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Prospects of Armageddon

The logic that defends past nuclear atrocities is now used to support a strike against Iran

It is appalling, if unsurprising, to read the neoconservative cheerleader Oliver Kamm arguing in these pages that the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki 62 years ago saved lives and ended suffering. The subtext is plain. The same camp whose vocal endorsement led to the present catastrophe in Iraq are now hawkishly gazing at Iran. The same absurd and dangerous logic that defends the nuclear atrocities of 1945 can now be used to support the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against Iran – the threat of which in turn makes the idea of a conventional attack appear more palatable. Now, more than ever, we should be unequivocal in our moral position: as Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said, the mere possession of nuclear weapons today should be viewed with the same condemnation and horror as we have regarded slavery and genocide in our modern civilized world.

Astonishingly, the calamity of Iraq has failed to dampen the belligerent clique within the White House. The arrival of an IAEA team in Tehran yesterday to discuss inspections is equally unlikely to dissuade advocates of a strike, nuclear or conventional. Such an assault would be in flagrant breach of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but it would hardly be the first time the US has disregarded the 1968 accord.

The treaty obliges nuclear states to pursue negotiations in good faith towards cessation of the nuclear arms race and on to disarmament. It also guarantees non-nuclear states help with and access to peaceful nuclear know-how and technology.

All five original nuclear states are in violation of the treaty for failing to take effective action towards disarmament. The US systematically contravened the treaty in the 1980s and 1990s by successfully bringing pressure to bear on western governments and companies, as well as China and Russia, not to enter nuclear collaborations with Iran – which, as a signatory of the treaty, has been entitled since 1970 to receive material, technology and information for the peaceful use of nuclear power. This eventually drove Iran, after the bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear plant by Israel in 1981, on to the black market in order to pursue its nuclear programme. The subsequent partial concealment of Iran’s nuclear activities gave rise to western suspicion of its nuclear ambitions, but rarely does the media characterisation make reference to the context in which the recourse to the black market took place. It is rare, too, to see mention made of the fact that the IAEA has found no evidence of a weapons programme after over 2,200 hours of snap inspections of Iranian nuclear plants.

In marked contrast to western suspicion of Iran, the real nuclear programme in Israel has been eagerly sponsored by the governments of France, Britain and the US. They have actively supported Israel’s development of an arsenal estimated to include more than 200 warheads. It is a weapons programme Tel Aviv is determined to shroud in secrecy. Mordechai Vanunu served an 18-year prison sentence, including 12 years in solitary confinement, after speaking publicly of Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons in 1986. Last month he was sentenced to a further six months in prison for speaking to foreigners .

Even as Iran discusses renewed inspections with the IAEA, the risk of a military attack on its nuclear facilities remains high. Israel’s threat to deploy nuclear bunker busters to destroy Iran’s weapons potential is in line with the US’s national security strategy of 2006 and the Pentagon’s doctrine for joint nuclear operations which justifies use of tactical nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states as a”deterrent”. The ultimate irony is that the leading violator of the treaty, the US, and the region’s sole nuclear power and non-signatory, Israel, are contemplating nuclear strikes on the pretext of nuclear limitation.

Last year John McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful and an advocate of keeping the military option against Iran on the table, was asked what the consequence of an attack on Iran would be. His response was only one word:”Armageddon.”After three devastating wars driven by the US, Britain and Israel since 9/11, the prospect of a catastrophic war against Iran hangs over the region.

While the world remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an international statement endorsed by dozens of leading peace, anti-nuclear and community organisations in the UK, US and Israel, as well as five Nobel laureates, calls for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. Israel could do the region a great service by announcing immediately that it is to disable its nuclear arsenal.

Abbas Edalat is professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College London and founder of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran; Mehrnaz Shahabi is the campaign’s executive editor

www.campaigniran.org

Guardian, August 07, 2007

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Abbas Edalat and Mehrnaz Shahabi

Tuesday August 7, 2007

The Guardian

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USA

Is US backing Maliki’s government?

