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MKO terrorists marketing themselves

Appearing on the page of Detain This was A Commentary on Self-Destructive Neocon Hypocrisy. It begins:

While it should be a non-interventionist approach to keeping in good standing among nations and being as firm as is reasonably necessary, the neocon version of US-Middle East foreign policy has instead been the bullying and preemptively violent m.o. of a few enterprising mafia Dons pimping out the neighborhood for The Family.

The commentary in a few coming paragraphs states how Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization has been employed by some elements of the U.S. government:

And although you never see it reported by the corporate mainstream media, the Iranian opposition group, Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MeK) ” a US-designated terrorist organization since 1997 ” has been harbored and employed by elements of the U.S. government for years. Raw Story reports:

The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say. One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being "run" in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.

MeK. Remember the name. If anything goes down in Iran, they’ll probably be on the front lines in one way or another. They were active in Iran as players in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and thereafter, when they terrorized Americans and fellow Iranians because the MeK weren’t allowed enough power in the new government. They were eventually run out of Iran, but since that time, their footprint on the landscape of US-Iranian contingencies has evolved and expanded; they are marketing themselves well, even peddling their propaganda in the mainstream. One of their spokespeople, Alireza Jafarzadeh, appears on occasion as a "Middle East Expert," or "Terror Expert" on CNN and Fox. (Imagine my shock.) It’s not uncommon for members of the MeK, the U.S government, neocon "think-tanks," and AIPAC to strategize toward mutual goals. I highly suggest that people read up on that group. If interested, be sure to see: U.S. Support for Terrorism in Iran, by Ardeshir Ommani via CASMII, and Gunning for Iran, by Dateline [Australia] via Information Clearing House.

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Habilian Foundation

Habilian Secretary General meets Iraqi Tribes leaders

Last day numbers of Iraqi tribes leaders met Habilian Secretary General and again supported Iraqi government’s decision on expulsion of MKO and also declared their backing of Iran and Iraq’s terror victim’s families.

In this conference tribes leaders, representing all Iraqi people and tribes, were willing to soon expulsion of MKO from their country.

Sheikh Yassin Sarhan, Sheikh Hami Sharhan Aliavi, Sheikh Jaber Karim Al- Ebad, Sheik Fahad Mankhour, Sheikh Sabih Al- Mousavi, Sheikh Haj Karim Hussein Taher and tens of other Tribes sheikhs refused any tribes’ support of MKO and asked Iraqi government to MKO expulsion.

In this intimate conference, at first Mr. Hasheminejad welcomed and reminded them of religious and cultural ties of two nations and also pointed to MKO’s crimes history in Iran.

“You called them Munafeqin correctly; our people also call them like this because of their betrayals and criminal backgrounds. This terrorist organization just can continue in critical conditions. They declared war against our nation in 26 years ago and killed many people in all positions. We have 16000 terror victims. We collected a statistics that Munafeqin has accepted it. Although both of nations are opposition this group is in Iraq. I have heard opinions of Iraqi officials; they are determined to expel MKO but just The US administration has blocked efforts for expulsion of them from the Iraqi soil.

But in fact the US has made a terrorist triangle in Iraq that one of its angles is MKO. If there are stability and peace in Iraq, America and terrorist groups will have to leave there.

What happen in Iraq make a great duty for all Muslims. In last years America formed terrorist groups, which performed terrorist operations against US. America attacked your country because of its impunity from their hurt and its goal wasn’t falling Saddam regime. At first they would say US will leave Iraq after some months. They didn’t have come for democracy they just want pressure Iran government and the best reason for their presence is terrorist group and the best way is disunite religions, which is happening by Munafeqin and Al-Qaeda” Hasheminejad said.

My Iraqi brothers:

If there is no disunion, Islam can grow up. Imperialists want to disunite but we should be careful. This is America’s untruth that Iran interferes in Iraq’s affairs. The US doesn’t want that Iran and Iraq have a right relation such as recent relation and just want these two countries be enemy with each other and it performs this by terrorists. Look at MKO’s opinions, does it mean other things except war, disunion and massacre?

Today tribes’ leaders have important duty and should be careful on enemies’ traps. You know that any country can’t enter into another country with war and bring there peace and freedom. Americans must learn civilization and peaceful coexistence from Iraqi nation. Though they didn’t come for democracy and their presses also have said that this war is the oil war.

After the speech all tribes’ sheikhs affirmed it and declared that the only way to return security to Iraq is expulsion of occupations, terrorists and unit among people.

Sheikh Hami Sharhan Aliavi appreciated because of this opportunity and announced that Iraq and Iran are two great nations in this region and their union can change the region.

“We hope that one day border between us and you become friend border and terrorist group such as MKO be removed and basically there would be no border” he added.

“We are informed on what you said. You spoke about Munafeqin and we can analyze political issues. This organization is opposition with Iraqi government and in their operation during Saddam regime a lot of people were killed more than who were killed by Saddam. Our stance is according to Maleki’s stance. Al Qaeda also has been formed to killing Iraq and Afghanistan’s people. I declare to my brother Hasheminejad that terrorists will not be able change the Iraq to their nest” Sheikh Yassin Sarhan said.

