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Rajavi cult victims are not a political football

Donald Rumsfeld hardly had time to clear his desk at the Pentagon before the Rajavi cult began sending out distress signals.

The cult told human rights monitors that – based on statements by the Iraqi government that the terrorist MKO in Camp Ashraf can stay in Iraq only until the end of this year – the residents of Camp Ashraf were in imminent danger of deportation to Iran and that they would be immediately executed the moment they set foot in that country.

The panic, however, was not over events in Iraq or Iran – to where over 500 Mojahedin members have already been safely repatriated under an ongoing amnesty agreement – but over the realignment of the political map of the US government in which Rajavi’s erstwhile supporters were the main losers.

The actual fate of the 3,000 remaining residents of Camp Ashraf is the last of Rajavi’s concerns; except in how to prolong the death throes of the cult as it slowly, painfully, inevitably dissolves from within.

For the past three years, in her desperation, Rajavi has positioned her organisation’s members for maximum suffering and exploitation by offering the people in Camp Ashraf as a mercenary ‘force’ to anyone in the west who seeks to use any tool in their efforts to confront Iran, in total disregard for their actual willingness or capability.

Thus, parties from all sides have been taught by Rajavi to regard the Mojahedin-e Khalq as a political football, as a tool with which to pursue their various policies of confrontation with Iran – naturally for their own national interests and not in order to help the Iranian people’s struggles toward secular democracy.

From one point of view we learn that "[Robert] Gates had [in 2004] proposed engaging Syria and Iran in a dialogue while offering incentives and brandishing sanctions at the same time. He argued that dialogue and openness energize civic society as an instrument for change in the two countries. He also proposed the trade-off of dismantling the Iranian opposition Mujahidin-e-Khalq in Iraq in return for Iran’s suspension of its support for the Shi’i militias in southern Lebanon." (Source: Al-Sharq al-Awsat website, London, in Arabic 18 November 2006)

From another point of view we have Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker quoting the July 26, 2006 Congressional Record which "called for an end to the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq and emphasized the political refugee status of Ashraf residents in that country." Rabbi Zucker states, "It is time to recognize and cooperate with the NCRI [aka Mojahedin-e Khalq] so as to nullify the efforts of Tehran to spread extremist Islam. (Source: U.S. Newswire/ — On Tuesday, November 14, 2006)

What the schemes of these and other parties do not acknowledge is that the individuals in Camp Ashraf are exactly that, individuals. It is only on Rajavi’s terms that the people there comprise a group. According to Rajavi the Mojahedin-e Khalq is an ‘opposition movement poised to erase the ruling Islamic Republic of Iran in its entirety so as to replace it with a secular democracy which respects human rights’, with, of course, Rajavi herself as the president.

But the reality inside Camp Ashraf is shockingly different from the fictional image Rajavi has presented for western consumption. The residents of Camp Ashraf have been kept there (for over two decades) through the systematic and brutal imposition of cult culture. Through the pernicious use of isolation, psychological coercion, and extrajudicial punishment, which results in a ruthless denial of even their most basic human rights, Rajavi has kept the residents of Camp Ashraf in conditions of modern slavery where the ‘shackles’ are not merely physical (the residents have no money or possessions) but are largely psychological. By now refusing to allow them help from international humanitarian bodies and by refusing to enact the most basic requirements of their protected persons status under the Fourth Geneva Convention, not least of which is Article 116 which states: ‘Every internee shall be allowed to receive visitors, especially near relatives, at regular intervals and as frequently as possible. As far as is possible, internees shall be permitted to visit their homes in urgent cases, particularly in cases of death or serious illness of relatives.’ Maryam Rajavi has taken upon herself the responsibility for condemning these people to a living death.

This ‘Mojahedin-e Khalq’ is not a viable force with which to confront Iran. This ‘Mojahedin-e Khalq’ is a cult whose members are enslaved to Rajavi’s ambitions for power at any cost. This ‘Mojahedin-e Khalq’ is not a tool which can be bandied about in the political scene or bargained and traded with. The residents of Camp Ashraf who comprise Rajavi’s ‘Mojahedin-e Khalq’ are victims of gross human rights abuses. They must be rescued not used.

Above all, those in the west who believe they can use the group in their foreign policy, whether to threaten or cajole, would do well to face the simple fact that the name ‘Mojahedin’ no longer holds currency in Iranian political circles, whether in the ruling regime or in the opposition to it. As such it is a redundant factor. But, do not disregard it. Please, please rescue the residents of Camp Ashraf from Rajavi’s clutches before more people die.

