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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Swiss judges examine the funding of PMOI

Iranian exiles arrested in France, Switzerland

About 10 people close to a banned Iranian opposition group were arrested last week in France and Switzerland in connection with a money-laundering investigation, judicial sources and the group’s lawyer said. Iranian exiles arrested in France,Switzerland

Several of the people close to the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) — listed as a terrorist group in the European Union and United States — were in police custody on both sides of the border on Monday, the sources said.

The police swoop was coordinated between French and Swiss officials who were acting at the request of Swiss judges examining the funding of a group linked to the PMOI.

One of the PMOI’s lawyers, William Bourdon, said the investigation was unfounded and was aimed at covering up what he said was the failure of an existing French probe.

"The Swiss case file is empty, and there is every reason to believe that the same is true in France and that this second judicial front has been opened to try to hide the first file’s certain collapse," he said.

In June 2003, police arrested 167 people in the Paris suburb of Auvers-sur-Oise where the PMOI is based.

Of those arrested, 17 were placed under formal investigation, including Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the PMOI’s political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on suspicion of "associating with wrongdoers in relation with a terrorist undertaking".

That judicial probe has lost momentum and many of the restrictions on the suspects’ movement were lifted in 2006.

Earlier this year the PMOI called on the EU to remove it from its list of banned terrorist organisations after the British parliament upheld in June a court ruling that its inclusion on a list of banned groups in Britain was wrong.

But the EU said in July it was keeping the PMOI on its blacklist, adding it saw no grounds for amending the listing of 48 groups subject to asset freezes and other sanctions in Europe.

A French source said then that Paris — a major player in diplomatic negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme and the current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency — came forward with grounds for the group to remain on the list. (Reporting by Thierry Leveque; writing by Francois Murphy; editing by Janet Lawrence)

Reuters News, Sep 29, 2008

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Iranians connected to PMOI detained in money laundering probe

Several people close to a banned Iranian opposition group have been arrested in Switzerland and France in connection with a money-laundering investigation.

The group of about ten detainees has connections to the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), which is listed as a terrorist group in the European Union and United States. They were arrested last week and are still in custody, judicial sources and the group’s lawyer said.

The police swoop was coordinated between French and Swiss officials who were acting at the request of Swiss judges examining the funding of a group linked to the PMOI.

The Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that an investigation was ongoing in this context but did not give precise details of the number of people being detained.

Earlier this year the PMOI called on the EU to remove it from its list of banned terrorist organisations after the British parliament upheld a court ruling in June that its inclusion on a list of banned groups in Britain was wrong.

But the EU said in July it was keeping the PMOI on its blacklist, adding it saw no grounds for amending the listing of 48 groups subject to asset freezes and other sanctions in Europe.

swissinfo.ch

October 2, 2008 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Camp Ashraf, a heavily controlled cult haven

Of the most common controlling techniques within MKO is that of collective control. Camp Ashraf plays an important role in keeping full all-out control over all members as well as carrying out brainwashing mechanisms. Strengthening security systems within Ashraf to prevent the members’ exit, resistance against transferring Mojahedin to other places and such activities imply the necessity of collective life for Mojahedin. The first consequence of dispersion of MKO members may be the destruction of intra-organizational controlling systems. Although lifestyle of members located in Ashraf is similar to that of Auvers-Sur-Oise and early headquarters of the organization in Iran, it is better to review the history of the formation of Ashraf in order to gain a better understanding of its strategic significance.