“MKO has killed many people in our and your country. Tribes were very effective in Iraq’s scene and what they decide it will happen. We support Iraqi government strongly”, Sheikh Fahad Mankhour said.

“We are so glad that are in Iran. We are feeling peace that there is a religious relation between two countries and know Iran as a strong Islamic country” Sheikh Hami Sharhan Aliavi said.

Sheikh Al-Haj Karim Hussein Taher also added: “the relation between you and us is stable and constant and who are waiting to disunite, they hope on illusion”.

“What the great Sheiks said is correct. We are suffering from occupations’ presence in Iraq and ask statesmen to expel them. If they leave our country, union will come and we all are willing their expulsion” Sheikh Jabar Karim Al Ebad.

“I appreciate you and now declare our stances and also agree with your anti-imperialism stance. Iraqi nation (whether Sunni or Shiite) accepted MKO as a terrorist organization and also they were formed in Iraq just for killing Shiites” Sheikh Sabih Al Mousavi said.

At the end of this conference, which took 2 hours, some films of MKO’s crimes in Iran and Iraq have been shown and also

some Arabic brochures were presented to tribes’ Sheikhs.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi prince (Bandar Bin Soltan) sponsors Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan supports the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization after he backs al-Qaeda and Fath al-Islam.

In an MKO congress held recently in MKO’s Ashraf military camp in Iraq, Prince Bandar donated $750,000 to the exiled terrorist group in the presence of the former Iraqi Baath leaders, intelligence officers, several members of al-Qaeda and armed group Ansar al-Sunna, Baztab Internet site reported.

The Iraqi daily ‘Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah’ wrote the Saudi prince has mentioned several conditions for helping the congress of terrorists, including the weakening of the present Iraqi government and the participation of Sunnis and Shiites who supported the former Ba’athist regime in the congress.

Prince Bandar, who has served 20 years in the US, has close ties with US President George W. Bush.

The Saudi prince has also played a pivotal role in bringing the Saudi and Zionist regimes closer.

Prince Bandar’s support from MKO in Iraq, al-Qaeda both in Iraq and Afghanistan and Fath al-Islam in Lebanon is a clear instance of interference in Iraq’s internal affairs

Al -Bayyinah al-jadidah, Baghdad, July 2007

Reproduced by Press TV, July 14, 2007

http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=16405&sectionid=351020205

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Documentary on Somayeh Mohammadi Wins Intl. Award

It’s not easy for aspiring filmmakers to get their feet wet in the industry, but Erin Mills resident Simon Chang has done just that.

Chang and his Sheridan College classmate were recently honoured with a prestigious award from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, one of the largest film events in the world. Staged in California, the festival recognizes documentaries and business, educational and entertainment productions.

Writer/narrator Chang and his Toronto producer/researcher, Neha Gandhi, were recipients of the student award in the public issues and concerns category. They won for their documentary, Breaking the Ties that Bind.

“It felt good getting recognition on an international level,” says Chang.

Gandhi said it’s a good start for the young filmmakers, students in Sheridan’s Media Arts program.

“(The festival) was about meeting a lot of filmmakers around the world. It’s a step in the door,” says Gandhi.

Breaking the Ties that Bind is about terrorist organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The film focuses on an Iranian family’s attempt to rescue their daughter from an MEK camp in Iraq. Almost a decade ago, Somayeh Mohammady left Toronto to go to Iraq to learn about her family history. Instead, she was forced to stay at Camp Ashraf, a terrorist camp. She remains there, brainwashed.

Breaking the Ties that Bind features an emotional interview with Mustafa Mohammady, Somayeh’s father.

“(The film has) been compared to professional news programs, like 20/20,” says Chang, a former University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) student.

Gandhi believes their film, one of 115 student entries, won because they touched on a topic that’s impossible to ignore.

“What’s really important for people to know is that other women and children have been brainwashed (by MEK). Today, it’s Somayeh. Tomorrow, it could be anyone else. It’s not an issue that can be overlooked,” explains Gandhi.

The film began as a class project and took six weeks to complete. It was an unforgettable experience for the filmmakers.

“You get so caught up in the story, you have to remind yourself to be objective (as a filmmaker),” says Chang.

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for more information:

somayeh.org

Mississauga News

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

A Mob Rented for the Cameras

Kenneth R. Timmerman’s recent article No Second Marriages in Iran published in FrontPageMagazine at the first look seems to be disparaging MKO’s extravagantly advertised flamboyant show held in Paris on 30 June. But, regardless of his ever remaining skeptical of MKO’s deeds and claims, his remarks lack nothing of the truth. I think that his article dismisses doubts concerning the real intention of the cult concealed behind staging such multi-media shows now that the group encounters the gravest impassable stalemate in its entire political struggle. And, of course, one unfamiliar with MKO’s artful tricks really gets puzzled to see how a blacklisted terrorist group dupe, buy or does whatever trick to gather a mob of considerable number in a Western capital wherein its activities are banned.

