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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Maryam Rajavi, Taverny gathering and fruitless tumult

On July 26th, when MKO propaganda champagne held a gathering in Jean bouin stadium in a small town called Taverny, Maryam Rajavi had nothing to say except repeating her previous nonsense. She was even unable to present new ideas for MKO members. She could not suggest a solution for the mire MKO was stuck in although MKO made efforts to get rid of it.
Maryam Rajavi, Taverny gathering and fruitless tumult
I listened to Maryam Rajavi’s speech on Simaye Azadi[MKO’s TV channel] carefully. The conclusion I made was that she implicitly expressed depressing pulses just like those wrinkles on her face which signifies her senility.

As usual she repeated some mottos and clichés, crying loudly but there was no sign of her harmony with the modern world and its evolutions, neither no sign of understanding the reality in her words. The names and positions of people who attended the gathering as MKO sympathizers seemed also astonishing to me. Besides some trivial political figures including the mayors of Ouver Sur d’Oise and Taverny who were generously funded by MKO, you could see John Bolton former American ambassador in UN, who is anti UN and an anti-Iran neo-conservative. Maryam Rajavi might know better than everyone that inviting John Bolton to attend MKO’s gathering and to speak as an MKO sponsor, in fact signifies the refusal of all principals of the struggle once MKO founders insisted on. Being trapped by politic men of the alleged Imperialists and warmongers such as John Bolton and siding with such an anti-Iran person, shows an extreme scandal of the self-assigned president Maryam Rajavi.

A look at thoughts and personality of this warmonger element reveals shocking facts to those who still have a sense of nationalism and patriotism. These facts may clarify the border between right and wrong.

During his speech in the gathering, John Bolton clearly described his anti-Iranian ideas. "I don’t think that sanctions will prevent the regime from its nuclear weapon program. In my opinion, the sanctions can be helpful for the day the regime falls. We need much more than sanctions.

But, who is John Bolton? He is a senior member of American Enterprise Institute, Council of National Policy and an analyst of FoxNews, also an active member of Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

He is an extremist rightist neo-conservative who was imposed to Collin Powel by Dick Chenny the then American vice-president Iin order to supervise the moderate policies of that retired General. He believes that international treaties and even the UN limit America’s hegemony over the world.

At the time of the meeting of vote of confidence he resorted to dissimulation and deception so he could win 57 pro votes against 43 cons. During that meeting Jesse Helms, the extremist senator who approved the "Helms-Bolton" law to impose sanctions on foreign oil firms in order not to invest in Iran, supported her henchman John Bolton by saying words that revealed Bolton’s nature. "John Bolton is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon …[or what Bible calls] the last battle between good and evil."

Ian Williams, UN’s Washington Report correspondent is completely familiar with John Bolton. He warns:"it is not clear where Bolton stands on Armageddon, but it is clear he has the greatest sympathy with the Christian Right’s world view." among these rightist one may find Dick Chenny, Donald Ramsfeld and his under secretary Paul Wolfovitz. "It would be very dangerous to ignore Bolton’s statement. These are harbingers of endless wars" Williams continues.

Mrs. Maryam Azdanlou [Rajavi] probably invited John Bolton to her gathering despite her perfect awareness of his anti-Iranian views including "the relations of America with other countries should be like that of a hammer and a nail."

Richard Curtiss, a contributor to Washington Report reveals that "Bolton seems very dogmatic in his prejudices. He has champagned tirelessly against the International Criminal Court".

Bolton is a supporter of Wolfwitz’s "Opposite Domino Theory", according to Mark Perlman, a correspondent of Forward journal. Wolfowitz believes that invading Iraq would serve as a domino to extend the US’s influence in other parts of the region.

John Bolton who once played an important role in mobilizing the White House and Pentagon to invade Iraq, is now seeking more tensions between Washington, Tehran and Damascus Public opinion, believes that Bolton operates as a radical figure to create a balance against some American moderate politicians. Bolton views Iran and Syria as serious threats to Israel and never allows them to harm Telaviv’s security and esteem. During Bush, the father administration, he prevented the approval of a law that would see Zionism equivalent to Racism. Also, when in London he was asked why Washington would not take a similar approach towards Israel’s nuclear program, he answered:"the US is concerned about the threats against us and our allies ….we do not protect Israel but we protect the benefits of the US."

American famous journalists and experts think that what makes Bolton’s call for Iran’s ban (according to NPT) on its nuclear program funny, is that Bolton himself never believes in respecting international laws.

About four years ago, John Bolton declared clearly: "It’s a big mistake for us to grant validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to so."

