Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO, Sectarian Terrorist Organization

The presence of Iranian opposition group, Mojahedin-e Khalq, has had negative consequences for Iraqis.

This organization was used as a sectarian group against Iraqis and Saddam Hussein turned them into a suppression force against Iraqi people. In 1991, we witnessed the role of this organization in Shaabanieh uprising against the Kurds. The elements of this group are known for their brutality. In 1991, during the assassination of senior religious leader Seyed Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, they were used again as a suppression tool.

The MKO has been designated as a terrorist organization and the stances of the US and Europe on this group are similar. As it served the goals and interests of Saddam’s regime in the past, it is now acting to deepen tribal differences. Some Imperialist forces have tied their hopes to this terrorist group and even use this organization against Shiites of Iraq and Iran; they use it for illegal operations.

This group has an active role in destabilizing the security and supporting terrorists. For instance, we can discuss the status of Dyala province. this organization is playing a role in Iraq’s instability and it has conducted many crimes against Iranians. Even, tribal leaders and sheikhs in Dyala can’t stand this group anymore. What should be dealt with carefully is the plan they’re trying to achieve in Iraq: sectarianism and plotting against Iraqis. For example, the group held a conference under the name of supporting Iraqi Sunnis with coordination of European representatives, but the European sides didn’t take part in the conference.

While the Iraqi government tries to destroy paramilitary and armed groups in order to secure the country and apply the law, the presence of a foreign armed militia in Iraq, which has military teams and plots against Iraqis, is a threat to our nation.

The comments of Mr. Ali Al-Dabbagh, Iraqi government spokesperson, on the threats of this organization and the decision of the government to expel this group show that the government is well aware of the dire consequences of the presence of this terrorist group in Iraq and that they are determined to establish security for Iraqis.

The response of NCRI to the comments of Mr. Dabbagh is funny and sarcastic. This response includes illogical sentences:


"The legitimacy of MKO’s presence comes out of Geneva Convention"!

We answer: "Which law legitimizes the interferences of a terrorist group in our internal affairs? Which law opens their hands to erase our national figures and which law allows them to kill our children?"

Iraqi government should discuss the case of this organization and expose the crimes they did against the Iraqis so that world public opinion is aware. It should also do its best to expel the group from Iraq. Iraqi parliament should take this case and decide about it. If we ask our neighbors, including Iran, not to interfere in our internal affairs, we should first expel this organization since its presence in Iraq is interference in Iranian affairs.

The presence of this organization in Iraq is against all laws and regulations and also against the national interests of Iraqis.

 

Abdulkarim al-Mohammadavi

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO-Baathists Alliance

Three years after evident interferences of terrorist cult of Rajavi in Iraq’s affairs- with the assistance of Baath remnants- it has now become clear that this alliance has been influential in Iraq’s unrest. Meanwhile, Iraqi elites warn about the plans of the cult of Rajavi and its supporters, who are seeking a religious and ethnic crisis in Iraq.

Hassan Al-Alavi, Iraqi researcher and elite, in an interview with Al-Hurra TV channel, pointed to the Baathists’ use of MKO and said: "Why do the sunnis, who are against Iraqi Shiites, go and ally with the Iranian MKO. This is a political war and it’s not based on religious vision or ideological principles. In this conflict, each side uses its tools to blow the other side."

Abbas Al-Yasseri, author and analyst, criticized some Sunni MPs’ use of terrorist group of Rajavi and said: "Some people use the MKO, which is a terrorist organization and is known for its role in the previous regime. This group has now central role in plotting against Iraqis and in religious differences. Some TV channels and failed newspapers help this organization. It holds conferences and interferes in Iraq’s internal affairs. What’s surprising is that some MPs take part in the conferences of this terrorist group in Brussels and Paris. One of them, who is the leader of a Parliament’s fraction, said they had common goals and principles with the MKO. I think this person is putting himself in the corner of the ring when he forgets, or pretends that he’s forgetting, that the MKO has been designated by the EU and many other countries of the world as a terrorist group. In this way, he is making alliance with terrorists…."

Also, Sheikh Sabah Al-Saedi, Member of Parliament from Coalition List asked for the removal of Mohammed Dayinee’s immunity. Saedi said: "Following Dayinee’s comments and his support for armed group, a number of MPs have asked the parliament to review this proposal. These comments and his position will lead to terrorism investigation."

The revelations on extremists who use the MKO as a leverage has increased to the point that news wires announced that coalition forces have asked international police to arrest Mashan Jaboori. "Coalition forces issues arrest warrant for him, citing his TV channel’s support for terrorist groups".*

 

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* All reports quoted from IranLiberty website

 

Irandidban –  2007/02/17

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO: Shameless Mercenary Force

Months after baseless claims were expressed on Iran’s interference in Iraq, US military officials presented loose evidence, which included a number of photos of weapons and ammunition; meanwhile it was made clear that the evidence was fake and that the dates on the ammo had nothing to do with Iran’s ammunition factories.

