European Union

Rajavi’s Pitiful Condition

– IAEA announced that Iran has started enriching uranium in the industrial level by installing 1300 centrifuges.

 

– Larijani and Solana will meet on April 26 and it can be predicted that the talks will pave the way for fresh dialogue between the EU and Iran over its nuclear program.

 

– US Defense Secretary stressed once again that there’s no plan for military action against Iran, although some people like to believe that Pentagon’s movements are signs of a possible military attack against Iran; however, the general condition of the US, domestically and internationally, nullifies this possibility.

 

– Olmert, as major enemy of Iranians, has expressed hope, despite all previous threats by Zionist regime against Iran, that Iranian nuclear issue could be solved diplomatically!

 

These are the most unpleasant news for the gang of Rajavi. They wish to take advantage of international developments over Iran.

 

What makes it worse for the MKO is EU’s preparedness to give the reasons why it has designated MKO as a terrorist organization!

 

This means that EU’s Ministers Council, despite the ruling of the Court of First Instance, still believes that the MKO should remain in terror list.

 

This Council is seemingly trying to pass a law that requires the EU to explain why it puts certain groups on terror list.

 

So, they’re observing a law that has not been passed yet; this is a smart legal move to block any challenges in future.

 

EU’s reasons for calling MKO a terrorist group, which will be published soon, strips MKO from the chance of taking advantage of maneuvering over this law itself. Although, they are ready to interpret this law as a victory for the group to boost the morale of group’s desperate members.

 

On the other hand, this act further blocks MKO from resorting to First Instance Court’s ruling.

 

Rallies held by MKO supporters in France and England prove desperate situation

 

Of MKO, whose activities have been restricted to efforts for the survival of the group.

 

That being said, one can foresee that Rajavi’s efforts against the EU will be futile and that Rajavi’s gang is too discredited to be able to reconstruct its destroyed terrorist base in Europe.

 

It should be noted that there’s only one major reason behind all these efforts for getting off the list: providing a safe and secure life for Rajavi. However, even if they succeeded in providing a life for him in Europe, they wouldn’t be able to change his political status as an old criminal cult leader who’s lived in hiding.

 

Irandidan –  2007/04/25

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The Ideology of the MEK

Why Mojahedin Shun Manifesting Contents of Ideological Revolution? (4)

As mentioned, to have a good understanding of the ideological revolution within MKO, first we have to go through its contents. But before, the importance of the phenomenon from Mojahedin’s point of view has to be necessarily asserted, a phenomenon that according to many critics and separated members was de facto manifestation of Mojahedin’s historical and ideological potential to evolve into a cult. In fact, now after nearly two decades of the events, there is not yet unanimity about its essentiality either in internal or external relations and also its applicable function in Mojahedin’s strategy. On this issue, Niyabati states:

Now eighteen years after the ideological revolution and in spite of reaching maturity, yet neither Mojahedin could themselves resolve on a non-ideological explanation in respect to the phenomenon nor those out could develop an understanding of its nature and function within Mojahedin’s internal relations and its inevitable impacts on the formation and regulation of relations with others. [1]

In this case of study, the main reference will be Bijan Niyabati’s “A look within MKO’s ideological revolution” for some reasons. First Mojahedin have not taken any position to approve or disapprove the book whereas they traditionally hardly tolerate any contradictory ideological or political criticism and react immediately. Their meaningful silence on the book can be considered a tacitly approbation of the contents.

Second, the author openly announces to be a member of Mojahedin. He is so attached to the group that in defence of its being labelled as terrorist, he declares to be proud of being a terrorist. Following the proscription of Mojahedin in the list of the EU in 2002 and in response to Rajavi’s call to protest the decision, he wrote:

It is a claim I have never made over the years neither within nor outside of your [addressing Rajavi] organization, but now talking in the position of an irreligious, secular element and keeping unto my past view-points and fully aware of the political, legal consequences I addressing you cry out that if Mojahedin are terrorist, then, I am also a Mojahed-e Khalq. [2]

Somewhere else in the same message in appreciation of the strategy and the third phase called ‘survive in the rift’, namely creeping into the created gap between the West and Iran to survive and escalate the tension to advance the overthrow, Niyabati writes:

It was only your resistance that, in the course of one the most critical chapters of Iranian history, kept the flames of an absolute resistance against one of the most tremendous forces of the contemporary history aflame and dipped the white flags of surrender one after another and, at the same time, by being entangled in complicated political sphere and the widespread political relation with all the imperialist world and by the merit of vigilance took advantage of tiny breaches to thwart their plots and to unburden the armed resistance and tried all the possibilities according to the revolutionary principles and never dissolved in them and remained revolutionary. [3]

These remarks work as reliable factors in assertion of Mojahedin’s strategically dual nature and evidences for approving it as a cult.

Third, Niyabati’s book is an acknowledgment of his debt to Mojahedin and their ideological revolution as well as being written in commemoration of his wife, Shirin Baqerabadi, who was killed in Mojahedin’s perpetrated military operation called the Eternal Light. However, it seems that many critics and the theoreticians advocating the change unanimously agree that the armed strategy and the related tactics to overthrow the Iranian regime have proved to be unproductive.

Regardless of all these views, the main focus is on the supposition that Mojahedin’s dual character and contradictory conducts in the West and within the Camp Ashraf endorse its truly cult structure. Its proximity to the same Western determined evaluation of a cult well crystallizes it as one of the most visible examples of a group that blends the characteristics of a terrorist group with a cult.

On the question of whther Mojahedin from the very initiation enjoyed latent cult inclinations or it was an imediate outcome of its ideological revolution, it should be explained that at least after the ideological revolution Mojahedin was not the same as in the past. Expounding on the point, Niyabati says:

Mojahedin organization after the ideological revolution is no more the same Mojahedin organization before the revolution. [4]

 

Notes

 

[1]. Bijan Niyabati; A look within MKO’s ideological revolution, Khavaran Publication, 2.

[2]. Niyabati’s response entitled “I am a Mojahed as well” to Rajavi’s call to protest proscription of Mojahedin as a terrorist group.

[3]. Ibid.

[4]. ]. Bijan Niyabati; A look within MKO’s ideological revolution, Khavaran Publication, 2.

 

Bahar Irani – Mojahedin.ws – April 23, 2007

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European Union

EU Provides Reasons for Designating the MKO

The European Union will send letters to groups and individuals on its terror register to explain why they are listed, EU diplomats said Friday.

The decision, to be adopted Monday by EU foreign ministers, was made in the wake of a ruling last year by Europe’s second-highest court annulling a freeze on the assets of the main Iranian opposition group in exile.

The Court of First Instance ruled that the EU had not respected the right to a fair hearing of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (OMPI), when it ordered the asset freeze in May 2002.

One diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the EU’s reasoning will be posted in its official journal for the groups and individuals for whom it has no address.

Those listed have 30 days "to present their arguments" against the decision.

The terror register lists more than 50 organisations and individuals, including the armed Basque separatist group ETA, Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers and the Islamist group Hamas.

It is supposed to be revised every six months but this has not happened because of uncertainty caused by the court ruling.

An asset freeze is imposed on those who figure on the list.

The EU has already written to OMPI, recalling "the organisation’s past, notably the attacks that it has been responsible for", the diplomat said.

 

Read More:

 

Evidences Dismissing MKO Mojahedin Khalq Organisation,

Rajavi cult headed by Massoud Rajavi and

Maryam Rjavi) Disclaim of Terrorism

 

The European Parliament Held an Assembly,

Considering the MKO’s Present

Situation (February 28, 2007)

 

UK Secretary of State: Mojahedin

Assets still frozen in EU and

UK (18 January 2007)

 

US State Department Report 1997 on

Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi Cult

Headed by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi)

 

Anne Singleton interview with BBC Radio

about Rajavi cult headed by Massoud

Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi

 

 

AFP, April 20, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO Terrorists Reappear in Paris Streets

No doubt, those quoted French citizens who the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq claim to have spoken in its behalf in the course of its gathering in Paris on Wednesday April 18 were given no opportunity to have access to any immediate information on the nature of the organization they were supporting. Hardly can French people sink into the oblivion the nightmare of the human-torches running it the streets of Paris nearly four years ago in June 2003.