The democratically-elected government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is constantly being undermined by widespread and unwarranted US meddling in Iraq’s internal affairs. There is vast body of evidence to prove this accusation.

Maliki, who is seen by Washington as an obstacle in the way of its plans in the oil rich-country, has come under pressure for his remarks about various issues, for example the criticism of a US plan for the construction of separation walls around Baghdad neighborhoods and the issue of US troops withdrawal from Iraq.

Washington, which has long been eyeing Iraq’s oil reserves– the second largest in the world–, has been exerting pressures on the Iraqi government and parliament to pass a controversial oil draft law that safeguards the interests of foreign oil companies rather than of the Iraqi nation.

The US has been pushing on with the law, claiming that it will guarantee a more equitable distribution of oil revenues among Iraqis. Yet another baseless claim aimed at disguising the real motivation of the Bush Administration.

Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi consultant to the American Friends Service Committee in an interview with Press TV says that”Both the government and the parliament have been resisting the bill because they see it as contrary to the interests of the nation.”

There has also been a chorus of disapproval on the part of Iraqi experts who argue that the draft law does not have anything to do with revenue sharing. They say that the law would have disastrous consequences for the Iraqi nation as it would decentralize the process of decision-making for signing oil contracts and in this way it would threaten the country’s political integrity.

The negative impacts of the law will become more evident if we notice what prominent American scholar Noam Chomsky quotes from US vice President Dick Cheney in his website, that control over oil pipelines is a”tool of intimidation and blackmail”. Other US

policymakers have pointed out that if the United States controls the natural resources of the Middle East, it will have veto power over its industrial rivals.

Another point related to the main question of the article is the issue of insurgency in Iraq. The fact is that insurgency and insecurity are problems that can easily be misused to justify US presence in Iraq.

However, the Bush administration claims it is trying to curb violence in the country by scarifying the lives of US youth.

If the Bush administration is sincerely trying to do so, why does not it prevent its regional allies from undermining the Iraqi government by financing insurgents and helping them infiltrate into the Iraqi territory?

While the White House goes to great length to accuse Iran and Syria of supporting insurgency in Iraq, the Los Angeles Times quotes a US official as saying that almost half of foreign militants targeting US troops, Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia.

The most interesting point about these insurgents and suicide bombers is that they are entering the Iraqi territory through its western borders which are surprisingly controlled by US forces.

On the other hand, Iraq’s National Security Counselor Fazel al-Shavili has disclosed that Saudi Arabian princes provide financial support to an anti-Iran terrorist group in Iraq.

He has said the Iraqi government has found concrete documents showing that Saudi princes pay a monthly sum of $30 million to the armed terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).

The MKO, known in Iran as Monafeqin meaning hypocrites, was a close ally of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and contributed to the suppression of the Iraqi people under the Baath regime. The group’s members also have carried out many terrorist attacks against Iraqi and Iranian civilians.

In mid July, the Iraqi daily Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah wrote that the Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan has donated $750,000 to the MKO providing that the terrorist group contributes to the debilitating of the Iraqi government.

Prince Bandar, who served for 20 years as Saudi ambassador to the US, maintains close ties with US Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush who ‘affectionately’ gave him the nickname ‘Bandar Bush’.

Another scenario which is simultaneously being followed is a planned coup against Maliki. Two weeks ago, news outlets unveiled that Cheney has been planning to topple Malki’s government by proposing a no-confidence vote against him.

Certain Iraqi politicians threw their weight behind the plot against the democratically elected Premier.

Those politicians, one of whom is known for masterminding a previous coup plot against Maliki, have been enjoying widespread support from Washington.

Recent remarks by Iyad Allawi, who had been appointed by the White House as Iraq’s Prime Minister in the interim government, can be interpreted as being in line with Cheney’s plan.

Allawi has recently said Maliki’s government is ‘built on the philosophy of sectarianism’ and will never be able to promote the ‘process of reconciliation.’

To solve the problem, he has further called for the intervention of the UN and Arab League which has been involved in futile efforts to settle different political crises in the region.