It’s apparent that presenting such documents is only aimed at boosting the claims of warmongers, who try to accuse Iran of interference in Iraq. The final purpose of such people is to pave the way for military invasion against Iran.

However, the world is now aware- due to the exposure of US’s deceptions in Iraq- and understands that such lies are aimed at serving warmongers’ ambitions and come only from those who seek a war with Iran.

Members of Congress and many other US politicians represent their people in criticizing such lies and reveal their real nature to the public opinion.

Meanwhile, the remnants of bankrupt gang of Rajavi have recently turned into the mouthpiece of warmongers, working in the favor of their interests.

After Pentagon lies against Iran were exposed, Alireza Jafarzadeh, member and spokesman of MKO in the US, came to the scene and claimed that "advanced bombs that kill Iraqis have been made in Sattari Industries, which is controlled by Revolutionary Guards Corps, and transferred to Qods Force. These bombs are then smuggled into Iraqi through 3 border points, including Mehran."

So, this is exactly what a US spy had said to Germany’s "Monitor: "MKO’s assigned with the things CIA is ashamed of doing".

When the Pentagon agents wanted to present their fake evidence they didn’t show their faces, but the MKO publishes lies and fake documents without any shame.

 

Irandidban –  2007/02/17

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USA

US sponsored terrorism? Let’s hope not!

I think people should be very concerned about the following:

"A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 18 of them, the state-run news agency reported today.

The car stopped in front of the bus near Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

It called the attack a terrorist operation and said the car’s occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before the car exploded.

"This blind terrorist operation led to the martyrdom of 18 citizens of Zahedan," IRNA quoted a Guards commander, Qasem Rezaei, as saying.

State-run television said the bus had been taking them to work when the attack took place. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Rezaei blamed "insurgents and elements of insecurity" for the attack. Hossein Ali Shahriyari, a deputy representing Zahedan, told an open session of the parliament today that "insurgents and drug traffickers" were behind the attack.

Shahriyari called lawless regions in southwestern Pakistan a safe haven for Iranian insurgents and drug traffickers, and called on the government to take up the issue with Islamabad."

Why should we be concerned?

"The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.

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.

 

-snip-

 

According to all three intelligence sources, military and

intelligence officials alike were alarmed that instead of securing a

known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of

terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world –

including US civilian and military casualties

– Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on

special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran

strike.

 

They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all," one intelligence source said."

and the below is just one example of a policy to support terrorists for use as proxy groups:

"Bomb blasts struck Iranian government buildings in the capital of an oil-rich border province, followed within hours by two other bombs in central Tehran, killing nine people, days before presidential elections."

I believed that the attacks by MEK had been halted in March of last year. If this attack is shown to be tied to MEK terrorists or any other "group" we are funding, arming, and training in the region, then the US will be implicated – even if we had nothing to do with the bombing directly.

Let’s use Al Qaeda and the US as an example to illustrate how the MEK-US relationship might look to Iranians:

Imagine that this morning you woke up to find that 18 US national guardsmen were assassinated on US soil via a car bomb on their way to a work facility. Now imagine that it was determined that Al Qaeda was behind the attack and that Syrian government officials were behind the funding, training, and harboring of this Al Qaeda cell. How would you react? Would you not see this as a declaration of war against our country? How then would this look to Iranian citizens if it turns out MEK or any other organization being run by Israel and the US is behind this attack?

We can only hope that the US backed groups had nothing to do with this bombing, but I fear given what we already know, the case against us is looking very strong.

 

Larisa Alexandrovna, February 16, 2007

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/us-sponsored-terrorism-l_b_41191.html

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European Union

EU says MKO Remains on Terror List

BRUSSELS (Press TV) “ The European Union (EU) has sent a letter to the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in which it enumerated the reasons it has placed the MKO on its terrorist blacklist.

Similar letters will be sent to those people or organizations which have been enlisted as terrorist groups, sources in the EU, speaking on condition of anonymity, told an IRNA correspondent in Brussels.

The letter follows the decision by the European Court of Justice last December to remove the group from the terrorist blacklist, alleging that there was no transparency in the way the list was composed.

But the EU Council declared on 30 January that it will keep the group on the blacklist.

EU imposes anti-terrorist restrictions on those organizations or groups which are in the blacklist, including freezing the assets or blocking the financial and economic funding, with the list being updated on a yearly basis.

France and Britain which had previously blacklisted MKO, have not reacted to the efforts to unblock the group’s assets, EU’s official website EU Observer reported.

United States declared that the MKO as a terrorist group in 1997

 

IRNA, February 18, 2007

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The MEK and Jundullah

Order restored after blast at girls school in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Militants detonated a percussion bomb at a girls school in southeastern Iran and opened fire on an electricity plant before fleeing and hiding in a nearby house in Zahedan, according to a Iranian news agency’s report.

No one was hurt in the blast, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.

A percussion bomb is also known as a "sound bomb," and is used to cause distraction.

