Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

The Terrorists’ Job of Waging War

Many from among the Americans believe that it would be irrational and the height of irresponsibility to go to war against a country based on the claims of an opposition group that is securely leashed by the State Department as a dangerous terrorist group. Barton Kunstler’s article, Why We Cannot – and Will Not – Attack Iran contributed for opednews, well explains illogicality of such a plan and irrationality of relying on disinformation by a terrorist group that through parlaying its baseless exposure on various mainstream media outlets in world tries to escalate the already existing tensions.

Flames of war notwithstanding many lives it might claim, rises the troubled water for the terrorist MKO to fish as it did during Iran-Iraq war. Besides, it is a proven fact that only trough a chaotic atmosphere the group survives and assumes the power to accomplish its inhuman ambitions. Although not any more a weighty threat for Iranian inside, MKO might, if it can gain the ears of politicians with bellicose nature, get others into some deep, inextricable mire. Excerpts from Kunstler’s article expound the role of MKO in the war scenario.

As in the run-up to the Iraq War, a favored dissident has caught the attention of the D.C. neo-cons and has found a platform from which to harangue the American public into bombing Iran. In this case, the job of driving America into another war belongs to Alireza Jafarzadeh. Wikipedia.com’s extensive entry on Jafarzadeh reads like a brochure for his consulting firm. Before establishing the firm, Jafarzadeh belonged to a dissident group called The National Council of Resistance on Iran (NCRI), which is the political wing of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK). The MeK was a leftist anti-shah organization until the 1979 Revolution brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. MeK opposed the Ayatollah and went into exile, but its politics shifted as well. MeK organized a military force based over the border in Iraq that raided Iranian targets in the 1980s. Eventually, MeK was placed on several lists of terrorist organizations.

Despite this – or as a result – MeK and the NCRI have put together a high-powered lobbying group in Washington D.C. that includes the Iran Policy Committee (IPC), headed by a former Reagan administration official, Professor Raymond Tanter, and comprising a group of Beltway military, intelligence, and right-wing political figures, which works closely with Jafarzadeh who, incidentally, is also a Foreign Affairs Analyst for Fox News.

Jafarzadeh takes credit for revealing the existence of several underground uranium enrichment plants and other WMD projects and for triggering an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation of Iran’s nuclear program. However, the IAEA contradicted the claims of Jafarzadeh, and now the Bush administration, that Iran is pursuing a policy of nuclear armament. And it is not just the IAEA that disagrees with Jafarzadeh’s and Bush’s assessments. Many members of the U.S. intelligence community have publicly questioned Bush’s view of Iran’s nuclear intentions, and even within Bush’s closest circle Condoleeza Rice has apparently emerged as the voice of reason against Dick Cheney who, predictably, is all set to bomb Iran.

Remember Ahmed Chalabi? He was the Iraqi dissident who claimed Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. By parlaying his exposure on various mainstream media outlets in the U.S., and gaining the ear of the neo-conservatives in the Bush administration, Chalabi managed to turn his unfounded claims into a gospel truth to which the Washington Post and New York Times, among others, offered a devout chorus of “amens”. In short, Chalabi played an important role in winning acceptance for the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. Chalabi also claimed his goal was a democratic government in his homeland.

Jafarzadeh is currently playing the Chalabi-role. MeK and the NCRI are claiming they too favor a secular, democratic Iraq. However, as described in interviews on a Dateline show directed by Bronwyn Adcock (see http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&daysum=2006-10-04# and click on the link, “Gunning for Iran” for the transcript) aired on October 4, 2006, former MeK members describe the organization as focused strictly on its own ambitions and those of its money-hungry leaders, with cult-like indoctrination techniques.

(link to "Gunnig for Iran" -Video file: Gunning for Iran. SBS television )

It would be the height of irresponsibility to go to war based on the claims of a man tied to groups so invested in attacking Iran. It is bad enough that a Jafarzadeh can manipulate his way into a position of influence over national policy. It is truly insane that we might actually go to war due to his influence. Lest this seems to overstate the case, the Iran Policy Committee’s web page features an article by Lt. General (Ret.) Tom McInerney and Fred Gedrich arguing for a “series of measures designed to modify Iranian behavior including (1) selective air-strikes in the face of continued Iranian support for terrorism, WMD development, and the Iraqi insurgency;(2) support for Iranian political opposition; and (3) delisting the main Iranian opposition groups – the NCRI and MEK – from the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list.” This is based on “Tehran’s past intransigence and continuing hostility.” In their view, Iran has “waged a one-sided war with the U.S. for 28 years”. Their evidence is selective and devoid of political context: they cite the seizure of our embassy in 1979 (a political act that engendered negotiations, including Ronald Reagan’s aides working with the Iranians to postpone the hostages’ release till after the November presidential elections) and Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents in the current war as the real clincher.

 

Sent by Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, Sep. 7, 2007

 

 

(Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, cult leaders)

 

 

(Maryam Rajavi directly ordered the massacar of Kurdish people)

 

 

(A Cult session in Ashraf camp Iraq – under protection of Saddam)

 

 

(Chemical attack on Halabche, Kurdistan, Iraq)

 

 

(MKO mebers in European Countries 2003)

 

 

 

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Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi Turkmen, Victims of Terrorist Monafeghin

The head of Iraqi Turkmen Assembly: "No group or country could disrupt Iran-Iraqi ties and friendship."

"No terrorist group or hostile country could damage historical friendship between Iran and Iraq," said Dr. Feizallah Mohammed Saleh.

In a meeting between Habilian Association officials and high-ranking Iraqi delegation, comprised of representatives of Iraqi Turkmen and the members of the Islamic Movement of Iraqi Turkmen, Dr. Feizallah Mohammed Saleh added: "We are proud of close relations between the two countries and thank Iran for supporting Iraqi people."

