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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.

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 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.

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 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.

July 19, 2007 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Current Operation

July 18, 2007 0 comments

France

Nejat Society Letter to The Ambassador of the Republic of France in Tehran

Attention: The Ambassador of the Republic of France in Tehran

From: Nejat Society

July. 07

Your Excellency,

We in the Nejat Society would like to draw your good attention to a very crucial matter relating the security of the defectors and opponents of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) in France.

To introduce ourselves, we are former members of MKO who have managed to flee the organisation from the Ashraf Camp in Iraq. We have organised ourselves to help the victims of a terrorist cult including the former members of the organisation as well as the families of the present members who have no trace of their beloved ones inside the MKO.

We wish to inform you that on 17 June 2007, about 50 members of a proscribed terrorist cult named the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO), who had been dispatched from Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands and Germany, attacked a seminar organised by the Association for Supporting the Emigrants and Iranians in France. The venue was at FIAP in the 14th District of Paris. The attackers used knives, broken bottles, etc and injured many of the guests as well as some of the organisers. More than 13 people were seriously injured. The incident was immediately reported by the local and international media. After police intervention, some of the MKO members were arrested and taken into custody.

There are many queries raised relating this incident; such as why the MKO elements attended the meeting and what was their purpose and why they brought recording cameras with themselves to the meeting and why they only used the elements residing in the countries other than France. All these factors prove that the act was previously planed and organised. We have also been informed about the depth of involvement of the leaders of the MKO, currently based in north of Paris in Auvers-sur-Oise. The following information has been revealed to us:

This terrorist act had been approved and arranged at the highest levels of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation and the National Council of Resistance (NCR) leadership and the cult leader Maryam Rajavi was involved in every detail of the operation. Mr Alaoddin Turan and Ms Shahrzad Haj Seyyed Javadi have acted as the "intelligence officer" and "operational officer" for this operation, conducting every detail from Mrs Maryam Rajavi’s headquarters in the north of Paris. The operation had been named "Destruction of the Nest of Snakes".

The "executive field officer" of the operation has been Mr Mohammad Hayati (aka: Siavash) who has been a military leader of MKO from the time of the Shah and is currently a member of the MKO as well as the NCR. He conducted the attack using his men and had communication with them through mobile phones. During the years 1981 to 1986, Mohammad Hayati was a member of executive committee of MKO in France and after the departure of Mas’ud and Maryam Rajavi (cult leaders) to Baghdad in 1986; he was transferred to Iraq as the commander of one of five military bases of the National Liberation Army (NLA) of MKO backed by Saddam Hussein. Hayati has directed major military operations in suppressing the uprising of the Iraqi Kurds and Shiite Moslems as well as insurgencies inside Iranian territory.

According to news received from the Americans as well as the disaffected members of Ashraf Camp in Iraq, the name of Mohammad Hayati has been registered in the list of MKO members in the camp and up to 6 months ago, he has had regular contacts with the American forces in charge of the camp. It must be taken into account that his illegal move to France is not merely to disrupt a defectors’ meeting. His role was and still is to assassinate the discontented members and opponents in France and other parts of Europe, something he has been doing even before the Iranian revolution. His mission of course has not been accomplished yet.

We believe that Mohammad Hayati has specifically been sent from Iraq after the announcement of holding a meeting by the above mentioned association. He has been sent by Mas’ud and Maryam Rajavi and has been appointed to command this terror operation in Paris. He had been present at the scene from 12:00 on Sunday June 17 and had coordinated every movement by mobile phone. He had been in constant contact with the MKO headquarters in the north of Paris and had been reporting every step directly to Maryam Rajavi.

Mohammad Hayati was arrested by the police inside the FIAP building and was transferred to the police station. The police after examining his documents clearly were aware of his false ID and false passport which was used to travel from the Netherlands. His true identity and his mission were immediately revealed to the police, but astonishingly he was soon released.

We alert the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the American forces in charge of Ashraf Camp that the terrorist MKO has been transferring some of its military and operational forces from Iraq (Ashraf Camp) to European countries to carry out similar attacks and specifically to assault and assassinate its critiques and converts.

