MEK Camp Ashraf

Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi

Health and security of Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi

Here and there we read and hear that such and such parliamentarian or human rights activist has demanded that the health and security of the residents of Ashraf Camp, the main base of the Rajavi cult in Iraq, be restored. It is very interesting to learn that some people are concerned Health and security of Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajaviabout the fate of 3000+ innocent followers of Rajavi trapped in his cult. The aim behind the establishment of Sahar Family Foundation was to follow the best interests of the Ashraf inhabitants. The question is of course how these interests can be fulfilled in the best way.

What has happened in the past decade clearly shows that those Ashraf residents who managed to escape the cultic garrison and were freed from the domination of Rajavi, eventually had a far better fate and enjoyed better and more health and security. The facts demonstrate that those who remain there are confronted by all sorts of threats and dangers such as facing death as the result of suicide, self-immolation, unintended shootings, various accidents and misfortunes, being prevented from leaving Ashraf to go to Baghdad or abroad for medical treatment and so on.

During the last decade, several hundred people have escaped Ashraf Camp and were freed. Many of them voluntarily decided to go back to Iran with the help from the International Committee of the Red Cross and they returned to their families and got their lives back through this reconciliation. The ICRC is continuously monitoring their situation and they can state that no-one faced any harm. The parliamentarians and the activists who are concerned about the case of the Ashraf residents can check this out with the Red Cross easily. Even those who were sent from Iraq, with the help of Saddam’s army, to Iran to conduct terrorism and sabotage activities and were arrested before or after their operations had a better destiny. Many of them have since formed a family in Iran or freely moved to another country.

Those separated members who did not wish to go to Iran were located in the American Forces’ camps and after a long wait they accepted the risks (less than the risks they faced in Ashraf of course) and moved to Europe. Some stayed in Iraq and are still waiting to leave the country to get to a third country. Up to now no security threat has threatened their lives, except on one occasion some years ago when a man crossing the border river between Turkey and Iraq was drowned.

All former members can witness that since they left Ashraf Camp they are in a far better physical and psychological situation. Many of them managed to overcome their chronic illnesses and gain their health again after a while. Inside the Camp their illnesses were ignored and they were even accused of pretending to be ill. The hard labour inside the Camp that the members had to suffer as a means to make them stop thinking has had enormous effects on them and most inhabitants suffer severe physical and mental disorders. Some inside the camp say in secret that the rifle and sickle on the MKO’s emblem should be replaced by a shovel and sweeping brush.

More than one hundred individuals have lost their lives inside Ashraf during recent years in different ways. The MKO terrorist cult claimed that more than 50 people were killed due to the U.S. bombing of Iraq during the 2003 invasion of the country. Eye witnesses who have been able to escape from Ashraf Camp say that none of them were killed in that way and many of those named were killed long before or after the bombings. Some of these people were killed on the direct order of Massoud Rajavi the cult leader. Hundreds of statements have been filed with the Iraqi Judiciary in the MKO’s lawsuit in this regard.

Rajavi has never given an explanation to these murders. His cult has not announced the details of even one case of a member losing their life due to the bombings. The cult agents are in the habit of recording every single moment on camera to use for propaganda. Not even one photograph or film was released to show a dead body or a place devastated by the bombings.

Those who are really concerned about the situation of Camp Ashraf’s residents probably know that Rajavi has on many occasions threatened that if he reaches the end of the line he will order all his followers in Ashraf to commit mass suicide or self-immolation, the same way that happened at Waco and in Guyana.
After the cult prevented Ms. Elham Fardipour from going to hospital in Baghdad and after the murder of Mr. Ahmad Razani, the concern of the families at the gates of Camp Ashraf has about the health and security of their loved ones inside the camp has escalated. They are rightfully frightened about the fate of their children and relatives since Rajavi does not think about anything but his childish goals.

Rajavi’s claim about Ashraf’s blockade by the Iraqi forces is totally false and is cultic propaganda. The leaders of the cult frequently travel between Ashraf and Jordan and Paris. Trucks full of medicine, food, fuel, and other essentials keep going into Ashraf Camp escorted by UN officials and American tanks. Those inhabitants who are fully trusted by the cult go to Baghdad for many reasons. The truth is that the Ashraf blockade is imposed by the cult only and the American forces who wish to protect this terrorist base fully assist them in this.

Sahar Family Foundation calls on all humanitarian and international activists and organizations, particularly those who have expressed their concern about the situation of the residents and wish to do something about it, to come to the place or send delegations to gain first hand observation of the actual conditions there. SFF is happy ready for any kind of cooperation and for providing all sorts of documents in this respect.

