Families of members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) gathered in front of the British Embassy in Tehran to protest London’s decision to removed the MKO/MEK terrorist organization from the Britain’s terror list. 
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Monday lambasted the recent move by European and British lawmakers to remove the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from the US black list. 
"Utilizing the MKO, which is a used card, would be useless for the westerners," Hassan Qashqavi told reporters in a weekly press conference here in Tehran on Monday.
Asked to comment on the recent request by some European and British Lawmakers from US President Barack Obama to strike the name of the MKO off the US terror list, Qashqavi strongly criticized EU ignorance and compromise with terrorists and extremists, MKO in particular.
"Any compromise with terrorists, including the MKO, would produce negative outcomes for all those who support these terrorists," Qashqavi noted.
After removing an anti-Iranian terror group from their blacklist, more than 100 members of the European Parliament have tried to persuade the US president to lift an American ban on the Mojahedin Khalq Organization.
Meantime, More than 180 members of the British Parliament issued a letter to President Obama, urging him to change the terrorist status of the MKO.
The anti-Iran terror group, blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries, was put on the US terror list in 1997 by the then President, Bill Clinton.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.
Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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 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 Iraqi government and parliament has announced that it would not tolerate the group anymore and is seeking to expel the group from the country in the near future.
American obstacles on the way of investigating MKO crimes
"We have collected many documents about the crimes Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization has so far committed in Iraq; but Americans refrain from letting us find access to a part of documents over MKO crimes inside the country" announced chief investigative judge of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court in a meeting with Secretary General of Habilian Association.
According to the database of Habilian Association (families of terror victims) in a meeting with Secretary General of Habilian Association, Adnan al-Bedeyri also said: We have managed to meet many remnant families of MKO suppression of Kurds in northern Iraq and have collected remarkable documents in this regard.
He also added: Despite all the attempts made by the MKO in order to deviate the case, we strive to get the result and try to tie up any loose ends with this file. We also ask you, as the representatives of terror victims, to provide Iraq’s supreme criminal court with any documents you have about MKO crimes.
Underlining that they never follow political goals in this case, the Iraqi official also said: We have put our backs into fulfilling the Iraqi people’s demand for incrimination of the assassins of Iraqi people and we are all in our power to arrive at this result.
Then Secretary General of Habilian Association said in his part: we have discussed the issue of MKO with many Iraqi authorities and are totally aware of the intensity of their hatred against this terrorist cult.
Referring to the fact that America has always made obstacles on the way of fulfillment of the will of Iraqi officials and people about MKO after the occupation of Iraq, Hashemi Nejad also said: MKO tries to portray itself as a political opposition group which has renounced terrorism; but their actual intention is to create an atmosphere of tension and hostility between the government and the people of Iraq. Then Hashemi Nejad pointed out MKO deception in international community and said: MKO struggles to cheat and mislead world’s public opinion and make the international community believe that they are being oppressed by the Iraqi government. To do this MKO is being accompanied by some European political figures.
He also said: Iraqi people are never satisfied with MKO presence inside their country and the only way for bringing to an end their terrorist activities and expelling them from Iraq is to unveil the crimes they have so far committed.
On December 18th ,2008 Shadow Minister for Sport, Mr Hugh Robertson met with the Nejat Society delegation in London to hear about their humanitarian solution for Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
Nejat representatives described conditions inside Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The camp is the military/ideological training base of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) cult organisation.
Mr Robertson was sympathetic to the stories of two women in the delegation who have not seen their relatives for many years because of MKO directives for members to divorce from their spouses, children and families. Mr Robertson agreed that a humanitarian approach should be followed in resolving the problem.
On December 17th, 2008 Nejat Society delegation met in the House of Lords with Baroness Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister and National Security Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition.
Baroness Neville-Jones welcomed the group warmly and spoke of her admiration for their courage.
The Nejat delegation described in detail the problems faced by the captives in Camp Ashraf. They explained that the MKO members have been trapped in the camp by the Rajavis who demand total obedience. Infringements of the draconian conditions which the Rajavis have imposed upon all the members is harshly punished. As a result there is a high rate of suicide in the MKO. 
A group of family members of Camp Ashraf residents, at Nejat Society office in Ahwaz, attended a gathering held by NejatNGO on Friday May 8th,2009. They issued a statement addressing Mr. Nouri Al Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister.
