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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Reality Check: Understanding a terrorist organization, MEK

[MKO’s extensive propaganda campaign for spreading faked information about the true nature of its terrorist destructive cult had set for a new purification project in order to remove dirty stains of terrorist activities and atrocities of their cult from the historical memory of public opinion. To achieve such an unlikely goal, Ali safavi, the group’s henchman, does too much effort to write a series of posts denying the crimes committed by his organization.
Nejat Society, in turn, views it as essential to enlighten the minds about the claims made by MKO remnants.]

In another effort to purify MEK’s record, the group’s remnants published another article allegedly to “shed light on the provenance of MEK’s designation [1] as a terrorist organization. As always, the so-called article includes list of allegations, accusations to attack Islamic Republic and Western politic men, accusing former for alleged disinformation against MEK or the latter for appeasement policy towards Iran. However, the writer never tries to defend his organization for its terrorist label. He doesn’t present the least evidence to prove that his organization has not committed terrorist activities except in one place.

Thorough introductory paragraphs he claims that “MEK’s resorting to armed actions against military targets in Iran until summer of 2001 has been cited by some Western government agencies, including the US Department of State, as evidence to invite the designation of the group as terrorist”[2], although in fact more than 90% of their intended targets and almost 95% of their casualties have been Iranian civilians.[3]In 1972 MEK’s first terrorist operation took place in Tehran where they launched a bombing attack against an electricity factory which was not a military target. Since then, the group launched a countless number of terrorist operations against Iranian civilians especially after the Islamic Revolution. The list of MEK’s mortar attacks, bombings and assassinations has been already published in numerous occasions by various international, governmental or private institutes including defectors’ websites, US Department of state, RAND (National Defense Research Institute)…

Among MEK’s terrorist acts against civilians, the most crucial ones are “Attack on offices of General Motors in 1972, Bombing of offices of Oman Bank and Pan-American Oil and of gates of British embassy in 1974,suicide attacks targeting senior clerics in Tabriz, Khorasan, Shiraz and Rasht in 1981 and 1982,simultaneous raids on Iranian embassies in 13 countries in 1922,bombing of Imam Reza Shrine in 1994,Assassination of two former MEK members in 1996,bombing of Tehran Revolution Court in 1998,mortar attack at Chamran University of Ahwaz 2000, mortar attack on President Khatami’s palace in Tehran in 2000,mortar attack on residential housing complex in Tehran in 2000.[4]

In his effort to portrait his notorious organization as an important figure in Iran-West relations, Safavi calls his group “the biggest enemy” of Islamic Republic. He fails to consider that MEK’s deliberately targeted and planned sabotage operations against civilians and its bad fame due to collaboration with Saddam Hussein during the eight years of Iran-Iraq war, ends in the hatred of the majority of Iranians. Elaheh Hicks of Human Rights Watch says:” many, many Iranians inside Iran resent the MEK, the Iranian government actually benefits from having an opposition like this.”[5]

According to what criteria an organization will be considered “terrorist”?

“Terrorism “is in the most general sense, the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. since 1994, the Unite Nations General Assembly has repeatedly condemned terrorist acts using the following political description of terrorism:” criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke state of terror in the general public or persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be involved to justify them”[6]

Therefore, MEK’s use of violence against civilian targets should never be justified by its weird cult-like ideology. This is what Ali Safavi fears to discuss. He daren’t to deal with terrorism designation in nature because he and his ideological leader Massoud Rajavi have nothing, no evidence to defend their terrorist destructive cult for its numerous acts of terrorism. They are not able to prove that their terror label is invalid so they try to accuse the Islamic Republic instead of defending their group.

Also a less politically and emotionally charged, and more easily definable term for terrorism is “violent non-state actor”[7] this term covers the whole MEK’s activities since its foundation. The group has been always engaged in armed struggle and violent overthrow of Iranian regime, it has never been a governmental entity and its background had been blended a countless number of violent attacks against military or civilian targets (about 12000 deaths).

After Massoud Rajavi fled to France in 1981, his first decision was to change the name of notorious MEK (Mujahedin –e- Khalq) to NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran) which allowed the MEK to stay in Western political scene and not to be threatened as a terrorist organization. However, NCR was also added to Foreign terrorist organization list of Department of state in August 2003 and its office in Washington DC was closed and its assets were blocked.