Despite what public opinion expect "Bolton has been a staunch advocate of the Bush administration’s revival of the "Star Wars" missile defense system and its rejection of the anti-Ballistic Treaty." Richard Curtiss writes.

"John Bolton is to diplomacy as Jack the Ripper was to sugury, said Ian Williams to Nation Magazine.

Now, there is a question to ask Maryam Azdanlou: when you and other leaders of MKO terrorist cult are in the same campaign with anti-humane and anti-Iranian politicians and supported by them, what is your position?

Are you in position of a patriot or that of a traitor or our enemy’s mercenary?

By Arash Rezaiee

July 1, 2010 0 comments
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Former members of the MEK

Terror Victims families’ statement condemning France’s backing of MKO

The Statement of Justice Society, Terror Victims families, in condemning the France’s backing of the MKO

28 June 1981 is the anniversary of the assassination of 72 outstanding members of the biggest Iranian Party. They were martyred in Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization’s terrorist operation. This is another evidence of the crimes of this terrorist organization. MKO began its operations before the Revolution and up to now has murdered 12000 people.

We are the families of the victims who have been killed by the MKO terrorists. Since we have realized the malicious nature of this cult with all our hearth and soul, condemning terrorism in any form, we believe that:

At the outset of third millennium, the history witnesses another black era of the sovereignty of sect-like thoughts which do not present any gift other than terror and aggression. The innocent people’s blood is the only fund of such a thought which intends to destroy humankind. Undoubtedly Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization with its countless crimes is the clearest evidence of this type of inhumane thinking.

Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization has perpetrated various crimes including kidnapping, high jacking, armed robbery and attacks on civilians and military forces. It has displayed terrorism in the most horrible forms like setting the corpse on fire or chopping them up.

It is quite surprising that this organization which has itself confessed to the assassination of American counselors in Iran and murder of Iraqi Kurds and Kuwaiti youths- whose corpse were unearthed in Ashraf Camp- now enjoys the complete support of western powers such as France. France has now turned into a safe haven for the anti-human activities of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization. In spite of the existence of tens of international and regional conventions which condemn terrorism and emphasize on the necessity of encountering its operatives, how would French politicians respond the Iranian terrorism victims’ families for their illegal backing of the MKO. Mojahedin-e Khalq organization has recently deployed several terrorist groups to Iran for planting bombs in different parts of Tehran. This reality obviously proves that this organization not only doesn’t want but also can not abandon its treacherous and terrorist nature.

Indeed, how French politicians allow a terrorist organization that has confessed to the murder of 12000 children of this country, to hold anti-Iran gatherings and demonstrations? Isn’t it the evident violation of international laws? How could an organization, whose terrorist and sect-like nature has been approved by various documents released in European and American countries, deserved to be removed from European Union list of terrorist organizations? How is it possible that the MKO leaders who had been arrested in 2003 under the charges of terrorism and money-laundering now freely attend in European parliaments and fabricate lies?

French statesmen must know that the world public opinion and Iranian nation who have experienced the bitter taste of terrorism can never realize the logic behind such a dangerous measure. They ask this question that ‘isn’t it a threat to the global community to let this terrorist organization be free’? Wouldn’t the classification of terrorism to Bad and Good categories, expand the activities of similar groups? Have you pondered over the consequences of these supports? Is there any guarantee for abandoning terrorist acts by MKO members?

On this basis, we, the Families of Terrorism Victims, strongly request France and other European countries to take into account the contents of the Security Council Resolution 1373, which criminalizes any type of support from terrorists, considers them as prosecutable, and necessitates all member states to cooperate in the process of fighting against terrorism. In this regard another question comes to mind: Supporting Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization is not an obvious violation of Resolution1373?

Consequently, we, the descendents of victims of terrorism condemning any western support from Mojahedin-e Khalq organization, call for the insistent encounter of these countries and international bodies with MKO leaders.

June 30, 2010 0 comments
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Iran

Mojahedin Khalq at the end of its line

Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi says MKO’s recent protest in Paris was out of desperation.

Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi has brushed aside an anti-Iranian rally held by the terrorist group, Mojahedin Khalq, (MKO) in Paris, saying the group has reached the end of the line.

"The leaders of the MKO terrorist group held a costly protest in Paris and used huge propaganda, asking some (infamous) politicians, who have no place among their own people, to join the crowd as their supporters, in order to declare that they want to continue their presence inside Iraq," Hassan Kazemi Qomi told Fars News Agency on Monday.