The Iraqi parliament is seriously pursuing expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the 
Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from the country, an Iraqi lawmaker said on Sunday.
"Despite pressures exerted by certain bodies to prevent expulsion of MKO, the Iraqi parliament is following the case seriously," Iman al-Asadi, a member of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) – the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 83 out of a total 275 seats – told FNA.
She underlined that expulsion of MKO sets a priority for the Iraqi government.
Reminding pressures on Iraqi government about the MKO’s fate, Asadi stated, "What such institutions want is unacceptable. MKO is not valuable for us. We do not recognize them."
Iraq has vowed to return MKO members to Iran or send them to a third country as it holds the anti-Iran group responsible for destabilizing Iraq through its terror attacks.
The MKO moved to Iraq in 1986 where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who funded the group to work against Iran in the 1980-88 war. The group launched attacks on Iran from its headquarters, the Camp Ashraf, in the northern province of Diyala.
The MKO is also responsible for numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials as well as Iraqis during the reign of Saddam.
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 MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.
HONORABLE and distinguished President of the Government of Spain
“MR. JOSE LUIS RODRIGUES ZAPATERO” 
We are the former veteran members of PMOI (Rajavi’s cult), a terrorist cult organization which has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by USA and Canada.
We would like to inform your Excellency that MR. ALEJO VIDAL QUADRASS, the Vice President of the European Parliament is helping and backing up the PMOI’s leader MRS. MARYAM AZDANLO and her terrorist cult in European parliament.
We would like to notify your Excellency that this brutal and savage religious cult (PMOI) has perpetrated lots of crimes against the people of Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s reign and suppressed and repressed its own members for decades.
We are all victims of this brutal and tyrant cult, who had been under severe and harsh physical and psychological mistreatment and torture by the henchmen of this cult for years just because we dared to criticize the leaders of this cult and their cultish ideology which is considered as a deadly sin and is totally against the cultish regulations and rules of law in this cult.
We are all witnesses of killing and murdering lots of innocent people of Iraq by PMOI’s military missions in complicity and complete co-operation with Saddam Hussein’s army during the popular uprising of the people of Iraq.
We are all surprised that MR. VIDAL QUADRASS is helping and backing up such a cruel and bloodthirsty cult which has committed numerous crimes not only against its own members but also against the people of Iraq.
Before MR. VIDAL QUADRASS, MR. CASACA, a politician from Portugal, was doing the same job in favor of PMOI, backing up and helping PMOI in European Parliament, but we saw that he lost his popularity in European Parliament and they did not vote for him and he had to withdraw from European politics.
Helping and backing up this terrorist and inhumane cult will ruin and damage the popularity and prestige of anyone who aligns himself with them.
Best Regards
SIGNATORIES (the Former Veteran Members of PMOI)
1. MR. HASSAN PIRANSAR
2. MR. HAMID SIAHMANSOURI
3. MR. MOHAMMAD RAZAGHI
4. MR. MOHAMMAD BAZIARPOUR
5. MR. NADER NADERI
6. MR. MAJID ROHI
7. MR. HAMED SARRAFPOUR
8. MR. MANSOUR NAZARI
Iran Payvand, Paris
The various definitions and indices of city from the viewpoint of sociologists, economists, 
geographers, and demographers were elaborated on to prove or disapprove the statements of Mr.Hezarkhani in his report about Camp Ashraf. There are still other paradoxical points in his book that are to be expounded on and prove the fact that his statements are a kind of formalist description aiming at accomplishing his duty in pleasing MKO leaders and giving false information to outsiders and the fact that he hardly believes in his own statements. Some of these points are to be explained here.
1. As Mr.Hezarkhani puts into words:
Camp Ashraf was one of the numerous bases of NLA in armed struggle against the regime of Velayat-e Faqih and therefore was equipped with all kinds of light and heavy arms. However, Ashraf city is a non-military and disarmed city that the heart of the organized peoples of Iran still beat for it. How and when this transformation happened is a long story about a struggle for survival that was imposed on the movement since the invasion of Iraqi soil by coalition forces.