"With Baathists in power, Turkmen lived an innocent life and a very difficult situation was crated by Bathist regime."

"During the uprising of 1991, a number of Turkmen from Kirkuk were also killed by the organization of Monafeghin. So, besides the suppression of the uprising in the north, different ethnicities faced the risk of becoming totally destroyed," he added.

In the meeting, Secretary General of Habilian Association, Mohamad Jawad Hasheminezhad, stressed the common concerns of the two sides and said: "Unity and solidarity of Iran and Iraq is so deep that big powers try to destroy it. This policy has continued during the ruling of corrupted rulers in Iraq and Iran."

 "As they entered Iraq, Americans noted that they have never seen such unity between the two countries. Therefore, they occupied Iraq under the name of democracy while their end goal is to divide the two nations," he added.

"It is a crucial time for Iranians and Iraqis because the occupiers and terrorists try to divide them. This plan is supposed to be led by terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and the organization of Mojahedine Khalgh," Mr. Hasheminezhad went on to say.

"With its 40 years of history, MKO has numerous experiences in the field of massacre, terrorism and destruction. However, the question is "what does American democracy mean when Iraqis want to expel the ones who killed their children and they oppose it?"

He added: "Sixteen thousands Iranians have been killed by this terrorist group and Monafeghin’s own documents prove this."

Dr. Saami, deputy head of Iraqi Turkmen Assembly also stressed the history of Iranians’ friendship with Iraq and said: "Many of terrorist blows to Iraq have been from neighboring countries. However, the West and the US in particular have directed their attacks at Iran and Syrian. This shows their double standards in dealing with terrorism and human rights. 

"Years ago we saw that Imam Khomeini warned Arab countries that after the war with Iran, Iraq would not respect them. We all witnessed that six days after the end of war with Iran, Saddam attacked Kuwait and occupied that country," he said.

He said Al-Qaeda and Mojahedine Khalgh are two notorious terrorist groups, adding: "They have close ties with CIA and Mossad. We have solid documents on this and are ready to publish them."

Hasheminezhad also said: "Persians and Arabs couldn’t ignore each other but they should respect each other in order to live a peaceful life. In this way, we should avoid illogical hostilities and therefore, the mercenary group of Mojahedine khalgh should be expelled from Iraq."

Stressing that the issue of martyrs of Iran-Iraq war should be resolved between the two countries, he said: "Many families in both Iran and Iraq still have problems regarding this issue and we won’t quit efforts for finding our martyrs according to agreements."

Secretary General of Habilian Association underlined the request of Iranians and Iraqis, stating: "Although disarmed, MKO is still training and organizing terrorists, enjoying good logistical support and financial aid. Iraqis will be harmed more if the group could stay in their country."

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Debacle of the so-called press conference by Rajavi cult under the name of NCR

On Thursday 30 August 2007, the office of the National Council of Resistance (another name for the Mojahedin Khalq organisation or Rajavi cult) in Germany organised a ‘Press Conference’ in Berlin. The reporters, who had been privately invited, left the salon soon after they discovered they had been lied to and that there was no news whatsoever presented in the conference. One reporter later said: "we soon found that we had been invited to a propaganda show by the Mojahedin Khalq to help their campaign of revenge against their critics among human rights activists". The bulk of the audience and reporters left the conference raising their disgust about the way they had been brought there by deception.

The so-called press conference was managed by Mrs Massoumeh Boloorchi who introduced herself as the ‘Representative of the National Council of Resistance in Germany’ but who maintains her position as a leading member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (a proscribed terrorist organisation in the USA, UK, Canada and the EU). She tried with desperation to calm the angry reporters who had been brought there by deception.

Three days after the press conference only one German newspaper mentioned the event in passing in an article about Iran.

‘Sister Fereshteh’, (Mrs Boloorchi, who is a member of the Mojahedin’s all-women Leadership Council personally selected by Rajavi) has a reputation within the cult for being a clumsy person. It seems that this disastrous press conference and the overt ridicule they received from the media and journalists could be the last nail in her coffin and we will soon witness her losing her position in the Leadership Council. Of course, we believe that the problem for Rajavi and the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation does not lie in the hands of this woman and they really should search deeper.

The disastrous result of this latest press conference, which died even before starting, shows that the efforts by the cult over the last four years to be removed from western terrorist lists without rejecting terror and violence has not and will not fool people in those countries.

The leaders of the Rajavi cult, as they have stressed over and over in their internal meetings, are now going back to what they have been trained for by Saddam’s Republican guards, and that is physical assassination and physical terror. It is now clear that the cult leaders have changed their recent tactics and have chosen to resort to open violence and terror in European countries and, as they have always instructed, this starts with the human rights activists, critics and ex-members who are blamed for the failure of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation to find a new benefactor after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

One should not forget that the cult leaders, by referring to the 2003 self-burnings by cult members which resulted in two deaths and several disabled, have on many occasions emphasised that those who are capable of burning themselves on instant instruction, could kill anyone at anytime and anyplace when they receive this instruction.

Aawa Association would like to bring to the attention of the authorities in Germany the great danger which threatens the survivors of this cult in European countries.

AAWA Association e.V.  Postfach 90 31 73  D – 51124 Köln  Phone: +49 (0) 163 1849145  Email: info@iran-aawa.com Email: aawa_association@web.de

Aawa Association, Cologne, Germany, September 01, 2007

http://www.iran-aawa.com/b035.htm

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Hypocrisy and state-sponsored terrorism

In recent months, the U.S. government has initiated a series of provocative policies directed at the Islamic Republic of Iran with the intention of drawing the country into the vortex of political and economic isolation.