The all-too-clear fact which apparently must be reminded to Mr. Allawi is that no one can solve Iraq’s problems better than the Iraqis themselves. But the question which remains unanswered with regard to Mr. Allawi’s remark is: why should he try to involve other regional or international bodies particularly when the Iraqi nation has proven that it can prudently make decisions concerning the future of their country?

The latest move in the Iraqi political arena, which can be considered as being in line with Cheney’s scheme in impeding Maliki’s government, is the resignation of the ministers of the main Sunni Arab bloc, National Concord Front.

The front accuses the Maliki government of the arbitrary arrest and detention of Sunni citizens; accusations that the government has repeatedly dismissed.

Last month, the Front had threatened that its six ministers would suspend participation in the government to protest the attempted arrest of Culture Minister Asaad Kamal al-Hashemi.

Hashemi has been accused by an Iraqi court of orchestrating the attempted assassination of a fellow Sunni MP, Mithal al-Alussi, in an ambush that left two of Alussi’s sons dead. Al-Hashemi made his escape into the US Embassy where he took shelter in order to escape justice.

As it appears every problem in Iraq is in one way or another related to the Americans who are shouting loudly through their media that they are doing their best to protect the interests of the Iraqi nation and their elected government.

DT/HGH/RE Thu, 02 Aug 2007 By Davood Taabbodi, Press TV, Tehran

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Indecent Visions-Zucker,Horowitz and MKO Communist Terrorists

Professor Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker, David Horowitz, and the Pol Pot of Iran Communist Terrorists

“I make no apologies for my present position. My values have not changed, but my sense of what supports them and makes them possible has. It was what I thought was the humanity of the Marxist idea that made me what I was; it is the inhumanity of what I have seen to be the Marxist reality that has made me what I am.” –David Horowitz, Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey

With some exceptions, David Horowtiz’s FrontPage Magazine continues to promote the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists. On August 1, 2007, FrontPage Magazine published “Hat in Hand” by Professor Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker, a supporter of the Rajavi Cult, who concluded after promoting a terrorist organization on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations: “With a track record of twenty-eight years of lies, deceit, obfuscation and terror, the Iranian regime’s modus operandi should be clear to all with decent vision. For those still failing to see it, my glasses are available for the asking.”

Even the New York Times, with its long history of promoting communists, reported:

“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. The Pentagon has seen the fatal flaw of hitching itself to volatile groups like the Islamists who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and, more recently, the Iraqi exile groups who had no popular base at home. It seems dangerously myopic that the U.S. is even considering resurrecting the Rajavis and their army of Stepford wives.”

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

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=801

FrontPage Magazine has posted some articles critical of the Rajavi Cult, including Michael Rubin’s”Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq, January 13, 2006.

After FrontPage Magazine added the MEK to its monsters of the left list, FrontPage Magazine has been promoting the MEK with articles (not comments) by MEK supporters, such as: Ali Safavi’s “Missing the Mark on Iran”, FrontPage Magazine, January 27, 2006.

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The cult of Rajavi

Morphology of Terrorism, Cult, and Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (part 5)

The translated text of Dr. Massoudinia’s speech made at the Symposium of the Link between Cults and Terrorism held in Isfahan.

5. Control of Relations within MKO: a Review of Banisader’s ‘Memories of an Iranian Rebel’

The book “memories of an Iranian Rebel” written by Mas’ud Banisadr, is one of the significant documents in inter-organizational relations of MKO. As it was pointed out, the third index of cults is brainwashing and mental control of cultists. This book is an amazing document in this regard. The final section of the present article is a review of this book in order to actualize professional indices of relations of MKO. Psychological strategies used for justifying people such as the length of organizational sessions, debriefing strategies and mental control, duality of extra and intra relations, humiliating members, cutting emotional relations with relatives, determining the relation of members with others, and their family in particular!

