Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO Terrorists plea a case in American Court

Reported by American Chronicle terrorist MKO has challenged the Secretary of State’s designation of the group in court. The case was heard by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday, January 12. MKO v. US Department of State, is yet another chapter in the group’s unrelenting battle to clear its name from terror lists in Europe and the United States.

MKO is said to have won legal battles in Britain and Europe as the courts ruled to remove it from terror lists on grounds that there is no evidence to support a terror designation. The State Department claims that it can designate the group as "terrorist" by merely resting on classified information despite the fact that the group’s members, mostly in a refugee camp in Iraq, are voluntarily disarmed and internationally protected persons.

But, as reported, how can MKO possibly plea a case if the evidence against it is wholly classified? In court on Tuesday, the Secretary of State’s counsel admitted that former Secretary Rice, who denied the group’s petition in January 2009, relied entirely on classified material to do so.
 
The court will have to issue judgment on the case soon and decide whether the Secretary of State´s decision was supported by substantial evidence. There is also the question if reliance on wholly "classified" information is compatible with Congressional intent and concepts of judicial fairness.

Some are of the opinion that the decision by the Iraqi government to replace and expel Ashraf residents is justified by the US listing the group as terrorist. But the Iraqi government has made it clear that it is decisive to expel the group regardless of being removed from any terrorist list. It has been reiterated that those countries that remove it from their terror list are welcomed to accept and host it.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Official Fatah Website drops all material related to MKO

The official Fatah movement website, Voice of Palestine announced yesterday that they are removing all material from their website from Iranian sources opposing the Iranian regime.
Voice of Palestine deletes all news concerning the PMOI of its website and announced not to deal with their news
The following is a translation of excerpts from the Arabic item:

Voice of Palestine deletes all news concerning the PMOI of its website and announced not to deal with their news

Eshtewi general supervisor for Center for Media and Information – The Voice of Palestine – Fatah announced that the New Department of the web page was deleting all news concerning PMOI [AL: People’s Mujahedeen of Iran] from the servers and that the Center would not deal with any news of the MEK[AL: Mujahedin-e Khalq – another name for PMOI] from now on. The Technical Center team is working to delete all the links present to these items in global search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and the Director of the Center hopes that the process of deleting the links from the web site will be completed in the next 24 hours, so that the servers will be completely free from any news for the MEK.

The move is to resolve the impact of news published by the Editor web page entitled "Commander of the Iranian Resistance message on the occasion of the uprising of the Iranian people" which was carrying with it the words insulting to the Iranian regime, in Persian…

Eshtewi said that the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Palestinian Authority and Fatah is the fraternal relationship and the Iranian regime would not be offended from the pages of electronic media and that the Palestinian Fatah will not allow news of any form to be distributed which affect the fraternal relations between the two countries.

Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA

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Former members of the MEK

The Enslaved POW released

Of the most heinous war crimes of Saddam during his eight- year long war against Iran was ill-treatment of the Iranian prisoners of war (POW). To be a POW in Iraqi camps meant to be a witness of continuous violation of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Prisoners of War (GPW) that sometimes turned into a tragedy by the help of the MKO traitors housed by Saddam. Unfortunately, the Iraqi regime was not complying with the Geneva Conventions but so close was its collaboration with the housed terrorists that in many occasions Saddam would hand over the POWs to MKO during the war in defiance of international law.

In fact, some Iranian POW were held captive by Saddam for 8-9 years and then enslaved by MKO for nearly 20 years after the cease fire. As reported by Nejat Society, another defector of Rajavi’s destructive cult has recently returned to his homeland, but he is a different case. Mahmoud Dashtestani became a prisoner of war in 1980 during Iran- Iraq War. In 1989 MKO deceived Mr. Dasahtestani into recruiting him and sent him to Camp Ashraf. He had been a member of the so called National Liberation Army for about 20 years. Who is responsible for a three decade-long lost life of a man ill-treated in turn by a dictator and a terrorist cult?