The gathering in front of the French Parliament, one among a number of the like organized rallies in other Western countries, demanded from the French government to take MEK name off the EU terrorist list. The group also claimed that 15,000 French citizens, whose identities have never been released, had signed a petition in support of the group.

It is a question asked by many including the French people that why the government permits a proscribed terrorist group whose leaders are still facing new charges in French courts organize protesting rallies.

French prosecutor general had earlier on March 19 requested the anti-terror court to add new charges against MKO and the header of the group Maryam Rajavi. The new charges are reported to be money laundering and fraud charges added to the previous case which includes connection with terrorism and saboteur groups.

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European Union

The Proscribed Groups Be Informed Soon

Reported by Radio Farda quoting the European Union diplomats, they said on April 20 the European Union will soon inform the proscribed groups and entities through letter the reasons for being listing as terrorists.

Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is one of the listed terrorists that the European Union is decisive to keep on the list regardless of a decree by the Court of First Instance that annulled the freeze of the group’s assets.

The European Council announced on 31st January following the 2778th Council meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs that it has "decided to provide the PMOI with a statement of reasons for keeping it on the EU’s ‘asset freeze list’ of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts, and to give the PMOI one month to present its views, together with any supporting documentation".

The Council’s decision seems to be a reaction against the judgment of the Court of First Instance. The European Union proscribed MEK on 2002 and ordered its assets to be frozen.

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Canada

MEK A Banned Group on Canadaian List

Reflecting Canada’s decisiveness in war on terrorism, the Canadian Cnews reported that the government considers MEK a terrorist organization in spite of protesting rallies orchestrated by the group.

According to the report, several hundred chanting, flag-waving demonstrators paraded on Parliament Hill on Thursday, urging the government to drop an Iranian opposition group from the formal list of banned, terrorist organizations.

The protesters, many of them Iranian emigres, said the PMOI, the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, offers secular opponents of the theocratic Iranian regime a political option for change.

The group is banned by the government as part of a larger terrorist organization called Mujahedeen-e-Khalq or MEK which was placed on the list of banned groups in May 2005 and its status was reviewed last November.

The Public Safety Department describes the group as "an Iranian terrorist organization that was based in Iraq until recently. It subscribes to an eclectic ideology that combines its own interpretation of Shiite Islamism with Marxist principles. The group aspires to overthrow the current regime in Iran and to establish a democratic, socialist, Islamic republic."

The department also says MEK is believed to have had ties to Saddam Hussein, as well as a number of Palestinian factions and is suspected of working with the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

 

Cnews/Mojahedin.ws  –  20/04/2007

   

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Bush’s Terrorist Allies

You can’t tell the players without a program

Of course supporting terrorism is not something that is new to the Bush Administration, nor American foreign policy. Just last year it was revealed that another terrorist group called the MEK (Mujahedeen-e Khalq) was being used by the DoD to attack Iran.

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.

One former counterintelligence official, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the information, describes the Pentagon as pushing MEK shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The drive to use the insurgent group was said to have been advanced by the Pentagon under the influence of the Vice President’s office and opposed by the State Department, National Security Council and then-National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice.

MEK leader with SaddamIf you will recall, the MEK was one of the original backers of the Islamic Revolution in Iran whose ideology is a weird mix of fundamentalist Islamism, feminism, and Marxism. They actively supported the 1979 embassy occupation in Tehran and had conducted several assassinations against U.S. civilians working in Iran during the 1970’s. The MEK was chased out of Iran in the 1980’s, when thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) were simply executed by the Iranian government. The MEK joined with Saddam’s Iraqi government shortly before the 1988 massacre, and assisted in crushing the Shia revolt in 1991. The MEK is our leading source of information about Iran’s alleged "nuclear weapons program".

The MEK is currently lobbying to have it taken of the list of terrorist organizations, and it has friends in both the Bush Administration and in Congress.