"MKO’s recent vain efforts indicated that the group does not hold out much hope," the Iranian envoy noted.

The anti-Iranian terrorist group staged a demonstration against Iran on Saturday, June 26 in the suburbs of Taverny outside Paris, calling for tougher sanctions against the country’s nuclear program. Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar and former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton delivered speeches during the event.

Kazemi Qomi emphasized that the Iraqi people and government are seriously determined to expel the members of the terrorist group from Iraq and the expulsion of the MKO is one of the concerns of the new Iraqi government.

Mojahedin Khalq Organization is a terrorist cult which was founded in 1960, but fled the country after Iran’s 1979 revolution and after carrying out a series of bombings and assassinations inside the country that killed thousands of Iranian citizens.

The terrorist group received military support from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and was stationed inside Iraq’s soil in return for espionage for the Iraqi army during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).

Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, US troops disarmed the MKO at its Camp Ashraf, which housed them, and surrounded it until Iraqi forces took over responsibility in 2009.

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Iran

Lawmaker Warns Paris about Anti-Iran Moves

A member of the Iranian parliament on Monday strongly criticized France’s support for the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, saying that such support will harm the interests of Paris.

"If the French want to continue relations with Iran, they should root out their relations with Zionism and those who are hostile to Iran such as the MKO, and confront them," Head of Iran-France Parliamentary Friendship Group Hassan Kamran said in a gathering of the families of the victims of terrorism outside the French embassy in Tehran on Monday.

He noted that Iran has repeatedly told the French envoy that the government of France should avoid double-standard behaviors towards the terrorist group and should not allow MKO members to continue their presence on its soil.

Kamran also called on Paris to distance itself from the US and Israel’s militaristic policies in the region since such moves will harm France’s interests.

Hundreds of people shouted slogans on Monday outside the French embassy in protest against the holding of a rally in Paris by MKO members on Saturday.

Protestors who asked the French government to hand over the MKO members to Iran chanted slogans in condemnation of the terrorist group.

The gathering took place on the anniversary of a bomb attack on the central office of Jomhuri Eslami party in Tehran in 1981 by the terrorist MKO in which 72 of party members, including senior Iranian political and religious officials, were martyred.

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Iran

Hundreds stage anti-France demo outside France Embassy

TEHRAN — Hundreds of people shouted slogans on Monday outside the French embassy in protest against the holding of a rally in France by Iran’s main exiled opposition group.

"Shame on (President Nicolas) Sarkozy! Death to France! Shame on you, France, let go of the hypocrites!" chanted the crowd as police set up barricades outside the embassy in central Tehran, an AFP photographer said.

Iranians call exiled opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) "hypocrites," and Monday’s demonstration was organised to protest against a PMOI rally outside Paris on Saturday.

The state news agency IRNA reported that the demonstrators also shouted slogans and carried banners denouncing the Islamic republic’s arch-foes the United States and Israel.

The French embassy was closed as police prevented protesters from throwing eggs and water bottles at the building, IRNA said.

The protest organisers, an Iranian association representing families of those reportedly killed in attacks by the PMOI, also accused France of sheltering members of the group and demanded that they be handed over.

Saturday’s PMOI rally in France was attended by tens of thousands of opponents of Iran’s clerical regime, as well as by prominent Western political heavyweights.

The rally by the PMOI, which Washington considers to be a terrorist organisation, was attended by former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and Jose Maria Aznar, the former prime minister of Spain.

The PMOI advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is a major member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the political umbrella organisation of exiled Iranian opposition groups.

It also sided with Saddam Hussein’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
The group has claimed several attacks inside Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979 installed a clerical regime following the ouster of the US-backed shah.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Families of Iranian Terror Victims Call for Trial of MKO Leaders

Family members of the Iranian victims of terrorism in a statement issued on Monday blasted France for its support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and asked for the trial of the group leaders in a tribunal.

"In addition to condemning the western countries’ support for the MKO which indicates their double-standard and selective approach towards terrorism, the families of terror victims in Iran urge these countries and the international organizations to work on the trial of the MKO leaders for killing thousands of innocent people," the statement said.

The statement was issued at the end of a gathering in front of the French embassy in Tehran by a large crowd who protested at France’s support for the terrorist MKO.

The statement also called on the French government and other European countries to implement the UN Security Council’s resolution 1373 in which any financial and human support for terrorists is recognized as crime.

The family members of the terror victims also in their statement asked the European governments if providing support for the terrorist MKO is not an obvious violation of the resolution 1373.