All this is happening at a time that about 200 people, who have clearly renounced terrorism and the MKO after the fall of Saddam Hussein, are still being kept under extreme conditions by the American forces and do not have the right to seek asylum in other countries or to leave the place.

We would like to bring into your consideration the very fact that contrary to the misinformation of the cult through its massive propaganda machine which has been granted to this proscribed terrorist organisation (MKO), the cult has been clearly demonstrating its true face and its deeply rooted beliefs in using violence and terror to reach its goals.

During the raid made by the MKO tugs in Paris, Mr Mohammad Hassan Sobhani who was badly assaulted and beaten by the intruders was also arrested by the French Police. Amazingly the photograph that was taken of him in the police station was published in one of MKO’s websites. We are puzzled how the MKO elements could get hold of the French Police properties.

We wish to remind you that Mas’ud and Maryam Rajavi have mistaken France with Iraq of Saddam Hussein, where they used to detain and torture and even execute their opponents and their discontented members. We are expecting your government to give a through examination of the case and announce the obtained results to the public and take sufficient measures to make sure that the MKO tugs could not harass the Iranians residing in France anymore. We therefore are very concerned about the security of the emigrants and Iranians in France and we urge your government to adopt appropriate measures to ensure the security of the Iranians in France. We would be very pleased if you could give some sort of response to our communiqué.

Pictures we have received to date are attached.

1 – Picture of Mohammad Hayati standing among some policemen plus his earlier photos in the organisation

2 – Pictures of Mr Mohammad Hassan Sobhani who was badly beaten and injured by the MKO tugs plus the photo of him which was taken in the police station by the police and later appeared in the MKO site.

3 – Picture of Mr Ali Akbar Rastgu who was also badly beaten and injured by the MKO tugs.

Yours truly,

Nejat Society

Copy to:

– The office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tehran

– The office of the United Nations in Tehran

– The Embassy of Switzerland in Tehran

– The British Embassy in Tehran

– The Embassy of Iraq in Tehran

– The Elyse Palace “Paris

– The Media

July 15, 2007 0 comments

Media

Nejat Society Letter to France 24 TV

Nejat Society

P.O. Box 14395/679,

Tehran, Iran

Fax: 88 96 10 31

info@nejatngo.org

March 2007

France 24 TV

Immeuble Aphelion

5 Rue dos Natiousunies

92130 Issy-les-Mourineaux

Paris

Dear editor

We in the Nejat Society in Tehran learned through the website of the Mojahedin-e- Khalq Organization (MKO) called “hambastegimeli” that you have made interviews with Mr Afshin Alavi and Ms Farid Karimi, two well known members of the organization under the alias of the National Council of Resistance (NCR). We must draw your attention to the fact that the MKO terrorist cult is disguised as the NCR in its international relations. It is also worth mentioning that MKO has been in the list of proscribed terrorist groups issued by the council of the European Union since May 2002.

Nejat Society consists of those defected members of the MKO who have managed to rescue themselves from the boundaries of the Organisation. They do find themselves obliged to strive to help and rescue the members whom are still mentally or even physically captive inside a terrorist cult. We also would like to require your consideration on a matter concerning many families of members of the MKO residing in their base in Iraq called Ashraf camp.

Up to 500 ex-members of the MKO have managed to return home to their families since the overthrow of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Nejat Society of course played a vital role with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Iranian Red Crescent, and other international and domestic bodies as well as the families themselves to safeguard their homecoming.

Around 200 of those who have managed to flee the Organisation are kept in a nearby component under the supervision of “Temporary International Presence Facility (TIPF)”. And evidently there are some 3000 members still left in Ashraf Camp inside Iraq. These people need to be rescued out urgently.

The members and authorities of Nejat Society are well aware that they are facing a fierce tackle. The Mojahedin-e- Khalq Organization of course has adopted a hostile attitude against the Society and has never stopped its intense propaganda aggravation in order to stop the Society helping the MKO members.

All cults, typically try to intimidate their critics and opponents, particularly those who try to help the discontented members out. MKO is no exception. They have a long record of suppressing their despondent members and they have used all forms of mental and physical methods in order to make their followers yield.