Internal controlling system of MKO in contrast with traditional cultist system focuses on some complex and unbelievable dimensions. Traditional system controlled members mentally using middle ages strategies. Classic cultist strategies exert security control directly toward the extent of inclination and submission of members. MKO make use of modern sciences for controlling members and even the slightest degree of members’ disobedience. Mas’ud Banisadr quotes an instance of behavior of MKO leader (Rajavi) with executive members, i.e. the highest inter-organizational assembly. This case reveals some points about the nature of such relations. He writes:

In an assembly of executive officials, Rajavi said: ‘Doctor told me that your urine is foamy, while it is not so in ordinary members’. We were shocked. He added: ‘Do not look at me as such. It seems that you do not understand what I say. It means that you cannot control your sexual tendencies yet and seminal fluid results in your urine be foamy while other members have not such a problem.’ Then a number of members started to confirm his comments and even one of them said: ‘We are not executive officials, we are heys (a word said to donkeys while carrying load). Then they all imitated him saying the word hey. (57)

Comparing sexual relations of ideological revolution of MKO with historical cases such as exoteric sect of Isma’ili under the leadership of Hassan Sabbah which emasculated members shows that the former results in more severe mental consequences. Emasculation of exoteric members has been physical while that of MKO id psychological and life-long and makes members subject to public scandal. In addition, such a process is a kind of mental emasculation. Those involved in such process, prefer methods used by Hassan Sabbah. Banisadr says:

I can not accept that physical emasculation is more difficult. It consists of a surgery with a period of convalescence while mental emasculation involves severe life-long pain. (58)

Debriefing strategies in MKO are a mixture of traditional, modern and even religious methods in middle ages and contemporary period. One of such controlling strategies of preventing any disobedience is the principle of confession. It forces members to confess to all their internal conflicts, whether mental, emotional, or sexual.

In this process, the member has to explain all his past and present events openly.

What follow is the comments of Banisadr of his memory in childhood. He has to explain it publicly to prove his capacity for transferring to the next stage of ideological revolution.

My most annoying memory is a sexual rape which happened in my childhood. I had never spoken about it .In fact I had forgotten it. But there I had to explain it. It was very difficult for me to speak about it since in Iranian culture and even in the world it is a kind of disgrace and shame. (59)

Another principle of ideological revolution is called ‘cutting all past attachments’. In this phase, members have to cut all their emotional relations of the past and form new ones based on new criteria. So they have to sacrifice all their emotions and even kill their relatives. Banisadr describes this phase of ideological revolution as follows:

The session was titled ‘cutting all past attachments’. A man had to leave his girlfriend to pass this phase. He told me crying that he loved her so much but could not marry her because of his beliefs. Another member had to leave his brother who was a council employee and even had to promise that he would kill him if necessary. (60)

Passing this phase required the destruction of whatever belonged to the past. Maybe the most difficult phase of this process for me was burning all my family photos. The members had to not only forget their past but also deny all their relations. Banisadr this process as follows:

I cut all my family photos into pieces since I had to deny all my relatives and even my parents. Maybe my father is responsible for my bourgeois tendencies and I have inherited my calm nature from my mother. Ann (my wife) asked me crying not to do so because they were not just mine. But I had to do so. After that I was welcomed to the organization. (61)

The points of similarity between these comments and studies about cultist relations which cut members from their past is amazing. It is even more interesting that such an action is considered as a holy one. Such a strategy considers cutting emotional relations as a religious action. Singer refers to this point in his cultist studies:

As part of the process of inducing guilt, all the recruit’s former personal connections are deemed satanic or evil by the cult and are shown to be "against the chosen way. Since nonbelievers are bad, all relations with parents, friends, and other nonmembers are supposed to be halted. Any weakness in this area is considered bad. The consequent impact is that recruits feel deep guilt about their pasts. Besides having their families and personal relationships condemned, recruits are also led to believe that they themselves were "bad people" before joining the group. (62)

Singer refers to a case in which MKO prevented a woman to meet her brother. How can we justify such an action? And why such an ordinary meeting is considered so significant? Singer answers as follows:

In another example, a woman’s brother, who lived out of town, came to the cult house to visit her while she was working her shift in the cult-run factory. For this reason she missed seeing him, but cult officials told her, "See, the Divine Plan willed it that you must not see your brother. (63)