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USA

Objection Letter of Families of Terror Victims to the Representatives of the US House

The nature of terrorism and the criminals who murder innocent people is in a way that the lives of innocent people whether Iranian or American do not have any value for them. In fact, the only important thing for them is achieving their evil goals and accordingly they would remove any one opposing them.

The nature of terrorism and the criminals who murder innocent people is in a way that the lives of innocent people whether Iranian or American do not have any value for them. In fact, the only important thing for them is achieving their evil goals and accordingly they would remove any one opposing them. Do you remember General Harold Price, William Cottrell, Donald Smith, Robert Krongard and Lt. Col. Louis Lee Hawkins? They were the military counselors who have all been assassinated in Iran before the Islamic Revolution by Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization. Are you familiar with American companies such as International Telephone & Telegraph Cartel (ITT) and John Dyer Co. which were working in Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979? These companies have also been targeted by the MKO’s bombs.

Do you know which terrorist organization murdered Col. Paul Schaefer and Liet. Col. Jack Turner?

Indeed, do you know Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), their strategic approach and their activities in the past and at present? Are you aware of the consequences of letting a terrorist group, which has collaborated with Eastern Bloc and acted as the private army of Saddam Hussein in suppressing the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites and Kuwaiti youths, to operate in American soil? Do you know that MKO has one of the beigest human trafficking networks and has committed various crimes including kidnapping, high-jacking, armed robbery, attacks on civilians and military forces, planting bombs in public areas, money-laundering and terrorism.

Have you ever referred to international documents, which have been published about Mojahedin-e Khalq organization and recognized it as one of the most dangerous terrorist cults, in order to get more familiar with the real nature of this inhuman organization? Relying on communist thoughts, MKO seeks for freedom and human rights through armed conflicts. This issue is quite understandable from the flag and the symbol of the organization on it. The gross violation of human rights in this organization can not find anywhere else; prohibition of marriage, separating children from their parents, sterilizing women by taking their wombs out, torture, solitary confinement and above all changing the members into the captives without any sense of determination are just some of the disasters occurring in Ashraf Camp presently. The result of such mind transmutation techniques is obvious in 2003 self-immolation of some MKO members in several European cities.

Your Excellency,
The international documents like the Human Rights Watch report of May 2005 and American National Defense Institute (RAND) report of 2009 and the report presented by German Federal Office on Mojahedin-e Khalq have confirmed the above-mentioned points. These reports make a strong basis for us to understand the real nature of a terrorist cult whose freedom of activity is similar to letting a group of criminals be free in the society.

Your Excellency,
Deciding about a terrorist organization which has claimed responsibility for the murder of 12000 Iranians and thousands of Iraqis and Kuwaiti people is not easy and accordingly responding on the criminal acts which may occur in your country in future by this organization is definitely more difficult.

Undoubtedly your presence in Iran, Iraq and Kuwait and witnessing the documents related to the murder of thousands of innocent people including women and children would seriously affect your approach towards Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization. You would meet children who have lost their parents in the terrorist measures of this organization or innocent people who have been mutilated in MKO’s terrorist operations.

You can find people who want to see the trial of the leaders of this organization. In fact, how would you react against those who support September 11 terrorist attacks? The interesting point is that you are voicing support for delisting an organization which had celebrated and rejoiced after 9/11 event.

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Europe

Objection Letter of Families of Terror Victims to the European Parliament

The absence of coordination along with selective approaches of some governments and international bodies regarding with global dilemmas including terrorism is undoubtedly one of the main reasons for the expansion of this ominous phenomenon. In fact, how can we expect to have a world without bloodshed and murder of innocent people, when we see that a terrorist group is supported by some governments despite the existence of many documents confirming the terrorist nature of that group?

The adoption of a written declaration by some Members of European Parliament in order to put pressure on the US to remove an Iranian opposition group from its terrorist black-list, made us to write this letter to Your Honorable and express our disappointment and concern of the support voiced by these Representatives from the murderers of our children. Hereby, we also would like to reveal some facts about the terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) which may be ignored by the MEPs due to the lies and deceitful gestures of the MKO ringleaders.

