Hasheminejad : America is supporting mojahedin Khalq which is now for ten years black listed by America itself as terrorist.
A group of Iraq’s Islamic supreme assembly members comprised of Baghdad university professors met with secretary general of Habilian Association. In this meeting along with welcoming his guests, Sayyed Muhammad Javad Hasheminejad said: It would be my pleasure to welcome you here and to hold your presence in Mashhad dear. I should also thank God for granting me the opportunity to be among the Iraqi intellectuals once again. I ‘m so happy that the two nations of Iran and Iraq are approaching each other and I believe that no one could possibly stand against the will of the two nations for friendship and unity. Our enemies have put their backs into growing disunion between us, especially during recent 30 years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Iran and Iraq have many things in common. All of us remember the era of Saddam in power during which the Baath party played the dividing role among different Iraqi peoples and groups and also applied its every means for the establishment of disunion and bloodshed between Iran and Iraq. The party is also responsible for setting up the imposed war against Iran trying to fan the flames of disgust and enmity between the two nations.
Saddam’s regime was up to put an end to the historical relations of Iran and Iraq; but every body witnessed that after the imposed war came to its end and the borders reopened the two nations resumed their relations more eagerly than ever. This was another failure for the colonizers in their efforts to set up chaos and discord between us. People of Iran know it well that the imposed war was the war of America and other big powers against Iran and that Saddam was only a tool in their hands doing whatever he was ordered. America invaded Iraq to replace its agent in the region (Saddam) with a new one; but as the honorable people of Iraq didn’t let them do this, they put their efforts into establishing disunion between the two nations while resorting to the terrorist groups as a result. One of these terrorist groups is MKO which knows Iraq very well and is quite familiar with its intelligence systems and America knows how to use such groups as mercenaries. This organization has committed several crimes in our country and has assassinated based on the international reports 16,000 innocent people in Iran. In the era of Saddam in-power, the organization joined Saddam and its system soon because of having several goals in common with the Baath party. This terrorist cult has also committed many crimes in your country, so we have common concerns and suffer from the same pain. They pretend falsely to be in Iraq because the Iraqi people demand their presence in their country; but if both nations take their steps steadily towards unity, neither Mujahedin nor any one else could possibly divide them. A major problem in your country is the presence of America which not only doesn’t let the Iraqi elected government to expel Mujahedin from Iraq but also support the terrorist cult. America which was supposed by many to have come to Iraq to fight terrorism, is supporting Mujahedin which is now for ten years black listed by America itself as terrorist. America also doesn’t let Iraqi as well as Iranian people to take any measures against Mujahedin.
The truth is that the leading factor in increasing the number of terrors and killings in Iraq is the existence of American backed terrorist groups like MKO in your country. So, what can we conclude from all these? Won’t the first day of peace in Iraq be the last day of American presence in Iraq? Unless we assume that all Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region and the Middle East are Iran’s agents and are waiting for Iran’s orders and are acting so secretly that America’s super complicated intelligence systems are not able to trace them. It’s too far unlikely for a sound mind to believe this. Hasheminejad also added: As an NGO we have hosted more than 30 Iraqi groups. We have hold meetings and talks with many Iraqi officials including the president, prime minister, head of parliament and many different political groups and parties, during which we have always stressed on the two nations’ common concerns and problems and also discussed ad exchanged ideas about the best possible solutions to these problems, while western media have put their backs biasedly into inciting the ruling atmosphere against Iran. I assure you that the security in Iraq would be the security in Iran, the fact which won’t come to existence unless for the efforts of the peoples and officials of the two nations regardless of all the existing biased propagandas.