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Former members of the MEK

On the return of Mr. Mahmoud Dashtestani

On Monday, January 18, 2010, Nejat Society Shiraz Branch proudly received another defector of Rajavi’s destructive cult.

Mr. Mahmoud Dashtestani succeeded to release himself from the bars of Rajavis’ Cult and returned to his homeland and joined his family.

Mr. Dashtestani became prisoner of war in 1980 during Iran- Iraq War. In 1989 Mujahedin deceived Mr. Dasahtestani into recruiting him and sent him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He had been a member of the so called National Liberation Army for about 20 years.
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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Type of government MKO imagines of

Last Tuesday, the US court of appeals for the DC Circuit heard the case of Mujahedin Khalq as a foreign terrorist organization designated by the Department of State since 1997.
 Mujahedin cannot remove the facts from history and the memoirs of millions of Iranians who witnessed the treasons MKO committed against their own country
The court was held with a three-judge appellate panel. MKO’s lawyer was Andrew Frey, of the firm Mayer Brown, who tried to plea their case by the reasoning that “there has been no terrorist act by PMOI for eight years.” He claimed that the group is “totally committed” to a democratic and secular Iran. “My client rejects the Sharia” (Islamic Law) he added. He also renounce MKO’s Marxist attitude in the past.

Today in the current situation of Iranian political scene the leaders of MKO use all their efforts to present their group as the best alternative to Iranian government. Their lobbying champagne and propaganda machine are working too hard to renounce their dark past.

Democracy is the term they use in their speeches, messages, propaganda shows and court appeals.

But they cannot remove the facts from history and the memoirs of millions of Iranians who witnessed the treasons MKO committed against their own country during the eight years of Iran-Iraq war. What’s MKO’s assessment about Iranian people? How can MKO replace democratic slogans for its actions as Saddam’s notorious accomplice?

When Massoud Rajavi fled Iran to France in 1981, he assigned the establishment of a democratic Islamic republic in Iran, as the objective of his group. The controversial case of a “secular Iran” shows that MKO leaders have never has a definite objective but they believe in the separation of religion and politics and a secular government, how can they force every women in Camp Ashraf to wear scarves and keep their distance from opposite sex!

They renounce their past Marxist ideology. Today they deny having their roots in communist parties since 1960’s. But their attitudes demonstrate their true belief system. Once you become a member of Mujahedin Khalq Organization, all your personal properties including money, ID card will be confiscated by the authorities. The sample society of Ashraf shows the economic system MKO believes in.

Their probable economic relationship is based on state ownership just like socialist countries and Baathists in Saddam Hussein’s era.

An imaginary picture of the society MKO may found is so controversial, bizarre and complicated that one (who has the least knowledge about their true nature) will only laugh. MKO rejects Islamic Law including Death Penalty, but the testimonies of MKO defectors clarify that torture either mental or physical, exists to the most extreme extent in MKO Camps.

Their cult-like practices such as cleansing sessions, self-criticism sessions,… nonstop manipulative meetings are instances of the type of human rights they want to establish in Iran!

By Mazda Parsi

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The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

Diverse attitudes of MKO terrorist cult

Looking at a nearly two decade-long history of collaboration between a dictator and a terrorist accomplice, it is not hard to speculate about the reasons for MKO’s falling out with the post-Saddam Iraqi Government. From its very first days of escape from Iran and its settlement in France, the organization and Saddam felt close affinity and there started a covert collaborationLooking at a nearly two decade-long history of collaboration between a dictator and a terrorist accomplice, it is not hard to speculate about the reasons for MKO’s falling out with the post-Saddam Iraqi Government between the two and MKO willingly began to accept Saddam’s donations to meet its expenses in France. The first ostensible agreements were reached in the visit between Rajavi and Tariq Aziz, an opportunity to expand ties and to serve Saddam in return for his favors. It is worth knowing that Saddam gave priority to grant MKO’s demands and requests over all his plans and gradually this support was rapidly increasing in quality and quantity.