George W. Bush has frequently threatened Iran, but everyone knows that his bark is worse than his bite.

It seems that Bush believes the policy of threats and intimidation is the only one that is effective. Now that he has realized that such threats cannot influence Iran’s policy in the least, he has resorted to economic levers, which can affect only the Iranian people. U.S. officials have defined the U.S. policy toward Iran as a cold war front through which they are attempting to exert pressure on the Iranian people in the vain hope that they may let out a cry of protest.

As in all cold wars, it is the average citizen who suffers the most.

In this context, “We are confronting Iranian behavior across a variety of different fronts, on a number of different, quote and unquote, battlefields, if you will,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington recently.

McCormack’s choice of the word ‘battlefields’ shows his mind-set. Washington’s hawks believe they must start a war against Iran, either militarily or psychologically. This is their mission: to confront a government that that sees no reason to capitulate to their demands or become their lackey.

However, the first option failed so now the U.S. is resorting to the second option, a psyops campaign.

“I was trying to illustrate that you don’t just confront Iran with guns and soldiers; sometimes you do it with lawyers and accountants and diplomats,” McCormack said.

These are odd words issuing from the mouth of a man who seems to only know the language of threats and confrontation.

The strategy envisaged by the U.S. government includes sanctions prohibiting foreign investment in Iran and barring foreign companies from conducting business with Iranian companies in order to decrease the country’s capital inflows.

Along the same lines, the U.S. Treasury Department has prevented Iranian banks and other institutions from dealing with the U.S. financial system. Many banks in Europe and other parts of the world have stopped their transactions with Iran. Over 40 major international banks and institutions have either cut off or cut back business with the Iranian government and/or private sector.

Iranian families are facing enormous problems in remitting money to their loved ones abroad. The remitted money is either confiscated or gets “lost” in the Byzantine labyrinth of modern finance. Iranian students living abroad find that they are unable to pay their rent and tuition simply because there is no way they can receive money from their parents.

The Iranian economy is also having some difficulties, partly due to Washington’s pressure.

In the latest step, Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are considering designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization. The IRGC is a popular army that fought bravely during the eight-year war of aggression that Iraq imposed on Iran. The State Department is trying to sully the reputation of an Iranian military organization whose members made supreme sacrifices in defending their homeland.

 

Bush and his aides say Iran has made few contributions to efforts to improve the security situation in Afghanistan. Well, it seems that the White house needs a reality check since Afghan President Hamid Karzai praised Iran for its constructive role in Afghanistan during a recent meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Even in his meeting with George W. Bush, Karzai described Iran’s’ role in Afghanistan as positive.

“So far, Iran has been a helper,” Karzai said in an interview with CNN.

However, Bush sounded a far harsher tone.

“From my perspective, the burden of proof is on the Iranian government to show us that they’re a positive force,” Bush said.

Furthermore, he threatened to continue efforts to isolate the country “because they’re not a force for good, as far as we can see.”

Washington also accuses Iran of providing the militias in Iraq with weapons in order to create chaos and insecurity in the war-ravaged country. The absurdity of such an allegation becomes apparent when one considers the fact that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani recently thanked Iran for its herculean efforts to help establish security in the volatile country.

In late July, Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates traveled to the Middle East and offered billions in weapons sales packages to Arab nations and a $30-billion, 10-year military aid package to Israel, which is actually the source of insecurity in the Middle East. The rationale: to reduce Iran’s influence in the region.

In addition, Washington is currently supporting the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization. The MKO is arguably the most controversial and perplexing topic in terrorism. Created in 1965, the organization is now protected by the U.S. government. U.S. officials are backing a terrorist organization only because they think the MKO can be employed as a useful tool against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Thus, terrorism is being sponsored by a government that claims to be waging a campaign against the phenomenon.

Words lose their meaning in an Orwellian haze, and hardly a soul seems to have noticed.

Apparently, to George W. Bush, a terrorist in need is a friend indeed.

(Sept. 5 Tehran Times Opinion Column, by Ismail Salami)

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The Ideology of the MEK

9/11 Attacks & MKO’s Ideal Ideological Enterprise

It is not so hard a task to prove that al-Qaeda’s 9/11 terrorist operation is a depiction of MKO’s ideal political, ideological and strategic yearning. Regardless of revelling a full night away in Camp Ashraf after the terrorist incident and beating drums of jubilance for days after, MKO’s early ideological pamphlets contain evidences of advocating armed techniques to combat, as one of the most potent adversaries of the US, against the US imperialism. If al-Qaeda’s terrorist moves like 9/11 attacks relied heavily on religiously theorized teachings, MKO considers armed struggle and application of violence a historical necessity that is strongly imbued with its ideology.

Mojahedin’s early ideological series of pamphlets, especially Takamol (Evolution) and Shenakht (Epistemology) that were designed to translate their general aspirations into a more systematic world-outlook and the pamphlet Rah-e anbiya rah-e bashar (The way of the prophets, the way of humanity) which was much a philosophical and historical work, absolutely asserted the armed and violent strategy in the curse of campaign. Mojahedin claimed to have discovered new laws ruling over the existence and believed that the law of evolution worked as a dominant law termed as ‘jabr-e tarikhi’ (historical determinism), an integral part of existence. In the same way, confrontation with the US imperialism and its elimination through violent means was believed to be an inevitable outcome of historical determinism rather than being regarded merely as a rebellion. Demarcating a rebel and a revolutionary Mehdi Abrishamchi explains:

A sine qua non of revolution is the thought that completely sees the needed ordinance for such a necessity. As a result, a rebel provided with an ideology undergoes a change to become a revolutionary. A rebel conducts blind insurgency against the ruling regime while a revolutionary element knows well whereto conduct the insurgency. [1]