Your Excellency,
Because of the current global fight against terrorism, Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist Organization is now pretending to be a defender of human rights. It considers itself an organization which seeks for freedom and equality among human beings. This is while the same organization, based on the confession of its own leaders, has murdered 12000 Iranians and thousands of Iraqi civilians. Among the victims of the MKO terrorist attacks there are some children who have lost their parents before their eyes; you can find some people who have been mutilated in the bombing attacks; the terrorists of this organization have chopped up corpses or burned them. The operations conducted in some public places by bomb explosions have led to the death of many people who even hadn’t heard the name of this organization. The MKO forces have murdered Iraqi Kurds and Shiites and Kuwaiti youths when working as the private army of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator. The hatred of the people in Iraq and Kuwait from this organization arises from these measures.

Other terrorist acts of the MKO include kidnapping, high-jacking, armed robbery ,attacks on civilians and military forces, planting bombs in public areas, money-laundering and terrorism. The leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq have considered such acts necessary for achieving their goals.

The points mentioned above, although strange, are real and many international documents like the Human Rights Watch report of May 2005 and American National Defense Institute (RAND) report of 2009 and the report presented by German Federal Office on Mojahedin-e Khalq have confirmed them. In all these reports Mojahedin has been referred to as a cultic organization which has deprived its members from their primary human right. Furthermore, you can come to Iran and visit thousands of the victims of this organization who are all the real and live documents for confirming the MKO’s terrorist nature. The Honorable Members of the European Parliament should know that an organization which has entered into war against its own country during the Iran-Iraq war, and committed treason against its own fellow countrymen can not feel mercy towards European nation. Can the MEPs guarantee that no one else would be victimized by this terrorist cult in future? Can Your Excellency secure that no one else would mourn for the dearest members of their families?

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Iran

Iran families censure EU for MKO support

The families of the victims of the latest terrorist incidents in Iran have strongly criticized the European Parliament for its support for an anti-Iranian terrorist group, according to a recent report.

A scene of one of the terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on November 29

In a letter to the European Parliament, relatives of the victims of two terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on Monday criticized some European governments and international organizations for their stances on terrorism, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.

The families say the double standard applied by certain European countries toward terrorist groups like the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is a major cause of such inhumane activities.

Last week, the European Parliament issued a declaration urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Terrorists detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi at separate locations on Monday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. local time as they were headed to work at Shahid Beheshti University.

Shahriari was martyred immediately, but professor Abbasi and his wife only sustained injuries and were transferred to a hospital.

Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a motorcycle approached Shahriari’s car and attached a bomb to the vehicle that exploded a few seconds later.

In a separate incident, terrorists attached another bomb to Abbasi’s car and escaped, he added.
He explained that the professor and his wife were injured in the attack but are not in critical condition.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has also condemned the terrorist attack, saying the culprits are linked to Israel.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.

Apparently emboldened by the EU, MKO members openly boast about the deadly acts of violence they have committed against Iranian civilians and government officials.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

US/EU use terrorism, misuse human rights;Supporting MKO

Iran: Overt EU support for Iraqi based Mojahedin Khalq terrorists once again proved our point that "US, EU use terrorism, misuse human rights"

Western Tendency for Terrorism Proved by EU Support for MKO
The European parliament’s statement in support of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) corroborated Iran’s disclosures of the West-sponsored terrorism in the region, Iran’s High Council of Human Rights said in a statement on Sunday.

In his last week disclosures of the western countries’ key role in post-election frenzies in Tehran and their support for terrorist attacks on the Islamic Republic, Secretary-General of Iran’s High Council of Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani stated that the US and its major European allies have proved as the main supporters of armed opposition against the Islamic Republic, including the MKO and the notorious Jundollah terrorist group, the statement reminded.

Larijani in his remarks had said that the EU and the US are misusing the human rights to attain their goals in Iran and the region, mentioning that while western statesmen object to the human rights conditions in Iran, their parliamentarians in Britain, France and Germany have regular meetings with the most devilish and notorious terrorists in the region, who have killed hundreds and thousands of innocent people in their numerous terrorist operations, specially against Iran.
"How can the EU leaders label themselves as human rights supporters while they do not spare any effort to extend arms, financial and political backup and support to the most notorious anti-Iranian terrorists," Larijani had asked, according to the statement.

The statement further reminded that a few days after Larijani’s last week remarks, the European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday, urging the removal of the MKO and Jundollah from Washington’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The European Union took the MKO off its blacklist in 2009.

Also efforts in the House of Representatives to press the Obama Administration to remove the group from the United States list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations have accelerated in the past week.

However, the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), remained in the US list of terrorist groups and organizations despite intense efforts by Zionist lobbies and a number of the Congressmen to delist the group.