Although one may be disappointed to see how a number of political activists in the West for certain political or personal concerns dance with a terrorist group, but it is so encouraging to notice a great more are well acquainted with the group’s treacherous and misleading moves. If one buries his head under the sand, of course, there are people standing there laughing at him. In no water can Mojahedin wash the blood stains of their past atrocious terrorist crimes which are broadly exposed to the world. Here are excerpts from Mr. Timmerman’s article to read for yourself:

MEK organizers staged a multi-media extravaganza recently at a gigantic exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris that was worthy of Third Reich propagandists.

The MEK itself claimed that 50,000 people attended the June 30 event. Even their supporters, however, knew the number was inflated and settled on 20,000. The normally level-headed Daniel Pipes, who attended the event, failed to ask how many of those who came to the rally had been paid by MEK recruiters, a common practise I exposed two years ago in covering a much smaller rally in New York.

The MEK has always been able to rent a crowd for the benefit of TV cameras and naïve Western commentators.

Where they have not succeeded, however, is to convince their fellow Iranians that they have discarded the Marxist-Islamist ideology that made them join forces with Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, when they helped to round up senior officers in the Iranian military for execution by the Islamist komitehs.

Pipes noted that the “slick production” outside Paris was “aimed mostly at an audience outside the hall, especially in Iran,” with the goal of “reminding Iranians that an alternative does exist to today’s theocracy.”

The only problem is that the MEK does not represent an “alternative” to the Islamic regime, but just another flavor of tyranny.

After the group lost its power struggle with Khomeini in 1981 they fled to Iraq, where Saddam Hussein welcomed them with open arms.

He allowed the MEK to establish training camps near the Iranian border, and used MEK units to smash the Kurds in northern Iraq. (And if you believe all the rented names of so-called Iraqi tribal leaders who sign those full-page ads in American newspapers calling for the U.S. to support the MEK, just ask Iraqi president Jalal Talabani what he thinks of the group.)

In April 1988, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi and his political ‘wife,” Maryam, announced the coming liberation of Iran and sent their Iraq-based troops across the border into Iran.

The intended “liberation” quickly turned to disaster. Although there were no Revolutionary Guards or even regular Iranian army units in the vicinity, the MEK were so hated by Iranians that old men and young boys killed the invaders with pitchforks.

Thousands were slaughtered in a matter of days and the Rajavi’s liberation “army” never recovered. (That didn’t prevent these masters of Nazi-style propaganda from claiming a huge victory, even parading about afterwards in “captured” Iranian tanks that had been loaned to them by Saddam Hussein).

When making a revolution, it is critical to choose one’s allies well. This is a group that openly boasts of having murdered Americans, and that aspires to dictatorial power in Iran. Their track record is clear. July 14, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO, Political Refugee or Opposition Force?

Considering the position and role of MKO in Iraq and disregarding its interference that escalate the internal tension, it is a proven fact that MKO’s so-called political stance toward the Iraqi government, parliament, and constitution display tokens of interference in internal affairs of Iraq. To what extent these hostile and blasphemous attitudes are in broad violation of what MKO claim to be asylum rights activities according to international conventions is a matter of consideration. But the current position of Mojahedin in Iraq, before they are recognized a legal or illegal group of refugees, is naturally the reputation of a violent opposition that intends to destabilize a sovereignty.

The very present attempt by MKO to regulate relations with the Iraqi government constitutes part of the legal challenges met by international organizations which has to be elaborated on. On the other hand, the current position of Mojahedin claiming to be refugees since a long past compared with their status in the reign of Saddam is not a matter of least significance. They are the same Mojahedin that before Saddam’s fall adulated him as their strategic and ideological ally, but now they have made a complete shift to maintain solidarity with the same people they colluded with the dictator to suppress. How these contradictory attitudes and positions have convinced Mojahedin’s current Iraqi associates is another question. Unfortunately, neither the Iraqi government nor MKO’s supporters are interested to engage in a realistic analysis of the issue. It might imply that MKO’s supporters in Iraq are Saddam’s sympathizers although nothing is certain. In any case, it is Iraqi people and the government that have to pay the cost.

The main cause of MKO’s interference in Iraqi affairs is an indetermination to confront Mojahedin’s dissident moves that emboldens the group to consider it certain right to play a political role in Iraq. Alireza Ja’farzadeh in an interview with al-hurra TV rejected the accusations made by Ali Al-Dabbagh, Iraqi government spokesman, that Mojahedin are engaged in terrorist moves in Iraq but he did not denied that the group is engaged in political activities:

Dabbaq could not present even one example of terrorist activities of Mojahedin in Iraq. I just heard him saying, ‘they are engaged in political activities’. Is it equal to terrorism!!