Singer describes psychological aspects of such a process as follows:

Brainwashing is not experienced as a fever or a pain might be; it is an invisible social adaptation. When you are the subject of it, you are unaware of the running procedures and, moreover, the changes that form inside you. (64)

Members are convinced that they can not live without cultist relations and without which they would be subject to banality, passivity, etc. Singer describes this aspect of cultist relations as follows:

The recruits are also imbrued that if they leave, they will be damned or they themselves will die a pitiful death or become losers or lost souls. In this way, anxiety is heaped upon the guilt. Just as the initial love bombing awakened feelings of warmth, acceptance, and worthiness, now group condemnation leaves recruits full of self-doubt, guilt, and anxiety. Through this kind of manipulation, they are convinced that they can be saved only if they stay within the group. (65)

The mechanisms of cults make members believe in leadership to the point that they even kneel down to the leader and pronounce the articles of faith. Hossein Abrishamchi writes to Rajavi:

I wish to come to you, who are the leader of this great revolution, and kneel down and profess my devotion â€¦. (66)

Abu-al-Ghasem Rezaei, another member of MKO asks Rajavi to intercede on his behalf in the hereafter. (67)

Mas’ud Banisadr refers to the long time of sessions during the ideological revolution and points out its mental consequences. He says that some sessions lasted three days. He says:

This session (with Abrishamchi) took three days and nobody slept. (68)

Banisadr describes the reaction of one of members who wanted to resist against the revolution as follows:

Suddenly, one of officials called Behnam knocked his head to the wall so strongly that it bled. (69)

Terrorism is a threat against security and peace. It exploits people in organizational relations. The findings of recent studies show that as technology and science develop, the strategies used for the exploitation of members in terrorist groups and cults get more complex. MKO is one of such cases. The disaster caused by the group in contemporary world is unprecedented in terms of the extent of the aggression imposed on citizens. Global consensus and unbiased judgment is the best way of controlling such a phenomenon. Western countries should not repeat their mistakes concerning Al-Qaede in the case of MKO. Such organizations do not regard terror and aggression as an instrument but as a worldview. Rajavi says: â€œviper does not give birth to dove". This is his most truthful comment. As such, terrorism would never give birth to democracy and freedom. According to Oscar Wild, it is too difficult to shake hands with blood-stained hands even in exchange for freedom.

Endnotes

57. Banisadr, Masâ€™ud,. Memories of an Iranian Rebel, 2005, Khavaran Publication.

58. ibid.

59. ibid.

60. ibid.

61. ibid.

62. Singer, Margaret Thaler. Cults in our midst, 118.

63. ibid.

64. ibid, 61.

65. ibid, 119.

66. Mojahed journal. No.247. p.27.

67. ibid.

68. Banisadr, Mas’ud; Memories of an Iranian Rebel, 2005.

69. ibid

Nejat Association May 2007

Translated by mojahedin.ws

July, 2007

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Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Abuse of Children and MKO’s Least Achievement

In her speech made on 30 June in Paris, Maryam Rajavi, Mojahedin’s cult she-guru, announced her group’s readiness to look after of 1,000 Iraqi orphans. The unexpected demand might be considered a humanitarian move unless you are familiar with MKO’s terrorist and cult nature. But those familiar with the group’s internal relation presuppose differently. Before going any further, it seems essential to reconsider the following issues:

*. Surveying the issue of family in Mojahedin’s organizational relations from the beginning until the ideological revolution.

*. Surveying condition of children in Mojahedin’s organizational relations from the beginning until the ideological revolution

It is not wrong to say that the family has been an issue of dispute in MKO that has challenged it from its very beginning. For Mojahedin, the legitimacy of any phenomenon is appraised according to its degree of accordance with the ideological and political ends of the organization. Since the family in itself necessitates certain responsibilities, then, any enforced responsibility out of the organizational command is deemed to be an impending element. In the history of the organization, we encounter countless instances of forced organizational marriage and divorce and in many cases, the group plotted tricks to debilitate the emotional attachments between the couples that resulted in divorce.