The US State Department announced in its recent annual report on terrorism that no change has been made in the MKO’s status.
The MKO insists that the US should delist it as a terrorist organization, a demand which has been rejected so far by Washington.

An appeals court in the US had earlier ruled that the State Department should review the terror status of the MKO.

The MKO had filed a petition against the US blacklisting in 2008.

The Bush administration, however, rejected the request in its final days in 2009, after examining the material submitted by the group and the US intelligence community, including classified information.
In July 2010, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in Washington said in a 22-page decision that the US government failed to give the group a fair chance to rebut unclassified information that claimed the group supported terrorist activities.

The government was obligated under a 1996 antiterrorism law and 2004 revisions to give the group the chance to rebut unclassified information, the appeals court said, adding that the group was "permitted access to the unclassified portion of the record only after the decision was final."

In a statement, the State Department said it would study the decision, but added that the US government continues to view the group as a terrorist organization.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community.

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.

In recent months, high-ranking MKO members have been lobbying governments around the world in the hope of acknowledgement as a legitimate opposition group.

The UK initiative, however, prompted the European Union to establish relations with the exiled organization now based in Paris. The European Court of First Instance threw its weight behind the MKO in December and annulled its previous decision to freeze its funds.

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.

The European Parliament’s recent statement also called on the US to delist another notorious armed opposition group, the anti-Iran Jundollah, from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The Jundollah group has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Iran. The group has carried out mass murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, acts of sabotage and bombings. They have targeted civilians and government officials as well as all ranks of Iran’s military.

In one of the worst cases, the group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in Tasouki region on a road linking the Southeastern city of Zahedan to another provincial town.
In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in the Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province. They were freed during a Pakistani police operation after abductors took them to the country.

Jundollah claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.

In its latest crime in October, the Pakistan-based terrorist Jundollah group, closely affiliated with the notorious al-Qaeda organization, claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the Sistan and Balouchestan province which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO attempted hijacking aimed to overshadow Hariri visit failed

Thwart attempted hijack of Iranian aircraft -diplomat

Iranian security personnel have thwarted today an attempt for hijacking an aircraft that was heading from Tehran to Damascus and was carried out by one of the elements of Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO), a diplomatic Iranian source said here Saturday. The same source said in a statement to Syrian news station (SNS) that the perpetrator of such attack was an Iranian citizen belonging to the Iranian opposition MKO, noting that the attacker was mentally unstable and was currently under investigations. Syrian security authorities in Damascus International Airport were handed over the Iranian citizen — who was equipped with a knife — from the security personnel on the Iranian aircraft following its safe landing without the falling of any incident. Syrian authorities started to cross-examine the suspect to know his motives after he claimed that he planted a bomb in the aircraft and that he intends to hijack it.

However, the guards on the aircraft managed to detain the man after it became clear that is lying and following their accurate search of the aircraft. The Iranian source refused to say whether the purported attacker was returned back or he is still on Syrian territories, asserting that the aircraft — which is operated by the Iranian Airways (Iran Air) — was searched by concerned bodies, then return to Tehran without detecting any explosives on it.MKO is engaged in a conflict with the Iranian government since the former was established in 1965 when it targeted first to topple Shah’s regime, then aimed its sight at the Islamic government which took the helm later, though the outfit was ousted from Iran at the beginning of 1980s, but the defunct regime of Saddam Hussein allowed it to stay in Iraq, provided support for it, and so its elements established a base in Ashraf camp near to Iraqi-Iranian borders.

Kuwait News Agency (Kuna), 27 November 2010

IRGC Official: Attempted Hijack of Iranian Flight Carried out to Overshadow Hariri’s Visit

Fars News, November 28,2010
 A senior official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said that enemies’ failed attempt to hijack the Friday night flight from Tehran to Damascus was aimed at overshadowing the landmark visit to Iran by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
Pointing to President Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon last month and Hariri’s reciprocal visit to Tehran, head of the IRGC public relations office General Ramazan Sharif said, "The US and Zionist regime of Israel’s officials were seeking to initiate a media campaign (against Iran and Lebanon) through the MKO (anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization) in a bid to overshadow the two visits."
"Since this is a blatant act of terrorism, few people may accept the risk to carry out such an action unless it yields huge interest," the official noted.
The act by MKO members came at a time when the European Union has asked the US to take the MKO off its terror list.
On Saturday, the IRGC announced that the individual who tried to hijack an Iranian plane en route to Damascus on Friday night was an affiliate of anti-revolutionary groups.
Earlier, FNA reported that Iranian security forces had foiled an attempted hijack of a plane bound for the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The plane en route from Tehran to Damascus landed safely at the Syrian capital’s airport after the man threatening to hijack the airliner was arrested by the security personnel on board.
Meanwhile, the European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday, urging the removal of the MKO from Washington’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The European Union took the MKO off its black list in 2009.
Also efforts in the House of Representatives to press the Obama Administration to remove the group from the United States list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations have accelerated in the past week.
The group started assassination of Iranian citizens and officials after the Islamic 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.
Many of the MKO members have 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 the 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.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

