Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Mojahedin Khalq have no legal right; Iraqi chief prosecutor.

Baghdad,  Monday 02 April: The chief prosecutor of Iraq " Jafar Al Moosavi" heading the delegation of the high court investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity told journalist today: "Members of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult) enjoy no special judicial or legal immunity".

Talking to the Iraqi daily "Al Motamar", Mr. Al Moosavi said that the investigations against the terrorist group (MKO or Rajavi cult) has not yet started but he emphasised that "in order to start the judicial process, the prosecution office has started gathering information against the accused".

Mr. Mossavi added: "Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult) stayed in Iraq during the time of Saddam Hussein as his guest and their presence at this moment is neither legal nor acceptable".

Mojahedin Khalq leaders are accused of massacre of Iraqi people in 1991 and 1996 by the order of Saddam’s along side Iraqi secret services and Military. They are also accuse of wasting Iraq’s wealth along side Saddam Hussein.

Iran-Interlink. Baghdad , April 02, 2007

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USA

U.S. financially supports Iranian opposition

The U.S. daily Washington Prism has reported that the United States is officially funding terrorist organizations opposed to the government in Iran.

Reese Elrich of the Washington Prism and author of the book “Target Iraq”, who recently visited Iran and the Kurdish regions in northern Iraq, reports on the U.S. government’s financial support for armed groups.

Elrich who visited Iran for the presidential elections with Hollywood actor Sean Penn, says Washington’s support is primarily focused on media propaganda.

In response to questions on whether the support is strictly limited to media or includes other activities such as military, he said; “Intelligence agencies in the U.S. also sponsor secret armed attacks within Iran. I have found that the U.S.

and Israel support the military wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PEJAK) and Mojahedin Khalq (MKO).

"The U.S. asks members of these groups if they have left the organization, if they answer yes, they will be given military training for secret operations inside Iran."

“Although these organizations are supported from the outside, there is absolutely no support for them inside the country.”

Elrich, a freelance journalist, has been working with different newspapers and American radio stations for the past twenty years and is currently working on his latest book: “The Iran Agenda: the Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis”, due for release in September from Polipoint Press.

 

pressTV – 27/03/2007

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The Ideology of the MEK

Why Mojahedin Shun Manifesting Contents of Its Ideological Revolution? (1)

The ideological revolution within MKO seems to be the organization’s greatest theoretical and political approach to the time. Of its great importance, Mojahedin believe that it is hardly possible to grasp all aspects and merits of this internal revolution even years after its nascence. In their opinion,

the change is considered to be the lost-ring of Mojahedin through its four-decade long initiation. Talking of its importance, Mehdi Abrishamchi states:

If you see that we could advance to this standing, before being the outcome of political tactics and vigilance, organizational or military potentialities, or anything else, it refers to the main chapters of the ideological choices all adopted under the leadership of Massoud. [1]

Also, in accentuating the importance of the ideological revolution he adds:

The ideological issue is the issue of existence of a revolutionary organization, that of being or not to be. If in the theological philosophy of the theologians the issue of God is the crux of existence, for a revolutionary organization, too, the issue of ideology is a matter of existence. The existence of an organization and its how-to be is sourced out of its ideology. [2]

It should be added that MKO and its insiders’ emphasis on the importance of the ideological revolution is cantered on internal relations. So far, none of the internal meetings of the organization discussing the revolution’s paragraphs has ever been revealed for the world outside. Also, Mojahedin never publicize reports on the ideological divorces which is the main key into such an internal change. On inevitable occasions, Mojahedin equivocally consent to such an ideological phenomenon but advert it to be the outcome of the insiders’ individual will rather than an organizational command.

Ali Safavi, a political member of MKO who has registered to set himself afire at the order of Massoud Rajavi the leader of the organization, in a documentary made by BBC on MKO claims that the propaganda over the ideological revolution is a product of the Islamic Republic’s propaganda machine. But, in response to the reporter’s question that if the insiders were obliged to divorce says:

– Never, each member of Mojahedin on his own will decided to relinquish the marriage life, of course, the married ones.

In response to the question that if all decided to divorce their wife he says:

– Yes, all of them.