Rajavi’s crimes against humanity do not end in Iran and against Iranian civilians, according to many documents, MEK had a longstanding alliance with former Iraqi dictator. They cooperated with Baath regime to suppress Kurds’ uprisings in Iraq in 1991. A lot of former members offered testimonies of Kurds suppression operation (Morvarid Operation) where Maryam Rajavi ordered members to “take Kurds under the tank and save bullets for Iranian soldiers”.[8]

Along with his deceitful propaganda campaign, Ali Safavi claims that Western policy toward Iran has failed and it is time for Obama administration to unite with his terrorist cult of personality. He fails to understand that the reality is that the world community especially Iranians, Iraqis and even Americans never forget the atrocities of MEK terrorist Organization and the threat of that destructive cult.

Endnotes:

[1]: Ali Safavi,Reality Check, Huffington Post,March31,2010.
[2]Ibid
[3]Charles Kent, Terrorist living among us, June 5,2009
[4]the Mujahedin khalq in Iraq,apolicy conundrum,RAND,August 2009.
[5] Charles Kent, Terrorist living among us, June 5,2009
[6]Wikipedia
[7] Ibid
[8]Kurds Suppression, Nejat Publications

By: Mazda Parsi

April 11, 2010 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

MKO: People’s Friends or Foes

MKO’s terrorist cult published the news of Maryam Rajavi’s trip to Germany. Their website wrote:

On Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 Maryam Rajavi, president of NCR visits German MPs in the parliament. In its news report the website said: in a meeting held by a number of German parliamentarians, Maryam Rajavi asked them to work for change in EU’s policy towards Iran and to defend Ashraf …

Maryam Rajavi’s trip to Germany indicates Europeans double standards towards terrorist and violent groups. They endanger the security of their own countries by playing an illogic game with such groups. According to political principals and EU laws, any group or entity with a background of terrorist, violent acts against civilians should be boycotted for much political financial or spiritual support. However, the public opinion notice Mrs. Rajavi, the leader of one of The self-assigned president of NCR encourages Western powers to stop seeking diplomatic solutions and negotiations with Iran the most horrifying violent groups, traveling in Europe, visiting politic men of the so-called developed democratic countries, defending the activities and violent strategy of her cult of personality.

She asked German authorities to support her terrorist destructive cult and criticized them because they had already failed to support her group.

European politic men may not have enough information on the three-decade activities of MKO cult as an armed group that launched large-scale violent attacks against innocent civilians and assassinated thousands of people due to its ill-minded hatred towards humanity.

German authorities who met with Maryam Rajavi might have had no knowledge of MKO’s spying and mercenary role for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a strategic ally for the most inhuman regime through the history.

A question is, how can Maryam Rajavi claim to be a patriotic Iranian while she takes such a position against her own nation? While she speaks of weakening Iranian power just like the designer of Imperialism Henry Kissinger?!

Kissinger was the one who planned the massacre of people of Vietnam. According to a BBC report, he remarks on the west policy towards Iran:”You should not let Iran to fulfill its dream for the establishment of its empire in the region.” He does not respond to those who asked him to apologize for the atrocities he committed in Vietnam.

Maryam Rajavi calls the world to impose more sanctions against Iran … . The self-assigned president of NCR encourages Western powers to stop seeking diplomatic solutions and negotiations with Iran, instead she persuades them to impose more punishments against Iran.

The experienced American politic man Henry Kissinger, in his interview with German Eshpigel news agency, confessed that “the benefits to America and the West no more necessitate them to keep Iran’s sovereignty on its territory. A disintegrated Iran is better than a powerful, great Iran.”

The boundaries between illusion and reality should be enlightened for Mrs. Rajavi. The leaders of Mujahedin Khalq should make it clear if they are friends or foes of Iranian people.

By : Arash Rezaiee

April 10, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Nejat Families at Ashraf Gates

Another group of MKO members’ families who were mobilized by Nejat Society Khuzestan branch traveled to Iraq where they are hopeful to visit their beloved ones captured by Rajavi’s destructive cult.

A number of families have already gone to Ashraf gates since two months ago, but they were prevented from visiting their children by MKO authorities.

The families who are members of Nejat Society Khuzestan branch joined the other families at Ashraf gates, awaiting for visit with their dear ones.

April 8, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO terrorists tried and appealed in France

Mahmood Aemi (with two false identities of Mahmoud Alami and Mohsen Abbasi) and Hossein Amini Gholipour were brought to trial for cheating their friends to set themselves on fire.

Two notorious MKO elements appeared before the Court of Appeal of Paris on Friday for "incitement to suicide" after the death of one of their compatriots who had immolated by fire in June 2003 in Paris during a demonstration against the arrest of Maryam Rajavi (one of MKO cult leaders).