Before the formation of Ashraf, MKO members lived separately in Iran, Europe, Kurdistan and other countries and cities; therefore, it was impossible for the leadership to develop a collective life. It is not clear whether Ashraf was formed due to predefined ideological objectives or its formation was the inevitable consequence of some events like the disintegration of resistance cells of Mojahedin within Iran, and Europe’s disagreement for the collective settlement of Mojahedin. However, it can be claimed that Rajavi made an informed decision to keep the integrity of his organizational running for many years.

strategic failures of Mojahedin, their expulsion from France, Rajavi’s meeting with Tariq Aziz were some main factors that lead to the true prediction that Rajavi was planning to form a camp consisting of Mojahedin’s military and organizational members in order to prevent members’ passivity and disintegration of the organization. Considering Ashraf as the symbol of Mojahedin and a utopia proves the above claims. Ashraf, as the location of the development of the ideological revolution, may be regarded as the controlling lever against dissidents too. Taking a brief look at the labels defined for Ashraf may lead to a better understanding of its strategic role. In this regard, it is said:

Mojahedin’s Heart (Camp Ashraf) is called by a woman’s name, a woman who is to have a major role in the internal ideological revolution of Mojahedin. (1)

There is a kind of dialectic relationship between camp Ashraf and the ideological revolution of Mojahedin:

There is no doubt that the considerable resistance of Ashraf under the hegemony of Mojahed women had its roots in the internal ideological revolution within MKO. (2)

Although Rajavi justified his decision to move to Iraq under the pretext of changing strategy and being close to Iranian soil, his main objective was keeping full control over members. The consequences of the development of the ideological revolution such as the increase of dissidence among members were another factor to make such a decision. The dispersion of members would result in their opposition to leaders’ policies and decisions; however, living in Ashraf would reduce this probability.

It has to be pointed out that Camp Ashraf prepared the grounds for application of brainwashing mechanisms as well as physical control of members by means of the prisons formed within it. The statements made by the MKO ex-members imply the fact that resorting to mental and physical pressures against dissident members were common activities in Ashraf. Taking a look at the security considerations in Ashraf and calling it as Mojahedin’s symbol, laboratory, heart, utopia, etc may clarify this point. An MKO former member describes collective life in Ashraf and says:

Camp Ashraf turned to a laboratory for testing Rajavi’s theories and members turned to guinea pigs. (3)

He also refers to Ashraf as the Mojahedin utopia in which collective life paves the way for winning full control over the members:

Camp Ashraf is a model of Mojahedin’s utopia promised by Rajavi. Organizational hierarchy is developed based on ranking officials and inferior rank-and-files. There is no separation or collection among members; every one is connected to the ideology. Every one has to obey his superior who is more ideological. Every one needs a leader. Masoul is a person connecting members to leader. The relationship between Masoul and members inferior to him/her is like that of water and a thirsty person in which the latter can not live without the former. In MKO each Masoul is subordinate to his/her Masoul too up to Rajavi at the peak of the organizational pyramid. (4)

The running lifestyle in Ashraf is under full control. Internal as well as external relations of Mojahedin are monitored and controlled using various controlling levers:

Camp Ashraf is located out of the city and is surrounded by barbed wire. Members never leave it except for visiting doctors and accompanied by another Masoul. It resembles military camps in which members are imprisoned voluntarily. Most members have been there for an average of ten years except for military maneuvers. No one visits it but some Iraqi officials. (5)

In a nutshell, according to the supporters and sympathizers of the ideological revolution, Camp Ashraf is a must, a model focusing on collective life due to the ideological considerations. As a result, the significance of such a social life is based on an all-out control over the members and their full submission. In other words, in MKO collective life grants a chance for further monitoring and control of members. Camp Ashraf has been described as follows:

After the strategic settlement of Mojahedin in Iraq, their leader had the chance to test his revolutionary theories in a small society under his own control and free from the outside value systems. Such a society had to be a micro model of a real society consisting of government, president, the parliament in exile, armed forces, police forces, prison, court, mass media, diplomatic relations, economical and logistic systems. (6)

Collective life is common in almost all historical cults and a number of American cults. The place where these cults are located is so significant that sometimes the name of the cult is derived from the name of their location like Alamout castle and the cult called Alamout led by Hasan Sabbah. Likewise Ashraf and Mojahedin have the same connotation today. What is of importance is the fact that all such considerations are taken aiming to control members and to give cultist identity to them.

