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Belgium

Belgian TV: 300 repentant MKO members return home

Brussels, Dec 20, IRNA-Belgian television RTBF-1 in a report dispatched from Tehran said 300 repentant members of the terrorist MKO grouplet have returned to the Islamic Republic.

The French-language TV interviewed some of the former members of the MKO who said they were duped by the terrorist grouplet.

One of them, named Arash Sametipour, explained the methods of the MKO and how he was tricked by the grouplet.

He said the MKO assigned him to carry out terror acts in Iran and advised him to commit suicide if he failed in his terror mission.

Repentant MKO members in Tehran (file photo)

Another woman, whose name was not mentioned, said that when she joined the group in Iraq she was told that she must divorce her husband physically and mentally.

The Belgian TV in the report braodcast at the weekend also noted the report published by the Human Rights Watch on the human rights violations of the MKO in Iraq — how it tortured and used violent methods and ran secret cells for those members who wanted to leave the grouplet. [see Iran: Exiled Armed Group Abuses Dissident Members; Opposition Group Seeks Recognition and Support in Western Capitals>

RTBF also referred to the visit of the leader of the MKO terror grouplet, Maryam Rajavi, to the Belgian Senate in October which caused a big political uproar both in Iran and Belgium.

Payvand.com, December21, 2006

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1220.html

December 25, 2006 0 comments
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Canada

MKO’s Terrorist Label Reaffirmed by Canada

Following the ruling of the EU’s second court on lifting the ban on the funds of terrorist MKO in Europe, remnants of Rajavi’s cult are stupidly trying to take advantage of this ruling in other countries and pave the way for being taken out of the terror list.

In this regard, the lawyer of terrorist organization in Canada who is trying to take the MKO’s name out of the black list in that country has dealt a big blow in his first steps.

On the issue of MKO’s new efforts for getting out of terror list, Brian Adeba discussed MKO lawyer’s efforts in Canadian-based "Embassy" on Dec. 20, 2006 and wrote according to Canadian officials that:

"Last month, the Canadian government reviewed the group and found that it still qualified to be on the list of terrorist organizations banned in Canada, said Philip McLinton, a spokesman from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

"It’s according to the criteria [in the Criminal Code] and intelligence received that this assessment was conducted," said Mr. McLinton. However, he said under Canada’s laws, any group listed on the terror watch list can appeal the decision, but added that the department hasn’t received any such request from the People’s Mujahedeen."

IranDidban – 2006/12/23

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Al-Arabia’s Detailed Report on MKO Cult

Al-Arabia news channel broadcast a detailed report titled "MKO, Struggle for Survival". The program was hosted by Ahmed Abdulla, a powerful presenter of Al-Arabia. Contacting Ali Safavi, Alireza Jafarzadeh (MKO members) as well as Massoud Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton (former members of the group) and also Professor Gary Sick, Raymond Tanter and Dokhi Fasihian via telephone, the program discussed the status of the MKO, criticism about this terrorist group, its popular base and also its involvement in massacring Kurds in Iraq. Parts of the report are as follows:

Internal Criticism

Al-Arabia: Khodabandeh worked for the group in Iraq as the bodyguard of MKO leaders until he felt disappointed and now he is a strong opponent of the group.

Khodabandeh: "For a long time, there were sessions in the MKO known as "current operations", which served the promotion of sectarianism. Each person was required to take part in these sessions on daily basis to report what he had thought about during the day or what he wished or what he hated. He had to express them all for others. After confessions, the person was told to deny so-and-so and the purpose was to put the person under the pressure of others in order to clarify issues to him and shape him as they wanted."

Al-Arabia: Did all women wear scarves? Were they required to wear scarves?

Anne (Khodabandeh’s wife): "Yes, wearing scarf was one of the conditions in the Camp".

Al-Arabia: Anne Singleton, the wife of Massoud Khodabandeh, was also MKO member for 7 years. One of his friends, an Iranian, was the reason for her interest in the group.

Anne: "In 1990, I officially became a member. I passed two weeks while being on hunger strike. I forced myself to accept that situation. I had prepared myself for that. In the early stages, I was told that I had to obey leader’s orders totally. By leader, they mean Maryam Rajavi".

Al-Arabia: Massoud and Anne stress that the organization of Mojahedin tries to weaken family relations in order to absorb and keep members.