The gathering took place on the anniversary of a bomb attack on the central office of Jomhuri Eslami party (Islamic Republic party) in Tehran in 1981 by the terrorist MKO in which 72 of party members, including senior Iranian political and religious officials, were martyred.

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.

Some other members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.

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 armed 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 2009 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.

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Iran

Majlis to pursue extradition of MKO to Iran

A member of the Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission has said that officials must seriously pursue extradition of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members to the country.
MP Mostafa Tabatabaei Nejad insisted on Monday that an atmosphere should be created in which “pro-terrorists” stop supporting terrorist groups.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Tabatabaei Nejad noted, “We, as members of Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission, for our part, will pursue the matter in this commission next week.

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Former members of the MEK

Meeting in Paris

On 19 June 2010, a large hall in Paris was a place of a meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO (Rajavi cult), families of present members trapped inside the cult in Iraq, and a number of reporters and human rights activists.

In this meeting titled “rejecting violence, terrorism and cultic behavior, as well as aiding the families of the victims of Rajavi cult in Ashraf garrison in Iraq”, dozens of foreign personalities, reporters and camera men from various organizations and media were present.

Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris
Meeting of more than 200 former members of MKO & families of MKO captives in Paris

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO and Grasping for Support in a Very Wrong Way

In the 1920’s Joseph Stalin, in the spirit of socialization, had plans for justice, democracy and peace. He envisioned a classless society. But his narrowness of perspective combined with an ethnically and politically diverse population became a major challenge in building unity and Former members of MKO have compared its leaders to Stalinconsensus. Slavery flourished. And ultimately what became central during his tenure was the building of his cult of personality. His totalitarian leadership, perpetual lying, and deception eventually ushered in the near-destruction of Soviet Russia. Eventually Stalin had no support from the people he so desperately wanted to save.
 
More than half a century has passed since the world has known of Stalin’s terror and his cult of personality. But beware: There is similar potential retribution toward the country of Iran as the dissident group, Mujahedin el Khalq (MKO) attempts to use the media to sell a message that they exist in the name of justice, democracy and peace. Former members of the group have compared its leaders to Stalin. [1]

Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the MKO, like Stalin, is also a cult of personality and her justice-democracy-peace campaign is deceitful. Her cheap catch-words for the organization’s ultimate goal of overthrowing the Iranian regime—and this goal has been in place for more than three decades—are wrong. In the MKO’s grand effort to achieve power in Tehran, they have stepped up their focus on trying to erase a weird, violent, and bloody past while increasing effort to legitimize their current fiction.

Sam Dealey, a journalist, who in January 2010 became Editor in Chief for the Washington Times, specified eight years ago how the MKO managed to win the support of mainstream US politicians. Dealey’s well researched claim is that “the [MKO’s] political representatives in the U.S. have worked hard to repackage the group as a legitimate dissident organization fighting for democracy in Iran—whitewashing its record and duping our leaders.” [2] And Dealey’s statement still applies today because currently the same political representatives—the crisis mongers of the MKO—are challenging the West’s policy towards Iran while feeding the public mendacity. After a 30-year track record of fabrication, the group’s latest headliner sham proclaims that Iran has nuclear capabilities. But fortunately some US politicians who are aware of the MKO’s track record of producing false and misleading information, along with weapons inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), are very suspicious about what MKO leadership says. [3]

After all, in 2003, ten MKO members (two of whom died) staged a bizarre show of solidarity towards their leader, Maryam Rajavi, by setting themselves on fire in cities around Europe. Before the self- immolations even took place, Sam Dealey wrote, “Despite its violent history, the People’s Mujahedin would like to gain international legitimacy as Iran’s ‘government in exile.’ Its immediate goal is to get its name off the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations; to that end, it now purports to support a host of democratic ideals, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to freedom of religion and the free market. It has even abandoned its revolutionary flag — composed of a Koran verse, a sickle, and a Kalashnikov assault rifle — for that of the former shah, whom they worked to depose.” [4]

As early as 1997, TIME ran an in depth article about the group, citing the State Department’s report that the MKO “has Marxist leanings,” and “few democratic tendencies.” TIME’s journalists, observed that “[MKO] troops wear no insignia of rank, live communally and receive no pay. They have taken a vow to remain celibate until Iran is freed. And all express near fanatical loyalty to the woman they hope to install as the next President of Iran: Maryam Rajavi.” Michael Eisenstadt, an Iran expert at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy asserts that there is an unhealthy cult of personality around Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. He writes, “If they were to achieve power, it is unlikely they would give it up. The [MKO] are simply not a viable alternative to the current regime because of their ties to Iraq.” [5]