During the meeting Gholam Reza Behroozi, a former member of MKO terrorist group, gave the attendants a brief description of what had happened for him during his membership in the cult He stated: I had close cooperation with Mujahedin since the early days of Iran after Revolution while being deceived by their widespread false propagandas and promises as a 17 year old boy. I kept on cooperating with them until I joined them in Iraq in 1970 and from that time on I became totally aware of their programs and also their full cooperation with Baath party. Rajavi tried to persuade Saddam to raise another war against Iran only one moth ahead of American-led invasion of Iraq. Rajavi who had very tight cooperation with Saddam’s intelligence system called Istikhbarat, brought saboteurs to Iran so that they commit blind terrors and mortar attacks .This way they intended to make Iran respond them. They had their bases in Basra, Alamarah, Kut, and Jalulah while Istikhbarat provided them with whatever they asked for. Rajavi believed that if we attack Iran so repeatedly to make Iran react, the time would come for Iran to enter an unwanted war with Iraq. He always told us that he had several times advised Saddam during their meetings to impose another war against Iran; but Saddam was no more a powerful dictator. All the time we had military trainings in order to meet the required qualifications for invading Iran. The only question we asked was about when we could attack Iran. But in response Saddam merely said we were just a guerrilla group and that our every attack to Iran would be equal to another defeat like the one we had already experienced in Mersad operation with heavy casualties. In my opinion Americans came to Iraq because Saddam was of no more use to them. Rajavi always told us during the sessions that we had aimed to drag Saddam to another war against Iran. He argued that if America would enter Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing its war ships into the Persian Gulf, then Iran would react seriously. I think another reason America invaded Iraq for was to confine Iran; but as Iran was well aware of the issue turned a blind eye on many of its rights. Now MKO which is in its the most fragile position, can do nothing but merely inviting the people it calls as Iraqi tribes while trying to bribe them into accompanying Mujahedin; but we know that those MKO-called tribes are no more than the leftover baathies from Saddam era who come to Ashraf in the disguise of Iraqi tribes.
Then Dr. Khairollah, a physician and a professor in Baghdad University, said in a speech: We have many common pains and any threat for you would be a threat for us. Remainders of Baathies, Vahhabies, Alqaida, MKO and many other terrorist groups are the pledged enemies of Iraqi nation. Iraqi people wish for an Iraq full of peace and prosperity and I know it well that our brothers in Iran have the same wish.
At the end, the scroll of deportation of Mujahedin from Iraq was signed by the guests. It’s been scheduled to send this scroll to the human rights organizations as a legal document of the signatures of the representatives of Iraqi people and a documented evidence about the public will of Iraqis for the expulsion of Mujahedin from Iraq.
the mullahs in Tehran. But the camp, which the organization established in Saddam’s Iraq, is beset by reports of dissidents escaping the gulag. The Iraqi government wants to get rid of the former fighters, but find this avenue blocked. 
MKO by their TV and Radio programs. I became their full-time sympathizer from 1999 to 2001 in Tehran and my activities contained social and advertising for the organization. I leaved Iran to Iraq from Turkey for joining to MKO on July 18-2001. I stayed in Turkey for around one month and then after explanation process by the organization’s people in charge, I got moved to Iraq first to Basra port and then to Baghdad. After staying in Baghdad for half day I was moved to Ashraf camp. 
As part of the intense influence and change process in many cults, people take on a new social identity, which may or may not be obvious to an outsider. When groups refer to this new identity, they speak of members who are transformed, reborn, enlightened, empowered, rebirthed, or cleared. The group’ approved behavior is reinforced and reinterpreted as demonstrating the emergence of "the new person." Members are expected to display this new identity. 1 The new personality totally split from the outside world is manipulated for a variety of group tasks based on the objectives of the group and cult that consider the outsiders as the enemies who have to be confronted: The conflicts a mass movement seek and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium. 2 As Hoffer asserts, a cultist personality is formed to be submissive to the inner-cultic relations that have priority to outwardly demonstrated ambitions and goals. The members undergoing overall identity change easily consent to any means of changing behaviour and conduct. Thus, cults can successfully accomplish their goal of binding new members to the group. Considering the stages people will go through as their attitudes are changed by the group environment and the thought reform processes, Singer points to psychologist Edgar Schein’s second stages of three: During this second stage, you sense that the solutions offered by the group provide a path to follow. You feel that anxiety, uncertainty, and self-doubt can be reduced by adopting the concepts put forth by the group or leader. Additionally, you observe the behavior of the longer, term members, and you begin to emulate their ways. As social psychology experiments and observations have found for decades, once a person makes an open commitment before others to an idea, his or her subsequent behavior generally supports and reinforces the stated commitment. That is, if you say in front of others that you are making a commitment to be "pure," then you will feel pressured to follow what others define as the path of purity. 