References:

1. Niyabati, Bijan, Another look at the ideological revolution within MKO

2. ibid

3. Shams-e Haeri, Hadi, The Swamp

4. ibid

5. ibid

6. Niyabati, Bijan, Another look at the ideological revolution within MKO

September 30, 2008 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO members arrested in Europe

Members of the notorious Mujahedin Khalq Organization have been arrested in France and Switzerland on charges of money laundering.

Ten people close to the MKO were in police custody on Monday on both sides of the border, Reuters reported without citing any sources.

Swiss and French officials jointly conducted the arrests on the request of Swiss judges examining the funding of the group.

The group, which has been listed as a terrorist organization in Iran, the European Union and the United States, has a long and bloody history of targeting Iranian civilians and government officials.

It also reportedly assisted the deposed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, in the massacre of thousands of innocent Iraqis and is responsible for several acts of terror in Iran including the 1994 bombing of a revered Shia shrine in Mashhad, eastern Iran.

In 2003, French anti-terrorist police arrested 165 members in Paris, including Maryam Rajavi one of the leaders of the group, for ‘associating with wrongdoers in relation with a terrorist undertaking.’

In a recent move, Britain removed the banned MKO from its blacklist of terror organizations.

According to the Iranian Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Britain has been provided with ample evidence of MKO involvement in terrorist operations against the Iranian nation.

"They have even met with some of the victims of the MKO terrorist acts. Still, the London Appeals Court has permitted a dangerous terrorist group to operate in Britain," reads a letter by the Head of the Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi to his counterpart in the British parliament, Mike Gapes.

September 30, 2008 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Nejat Society Delegation in Geneva

A delegation from Nejat Society traveled to Geneva to participate the meeting of United Nations Human Rights Council and to visit the delegation from other international human rights organizations in order to prevent the political abuse of the remaining captives in Camp Ashraf, and guarantee the individual rights of those who basically deny terrorism and are willing to return to the society. Nejat Society delegation includes:

Mr. Babak Amin, Mr. Arash Sametipour, Mrs. Marjan Malek, Mrs. Ronak Dashti.

Nejat Society Delegation in Geneva

September 28, 2008 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

MKO, another version of al-Qaeda

A spokesman for the family members of terrorism victims in Iran says the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is simply an earlier version of al-Qaeda.

Iraj Moradi, the spokesman for the Edaalat Society, which represents over 12,000 relatives of Iranian victims of terrorism, said the MKO and al-Qaeda use the same methods to lure their members into carrying out terrorist attacks.

Iraj is the son of Ebrahim Moradi, a blacksmith who was assassinated by the MKO in June 1984.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization is a terrorist group banned by many countries including the US. It has claimed responsibility for numerous terror attacks inside Iran and Iraq since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

At a recent UN human rights conference in Geneva, Edaalat Society revealed documents highlighting the extent of MKO activities in Iran as well as the group’s cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The MKO has long been charged with assisting Saddam in the massacre of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

A British envoy, who has received the documents, asked the delegation to shed light on MKO crimes in a visit to the UK – where a British court has dropped the MKO from its blacklist of terrorist organizations.

“Edaalat Society does not seek revenge,”said Sepehri, the daughter of another Iranian victim.

“Branding some terrorists ‘good’ and some ‘bad’ would legitimize their actions and provide a pretext for their existence,”she said referring to the recent UK court ruling.

She added that is why the MKO has continued its existence.

According to Sepehri who is the official spokesman for the Edaalat Society, terrorists are sick people who are suffering from hallucinations due to the cult-like structure of their organizations and could be cured if they were freed from the mind-control tactics of their leaders.

A delegation of the Edaalat (Justice) Society has recently visited Geneva to attend the UN human rights summit and meet NGOs and rights groups.

September 28, 2008 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

The Mujahedin and US-Iran Relations

This special report by filmmaker James Longley focuses on the impact of the Film Maker James Longley MEK on US–Iran Relations. Though the MEK, an exiled Iranian group, is listed on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, they continue to enjoy both the covert and overt support of some members of US Congress and the Bush Administration because of their opposition to the Iranian government.