Unlike what is sought in conventional marriages, Mojahedin’s organizational marriages were prudent policies for the accomplishment of political objectives. In fact, none of these marriages rested on love and emotional infrastructure and the leaders weighed it as an appropriate means to gratify sexual needs of the members to expedite the fulfilment of the organization’s policies. Consequently, unbidden fruits of these marriages, namely the children, will have no better destiny than their parents.

Thus, looking at family and children as instruments to achieve power and political goals, MKO leader’s shedding crocodile tears for Iraqi children is supposed to be a bid to attain certain interests. Here are suppositions that prove Maryam Rajavi’s demand is a suspicious political tactic rather than a humanitarian move.

At the present, MKO has an unstable and unbearable position in Iraq. The Iraqi government is determined to expel the group as a terrorist group that is conspiring with insurgent dissidents against the Iraqi legal government. To frustrate terrorists’ plots, the Iraqi police are debarring Iraqis from visiting Camp Ashraf known as the den of conspiracy. Maryam Rajavi’s suggestion at such a critical juncture is a countermeasure tactic. In case the international humanitarian organizations welcome the offer for the wellbeing of the innocent children, and if we are cautiously optimistic of a good-will-prone offer, MKO’s expulsion from Iraq will be postponed.

MKO continue to maintain on the State Department and the EU terror list that has greatly undermined MKO’s political manoeuvre and has jammed it in a political cul-de-sac. In fact, it is big strategic failure for MKO that advertise to pose as an alternative for Iranian regime. Maryam Rajavi’s offer, supported by the group’s advocates that lobby Western parliaments, contributes to augment propagandistic pressures in an attempt to remove the terrorist label.

The Human Rights Watch report concerning human rights abuse within MKO and the group’s cult-like practices against the insiders is pressing the group to provide justifiable reasons for the insider and outsider critics. Maryam Rajavi’s offer is a futile struggle that implicitly challenges the HRW’s report and rebuts the critics.

The US State Department’s released list of designated terrorist organizations on April 30 highlighted unprecedented facts about MKO and announced that “In addition to its terrorist credentials, the MEK has also displayed cult-like characteristics”. It also asserted that MKO’s members are required to undertake a vow of "eternal divorce" and that children are reportedly separated from parents at a young age. MKO has so far dodged explaining away such allegations and Maryam Rajavi’s publicized proposal, if gains public acclaim, might partly challenge the accusations.

Maryam Rajavi’s offer that justifiably depicts the painful plight of Iraqi children draws support of many human rights activists to welcome the seemingly humanitarian move. It would be relatively a success for the group both in political stage and fundraising activities. Exploiting children for fundraising has its own long history in MKO. After separating children from their parents, these innocent children were sent to Western countries to take part in the street fund-raising activities under false pretences of being homeless Iranian children whose parents were executed by Iranian regime. For years Mojahedin were active in illegal fundraising activities through charities like Iran Aid in England; the funds were then spent in purchase of the arms. Possibly, the group seeks to establish a similar Iraq Aid charity in Iraq to cover the expenses of its terrorist and cult activities.

The ex-members’ increased counter-MKO activities to bring further secrets of manipulating cult-like techniques of the group into light has much frustrated the organization. The group’s manner of confronting the dissidents is typically violent. In his recent message issued from his hideout, Massoud Rajavi plainly threatened the dissidents and critics of the group. The harsh reaction provides cult-proven and undemocratic attitudes of MKO. Any positive reaction to Maryam Rajavi’s offer questions the accuracy of the ex-members’ disclosures and decreases the consequent psychological pressures exerted on MKO.

Inactivity and passiveness are dominating Camp Ashraf as a result of great disappointment of an uncertain destiny in Iraq. It has debilitated the morale of the forces in Camp Asharf to a great extent especially following the redesignation of the group as a terrorist group that works an inevitable impediment to seek asylum in any country. If Maryam Rajavi’s suggestion catches a global attention, it will give the forces encouragement of reconsidering their detachment and leave of Camp Ashraf.