Reps. Bob Filner, D-Calif., Tom Tancredo, R-Col., Ted Poe, R-Texas, Dennis Moore, R-Kan., and staffers for Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, and James Talent, R-Mo., spoke to MEK supporters at a convention hall just four blocks from the White House.

The MEK has been listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department since 1997, but some in Congress and close to the Administration want the group to be removed from the terrorist list. Even President Bush has called the MEK a "dissident group."

Of course that is only two of the terrorist groups fighting the Iranian government that the Bush Administration supports. Probably the most active group is the Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, PJAK). Last November Seymour Hersch wrote about this issue.

In the past six months, Israel and the United States have also been working together in support of a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan. The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as "part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran." The government consultant said that Israel is giving the Kurdish group "equipment and training." The group has also been given "a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the U.S."

PJAK’s ideology is democratic liberalism and traces its origin to non-violent student movements. It is considerably less radical than the PKK, but its leader, Haji Ahmad, is a member of Kongra-Gel (formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK). The PJAK is listed as a terrorist group by the American government. It is reported that the PJAK killed 120 Iranian security forces members in 2005 alone.

Of course the Bush Administration’s support for terrorist groups don’t stop here. They also back violent Azeri rebel groups and yet another Kurdish group called Komala. There may be others that I’m not aware of.

Saturday, 07 April 2007 –  Written by Garrett Johnson

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Who benefits from America’s support for terrorist MKO

Who benefits from America’s support for terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi Cult)?

It is not a secret that America has recently helped some of the smuggling gangs and terrorist cults, which have been denounced over the years throughout the civilized world, in an attempt to put more pressure on Iran to stop enriching Uranium.

The most recent support for Jondollah, which claimed the recent killings in Baluchestan province of Iran (attacking schools, etc), came in a live interview with Abdolmalek Rigi the head of Jondollah broadcast by Voice of America.

Link to the related article (Persian)

http://www.iran-interlink.org/fa/index.php?mod=view&id=2051

And the comments of American officials about the controversial Camp Ashraf (still run by the Rajavi cult and protected by the US Army in Iraq) given to CNN correspondent, leave not much question about direct support and protection given to MKO (Rajavi cult), which has been responsible for scores of murders across the globe by the order and support of Saddam Hussein.

The article, written by Michael Ware, CNN, April 05, 2007 is titled:

U.S. protects Iranian opposition group in Iraq

http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=2084

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/

protected.terrorists/index.html?section=cnn_latest

 

Ambassador Javad Zarif (representative of Islamic Republic of Iran in United Nations) was interviewed by Asia Source on April 21, 2007.

http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/zarif.cfm

Part of the interview reads:

"Is Hamas a terrorist organization?

No.

Is Hezbollah?

No. Let ‘s stop here. The majority – you don’t need to ask me this question – the majority of the international community does not regard these two organizations to be a terrorist organization. Now the question that can be asked from the United States is why is it cooperating with organizations that it considers to be terrorists? Now the majority of the world do not believe that Hezbollah or Hamas are terrorist organizations. Hamas and Hezbollah are official political parties with seats in the parliament. Hamas won the majority, which the United States did not like and the United States has boycotted Hezbollah ministers in the Lebanese Parliament simply because it doesn’t like them. Now the US or Israel labeling an organization "terrorist", that organization which is involved in legitimate resistance to foreign occupation, that organization does not then automatically become terrorist. Go look at the international community. This is the problem of the US equating itself with the international community again and again. But the question that needs to be asked is the behavior of the United States vis-à-vis organizations that it considers to be terrorists. Why is it cooperating with them?

Which organizations are you thinking of?

I’m referring to MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq], for instance, in Iraq that the United States is actually supporting and signing agreements with. Would the United States accept any country providing the Fourth Geneva Convention protection to Al Qaeda which is another universally recognized terrorist organization? So terrorism should not become a label, a convenient label for dealing with your adversaries. You’ve got to have objective criteria. Apply those objective criteria and deal with them accordingly."

 

It seems once again the ball has landed permanently in the court of Bush administration to come up with an answer.