3 There are also the eight psychological themes that psychiatrist Robert Lifton has identified as central to totalistic environments and cults invoke these themes for the purpose of promoting behavioral and attitudinal changes in the members. The third theme, demand for purity, depicts two opposite world of black and white; the cult being an absolutely white and clean world versus the black and evil world of outside. Of course, the members with a new personality have no other choice but to think and act according to cult’s ideology and drawn strategy: An us-versus-them orientation is promoted by the all-or-nothing belief system of the group: we are right; they (outsiders, nonmembers) are wrong, evil, unenlightened, and so forth. Each idea or act is good or bad, pure or evil. Recruits gradually take in, or internalize, the critical, shaming essence of the cult environment, which builds up lots of guilt and shame. Most groups put forth that there is only one way to think, respond, or act in any given situation. There is no in between, and members are expected to judge themselves and others by this all-or-nothing standard. 4 The process of producing identity within MKO follows the same mechanism in the cults and its orientation began with the start of the internal ideological revolution. All the members undergoing the revolution process admitted their identity change, that there does exist a long distance between their organizational and personal identities. It was instilled into them that their identity would be prompted based on the extent of adherence to the ideological system of the group and denial of any personal identity. In a text written by a member of MKO in self-denial we read: Personality, egocentrism, self-reliance and individualism are all souvenirs of the bourgeoisie’s worthless humanism that distanced me from the organization as far as its degree of its impact on me. It was like a chaff that barred me to drink the pure, life-giving instructions of the organization and was leaving me alone in a desolate waste-land with no way out. I was enslaved by dominant ambiguities within me. When I failed to overcome the ongoing struggle inside me, I was even more vulnerable to the outside misfortunes and could not even face them. 5 The member’s confession well depicts his identity destabilization and what psychologists call an identity crisis. He looks back at his own world and values to find out that he has been wrong in the past. This process makes him uncertain about what is right, what to do, and which choices to make and of course, as he admits, only the cult-like instructions of the organization can lead him to what is inspired to be the right path. Consequently, he takes on a new organizational identity which he considers a change for the better. In the process, he, as the member of a cult, detaches from his most dear ideas and attachments which he discovers to have been nothing beyond a barren waste-land for the identity reborn, a utopia in the horizon he fails to dismiss easily. Masoud Banisadr, another separated member of MKO, in his memoir relates of the time when sat tearing whatever attached him to the past under the commands of the organization: This time I attacked my old photographs from my own childhood till marriage and up to then, my parents photographs as I wanted to deny all of them, my father who was perhaps responsible for my bourgeois tendencies and my mother who was responsible of my own ‘mild’ and ‘gentle’ behaviour known as liberal ones. Anna seeing me taking all those photographs and albums, with anger, was quietly crying, then when I attacked our marriage Album she start crying louder, and asked me to stop it. She said those are not just yours . . . but I was not listening to her and took everything and put them in a rubbish bag. 6 Quoting Lifton’s forth theme, through a cult’s instructions, members are told whatever connects them to their former lives is wrong and has to be avoided, a fact well affirmed by MKO’s ex-members: Through the confession process and by instruction in the group’s teachings, members learn that everything about their former lives, including friends, family, and nonmembers, is wrong and to be avoided. Outsiders will put you at risk of not attaining the purported goal: they will lessen your psychological awareness, hinder the group’s political advancement, obstruct your path toward ultimate knowledge, or allow you to become stuck in your past life and incorrect thinking. 7 That is why MKO refer to members’ solubility in the organizational identity as a “reborn” or “identity salvation”. The organization, being transformed into a cult, pursues the same cult mechanism of altering the members’ personal identity to produce a new identity. References: 1. Margaret Thaler Singer; Cults in Our Midst, JOSSEY-BASS, 2003, p. 78. 2. Eric Hoffer; The true believer, Harper &. Row, Publishers, New York, 1966, p. 112. 3. Margaret Thaler Singer; Cults in Our Midst, JOSSEY-BASS, 2003, p. 76. 4. Ibid, 71. 5. Mojahed, no. 252; Abdol-ali Maasoumi’s letter to the ideological revolution. 6. Masoud Banisadr; Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel. 7. Margaret Thaler Singer; Cults in Our Midst, JOSSEY-BASS, 2003, p. 72.
