Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Al-Mousavi:Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal to try MKO

The chief prosecutor of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (ISCT), Jaafar al-Mousavi, has said there is evidence to suggest that terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) had a hand in murdering Iraqi citizens.

About 150 MKO members, including the ringleaders Maryam and Mas’oud Rajavis, are currently under arrest warrant, al-Mousavi told the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday.

“The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunals will prosecute and put into trial criminals all over the world,” al-Mousavi stated, adding that in case such criminals have left Iraq, their countries of residence will be asked to hand them over to Iraqi courts.

"We have made probes into crimes that the former regime committed with cooperation of various groups, and during the investigations we have collected documents that prove the complicity of Mojahedin-e-Khalq in inhumane actions in southern and northern Iraq in 1991, the so-called Sha baniyyah Revolution,” he noted.

“The crimes fall into two categories, the first is about murder, torture and (illegal) detentions,” he said, adding there are documents that prove the terrorist organization was involved in the murder, torture, and detention of Iraqi national in the Iraqi Kurdistan.

The second category includes the waste of Iraqi national wealth, al-Mousavi said.

The MKO was a complicit in wasting the Iraqi wealth and they even had a share in the Iraqi oil, he explained.

The SICT bases it work on UN Security Council Resolution 1483, he said, explaining that the resolution, which came into force on May 22, 2003, emphasizes that all those who committed crimes in the Baathist regime should be brought to justice, al-Mousavi explained.

The MKO was founded by Mohammad Hanifnejad, Saied Mohsen and Ali-Asghar Badizadegan in Tehran in 1965. It is blamed for carrying several terrorist attacks against Iranian citizens.

The organization transferred its headquarters to Iraq in 1986. The organization received all of its military support and most of its financial assistance from Saddam’s regime until the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Near the end of the 1980-1988 war with Iran, Baghdad armed the group with military equipment and sent it into action against Iranian forces.

The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal is a body established under Iraqi national law to try Iraqi nationals or residents accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes or other serious crimes committed between 1968 and 2003. It has organized the trial of Saddam Hussein and other members of his Baath Party regime.

Mehr News Agency – 2007/08/16

   

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Iraq

Iraq to indict Iran-banned MKO

Iraq has concluded to prosecute 150 members and leaders of the anti-Iran banned opposition group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).

The Public Prosecutor of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Jaafar al-Mousawi, stated that investigations revealed Tuesday that MKO members have played a leading role in the killings of Iraqi civilians.

Mousawi further commented that the terrorist group had supported Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, aiding in the suppression of the Iraqi people’s uprising in 1991 and the torture and massacre of innocent people in the northern and southern regions of the country.

According to Mehr news agency, the prosecutor stressed the tribunal’s attempts to bring leaders of the banned group Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi to justice, adding the Iraqi government has taken steps to even obtain the extradition of MKO criminals whom are abroad.

Al-Mousawi’s remarks came as the US had given asylum to the banned coalition in Iraq and provided training to MKO terrorists.

The terrorist group has carried out countless violent actions against the Iranian people including the assassination of a president, a prime minister, 80 parliamentarians as well as thousands of defenseless Iranian civilians.

The MKO was in alliance with Saddam during the Baath regime and stationed headquarters on Iraqi soil to launch attacks on Iran.

Press TV, August 15, 2007

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=19546&sectionid=351020101

 

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Can Criminals Condemn Executions?

Reported by NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, sympathizers and supporters of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK) are on their week-long rally in Geneva and Copenhagen condemning the recent wave of executions in Iran. Of course, the people who take part in these rallies might have never done anything wrong against their fellow citizens or violated anyone’s right dishonestly, but chanting on behalf of a globally proscribed group whose leaders have their hands dipped in the blood of many innocent Iranian is different.

Once failing in their struggle to assume power in Iran, Mojahedin announced an armed warfare against the newly established Iranian theocratic government; the sole victims of this offensive campaign were Iranian people. The group was given power, money, arms and bases in a bid to overthrow the theocratic rule and establish a secular state. Neither have the Iranian people chosen the group as their representative for freedom and democracy nor has MKO any popular support within Iran; it enjoys much favor with exiles from the regime many of whom trust the group not the least but are after their own interests.