EU only providing excuse for US and Zionists support for MKO terrorists

A top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the European Union is only providing an excuse for the US to remove the "Rajavi Cult" from its terror list.

Brigadier General Yadollah Javani made the remarks on Saturday after the European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday urging the removal of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from Washington’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The European Union removed the MKO from its similar list of terrorist organizations in 2009.
Brigadier General Javani said that despite placing the MKO on its list of terrorist organizations Washington has not refrained from providing all out-support for the group over the past 30 years.
"The group has conducted a terror campaign from the safe haven provided by the West, the US and the Zionists," he was quoted by Mehr News Agency as saying.

"In order to escape from the glaring inconsistency between the words and actions of the US, Washington needs an excuse and justification such as the request made by the European Union," he added.

The "Rajavi cult", as the MKO came to be known, was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country some twenty years later, after carrying out numerous acts of terror inside the country.

In the 1970s the group targeted American citizens in Iran, killing William C. Cottrell, Colonel Lewis L. Hawkins, Donald G. Smith, and Colonel Jack Turner in the country.
They also masterminded the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in which more than 72 senior Iranian officials were killed, including the then Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

After fleeing to neighboring Iraq, the terror cell provided security services to Saddam Hussein, fighting on his behalf during the eight-year Iraqi-imposed war on Iran.

In 1991, Maryam Rajavi as then leader of the group’s military forces directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish Iraqis in the north and the Shia population in the south.

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Iran

Iranian MPs criticize EU’s call for US to remove MKO from terrorist list

A number of Iranian MPs have criticized the European Union’s request that the United States remove the Mojahedin Khalq Organization from its list of terrorist groups.

On Thursday, the European Parliament issued a declaration urging Washington to remove the MKO from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

The European Union took the MKO off its black list in 2009.

The MKO is a terrorist group
Talking to reporters on Saturday, MP Kazem Jalali said, “The MKO is a terrorist organization and the Europeans themselves acknowledge this.”

“The MKO itself has admitted that it has killed 4800 people, including ordinary people as well as officials of the Islamic Republic. This organization has planted bombs in several areas. If this group is not a terrorist one, what else can it be labeled as?”

“The West is facing a paradox about the issue of terrorism and the reason is that certain Western countries define everything according to their national interests,” stated Jalali, who is also the rapporteur of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.

West using MKO as a tool
Majlis Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday that Europe and the U.S. are using the MKO as a tool.

But such measures will improve Iran’s ability to negotiate in the international arena since they illustrate the double standards the United States and Europe apply toward terrorism, he added.

West is main source of terrorism
MP Karim Quddusi told MNA that the EU’s move shows that the West is the main source of terrorism.

MP Hamid-Reza Taraqqi of the Islamic Coalition Party called on the Iranian government to make serious efforts to convince the Iraqi government to extradite the MKO members before the group is delisted, MNA reported on Saturday.

The MKO, listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, began a campaign of assassinations and bombings in Iran shortly after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

The group moved to Iraq in the early 1980s and fought Iran from there until the United States invaded the country in March 2003

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Iran

EU support for MKO terrorists backfires across the world

Following the EU call for the US to remove the MKO from its terror list, an Iranian lawmaker says the West is taking political advantage of the terrorist group.

The European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday, urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The European Union took the MKO off its blacklist in 2009.

"The people of the world have been once again faced with Europe’s double standards on terrorism and have realized the reality of the West’s approach towards terrorism," member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Saturday.

The MKO has no place among the Iranian people, who will never forget the terrorist group’s cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the Iranian lawmaker added.

"The US and the European Union seek to use the tools that increase pressure on the Islamic Republic… but they do not know that such pressure has a reverse effect and the country’s establishment will become more united," Mehr News Agency quoted Falahatpisheh as saying.

Falahatpisheh said such actions increased Iran’s bargaining capability in the international arena, adding that removing the MKO from the list of global terrorist organizations reveals the double standards adopted by the US and EU to the world.

