The Mujahedin Cult
A publication by Aawa Association, June 2007
http://www.iran-aawa.com/selbsmorde.pdf
The report has been produced in 4 languages. parts of it reads:
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Recently the public learnt about members of sects committing suicide or putting themselves on fire. Scientists, psychiatrists and sociologists have pursued studies into this. One of the elementary features of sects is that you cannot distinguish it from the outside. You will have to look behind the facade and recognize similarities between sects and terrorist groups.
In public, sects and their members do behave quite normal and maintain a low profile. Throughout the democratic Europe they would camouflage as peaceful groups, publicize democracy and peace and pretend to fight for human rights, but in the back part of their heads they would be pursuing quite a different philosophy. At the command of their leader they are prepared to kill innocent individuals…
An Iranian anti-terrorism association has called on the Iraqi government to expel the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country.
A representative of the Habilian Association, Javad Hashemi, made the request during a meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minster Barham Saleh on Wednesday.
The US administration has blocked efforts for expulsion of the terrorist group from the Iraqi soil.
Hashemi, representing almost 16,000 families of victims of the MKO’s terrorist attacks, also briefed the Iraqi official on the activities and objectives of the association.
Saleh, for his part, said the the issue was being examined.
The Iraqi deputy premier expressed his sympathy to the martyrs’ families, saying that the Iraqi government and nation are aware of the hostile disposition of the terrorist group and believe that their illegal presence harms the country’s interests.
Referring to a report by the commission investigating the MKO dossier in Iraq, Saleh stated that there is sufficient evidence to prove the direct involvement of the MKO in military operations under former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein.
He gave assurances that the Iraqi government is determined to force them out of the country.
"Our nation, especially people living in the Kurdistan region, have suffered substantial harm by the group and want them to be expelled," he concluded.
Press TV – Thu, 14 Jun 2007
Dear M. Sarkozy, On Sunday 17 June a meeting held in Paris supporting the cultural integration of Iranian refugees in French society was violently disrupted when fifty thugs associated with a destructive terrorist cult called Mojahedin Khalq (MKO) attacked the guests and sponsors of the meeting with knives and broken glass.
Thirteen people were injured, three seriously, and many arrests were made. It is only due to the prompt action of French police that further injuries were not sustained. The violence was quelled by the use of CS gas.
The violent attack on this public meeting was planned by Mohammad Hayati, a leading member of the MKO. Three months ago this man was in Camp Ashraf in Iraq under the protection of US forces. Hayati, a known assassin with a history of terrorist activity going back to the time of the Shah in Iran, is now in France planning and conducting terrorist activities in Europe. The Mojahedin Khalq maintains its Headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise.
I would like to know what your government is doing to protect not only French citizens, but the citizens of other countries, from violent attacks by this group.
I am a British citizen. I had been invited to speak at a public meeting in Paris. The subject of my speech was to warn against the spread of exactly this kind of violence which is used by destructive cults. Due to the lack of security I was unable to exercise my right to speak. Other people invited to speak included religious leader Sheikh Sango from Paris.
The Mojahedin Khalq claims to be opposed to the Iranian regime. Would you please explain why in France persons with no connection to the Iranian regime have become targets for violent attacks by a terrorist cult, in particular by Mohammad Hayati, a known terrorist who, I repeat, was in Iraq under US protection only three months ago and is now in Paris.
It is surely not acceptable that violent activity by a destructive terrorist cult continues unchecked. I ask again, what steps your government is taking to protect not only French but also other European citizens while in your country?
Yours Sincerely
Anne Singleton,
Leeds, UK
June 20th, 2007
In Paris on Sunday 15 June, a judge ordered detention of the leader of MKO and a number of her followers to face trial for possible links with terrorism. The following is what the Observer reported of the French police raid to arrest the suspects and the aftermath.
The leafy rue des Gords in this little market town north of Paris hardly lives up to its reputation as a new world capital of terrorism.