Anne Singleton,November 21, 2006

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Lord Corbett

A Funny Solution to the Middle East Crisis

I’d like to congratulate Mojahedin for the new discovery of one of its enthusiastic advocates who believes that removal of the terror label from Mojahedin solves the crisis in the Middle-East. Mojahedin themselves had never thought of such an unsought potentiality.

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom and the leading figure against the proscription of MKO, is more steadfast than Mojahedin in the fight. Published in the Birmingham Post, Nov. 17, Lord Corbett strongly contradicted Tony Blair’s recent saying that Iran- “in conjunction with Syria – may hold the key to a peaceful Middle East”. He adds that:

Western leaders are scratching their heads in desperate search for a new Middle East policy as the dire situation in Iraq worsens and tensions in Lebanon and Palestine rise.

It does not mean that Lord Corbett favors a permanent anarchy in the Middle East, no, heaven forbid, but that he conceives the West is unable to find the appropriate apparatus to solve the problem. Criticizing engagement of Iran to end the crisis, he states:

Those who favour ‘engagement’ of Iran’s Ayatollahs, sometimes described as appeasement, have taken this opportunity to call for ‘dialogue’ with Tehran as a means of resolving the various crises in the Middle East, including in Iraq.

Lord Corbett then suggests that the West must abandon the appeasement policy and exploit a force, beyond that of the US or Britain!, that the Iranian regime most fear:

Instead, as part of the present policy review, the West must ask itself what it is that the brutal oppressors of the Iranian people most fear. It is certainly not the US or Britain. What they fear is democracy and those that can bring it about – the 95 per cent of Iranians who despise this regime and the Iranian resistance, National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Thus, the problem is resolved. Mojahedin are a means of resolving the crises in the Middle East and as he states: “This is where the solution to the present crises in the Middle East rests”.

But what has barred such a potential force to solve so complicated a problem and to bring about peace and tranquility for the people of the Middle East? The blame is again on the US and those Western countries that have proscribed potential Mojahedin a terrorist group. By “removal of the unjust terror label from the PMOI.”, Lord Corbett believes the West can pave the way and take the first step towards building a stabilized Middle East.

“Should the West have the courage and the will to follow this course, we will soon see a very different Middle East”.

Once, on the pretext of war against terrorism, the US and the Western countries invaded Afghanistan and Iraq causing a destabilized region. Now comes another westerner who suggests utilizing a terrorist group to restore the equilibrium. I also congratulate Lord Corbett for proposing so lofty a suggestion; putting forth the terrorists that act as antidote to anarchy.

Sattar Orangi, November 21, 2006

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Iraq

The Bare Facts vs. the Elusive Claims

Of the important news of the past weak was the announced death verdict against the Iraqi ousted dictator. Making Iraqi people yell jubilant cries, the sentence at the same time perturbed the remnants of Saddam’s devotees and those who had secured a collective strategic alliance with him. The accomplices who during the past three years of his fall preferred to remain silent over the Baath Party and whom they persisted to respect not less than president.

The deliberate silence occurs at a time when MKO wrestle with the encountered predicaments in Iraq by taking advantage of the internal chaos and the deepened rift between the opponent factions and al-Maliki’s government. Mojahedin’s propaganda machine has never stopped dispersing the threats that democracy in Iraq is unattainable unless through the support of Mojahedin as it was advertised through the statement issued by 25 Sheikhs of the Dialy province. Enticing a few local papers, Mojahedin promulgated to have summoned the support of 5,200,000 Iraqi people and proceeded to proclaim to have bolstered supporters in some provinces. But Mojahedin’s silence, in contrast to peoples unanimous approval, on Saddam’s trial and death sentence has reached a juncture where their contradictory attitudes surface.

People will never forget Saddam’s crimes and the heavy price they have paid for his tyrannical rule although not all his crimes done against people can possibly be brought before the tribunal. These untried crimes might sink into the historical oblivion but his accomplices, especially Mojahedin, can be pursued to unveil facts on genocidal cases like that of the Iraqi Kurds and Shiits. The absence of Massoud Rajavi at the moment might fill Mojahedin with the induced forlorn hope of having escaped the trial and that Saddam’s announced sentence means the termination of further inquiry. However, the proven evidences of collaboration refute possibility of escape from the justice. Moreover, the existing challenge between people and the coalition forces is partly because of the latter’s support of Saddam accomplices.