Anne: "The MKO claims that they are struggling for the freedom of women but the fact is quite opposite because the only thing they do is to force women to leave their children. Besides, they force women to divorce their husbands. They press women to quit thinking about forming a family, having a normal life and family relationships. The organization even prevents them from meeting their relatives who are also members of the group. Women can meet their relatives in the organization but the meeting should not be held as a family one since family relationships can affect relationship with "Sister Maryam"! In this cult, all should think about her and love her."

Al-Arabia: MKO leaders deny these, claiming that Massoud Khodabandeh is in touch with Iranian Intelligence Ministry. However, there’s a more important accusation: MKO had special ties with Saddam Hussein’s regime during 15 years of being in Iraq. Pictures released recently show Massoud Rajavi and MKO’s number two man beside Saddam Hussein.

Ali Safavi (MKO member): "MKO had to change its position and settle in Iraq. Since 1986, when it was settled in Iraq, it has acted independent from the hosting government in issues like political, ideological, organizational and military issues."

Al-Arabia: You mean there has been no cooperation between the fighters of MKO and Saddam?!

Ali Safavi: "No."

Al-Arabia: Despite Mr. Safavi’s answer, several sources including US State Department believe that Saddam Hussein has equipped the MKO and that the group received financial aid from Saddam’s regime- apart from the financial aids from Iranian exiles. In this regard, Massoud Khodabandeh says: "After the first Gulf war in 1991, Taha Yassin Ramadhan, one of Saddam’s senior deputies, asked the MKO to help Saddam in crushing the Kurds".

A Kurdish village destroyed totally by the MKO.

Massoud Khodabandeh: "What I remember is that Taha Yassin Ramadhan held a meeting with MKO members and that the MKO members expressed preparedness and praised his positions. Since Ramadhan lacked sufficient forces after the war, so he divided the forces. His own forces were only enough to suppress the uprising in the South. Therefore, Rajavi’s forces were tasked with crushing the opponents in the North".

Al-Arabia: Since you eyewitnesses the destruction of a village by MKO forces, please tell us what happened.

Khodabandeh: "MKO forces leveled the village. Iraqi villages are small. Imaging what would happen to such village with 20 tanks. The village was intentionally devastated."

Al-Arabia: Was it done by MKO forces?

Khodabandeh: "Yes, it was done by MKO forces and their tanks and they were happy of this victory."

Al-Arabia: "According to some reports and news, during ideological and psychological sessions in Iraq, Massoud Rajavi taught anti-Imperialist and anti-American ideas to the members. Is the MKO capable of hiding its real face under a mask?

Khodabandeh: "Yes, particularly when they moved to Iraq they never thought that Saddam would fall someday. Therefore, they expressed their enmity towards west by relying on the regime of Saddam. This democratic face you see today is simply a fake."

Al-Arabia: MKO always denies this part of its history and those who talk about this are accused by the MKO of being involved with Iran’s Intelligence Ministry!

Ali Safavi (MKO member): "This is only a propagandistic issue on which the Iranian regime spends hundred millions of dollars.

Al-Arabia: while the MKO and its supporters claim that there’s no black or shameful point in the history of organization, experts believe that this claim is rejected by Iranians.

Professor Gary Sick: "There’s no doubt that the MKO is rejected and renounced in Iran. There’s no question on that. Iranians look at the group as traitor organization since it stood along with the enemy to overthrow the government."

Al-Arabia: Dokhi Fasihian was formerly the executive director of Iranian-American Council, a nonpartisan institution.

Al-Arabia: Ms. Fasihian, is it true that Iranians hate the MKO and reject it?

Dokhi Fasihian: "MKO claims that if elections were held in Iran, people would elect them but this is a sheer lie and an insult to Iranians."

Dokhi Fasihian: "Indeed, the MKO has no place among Iranians. They are rejected because of their cooperation with Iraqi forces during Iran-Iraq war. I believe that Iranians rather hate MKO than Americans. Iranian don’t understand why some foreign governments and officials support such undemocratic groups that are known for violence and terrorism!

December 23, 2006 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq 's Terrorism

Judges of the Court of First Instance

Re: Case T-228/02

Esteemed Judges of the Court,

We noted with interest your Judgement in Case T-228/02.

