1. MEK A Banned Group on Canadaian List
2. EU Provides Reasons for Designating the MKO
3. EU nations agree to notify groups, individuals why they are on terror list
4. MKO Rides Terror Boat
5. Open letter to Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
6. MKO hired actors for demonstration in Brussels: German news magazine
7. America’s Covert Terror War Against Iran
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With sectarian and racist motives, Baathist regime of Iraqi started forcing Arab Shiites and Kurds to leave their homelands and confiscated all their IDs and historical documents proving their Iraqi nationality.
The main reason was that Saddam wanted to change human structure of Iraq while Shiites and Kurds comprised more than 80 percent of Iraqi population.
After revolution in Iran and closure of US and Israeli embassies in Tehran, Americans thought of coup in Iran in order to compensate their failure. However, the coup effort with 18 American helicopters failed in a desert in Iran. So, they supported Saddam and his brutal ideas, and led him to attack Iran.
Arab and Eruopean countries supported him with money and financial and logistical aids. American media claimed that Imam Khomeini was to export Islamic revolution and that he didn’t consider Arabs as Muslims. The war started and the excuse was to return the second half of Arwand River (Shat al-Arab) to Iraq. It was amazing that Saddam Hussein had agreed earlier (1975) with the Shah of Iran to use this river equally, half by half. At that time, Saddam asked Iranian Shah to pressurized Kurds. However, it was Saddam who violated the agreement unilaterally.
Industrialized and colonialist governments as well as Egypt took advantage of the war, which left more than two millions and half dead, wounded and disabled. They soled and exported weapons to Iran and sometimes to Iran. Egyptian arms factories worked around the clock and even more than 1 million Egyptian workers went to Iraq. Meanwhile, Iraqis went to war fronts and what Iraqis received was war casualties.
After 8 years of war and bloodshed, the war stopped and Saddam agreed with the items of Algeria Agreement and the situation returned to normal.
Saddam granted Iraqi citizenship to appease his Egyptian partners. He even went further and allowed thousands of Iranian terrorists of Mojahedin-e Khalq to remain in Iraq. He provided them with weapons and tanks and trained them by his republican guards.
During the uprising of Shaabanieh in 1991 in northern, central and southern parts of Iraq, following the end of Kuwait occupation by Saddam, MKO members and elements of Republican Guards killed hundreds of Kurds and buried them in mass graves. After these attacks, compulsory immigrations of Shiites and Kurds, some Turkmens and others intensified.
Baathists insolently considered the MKO as the gusts of Iraq. According to our information, more than a million and half Iraqi men and women have lived in Iranian refugee camps since 25 years ago; most of these people are Fili Kurds and Arab Shiites. They have neither Iraqi identity nor Iranian one.
A Fili Kurd once told me that one of his relatives, a 25 year old boy, recently back from Iran, is unable to read or write. He has no identity no citizenship. I personally know Kurd families with the same problem, girls and boys who have grown up without any identity.
Iraqi government, in the first place, should have allowed Iraqi families to return and get back their identities and citizenship.
Al-Jeiran/Dr. Adnan Jawad Al-Temeh/Germany
2007/05/02
As reported on April 24, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a resolution to the United States Senate to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors. One of the broached allegations included in the third article of the resolution presents evidences of Dick Cheney’s contacts with Mojahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO). The article states:
M(3) The Vice President is fully aware of the actions taken by the United States towards Iran that are further destabilizing the world as evidenced by the following: …
MMM(D) The United States has been linked to anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), even though the state department has branded it a terrorist organization.
The report comes at a time when the EU has taken a decisive step to keep MKO as a terrorist group on the list and the State Department continues to consider it a blacklisted terrorist group with no possible revision. However, Scott Ritter’s earlier statements concerning the US position in utilizing MKO against Iran’s nuclear issue well patronizes the US dual stance in dealing with MKO.