On behalf of the anxious families of the members of the MKO we would like to invite you to come to Iran and make interviews with these families as well as the defected members and raise their voice in order to be heard by the international bodies as well as the organization’s leaders.

We are looking forward to seeing a reply from you as soon as possible.

With regards and many thanks

Nejat Society

www.nejatngo.org

July 15, 2007 0 comments

Iraq

MKO acts against the interests of Iraqi people

Top Iraqi Shia leader has said that Iran-US talks serve the interests of Iraqi nation and would help ease tension in the war-torn country.

Abdul-Aziz Hakim, the head of Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, assessed the outcomes of the first round of Iran-US talks as positive and said that Iraqi political factions advocate a second round of talks in the near future.

In an interview with IRNA, the cleric said the Iranian exiled terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has committed acts against the interests of Iraqi people and its activities in Iraq are banned according to the Iraqi Constitution.

Besides their terrorist attacks against Iran, they played a leading role in helping former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein suppress the Iraqi people uprising in 1991.

MKO is known in Iraq as an enemy of the nation and is still carrying on with its ugly feature and devastating role in the country, said Hakim adding that the Iraqis want their immediate expulsion.

"However, the occupation forces have branded the MKO members as refugees in order to hinder Iraqi government’s efforts to expel them," said Hakim who is Tehran since May for chemotherapy.

In response to a question about pressures imposed by some Arab states on Iraqi government to revise the de-Baathification law and their wish to return the infamous Baath party members to power, Hakim said "these elements refuse to understand the changes and realities in Iraq".

Hakim stressed the law has been unanimously endorsed by the Iraqi nation and will be enforced.

The head of the most powerful Iraqi political party opined that federalism is the only solution to resolve violent conflicts in the country.

He said that the issue of federalism is part of the popularly-supported Iraqi Constitution, adding that federalism does not mean dividing the county into separate parts, but is a sure way to secure Iraqi integration.

PressTV – 12/07/2007

July 14, 2007 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Masud Rajavi name in Mojahedin propaganda signals a cult spiraling toward disaster

Our brief in February 2007 mentioned that the Mojahedin Khalq’s own analysis places blame for its current difficulties on its critics; in particular former members of the cult who continue to speak out on the cult’s continued use of violence and its human rights abuses. One of those critics is Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani, a human rights activist who was mentioned in the May 2005 Human Rights Watch report ‘No Exit’.

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=797

In recent days the MKO has published, on YouTube and similar media, several videos depicting violence and fighting. The words introducing the video clips mention Mr Sobhani by name although none of them actually show him on film. In addition, hundreds of articles have been published without authorship on the tens of websites which have no discernible ownership other than being strongly linked with the MKO which also implicate Mr Sobhani in this violence.

What has happened to provoke this?

On June 17, 2007 Mr Sobhani was invited as a speaker to a meeting in Paris on ‘Peace and Tolerance.’ He has previously spoken on television and radio. He was invited to speak at the European Parliament on February 27, 2007.

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=1863

(Mr. Sobhani in European Parliament. Feb. 2007)

During the Paris meeting Mr Sobhani, along with the other guests of the meeting, was attacked by over fifty people. It was later revealed that the attack had been organised by the Mojahedin Khalq from its headquarters in Auver-sur-Oise. Its purpose, to stop anybody criticizing the cult.

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(Pictures taken from Mr. Sobhani in hospital after being attacked by MKO)

Over fifty attackers were arrested by police at the scene. From among the invited guests Mr Sobhani was arrested by mistake and was subsequently released. He has filed a complaint against Mohammad Hayati, a known MKO terrorist who had been transferred from Iraq (and back again) to act as ‘military commander’ at the scene.

The Mojahedin subsequently tried to exploit Mr Sobhani’s brief arrest and his release along with some of the films they took themselves – which show the attackersâ€™ own engagement with employees of the venue’s security firm – in an effort to claim that Mr Sobhani attacked the MKO at the venue where he had been invited as a guest to speak. The MKO propaganda is clearly aimed at discrediting Mr Sobhani as a prominent critic of the group.