Rajavi’s flight to Iraq and the consequent meeting with Saddam and then with other Iraqi ranking officials followed with dollar allocations as well as granted military camp and logistics boosted a broad collaboration that lasted until the fall of Saddam. According to existing evidences, MKO received millions of dollars in Oil-for-Food program subsidies from Saddam from 1999 through 2003. In fact, the money that had to help Iraqi people survive was spent to guarantee the survival of a terrorist group to boost and support planning and executing further terrorist operations against the Iraqi and Iranian peoples.

There is no need to assert that the potential terrorists seek to expand their challenge if they receive abundant strengthening support. It was the case with MKO when settled in Iraq. Adhering to a hit-and-run strategy of armed struggle against the Iranian regime, Rajavi once more changed its tactic of overthrowing the regime emboldened by Saddam’s eye-caching aids. In less than a year, Rajavi had a National Liberation Army (NLA) under his command close to Iranian borders thoroughly armed and trained by Saddam. It was not hard to know where the costs of such an army came from.

The things have now greatly changed. There is no more a godfather to rely on but a nationally elected government that is determined to uproot terrorism and terrorists and to spend the country’s resources for their own real owners. There seems to be no rationale for allocating the very same food and fuel quota for terrorist MKO members residing in Camp Ashraf, but the Iraqi Government tries not to be tough for humanitarian causes. But, is the organization grateful?

According to MKO’s released reports, “since 2003, in accordance with a fuel rationing scheme for Iraqi citizens, Ashraf residents had a monthly quota for fuel and other products from the Iraqi Oil Ministry. They paid for and received their quota on a monthly basis”.

“Since the end of 2006, when Ashraf’s fuel quota was illegally cut off on the orders of the Iranian regime, Ashraf residents managed to obtain their required fuel primarily from outside Iraq and open market, facing enormous difficulties and paying several-times the previous prices. However, since July 2009, the Iraqi committee in charge of suppression of Ashraf has seriously hampered the entry of fuel into the camp, and has prevented all fuel entry completely since mid-October.”

The clime is mad at a time when the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Secretary General Special Representative for Iraq, and UNAMI are thoroughly informed of tasks and decisions concerning Ashraf residents. Never recanting for its hostile attitude towards two nations, MKO has adopted the tactic of showing as a martyr of injustice, a tactic that it believes works nicely when there is no effective advocate around to press the government as well as strengthening it in its atrocious, terrorist attitudes.

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Iraq

Blood of Iraqi Children at the Hands of MKO Terrorists

New Iraq has inherited a heavy legacy from the former dictatorship, which not only suppressed and crushed the Iraqi people and made hundreds of mass graves, launched wars and invasions, but left on the ground in Iraq a camp inhabited by a group of terrorists, mercenaries, who make up the military wing of the MKO terrorists who were allied with the former regime and participated with his security forces in the brutal suppression and liquidation of Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, during the popular uprising in 1991 after the failure of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, and other events.

The Iraqi people are familiar with the strong relationship that linked the organization with elements of the former regimeThe Iraqi people are familiar with the strong relationship that linked the organization with elements of the former regime and the coalition between them and the fateful military support and material submitted to it by the former system and they will never forget the blood of Iraqi children that has been lost at the hands of these terrorists, and now [the Iraqi people] insist on their right to bring them to trial and justice.

This organization has not only committed numerous crimes against Iraqis under the former regime, but persists in blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq, this time allied with sectarian terrorist organizations in Diyala province, where, in order to raise sectarian war in Iraq, the camp is kept intact.

The Iraqi government of national unity, under its obligation to protect the sovereignty, security and stability of Iraq and to preserve its national unity and territorial integrity and establish the best relations with neighbouring countries on the basis of respect for sovereignty and non-interference and mutual interest and commitment to respect, will apply the constitution, in which Article «7 – II» states that the State is committed to fighting terrorism in all its forms and to work to protect its territory from being a base or pathway or field for terrorist activities. The terrorist organization and its members living in the Camp of New Iraq – formerly Camp Ashraf – have the choice only to return voluntarily to their own country or to choose another country to go to, especially as more than a thousand of them hold foreign passports or have the right to reside in various other countries.