He acknowledges the fact that prior to its disarmament, Camp Ashraf was one of the military camps of Mojahedin and one of their instruments for pursuing armed struggle against the Iranian government. He further points out that it has been disarmed by the coalition forces, and the US in particular, and its existing conditions like turning its name from Camp Ashraf to Ashraf city has been an imposed issue and inevitable. In fact, this part is the only honest statements of Mr. Hezarkhani:
A. Ashraf is basically a military camp that has undergone disarmament. This point is repeated in other parts of this book too. Therefore, imputing the title city to it has been an inevitable act otherwise there was no rationale behind its survival.
B. In another part of this paragraph, Mr. Hezarkhani states that selecting the title city for Camp Ashraf is a vital issue that guarantees the existence of Mojahedin and Camp Ashraf. In other words, if Mojahedin failed to call it a city, its destiny would be unclear. He also implies that Mojahedin do not believe in urbanization in its conventional meaning since it denotes an open society that is one of the main enemies of Masoud Rajavi, his ideology and ideological revolution. If Rajavi believed in the conventional definitions of a society and city, he never forced MKO members to live in an isolated place far from other men and civility. Also, any mental inclination toward urbanization on the part of Mojahedin is considered an unforgivable sin.
Why Rajavi is so sensitive about Camp Ashraf to the extent that he ties his destiny with its existence is due to the fact that he is well aware that if ashraf turns to an ordinary society, its disintegration is likely. This is the rationale behind calling it a city that no one recognizes its legitimacy. All these facts are implied by Mr. Hezarkhani that dares not to express his ideas clearly. The same ideological and strategic situation comes true for the bastion of Mojahedin in Auver-sur-Oise. It is likely that they turn it into Auver-sur-Oise suburb as soon as they feel the danger of its closure on the part of France.
C. Mr.Hezarkhani makes use of the word transform for comparing the old and new conditions of Ashraf. What he means by this transform is not clear and is one of his double-edged terminologies. If he means transferring a fully armed military camp to a civilized and ordinary city that makes him so impressed, it may be considered a progressive step forward; however, our optimism is faced with his other contradictory statements that show even the use of this term is a kind of tactic for hiding the true nature of Camp Ashraf and is of no reliability. His words show that Mojahedin are very far from developing and undergoing civility and urbanization showing no sympathy to do this.
The facts behind all likings of Mr. Hezarkhani are numerous. For instance, he implies that if Mojahedin were not enforced to surrender to American and coalition forces, Ashraf was still one of the numerous bases of the so-called liberation army equipped with all kinds of light and heavy arms in the armed struggle against the Iranian government. A more interesting point is that upon entering Camp Ashraf, he is afraid lest he is given a false address and finds many changes therein compared to earlier years. However, his surprise is truly the result of visiting his old friends who welcome him with excitement after so many years in their ordinary uniform and then he believes that he has entered the same Camp Ashraf that he visited before in various occasions. He sees himself among militiamen that despite putting on military uniform are bare-handed and have no arm and considers this as a sign of urbanization of Camp Ashraf.
LONDON- British lawmakers issued a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama calling for the removal of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran from a terrorist list.
More than 180 members of the British Parliament joined a similar effort by European lawmakers proposing that the Obama administration shift its stance on Iranian opposition movements as part its new policy of engagement.
"Our experience has shown that the Iran crisis cannot be resolved without an Iranian solution and without relying on its main opposition movement," the letter said.
President Bill Clinton included the PMOI on the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list in 1997 following the election of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Though largely targeting Iranian government officials, PMOI’s killing of American contractors in Tehran in the 1970s, participation alongside Saddam Hussein’s forces in suppressing Kurdish and Shiite rebellions in Iraq in 1991 and later attacks on Iranian embassies in 1992 earned it a spot on the terrorist lists of several nations.
The PMOI and its affiliates in the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran have waged a successful delisting campaign in Britain and Europe, with similar efforts under way in the United States.
In the letter to Obama, lawmakers said they fear a "catastrophic humanitarian crisis" would result from Washington’s refusal to delist the group, adding that Iran uses the listing as justification for threats against the PMOI.
"It is time for the U.S. administration to listen to this message, a message brought by you who have proved to be symbols of peace and democracy in today’s world," Maryam Rajavi, NCRI president, said in a videotaped statement.
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/05/14/Britons-support-PMOI-in-letter-to-Obama/UPI-46881242336414/