After reading press release No 97/06, there are several issues which we wish to bring to your attention.

Firstly, we must express our disappointment at the apparent level of evidence on which your ruling has been based. The press release asserts as facts details which are clearly in error.

For example: “In the past, it [MKO] has had an armed branch operating inside Iran.” There is absolutely no doubt that for the past twenty years the Mojahedin operated all its armed personnel exclusively from inside Iraq as part of the Iraqi military apparatus and only made armed incursions into Iran with the permission of Saddam Hussein’s generals. The remains of this ‘armed branch’ are of course currently detained in Camp Ashraf 60 km north of Baghdad.

And: “that it [MKO] has expressly renounced all military activity since June 2001”. The Mojahedin Khalq and its leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have never at any time announced that the MKO has renounced violence. It has been revealed, however, that a statement indicating that it had renounced violence had been made privately by the MKO to the Court through its lawyers. The Court of First Instance apparently took this statement at face value. There is clear evidence to show that MKO military activity continued right up to the allied invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Even right now they are openly promoting terrorism and threatening their critics in the EU and US. These critics have been “condemned to death” by the MKO’s Revolutionary Court pending the execution of their sentences in Europe and the USA.

But our main reason for writing to you – of course we recognise that your ruling concerns procedural issues and not issues of European security – is to alert you to the humanitarian crisis which lies behind the façade which Mojahedin-e Khalq shows western audiences and which remains unchallenged by this judgement.

Mojahedin Khalq is not a political party, it is a destructive cult which uses psychological coercion to exert control over its members. Since the autumn of 2003, the members trapped in Camp Ashraf, Iraq – the ‘armed branch’ – have been held incommunicado and have no access to humanitarian help, contact with their families or information. They do not have ‘contracts of employment’ and are living in conditions which can only be described as modern slavery. There is much evidence freely available which confirms this above assertion, and the Human Rights Watch report ‘No Exit’ from May 2005 serves as a useful introduction to the dire human rights situation which pertains inside the MKO.

What is of concern for our organisation, Iran-Interlink, is that the delicate and ongoing efforts of the UNHCR, ICRC, HRW, AI and many smaller organisations to rescue victims of the MKO headed by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi in Iraq have been jeopardized by this judgement by the Court of First Instance.

Although we believe your judgement will not have any material effect on the terrorist status of the Mojahedin Khalq, you should know that it has been immediately misrepresented by leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi to the members. The day after your ruling, Massoud Rajavi, who is wanted by Interpol for war crimes and crimes against humanity, emerged after three years of silence, to tell his commanders in Iraq they will soon get their arms back and they can resume their armed activity. How does this square with the claim to have renounced military activity?

In the last few years Iran-Interlink and other agencies have been successful in helping people leave the Rajavi cult and re-integrate into normal society. Many of the survivors are resident in western countries including most of Europe and the UK, Scandinavia and Canada.

The main victims of this court ruling then are the individual cult members interred in Camp Ashraf. They are now unable to leave the cult. Unable to make contact with their families and unable to return to their homes, the MKO will now tell those members trapped in Camp Ashraf that their armed struggle is being supported by western democracies. It gives them an open hand to increase psychological coercion on the remaining hostages in Camp Ashraf.

Your judgement is also a gift to the Islamic Republic of Iran which will use it to accuse the west of double standards. Mojahedin military activity has resulted in the deaths of 16,000 Iranians, most of whom were civilians. The Mojahedin has also imprisoned and tortured hundreds of its own members resulting in several deaths.

For over two decades, Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi have been promising to achieve victory through armed struggle. They are still promising the same. Nothing they have done or said so far would lead anyone to believe either that they have changed this violent approach or that they provide value for money for anyone who backs them in their attempt to achieve power in this way.

Yours sincerely,

Anne Singleton

Iran-Interlink

PO Box 148

Leeds LS16 5YJ

Anne Singleton, December 20, 2006

December 23, 2006 0 comments
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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO Reacts to Tribal Leaders’ Conference

Recently, the heads of tribes in Dyala province held a conference to discuss the critical economical and security situation as well as the presence of terrorist groups in the province.

A delegation of tribal leaders also briefed the government on the ways of improving security situation in the province.

Complaints on the illegal presence of terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq as a source of instability in the region were top on the agenda. They also backed government’s decision to expel the group from Iraq.