All these reports and remarks highlight a fact that among the American political wings there can be found an explicit contradiction concerning the instrumental application of MKO and the ways to deal with it. It has emboldened the group to avail itself of the existing leverages in the West to wedge into the subsisting gap between Iran and the West to accomplish its own interests in spite of being proscribed a terrorist group.
Regardless of the US possible engagement with MKO to secure its global interests and that to what extent MKO could be effective to satisfy the wish of Americans, it has been actually evidenced that MKO, because of lacking a social support for its terrorist atrocities and since the Americans are fully aware of its ideological drifts, will be made into another fundamentalist al-Qaeda. The West and the US in particular should bear it in mind that if al-Qaeda perpetrated suicide operations to jeopardize the US interests, MKO is capable of inducing the members to commit self-destruction operations such as those self-burnings in June 2003 for whatever trifle cause that can be easily worked out.
The US sponsoring of MKO similar to that of al-Qaeda, with the exception that MKO ideologically inherits characteristics of a destructive cult, might end to a much bitter experience with that of al-Qaeda. MKO, as the State Department asserts, moves on a dual strategy that enables it in any circumstance to accomplish its strategic ends. It seems that the current challenge within the US Administration concerning utilizing or boycotting MKO should necessarily end to a comprehensive unanimity by tracing that al-Qaeda held pestilent factors in MKO. The made comparison, from the structural and contents point of view, will give way to whether utilize MKO or not.
Mojahedin.ws – Bahar Irani – May 1, 2007
News reports say that terrorist MKO is supporting French presidential candidate Segolene Royal and asks French people to vote for her.
At the beginning, we should point to the activities of MKO in the West to win support for certain candidates.
In some Western countries, particularly the US and UK, the MKO has invested large amounts of money and has even paid considerable amounts of money to electoral headquarters of congressmen and congresswomen (some of the cases have been revealed with documents); they have even tried to send to congress a candidate who agrees to support the group.
They have been sometimes successful and in other cases, they have lost their money; however, they haven’t achieved what they wanted in any of the cases. In some cases, the candidates were not faithful and only used MKO’s money.
Beyond this, MKO has sometimes tried to interfere in Presidential elections in order to get their desired advantages; the most important of such cases is MKO’s contribution to Clinton’s election in the first round. At that time, MKO spent money and did its best to help him become president.
MKO’s analysis at that was that Clinton would come to the scene to encounter Iran with the slogan of”human rights”. It had become an ideological ideal for the group so that there were celebrations in MKO’s bases when he was elected as president.
The fact was that MKO had some contacts with then vice president Al Gore, and he had promised that Clinton would support the group.
After his election, MKO tried to boast about the issue by writing letter to Clinton (by Rajavi) and even Mohaddessin took part in his dinner party, held for his success.
However, all MKO’s efforts for Clinton turned to a big tragedy for the group and it’s still a nightmare for the group.
Mr. Clinton put them on terror list and, as MKO claims, gave it to Iran as a gift!
The case is the same with Royal’s campaign in France. MKO has been deceived by her campaign slogans. MKO, because of its lack of understanding of political phenomena, repeats the experiences that have been tested before in political scene. They have seen that European politicians say things pleasant for MKO, however as soon as they get to power the situation changes.
What’s important now is that MKO forces need high morale and Rajavi is trying to use this case to boost the morale of his member; he tries to convince them that all MKO problems would be solved if Royal was elected president in France.
However, there’s no doubt that Royal’s victory would also become a big tragedy for Rajavi and his gang.
It’s really great to hear the strong voice that MKO should leave Iraq.
They interfere in Iraq’s internal affairs and we, Iraqis should not give them opportunity to do this. When I heard that news, I was proud and I said to myself that "finally, we have a powerful government that respects itself and the people; a government that is able to make decisions in order to get rid of Saddam’s remnants. Saddam gathered elements of MKO to occupy our country and gave them privileges, which we were deprived of so that we had to go to other countries."
We believe that recent news as a good step and congratulate all Iraqi officials over that. It’s good to see that justice prevails.