If there has to be any difference between MKO and al-Qaeda, it is the fundamentally ideological viewpoint on the violence. Besides ideologically advocating application of violence and armed activities, Mojahedin consider the use of violence as a pragmatic approach for physical annihilation and resolving contradictions:

Common approaches to resolve contradictions have to be compatible to the features of each case. For instance, the only way to resolve contradictions between imperialism and the nations is through the armed struggle. The armed struggle is the common approach to resolve the mentioned contradiction. [2]

Based on such a methodology, Mojahedin’s aggressive attitudes are defined as the natural laws that even man’s own will has no role to prevent them:

Man’s will cannot resolve the contradictions against the current move of the phenomenon but in a very limited and temporary scale and with the exhaustion of much energy and impeding the general move of the phenomenon. For instance, imperialism is unable to durably resolve the existing contradiction between its own interests and those of the nations. It is against the rule of creation. [3]

In fact, Mojahedin’s favourite utopia has to be reached through a pass of adopted aggression and violence and America is believed to be the most obvious impediment on the path of social and historical evolution:

We have determined the global imperialism led by the imperialist America as the chief enemy. [4]

That is how MKO looks at the world surrounding it. Being wrapped in such a dogmatic and systematic world-outlook, MKO resorts to violence to resolve contradictions before thinking of any peaceful and democratic solution. The most explicit evidence of the group’s aggressive attitude toward the US imperialism out of America’s borders was the assassination of American employees and army personnel working in Iran during 1970’s. The 9/11 terrorist plot is the embodiment of the same anti-American attitudes within the American borders although not perpetrated by MKO:

Imperialism is vulnerable from the within and outside. Imperialism is a paper tiger. [5]

Although MKO showed no clear position concerning the 9/11 attacks, but in itself the group advocates the terrorist feat since its political and ideological principles from its very initiation have been founded on antagonistic and anti-imperialism attitudes.

 

Sources:

 

[1]. Mehdi Abrishamchi’s speech made on the ideological revolution within MKO, published by Muslim Student Association, 1985.

[2]. Shenakht (Epistemology), edited and published by MKO.

[3]. ibid.

[4]. An account of the formation and short history of Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization of Iran, 1965-1971.

[5]. Ibid.

 

Bahar Irani – Mojahedin.ws – Sep. 3, 2007

 

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Zucker’s List: Enemies of the Rajavi Cult Terrorists

Professor Rabbi Daniel Zucker, a promoter of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, has made a new list of the enemies of this evil cult.

It is a high honor to be placed on a list of enemies of these communist terrorists who have murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranians and Iraqis.

Supporters of the MEK have committed terrorist acts in many countries, including in America in 1992. In September 2002, the White House published a background paper listing the MEK as a Saddam Hussein-supported terrorist organization. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. During a period of war with American soldiers dying in Iraq, Zucker is promoting a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), a Marxist terrorist organization as classified by the State Department. Currently, the Federal Government is prosecuting MEK supporters who duped large numbers of persons at Los Angeles International Airport into donating money to the MEK terrorists.

Even the New York Times, with its long history of promoting communists, reported the following about the Pol Pot of Iran terrorists:

“This past winter in Iran, when such a popular outburst among students and others was still just a dream, if you mentioned the Mujahedeen, those who knew and remembered the group laughed at the notion of it spearheading a democracy movement. Instead, they said, the Rajavis, given the chance, would have been the Pol Pot of Iran.”

–Elizabeth Rubin, "The Cult of Rajavi", New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003

Zucker can demonstrate his knowledge of the MEK by revealing the location of Massoud Rajavi, leader of the MEK. Is Rajavi being held as a prisoner in Iraq for a future war crimes trial or being protected until the American military invades Iran?

It is a pleasure to correct the following false characterizations and to repeat requests that Zucker makes honest disclosures about himself and his sources of funds for his organizations.

Disinformation Campaign in Overdrive: Iran’s VEVAK in High-Gear

Professor Daniel M. Zucker – 9/3/2007

“Professor Paul Sheldon Foote of California State University at Fullerton (Accounting)[lxiii] spent time in pre-revolutionary Iran where he met his wife Badri. A self-styled old school conservative (he likes to call neo-conservatives “Neo-Trotskyites”), he is a frequent contributor to VEVAK sites such as Iran-Interlink,[lxiv] hambastegimeli.net,[lxv] and Mojahedin.ws.[lxvi] Foote serves as the regime’s “attack-dog” against the Iranian resistance organizations NCRI and MEK and their supporters, and is also an apologist for the Tehran regime. Now, not everyone needs to like the NCRI and MEK; we do live in a free country and have a right to pick whom we support and whom we don’t. But unlike Dr. Kenneth Timmerman who is a vocal opponent of the MEK but even more vociferous critic of the Tehran regime, Foote defends the IRI. I guess that being as conservative as he claims to be allows him to be comfortable with the conservatism of Iran’s radical Islamist clerks.”

http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3386&cid=2&sid=4

Conservative Credentials

This article is not the first time that Zucker has questioned my conservative credentials without establishing his own conservative credentials. Please see Zucker’s comment and my reply at The Conservative Voice:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/forum/read.html?id=2075

I have been a registered Republican for my entire voting life. My political party registration is a matter of public record. Anyone can verify my political party registration by researching the records at:

Neal Kelley, Orange County Registrar of Voters

1300 South Grand Avenue | Building C | Santa Ana CA 92705 | 714.567.7600

http://www.ocvote.com/

It is also a matter of public record in Los Angeles County, California that Republican voters elected me to the Republican County Central Committee in 1990 and that I was a Republican candidate for State Assembly in 1992. The California Republican Assembly (CRA) endorsed me in 1992. United Republicans of California (UROC) co-endorsed me in 1992.