The murderous gang of Rajavi, which has created a group called”The Front of Saving Dyala”with the remnants of Baath party, has desperately claimed that American forces can assure provincial officials that the MKO is restricted to Camp Ashraf and that it has no role in the problems of the region.

MKO’s statement, released by the name of this fake”Front”, reads:

“Governor’s office and other provincial officials are well aware that the MKO has no role in destabilizing the security of the region. How is it possible to have a role in security of the province when you are restricted? This delegation, instead of solving the problems of people and province, is partaking in continuation of bad security situation. All residents of the province are disappointed by this move of delegation.”

Observers believe that MKO’s efforts during past years to win support in the province, and its claims that it has good relations with people, have all failed.

December 23, 2006 0 comments
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Iraq

Adnan Al-Dulaimi, The Master of Civil Wars

When Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda’s number one in Iraq, was killed Iraqi security forces found the mobile phone number of Adnan Al-Dulaimi, Tareq Al-Hashemi and Hares Al-Zari at the site. Mowafq Al-Rubaii, Iraqi security advisor, announced at that time that the government had found precious documents. However, the Iraqi government was pressed by Americans not to pursue the issue. Some Iraqi official preferred not to go on with the case in order to keep their posts.

Also, a while ago, US forces entered Dulaimi’s house and found 8 bombed cars, a workshop equipped with devices for planting explosives and also fake ID cards. On the other hand, Dulaimi’s grandson admitted that their targets belonged to Shiites including regions such as Al-Jahad, Al-Hurriah and Al-Aamel. On 26.9.2006, Dulaimi’s personal bodyguard, Khazir Farhan, who was closely cooperating with Al-Qaeda revealed the suicide bombings with explosive belts in Al-Khazra district.

Dulaimi’s comments on supporting the terrorist MKO, which has been involved in killing Iraqis during Shaabaniah uprising in 1991, prove that accusations on his support for terrorism are true.

Dulaimi had claimed that Iraqi Shiites who accuse the MKO of terrorism, are in fact Iranians.

He said: "MKO, based in Iraq, is a political group and is not terrorist group in any way. According to the laws of Iraq, MKO’s rights should be respected and Iraq’s regulations should protect them. We hope Iraqi officials understand this. I ask God Almighty to help us in our support for the guests of Iraq. Our moral values force us to support them. We should protect them and I don’t believe that they have negative impact on Iraq’s situation."

Vadad Fakher/Soutaliraq  –  2006/12/20

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

A lot of hoo-ha for nothing

On Tuesday 12th of December 2006, the European court of justice announced that they had made an errand in not allowing the Mojahedin-E Khalq of Iran the opportunity to defend itself when putting them on a terror list. Link With this decision, the Mojahedin will receive access to the frozen funds and be able to defend themselves in the courts. That is as far as the court decision has implemented. But if you were to view the official Mojahedin TV stations and numerous websites and newspapers you would get the impression that they had in fact been taken out of the terrorist list. This is of course far from the truth.

The European court of justice, declared in its verdict that any funds that had been frozen should now be made available at the disposal of Mojahedin-E Khalq. But the experts on this organization can clearly state that the Mojahedin has never in the past made any of its money transactions through any bank in Europe. The Mojahedin have in fact never placed any of its vast funds that they have acquired through Saddam Hussein in any of the European bank. The exchange and transfer of money has always been conducted in secret and always in cash, just like other terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda.

The reality is that removing the Mojahedin-E Khalq of Iran out of the European Terror list will not make any impact what so ever. In the past, the Mojahedin used to get their entire funding and support from the Iraqi regime, and even with all the tanks and guns it still didn’t amount to anything.

For the Mojahedin, the presence of their names in the European terror list has had very little effect in their day to day activities. They have continued to hold demonstrations over the past few years and still enjoy the full support of many European politicians and lawmakers.

During the past few days the Mojahedin have unofficially proclaimed that they have set aside violent resistance and will from now on only work by peaceful means. But the reality is that the armed struggle against the Iranian regime is a strategic, tactical and ideological essence of the

group. And if they ever decide to set aside armed and violent means as a form of struggle, they cease to exist as a group. The result would be mass defection and finally an implosion of the organization. There has never in fact been an official declaration of distance from violent armed struggle.