This filmed report explores the history of the MEK, their ideology, their participation in the Iranian revolution and exile from Iran, and their collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s regime. Using interviews with historians, journalists, and first-person accounts of former members of the MEK, their shifting role is tracked through to the present day, as they continue to play a central role in US-Iran relations and create sharply divided opinions between various branches of the US government.

This filmed report explores the history of the MEK, their ideology, their participation in the Iranian revolution and exile from Iran, and their collaboration with Saddam Hussein's regime

A film by James Longley

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September 28, 2008 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Mujahedin’s Mechanical exploitation over members

Letter of Mr. Hamid Siah Mansouri to the SFF

Mr. Hamid Siah Mansouri is a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who has managed to escape from the Ashraf Camp which is the base of the MKO terrorist cult in Iraq. He could eventually reach to France after waiting for a long period.

During his presence in Baghdad he gave a letter (both in Farsi and in English) to the SFF which appears below:

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Who am I? Hammid Sia Mansouri

Name: Hamid Siah Mansouri

Date of birth: 26/6/1956

Place of birth: Varamin /Tehran /Iran

Father’s name: Khodadad

Mother’s name: Narenj

I left Tehran for India in June 1979 with legal passport via Tehran airport with the intention of promoting my education further. I was graduated from Jamia University in 1984, in M. A. Political Sc. Then I left India for Canada with a fake passport to find a job and also to continue my educations. I introduced myself to Canadian immigration officials as an Iranian Regime defected from the Islamic Republic. So, after 3 months I was accepted as a political refugee. I was occupied in Toronto city. I did international law in Toronto University. During studying, I established a company which gave flyer-distributing service.

Acquaintance and cooperation with the PMOI

In 1966, I met an Iranian man called Hamid who introduced himself as a supporter of the "National Council of Resistance of Iran". He invited me to found a society called the "Iranian Professionals Society" in Canada. I accepted to make such an organization. On the eve of the year 1988, I was acquainted to the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, and PMOI) by a member called Reza Khaki who asked me to cooperate with organization. Then I gave in to the MKO after frequent persistence to join their armed wing called "National Liberation Army of Iran" (NLA) based in Iraq on a three-month mutual agreement. Actually, I myself intended to realize truths too.

Dispatch to Iraq under Saddam’s rule

During 3 months that I joined to the MKO flank under Saddam’s rule, I had found their ominous aims under the cover of the creation of the "ideal state or classless theistic state" as well as the forged slogan of peace and democracy which made optimistic viewers amazed. In reality, they took steps into the path of absolute dictatorship.

As a matter of fact, I faced a terrorist cult which had been found on the basis of the "force and hypocrisy", tried to attract the public opinion and politicians in the west with sham moderate facet and shape.

After 3 months, I referred to the related officials to determine legal status of my return to Canada. Incredibly, I found out that this organization with the collaboration of Iraqi Govt. transferred me to Iraq illegally. This was while they were claiming law and discipline in their agenda and primary targets and principles. Meanwhile I observed my passport in the hand of the MKO officials without entry stamp to the country of Iraq.

Kurdish massacre in Morvarid clashes

The MKO officials vowed me to dispose legal conditions of my return to Canada. However, in practice, they never accomplished their pledges with lure, decoy, and killing time. We encountered Persian Gulf dilemma and the war. Then by giving the false information that the forces of the Iranian regime have invaded and seized our bases, they compelled me and other opponents to participate in the Morvarid clashes with the Kurds. Unfortunately however during the war, we found out that we are fighting against the Kurdish people. Therefore, I refused to prolong with the oppressed Kurdish people’s massacre. Nevertheless, the MKO officials made me and other opponents fight against immaculate Kurdish people using threats and force. Finally, after the first Persian Gulf War, I requested them to allow me to go back to Canada, but they threatened me and told me that I either stay with them or they would hand me over to the Iraqi security forces. As a result, I could be convicted for the long term of eight years in jail due to illegal entrance to the Iraqi territory. Consequently, the MKO took me as a hostage and prisoner for long years using threats and psychological and physical tortures in the horrible prison of Camp Ashraf.