In preparation for this, the group will be under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations and other international actors, taking into account the principles of human rights, for their transfer to another place where they are safe and which is appropriate as preparation for their departure from the land of Iraq to their own country voluntarily or other countries which accept to receive them.

It is better for those who weep for them to exercise pressure on their own countries to accept them as refugees or in any other capacity rather than demand from the Iraqi government to maintain the outlaws who have contributed to the bloodshed of Iraqis. And we are surprised that some, who speak of international law and standards, accept ignoring Iraq’s sovereignty by those who have come there [illegally] by insisting he wants to live where and when he wants to! Not to mention committing crimes against the population of his own country whenever he wishes to.

And all those who wish to know the reality of what is happening within the [MKO’s terrorist] camp, to know about the violation of human rights as reported by Human Rights Watch, and about the heinous crimes and mysterious and bizarre social life there, this has been narrated by a few residents of the camp (on the website: www.iran-interlink. org), who managed to escape from the artificial hell which controls the fate of the residents who are under all kinds of psychological pressure and intimidation by the leaders and traffickers, who have the luxury of living in Europe.

AsharqAlawsat– Mohammed Javad Al-Doreki, Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Belgium and the European Union- Translated by Iran-Interlink

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Former members of the MEK

Mr. Dashtestani, MKO Cult defector joined his family

Nejat Society – Shiraz – On Monday, January 18, 2010, Nejat Society Shiraz Branch proudly received another defector of Rajavi’s destructive cult.

Mr. Mahmoud Dashtestani succeeded to release himself from the bars of Rajavis’ Cult and returned to his homeland and joined his family.

Mr. Dashtestani became prisoner of war in 1980 during Iran- Iraq War. In 1989 Mujahedin deceived Mr. Dasahtestani into recruiting him and sent him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He had been a member of the so called National Liberation Army for about 20 years.

Mr. Dashtestani’s parents are active members of Nejat Society and in cooperation with other members of Nejat dedicated their entire efforts and energy for the release of their beloved son from this hellish organization.

Nejat Society welcomes Mr. Dashtestani and wishes him success in all aspects of his new life and free of MKO cult isolation.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Women Warriors of the Mujahedeen Khalq. Are They Terrorists, a Cult or Both?

My uncle had been in the Royal Airforce as a pilot during WWII. He never worked as a commercial pilot, opting instead to teach, but always an adventurous soul answered an ad in a British newspaper, placed there by the Shah of Iran.

At the time the Shah was looking for experienced pilots to join his military. Then in his 40’s, my uncle wasn’t exactly in fighting shape, but if the stories are true, he joined the Shah’s team, flying his family and government officials around.

My aunt didn’t move to Iran, and instead my uncle ‘commuted’ back and forth. He loved it at first, until the escalating violence in the late 70’s; when westerners, especially the British and Americans, became favourite targets.

One afternoon at a BBQ celebrating some kind of holiday, an explosive device was thrown into the crowd and my uncle was badly injured.

He left the country just prior to the Shah being forced into exile, and retired to New Zealand, seeking a little solace after several frightening years.

This might seem like a strange segue into a story about an army of women, but if the accounts by my mother are true, it was their army, the Mujahedeen Khalq; who were responsible.

I don’t know, but it speaks to the volatility of a country that has seen a lot of conflict.

I first started researching this group when I learned that Jason Kenney had spoke at one of their rallies. When it was pointed out to him that they were on Canada’s Terrorist list, he shrugged it off, claiming not to know. I thought it might have something to do with Christians United for Israel.

Though the People’s Mujahedin of Iran sound more like a cult, I thought the story of these women was rather interesting. They are still on a terrorist list, but that may change soon. After reading this, I’m not convinced it should.

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