With such a confession made, now the question is why Mojahedin are interested in interfering politically in Iraq’s domestic affairs. Moreover, it has to be taken into consideration that Mojahedin repeatedly have maintained that they are political refugees threatened by the Iranian government and are to be supported according to international conventions. They justify their stay in Iraq as individuals who have been legally granted asylum for 20 years or so. Thus, granted that Mojahedin are sincere in their claims that they are trying to work out a strategic objective of establishing democracy in Iraq, the question now is why Mojahedin in the reign of Saddam MKO never made such a claim and formed a strategic alliance with him in total dismissal of people’s demands, namely democracy in Iraq. It might imply that Saddam was believed to be much more democratic than the new Iraqi government! Besides, Even if Mojahedin’s current opposition to the Iraqi government is, as they propagate, a recognized legitimate right, why they were deprived of the right in Saddam’s time when the asylum is claimed to have been granted?

It has been obvious from the beginning that Mojahedin’s attitude, as a violent opposition, toward Nuri al-Maliki’s government has been hostile and cynical. The attitude in no way conforms to the standards of asylum-seeking. Mr. Al-Dabbagh reiterates that Mojahedin unlawful role played in Iraqi internal affairs is far beyond the claimed refugees’ right. Referring to some instances of MKO’ moves to challenge Iraqi legal government he said:

Last Saturday, the organization held a session with Iraqi politicians; an issue that has to be investigated by the parliament. But concerning their opposition and propaganda against Iraq’s political trend, their Arabic published paper Mojahed, for instance, addresses the legally elected government calling it a preposterous cabinet.

The statements made by Ali al-Dabbaq imply that the Iraqi government tolerates MKO despite being aware of the negative role it plays in Iraq. Iraqi spokesman claims to have access to some documents against MKO that are kept secret due to security concerns. He asserts that:

The Iraqi government does not intend to expel MKO by force. Therefore, we are cooperating with the U.N. to find a third country to receive them. There are numerous documents against Mojahedin but as it is an issue of national security, they cannot be publicized. We keep documents that indicate they are even watching the Iraqi government. Even the U.N. is not allowed to visit their camp freely and it has no clear description of the organization since MKO conforms to none of its published descriptions.

At this juncture that Iraq is engulfed in crisis and disorder, MKO is demanding for more than refuges might ask because they receive full backing of the coalition forces and the U.S. in particular. Although the Iraqi government insists on expelling MKO, the group considers its political interference in Iraqi affairs as an absolute right for itself. The Iraq’s present dilemmatic situation makes it difficult to prove that Mojahedin are turning from being mere refugees to a formidable opposition force. It seems that the Iraqi government has actually sensed the threat of MKO and that its base constitutes a bastion for the Iraqi opposition and insurgents since all traffic from and to Camp Ashraf are banned and Iraqis have been prohibited to take part in the group’s gatherings held there.

July 14, 2007 – Mojahedin.ws

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The cult of Rajavi

Behavior Control Techniques in Mojahedin Cult (8)

Of the major challenges touched upon by MKO’s ex-members after the ideological revolution was the occurrence of an overall change in organizational relations as well as intra-organizational controlling procedures in order to exercise a permanent and all-out mental, emotional and political control over the insiders. It was aimed to break members’ ties of attachment to anything and replace them with an ideological, political and social dependence to Rajavi’s leadership.

However, such procedures were in progress even before the ideological revolution but in a moderate and less complex fashion. The latest medical and psychological achievements as well as mind control techniques exploited by the majority of cults have to be taken into consideration in order to develop a good understanding of MKO’s internal revolution.

Intra-organizational relations of Mojahedin bear various titles before and after the ideological revolution, for instance, security control, self-criticism, organizational doctrines, organizational training and the like. The aim here is to probe into the utilized techniques to have control on the insiders’ manner of conduct although the term ‘control’ may not fully explain the cult-like behavior of MKO. The so-called “Amaliat Jari” or the ‘current operation’ is a routinely exploited approach by MKO with no exact equivalent found in political and cult lexicons. It is an apparatus for ever appraising members’ relative degree of submission to Rajavi’s leadership. In these regular compulsory sessions members at all levels are harshly rebuked and criticized under a variety of excuses that consequently undermine the members’ confidence in themselves as well as their judgment and leads them to a state of absolute submissiveness and deprives them of pursuing any solution to the problems they may face.

Taking a brief look at the memoirs and testimonies of MKO ex-members may be of some help here. Masoud Banisadr, a detached member, in describing his mental and psychological condition in one of these sessions of current operation explains:

My temperature was rising. I could not think at all. I felt helpless as if I was naked and others were looking at me. I felt like a two-year-old baby. I had lost all my power of logic, comprehension and expression. [1]

In contrast to the Middle Age approaches of physical torture, repressions, and intimidation to have control over the individuals, Rajavi took advantage of modern psychological manipulation to influence members. Masoud Banisadr points to one of the instances in which MKO leader (Rajavi) had a meeting with ‘HE’, namely members of executive committee with the highest rank available to members. Although it may bring about a sense of disgust, it is mentioned to get a better understanding of different dimensions of relations in MKO. Masoud states:

Before saying anything else, he surprised everybody by saying: “I have heard from Dr . . . that your pee has bubble. Strangely according to what I heard from him, our ‘HE’ member’s pee has bubble while our ordinary member’s pee is bubble-less.” Then when he faced strange and puzzled look of members said: “Don’t look at me with surprise, like you don’t know what that means. It means, few years after ‘ideological revolution, still you have not been able to neutralize your sexual desires and still you have ejaculation of semen, which creates bubble in your urine. I thought this problem has been solved by the people under your responsibility!!” After his speech as usual few brothers who always were ready to follow his word and elaborate more in backing to whatever he had said already, start talking. One of them went as far as saying that: “We were not ‘HE’ we were ‘HEEE’.” The noise people make for calling or stopping donkeys. It implied that we were not members of the organization but donkeys, animals without any power to solve their natural needs. [2]

Surprisingly, Bijan Niyabati, a theoretician of ideological revolution, believes that the importance of the successful accomplishment and the main objective of the ideological revolution lie in the strict control of members both in joint and individual relations. He writes:

To unlock the boxes (minds of members) is the main theme and the first stage of ideological revolution. [3]

Niyabati justifies Mojahedin’s system of control as an appropriate means to overthrow the Iranian regime by resorting to the scientific achievements. At the same time, MKO rejects the ex-members’ testimonies of being manipulated by brainwashing techniques that are reported by humanitarian organizations and Human Rights Watch report and accuses these international bodies of a joint conspiracy with Iran against the group. Regardless of such baseless accusations, there are numerous evidences that prove these techniques are exploited within MKO. Niyabati makes use of the anatomy and structure of man’s brain in an attempt to justify the abusive tactics of the ideological revolution:

In a seminar investigating the most recent scientific achievements concerning function of different parts of the brain, it was said that the activity of each hemisphere affects the social behavior of the person. For instance, the left hemisphere is the location of such subjects such as mathematics, logic and politics and the right hemisphere is related to culture, art, poetry and emotion. Activation of any of these parts besides the genetic influences of the parents may determine the social role one might play in the future. [4]

In her book ‘Cults in our midst’, Margaret Singer brings up instances of such cultist programs that manipulate conjoined ancient and modern techniques to confront the insiders’ beliefs. She further explains that such techniques may alter the behavior, mentality and even political orientation of members thus exercising an all-out control over them. The hidden boxes (members’ minds), mentioned by Niyabati, have to be opened. The result would be persuasion to submit to a total hegemony as practiced in most cults in general and in MKO in particular. As Singer explains:

These latter-day efforts have built upon the age-old influence techniques to perfect amazingly successful programs of persuasion and change them. What is new – and critical – is that these programs change attitudes by attacking essential aspects of a person’s senses of self, unlike the earlier brainwashing programs that primarily confronted a person’s political beliefs. [5]

Singer maintains that there are different terms describing such processes all of which follow the same route:

A number of terms have been used to describe this process, including brainwashing, thought reform, coercive persuasion, mind control, coordinated programs of coercive influence and behavior control, and exploitative persuasion. [6]

The significance of such processes, as compared to the techniques utilized by other political organizations that more focus on the control and changing attitude to substitute ideological teachings, unfolds when we notice that the instrucational techniques underline the exposure of the individuals’ unconscious. Therefore, a member’s individuality, known as this Achill’s heel, makes him defenseless against a new system of value. That is what Niyabati describes as a novel move put into practice by Mojahedin after the ideological revolution:

The meetings of ideological revolution are originated as an unprecedented fashion within MKO. The instructional trainings being marginalized, the attitudinal programs are gradually imposed. [7]

References

1. Banisadr, Masoud; The memoirs of an Iranian rebel. Abroad Publication, 231.

2. ibid, 386.

3. Niyabati, Bijan; A different look at ideological revolution in MKO, Khavaran publication, 44.

4. ibid, 28.

5. Singer, Margaret Thaler; Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace, Jossey-Bass; Rev Upd Su edition, April 2003, 60.

6. ibid, 53.

7. Niyabati, Bijan; A different look at ideological revolution in MKO, Khavaran publication, 49.

Bahar Irani – July 17, 2007

July 19, 2007 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Neoconservatives Split Over Support for the Rajavi Cult

The level of dishonesty and of stupidity of the major American media has reached a point where one neoconservative must expose the lies of another neoconservative at FrontPage Magazine.

FrontPage Magazine published today Kenneth R. Timmerman’s “No Second Marriages in Iran” to correct the lies of another neoconservative, Daniel Pipes.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=29131

Timmerman was responding to “Unleash the Iranian Opposition[, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq], published July 10, 2007 in the New York Sun and at the Web site of Daniel Pipes.