It was here that hundreds of police smashed open the doors of suburban houses in a dawn raid which the French claimed had pre-empted worldwide strikes by the militant Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahideen.
About 20 members of the organisation were on hunger strike on the pavement this weekend, watched by riot police and comforted by neighbours who had lived alongside the exiled Mujahideen for 22 years. The operation, involving 1,300 police, concentrated on 21 rue des Gords, home of Maryam Radjavi, the most visible leader of what has been dismissed as a violent Marxist-Islamic sect.
Around the building a permanent encampment for followers had been set up. But police blocked attempts by residents – all political refugees – to return and collect their belongings as they continued to search cellars and attics.
The suicide attempts by fire in Paris, London, Rome and Berne focused attention on the movement without clarifying why France chose last week to turn on the Mujahideen, given refuge here after falling out with Tehran’s Islamic leadership.
Labelled as Maoist when it was founded in 1965, the Mujahideen worked alongside Ayotallah Khomeini when he planned the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. But the allies soon fell out and thousands of Mujahideen refugees sought sanctuary in France in 1981. They campaigned against oppression in Tehran, where their members were tortured and hanged in public.
Radjavi was still being held by police this weekend, among more than 160 people taken into custody. The DST, the French equivalent of MI5, claimed that she and her husband, Massoud, were ready to turn Auvers into their terrorist headquarters.
Referring to allegations by Iran that the Mujahideen were responsible for at least 500 murderous attacks inside the country, Pierre de Bousquet, the DST’s director, said the organisation could no longer claim that its aim was to defend human rights and bring about democracy.
‘The attempts at self-immolation to protest against the arrest of Madame Radjavi are proof of a new fanaticism,’ he said. ‘Auvers was to become the Mujahideen’s world headquarters after the loss of bases in Iraq.’
The Observer – 18/06/2007
As soon as Nuri al-Maleki’s government assumed power by people’s vote, it announced expulsion of terrorist MKO from Iraq in near future and banned the group’s activities. Since then, MKO has been engaged in strengthening its ties with dissident Iraqi groups to combat in a front against al-Maleki. The Iraqi province of Diyala has turned into a bastion of meetings of dissident factions with MKO to take oath of allegiance against the vote of Iraqi nation.
Reuters reported on Sunday that the Iraqi tribal leaders and local politicians and parliamentarians from the Iraqi province of Diyala attended a conference that was held in the Camp Ashraf, resided by MKO members and located north-west of the city of Baquba, and voiced their support for the presence of MKO in Iraq and stated that the organization contributed to the stability and security of the province. Nobody doubts that such conferences, masterminded and orchestrated by MKO, are aimed to mislead the public opinion against the will of Iraqi people; peace and order are never supposed to be originated from a bastion of terror and anarchy.
A remarkable point concerning the conference was that Massoud Rajavi, the escaped leader of the group whose whereabouts is unknown, sent a message from his hideout to the conference to salute the participants and reiterated the claims that the Iranian regime has been implementing a phased plan aimed at the occupation of Iraq!
Regardless of all these counter-national moves and violations of imposed bans by a proscribed group that abuses its insiders under cult-like measures, the Iraqi government, as the legal representative of the nation, is determined to expel MKO as soon as possible.
mojahedin.ws – 19/06/2007
In a conference held in France that was orchestrated by MKO under the alias title of “Society for Peace Advancement”, Afshin Alavi, a member of NCRI, suggested that the only solution to restore peace in Iraq is “to establish a coalition of Iraqi groups formed around Ashraf City and the People’s Mojahedin of Iran”. He believes Camp Ashraf has the potentiality to be turned into a bastion of dissidents.
Following the Islamic revolution in Iran, the leaders of MKO fled to France to form a coalition against Iran to topple the newly formed regime. They called it the National Council of Resistance of Iran. What at the present remains of the NCRI is only a title since the hegemonic domination of MKO made many other Iranian diaspora to separate from the council.