MKO’s comments on rejecting Iraqi government (published on Sotaliraq website) indicate that these people don’t respect elected government. Nearly 3000 of them eat and sleep here in our country and speak insolently.
We know the source of these comments, so we ask Mr. Adnan Al-Dulaimi to accept the request of Iraqi and let these people be expelled from our country.
Ibrahim al-Novini/sotaliraq/Sweden, April 30, 2007
The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mohammadi, in a speech delivered at the international conference on the culture of resistance held in Tehran said that “given that Iran has been a victim of terrorism more than any other country, it is quite sensitive to it”. It is the first international conference of the kind opened on the anniversary of Morteza Motahhari’s assassination, a victim of the wave of terrors triggered by MKO following the Islamic revolution.
He urged that the United Nations should define state terrorism within the framework of international terrorism and severely condemn it. He said that no comprehensive definition has been presented by the UN for terrorism.
He added that difference of views on terrorism is the most important obstacle facing the UN General Assembly towards campaign against it after 2001.
"Today terrorism has been divided into two types, including good and bad. The present activities of the terrorist MKO group is a clear example of the West’s dual standards in approaching terrorism," he said.
Urging the need for a broad-based definition of terrorism, he said that it should be defined in such a way as to include governments’ use of force (state terrorism).
IRNA – 02/05/2007
French presidential candidate Segolene Royal received a campaign endorsement from an unexpected quarter on Saturday when an Iraq-based Iranian rebel movement held a rally to support her.
The People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), which is listed by the European Union and United States as a terrorist group, claimed that around 4,000 Iranian exiles and Iraqi supporters had gathered in the Iraqi town of Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad.
The guerrilla organisation has a long-standing enmity for the outgoing French President Jacques Chirac and his favoured successor, the Socialist Royal’s right-wing opponent Nicholas Sarkozy.
Photographs released by the group appeared to show a crowd of thousands in a hangar-like hall, and a panel of women behind a banner reading "Women of Iraq, Iran and France: with Segolene, for peace, against fundamentalism."
The women sat in front of three flags — those of Iran, France and Iraq.
PMOI spokesman Shahria Kia said the rally was attended by his group and by Iranian and Iraqi opposition groups who feel Royal would be a better ally than previous French presidents in their battle with the Tehran regime.
A statement from the groups, released to AFP, read: "We ask all of our friends, particularly all the French Muslims, to vote for Ms Royal."
"We are certain that with this choice France will retrieve its values, and will stand beside the oppressed people of Iraq and Iran against fundamentalism and terrorism exported by Iran," it added.
The PMOI, also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), was founded in 1965 by leftist students at Tehran university, and fled Iran after clashing with the Islamist government set up in the 1979 revolution.
It was based in exile in France until 1986, when the then prime minister, Chirac, expelled them.
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq became the group’s new home, and they developed a guerrilla army to launch cross-border attacks into Iran.
The group’s bases were bombed by the US military during the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, but after the fall of Saddam a ceasefire was signed with the Americans, who keep the activists under guard in Ashraf.
Nevertheless, the US State Department continues to list the PMOI as a terrorist organisation, as does the European Union despite a ruling last year by the European Court of Justice that this was unfair.
Female activist Ategheh Khorsand, who addressed the gathering on behalf of the PMOI, said: "French policy, during past 20 years, towards Iran and Iraq is not something for France to be proud of.
"The only concern of this policy has been to attract consent of the religious dictatorship in Iran for financial and trade concession by suppressing the members of the Iranian resistance in France," she added.
Socialist Party flag-bearer Royal will face Sarkozy in the final round of France’s presidential election, which will choose a successor to the PMOI’s original nemesis Chirac.
In June 2003, when Sarkozy was French interior minister, French police raided several alleged PMOI safe houses in France and arrested 160 suspects. Sarkozy warned that the group was trying to make France its rear base.
France 24 – 2007/04/30
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