The coalition forces, well aware of Mojahedin’s close collaboration with Saddam, should at least make it clear that how sincere are Mojahedin in their claims of standing by the people. Those who strive to justify Mojahedin’s stay in Iraq according to international conventions have to acknowledge on whose side were Mojahedin through their past two decades’ presence in Iraq. Nothing can conceal the broad fact of Mojahedin’s being the most favorite mercenaries of Saddam, who roamed on Iraqi soil fully armed while the oppressed people were under the hideous suppression of the dictator. What about many instances of Mojahedin’s meetings with Saddam’s high officials where they stressed their entwined destiny. The mind of the world is not devoid of the pictures of Rajavi shaking hands with Saddam and sharing hugs and kisses as if two brothers. The Iraqi people are clear-sighted enough to distinguish between the bare facts and the elusive claims.

Really, with so many evidences persisting, who dares to pass over them? Do they think that people have a weak mind as they do? What hands and for what reasons are in attempt of covering up Saddam’s crimes? The future might tell the hitherto untold.

November 13, 2006 – Omid Pouya – Mojahedin.ws

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Maryam Rajavi

Mojahedin admits to past errors

The MKO’s electronic newsletter, Mojahed, in its issue 148, 8 November mostly covering the reports of Maryam Rajavi’s trip to Norway, dedicated its first three pages to the details of the trip and the warm welcome she received from the reporters on her arrival saying: “Multitudes of the papers and TV networks” reporters already awaited her arrival”.

Reporting on her presence at the Norwegian Parliament, Mojahed quoted her, stating:

"The regime succeeded in utilizing the West to make obstacles in the path of the main Iranian Resistance (Mojahedin-e Khalq and the NCRI) by the means of labeling it a terrorist group that consequently kept the hands of the regime open”.

In answer to a question as to how the Iranian Resistance intended to confront the Iranian regime’s availing itself of such an opportunity, she was quoted to have stated: “the Mojahedin have given up the armed struggle”. She had added that: “settlement in Iraqi soil was a strategic error that the Mojahedin made”.

Mojahedin.ws, November 20, 2006

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

six-month deadline for the members of the outfit

Iraqi Pesident Jalal Talabani is due in Tehran on Saturday, Iraqi Ambassador to Iran Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh disclosed here on Tuesday.

Al-Sheikh told IRNA that during his stay in Tehran, Talabani will exchange views with Iranian officials on promoting two-way ties, on full implementation of mutual agreements and on a host of security issues of mutual concern.

He said Talabani’s Iran visit is of significance and would have drastic impact on stronger bilateral ties. Ministers of oil, education, science and technology will accompany Talabani, he added.

"Tehran-Baghdad ties should improve to the extent that Iranian and Iraqi nations would be able to cross borders just with a single identification card and a ticket," said al-Sheikh.

He said many agreements signed by the two sides have either been implemented or are in the process of implementation. "For instance, two million liters of kerosene is daily exported to Iraq from Iran and liquefied gas will also be exported from Iran to Iraq in future." "Furthermore," he noted, "By the next six months, up to 300 megawatts of electricity would have been exported to Iraq from Iran and there is no problem with other contracts."

Elsewhere in the interview, al-Sheikh said that under an agreement, the number of Iranian pilgrims visiting Iraq would reach 5,000 daily once security conditions improve.

On continued presence of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization members in Iraq, al-Sheikh said Iraqi people consider them as those who were loyal to Saddam and against the Iraqi nation.

He said Iraqi government has set a six-month deadline for the members of the outfit to leave Iraqi terrirory and ordered them not to act against neighboring states.

IRNA – Nov 21

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The Ideology of the MEK

Disarmed Terrorists Busy within Ashraf Walls

Saddam’s fall cracked MKO’s strategic capacity of armed struggle. The fall in fact depreciated MKO’s three opportunistic factors for their stay in side with Saddam; neighborhood with Iranian borders, strategic alliance with Saddam, and receiving military and financial aid.

The first unfavorable outcome of Saddam’s fall for Mojahedin was their disarmament by the coalition forces. Consequently, Massoud Rajavi, in justifying the situation, announced that between the arms and arms-masters, namely the Americans, they preferred the latter. Mojahedin hoped that the future would grant them the opportunity of being rearmed. For them, belief in armed struggle and holding it dear had priority over its practice. The ideology being survived, it could be put into practice at any time sooner or later. Thus, Camp Ashraf turned to be the ideological stockpile to infuse and ferment the mentality. In any occasion, the main emphasis has been on displaying the past instances of the armed and military practices, and the demonstration of miniature models of semi-heavy and small arms indicates Mojahedin’s innate interest in arms and playing the armed games.