Being a tiny, unrepresentative minority, MKO would have difficulty retaining power even if it did gain some. Instead, it might go the way of other groups which Western countries have funded over the years: the group would continue its guerilla wars from the wilderness like Al Qaeda or would turn into dictators like Saddam, with whom the group shares exact similarities, whose tyranny would lead to terrible bloodbath. Can those who act as the voice of MKO to condemn executions in Iran accept the responsibility of bloods shed by the terrorist MKO?

mojahedin.ws – 14/08/2007

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Breaking The Ties that bind

A family torn apart by Mojahedin Khalq Organisation – Rajavi cult

A tale of a family torn apart by lies, deception, and government bureaucracy, “Breaking the Ties That Bind” is a true story of the Mohammady family and their tangled history with the Iranian resistance force known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

By:neha gandhi, CBC Television,

About Somayeh Mohamadi

Somayeh was only 17 when she met the recruiters of the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalagh (MEK) in Toronto. Born into a family with sympathies towards the group and having already lost her favorite aunt in guerrilla fights against Islamic Republic of Iran, Somayeh decided to drop out of her grade 10 high school class at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute and attend a MEK camp in Iraq for a month. Most of all, she was thankful to MEK for offering to pay for her expanses to visit her aunt’s grave. On February, 1998 Somayeh left Toronto to spend a month in what later on turned to be a guerrilla compound called Camp Ashraf, the headquarters of the Organization of the Freedom Fighters of the Iranian People. Somayeh is a now a 25 year old, still living under harsh conditions of Ashraf, despite her parents restless tries to bring her back home. Somayeh is one of the many Canadian and American teenagers who were deceitfully recruited by MEK and send to Camp Ashraf, where they were trained for guerilla fights and forced to stay inevitably. In an independent letter sent to the Canadian embassy in Jordan, Somayeh asks for the Canadian government’s help to get her back to Toronto. Later however, she was forced by MEK in a court hearing to denounce her family and state that she wants to stay with MEK “holy worriers’, now a banned terrorist organization under Canadian law since 2005.

Somayeh’s life has been in great danger in the past 10 years and she is defiantly threatened to comply with MEK’ rules. Her story is very damaging to MEK and as a result the organization does not allow Somayeh to leave camp Ashraf in order to contact or meet with the Canadian Officials in private or in a 3rd party country. This has further complicated her case, as she officially told an immigration judge over satellite phone that she does not wish to return to Canada. Her family and friends know this to be a testimony made under pressure and therefore devoid of any truth. Somayeh is kept like a hostage at Camp Ashraf and must be treated like one.

Family and Friends of Somayeh Mohammadi  :

We are Family and Friends of Somayeh Mohammadi who are deeply concerned about her safety as she has been forcefully kept by Mojahedin-e Khalagh (MEK), Iranian guerrilla fighters in Iraq, for the past ten years. Somayeh is one of the many Canadian and American youth who were recruited to monthly camps when they were teenagers, only to be kept like hostages at the headquarters of the Organization of the Freedom Fighters of the Iranian People, Camp Ashraf, Iraq. This website is to raise awareness about Somayeh’s case and help us organize our campaign to save Somayeh.

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Iraq

Iran-U.S. Ambassadors in Exclusive Meeting

By the invitation of Iraqi National Security advisor, Mowafaq al-Rubai, The ambassadors of Iran and the U.S. held a meeting in his house.

The content of this three-hour meeting, that coincided with the meeting of joint trilateral committee (comprising of Iranian, American and Iraqi experts on security), has not been published.

Joint trilateral committee, that held its meeting on Monday, is aimed at stopping terrorism and violence in Iraq. The meeting, hosted by Iraq, was held in Nuri Al-Maliki’s office in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

Al-Ittihad/Iraq  –  2007/08/09

 

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Iraq

MKO’s Case in New Judicial Phase

Judge Jafar al-Moosavi, the chief prosecutor of Iraq’s High Criminal Court, said: "Principal legal measures have been taken against the MKO."

In an interview with Aswat al-Iraq, he added: "After documents and evidences were collected on MKO’s involvement in killing Iraqis and plundering their properties, the case is now in judicial phase."

"American forces can’t protect the MKO against Iraq’s judiciary, which seeks the punishment of the group."

Stressing that Iraq’s judiciary will not give in to pressure by Americans and others, he said: "Judgment is independent and no one can protect criminals who killed Iraqis."

The organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq, Iranian opposition based in Camp Ashraf, was supported by the former regime during the war against Iran.

Some groups and parties in the current government have asked for the expulsion of the group from Iraq because of its involvement in assassination of Iraqi oppositions and suppressing the uprising of 1991.

Aswat al-Iraq – 20070813

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

UN and Iraq Cooperate to Expel the MKO

"There are legal rulings on the leaders of MKO and PKK. However, what prevents their expulsion from Iraq is that no country is willing to accept them," said Hussein Kamal, representative of Iraqi Interior Ministry, during "Security Conference" in Damascus.

"We don’t want these groups to disrupt the stability of our neighboring countries."

"With the cooperation of the UN, Iraq is negotiating with some countries to convince them to accept the MKO," he added.

It should be noted that the security experts of Iraq’s neighbors joined the security conference in Damascus on Wednesday and Thursday; permanent members of the UN Security Council also participated in the conference.

 

Sotaliraq – 2007/08/14

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