A glimpse at the MKO’S internal relations

I briefly try to glance at the crimes of Rajavi’s cult and illicit activities at the level of intra-organization relations during the first and second Persian Gulf War:

Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam Rajavi, the self-appointed ringleaders of the MKO intend to balk responsibility in relation to the existed fatal political and ideological fiascoes and impasses. Because of wide flexibilities either political or ideological of the 1980s, and owing to the ideological nature, which means that, the idea of violence implementation is the only key solution of any problem, the organization has reached to a dead end. So they chose the mock and deviant way that, the criminal and immoral effects of their way would bother the human beings soul. Moreover, the next generations will be embarrassed regarding such a human catastrophe and calamity.

Undoubtedly, "ideological divorce" was the only, final deceitful and repressed tool to justify the end that ringleaders of this cult used to survive politically. Therefore, they perpetrated any criminal action to achieve this anti human and devious invention.

In fact, they compelled the victims to join this trend regardless of their internal tendencies by threat, infliction, and the "brainwash", so that married men had to divorce their wives then, these divorced women obligated to marry with Massoud Rajavi. Even, unmarried men and women were under this anti human and deviated trend, so they had to divorce whatever was in their mind and brain regarding prospect wife, dreams, wishes, family, father, mother and etc. The most painful reality was that every victim had to prove and pretext his harmony and blessing with such inhuman and wicked conditions in a vast rally held in the presence of MKO torturers and inquisitors and from time to time with the presence of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. In case, some unfortunate sufferer accused to be indifferent or against this persecuting process, he or she could severely be tortured psychologically and physically. However, at the end, the victim had to be changed and accepted their ideology or his disappearance and unknown destiny could be expected in perspective.

The irrefutable crime of the MKO was to make everyone get training several weapons with the intention to achieve terrorist operations in the cities of Iran. The priority was given to the opponents, because Rajavi intended to inflict two marks with one bullet (to kill two birds by one stone). So that Rajavi might get rid of his opponents and attain his terrorist aims too.

Which way will I opt for the future?

One of the incontestable crimes of this vicious bandit (Massoud Rajavi) is that, he confiscated personal identity, and then he embezzled and grabbed identification cards (identity criteria) and bank credit cards (financial abuse) of his victims. I have also been one of these victims, so I am determined to litigate him based on international laws at the first possible opportunity in an accessible free country.

Now, I survived to divulge the truths, so that, others can use my experience to live up.

Now, I must acknowledge that the existent destructive political and ideological deadlocks in the MKO make them commit suicide, but I decided to survive because of the following reasons. I survive to disclose precise truths afterward; the others can have the right and opportunity to a quite quiet life. Without any doubt, this is the legal and natural right of every individual to have the opportunity to an honorable life, which is full of love and feelings. Actually, the spirit of the laws cited "Universal Declaration of the Human Rights" based on saving human beings life as well as welfare and auspiciousness. As a result, it batters ideological and geographical borders, so that the principle of the defense, attaining "human rights" has always been its everlasting wishes and dreams.

Sometimes, when I remember Massoud Rajavi’s anti human speeches which took place in the day of the painful disaster of the "September 11 terrorist act", so that he exposed his "sectarianism thought" with this speech, "this was the reactionary Islam which did this function, so we would do much better because of our revolutionary Islam".

Whereas, his terrorist involvements during last 3 decades, as I was also victimized by his terrorist activities, this question abruptly comes to my mind. What is the basic difference between Rajavi and Ben Laden?