This attempt has been going on for the past three weeks but appears not to be working. Even the Mojahedin’s own supporters and members cannot explain to themselves why fifty people were sent to violently attack five speakers at the Paris venue.

In an unprecedented move the Mojahedin have issued a lengthy document introduced as a statement by Massoud Rajavi â€“ the MKO’s leader who has been in hiding since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein.

In the statement, which purports to be in his name, Massoud Rajavi targets this specific issue and states as a matter of fact that fifty MKO activists were attacked by Mr Sobhani at the venue.

This is the first time that Massoud Rajavi’s name has been used in this way. He has never issued any similar statement in all the time he has acted as leader of the cult. The significance of this can be gleaned from exposing Maryam Rajavi’s repeated instruction to the Mojahedin’s membership that the first, second and third aim of the cult is to protect Massoud Rajavi and his name. But now we see that she herself is spending his name as an expendable asset of the MKO.

In Mojahedin terms this announcement – purportedly by Massoud Rajavi “ is intended to act as an injection of ‘ideological’ drug into the Mojahedin cult body. The effect of using Massoud Rajavi’s name should be to convince the members to somehow accept the blatant contradictions inherent in the lie. Not only has Rajavi’s statement not convinced them, but during the past few days we have received numerous reports from inside the Mojahedin that the supporters and some members are struggling with the idea that ‘if Massoud Rajavi’s name can be used as cover for a ridiculous lie like this, then how can we trust him not to have been lying all the time from 1979 until now’. The problem for the ideological members is to try to revere Massoud Rajavi as their Ideological Leader even though his name has now become an expendable asset. They must try not to doubt him, but they can’t avoid the inevitability of this which has been imposed on them by this propaganda move.

Observers of the Mojahedin cult are seeing clear signs of desperation. This use of Massoud Rajavi’s name in this recent propaganda campaign more than anything signals that the cult is spiraling out of control. It is becoming more and more isolated and extreme in its behaviour. There should be a warning in this to security officials in European countries.

Iran-Interlink -July 13, 2007

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Iraq

The Iraqi Dissident Dismisses Government’s Warning

In a statement that was broadcasted last week by Al-Sharqiya TV, the Iraqi government TV channel, Nuri Al-Maliki government warned the Iraqis who came in contact with Mojahadin Khalq Organization (MKO). The statement admonishes those in contact with MKO that they are in violation of "National Safety Law" and therefore will be subject to punishment. The announcement was made as a result of the group’s suspicious collusion with dissident Iraqi groups and factions that has fostered the threat of terrorist moves in Iraq.

Reported by Al Mashriq Newspaper, in a harsh reaction against the government’s statement, the chief of the National Dialogue Front, Salih Al Mutlak, has rejected the government’s banning contacts with the terrorist group. He said that he will respond to the first invitation that he receives from MKO to participate in their activities inside our outside Iraq.

Such reactions by an Iraqi dissident before anything emboldens the terrorist MKO sheltered in Camp Ashraf to boost its anti-national moves against the Iraqi government and people who have to pay the price of the group’s political and cult-like ambitions. Furthermore, such an objection indicates that the group has not failed to take advantage of the existing rift in Iraqi parties to indirectly contradict its expulsion from Iraq.

Mojahedin.ws – 13/07/2007

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Iraq

American Forces OK’d Maliki’s Order

According to informed sources, Iraqi PM had warned that Iraqi forces would arrest Adnan al-Dulaimi and Saleh al-Mutlaq in the case they took part in terrorist MKO’s conference in Camp Ashraf, aimed at getting support for the group.

The conference was supposed to be held after Iraqi Unified Coalition in the parliament mobilized with the purpose of expelling the MKO from Iraq.

The threat by Iraqi PM includes all politicians who would take part in MKO’s meeting. The sources said that the threat was accompanied by deploying forces around the camp. The Iraqi forces were tasked with arresting Dulaimi and Mutlaq if they entered Mojahedin’s camp because this is an explicit crime when dealing a terrorist group.

According to the information received, Americans accepted the order and stopped traffic to and from Camp Ashraf, where they protect.

Holy Najaf News Site

2007/07/10

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