Most recently, Ali Safavi, the MKO’s primary lobbyist in Washington DC, and also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, is making a huge effort to deviate the public’s attention away from the group’s strange cult practices and history of terror. He’s pushing the message that the MKO is a legitimate option for the future of Iran, and opportunistically maintains that Maryam Rajavi is the "most prominent Iranian opposition leader" who "has called on the West to support democratic change in Iran by the Iranian people and their organized resistance movement.” He urges President Obama to “strengthen Iran’s democratic opposition,” and “set his sights on a strategic Iran policy by removing obstacles on the path of democratic Iranian opposition groups,” and also criticizes the US administration’s smart and cautious policy towards Iran, claiming that “the track of [US] pressure is insufficient and engagement is problematic.” [6] In short Safavi is suggesting that the Obama administration can and should close dialogue and stop diplomacy with Iran, and then remove the MKO from the State Department’s list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Safavi’s ideal proposal would make way for a terrorist cult group to replace the Iranian government. But Savafi’s proposal must convince more than just the Americans.

Iranians all over the world will admit that the MKO has no support among the Iranian nation. The MKO turned against their own people, as they sided with Saddam Hussein during the war with Iraq. In 2000, Wilfried Buchta of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and author of Who Rules Iran? The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic, analyzes the formal and informal power structures in the Islamic Republic and assesses both the future of the reform movement and the prospects for peaceful change in Iran. [7] Buchta asserts, "The large majority of Iranians inside and outside the country reject the MEK [MKO] because of its support for Bagdad during the Iran-Iraq war and for its [continued] alliance with Saddam. As a result it has only a small dwindling power base in Iran." [8]

As Iran remains in the spotlight, for the sake of public edification, the reality of the MKO must be exposed. The details of the horrors committed by MKO—either against Iranians or their own members in the organization—were the direct result of their terrorist and destructive cult-like nature. Be aware that their campaign is strong, and that MKO opportunists, with their shifty arrangement of excuses regarding past terrorist activities, believe that the seat of political power will be handed to them by the West—if they can persuade the unaware powerful. They simply exist in a very wrong way. They will vitally need the support of the Iranian people—and this is what they mostly lack.

References:
[1] Peterson, Scott. "Inside a Group Caught Between Three Powers." Christian Science Monitor. December 31, 2003 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1231/p10s01-woiq.html>.
[2] Dealey, Sam. "A Very, Very Bad Bunch." National Review. March 25, 2002 <http://old.nationalreview.com/25mar02/dealeyprint032502.html>.
[3] Collier, Robert. "US Gleans Facts on Iran From Debatable Source: Nuclear Arms Allegation Derived in Part From Rebel Group’s Data". San Francisco Chronicle. Sunday, October 26, 2003 <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/26/MNGPE2JMGO1.DTL>.
[4] Dealey, Sam. Ibid
[5] Michael Serrill and Edward Barnes, "Armed Women of Iran." TIME MAGAZINE. Monday, April 21, 1997 <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986213,00.html>.
[6] Safavi, Ali. "Iran Crisis Needs a Firm Response". Huffington Post. May 11, 2010 <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-safavi/iran-crisis-needs-a-firm_b_572045.html>.
[7] Buchta, Wilfried. "Who Rules Iran? The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic". Brookings Institution Press. 2000 <http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2000/who_rules_iran.aspx>.
[8] ibid p. 116

By Mazda Parsi

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Iran

Tehran rally blasts French terror support

Hundreds of Iranians have gathered outside the French embassy in Tehran to protest a decision by France to allow a demonstration by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in a Paris suburb.Families of Victims condemn the French/Zionist support for terrorist group

The families of those killed in MKO terrorist attacks shouted slogans and carried banners, denouncing the group’s murderous acts and the French government’s support for their hostile measures against Iran, IRNA reported on Monday.

The families of the victims also condemned France for sheltering the members of the terrorist group, urging the Paris government to hand them over to authorities in Iran.

The Tehran protest, which took place on the anniversary of a 1981 deadly attack by the MKO in the Iranian capital, was organized by an Iranian association representing the families of those murdered by the terrorist group.

The 1981 MKO attack resulted in the death of 70 high-ranking Iranian officials of the Islamic Republic Party, including the country’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

The decision by Paris to allow the MKO to hold the gathering comes while the Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.

Founded in the 1960s, the MKO has masterminded a slew of terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq, killing thousands of people and wounding many more.

The group is particularly notorious for taking sides with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war on Iran.

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