On November 21, 2007, the Paris Criminal Court had acquitted Mahmood Aemi and Hossein Amini Gholipour, both members of the MKO terrorist group.

The court held that there was "no doubt" the fact that both defendant had "directly and personally delivered the victim the gas can she was sent to death with.

The prosecution, which called for a two-year suspended sentence against the two men, had appealed. Friday at the hearing, the Crown has tightened his submissions, asking the court to impose sentences of three years’ imprisonment.

M. Aemi and H.Gholipour were referred to court in 2006 on suspicion of inciting Sedighe Modjaveri, another MKO member living in Europe, to commit suicide by giving her a gas can at an event June 18, 2003.

It is worth mentioning that Mahmoud Aemi (member of MKO central cadres) is known as the Rajavi’s army commander in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds and has been a commander of MKO death squads against the MKO dissociated members in the Europe.

April 7, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Statement of De-Baathification Campaign against MKO

Issuing a statement the Iraqi anti-Baathist movement declared yesterday: “According to the investigations by the responsible Iraqi security systems, MKO (a.k.a MEK, PMOI, NCRI…) terrorist cult was involved in the recent explosion in the Iraqi city of Khalis which led to the death and injury of dozens of innocent people of the region.”

In this statement, a copy of which was sent to Habilian Association, the anti-Baathist movement urged the active Iraqi political groups to take immediate and explicit position against the terrorist MKO cult.

The full text of this statement is as follows:

MKO presence in Iraq is the flagrant violation of the Iraqi constitution
The anti- Baathist movement asks for all political groups active in Iraq to take an immediate and explicit position against the MKO and to try to end this terrorist organization’s unwanted presence in Iraq, especially now that it’s hidden to no one the heavy costs of damage it has imposed to the Iraqi people, the very recent of which was targeting dozens of innocent people in a brutal explosion in the city of Khalis.

Initial information suggests that the name of the group was listed in the research results of the security forces about the explosion led to the martyrdom and injury of dozens of peoples in the region.

MKO presence in Iraq is an obvious interference in the internal affairs of our friendly neighboring country and a blatant violation of the Iraqi constitution based on which the presence of hostile terrorist organizations which act against the other countries from inside Iraq is illegal.

As the anti-Baathist movement of Iraq and regarding the necessity of protecting the nation’s achievements and its strategic interests, we demand the Iraqi government to set in motion the expulsion of MKO terrorist group from Iraq as soon as possible and to end the file of a terrorist cult which has caused serious damages to our nation and spilt a lot of blood in suppressing the Shiites Intifada and massacre of Iraqi Kurds and hiding the mass graves of the innocent people in Diyala province.

Immediate trial of this organization or its instant dismissal from Iraq is the least we could do in return for the blood of those who have been martyred by this terrorist cult.

People’s anti-Baathist movement

April 6, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Pictorial – Mr. Keshavarz, defected the terrorist cult of Rajavi and joied his family

Mr. Mohammad Baqer Keshavarz, another defector of terrorist destructive cult of Rajavi, returned home on March 11th, 2010.

The newly defected member, who had been forced to stay in Camp Ashraf under severe manipulative control system, seemed to be depressed and disappointed. He revealed some horrifying facts on cult-like relationships ruling Ashraf, which made the members of Nejat Society cry for their beloved ones still captured by Rajavi’s cult.

Mr. Keshavarz, defected the terrorist cult of Rajavi and joied his family

April 6, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

MKO million dollar supporter’s defeat in Iraq’s elections

One of those who in recent years provided MKO with comprehensive support in Iraq and praised the terrorist cult in every opportunity is Ayad Jamal al-Din, a notorious backer of MKO who is on his last legs of presence in the Iraqi parliament. The out of favor Iraqi cleric was badly defeated in the parliamentary elections and despite the heavy costs of millions of dollars for the elections neither him nor any other members of his list named “Ahrar movement” found a way to the parliament.

Anti-Iranian attitude
Having spent 16-year of clerical studies in Iran, Jamal al-Din declared in an interview with Al-Arabia satellite channel late last march that “if I had the authority I would have provided MKO with much more freedom of action to make them an active opposition against the ruling regime in Iran”.

Jamal al-Din always calls members of the sect as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and claims that nobody has the right to forcefully relocate them inside Iraq and that such a relocation is prohibited according to international laws and regulations. “We should support the MKO and let them have satellite television in Iraq” he also argues.

