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Pre planned Assassination by MKO terrorists

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi says security forces have managed to identify people behind the assassination of Sane’ Jalleh during a demonstration in Tehran.

“Necessary measures have been taken regarding the matter and the Ministry will announce its next move concerning the issue,” IRNA quoted Moslehi as saying on Wednesday.

Jalleh, a Tehran University student, was assassinated by members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), during an illegal rally in the Iranian capital on February 14.

The intelligence minister further pointed out that Jalleh’s assassination was part of a pre-planned scheme by the MKO, adding “they had identified their victim in advance and had planned to assassinate him.”[…]

Tehran says American NGOs and organizations provided financial support for the post-election unrest in Iran in 2009 in an attempt to topple the Islamic establishment.

February 24, 2011 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MEK: Islamic Socialists to Ba’athists to Right Wing Republicans

“Lobbyists labor to get Iranian group taken off of U.S. terror list. Two lawyers well-known for their intelligence and national security work in Washington are lobbying to remove an Iranian group from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. On behalf of the Iranian-American Community of North Texas, Joseph DiGenova and Victoria Toensing of DiGenova & Toensing have registered to lobby for removing the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) — otherwise known as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran — from the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, according to lobbying disclosure records released last week. Frequent media commentators, husband and wife DiGenova and Toensing were members of the Reagan Justice Department and have worked for prominent Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the past.“They are not a terrorist organization. It’s that simple,” Toensing told The Hill. According to the State Department, the MEK is credited with several terrorist attacks that killed Americans in the 1970s and later found itself in conflict with the new Iranian regime after the Shah was deposed. The group would go on to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War and base its operations there in Camp Ashraf, often launching terrorist attacks against Iranian interests…….”

Now they have the support of extreme right-wing Republicans in the U.S. Congress (is there any other kind in Congress?). The MEK (or MKO) have also come full circle with the Arab potentates on the Gulf. They were in good standing during the Iran-Iraq War because they supported Saddam, but after the (Persian) Gulf War in 1990 they were out of favor around the Gulf. Now, with the “wrong” government in Baghdad, the MEK are back in favor among the Gulf oligarchies: their media is calling for their camp to remain in Iraq, near the Iranian border (but they wouldn’t want them in ‘their’ territory). A full circle: but that is the way it is with exile politics, they often create strange bedfellows.

Right now, nobody gives this shadowy group any chance in Iran, except maybe some right-wing Republicans and Gulf potentates. Their pro-Saddam days ensure that they have little popularity inside Iran. That is right now: very few people thought the Bolsheviks had any chance either before 1917. But their association with Republican rightists is ominous to many Iranians: they remember that Operation Ajax (1953) “succeeded” under a Republican administration in overthrowing their last fully freely elected government.

Arabia Deserta

February 23, 2011 0 comments

Terror Teams of the MEK

MKO terror teams were managed directly by Mayam Rajavi from HQ in Paris

Source Reveals MKO’s Pivotal Role in Tehran’s Monday Unrests

Sources close to the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization revealed that MKO had played a key role in the Monday unrests in the Iranian capital.

The Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group formed by the family members of the Iranian victims of terrorism, quoted reliable sources as saying that MKO’s surrogate ringleader Maryam Rajavi had dispatched several operational teams to Tehran and had been in constant contact with the team members until the end of unrests.

"Mayam Rajavi was in direct contact with the operational units dispatched to Tehran and ordered them to spray live fire on the public who had risen to stand against the few seditionists," Habilian said.

"In this terrorist operation which took place in Tehran’s Qasroddasht neighborhood on Monday February 14, the Basiji student, Saneh Zhaleh, was martyred and four others were severely wounded," it added.

"A student activist in France disclosed that over 350 members of the MKO had been sent from several European and Asian countries to Tehran and other major Iranian cities, based on plan drawn by the main ringleader of the MKO, Massoud Rajavi," the Habilian website said.

The website said the MKO teams intended to start riots, set fire on garbage cans, destroy public amenities and private properties and shoot and kill the large number of the self-driven people who had come to defend the Islamic Republic and the government against the seditionists in a bid to provoke the police and security forces into reciprocating the gunfire to create a pool of blood in the capital and to escalate the unrests.