Iran Interlink, April 21, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

On MKO Terrorists’ Message of Condolence

On April 16, I came across a message from Mohammad Mohaddessin, known as the chair of Mojahedin-e-Khalq’s Foreign Affairs Committee, on the passing away of Paul Leventhal, President of the Nuclear Control Institute. In the message, he conveyed his profound condolences, on behalf of his group, “to the family of Mr. Paul Leventhal and to all those in the United States who support the cause of peace, human rights, and democratic change in Iran”.

He referred to Mr. Leventhal as a “longtime supporter of the Iranian Resistance with a remarkable background in fight against the threat of nuclear weapons”. It was so surprising to learn, as claimed by Mojahedin, that a man among the first leading specialists and scholars in the United States had risen in defense of a terrorist group blacklisted by the US State Department notwithstanding he had mentioned the group as the source of bringing the Iranian nuclear program to light. The IAEA and the international community hardly follow up on information revealed by Mojahedin-e-Khalq since their accuracy are under question and such acts of disclosure are regarded much as a propaganda blitz in the gain political legitimacy.

Dismissed from Iran’s political scene following the Islamic revolution because of their extremely violent views in struggle against imperialism and the US specifically, Mojahedin under the leadership of Massoud Rajavi resurfaced in Europe and then settled in Iraq. Its forces allegedly took part in Saddam’s war against Iran and especially the suppression of the Kurd and Shi’it insurgencies. The group was openly supported and maintained in Iraq by Saddam up to the American invasion. Most Iranians judge Mojahedin-e Khalq as a hypocrite, anti-national organization regardless of its advertises to be a pro-democratic representative of Iranian people.

After the American invasion, the military encampment of the group was sealed off by the Americans and partially disarmed, but never destroyed. It is alleged that the Americans are now using persons from the camp to infiltrate Iran to perform what they are not themselves legally permitted to indulge.

In the 1990s, the organization was totally dominated by the Rajavis, Massoud and his third wife Maryam. The husband elevated the wife to a divine status and she was appointed as “president-in-exile” of Iran in 1993. She is to serve as President until elections are held following the overthrow of the Iranian regime. Thus, the Rajavis transformed the group into a cult with a totalitarian cultist center, Camp Ashraf, wherein the male and female members, reported to be more that 3,000, live apart, and most personal decisions are made by the leadership.

No criticisms of the Rajavis or their decisions are allowed and regular self-criticism sessions are held and taped. Discussants are expected to confess their sexual desires and other personal feelings as well as private affairs and even dreams and day-dreams. Informants are everywhere and “traitors” are sharply reprimanded.

Even many Iranian opposition overseas have a negative descriptions of the Mojahedin. The American Department of State and many other foreign services see the group as a dangerous far left terrorist group with no real commitment to human rights or democracy. I believe that expression of condolence on somebody’s death by an opportunist terrorist group cannot necessarily mean that he has been an advocate of terrorists, especially when he cannot defend himself anymore.

 

Mailed by D. Roshana – Mojahedin.ws – April 19, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

More rent-a-crowd, yet another desperate attempt

Is Canada unleashing terrorists on its own soil and, if so, on whose order?

The grievances between the US and Iran is not new for any of us. Whether we think dialogue should prevail over hostilities or visa-versa, surely no-one can believe that using a destructive cult (which is globally listed as a terrorist entity) to force Iran to give up enrichment of uranium is a particularly clever idea. This is especially so considering that the group has gradually been dismantled since the fall of Saddam Hussein. In any case, the average age of its fighters – about 3000 remain in its isolated Iraqi camp – is between 45 and 50 (some ‘fighters’ are over 65 years old and in any other society would be collecting their pension). Iran has openly and repeatedly rejected any payment in exchange for the group. Only a couple of months ago, the Iranian Foreign Minister explained that the problem presented by the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation is nothing to do with Iran, rather the group is a problem for western countries – but Iran would be willing to help these countries if they ask for it!

 

But who are those who still think the dead horse has a value? They are certainly not far from Washington and certainly not far from the neo conservatives HQ. But that the terrorist Mojahedin’s backers are not as strong as a couple of years ago is clear from the shift from Washington to Canada as the platform for this support.

