prostitute, not a freedom fighter because he and his mercenaries never care for the lives of members kept in Camp Ashraf otherwise they would have taken them out of unstable chaotic Iraq many years ago; they should have sent their members to seek refuge in European countries. They didn’t do so; but they just saved their own lives and escaped Iraq immediately after the American invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein. They left the forces in the waves of crisis and war in Iraq.

Today, MKO leaders send Ashraf residents to death in order to draw the West’s attention towards their cult, and in the hope of being given a role by Western politicians but evidences show that in Americans and Europeans’ view, MKO has an expiration date.

There are a few questions that always puzzle your mind about Mujahedin Khalq: why MKO leaders still deprive Ashraf residents from their right to decide for their own future and to leave the camp, despite families’ insistence and human right bodies’ demands?

Where is Massoud Rajavi hiding during all these years? What kind of a leader is he who consciously sends his followers to death? Isn’t he extremely rude and knavish?

By Arash Rezaiee

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The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

Saddamists in Europe react to Anne Singleton’s visit to Camp New Iraq

The website (Iraq4allnews.dk) of the Saddamists in Europe have published a statement signed by their employed terrorist group NCRI (aka;Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult).

The reaction is again the threadbare allegation of attaching everyone to Iran. Reminding us of what Saddam Hussein used to say, that the Persians and Jews should be wiped off the face of the earth.

The reaction of the Saddamists comes after Anne Singleton produced evidence in Baghdad that the camp is the last untouched part of the Saddam regime’s suppressive infrastructure and that it is used to train, plan and support terrorist activities across Iraq in order to derail the process of democratisation in the country.

Note the flag presented in the site.

The flag of Iraq at the time of Saddam had 3 Stars (Baath Party) and the writing was a copy of the handwriting of Saddam Hussein.

The New Iraqi Parliament voted to change this to remove the stars and to change the handwriting to the Kufi font.

(Saddamists Wbsite in support of Mojahedin Khalq terrorists)
(The Iraqi flag after the fall of Saddam)
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Iraq

MEK Terrorists Interfering in Iraq Democratisation

Baladiyeh Foundation, a Baghdad based human rights NGO, invited Anne Singleton of Iran-Interlink in the UK to present a paper at the Mostanserieh University in Baghdad.

Baladiyeh Foundation, a Baghdad based human rights NGO, invited Anne Singleton of Iran-Interlink in the UK

The meeting focused on the democratisation process in Iraq after the fall of the former regime.

Anne Singleton, a leading expert in the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist group, exposed the involvement of the MEK in disrupting this process. Since 2003, Iraq has held three free and fair democratic elections said Singleton, but the MEK is backed by elements in the US and Israel which want to impose their own agenda on Iraq. For this reason, the MEK, which occupies the only remaining untouched infrastructure of the former Saddam regime, has been active in training terrorist groups such as Al Qaida at its base in Diyala province, Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf). The MEK has also groomed and facilitated loyalists of the former Saddam regime to take part in the democratisation process in order to promote their interests.

Several prominent Iraqi personalities attended the meeting, including human rights promoters, sheikhs and members of the media.

Al Mostanserieh University, Baghdad

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UN

MKO Former Member Open Letter to Ms. Ashton

Mojahedin Khalq exploit you for their own agenda

Honorable Ms. Ashton
I’d like to begin my letter by asking a few questions:
Have you ever been tortured? Have you ever been whipped? Have you ever been beaten, kicked, fisted or slapped? Have you ever been tortured psychologically so as you were forced to take drugs? Have you ever observed your friends’ committing suicide because they could no more tolerate terrible tortures they used to suffer?

Yes, Dear Ms. Ashton,
I was a member of Mujahedin Khalq Organization for about 30 years under the leadership of Massoud and Mayam Rajavi who claim to run a democratic organization that advocates human rights.

I was seriously beaten and tortured in MKO because I criticized the organization several times. I was imprisoned in camp Ashraf prisons where I was terribly tortured both physically and psychologically. I felt so terrible that the so-called doctor of the prison prescribed forbidden medicines for my mental problems. The scars left by torture are evidences of my words. However, Iraqi officials have documents on MKO’s human right violation cases. MKO’s propaganda presents itself as human rights advocate but in fact its leaders treat their dissident members so violently. To check the accuracy of my work, you may want to send a delegation to interview the twenty-eight members who have managed to escape Camp Ashraf since last year.

Dear Ms. Ashton,
Do you know the real meaning of those issues you mention about MKO in your speeches or your statements? Do you really know what you were given by MKO propaganda Machine? Those who are aware of MKO’s real nature believe that your words on MKO are dictated to you by the group. I’d like to warn you not to get involved in a cult-like culture. They exploit you to run their own agenda. To make sure, you might be able to have Persian language experts interpret what MKO has so far presented to you.

As soon as possible, you should stop MKO from playing with your ideals including human rights and democracy. They wear the mask of a democratic, humanitarian, peaceful organization while they widely violate human rights. I highly recommend reading the HRW’s report on MKO in 2005,No EXIT, and also RAND report published by the US Defense Department in 2010.

Mohammad Karami, Paris

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