In a different interview with “Alaan” network, the zealous advocate of MKO reveals how he looks at the MKO as a tool for putting pressure on Iran and says: “MKO would be the first pressuring tool I would use against Iran as soon as I seize the power in Iraq.”

In a so-called conference for supporting MKO presence in Iraq held in camp Ashraf in 2008, MKO announced they have collected about 3 million signatures from Iraqi people to stay in Iraq. At the same conference Ayad Jamal al-Din addressed the Islamic Republic of Iran with an offensive literature and expressed his full support for Rajavis’ cult which was welcomed by the cult members.

Scandalous defeat in Iraq’s elections
Ayad Jamal al-Din, who was absolutely sure of his victory in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, spent about a hundred million dollars for his political movement and even chose the advertising team of his campaign from London and applying modern campaigning methods he was prepared for celebrating his victory.
But how could a political figure that would talk of Iranian interference in Iraq and the need to legally support a terrorist group be successful in Iraq even by exorbitant spending for his political organization?

About 12 million Iraqis participated in march7, 2010 parliamentary elections in Iraq which equals 62 percent of those qualified for voting. This is while Jamal al-din’s movement gained merely 48 thousands of the total number which is something less than %0.5 of the total number. So, in spite of all the money he spent for buying votes, neither the pro-MKO cleric nor any other members of his movement could find a way to the parliament.

Of course it’s hidden to nobody that in pro-democracy countries like Iraq one cannot expand terrorism and support terrorist groups such as MKO under the cover of nice words like human rights…

April 5, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Hamidfar’s mother survives a heart attack ;still waits in front of Camp New Iraq

Mehdi Hamidfar’s mother survives a heart attack but still waits in front of Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) to see her son

Since February this year, a small group of families have been sitting at the gates of Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) demanding that the Rajavi cult give access to their relatives inside the camp. The families have sworn to continue their picket until they succeed in seeing them.

One of the group is Mrs Tajaldoleh Heydarian from Kermanshah province, who is 65 years old. She told Iran-Interlink that she has been in Iraq since 6th February and has come to visit her son Mehdi Hamidfar.”I came to the gates of Camp Ashraf and up to now have been refused permission to visit him. I have waited and waited and done everything in my power, but it seems these people have no fear of God and no compassion. They still do not let me see my son”she said.

Mrs Heydarian continued,”On the first of April, as I was waiting alongside the other families picketing in front of the camp, I became severely ill. I was transferred to the A&E section in a nearby hospital. The doctors diagnosed that I had had a heart attack and they sent me immediately to the main hospital in Baghdad for treatment. I am a little better now. Thank God”.

In spite of her sudden and severe illness Mrs Heydarian has said she will continue to wait outside the gates of the camp until she sees her son. It is not the first time she has visited. She told Iran-Interlink that one day in 1997, her son Mehdi had told her he was going walking in the mountains with his friends. He did not return that night and she became worried and so started searching the hospitals. She searched everywhere for him but had no news. For some time all she could do all day was cry. Then, six years later someone contacted her from Nejat Association and said they had news of Mehdi, that he alive and is in Camp Ashraf.

When she visited the Nejat Association office a gentleman introduced himself as someone who had been with the Mojahedin-e Khalq and who had managed to run away. He had received news of Mehdin from another ex-member who had recently managed to run away. But, even though she now knew where he was, nothing could be done until the fall of Saddam Hussein after which it became possible to visit Iraq and look for lost relatives.

Mrs Heydarian’s first opportunity came in 2003. Although Iraq was still at war, she managed to go to Iraq and visit the camp. On that first visit, the Mojahedin allowed her to see Mehdi for two hours. Mrs Heydarian continued,”It was obvious that he wanted to come with me but he was clearly afraid of the Mojahedin. He told me that they will find out and he will be put in prison and tortured if he mentions anything about leaving the camp. I insisted on staying at least one night there but they did not let me stay with my son any longer. I went back home filled with sorrow and disappointment.”

Since that visit, Mrs Heydarian has visited Camp Ashraf three more times but the Mojahedin have refused to let son see her again.

Mrs Heydarian is a widow. She has seven children, five sons and two daughters. Mehdi is her sixth child, the youngest son. She had expected him to be able to take care of her as she grew older, but now she lives with her youngest daughter instead. All her other children are married but Mehdi remains trapped in the sterile cult of Massoud Rajavi unable to leave and live a normal life.