Celebrating its forty-two formation anniversary, MKO had mainly focused on its adopted armed strategy that well distinguished it from other Iranian opposition groups. However, soon after being disarmed, Mojahedin adopted a new tactic of building a veneer of a pro-democratic group seeking peaceful ways of struggle. The third option proposal, call for referendum, calling on the UN Security Council and Bush Administration for harsh treatment against Iran’s nuclear threat and so are practiced examples of this new posture. But inside, to reveal their real nature, Mojahedin consent to nothing less than war and welcome any form of military solution.

Although disarmed, Camp Ashraf residents are under continual military training. There is also a possibility that the camp has kept some arms and military equipments camouflaged since the organization, naturally inheriting a clandestine form, can never be trusted to be sincere as it claims; adaptation is one of the organization’s basic theoretical principles of its outlook on the world and being.

The reports leaked out of Camp Ashraf, mainly by the majority of separated members, indicate that Mojahedin have initiated new rounds of military trainings and martial arts practices. The use of simulators in their military trainings presupposes two possibilities:

1- Mojahedin try to boost the members’ military morale to stop further detachment of the forces

2- They intend to have effective forces ready in case unpredictable conditions propel them into a new military phase

These military exercises just under the nose of the coalition forces at a time when Mojahedin propagate to be refugees and protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention might sound the alarm of a serious challenge.

Suppose that the coalition forces are unaware of what passes within the camp. Since the US has recurrently stressed that Mojahedin fail to be trustable and occupy a permanent status on the US State Department’s list of FTO, the mere surveillance over the Ashraf walls creates the best protection Mojahedin expect to get on with their clandestine activities. At the time when Iraq suffers increasing ethnic tensions and Nuri al-Maliki’s government accentuates the need to curb disorder and disarm the militia, it is so odd, and even might arouse suspicion, to see an untrustworthy, terrorist group with a long record of collaborating with the ousted Saddam so conveniently enjoying broad military and guerrilla training and exercise. On the other hand, Mojahedin, according to Iraqi official statements, have not been passive observers of events and disorders in Iraq. If the coalition forces really mean to give the Iraqi government a hand to curb the tension and restore the order, it seems to be a strategic priority to have thorough control over Mojahedin’s activities within the walls of Camp Ashraf.

Mojahedin.ws – Bahar Irani – October 29, 2006

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Missions of Nejat Society

Nejat Families meet IRC representatives in Shiraz

According to Nejat Society’s reporter in Shiraz, on Thursday,November 16th at 15 pm, a number of MEK’s families who are members of Nejat Society Shiraz Branch ,visited "Mr. Anderson" and "Mr. Bruce Graham", the representatives of International Red Cross in order to discuss the salvation of their beloved children.

During the meeting the families asked the IRC’s delegation to assist them to visit their children captured in Camp Ashraf and have phone calls with them.

At the end, Mr. Anderson the assistant of IRC promised the members of Nejat Society that according to Human Freedom Charter reminds the primary human rights to American officials in Iraq. These primary human rights include:

1- The residents of Ashraf could visit their families without the presence of MKO’s officials.

2- The residents of Ashraf could call their parents.

3- The residents of Ashraf could contact their families through writing letters.

A statement was arranged and signed by the attendees and delivered to IRC’s representative to be investigated.

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

The Elections to Foster Hope of Overthrow

We try not to be judged as siding with the Islamic Republic. But there are articles and comments sent by the readers that seem to violate the boundaries of impartiality. We respect opinions but not necessarily approve them. The following text sent by a visitor is an example.

Following Maryam Rajavi’s call boycotting Iran’s upcoming two elections, Assembly of Experts and Municipal Councils, Jaberzadeh, a MKO’s member, made a direct correlation between the elections and the Islamic Republic collapse. In fact, he was expounding on her reasoning that because of Iran’s encountering internal and international standstills, the elections backfire and steer Iran onto the sloping path of downfall. Generally, the postponement of legal elections in a ruling system might signify a political cul-de-sac, but in Mojahedin’s political lexicon it is reasoned to be the outcome of two simultaneous elections.