The major issue at stake is that the people of Iran do not consider Mojahedin as a serious political force. For the majority of the Iranian people they are only known as a cult that worked with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in time of war against and helped the enemy in killing thousands of Iranian people during the Iran-Iraq conflict that lasted 8 years (1980 – 1988) There remains no support for the Mojahedin-E Khalq by any class, age or gender in Iran’s society.

Karim Haghi Moni

18 December 2006

Karim Haghi, IranPeyvand

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Temporary Internment and Protection Facility-TIPF

To the Authorities in Charge of TIPF and MKO Refugees

Dear Sirs,

 You are well aware of the circumstance that after the downfall of the Iraqi dictator Saddam and disarmament of Mojahedin-Khalq members settled in Ashraf military camp, multitudes of MKO’s members, who had stayed with the organization in Iraqi soil in hope of overthrowing the Iranian ruling system or had been kept against their will, found the opportunity to be relived of the desperate situation. Many fled the Camp Ashraf to join the Temporary International Presence Facility (TIPF) that was established just outside Ashraf to house the steady drip of disaffected MKO members who sought refuge with US military forces.

We appreciate the humanitarian move as many of these defectors were shown a smooth outlet out of a hell of anguish and agony to a world wherein they could live as human beings. The last year’s publication of Human Rights Watch report entitled “No Exit” with details on human rights abuses inside MKO was only an iota of the group’s atrocities against the enslaved insiders.

To stop the members’ drift to TIPF, the organization initiated a new move to resurrect its cult-like control over the dissatisfied members and put them under enormous physical and psychological pressure and brainwashing methods. A few have also committed suicide because they could not bear the imposed pressure and failed to join others in TIPF.

The majority of those who were expatriated began a new campaign for the rescue of their comrades and thus, established a close cooperation with other international humanitarian bodies to share their information. The move fostered hope in the hearts of the families whose children and relatives were either in Camp Ashraf or TPIF. Fortunately, the refugees’ promising situation in TIPF has inspired all the families with the anticipation of an imminent reunion. But the problem lies in the fact that many families fail to have an easy access to the information about those living in either of the places.

Many of these families are in frequent contact with our site, mojahedin.ws, inquiring why we do not publish the names of the members at TIPF or those at Camp Ashraf claimed as registered. Unfortunately, we have no approved list of these members to be of any help to their families to have the latest information about their relatives and children’s place of abode. Our responsibility is mainly focused on disclosing facts on MKO’s past and present terrorist activities and warning against its ambitious objectives that are in absolute contradiction with wills of Iranian people. We also attempt to be a balm to torments of the families yet awaiting the return of their beloveds.

We believe that you can play a great role to soothe the anxiety of these families provided the names of those members kept in Camp Ashraf and TIPF are imparted. At the present, TIPF is considered to be the main source of information about the members; families expect, and have the right, to know about the condition of those they are looking forward to hug once more.

We announce our readiness, if you believe we can be of any help in this respect, to initiate a page to publish and declare the names of defected members along with any other information you think might be necessary for the families to have access to. Most of these families in arranged meetings with responsible international bodies have asked for a legally regulated path of direct contact with the members or contact through other facilitated communication means which you have not overlooked.

Dear Sirs,

You might be aware that MKO at the present thinks of its organizational survival and cares not the least for the life of the members it may readily sacrifice to fulfil its goals. If the names of those residing in Camp Ashraf are published for the public, the members might be immunized against MKO’s further evil intentions. Our main concern is the members’ undeclared condition that perturbs their families; any other appropriate means to declare the names is appreciated.

Our Best Regards

Mojahedin.ws

CC.

The Iraqi Government

The International Committee of the Red Cross

The UNHCR

The Human Rights Watch

From mojahedin.ws  –  December 16, 2006

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

A Sham President Boycotting Elections

Yesterday, NCRI-run website reported "Despite frantic attempts by the mullahs’ regime to have people vote in the Assembly of Experts elections, all indications show that people have completely ignored the sham elections and responded positively to the call by the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi to boycott it".

The elections being sham or anything else, it seems that the organization lacks a sound source of informers inside Iran as well as the exaggerated number of supporters. A slight look at the reports of many TV networks covering the occasion in Iran disproves MKO’s claim of "people have completely ignored the sham elections". It does not mean that we approve whatever passes inside Iran, but we do believe that none of those who drew back to vote were responding to Maryam Rajavi’s boycott.

