The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Letter to the Iraqi Prime Minister

Dear Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Nouri Al Maliki,

In very recent news, we were informed that you have decided to expel the Iranian terrorist group Mojahedin-e- Khalq from your homeland, Iraq.

We are delighted by your brave, democratic decision, and hope to see the real action which would be to review the criminal file of those 3,000 brainwashed followers of Rajavi in Camp Ashraf and bring them to justice with a fair trial.

As you are well aware, for over twenty-five years the Mojahedin-e- Khalq had a tight relationship with the former dictatorship of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and they not only betrayed Iranians but also your nation of Iraqi as well. There is plentiful evidence to show and affirm that in 1991, the Mojahedin stood side by side with Saddam’s forces in suppression of the Kurdish population in the north and the Shiite population in the south of Iraq. There is also evidence of the Mojahedin receiving financial help from Saddam Hussein for their terrorist and betrayal activities. As you know well, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq during those periods of time, trained terrorists in Iraq and led them inside Iran for terrorist activities in which many innocent civilians were killed and some badly injured, and definitely our people in Iran will never forget such betrayal, and we are sure the betrayed Iraqi have the same feeling as we do.

Today, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Mojahedin-e Khalq as usual, have appeared in other form of betrayal to Iraqi and Iranian nations. Inside Iraq, they encourage the Iraqi citizens to expand the sectarian war, so they could benefit from the crisis, and in Western countries, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq encourage the Western governments to start a war in Iran.

So dear Prime Minister, at the time of Saddam Hussein’s rule, it was not possible for us, the Iranians, to claim any justice against the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, because of the dictatorship government in Iraq. But now, since democracy has been established in Iraq, we would like to sincerely ask you, please bring the leaders of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq to a justice for what they have done over the past 25 years against the two nations with a aid of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party, and free those innocent followers who are trapped in Ashraf simply by being brainwashed by the cult methods of Rajavi.

We hope for peace, stability and democracy in Iraq and the whole Middle East region, and faster action on closing the Camp Ashraf, so that the two neighboring countries are able to continue building a relationship based on trust and mutual respect.

 Sincerely,

 Pars-Iran (dissociated Members of Mojahedin in Canada)

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Terrorism

Beware of the New Terrorist Conspiracy

Dr. Jamal Al-Ali in an article dated July 5 published in Arz Alsawad newspaper warned Iraqi people against the new terrorist plots by Mojahedin, the US forces, the ousted regime’s elements and other terrorist factions. Starting its article referring to Mojahedin’s organized gathering in Camp Ahraf he stated:

The recent comments of a tribal leader from Dyalah province in an interview with an Iraqi satellite television asking Al-Maleki’s government to start investigating on the reasons and objectives of a meeting held in terrorist MKO’s Camp Ashraf with the assistance of US military commanders, military officers from former regime and with the participation of some group leaders sounds the alarm about such activities.

I was thinking about the issue when I received a letter from one of my literate Iraqi friends residing in Iran quoting in his letter a part of Keyhan Al-Arabi disclosing plots against the elected government of Mr. Nuri al-Maliki to restore the elements of the ousted Saddam to power by the assistance of the US occupying forces, MKO, pro-Baathist regime elements and other rejected terrorists. I take it my responsibility to inform of the Iraqi people of the terrorist plots.

Unveiling the objectives these terrorist plots he further elaborated:

They want to assassinate Shia clerics and elites and destabilize Kazemiah in order to crush the Shiites and then, introduce Al-Mahdi forces, Badr organization and Hizb Al-Dawa as the ones behind instability in Iraq.

By destabilizing the country, they want to convince public opinion that Nuri al-Maliki is not able to stabilize the country. They want their own puppets in the government.

MKO terrorists, who have declared their preparedness for conducting this plot, will engage with Shiites. In this way, they want to improve their face for Americans so as to be lifted from terror list!

Meetings are held in Camp Ashraf in order to coordinate terrorist operations.

By Dr. Jamal Al-Ali- Arz Alsawad newspaper

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

Rajavi’s Gang Expresses Support for Israel Crimes

As expected, the gang of Rajavi, by following the guidelines of Dan Gillerman and John Bolton (Israel and US ambassadors to the UN), supported the Israeli regime and accused Iran of igniting the fire of war in the Middle East and Lebanon, and asked for all-out sanctions against Iran.

In a hurried and desperate move, notorious gang of Rajavi linked the Israel’s aggression against Palestine and Lebanon to the recent decision of the west to return Iran’s nuclear case to the UN Security Council, while the preplanned aggression of Israelis started more than 20 days ago.

Maryam Rajavi, expressing MKO’s treacherous stance, stressed warmonger neocons’ strategy in the Middle East and claimed that Iran opposes peace in the Middle East and the establishment of democracy in Iraq.

To assure the masters that there are no real changes in policies of MKO, Maryam Rajavi- who became brave to condemn the killing of civilians after George W. Bush and Condi Rice expressed their positions- reminds Israelis of the fact that the conflict in Lebanon and Palestine strengthens Iran’s support for Palestinians.

So, the treacherous gang of Rajavi, which tries to use this chance to instigate Israel and warmongers to attack Iran, admits that Israel has started this conflict and that claim of Iran’s interferences is only part of a psychological war created by Israelis to cover their failures.