 

CNEWS reported today (April 20, 2007) about yet another seemingly desperate attempt by the neo conservatives to rescue the remains of the Rajavi cult (aka Mojahedin Khalq).

 

Read the time line of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation – Rajavi cult

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=816

 

Focus on line reported last month that a paid ‘rent-a-crowd’ had been transferred from Cologne to Brussels for a similar protest to remove the Rajavi cult (aka, Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, MKO, MEK, PMOI, National Council of Resistance …) from the terrorism lists. The news agency said:

Around 60 Iranian actors and actresses, who were not informed beforehand about the action, were paid the usual 50 euros per day fee to take part in the recent demonstration in Brussels where the MKO was protesting its continued blacklisting as a terror group by the European Union.

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/gekaufter-protest_aid_51864.html

 

The Rajavi cult which was responsible for the assassination of Americans in Iran during the reign of the Shah, has openly admitted to killing innocent civilians by the use of mortars and bombs in crowded places in Iranian cities. The number is believed to be in excess of 16,000. The armed terrorist cult had also been engaged in the massacre of the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites in collaboration with the intelligence services and army of Saddam Hussein inside Iraq. And if these were not enough, the cult has tortured and killed its own disaffected members according to the records of many humanitarian organizations, including Human Rights Watch.

 

In 1997, the US put the group in its list of terrorist entities and a new report was given out. We can read in the report:

 

The Mojahedin collaborated with Ayatollah Khomeini to overthrow the former Shah of Iran. As part of that struggle, they assassinated at least six American citizens, supported the takeover of the U.S. embassy, and opposed the release of American hostages. In the post-revolutionary political chaos, however, the Mojahedin lost political power to Iran’s Islamic clergy. They then applied their dedication to armed struggle and the use of propaganda against the new Iranian government, launching a violent and polemical cycle of attack and reprisal. In 1981, the Mojahedin leadership fled to France and with other Iranian opposition movements formed the National Council of Resistance (NCR).

Yet within a few years the NCR became a mere shell as individuals and groups abandoned the organization because of Mojahedin domination. In 1986, France expelled the leader of the Mojahedin, Massoud Rajavi. Rajavi was a member of the Mojahedin original "Central Committee" and "Ideological Team." Imprisoned by the Shah’s government from 1972-1979, he nonetheless remained influential within the group. He rose to command in 1975 after the Mojahedin experienced an internal schism. From his release from prison until today, he has maintained absolute control of the Mojahedin, the NCR, and its associated groups. In 1993, his wife Maryam Rajavi replaced him as the NCR’s "future president" of Iran. Previously, she had held the appointed position of NCR secretary-general. After his expulsion form France, Rajavi relocated to Baghdad, Iraq, adopting Saddam Hussein as his patron, in 1987.

The report continues:

Despite Mojahedin assertions that the group has abandoned its revolutionary ideology and now favours a liberal democracy, there is no written or public record of discussion or debate about the dramatic reversals in the Mojahedin stated positions. Moreover, the Mojahedin 29-year record of behaviour does not substantiate its capability or intention to be democratic. Internally, the Mojahedin run their organization autocratically, suppressing dissent and eschewing tolerance of differing viewpoints. Rajavi, who heads the Mojahedin political and military wings, has fostered a cult of personality around himself. These characteristics have alienated most Iranian expatriates, who assert they do not want to replace one objectionable regime for another. Given these attributes, it is no coincidence that the only government in the world that supports the Mojahedin politically and financially is the totalitarian regime of Saddam Hussein…

 

Read more about the report:

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=818

 

In year 2000, the United Kingdom added the name of Mojahedin Khalq Organization to its own terrorist list.

In 2002, the European Union added the name to the list of banned terrorist organizations and Canada added the name in 2005.

Read more about the Canadian Statement:

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=782

 

The cult was investigated again by the USA and a report was given out in 2004 by the State Department.

Read the report:

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=783

 

In May 2005, Human Rights Watch published an 18 page report about the abuses of Human Rights inside the Mojahedin (Rajavi Cult).

Read the report:

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

 

The Mojahedin’s backers, including an MEP from Portugal, disputed the HRW findings and the human rights group published a further condemning report strongly endorsing its previous findings.