My political contributions to conservative Republican candidates are posted at the Web site of California’s Secretary of State.

Is Zucker a registered Republican?

Military Service

During 1968 and 1969, I served in the American Army in Vietnam. I volunteered to fight against the communists.

In which military organization has Zucker served? Has Zucker fought in any way against communists at any time?

By contrast, one of the strongest supporters of the MEK in Congress is Congressman Tom Tancredo (Republican—Colorado and 2008 presidential candidate). Tancredo is a chickenhawk neoconservative who avoided service in Vietnam using a mental excuse. See:

Crazy for You

By Patricia Calhoun

Published: December 3, 1998

http://www.westword.com/1998-12-03/news/crazy-for-you/

Tancredo is the co-chairperson of the Iran caucus in Congress with Congressman Bob Filner (Democrat—California and son of a communist party candidate for Congress).

Living and Working Experiences in Iran

Zucker claimed wrongly that I met my wife, Badri, in Iran. I met my wife in London, England. We were working in the Chief Foreign Branch of Barclays Bank in 1967. Badri, who became a manager at Bank Melli Iran, received her international banking training from Barclays Bank.

My first trip to Iran was in 1968 for our wedding in Tehran. The Bureau of International Commerce of the United States Department of Commerce sent me to work at the American Embassy in Tehran during the summer of 1970 (between my first and second years of studies at Harvard Business School). From 1971 to 1972, I studied Persian (Farsi) at Harvard University. Later, Singer Sewing Machine Company sent me on assignments to Tehran and to other locations in the Middle East and North Africa. Our daughter was born in Iran. Our son attended his first schools in Iran. My last trip to Iran during the reign of the Shah of Iran was during the summer of 1976. To my shock, the Shah of Iran abolished all political parties and created a new, single-party state. I predicted to my wife and to others in Iran that the Shah of Iran had made a fatal blunder and would be forced from power.

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 ended my plans to live and work in Iran for my entire career. Events in Iran have placed tremendous strains upon our family, such as: Iran hostage crisis, the American navy’s shooting down of an Iran Air jet, the Iran-Iraq War, and current neoconservative warmonger plots to bomb Iran.

Contrary to Zucker’s implication that I have not returned to Iran during the period of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I have visited Iran in 1995 and in 1996. During my vacations from work as a professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, I taught at an English language institute in Iran.

Zucker has failed to disclose if he has ever been to Iran or has ever studied Persian (Farsi). If Zucker has never been to Iran, then why has he chosen to promote the Pol Pot of Iran terrorists? Why does Zucker want to see the killing fields of Cambodia repeated in Iran by another communist?

My Iranian wife has lost relatives who died fighting for the Rajavi Cult. How many family members of victims of the Rajavi Cult has Zucker met? How many funeral services for Rajavi Cult victims has he attended?

Neo-Trotskyites

Zucker implied that I am the only person to use neo-Trotskyites in writing about the neo-conservatives. Today, there were 1,030 Google hits for neo-Trotskyite and 112 Google hits for neo-Trotskyite with Foote.

Those who have studied the neo-conservative literature know that that neoconservatives prefer to use Trotskyist. See, for example, Irving Kristol’s “Memoirs of a Trotskyist” in his book, Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea.

While dishonest neoconservatives deny connections to Trotskyism, neoconservative writer Jacob Heilbrunn explained the connections in “The Neoconservative Journey” (Chapter 5 of Varieties of Conservatism in America, edited by Peter Berkowitz).

Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com), another writer of many articles critical of the MEK and of neo-conservatives, prefers to use Trotsky-cons. See:

“Today’s Conservatives Are Fascists”

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4245

The neo-conservatives were able to dupe many Americans by supporting President Reagan’s hard line foreign policies against the Soviet Union. Casual observers assumed that neo-conservatives are anti-communists. Neo-conservatives were anti-Stalin and those who followed Stalin in the Soviet Union. Admirers of Trotsky believe that Stalin was responsible for the murder of Trotsky in Mexico.

If the neo-conservatives were truly anti-communists, then they would focus on the gains of communists in many countries. Their focus would not be upon toppling anti-communist Islamic leaders in the world.

Neo-conservatives are not conservatives. Anyone who does not understand this should read: Justin Raimondo’s Reclaiming the American Right and Patrick J. Buchanan’s A Republic, Not an Empire.

Contributor to Web Sites

Zucker claimed that some of my articles have been posted at VEVAK-supported Web sites. Zucker offered no evidence of VEVAK’s financial support for any of the Web sites he listed.

Zucker failed to note that some of my articles have been published at Web sites in many countries representing the entire political spectrum. Web sites are free to copy my articles posted at my blog and at my Yahoo! Group, Traitors USA. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/

I welcome the postings of my articles at Web sites anywhere in the world, even at Mossad-supported Web sites in Israel or elsewhere.

http://www.mossad.gov.il/default.aspx

Zucker failed to note that the MEK operates a spoof Web site with the same name: Iran-Interlink.

Zucker failed to note that the Web sites he listed do not publish all of my articles.

Iran-Interlink

Zucker did not disclose his failure to meet with victims of this evil cult:

Nejat Association’s appeal to Rabbi Professor Daniel M. Zucker –

"the time for ignorance is past"

Nejat Association, September 21, 2006

We noted with interest your recent article ‘Iran’s VEVAK: Disinformation, Inc.’ which was written in collaboration with the Mojahedin Khalq.

Regardless of this article, the seven member delegation from Nejat Association which is currently in Paris, would very much like to meet with you to share our concerns about the human rights violations inside the Mojahedin’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

After a twenty year absence, why is a mother not able to visit her son for two hours? This is her only request. Why will the Mojahedin not allow her this simple request, which under the terms of the Fourth Geneva Convention on Protected Persons, is a basic right.