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4747

Daniel Pipes wrote about his recent visit to France to participate in a rally of America’s terrorist enemies: the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran). The MEK is on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. In September 2002, President Bush’s White House issued a background paper for Bush’s remarks at the United Nations naming the MEK as a major pretext for an American war with Iraq. The White House listed only three Saddam Hussein-supported terrorist organizations in Iraq. Al-Qaeda was not on the 2002 list.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912.html

Duping Pepperdine University, a Christian-affiliated University

During 2007, Daniel Pipes has been the 2007 William E. Simon Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California:

Faculty

Daniel Pipes, PhD

2007 William E. Simon Distinguished Visiting Professor

daniel.pipes@pepperdine.edu

(310) 506-7691 Phone

(310) 506-7494 Fax

Daniel Pipes is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the School of Public Policy’s William E. Simon Distinguished Visiting Professor, he will teach a seminar in international relations on Islam and Politics in the Spring 2007 semester.

Pipes received both his AB and PhD in history from Harvard University and has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. He served in various capacities in the U.S. government, including two presidentially appointed positions.

Pipes’s columns appears domestically in the New York Sun and the Jerusalem Post. Abroad, they appear regularly in Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, and Spain. His Web site, www.danielpipes.org, is among the most accessed Internet sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam.

He has published in many newspapers and magazines. His writings have been translated into 27 languages. He has appeared on nearly all the U.S. television news programs as well as on leading networks around the globe, including the BBC and Al-Jazeera. In addition to sitting on five editorial boards, Pipes has testified before numerous congressional committees and worked on four presidential campaigns. He is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

The Middle East Forum, which Pipes founded in 1994, is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote American interests through publications, research, media outreach, and public education. The forum publishes the Middle East Quarterly, runs lecture series in four cities, and sponsors Campus Watch, a project to review, critique, and improve Middle East studies.

Course(s)

MPP 668 Islam and Politics

http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/pipes/

Pepperdine University is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. There is a large Christian cross on the lawn of the campus. Twenty years ago, I drove by the cross going to and from my faculty office on the Pepperdine University campus. My dean at the School of Business and Management was James Wilburn. Today, James Wilburn is the dean of the School of Public Policy, where Daniel Pipes has been a visiting member of the faculty:

Faculty

James R. Wilburn, PhD

Dean

james.wilburn@pepperdine.edu

(310) 506-7490 Phone

(310) 506-7494 Fax

Dr. James R. Wilburn has headed Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy since September 1996 as dean. Before joining the School of Public Policy, Wilburn served as dean of Pepperdine’s George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management for 12 years and was a professor of strategy. During Wilburn’s years as dean of the business school, it moved more aggressively into international business and started five new academic programs, with the nation’s foremost program for mid-career adults and the largest MBA program west of Chicago.

Wilburn has served Pepperdine as vice president of University Affairs, and as provost and chief operating officer. He is a member of the European Parliament Industrial Council and is listed in Who’s Who in International Business.

Wilburn has extensive experience in public policy-internationally and domestically. He has served as co-chairman of the U.S. Committee to Assist Russian Reform, a program funded by the United States Department of State. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to head the board of the CFTR Education Foundation. He has served as corporate director of several companies in the United States and Europe, including Signet Scientific; George Fisher (Switzerland); The Olson Company; Flowline; Virco Manufacturing; Brentwood Square Savings Bank; and First Fidelity Thrift and Loan.

The author of several books on American history, business management, and leadership, he is the recipient of the McGarvey Award for American history and of the George Washington Medal of Honor from Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. He is widely regarded as an expert on Russian reform and has published numerous articles on the subject.

He received his PhD in economic history from the University of California at Los Angeles, a masters degree from Midwestern State University and an MBA from Pepperdine’s Presidential/Key Executive program. He received his bachelors degree from Abilene Christian University.

Course(s)

MPP 604 Political, Organizational, and Strategic Aspects of Public Policy Analysis

http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/wilburn/

Does Pepperdine University still have a reason to exist?

Today, Pepperdine University’s Web site still contains a statement of the 1937 values of the founder of the university, George Pepperdine:

A Place of Faith

“There are many good colleges and universities which can give you standard academic training,”Pepperdine University’s founder, George Pepperdine, once said,”but if our school does not give you more than that it really has no reason to exist.”On November 30, 1937, during the first semester of the school’s existence, Mr. Pepperdine told the new students,”The great difference between this college and other colleges is that we are endeavoring to place adequate emphasis and greater stress upon religious teaching and Christian character.”In his vision, however, students at Pepperdine would be free to accept or reject the Biblical teaching. He said that same day,”I want to present to you, in teaching and example, the Christian way of life. We do not compel you to accept it. You are free to make your own choice, but we want you to know what it is.”Pepperdine University would be a place where students from all backgrounds could study and grow, and a place where Christian students could come and strengthen their faith. Since the school’s beginning in the fall of 1937, it has striven to maintain the balance that its founder envisioned.

George Pepperdine was a life-long member of the Churches of Christ, and he wanted to found a school that would encourage the values of his faith. The Churches of Christ are nondenominational, Bible-based churches that seek to model the faith and practices of the New Testament Christians. Today, this group consists of over 13,000 autonomous churches made up of almost 1.3 million members throughout the United States. Pepperdine University is autonomous from the Church of Christ, however, it celebrates and cherishes its relationship with the church. George Pepperdine believed that the Christian faith’s commitment to education, excellence, and humility would make a strong foundation for an institution of higher learning.