Read the second report by HRW:

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

 

From 1997 up to now, there have been yearly reviews in the US, UK, European Union and Canada over the inclusion of the cult and all new investigations have led to the point that the cult is still committed to its undemocratic and violent strategy (it is called Armed Struggle by the leaders if the cult).

The group has been disarmed by the US army after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The guru of the cult, Massoud Rajavi, is a fugitive and wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the rule of Saddam Hussein. Rajavi’s 3rd wife, Maryam Rajavi, (nee Ghajar Azodanloo) is awaiting her court case hearing in France. She has been charged with terrorism related crimes by the French judiciary. Maryam Rajavi ordered the staged self-burnings in Europe and Canada in an attempt to put pressure on France to drop the charges. Although the authorities did not back off, two of the people who committed self immolation died subsequently (one of them, Neda Hassani, a young Iranian- Canadian girl recruited from Canada, trained in Iraq and burned herself to death in London).

http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=1909

And

http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=1485

 

Now CNEWS reports:

"OTTAWA (CP) – Several hundred chanting, flag-waving demonstrators paraded on Parliament Hill on Thursday, urging the government to drop an Iranian opposition group from the formal list of banned, terrorist organizations."

 

The rented crowd amounting to a few hundred, compared with the Iranian Canadian population of Ottawa, speaks for itself. Any mid-level Persian event in Ottawa gathers thousands of Iranian without notice.

CNEWS continues:

"The group is banned by the government as part of a larger terrorist organization called Mujahedeen-e-Khalq or MEK."

It is a shame that serious journalism can get such a simple fact wrong. No one, including the Rajavi cult itself has ever claimed that Mujahedeen–e Khalq or MEK are different organizations to the PMOI.

Read more about the aliases of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization:

http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/info/mojahedinaliases.htm

 

CNEWS also reports:

"Raymonde Folco, a Liberal MP from north of Montreal who spoke to the group, said:… I think that, quite frankly, the appellation, the title that they have given themselves, the mujahedeen, which means the fighters, has an extremely bad reputation in North America and, I think, all over the world, They are not terrorists ". "

With all due respect to the constituents of Ms. Folco, we can’t help saying that this simplistic and frankly, ignorant, approach of an MP to the investigative work of the US, UK, EU, and Canadian government as well as most of the Asian and Arab world in countering terrorism and the use of violence to achieve political aims, is a huge insult to all the thorough research work carried out across the globe, including research by the Canadian Authorities.

 

CNEWS continues:

"Paul Forseth, a former Reform and Conservative MP who also addressed the demonstration, said he believes the group was first labelled terrorist by Washington in an ill-fated attempt to appease Tehran. Canada then followed suit, he added."

Dear Mr. Paul Forseth, although an ex MP, we are confident that you can still have access to the reports by your Government explaining briefly the grievances between the USA and Iran and the history and the ongoing problems between Canada and Iran. The claim that the world has added the name of a violent destructive cult supported by Saddam Hussein to its terrorist lists for pragmatic or political reasons would surely mean that, after 10 years from the first prescription, they should have been removed for the same pragmatic or political reasons long before now. No, Sir. This destructive cult is no longer an annoyance for the Islamic Republic of Iran (at least not since the fall of Saddam). The problem of the Mojahedin is now left for the people living in the west (including your country) to deal with and is something western authorities (including your own authorities) are desperately trying to eliminate.

 

CNEWS ends its report by saying:

"MEK was placed on the list of banned groups in May 2005 and its status was reviewed last November.

"The Public Safety Department describes the group as "an Iranian terrorist organization that was based in Iraq until recently. It subscribes to an eclectic ideology that combines its own interpretation of Shiite Islamism with Marxist principles. The group aspires to overthrow the current regime in Iran and to establish a democratic, socialist, Islamic republic."

"The department also says MEK is believed to have had ties to Saddam Hussein, as well as a number of Palestinian factions and is suspected of working with the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan."

Read the full report by cnews:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/04/19/4068822-cp.html

 

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Massoud Khodabandeh, April 21, 2007

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