The ex-member activists in European countries and especially in Iran centralized under Nejat Assossiation, established by the ex-members and the families of the members still held in MKO, is a big challenge for the group. The emotional impact of the families on the members who have been deprived of all emotional relations are inevitable. The families visit and contact with members in Camp Ashraf has jeopardised the group’s security and contribute to unveil what the organization prefers to remain concealed.

Thus, the real intention of MKO terrorist cult weighs on a globally acclaimed humanitarian move and proposal. That is enough to see children being victimized in a cult that respects not the least for their rights. Ideologically controlled context of MKO hardly leaves a suitable room for children to grow up and, frankly speaking, MKO lacks any standard concerning children, their rights, and even how to take care of them in the same way as the world outside. The process of mutation in Mojahedin cult is extraordinary; a lamb entering the cult comes out as a tiger.

Bahar Irani – Mojahedin.ws – August 5, 2007

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Iran

Iran condemned British overt support for a Proscribed terrorist group, Mojahedin Khalq Cult

MKO terrorism never be purged by new acronyms, UK weekly told

The Iranian Embassy in London has condemned attempts by some British newspapers and MPs to deproscribe the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MKO or PMOI) as an international terrorist organization.

"Surely use of different, new acronyms such as PMOI, NCRI, etc. can never purge the organisation’s long record of criminal activities," the embassy said.

No re-labeling can "put a shine on a body recognized internationally as a terrorist organisation, or in any way justify their terrorist cause," it said in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph.

The letter referred to an article in the weekly’s previous addition on July 29, in which it said that the writer, Christopher Booker, had one clear obligation "to whitewash the background of a cult whose cruelty and hypocrisy are evident to concerned authorities and international bodies."

"It is not a baffling scandal of contemporary politics as the writer says, to categorize PMOI in the UK terror list, the irony is rather the way some former officials as well as MPs are trying to appease Saddam Hussein’s ex-accomplices," the letter also received by IRNA read.

The embassy reminded the paper that the terrorist group "actively took part in slaughtering Iraqi civilians in order to receive the support of the Iraq doomed dictator."

"The bewilderment becomes even greater to see efforts by some lawmakers to help a cult which is proscribed even by some western governments for their atrocities towards Iranians, Kurds and Arabs," it said.

Last year, the embassy castigated the paper for reporting unsubstantiated allegations orchestrated by the MKO to distract attention from the catastrophic situation in Iraq.

In 2005, its sister paper, the Daily Telegraph went as far as calling in its editorial for support for the MKO terrorist group based in Iraq to overthrow Iran’s elected government.

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Notes:

Mr. Booker’s article has been translated in to Farsi and posted in Mojahedin Khalq Organisation web sites (on the list of Terrorist organisation in USA, EU, Canada and United Kingdam!!) shortly before the publication of this article in Telegraph!! (Iran Interlink)

Link to: State Department’s Report on Mojahedin Khalq Orgainsation, Rajavi cult headed by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi (2007)

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2309

Link to Mr. Booker article in Telegraph.co.uk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/29/nbook129.xml

Related material:

http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2892

Response to Christopher Booker

(Farsi translation of Mr. Booker’s article was posted in Terrorist websites before coming out in Telegraph!!)

Mojahedin Khalq Organisation Logo

Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, July 29, 2007

Your Sunday Telegraph article of July 29 titled â€œEU flouts its own highest courtâ€¦â€ has some serious flaws that deserve your attention. I have known MEK (PMOI, NCRI, MKO, â€¦) for more than 25 years up-close and personal. I have also studied the group in my role as a researcher. Therefore, I see myself qualified to comment about it. Quite frankly, your article is just an echo of the PMOIâ€™s own propaganda filled with false and misleading information.