The reporter amazed by such answers asked:

– Don’t you think that it is illogical that hundreds of members on their own will decide to divorce their wives?

And Ali Safavi says definitely:

– No, not at all. [3]

He meant to say it was logical altogether. The double-edged answers indicate that Mojahedin dodge to mirror information on their claimed historical and ruling change. The question is why Mojahedin shun delineating the principles and contents of such a great revolution that they believe to be the securer of the organization’s existence.

The media generally function for any establishment to implant its thought and political approaches. In other words, they are potential means at the service of the political organizations to recruit new members. There is a question here that why Mojahedin, in spite of getting advantage of this potentiality, withhold its application to transmit their greatest political and ideological approach? No doubt, political organizations for some security measures stop communicating some of their internal information to the world. Can it be also the same with MKO that considers its ideological revolution as the no-pass red line? If so, then it can no longer be considered an internal and ideological evolution because it can never turn into the red lines.

From its very initiation, any reference to the ideological revolution outside of the organization is limited to the title with no further explanation. Really, why the organization refuses to unveil it for the world? Regardless of any viewpoint considering the contents of the ideological revolution, its very cover up is the them for the discussion, an occurrence that concerns the destiny of Mojahedin and , in some respects, that of the coming generation.

Notes

[1]. Mehdi Abrishamchi’s speech on the ideological revolution within the organization made for a community of sympathizers in France. Published in 1995, Taleqani Publications, pp. 24-25.

[2]. Ibid, 18.

[3]. BBC interview with Ali Safavi on MKO.

Mojahedin.ws – Bahar Irani – March 23, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Hostage-Taking to Boost Bargaining

One of the oldest methods of MKO to increase bargaining capabilities is to take hostages. Hostage-taking generally takes place when the MKO is in crisis and the only way it has is to create a disaster.

Terrorists take advantage of hostage-taking by two ways: either they threaten the hostages to death in order to create the situation of fear and force victims to accept their requests or they suggest releasing them in return for receiving special advantages.

The efforts of MKO to get out of Iraqi crisis have the properties of a criminal act of hostage-taking; the only difference is that instead of ordinary people, they have taken hostage their own members!

Mercenaries of Rajavi’s gang, who have a long history of selling their own members, try to put pressure on humanitarian organizations to accept their requests.

On one hand, they threaten to create humanitarian disaster- committing suicide by all members (threatening to kill the hostages)- and on the other, they claim that any movement of members equals the death of all members (receiving advantage).

The MKO also brings to the scene those whose condition is of a big concern for humanitarian organizations in order to block humanitarian efforts and private interviews with them.

Recently, the group is bringing to its TV channel those whose families had asked to meet; in TV programs, such members express hatred towards their families and this is a part of MKO’s hostage-taking plan.

On the other hand, they prevent dissident members from leaving the group and encounter them severely.

The gang of Rajavi has opened a new chapter in its criminal history by taking hostage its own members.

Reports from Ashraf Camp indicate that requests for leaving the group have increased, despite the moves of MKO leaders, and the pressure on the leaders is unique.

The main reason for asking to leave the group is that Rajavi’s claims on risks waiting for members in Iran have proved to be baseless.

Now MKO members see a lot of former members who have returned to Iran and they have even settled in Europe.

Therefore, the MKO tries to impose itself on the Iraqi government so that it may continue keeping members as hostages to guarantee the survival of the group.

Unfortunately, humanitarian organizations have no access to MKO camp to get information on the situation of hostages and reports are only coming by hostage takers. Thus, it is really necessary to publish information about the members in Camp Ashraf.

 Irandidban –  2007/03/19

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The Terrorists Swearing an Oath to Democracy

Greg Elich believes that the provision of aid to anti-government forces offers certain advantages to the Bush Administration because covert operations are a cost-effective means for destabilizing a nation, relative to waging war. In his article of March 23 published in Global Research, he states that according to a former CIA official, funding for armed separatist groups operating in Iran is paid from the CIA’s classified budget. The aim, claims Fred Burton, an ex-State Department counter-terrorism agent, is “to supply and train” these groups “to destabilize the Iranian regime.”