Based on this logic, if the laws of dangerous and complex phenomena can be distinguished, getting involved with them and dominating them is very easy. Therefore, because of this reason, Ben Laden is not a threat any more against human beings, owing to the fact that his sectarian thoughts and tactics have been discerned and exposed to the public opinion of the world. Nevertheless, Rajavi’s sect is a vague and unknown sect. Though, all cults based on the same thought, pattern and methodology, as the Mojahedin cult is subject to this logic and sectarian laws, it cannot be recognized as an innovative phenomenon. Nevertheless, the MKO cult pretexts a moderate complexion and specious to deceive the west public opinions and this cult could almost decoy some groups of the west public views. As a result, terrorist gang of this cult has widely expanded its activities in Europe under the cover of charitable activities, but they bait Iranian refugees to hunt these sinless refugees with intention to attain its sectarian targets. Terrorism and sectarianism does not recognize time or geographical and human borders, in any place at any time it can intend to protect its sectarian benefits with waiving the life of sinless and defenseless individuals via any inhuman way. e.g. terrible carnage and commit suicide and self-burning in U.S.A. and so on.

An overt example of such a bitter reality, which shocks wakeful consciences of humanity, it was an ideological self-burning command by Rajavi’s religious cult to the impeccable and deceived individuals of this cult in Paris that led in painful and ugly death of them. Therefore, any European national has the right to be sensitive and affected as concerned vis-à-vis his or her infelicitous and indistinct future. As a result, put a question to European liable politicians and free thinkers and ask them shouldn’t Rajavi’s cult be controlled by the West, instead being supported? Inevitably, the more thought the easier discover of the truth that Europe is under the terrorist threat and jeopardy. Therefore, now, it is the appropriate time for the Western public opinion, in particular the politicians, to take serious the raising trend of susceptible threat and peril of the "terrorism and sectarianism". As they should familiar themselves to the complicated and modern intriguing and trapping of the Rajavi’s sect, and pay attention to the violent nature of this sect, meanwhile not to be neglected by its mortal poison. According to an Iranian axiom, "the scorpion does not bite because of its vengeance; however, its expedient nature is so". Therefore, the wisdom, futurism, and secure life of the human beings bid the West to consider and heed the violent nature of this indistinguishable cult not to be entrapped, otherwise, the human beings will be faced and surprised by another "awful September eleven".

Unfortunately, sectarianism and the foundation of cult are not visibly counted a crime at the level of international laws. On the other hand, the outcomes of the cults’ functions and actions led in extremism, human tragedies and victimization of numerous innocents, as the cults with their most effective tool and weapon called "brain wash" reconstruct the human psyche and brain; consequently, make a vital change in human creation so that capture human soul, brainpower, mentality and wits. Hence, whereas the ruling spirit of morality over international laws including mentioned articles in "universal declaration of human rights", these actions together with "brain wash" are vs. human life, security and peace as well as criminal and they are ipso facto counted crime and offence. Henceforth, these above mentioned functions and deeds can per se be considered by the essence of the international principles as a perpetration and action of the "crime v humanity". Henceforward, these criminal actions can be indictable in the international and domestic courts. Unquestionably, consistent with above considerable truths, a historical and imperative necessity is felt by the society psyche security, in order that the West political elites should feel conscientiousness and not allow any hesitation and impediment to take necessary legal and political action to salve the humanity and salvage the Ashraf caged and vulnerable immaculate victims in Iraq. Or else, they will be blamed and curst by the next human generations because of their defaulting and evasion versus "terrorism and sectarianism".

Base on the U. N. charter measures, the incentive and inducible element of the international crises, threats, predicaments and disputes must be discerned, prosecuted, and chastised by the international authorities. Thus, whereas the head of the cult has ultra- absolute power, it means that he is superior to "absolute power" (God), because, the obedience of his victims from his rules are much more essential than God’s rules. As such, suspicion and qualm in relation to the entity and being of God could be relinquished in the intra relations of the cult, but any doubt and distrust as regards cult leadership is mortal sin and inexcusable. While considering such reigned rituals, traditions, and rules over a cult, there should be no more justifiable permission for anyone to hesitate and doubt that, the members of the cult are the first guiltless victims of the cult leader. Then, the head of the cult is the main incentive and inducible of all perpetrated crimes and grave accountable to any would-be terrorist threats of the cult at the moment plus in future. Now, with consideration of raising trend of the potential security threat and its daily extension in the West, as such, it is the pressing legal duty of the legitimate and lawful international organizations to perform their legal and historical responsibility and prepare necessary facilities of the Massoud Rajavi’s open trial. With the intention of ensuring the security and peace for the present world and the next human generations, these terrible criminals must be disclosed.