Article 116 – Every internee shall be allowed to receive visitors, especially near relatives, at regular intervals and as frequently as possible.

If you are unable to visit Paris to meet with the delegation, we will be happy to meet with you in Washington where we will be arriving shortly.

Rabbi Zucker, the time for ignorance is past.

http://iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=1339

Zucker did not disclose that many of the opponents of the Rajavi Cult are former cult members, including Anne Singleton (author of the book, Saddam’s Private Army):

‘Agents of the Intelligence Ministry of Iran’ – Understanding Mojahedin Activity from a Cult Perspective

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Anne Singleton, June 26, 2007

www.cultsandterror.org

On Sunday 17 June I was scheduled to speak on this subject at a public meeting in Paris. The meeting was unfortunately disrupted by an unusually large number of Mojahedin cult members who had lain in wait at the venue in order to prevent people speaking. Regardless of the implications for freedom of speech in a European country, this kind of disruption has become emblematic of the Mojahedin’s inability to even vaguely disguise its cult nature. Similar disruption has taken place in meeting after meeting held by former members of the cult; Paris, April 2005, Amsterdam, October 2005, Washington, D.C., October 2005, London, November 2005. (click here to see a montage of these meetings)

During the disruptions, charged-up cult members rant at former members accusing them of being ‘agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry’, ‘agents of the regime’, ‘mercenaries of the Iranian regime’. In my speech I explain the reason this is done and why, even though I was unable to speak at the time, I and other former cult members, rather than feeling angry or intimidated, have nothing but the greatest sympathy for those victims who are still trapped inside this dangerous, destructive cult.

http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2658

Masoud Banisadr’s book, Masoud: Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel, provided details of the cult’s bizarre practices, including: mandatory divorces, wife assignments, urine analyses to ensure that no one is masturbating, torture, and killing of cult members. Does Zucker dare to disclose how Maryam Rajavi became a “wife” of Massoud Rajavi? Which Islamic religious leader performed the wedding ceremony? To whom was Maryam Rajavi married previously? How many other wives did Massoud Rajavi have? Does Rabbi Zucker condone the evil practices of the Rajavi Cult?

In June 2003, some of the cult members burned themselves to death in protest of Maryam Rajavi’s arrest in France.

Does a rabbi condone having cult members burn themselves to death?

Religious Conservatism

Zucker is a rabbi at

Congregation Beth Sholom

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(CONSERVATIVE)

516-432-7464

315 Roosevelt Blvd., Long Beach, NY 11561

fax: 516-889-1015

Rabbi Daniel Zucker

S,DM,L,RS,AE email: bethsholom@peoplepc.com

http://cojonc.org/_wsn/page5.html

Zucker needs to explain how it is possible for a conservative rabbi to promote communist terrorists while conservative clerks oppose communist terrorists.

Regardless of whether someone is religious, an agnostic, or an atheist, I remain anti-communist.

Theocracy

In March 2006, I debated on the “Power of One” satellite television program on NITV with Zia Atabay and with Manook Khodabakhshian, strong supporters of regime change in Iran. In this program and in many of my writings, I have covered the topic of theocracy. I have noted that my Foote ancestors left England nearly 400 years ago seeking religious and political freedoms.

While England remains a Christian theocracy and a monarchy, I do not advocate an American military invasion of England.

While Israel is a Jewish theocracy, I do not advocate an American military invasion of Israel. Please note the problem of Israel and theocracy posted at the Jewish Virtual Library:

“Israel is confronted with the dilemma of how to exist as a pluralistic, democratic state and, simultaneously, retain its Jewish character. Although there is now a growing sentiment in Israel that an Israeli nationality can be distinguished, no such distinction has been acknowledged to exist in the past. In a landmark Supreme Court decision, Justice Agranat ruled against a man who wanted to have his nationality registration changed from ‘Jewish’ to ‘Israeli’ saying: "There is no Israeli nation separate from the Jewish people." He asserted further that "the Jewish people is composed not only of those residing in Israel but also of Diaspora Jewry.”

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/theocracy.html

Is Zucker an American?

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocracy. Fortunately, Iran is no longer a monarchy. That is more than you can claim for many countries in Europe. While I am opposed to any theocracy, I am opposed to any American military invasion of Iran to satisfy neo-Trotskyite or Zionist insanities.

Neoconservatives Opposing the MEK and the Islamic Republic of Iran

Zucker is correct that a few of the neoconservatives oppose both the MEK and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In addition to Kenneth Timmerman, he could have added: Michael Rubin and Michael Ledeen. See:

Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq

by Michael Rubin

FrontPageMagazine.com

January 13, 2006

http://www.meforum.org/article/888

Hitting the Mark on Iran

by Michael Rubin

FrontPageMagazine.com

January 27, 2006

http://www.meforum.org/article/893

Apologist

In many of my posted writings, you can find a reference to my question for everyone: In 1981, would the world have been better if the MEK had defeated the Islamic leaders?

While I did not vote for President Jimmy Carter, I agreed with his strategy that the world would be better with a zone of Islamic nations than with an expansion of the Soviet Union.

When the Shah of Iran fled from Iran, the nationalists were able to hold power for only 37 days. Given the two choices of the Pol Pot of Iran or of Islamic leaders, I am delighted that the Pol Pot of Iran had to flee to France. Only very sick people would like to see the scenes of the killing fields of Cambodia repeated in any other country.

Is Zucker an apologist for Israel? Which of Zucker’s articles have been critical of Israel?