Herself being the outcome of no legal election but a husband nominated President-elect, first she must prove her own legitimacy then she might call others to boycott any election! What does she really think of people?

mojahedin.ws  –  16/12/2006

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Court decision leaves victims trapped in destructive Rajavi cult

A legal judgement of the Court of First Instance of the European Court of Justice on 12 December will have no substantial effect. According to various foreign office officials, the Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation (MKO) remains on Europe-wide terror lists. But the judgement has seriously undermined humanitarian efforts to help victims of the MKO, which is acknowledged by experts to be a destructive cult. Basic flaws in the basis for the judgement has left it open to misinterpretation and misuse by the opportunist Mojahedin-e Khalq, also known as the Rajavi cult. Critics say the Court ruling was politically motivated.

Following announcement of its judgement, Iran-Interlink wrote to the Court expressing disappointment at the level of evidence on which the ruling was based.

The letter said in part: “The delicate and ongoing humanitarian effort of the UNHCR, ICRC, HRW, AI and many smaller organisations to rescue victims of the MKO headed by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi in Iraq has been jeopardized by this decision.

Massoud Khodabandeh, spokesman for Iran-Interlink said, “This ruling contains glaringly obvious errors, which were simple to verify. Its main effect has been to further victimise the cult members and remove from them near hope for rescue.”

In its press release No. 97/06, the Court, which is based in Luxembourg, states “In the past, it [MKO] has had an armed branch operating inside Iran.” This is demonstrably erroneous. The Mojahedin operated all its armed personnel exclusively from inside Iraq as part of the Iraqi military apparatus and only made armed incursions into Iran with the permission of the Saddam’s military. The remains of this ‘armed branch’ are of course currently detained in Camp Ashraf 60 km north of Baghdad.

The court ruling also states “that it [MKO] has expressly renounced all military activity since June 2001”. Massoud Khodabandeh explained ‘this was a privately expressed statement by the MKO. The Court apparently took them at their word. Yet there is clear evidence to show that MKO military activity continued right up to the allied invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Even right now they are openly promoting terrorism and threatening their critics in the EU and US. These critics have been “condemned to death” by MKO’s Revolutionary Court pending the execution of their sentences in Europe and the USA.”

The Iran-Interlink letter continues: “The day after your ruling, Massoud Rajavi who is wanted by Interpol for war crimes and crimes against humanity, emerged after three years of silence, to tell his commanders in Iraq they will soon get their arms back and they can resume their armed activity. How does this square with the claim to have renounced military activity?”

In the last few years Iran-Interlink and other agencies have been successful in helping people leave the Rajavi cult and re-integrate into normal society. Many of the survivors are resident in western countries including most of Europe and the UK, Scandinavia and Canada. Mojahedin military activity has resulted in the deaths of 16,000 Iranians, most of whom were civilians. The Mojahedin has also imprisoned and tortured hundreds of its own members resulting in several deaths.

Mr Khodabandeh stressed that the Court judgement reinforces the false image of the MKO as a political entity. “The main victims of this court ruling are the individual cult members interred in Camp Ashraf. They are now unable to leave the cult. Unable to make contact with their families and unable to return to their homes, the MKO will now tell those members trapped in Camp Ashraf that their armed struggle is being supported by western democracies. It gives them an open hand to increase psychological coercion on the remaining hostages in Camp Ashraf.”

Iran-Interlink’s letter to the Court of First Instance points out that the ruling “is a gift to the Islamic Republic of Iran which will use it to accuse the west of double standards”.

Massoud Rajavi in his message to Camp Ashraf, a day after the court ruling, has openly announced that he wants the MKO to be financed by the west, but the only foreseeable use for the MKO is to be re-armed and help the insurgents in Iraq. For over two decades Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi have been promising to achieve victory through armed struggle. They are still promising the same. Yet, nothing they have achieved so far would lead anyone to believe they provide value for money.

ENDS

Contact

Anne Singleton, Iran-Interlink

Tel +44 278 0503

info@iran-interlink.org

http://www.iran-interlink.org/

Iran-Interlink

PO Box 148

Leeds LS16 5YJ

UK

Newswire, Washington, December 14, 2006

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=77552

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