For nearly two decades, Mojahedin have continued to predict the Islamic Republic’s collapse. In all these years, unpredicted and unapproachable regional, domestic and international crises were said to have weakened the pillars of the Islamic rule to bring about its collapse. They had the least attention to people’s role and social factors in all these years. In 1995 presidential election for example, Mojahedin were shocked to see that Khatami’s victory swept all other major rivals, but trumpeted that he was an internally elected alternative to abort the regime’s collapse. None of them ever touched upon people’s decisive role since it had damaged their previously made analyses. Rajavi was quoted to have said, in a private meeting after the election, that if he accepted and told his forces that 30 million Iranian had voted in presidential election, then, how he could have possibly asked them to pick up arms.

According to parameters of democracy, the presence of people determines a system’s legitimacy. It is even more valued and practiced in Western democracies which Mojahedin claim to approve above all. That is strange that while they try to be recognized as the alternative, nobody asks whom and where they are to get their legitimacy from? If people and domestic social conditions rather than external and international leverages institute the needed legitimacy for an alternative, then, Mojahedin are entangled in a chronic paradox.

Again, after two decades of advertising illegitimacy of the clerical regime in Iran because of its unpopularity, Mojahedin call people to boycott the elections. The demand in itself fully indicates the great distance between the stated claims and the existing reality. For Mojahedin beating the drum of the Islamic Republic instability, any election means a challenge because on time elections with the presence of people in their multitudes denote nothing less than stability. That is the time when Mojahedin remember their earlier analyses as well as short and long term planning to overthrow the Islamic regime. So, to escape further criticism and failing to give proper answers to many arisen questions, Mojahedin distort the truth to their own favor; the Islamic Republic is on the sloping edge of collapse and two simultaneous elections make a cover up for its instability and the domestic crisis.

Injudiciously made analysis results in impetuous actions, for Mojahedin skip over the fact that elections like Assembly of Experts and Municipal Councils are regular ones having nothing to do with the domestic crises and even if they do, they have to be postponed for certain causes, possibility of instability not excluded, as it might be the case in some countries. Commenting on Iran’s upcoming elections in “direct contact” TV program, Jaberzadeh referred to elections as playacting that tacitly approved internal instability:

By its making broad propaganda and maneuver, the regime intends to distort the truth of being entered the phase of dissolution after the stage of Yek-payegi* to pretend it has developed a much more stabilized state than before.

The paradox made by Jaberzadeh was in fact expounding on Maryam Rajavi’s analysis of the phase after Yek-payegi that she referred to in her message to boycott the elections:

After regime’s Yek-payegi, the system has entered its phase of dissolution.

She intends to say the regime adopted Yek-payegi to thwart its collapse but it has backfired. It is really a hard puzzle to solve! Can Mojahedin arrive at an ultimate reasoning whether the elections are a manifestation of the regime’s collapse or not?

*. Yek-payegi is a term used by Mojahedin when they mean to say the regime is relying only on one of its strong pillars (sympathetic political factions and wings) out of many to survive.

Mojahedin.ws – Arash Fattahzadeh – October 30, 2006

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Iraq

No Question on MKO’s Extradition to Iran

60 MKO supporters, having gathered before the UNHCR building in Geneva for 100 days, revealed that Iraqi officials have announced that the members of terrorist MKO in Camp Ashraf can stay in Iraq only until the end of this year (45 days from now) and that after this date they should leave Iraq.

British supporters of the MKO, the major assets for the group after the fall of Saddam Hussein whose efforts to preserve Saddam’s mercenaries have all failied, met the representatives of UNHCR and Red Cross on November 14 and asked for recognition of MKO members as refugees in Iraq. It seems that there has been no change in the stance of these two international organizations toward the MKO. They have declared that Iraqi government should decide about the issue.

Iraqi government has examined the legal aspects of the issue and it has possibly taken advantage of the views of these two international organizations as well as the US in its decision.

The whole positions by the Iraqi government and these two international organizations show that there’s a consensus on expulsion of MKO and that’s why Mohammed Mohaddessin, the spokesman for this terrorist group in Europe, has said that MKO members will be executed in the case they are extradited to Iran!

This is also an old excuse, which can’t help the group anymore. Europeans have stopped granting asylum to those who claim there’s security concerns in Iran; some European countries have even decided to expel those who could get refugee status by such claims.

Mohaddessin’s claims, on the other hand, indicate that there’s no other option for MKO except extraditing them to Iran.

Irandidban – 2006/11/16

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