I and other separated members of the MKO cult declare that we are truthfully ready to transfer our experiences to the "human rights enthusiasts" to help the victims who are under the MKO thought control. As a result, Rajavis’ fraudulent business must be eradicated and the victims of this cult are allowed to have choice to be connected their own self-selection out of isolated scopes as Ashraf military base in Iraq and Maryam’s base in Paris. Therefore, the mechanical exploitation of the MKO over victims’ brainpower, soul and life must be stopped.

September 28, 2008 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

NCRI and Money Laundering

One of the tricks NCRI/MKO uses in Europe to fundraise is to form front associations with the purported aim of supporting Iranian children and asylum seekers. This Group, by gaining the sympathy of ignorant people and extracting money from them, has collected considerable amount of money and used it to finance its terrorist operations.

One such association for collecting money is the “Society for the Support of Iranian Refugee Children” in Germany. Under the supervision of this front association in Köln the children who have been separated from their parents residing in “Ashraf” base in Iraq by NCRI/MKO are raised.

In this regard the German "Focus" magazine, no. 2000/29 stated:

“Reliable information indicates that MKO, with prior intention, separated children from their families and secretly brought them to Germany and under the false pretences that they were orphans and homeless children, lodged them in the Child Care buildings so that it could receive governmental financial aid and then transfer it to the bank account of the organisation.

For this purpose the Society for the Support of Iranian Homeless Children in Köln was established in 1993. From the text of the Code of Conduct of the Society, it was obvious that these children were kept under the strict supervision of Iranian mentors, so that under a brainwashing program, prepare these children to return to Iraq and fight the Iranian State.”

"Focus” refers to a letter sent by an Iranian youth who was trained in this child care house in Köln and who went to Iraq to his friend in Köln. In his letter written in 1998, this 16 year old Iranian youngster writes the following to his friend in Köln:

“We were firing guns, and you can not understand how much I was excited when I was hitting right to the target.”

The "Focus "magazine quoting the German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) added:

“This Society was formed under the name of a charity organisation to collect money and other financial gains by Mojahedin Khalgh organisation.”

The German newspapers repeatedly uncovered illegal activities of the association for the Support of Iranian Refugee Children and revealed that despite its claim for supporting Iranian child refugees and orphans, this group has collected millions of German Marks each year in a highly professional manner using money laundering methods. The money collected would then be transferred to MKO’s account.

Another example of fraud and extortion done by this group through charity organisations is the creation of “Iran Aid” in United Kingdom.

By using this charity organisation, NCRI/MKO in the UK extracts money from people and students with abject means, even using intimidation. In this way the group collects money from the people under the guise of “Iran Aid” and in the name of helping the families of those killed or political prisoners in Iran. These shameful acts for collecting money were the reason for many com-plaints filed against the group with the UK Charity Commission. Some information and figures relating to the past two years show that this group collected annually about 2 to 4 million pounds by using the above mentioned methods. “Therefore, for the sake of clarifying the situation, a Commission entitled the “Commission of Charity Affairs” was set up to carry out extensive investigations about the performance of this organisation and its purposes and the ways and means of spending the money collected. In 1997, after these investigations the Society was dissolved and its assets were confiscated.”

The other scandalous event in collecting money for terrorist operations was the arrest of 5 Iranians and 2 Americans of Iranian origin in the United States in March 1991. These people were arrested on charges of collecting more than one million dollar to finance terrorist operations. The seven men, Tahmineh Tahmtan, Mostafa Ahmadi, Hussein Afshar, Ali Reza Moradi, Hussein Rezaei, Najaf Taji Oshtofteghi and Mohammad Omidvar were later put on trial.