But after police refrained from armed clashes with the seditionists and the public pushed the seditionists back, the MKO plot ended in failure, the website added.

Several groups of seditionists staged riots in western Tehran on Monday afternoon. Rioters damaged public amenities and private buildings and properties and set up roadblocks by setting fire on garbage cans during the rush hour in the Iranian capital.

Rioters opened fire at the public and police troops, killing one university student on the scene and wounding 9 more. One of those wounded in the incident also died at the hospital.

Tehran’s police tried to disperse the rioters, but did not reciprocate the gunfire. Police officials announced on Tuesday that most of those wounded in the incident were security and police troops.

According to police officials, the seditionists had hatched a plot to get the police and security forces involved in armed clashes to allege that they had been treated violently, but they failed to do so.

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.

Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

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

The MKO 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 – last year 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.

February 22, 2011 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

MKO Intends to Open Fire on Civilians

A senior Iranian legislator warned that the hirelings and members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have hatched a plot to start unrests in Tehran today in a bid to open fire on the civilians to bring the police and security forces into armed clashes.

"The security forces should try to show a firm confrontation (against such unrests) in areas where unlawful gatherings seem likely so that the Monafeqin (hypocrites as MKO members are called in Iran) and enemies cannot misuse the situation," member of the parliament’s Islamic Revolution Fraction Seyed Mohammad Javad Abtehi told FNA on Sunday.

He pointed out that the MKO members plan to kill the people who gather in streets to put the blame on the Iranian security forces in order to create a rift between the nation and government, and demanded the public to avoid watching the protests held by the small number of protestors.
Earlier reports said that a number of MKO members have infiltrated the country in a bid to start illegal gatherings to open fire on the public in a move to bring the country into chaos.

During riots in western Tehran on Monday afternoon, the MKO teams opened fire at the public and police troops, killing one university student on the scene and wounding 9 more. One of those wounded in the incident also died later at the hospital.

Tehran’s police tried to disperse the rioters, but did not reciprocate the gunfire. Police officials announced on Tuesday that most of those wounded in the incident were security and police troops.

Meantime, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar announced on Saturday that the country’s security forces will confront those involved in the recent unrests in Tehran, but according to the Islamic Republic’s laws.

"The sedition move has a triangular pattern with the hegemonic system at the top and sedition masterminds at the bottom," he stressed, implying that leaders of the recent unrests in the Iranian capital are only puppets of foreign powers.

He further elaborated on those who run such intrigues, and said, "This triangle has been formed through collaboration among the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), monarchists and outlaws in a move to take revenge from the Iranian nation."

February 22, 2011 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Mujahedin Khalq ; New Chalabi for the West

WHITE HOUSE SUPPORT FOR MIDDLE EAST ‘UPRISINGS’ DEPENDS ON HOW AND WHETHER THEY CAN BE USED AGAINST IRAN

Our friend David Frum published an interesting post, “America Can’t Afford to Ignore the Chaos in Supporting MEK; West feckless attempts to manipulate Iran’s politics Bahrain”, see here. David makes some points with which we agree, as when he writes that “An entire American carrier battle group is based in Bahrain—there is no way the United States can avoid being implicated in the actions of the Bahraini government.” But we were disturbed by his bottom-line policy recommendation for the United States:

“Always and ever: Iran is the big play in the Middle East…Every regional decision has to be measured against the test: Is this moving us closer to—or further from—a positive change in the Iranian political system? That test should guide decisions about Bahrain and about a lot more than Bahrain.”

One of the reasons we were struck by David’s recommendation—and keep in mind that he is one of the most prominent and thoughtful neoconservatives to be found—is that it already seems to have been taken on board by President Obama and his administration (though they have not explained it anywhere near as clearly as David did). On that point, David Sanger of The New York Times told National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm on Friday, see here, that President Obama believes the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere “could create an alternative narrative to Al-Qaeda and an alternative narrative to Iran that the United States ought to make use of”.