Police shot at the gunmen as they ran into a residential complex under construction Friday night, the city’s governor Gen. Hassan-Ali Nouri told IRNA, adding that the blast was "just a blind operation."

On Saturday, IRNA reported that police had restored order in Zahedan, a town at the juncture of the borders of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Gunfire was heard after security forces blocked off streets near the bombers’ hideout. Police cut off the electricity to the housing complex, the semi-official FARS news agency said.

Abdolmalek Rigy, the leader of the Jondollah militant group, told MKO-TV that said his group was responsible for the bombing, FARS reported. However, MKO officials told CNN they aired no such claim.

MKO stands for the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, which the Iranian government considers a terrorist group stationed in Iraq.

The Jondallah group claimed responsibility for a car bomb in the same area Wednesday, Iranian officials said. Eleven people were killed and 30 more were wounded after a car bomb ripped through an Iranian military bus in Zahedan. (Full story)

The bus belonged to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and a witness told IRNA that the car exploded as the bus arrived to pick up military personnel at a barracks. Five people, including a failed suicide bomber, were arrested after the Wednesday attack, IRNA reported.

Jondollah has a history of attacking Iranian border posts, according to Iranian news agencies.

Zahedan is on a busy route used by smugglers to traffic contraband, such as opium, through Iran.

CNN’s Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report.

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Voices from Everywhere, Calling for MKO’s Expulsion

The differences between Iraqi officials and the armed Iranian opposition group, Mojahedin-e Khalq, based mainly in Iraq, have heightened and many Iraqi officials are asking for its expulsion.

Some 4000 Iranians, mostly women, are now living in Camp Ashraf in Al-Azim region in Dyalah Province.

Fazel Al-Shovaili, adviser of Iraq’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Shirvan Vaeli, said: “MKO is a terrorist group with long history of killing Iraqis and enjoying privileges from Saddam government.”

During a conference called “Iraq Without Terrorist Organization, sponsored by Iraq’s National Security Ministry in Baghdad, he added: “the presence of this organization is a tragic consequence left from former regime. It has had much impact on neighboring countries.”

Dr. Aziz Jabr Shial, professor of Political Sciences in Baghdad University, also said: “The MKO should leave our country because its presence here has a negative message for Iranian officials and it may be interpreted that Iraqi is not firm in establishing goodwill ties with neighbors. It also gives the green light to Iran’s interferences in Iraq. Allowing this organization to act in Iraq was a wrong policy by the former regime.”

He also suggested that Iraq and Iran cooperate to guarantee the safety of MKO members and return them to their country.

Dr. Abdulamir Al-Asadi, researcher at the center of Dialog, said in the conference: “The most threatening issue in criminal acts is that they are acting covertly and it’s not easy to get to their ideas. I ask the security ministry of Iraq to form an independent committee to fight terrorism and make serious decision on stopping terrorism in Iraq.”

Hussein Al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric, said: “It’s right to try to expel the MKO from Iraq and we should do so because these people had criminal roles in the former regime. They took part in suppressing the uprising of Iraqis in the south in 1991. the people who make alliance with terrorist groups show how bankrupt they’re politically and internationally.”

 Ittihad newspaper/UAE

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Iraq

Adnan, Al-Alyan and Alaani Cry for MKO!

What forced me to write this were the cries of Adnan, Al-Alyan and Alaani for the MKO in Brussels.

First, this double behavior these people are following will have nothing except destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, including Shiites and Sunnis, and only helps their personal interests. As everyone knows, the MKO is an Iranian organization and besides, it has been categorized as a terrorist group. Now, what’s the mystery of relations of Adnan, Al-Alyan, Zafer and Al-Zari with this organization that they cry for it and claim of Iran’s interference in Iraq through Shiite militia? Why do they claim that Shiites are Safawis not Iraqis? Why do they cry for the elements of MKO while they’re in fact very Safawis in Iraq?

Is there anything except the fact that these remnants want to destroy Iraq with every possible means? They would do it even if they have to sell Iraq and Iraqis with the cheapest price and set fire to the public in order to revenge for their former master. These people tried to sell Iraq in their deals with Israelis, the US and some neighboring countries. Their last card could be the MKO. This would be their losing card not winning card but they consider it a boost to their sick bodies.

What’s the reason for these people, who are of Iraqi Sunnis, to cry for the MKO. This group includes people who plot for killing and beheading Iraqis.

Our government should always be vigilant about the dangers of MKO criminals, who were used by Saddam Hussein in killing our Kurd brothers during 1991 uprising. These traitors were armed to the teeth, used modern weapons, had enough experience to run the war, agents of Estekhbarat monitored their training and their weapons and their ties with the former regime was complex and strong; I’m sure that they already have cooperation with terrorist groups in Iraq. They’re being supported by the people who call themselves”the enemies of Safawis”.

This group should be dealt with cautiously. It should be noted that if their weapons were transferred to terrorists like Dulaimi and Zari, a disaster would happen to Iraq and Shiites in particular.

 

Nabil Al-Basari/Sautaliraq,

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