One of these groups blacklisted by the US as a terrorist group is MKO. Giving more details on the group Greg Elich writes:

The largest and most well known of the anti-government organizations is Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), operating out of Iraq. For years MEK had launched cross-border attacks and terrorist acts against Iran with the support of Saddam Hussein. Officially designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 1997, and disarmed of heavy weaponry by the U.S. military six years later, Washington has since come to view MEK in a different light. Three years ago, U.S. intelligence officials suggested looking the other way as the MEK rearmed and to use the organization to destabilize Iran, a recommendation that clearly has been accepted.

Accusing MEK of past involvement in repressive measures by former president Saddam Hussein, the current Iraqi government wants to close down Camp Ashraf, located well outside of Baghdad, where many of the MEK fighters are stationed. But the camp operates under the protection of the U.S. military, and American soldiers chauffeur MEK leaders. The Iraqi government is unlikely to get its way, as the MEK claims to be the primary U.S. source for intelligence on Iran.

U.S. officials “made MEK members swear an oath to democracy and resign from the MEK,” reveals an intelligence source, “and then our guys incorporated them into their unit and trained them.” Reliance on the MEK began under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the direction of Vice President Dick Cheney, and soon MEK soldiers were being used in special operations missions in Iran. “They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all,” said one intelligence official of the MEK’s American handlers.

March 26, 2007 http://pars-iran.com/en/?mod=view&id=2334

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

The Sellers of National Jubilant

Taking advantage of any circumstance to advance their organizational objectives, naturally in contrast to that of national wills, unpopular groups and organizations that camp outside their home-country in the name of their people know well how to benefit from national celebrations. Of these, the Iranian MKO is one of the most hateful opportunists.

On the threshold of each Iranian New Year, when Iranian youths come to the streets in the eve of the Festival of Fire in various cities to celebrate the upcoming Norooz, the cult of Mojahedin adverts it as a social unrest against the government as recently reported by NCRI’s site:

The regime frightened of escalating social unrest in days ahead of Iranian New Year Celebrations has increased its suppressive measures against the Iranian people.

The cult leaders are not ashamed of selling people’s delight for their organization’s interests since they have chained parts of people’s heart in their cult. How long more should Iranian families be waiting to see their beloved kept forcefully in the cult returned to them?

Mojahedin.ws – 17/03/2007

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Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi Cleric: MKO TO BE EXPELLED SOON

Friday prayer leader of Barasa mosque in Iraq, Jalal al-Din Al-Saghir, said on Friday that, "MKO will be expelled from Iraq in the near future because it was a terrorist organization involved in killing Iraq people during Sha’banieh uprising and also participated in other crimes of Saddam Hussein. This organization is repeating its crimes in Diyalah province".

"Iraqi government will soon submit a request to the UN according to which it could expel the MKO from Iraq to another country."

He also added that he had visited Nuri Al-Maliki last week to discuss the issue as well as the fact that Diyalah has become a safe haven for terrorists.

Ali Mohsen Razi/Barasa news agency, March 17 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Mojahedin violence re-emerging

Open letter to Cologne Police chief

Mr. Klaus Steffenhagen

Polizeipräsidium Köln

Walter-Pauli-Ring 2-4

51103 Köln

Dear Mr. Steffenhagen,

We have been informed that the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO) under the name of National Council of Resistance (NCR), has once again expanded its violent threats against Mr. Ali Akbar Rastgoo (a German citizen who is resident in Cologne ) and some of his colleagues. Mr. Rastgoo and his family are well known internationally for their outspoken criticism against terrorism and violations of human rights.

The proscribed terrorist cult, Mojahedin Khalq, has once again accused all those people and organisations which criticize its behaviour of ‘working for the Iranian government’; an accusation which is punishable by death according to their public announcements over the past 25 years. And this is the worrying part which has prompted me to write this letter.