The LA Times, quoting the FBI, reported that most of the money was collected from ignorant passengers in LA International Airport and transferred to MKOs’ bank accounts in Turkey.

James Dissaro an FBI official in LA stated:

“The FBI arrested these 7 persons after carrying out extensive investigations which lasted 3 years. It is said that all these people were members of a cell belonging to MKO. Only one of the detainees denied his affiliation to MKO. MKO members in the name of a Charity Committee for the Defence of Human Rights collected money from passengers, mostly Asians, under the false pretences of helping refugees. They showed the photos of children suffering from hunger and apparently victims of mistreatment and torture in Iran. In this way, they gained the sympathy of passengers by telling them that they want the money to help the refugees.”

According to the FBI, this group was able to collect daily about 5 to 10 thousand dollars in LA alone and for this purpose it set up a Committee by the name of “Charity Committee for the Defence of Human Rights” which is a fake name. In this way, the money collected was transferred from Los Angles to NCRI/MKO bank accounts in Turkey. According to investigating officers, the money was then distributed to different locations and in one instance more than 400,000 USD was sent to the account of a spare parts shop in United Arab Emirates.

The interesting and noticeable point is that this terrorist group, after being included in the list of terrorist organisations by the United States and European Union, continued its illegal activities under the cover of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). This is a tactic for misleading European Union officials. It seems that this tactic has worked because the name of NCRI does not appear in the list of proscribed terrorist organisations of the European Union. But US officials have included the name of NCRI along with MKO in the list of terrorist organisations and have barred its activities in the US.

After the invasion by coalition forces in Iraq and the downfall of the Ba’ath Party, NCRI became the main source of fundraising for the MKO, which illegally and secretly transferred the assets and money belonging to MKO from Iraq to Europe. In this connection, the group assigned two of its members, Jamil Bassam and Ebrahim Khodabandeh, both having British Nationality to go to the Iraq-Syrian border and take delivery of a heavy pack containing hard currency and inner-organisation documents from other members of the group coming to the border and then take the pack to England. Iran interlink website reported:

“Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Mr. Jamil Bassam were arrested at the border of Iraq-Syria on 18 April 2003 while smuggling lots of money and documentation belonging to MKO.”

On the same website it has also been reported that Baroness Emma Nicholson, Deputy Chairperson of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and the Founder of “Ammar Charity” while visiting southern regions in Iran and Iraq met these two accused men. She then wrote a 13 page report and presented it to the European Parliament and UK’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. According to that report both men claimed that they were misguided by their “cult” and were unaware about the content of the pack they were carrying with them.

September 27, 2008 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

A matter of control and freedom

Majority of those who joined Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) and spent years and decades trapped in the leftist group could never dream that their quest for a socialist utopia would lead them to the abyss of a destructive cult of personality. Many of defectors that managed to break the embrace of the cult confess that what they gained in all those lost years was an understanding that they had been the sure victims of a man’s power abuse and ambitions who had not the least idea what democracy could be like.

Kept totally in ignorance of the true nature of the group, since the group severely controls the outlet and leak of information, even the sympathizers living in the free world of modern European countries as well as a handful of European parliamentarians, who seem to be after their own party and political interests rather than caring about Iranian people, have been led to a prejudice that the organization is a pro-democratic political group struggling for the institution of democracy in Iran. However, a merely show of sympathy does not seem to harm anybody. But when it comes to sympathize with a cult and terrorist group to further keep and enslave its members against their will it makes different.

Looking it from a humanitarian point of view, let’s support voluntarily return of MKO members to Iran or any other country they wish to move according to international regulations and through the organizations concerned. Let’s help those in Ashraf decide where to live rather than who controls them. They have had enough of any form of control and what at the present need is to be free.

September 27, 2008 0 comments

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