It is in this context that we should understand why the Obama Administration, literally seven hours after Omar Soliman announced that Hosni Mubarak would step down as Egypt’s President after all, called the White House press corps back in and, as Sanger put it, “all but urged the protestors” in Iran, such as they were, “to get out and do more”. The Administration has clearly decided, as America’s strategic position in the Middle East erodes before our eyes, to “push back” against the Islamic Republic, in multiple ways.

Some of those ways will be more feckless attempts to manipulate Iran’s internal politics—as with the Obama Administration’s exhortations for domestic unrest in Iran. We were appalled to learn recently that the Administration is considering lifting the MEK’s designation as a foreign terrorist organization.

On that point, Bill Clinton’s Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, retired U.S. Army General Hugh Shelton, added his voice to those of retired generals James Jones—President Obama’s former national security adviser—and Anthony Zinni, calling for the MEK’s rehabilitation, see here. Shelton argues explicitly that Iran could exploit the wave of pro-democracy protests in the Middle East, and that, to forestall such a scenario, “Iran’s current regime is currently a government that needs to change”.

We have told every Obama Administration official and member of Congress with whom we have discussed the matter that it is hard to imagine a dumber, more counter-productive change in America’s already deeply dysfunctional Iran policy than to lift the MEK’s designation as a foreign terrorist organization and start supporting it as the “vanguard” of some mythical expatriate Iranian opposition. This would make the reliance of the Clinton Administration and the George W. Bush Administration on Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress as the keys to successful “regime change” in Iraq look enlightened by comparison. But the chances of this happening are, sadly, increasing.

In its desperation to look like it can still shape events in the Middle East in some meaningful way, the Obama Administration is looking for other ways to press the Islamic Republic. Just a few days ago, Steve Coll—Pulitzer Prize-winning author and president of the New America Foundation—broke the story in The New Yorker that the Administration has started secret, preliminary talks with the Taliban, see here.

From an Iranian perspective, this is simply one more indicator of America’s unique combination of perfidy and incompetence in Afghanistan. During 2001-2003, the Islamic Republic provided substantial cooperation to the United States in its efforts to unseat the Taiban from power in Kabul and destroy Al-Qa’ida in its Afghan sanctuaries. Iran cooperated with the United States, in part, on the basis of U.S. representations that Washington wanted an independent and stable Afghanistan which would not be under the sway of the Taliban and its chief external backers, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

But Iranian officials warned that local populations would see a prolonged U.S. military presence in Afghanistan as occupation—a judgment borne out by subsequent events, as greater geographic penetration by U.S. forces since 2006 and the deployment of additional U.S. troops since 2009 have correlated directly with an escalating spiral of violence and instability. This, in turn, has once again empowered the Saudi- and Pakistani-backed Taliban, which has clearly made a comeback—to a point where Afghan President Hamid Karzai, now seemingly joined by the Obama Administration, judges that the only basis for a political settlement is power sharing with the Taliban.

As we have experienced directly, this leads Iranian policymakers to question not just America’s intentions in Afghanistan, but also its competence—and with good reason. If Karzai and the United States move forward on power-sharing with the Taliban, without engaging the major non-Pashtun factions (many of which have close connections to the Islamic Republic), it could, as Coll notes, “ignite a civil war along ethnic lines”.

And it is becoming apparent that the Obama Administration will back the Bahraini royal family in whatever level of brutality seems necessary to keep Bahrain in the “American camp”. In other words, the Obama Administration is responding to the wave of popular unrest across the Arab world by intensifying its pursuit of the sorts of policies that have so thoroughly alienated most of the Middle East’s inhabitants from U.S. foreign policy in the first place.

Race for Iran – by Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett

February 22, 2011 0 comments

Nejat Publications

Pars Brief – Issue No.57

1. Iraqi protesters demand MKO expulsion

2. MKO terrorists clearly connected to CIA and MOSSAD

3. MKO Terrorists Attack Iraqi Tribal Leaders, Reporters

4. With “ENGAGEMENT” failing, Washington voices urge Obama to Embrace the MEK and remove its terrorist designation

5. Beeman–Mojaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) Can Never Rule Iran

6. State Dept: Mojahedin Khalq backers claims not true

7. On ‘Material Support’ And The MKO

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February 20, 2011 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqis continue to protest Mojahedin Khalq camp

People in Iraq’s Diyala province organized a protest in front of Camp Ashraf where the Mojahedin-Khalq Organization or MKO members are residing.