The current mission statement of the university states:”Pepperdine is a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership.”Through the class requirements and spiritual opportunities on campus, Pepperdine works to uphold the highest standards of Christian values.

http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/about/faith/

When Dean Wilburn interviewed me for a Pepperdine University faculty position twenty years ago, we discussed that I had been a member of a Church of Christ in Michigan. Today, Dean Wilburn owes everyone an explanation of how Pepperdine University has gone from a Christian-affiliated university to a university with a non-Christian faculty member promoting America’s evil communist terrorist enemies at Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

Duping a Catholic Foundation?

Pepperdine University’s posted biography of Daniel Pipes does not include an explanation of who made the decision to select a non-Christian visiting professor to promote Christian values using the name of the late William E. Simon, a prominent Catholic. The posted history and general purposes of the William E. Simon Foundation are:

Named after its principal benefactor, the William E. Simon Foundation supports programs that are intended to strengthen the free enterprise system and the spiritual values on which it rests: individual freedom, initiative, thrift, self-discipline and faith in God. The mission of the Foundation reflects the unique accomplishments of the individual for whom it is named, and the principles of a free society that have made these accomplishments possible.

The main charitable purpose of the Foundation is to assist those in need by providing the means through which they may help themselves. The charitable philosophy guiding the Foundation draws heavily on the thoughts expressed a century ago by Andrew Carnegie in The Gospel of Wealth, where he wrote,”In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all.”In implementing this philosophy, the Foundation seeks to fund programs which are effective in promoting independence and personal responsibility among those in need.

http://www.wesimonfoundation.org/found.nsf/history.htm?OpenPage&charset=iso–1

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Daniel Pipes’ Lies

Daniel Pipes did include one truthful disclosure in his posted article, the illustration of the red communist flag of the MEK, “… a superannuated Marxist-Islamist terrorist cult.”

While Kenneth Timmerman has identified some of the lies in the article of Daniel Pipes, there are other lies:

1. Daniel Pipes repeated the MEK’s claim that they discovered Iran’s secret nuclear operations. While Alireza Jafarzadeh has made that MEK claim, there are others who claim that Israel’s Mossad made the discovery. With Daniel Pipes’ close ties to Israel, it should be possible for him to research at Mossad these conflicting claims.

http://www.mossad.gov.il/Eng/AboutUs.aspx

2. Daniel Pipes failed to disclose the recent MEK’s knife attacks against opponents in France, an example of neoconservative lies about supporting democracy.

Cult leader Massoud Rajavi gives go-ahead to kill witnesses in European countries.

An open letter to the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith

Anne Singleton, July 09, 2007

A communiqué was issued on June 07, 2007 by the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO)’s cult leader Massoud Rajavi, who has been a fugitive since the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

In the communiqué, Rajavi names three people, including myself, who are witnesses in the on-going investigation against the cult by the French Judiciary, and specifically describes them as”the agents of the Iranian secret services”. For those familiar with the MKO cult, this is clearly understood to be Rajavi’s method of issuing a death sentence to be carried out by his followers.

On June 17, 2007 over 50 people associated with the MKO cult lay in wait to attack a public meeting in Paris at which the three persons mentioned above were among the invitees. It was later revealed that the attack had been orchestrated from the MKO cult HQ in Auvers-sur-Oise. According to French police, the assailants in this violent attack had been transferred to France from other European countries. None had French documents, some had false documents. The attackers also filmed their activities at the scene. This was reminiscent of the series of orchestrated self-immolations following the arrest of the cult leader’s wife Maryam Rajavi in June 2003, which were also filmed by the cult’s activists.

There is evidence that at least some part of the military-style operation on June 17 had targeted the three individuals named in Massoud Rajavi’s recent communiqué in an assassination attempt. The incident is currently being investigated by French police.

There is clear evidence that some of those involved in the violent attack were MKO militants trained by Saddam Hussein in Iraq who had been sent directly from Camp Ashraf to European countries in the past few months. Camp Ashraf is of course guarded by the American Army in Iraq. Following the capture of Camp Ashraf terrorist base in 2003, US officials – both military and civil – processed all the captured combatants, taking DNA and fingerprint evidence and issuing them with ID cards. Several of these people have been recently seen in the UK, Germany, France and Netherlands participating in MKO activities in the EU.

It is clear that responsibility for the lives of people attacked by a terrorist organisation which is apparently favoured by some Israeli lobbies and neo-conservative circles to be used to carry out terrorist acts against Iranians, Iraqis and others, cannot be laid at the door of the cult itself, but must rest with the people who have been maintaining them as a terrorist force whether in Iraq or in Europe and North America. Those who have refused to dismantle the MKO’s infrastructure and continue to support them financially as well as loosening their leashes in western countries will be held accountable for any harm which comes to those either directly named and threatened by Massoud Rajavi or to any others who are harmed by implication.

Yours Sincerely,

Anne Singleton.