The enlistment of the group in the EUâ€™s terror list is based on the groupâ€™s own behavior which is nothing short of a personality cult revolving around its leader, Massoud Rajavi, with a history of violence and a philosophy based on hatred. The group has also been enlisted by the US Government as an FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) which was later upheld in court. In concurring with the Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia, Judge Harry T. Edwards notes: â€œâ€¦the public, unclassified administrative record, including petitionerâ€™s own submission to the Secretary, contains more than enough evidence to support the determination that petitioner (PMOI) engages in terrorist activity.â€ (1)

The December ruling by the EU Court you have referred in your article did not favor de-listing the group. To the contrary, it clearly dismissed the action sought by the PMOI to annul the EU Common Position 2005/936/CFSP- the updated terror list that included the PMOI. It did however order to unfreeze the group’s assets due to lack of proper procedure for such freezing. Therefore, your assertion that the British Government is flouting its own court is not accurate. This ruling is readily available in 16 different languages on the Court’s own official web site. (2) PMOI and its paid politician supporters have misled many about this, relying on that most would not read the actual ruling. I challenged the PMOI to translate the entire ruling (not just the select parts) in Farsi (Persian), and to post the translation on the Internet. They have refused to do so, and will continue such. More than 7 months after the ruling, only the favorable part of the ruling has been published on the group’s Internet site.

Your article also refers to NCRI as a coalition of which PMOI is a member. This is simply not true. Not only people familiar with the group know that NCRI is just a decoy for PMOI; the United States Court of Appeals in Washington DC ruled the following:

After an extensive investigation of MEK and NCRI, the FBI reported to the State Department that “it is the unanimous view of the FBI personnel who are involved in and familiar with the FBI’s investigation of the [MEK]that NCRI is not a separate organization, but is instead, and has been, an integral part of the MEK at all relevant times. Contrary to NCRI’s portrayal of itself as an umbrella organization, of which the MEK was just one member, the FBI concluded that is NCRI that is “the political branch” of the MEK.”(3)

While I truly sympathise with the victims of the brutal Mullah ruling my country, Iran, I caution you not to drift into the PMOI’s propaganda traps by echoing their statistics about the number of people attendant their gatherings, people executed in Iran, and the number of supporters of the group in Iran.

Regards

Ahmad Baaraan

Paris

ABaaraan@yahoo.fr

(1) http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/327F3d1238.html

(2) http://curia.europa.eu (case number T-228/02)

(3) 362 U.S. App. D.C. 143; 373 F.3d 152; 2004

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Terrorist groups and the MEK

Mojahedin Khalq, Al Qaeda joint attack in Iraqi Kurdistan

MKO, al-Qaeda joint attack in Iraq

Tue, 07 Aug 2007

Source: Chavdir

Members of al-Qaeda and the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) have launched an attack on the Vajiheh district, northern Iraq.

A website affiliated to Iraq’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported that four people have been killed and some others injured in the attack.

MKO and al-Qaeda members used rockets and small arms to attack the district.

They were forced to withdraw from the region after military intervention by the Iraqi Army.

Press TV, August 07, 2007

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=18697&sectionid=351020201

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Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

U.S.’s Policies Increase Regional Insecurity

Dr. Kazem Habib, Iraqi prominent expert and researcher, has referred to the issue of MKO and how it’s being used as a tool by the U.S., saying:”It seems that Americans are moving according to international and regional strategies, security, military and political tactics, as well as economical interests under the shade of globalization and along the guidelines of NeoCons.”

Speaking in a conference, held by Institute for Coordination of Iraqi Democratic movement, on”how to escape Iraq’s disasters”, Kazem Habib said:”The U.S. is undoubtedly trying to play an active role in disrupting Iran’s political situation and in this regard uses the MKO as a tool. Therefore, it has indirectly linked Baathists and the MKO in order to create problems for Iran and at the same time serve as leverage against the Iraqi government. So, the security wouldn’t be established in Iraq unless the U.S. left the idea of using Iraqi soil for challenging Iranians.”

“Unfortunately, Americans consider only their own interests and this makes the situation more complex. This is the same policy Israel adopts to put pressure on Arab countries,”he added.

Al-Jeiran newspaper – 2007/08/05

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