It seems as if MKO has been successful in establishing the advertised democracy in Iran that now suggests formation of another coalition that will probably call it the National Council of Resistance of Iraq with itself as the leading cell. The group has recurrently condemned Iran of interfering in Iraq’s domestic affairs, but what it can be called when a terrorist group puts forward to form a coalition of dissident groups against a legally established government that intends to expel them.
Mojahedin WS, June 15, 2007
The meeting of an association of Iranians in France that supposed to be held on Sunday under the title of "Yes to Peace and Peaceufl Coexistence, No to Violence and Sectarianism", was canceled by the attack of an unknown group, allegedly tied to MKO.
According to IRNA from Paris, fifty unknown men, allegedly the members of Mojahedin-e khalq terrorist organization attacked the guests and sponsors of the meeting with knives and broken glasses, leaving 13 wounded.
The attack took place at the early moments of the meeting. French police came to the scene and fired tear gas before arresting some people.
Massoud Khodabandeh, London-based Iranian researcher, was supposed to give his speech on disadvantages of sectarianism and violence in the world. He expressed regret over the incident, in an interview with IRNA’s correspondent in Paris.
"According to reports received at the beginning of the meeting, 50 members of this terrorist organization, who had been deployed from Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Belgium and Switzerland for this mission, attacked the participators with knives and other things," he said.
According to Khodabandeh, the incident took 10 minutes and security guards clashed with the members of MKO, which left 13 wounded with 10 from the group.
"Police’s interference ended the clash and the injured ones were taken to hospital," he added.
This Iranian researcher asked French security officials to take measures in order to protect the lives of Iranians in that country against these terrorists.
IRNA’s report also indicates that prayer leader of Marooni minorities in France was also there when the clash happened. He expressed dissatisfaction and regret over the incident.
IRNA, June 18, 2007
Reported by the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, 25 thousand letters by Danish citizens have been addressed to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish Prime Minister, calling for removal of the proscribed Mojahedin-e Khalq Organizaton (MKO) from the EU terror list. Although many might be misled by the exaggerated five digit-number of supporters in a Nordic country, those familiar with the propaganda tricks of the group have no doubt that it is typical of MKO as unbeaten master of masterminding a propaganda blitz.
It is so easy a task to hire people to compose letters in the same way people are paid to chant slogans in MKO’s orchestrated protesting rallies in different European countries. The group’s earnestness to buy supporters are aimed to advance claims that the EU court of Justice has ruled that MKO listing must be annulled but the European Council of Ministers refuses to comply with the court’s ruling.
The court never ruled to remove MKO from the EU terror list but to unfreeze its assets and be granted a fair chance to defend itself against terrorist charges. The EU complied and gave MKO time to present justifiable evidences but the group failed to spare defensible documents and instead got engaged in demagogic moves under the cloud of propaganda.
mojahedin.ws – 19/06/2007
The MKO-run media are still busy covering the reports that thousands of Iraqis from Diyala province and north and south of Iraq gathered in Camp Ashraf on Saturday to express their solidarity with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization and to support its presence in Iraq. Two days later, on Monday, the Iraqi parliament announced that it is taking certain measures to expel the organization.
Reported by Voices of Iraq (VOI), the Iraqi parliament on Monday discussed the presence of the Iranian Mujahdeen Khalq organization (MKO) in Iraqi territories. Stated by Mohammad al-Samerae, a number of parliament’s members presented a request to bring MKO out of Iraq, describing it as a "terrorist organization".
Sami al-Askari from the Shiite UIC also described MKO as "terrorist according to the international standards". Legislator Layla Kadhem said "the organization is being listed on the terrorist organizations list and its activities are banned in many countries in the world."
According to a quoted media source from the parliament, "There is a request presented by 104 members to bring the organization out of Iraq".
Sheikh Khaled al-Attia at the end of the Monday debates announced that the parliament can take certain measures to expel the organization, to deal with it according to the law and to form a joint committee from the security, defense, legal and foreign affairs committees to follow this issue with the government. The organization is one of the groups that form the National Council for Iranian Opposition.
Mojahedin.ws – 20/06/2007