Doctors in Baghdad have warned Mrs Heydarian that she should remain in hospital, under supervision and medication. But like all the families at the gates of the camp whose love for their children is stronger than any concerns for their own wellbeing, she says she will not return home until she sees her son.”My first wish is to see him once more and my next wish is to release him from the clutches of Rajavi and his henchmen”, she said.

April 5, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

America, are you listening?

If Rajavi harms even a hair on my sister’s head, America, you are responsible!

Iraqi media and local dignitaries visit families outside Camp New Iraq (Ashraf) where Washington-backed terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq are holding 3500 people hostage. Human Rights groups say Rajavi refuses to allow family visits in the camp. The video shows Hoorieh Mohammadi from Canada asking Americans and the MKO for compassion.

Hooriyeh sister of Somaye Mohammadi [imprisoned in Camp Ashraf by MKO]outside camp New Iraq (Ashraf), February 2010

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April 4, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO in a mire called Ashraf

MEK has been stuck in a sheer pragmatism for more than two decades. The strategy of armed struggle using terror tactics in order to achieve power in Iran did not succeed. MEK’s ideological leader has not been able to realize and analyze the concrete situation and the reality of Iranian society so it has been suffering dizziness.

The terrorist cult of Rajavi, apparently relying on ideological Islam and passive understanding of Marxist instructions as their rhetoric of struggle, has had structural and fundamental contradiction in both its thinking system and its view on the world.
MKO in a mire called Ashraf
In its political aspect, MEK has not realized that having a public base among masses of people is a vital factor. Instead they have resorted to a closed cycle of violence for violence and terror for terror.

For three decades, they have never reviewed their strategy and never reconstructed their cult relationships. Because of their psychological, mental problem, they may think that they do not need any change in their ideology and strategy.

Now, where are the MEK going? The captured members of Camp Ashraf have an ambiguous fate. Being stuck in Ashraf, they encounter the risk of being expelled from Iraq; however, their leaders do not permit them to get released from closed bars of the organization in order to visit their families in a free atmosphere without any systematic control by the cult!

MEK speaks of Ashraf a garnished city but there are no children or teenagers in their so-called city. The residents of Ashraf do not have any idea of the notion “Family” because about two decades ago the ideological leader of MEK forced the couples in the cult to divorce and separated their children from their parents. They sent them to Europe to be grown up in a sympathizer family on the basis of terrorist, cult-like believes. They would then be transferred to Ashraf where they would serve as operational agents for terrorist activities.

During the six past years after the disarmament of Mujahedin Khalq by US military, the majority of Iraqi populations have been asking for the expulsion of MEK due to their notorious cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacre of Kurds and Shiites. Thus both Iraqis and Iranians call MEK “traitors”.
After the US army started withdrawing from Iraq, according to an agreement with Iraqi government, the control of Camp Ashraf was handed over to Iraqi authorities and MEK were left with an uncertain future since the popular, democratic Iraqi government is famous for its friendly strategic relations with Islamic Republic so it was determined to take over Camp Ashraf and expel the MEK from Iraqi territory.

The leaders of MEK launched a large-scale propaganda to portrait themselves as a democratic movement before western politicians and parliamentarians. However, human rights bodies including HRW consider the group as a cult of personality around Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. They introduce Camp Ashraf as a military Camp where the values of modern world and the norms of developed societies are violated and the relations are based on manipulation techniques and constant bombing of beliefs.

In January 2009, once more the Department of State considered MEK as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) and the then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, in a post on US official newspaper, confirmed that the investigations on MEK’s file verified the US administration’s decision for the designation of MEK as an FTO. The Canadian government has also listed MEK as a terrorist group since May 2005.

The members of MEK have not contacted their families for more than two decades, according to Western media. When in 2004, a western visitor went to Ashraf, he used his satellite cell phone to call some of their families. “They could not believe that they were speaking to their children “he said,” Because the leaders of the cult had told them that their beloved ones had been killed.”

Massoud Rajavi, the ideological leader of MEK, has been fugitive since 2003 the Iraqi Freedom Operation by US. Maryam Qajar Azdanlou( Rajavi),the self-assigned president of MEK is always on business trips to deceive western politicians in order to gain their support for her declining cult.

It is not certain what will happen to MEK but what is certain is that the process of defection from MEK has been accelerated. More than eight hundred members have left Camp Ashraf since 2003 and for the time being the Camp is under the control of Iraqi forces. The families come to the Camp to save their children. It is foreseen that a large number of members will return to their homes in near future.

By : Arash Rezaiee

March 31, 2010 0 comments

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