Zucker’s Funding

The Web site of Americans for Democracy in the Middle East (ADME) does not include any financial disclosures:

http://www.adme.ws/

When will Zucker make a full disclosure of his sources of funds? When will Zucker disclose if he has received any money or expense-paid trips from the MEK?

KGB

For an account of a KGB agent stationed in Iran familiar with dealings with the MEK, read: Vladimir Kuzichkin’s Inside the KGB.

On page 203, he described the MEK as: Islamic Marxist, anti-imperialist, anti-American, and anti-Israel.

Why does a rabbi support an Islamic Marxist, anti-American, and anti-Israel terrorist organization?

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Note that Zucker was not critical of Max Boot at the CFR. For a critical evaluation of the CFR, read James Perloff’s The Shadows of Power.

Stop War on Iran

Zucker has failed to explain why Americans across the political spectrum have signed petitions opposed to war with Iran. Neoconservative liars have duped many Americans into believing that only leftists are anti-war.

Please note the signers of one statement at:

http://www.stopwaroniran.org/

Prof. Paul Sheldon Foote teaches at California State University-Fullerton.

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Iraq

Iraqi people will put Rajavi on trial

Iran:  Iraqi people will put Rajavi on trial as they collaborated with Saddam and suppressed Kurds  

…Asked about the recent announcement by Interpol that the leaders of the banned Mojahedin Khalq organisation are being arrested if there are any plans for them to be extradited? Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i said that there are no plans as such but he hoped that the Iraqi people will put these figures on trial as they collaborated with the government of Saddam Hoseyn and they have been involved in acts of suppression against the Kurds…  Full report: UK US governments fomenting subversion in Iran – Minister  At 1918 gmt IRTV2 started broadcasting a live interview with Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i the Intelligence Minister who said that he has evidence that the UK and US governments are fomenting subversion inside Iran. He said: "Of course, evidence does exist that in the south, say, there were operatives being supported by the British and in the east and the west both the English and the Americans have been involved and we have submitted this evidence to the foreign ministry so that the matter can be pursued through legal channels. If a court is convened then this evidence can be used in that court."

Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i started by paying tribute to the deceased statesmen of the Islamic Republic who lost their lives as a result of an assassination attempt: Doctors Raja’i and Bahonar.

He started by giving a brief rundown of the services of the Ministry to the nation. He said that the mission statement of the ministry is to protect the nation and system from all acts of subversion. He said that given the subversion and instability in the region the ministry has had a few challenging years but it has triumphed over all of these.

The Ministry has identified the programmes of the enemy and their tactics and strategies. He said that some of the services of the intelligence ministry will be made public to the nation soon.

On the Modus Operandi of the ministry he said that arresting of suspects is not necessarily the main objective of the intelligence ministry. The first objective is to identify the spies and not necessarily arresting the suspect. He added that initially the suspect must be warned so that if for any reason they have misguidedly cooperated with the enemy they can repent. Only if the suspect does not refrain from continuing his activities will he be arrested.

Asked if the main enemies are CIA and Mossad? Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i said that the enemy is not just CIA or MOSSAD although they are the main enemies.

 

He added that some had been duped by the enemy to collaborate and betray the nation in this misguided way. He reassured that these have been warned, sometimes through being pursued by the Judiciary, and they are now collaborating with the ministry.

He added that there were yet others who had gone even further and could not be counselled back to correcting their treacherous ways so they have, either been executed or are serving long term prison sentences.

Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i went on to say that there are spill over effects from terrorism in the region. He reassured the viewers that The intelligence ministry coordinated with many of the government organisations in order to combat the spill over instability and subversion effects.

He added that the remit of the intelligence ministry is not only to neutralise the conspiracies but to also combat the causes of these conspiracies through intelligence and research work.

He went on to pay tribute to his government saying that never before has the intelligence ministry been as coordinated with other government institutions since it became a ministry in 1984.

He used the illustrative case of fighting economic corruption as one of the areas his ministry is charged with dealing. He said that the ministry is also involved in identifying the causes of this corruption.

He said that different government ministries are vetted on a random basis in order to not only report back to the minister in charge but also as a confidence building exercise to combat corruption.

On worries expressed over flight of capital as a result of the seemingly intrusive methods of the ministry he said that contrary to these concerns and expectations the merchants have themselves a stake in this anti-corruption drive. He went on to add that an umbrella organisation ahs been set up to give support to merchants and capital owners and investors.

Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i then went on to talk about the role of the ministry in the democratic process. He reassured that the various ministries who are involved in conducting elections approach his ministry with a view to being served information of the prospective candidates in order to help officials vet the candidates.

Asked about the changing tactics of the counterrevolutionaries, Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i said that the enemies have realised that the tactics of assassination and killing have failed. They are now trying to convey the impression to the people that the leaders of the Islamic Republic are inept in running the country. They are pursuing the objective of creating a rift between the officials and the people.

He went on to say that the enemies are, also, involved in ditching their previous terror tactics and participate in what he called soft overthrow. They are for example using forum of cultural, youth and elite gatherings to recruit prospective talent. Once the recruits are identified by the enemy they are invited to conferences and pseudo-cultural centres abroad and counselled to work for the enemy. He went on to reassure that this ploy has also met with defeat and many of these prospective recruits are, themselves, collaborating with the ministry and denouncing their previous activities and collaborators.

He went on to say that in the eastern parts of the country some are involved in physical assassination. Many of their shy supporters have distanced themselves from this kind of activity showing that the tactics of the enemy has evolved. Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i expressed wonder as to why the human rights organisations do not ever protest the activities of these groups?

Asked about the recent announcement by Interpol that the leaders of the banned Mojahedin Khalq organisation are being arrested if there are any plans for them to be extradited? Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i said that there are no plans as such but he hoped that the Iraqi people will put these figures on trial as they collaborated with the government of Saddam Hoseyn and they have been involved in acts of suppression against the Kurds.