for censure, persuasion, distortion, brainwashing and mind-control activities against their insiders and sympathizers. Cults show diverse and double reactions in their dealing with the media that draw substantial public attention to accomplish a variety of objectives. Besides, the media in any form play a key role in the formation of public opinion and thought, life-style, and even the depiction of a nation’s destiny. For sure so important, versatile phenomena of the modernity never escape the attention of the cults. In the same way that the media can give warning against the threat and the evil nature of the cults, they can also be at their service, depending on the amount of revenue and how influentially they can master them, to instil noxious ideas into a society. However, since the media can hardly be an exclusive medium for the cults and in many occasions it is too expensive a means for propagation with the least expected outcome, and sometimes inflicts irreparable damages, the cults prefer not to invest much trust in the media. The case is sometimes different with the political cults. If we consider deliberate isolation tactic as one of the cults’ most common mechanisms of control and enforced dependency, then the social persuasion is the identical definition of the mechanism. The recruits are encouraged to disrupt their common lifestyle and leave whatever they are attached to behind to adapt themselves to the cult’s milieu in isolation. In this process, what is considered to be a threat in neutralizing the effects of the social persuasion will be the media which the cults favour to avoid. That is mostly because cults’ prompt of black-and-white thinking fails to be functional and productive in the media which has to be repelled. However, cults are not so powerful as the governments that can have total control over the media for social persuasion and people’s mind-control if they will. Quoting Orwell reasoning the effectiveness of the media coming under the complete control of the governments, Singer states: Orwell reasoned that if a government could control all media and interpersonal communication while simultaneously forcing citizens to speak in a politically controlled jargon, it could blunt independent thinking. If thought could be controlled, then rebellious actions against a regime could be pre- vented. 1 Milieu control, that is total control of members’ communication in the cults, is a mechanism to keep members from communicating anything other than what the cults approve and often involves discouraging members from contacting relatives or friends outside the cult and from reading, watching and listening to anything unapproved by the cult or the organization. Consequently, the effectiveness of the media in illuminating facts about the cults and active organizations is actually neutralized and the insiders are told not to believe and trust in anything they see or hear reported by the media that has to be accounted as an agent in the enemy’s front. In this way, the cults’ leaders blindfold members about historical facts: Milieu control also often involves discouraging members from contacting relatives or friends outside the group and from reading anything not approved by the organization. They are sometimes told not to believe anything they see or hear reported by the media. One left-wing political cult, for example, maintains that the Berlin Wall is still standing and that the "bourgeois capitalist" press war people to think otherwise in order to discredit communism. 2 As a result, cults’ hostile position against the media decreases the influence of the media on the members to a zero degree. Furthermore, cults exploit a variety of approaches and legal levers in the war against the media. Sometimes they use violent tactics such as threatening, intimidation and harassment to frighten away the critics, reporters, journalists and authors and to compel them cease anti-cult productions and programs: A metropolitan newspaper’s desk editor was harassed after he ran a piece critical of a local cult. He and his family had to move out of their home after receiving seventy-two hours of continuous phone calls from cult members. 3 As mentioned earlier, if possible, cults will set up complex networks of public relations and radio-TV stations to make a direct channel of communication and contact with the sympathizers rather than letting them refer to public media for information. Such a biased medium works as sufficient to hold the followers hooked onto the cult. As Singer explains: Cults have found many ways to restrict and control public information about them. Some groups have brochures, handouts for the press, and written overviews and endorsements of the group, often prepared by sophisticated public relations firms. In essence, these materials imply that "you need go no further. Here is who we are. Here is all you need to know to understand us perfectly. Take this material and use it. Everything is fine." The implication is that the material is objectively represented and relatively comprehensive. 4 As a leftist cult, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has adopted various tactics to muzzle and beat the media. It will be discussed in the following article. References: 1. Margaret Thaler Singer; Cults in Our Midst, JOSSEY-BASS, 2003, introduction. 2. Ibid, p. 70. 3. Ibid, p. 224. 4. Ibid, p. 226.
warrant for three leaders of his terrorist organization: Abbas Davari ,Sediqeh Husseini, the responsible of the so-called National Liberation Army. Somaye has been stolen and she asked me and her brother to try to return her home and country but the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization forces her to say:”I don’t want to return.” 