Iraqis have been urging the government to deport the MKO members for a long time now…
Iraqis describe the MKO's presence in their country as a chronic disease Most Iraqis jeer at the MKO and are concerned about its secret terrorist plots and other illegal activities. So mush so that, in everyday conversations, Iraqis describe the MKO’s presence in their country as a chronic disease.

Some important figures turned out for the protest including tribal leaders, clerics and local government officials.

Protesters shouted,”leave our country”, and carried placards with anti-MKO slogans to express their intolerance towards the presence of a terrorist group that they say has caused so much trouble in their country.

The tribal leaders want the government to respect public demands and expel the MKO once and for all.

Some Local officials accuse the west of influencing the Iraqi government to let the MKO stay in Iraq.

MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s. It’s been blacklisted as a terrorist group by most countries in the world.

Many accuse the MKO of murdering Iraqi civilians during the 1991 uprisings and so helping Saddam Hussain stay in power.

The group is widely frowned upon in the region for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 war against Iran.

Wisam al-BayatiDownload Iraqis continue to protest Mojahedin Khalq camp

February 20, 2011 0 comments

Iraq

Thousands of citizens of Diyala Province call for MKO expulsion

Thousands of citizens of Diyala Province, Iraq, called for expulsion of Mujahedin Khalq Organization from Iraq. They also called on trial for the group leaders.

On Friday February18, 2011, thousands of protestors appealed Iraqi judiciary to punish criminal leaders of MKO.

A protestor who was one of the organizers of the demonstration, Habar Al Amuri told Al Sumaria News: "this morning, thousands of Diyala citizens protested against presence of MKO in their territory. They gathered in front of gates of Camp of New Iraq (formerly Ashraf),the organization’s base in Iraq. They asked the government to expel the organization from Iraqi soil."

He notified that the group was the source of a lot of grieves and violence against Diyala citizens.
A demonstrator, Hassan Al Rabiee expressed his opposition towards MKO’s presence in Iraq:"How late will Iraqi government ignore people’s request? Why haven’t they expelled an organization which is guilty for killing innocent people, yet?"

"The protests will continue until the group is expelled ", he warned the government.

Alsumaria News

February 19, 2011 0 comments

Iran

Iran lawmaker: West sponsors terrorism

Chairman of the Parliament (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin BoroujerdiSenior Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi has condemned Western double standards on human, minority and women rights, saying the West sponsors terrorism.

The chairman of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, who was addressing the Italian Parliament in Rome, said that there are over one million Muslims in Italy but they do not have a representative in the parliament while Iran has only 20,000 Jews, who are represented in Majlis.

“Today, you are seeking the extradition of a terrorist named Cesare Battisti from Brazil over the murder of four of your fellow countrymen 30 years ago. This is while the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group has martyred 14,000 of Iranians and yet you have removed it from your list of terrorist groups. This is an instance of sponsoring terrorism,” he said.

“We vehemently condemn this move by the European Union,” Boroujerdi was quoted by IRIB as saying on Friday.

Boroujerdi further criticized the West for degrading women through materialistic means and said that Islam promotes women’s rights in society and has high regard for women, who have been considered as ‘commodities’ in the West.

Boroujerdi arrived in Rome on Tuesday for a two-day visit and has so far held talks with a number of Italian authorities.

February 19, 2011 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The US and Possibility of Delisting MKO

The following article was sent by one of the users. Regardless of any judgment concerning the political views of the author, what is important is her fair reflection of some points on the recent support of some Americans in behalf of MKO. It should be noted that Mojahedin.ws welcomes similar opinions and respects political stances.
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There are evidences of a possible change in the policy and position of America towards Mojahedin Khalq [MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR, NLA]. Regardless of the enthusiastic support of people like John Bolton, and the representatives of two American ruling parties, the supports for Mojahedin is believed to be an attempt to end the deadlock in the West’s negotiations with Iran over the nuclear issue. Fox News TV that covered the reports of a conference held in Washington quoted a board of America’s former national security experts saying:

A bipartisan delegation of former senior national security experts said more talks with the Iranian regime would be futile. They urged the President Obama to support a controversial opposition group struggling against the regime in Tehran. The delegation, including General James Jones, reached a consensus that the current and the previous policy of appeasement towards Iranian regime is doomed to failure. [MKO website, 24 January 2011]

The report adds:
These authorities urged the removal of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization from the US list and Michael Mukasey put forward the question "Why should MEK remain in such a list? [MKO website, 24 January 2011]

In his closing statements in the conference, Torricelli is reported to have said:

The listing of the MEK as a terrorist organization by the United States government is wrong. It is wrong as a matter of law, it is contrary to the facts, it is interfering with the rights of American citizens to be heard, and it is contrary to American foreign policy. [MKO website, 24 January 2011]
But, when the change takes a practical form depends on factors: that how long the State Department and Obama can stand up to the pressure of their critics: that what will be the US’s alternative to choose between its short or long term interests and its international credit; and that when the US reaches a a convincing decision to remove MKO from its terrorist list, a decision that, apart from political and interest-securing achievements, can be considered rational in the framework of democratic ends.

The truth is that, despite claims of MKO that its designation was the outcome of a political decision, Americans know well that even if it was a politically-purposeful decision, it was not actually a wrong decision. Perhaps what has pandered such suppositions was the simultaneity of the US’s policy of shift toward engagement with Iran and the willingness of Iran’s then-new president, Mohammad Khatami, for an international interaction and dialogue coincidental with the designation of MKO as a terrorist organization. But it should be reminded that America’s first serious stance against MKO goes back to years before 1997.

Despite the statement provoked an angry reaction from the organization, Mujahedin never tried to contest the charges at the time as a political decision. Rather, they considered the decision the outcome of an inappropriate, weak research and disregarding the right of the organization to defend itself against the charges. Now more than two decades after the State Department’s first position, the US seems to have taken a different turn to utilize Mujahedin for the advancement of its political and strategic objectives. You can well notice this interest-seeking turn in the speeches of the former senators and ex-security experts talking in behalf of MKO. It means that the two rival parties have reached a consensus on utilizing the group especially when you hear the former Sen. Robert Torricelli saying “The listing of the MEK as a terrorist organization by the United States government is wrong”.

The question now is what interests America seek to achieve by the removal of MKO from its terrorist list. Can it be that America does it to persuade Iran to stop its nuclear program? It will be so naïve an idea since Americans know better than anyone that MKO lack the social support and the needed legitimacy. But it will be different if America’s aim is to bring MKO out of the list, re-arm it and let it instigate disorder and carry out terrorist operations inside Iran. Furthermore, Rajavi’s struggle to be removed from the terrorist list is worthless in itself unless the group and its so-called the Liberation Army can be re-armed. Once in an interview with PressTV Abbas Dashti, a defected member of MKO, quoted Rajavi saying: “We must do all our best to be removed from America’s terrorist list to get our weapons back again”.

Of course, we have already heard Rajavi addressing Camp Ashraf residents, when it was surrounded by American forces, that between the arms and the master of the arms [Americans] he preferred the latter since the arms could be somehow provided at any time but hardly the master of arms. As a result, delisting of MKO is a revival of the group and its re-arming by the US for a new round of terrorism whether Americans intend it or not. But what will be the consequent of unleashing the terrorist Mujahedin? Rajavi has a past experience that once in their best state, the organization’s operation cells stationed close to Iranian borders failed in their terrorist operations. The alternative will be a new chain of blind terrorist operations as it is absolutely impossible for MKO to launch other military operations similar to that of ‘the Eternal Light’.

However, even if the US’s step to delist MKO imply an antagonistic move against the Iranian regime’s behavior, the worst for its own is challenging its international repute for unleashing a most controversial, unquestionable terrorist organization. The least America has to pay will be widening of a credibility gap between the US and Iranian people. But more can be said about the possibility of such decision, and which of course will be a suicidal one, by America.

Farkhondeh Farahmand

February 19, 2011 0 comments

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