Asked if there is any evidence of the armed groups working against the government in Iran being supported by the West principally Britain and the USA, he said that this evidence exists and if ever there was an opportunity to submit this to a court of law Iran will do so:

"I have to reiterate that given the insecurities that exist all around us in Iraq in Afghanistan or some other countries neighbouring us, and given the attempts that the enemy is conducting against us, the level of insecurity that we are suffering from is [relatively] low. Of course, we and other government organs will make the maximum of efforts not to overlook even one possible instance [Of subversion]. We are surrounded in the east, the west and the south by insecurity. We know that the British and the Americans and others who are being supported by the British and the Americans are active in these border regions. But even with this amount of instability we should not feel insecure. Of course, evidence does exist that in the south, say, there were operatives being supported by the British and in the east and the west both the English and the Americans have been involved and we have submitted this evidence to the foreign ministry so that the matter can be pursued through legal channels. If a court is convened then this evidence can be used in that court."

He went on to talk about the deterrent aspects of the ministry work saying that the ministry is just one organisation within the committee set up to combat fraud and economic corruption and that he can not reveal names as there are legal issues that he has to adhere to.

Asked about the possible connections of the economic criminals with influential political figures inside the system, he said that of course there are connections but the ministry tries to be politically neutral and not to be intimidated by these political influences.

Asked about the conspiracies of ”Zionism” against the Islamic Republic he said that there were cases of people conducting industrial espionage in the communications and nuclear industries but these have all been neutralised and the successes of the ministry are all too palpable.

Asked about the recent release of Haleh Esfandiyari and the possible release of Kian Tajbakhsh, the American academics of Iranian extraction, and whether it is because nothing was proved against either of these tow figures? He said that just because they have been released it does not mean that the evidence against them did not exist:

"I have to say something about the fact that they have been liberated. You see, crime and criminality do not mean that the person being suspected has to necessarily be arrested. It is only in certain cases that the law making bodies have charged us with arresting an individual if he has committed or is suspected of having committed a crime that we arrest on the spot. These instances are of course quite rare. But the suspect is only arrested if that suspect is deemed to be dangerous or if he is abroad or he may flee. It could, of course, be that he is in collaboration with others. It could be that he is involved in destroying indicting evidence against himself. If these matters are at play then that person has to be arrested. Until when would that person remain under arrest? He would remain under arrest until such time that one of or more of these issues are still at play. So if say there was a possibility of collaboration and he was arrested then the following day another person who was also involved in this collaboration was arrested and the nature of their collaboration was clarified then the first person would be released. So just because a certain person has been released it does not mean that the charges against him were light and that his crime has not been proved."

Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i went on to say that the ministry is up against Soft Overthrow.

Asked if the two had revealed any names Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i said that he can not say for legal reasons.

On the Student of Amir Kabir University arrested for agitating against the government Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe’i said that there were two groups of people who were involved: Those who were students who were duped and those who were agitating and who were not at all functioning within the remit of a student or academic.

On the arrest of Shahram Jazayeri, an ”economic criminal” who was arrested earlier he said that there was cooperation between the ministry and the country where Jazayeri was arrested but that the ministry does not operate in other countries as it is illegal.

On the parallel institutions that are suspected to be operating inside the ministry he said that the ministry is a homogenous and uniform organisation and that all its operations are well coordinated and joined up with other government bodies. He, also, reminded the viewers that the ministry can be contacted through the telephone number 113 not to mention the various provincial offices that are set up in these areas.

Source: Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 2, Tehran, in Persian 1900 gmt 28 Aug 07

 

Reported by:BBC Monitoring Middle East

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Brian Binley

EXCLUSIVE US TRIP PAID FOR BY IRANIAN ORGANISATION

Midland MP (Mr. Binley) lobbies for terrorist group

They were branded murderous terrorists who indiscriminately killed civilians, politicians and soldiers.

But now a group closely linked to Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) – the People’s Mujaheddin of Iran – is being represented by a Midland MP.

Brian Binley went on a six-day trip to Washington as a lobbyist for the National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI).

The group is described as the political wing of MeK, and paid for the MP’s visit.

Both organisations are on the US Department of State’s official list of foreign terrorist organisations, alongside Al Qaida, the Real IRA and ETA.

But Mr Binley spent his time in America in July 2006 talking to US politicians about the future of Iran, and spoke on behalf of NCRI.

The MP for Northampton South later declared the trip in the parliamentary Register of Members’ interests.

MeK has been condemned in the west for a campaign of terror lasting three decades.

In the 1970s, its members murdered western soldiers and civilians working on defence projects in Iran.

Throughout the 1980s, the group carried out bombings and assassination attempts on Iranian government workers, killing dozens of civilians.

It helped Saddam Hussein’s brutal campaign.

In 1992 the group attacked 13 Iranian embassies in capital cities around the world.

The organisation has been in limbo since leaders ordered it to surrender to coalition troops during the last Iraq war. The group also had its American office shut down in 2002 and its assets frozen after a court decided it was still classified as a terrorist group.

At the time, a Department of State said NCRI”functions as part of MeK and has supported MeK’s acts of terrorism.”

The NCRI claims it is a legitimate government-in-exile opposing the Iranian regime.

But opponents describe it as a cult based around its leader Massoud Rajavi, who disappeared during the 2003 Iraqi invasion. His wife Maryam is now president of the group.

Mr Binley, who was once photographed meeting Mrs Rajavi, is currently on holiday and could not be contacted last night.

But a source in his office said:”NCRI has been de-listed as a terrorist group by the European Union. Brian, along with a large number of other MPs, has been pushing for a similar change here, and in the States.”

BY TOM SCOTNEY,Sunday Mercury, Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd

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