Mrs Michele Alliot-Marie, French Interior Minister

Dr Wolfgang Schauble, German Interior Minister

Ms Dr Guusje Ter Horst, Netherlands Interior Minister

Dr Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, USA

Paul Sheldon Foote – July 13, 2007 – http://360.yahoo.com/paulsheldonfoote

July 19, 2007 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Traitors’ Game in Iraq

With a brief look at Americans’ activities since the fall of Saddam’s regime and the occupation of Iraq, we realize that they have found Iraq a safe place for their shameful business, which can be seen in their dirty policies and cunning decision. Therefore, all Iraqis- except a few whose interests are tied with those of occupiers- are against the occupation and oppose the occupiers, calling for their exit.

With their evil plans, some have targeted Iraqis will under the name of establishing security and stability. On the other hand, their supporters try to help them by deploying terrorists from everywhere. However, they should know that Iraqis would expel them, as they defeated Saddam’s mercenaries.

One of the cards Americans are willing to use is the organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq. Even some politicians claiming to be nationalists are shaking hands with this group, providing them with facilities in Iraq, which is because their interests are mostly intertwined. One of the measures taken, by destabilizing the country, assassinations, terror and murder, was aimed at returning the situation to that of Saddam’s government. This has put Iraqis at worst situation. On the other hand, this organization dreams of getting to power in Iran.

Looking carefully, this question would be raised that why Americans- who have announced this organization a terrorist group- do not use their power to force them to leave Iraq? Instead, they are protecting it in Iraq, hoping that they could use it against Iran a means of pressure. The organization itself is ready to perform all kinds of services in return for being allowed to stay in Iraq.

The MKO welcomes all plans that target unity, security and stability of Iraq and Iraqis because its interests require so. Developments in Iraq prove this claim. The group held a conference in Iraq recently, introduced an Iraqi MP as its chief; people who receive 35 Million Iraqi dinars, while Iraqi citizens could hardly find something to eat. The conference revealed their ugly face; those who go on red carpet in Europe to help occupiers in killing and plundering Iraqis. They don’t know that Americans are not faithful to their mercenaries. If they look at history, they will find a lot of others like themselves, who served Imperialists but were left alone by them and got nothing except hatred of people.

Now, one could ask about the measures taken by our government against such suspicious moves? How come were they allowed to hold such a conference in Iraq? What’s this group’s justification for its presence in our soil and how dare they act like this without being questioned? Why the government doesn’t punish these traitors and the ones that, in official posts, cooperate with terrorist and promote unrest and chaos?

Kazem Al-Zahiri/Sotaliraq – 2007/07/15

http://www.sotaliraq.com/articles-iraq/nieuws.php?id=55910

July 19, 2007 0 comments

Iran

No Second Marriages in Iran

extracts of Kenneth R. Timmerman’s article in FrontPageMagezine on July 11, 2007

In politics as with love, second marriages show the triumph of hope over experience.

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Few doubt that the Iranian regime has embarked on a collision course with the West and is hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons. Even Euro-sceptics acknowledge that Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has taken Iran on a dangerous path, and have allowed an unprecedented complaint against him by the government of Israel for inciting genocide to proceed at the United Nations.

But from acknowledging the problem to proposing marriage to the first pretty face wearing a skirt is a leap cooler heads should avoid.

MEK organizers staged a multi-media extravaganza recently at a gigantic exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris that was worthy of Third Reich propagandists.

The MEK itself claimed that 50,000 people attended the June 30 event. Even their supporters, however, knew the number was inflated and settled on 20,000.

The normally level-headed Daniel Pipes, who attended the event, failed to ask how many of those who came to the rally had been paid by MEK recruiters, a common practise I exposed two years ago in covering a much smaller rally in New York.

The MEK has always been able to rent a crowd for the benefit of TV cameras and naïve Western commentators.

The only problem is that the MEK does not represent an “alternative” to the Islamic regime, but just a flavor of tyranny.

After the group lost its power struggle with ayatollah Khomeini in 1981 they fled to Iraq, where Saddam Hussein welcomed them with open arms.

In April 1988, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi and his political ‘wife,” Maryam, announced the coming liberation of Iran and sent their Iraq-based troops across the border into Iran.

When making a revolution, it is critical to choose one’s allies well. This is a group that openly boasts of having murdered Americans, and that aspires to power in Iran. Their track record is clear.

Tehran’s leaders would like nothing better than for Western nations to openly back the MEK. Because the group is so hated inside Iran, such support would give the regime a convenient whipping boy. Contrary to the delusions of some that we somehow can “unleash” the MEK, enthroning a terrorist group as the embodiment of the democratic opposition would rally support for the regime.

There are many courses of action now available to Western governments and even to individuals seeking to have an impact on events inside Iran. These range from ratcheting up economic and financial sanctions against the Tehran regime, a strategy spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Treasury, to disinvestment from companies that continue to support Iran’s oil and gas industry.

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We would be much better served by policies that encourage the Iranian people in their aspirations to freedom, than by trotting out worn-out cult figures who promise a new form of tyranny. Daniel Pipes of all people should know better.

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