The MKO terrorist group, which has been on the US terror list since 1997, filed a petition against the blacklisting in 2008.

The administration of former US president George W. Bush rejected the request in its final days in 2009, after examining material submitted by the group and US intelligence agencies, including classified information.

In July, a US federal appeals court ordered the US State Department to reconsider its decision.
The State Department said it would study the decision but added that the US government continues to view the group as a terrorist organization.

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 organization is also known to have cooperated with Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Pressure on Administration to Take MKO terror Group off Terrorist List

Washington, DC – Efforts in the House of Representatives to press the Obama Administration to remove the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) from the United States list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations have accelerated in the past week.

The State Department describes the MEK as a “cult-like” terrorist organization that “uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives.” Human Rights Watch has reported that MEK leadership has engaged in human rights violations against its membership at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

But last Tuesday, six Members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging that the State Department remove the Marxist Islamist group from the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The letter highlights a House resolution, H.Res. 1431, calling for the group’s removal from the terrorist list, introduced by California Democratic Representative Bob Filner, one of the MEK’s staunchest supporters in Congress. The MEK, which is known by numerous aliases, including MKO, the People’s Mojahadeen of Iran (PMOI) and the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), has an active presence on Capitol Hill, and the Filner resolution has garnered over 100 cosponsors.

“Removing the MEK from the FTO [Foreign Terrorist Organizations] list is not only the right thing to do, but it also sends the right message to Tehran,” reads the letter, which was signed by Representatives Filner, Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Ted Poe (R-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), and Mike Coffman (R-CO).

According to the State Department, the MEK has “staged terrorist attacks inside Iran and killed several US military personnel and civilians,” and until 2003 received Oil-for-Food program subsidies from Saddam Hussein to plan and execute future terrorist attacks. The MEK’s “leadership and members across the world maintain the capacity and will to commit terrorist acts in Europe, the Middle East, the United State, Canada, and beyond,” reads the State Department terrorist designation of the group. Additionally, the State Department says the MEK has “cult-like characteristics”:

"Upon entry into the group, new members are indoctrinated in MEK ideology and revisionist Iranian history. Members are also required to undertake a vow of "eternal divorce" and participate in weekly "ideological cleansings." Additionally, children are reportedly separated from parents at a young age. MEK leader Maryam Rajavi has established a "cult of personality." She claims to emulate the Prophet Muhammad and is viewed by members as the "Iranian President in exile."

The MEK asserts that it no longer engages in terror tactics. But a 2007 Rand report (pdf) describes the MEK as “skilled manipulators of public opinion.” The report, commissioned on behalf of the US Department of Defense, says, “During the more than four decades since its founding, the MEK has become increasingly adept at crafting and promoting its image as a democratic organization that seeks to bring down Iranian tyrants, both secular and religious.”

The group’s supporters in Congress call the MEK the “main opposition in Iran,” although top Green Movement leaders have denounced the group. […]Iranians widely oppose the MEK because of the terrorist attacks carried out by the group in Iran, as well as its allegiance with Saddam Hussein, who utilized the group to carry out attacks during the Iran-Iraq war and to suppress the Kurdish population in Iraq.[…]

Representative Brad Sherman, Democrat from California, said last week that his Subcommittee on Terrorism “should take that bill seriously,” and blamed the State Department for not providing necessary briefings on the matter. Sherman, who has previously stated that sanctions should punish the Iranian people, said that he has a briefing request from intelligence officials pending on the MEK designation. Sherman has argued that the US should not designate groups like MEK as terrorists because they are “not enemies of the United States but are enemies of the enemies of the United States.”

That formulation was repeated last week at the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Rep. Rohrabacher, who told Administration officials that the MEK, “are currently allied with us in the war against radical Islam, especially against the regime in Iran,” and “should not be taken for granted.” The hearing, on the topic of the US transition to a civilian role in Iraq, provided a platform for Congressional MEK supporters, including the Committee’s incoming chairwoman, Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, to press Administration officials about Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

MEK supporters in Congress have frequently cited the human rights conditions at Camp Ashraf, which is now under jurisdiction of an Iraqi government that is viewed as hostile towards the group, as a justification for removing the group’s terrorist designation. However, Human Rights Watch filed a report on behalf of the UN Refugee Agency asserting that MEK leadership committed human rights abuses against its own members. The 2005 report (No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camp) notes that abuses “ranged from prolonged incommunicado and solitary confinement to beatings, verbal and psychological abuse, coerced confessions, threats of execution, and torture that in two cases led to death.” 

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