The representative heads of the Mojahedin cult in different countries are placed there as the "Representative of the National Council of Resistance", which in the case of the UK where I reside is Ms. Dolat Noroozi and in your country Ms. Massoumeh Boloorchi. Both these individuals are well known cult members with a dreadful history. Both women are known to be experts in "information laundry" and recruiters of agents and members to carry out their illegal work. They are both connected directly to Maryam Rajavi (who is, of course, a known character to your security agencies) and are both potentially hard-core suicide terrorists if they receive the order at any time. One of their old tactics (which I believe you are familiar with) is gathering information from Iranian newspapers and perhaps telephone conversation and adding their desired misinformation between the lines to feed to the intelligence services of various countries in return for a more open hand to operate outside the framework of the law. This tactic is nothing other than what Saddam’s Mokhaberat (secret services) has trained them in during their long history of working for him.

According to an article in today’s Guardian newspaper, the MKO is now accused of kidnapping a retired member of the Iranian Government in Turkey. The article also mentions the possibility that the Iranian officials arrested in Arbil (Iraq) were interrogated by Mojahedin operatives. We have also just received unconfirmed news of several arrests in Frankfurt airport linked to the alleged discovery of bombs aboard a Lufthansa flight to Tehran. The unconfirmed news indicates the motive as turning Arab countries and Iran against each other. This motive is a well know tactic employed by ex-Saddam operatives, in particular the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation. But to bring this motive to Frankfurt airport is more than a simple escalation and can be considered as deliberately exporting the most violent parts of the Iraqi conflict to the heart of Europe.

In the last few weeks, the Mojahedin has openly supported the mass murder of school children by drug traffickers in the province of Baloochestan of Iran, supported the insurgency in Iraq, and vowed to take revenge against their critics in Iraq, European countries and North America. (Of course, it is a fact that for a long time the MKO has had no influence or presence inside Iran).

Now, Mr. Rastgou and others have been accused by the MKO of ‘working for Iran ‘, which, according to the MKO’s beliefs, is punishable by death; that is, if the cult leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi give permission for such extrajudicial murders to be performed in the West. The extent of these threats has become so widespread that even people in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and prominent journalists and political analysts like Dr. Noorizadeh have, in the last few weeks received open threats from the cult. The literature distributed by the cult leaders on their websites has not even spared the governments and foreign ministers of European countries from these threats.

Dear Sir,

The shocking memory of self-immolations by MKO members following the brief detention of the cult leader by French police is still fresh in our minds, while a catalogue of self confessions about the killing of thousands of Iranians, Iraqis as well as citizens of European countries, Canada and United States of America has been gathered by law enforcement agencies across the globe.

I am now writing to you to inform your good self about yet another change of direction by the leaders of the Rajavi cult after their deep disappointment in failing to clear their name from the list of terrorist organisations in the European Union without having to actually reject violence and their cult culture. The avenue to be removed from the list without a clear denouncement of violence to achieve political power is now at its end, and the Rajavi cult leaders have decided (as they have always maintained internally to the cult members) to go back to the only way they know and that is to return to the violent ways and tactics, for which the cult received training from Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guards during their joint operations in Iraq for over 20 years.

It is clear that the path they have chosen is to use physical force to stop anyone and everyone who they believe is responsible for their failure to sell themselves as a mercenary force in Iraq and beyond. This, of course, includes the ex members, critics and human right activists.

It is no secret that after the French authorities curtailed their activities in 2003 (to where Maryam Rajavi escaped from Iraq just before the fall of Saddam Hussein), Cologne has, for the last 3 years, been the main base and the unofficial HQ of the cult (as far as their directing terrorist activities are concerned). It is also no secret that the group is now flexing its muscles against its critics as well as European countries (which have refused to take them off the list) in an attempt to put pressure on the west (they have continuously announced the self-immolations as something that worked well against western countries, and have since vowed that those who can set fire to themselves at a hint from the cult leader can also kill anyone, anywhere and at any time if ordered to do so).

Sir,

At this critical point I beg you to take every precaution to ensure the safety of your citizens (as well as others) in Cologne and elsewhere in Germany .

While I am fully confident about the quality and quantity of information you and your law enforcement agencies have at your disposal, please do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to access our archives and/or recent documents about this proscribed group.

Yours sincerely,

Massoud Khodabandeh,

Iran Interlink

March 08, 2007  Massoud Khodabandeh, March 09, 2007

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