Rajavi’s gang has always yearned for a position like those of Hizballah and Hamas; Maryam Rajavi claimed that Iran has sent a cargo of weapons and missiles to Lebanon! If true, this should be done by all Islamic and Arab countries to counter the threats and aggressions of Israel.

Although the gang of Rajavi repeats unacceptable justifications of Israelis [for their crimes] in order to save its itself from unending crises, there’s no doubt that taking such positions- in addition to cooperation with Saddam- makes the group the most hated group in the region.

Irandidban  –  2006/07/18

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Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraq Might Force Out Iranian Militants

BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Wednesday accused a militant Iranian opposition group of meddling in his country’s affairs and suggested that it could face expulsion from Iraq, where it has been based for 20 years.

The Iraqi leader said the Mujahedin Khalq, which is dedicated to toppling Iran’s Islamist government, had become too involved in Iraq’s political and social issues.

"It is interfering as if it is an Iraqi organization, despite the fact that it is considered to be one of the terrorist organizations and its presence in the country contradicts the constitution," Maliki said at a news conference.

In response to a question, he said that government communications with the group had been banned and that a committee had been established "to find out the procedures related to their existence here" and to determine which countries would be ready to accept them as refugees.

The United States has listed the Mujahedin Khalq as a terrorist organization, although some U.S. officials have praised it as a tough opponent of the Iranian government.

The group was believed responsible for the slayings of several U.S. soldiers and civilians working on defense contracts in Iran in the 1970s, when Washington backed the shah. The Mujahedin Khalq also supported and may have aided the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, during which 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days.

Tehran strongly opposes the group and has pressured Baghdad’s Shiite-led government, dominated by parties with long-standing ties to Iran, to clamp down on its activities in Iraq.

A Mujahedin Khalq statement Wednesday said that its members had a right to protection under the Geneva Convention and that their safety was the responsibility of U.S.-led forces.

"Any action against the [Mujahedin] represents nothing but the demands and wishes of the theocracy ruling Iran that have been conveyed to the Iraqi prime minister," the statement said.

A spokesman for the group said earlier that it had not been informed by Baghdad that it may have to leave Iraq, whose government has improved ties with non-Arab Shiite Iran.

The Mujahedin Khalq, which has carried out attacks in Iran, was believed to have received support from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whose troops fought the Islamic Republic in the 1980s. But the group’s fortunes changed after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Hussein in 2003. It handed over its weapons after the U.S. bombed its bases.

Its estimated 4,000 members in Iraq are based at Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad. It has many supporters in Europe and North America and operated openly in France until 2003.

Los Angeles Times  –  July 20, 2006

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq’s Just Decision on Mojahedin

Quoting the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reported by ISNA, Iran Focus, MKO’s mouthpiece, announced that the country was working to end the presence of the Mojahedin terrorist group on Iraq’s territory. “It was decided to limit the actions of this group and confine them to Camp Ashraf, north of Iraq, and prevent their contacts with ministers and government agencies”, al-Maliki said.

in a statement issued by the group, Mojahedin claim that “any action against the PMOI represents nothing but the demands and wishes of the theocracy ruling Iran that have been conveyed to the Iraqi Prime Minister by discredited “security agencies”. A terrorist group under the protection of coalition forces so insolently questions the new Iraqi government’s volition and condemns it to be under the influence of the neighbor country.

“Among the restrictions is a clampdown on the rights of the PMOI to distribute statements in Iraq”, al-Maliki said. It is a precise decision because the Iraqi government is well aware of Mojahedin’s persuasive propaganda machine. In June, Mojahedin, enjoying the protection of the occupying forces, held a gathering in Camp Ashraf announcing that some 5.2 million Iraqis had signed a petition supporting the right of PMOI members to political asylum in the country. But the group can never answer the question what is it afraid of when it has a claimed, guaranteed support of 5.2 million Iraqis? Neither the gathering nor the statement are authorized by the Iraqi government.

Mojahedin’s problem lies in the fact that they have not yet come to recognize the national-elected Iraqi government in a hope of a favorite change. They believe “The Multi-National Force-Iraq has the responsibility to protect them. Violating these rights would be considered a war crime”. Mojahedin have no choice but to submit to the will of Iraqi people and their elected, legal government because they are living on the expense of Iraqi people and any responsible government has the right to protect its nation against the threats of terrorists. Evacuation of the occupying forces gives the Iraqi government to have a just deal with all suspected groups enjoying protected status.

mojahedin.ws –  22/07/2006

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Iraq

Iran, Iraq discuss issues of mutual concern

Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi conferred on Friday with Iraq’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Shirvan Vaeli on issues of mutual concern.

At the meeting, the Iraqi official said Mujahedin Khalq rganization (MKO) who have hatched numerous plots against the Iraqi nation must be expelled from the country.

"We are now preparing a comprehensive plan which requires approval of the government to expel the MKO from the country by the year end," he said.

"We strongly follow up the case because the MKO seeks to hatch plots against the Iraqi nation which has angered the Iraqi people," he underlined.

Officials at International Committee of the Red Cross and the United States have been informed of the need to take action to drive MKO out of Iraq, he underlined.

IRNA –  Baghdad, July 22,

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Former members of the MEK

Two more defected the Cult

Following the separation of a large number of the Rajavi’s cult members, two other members named Elham Motehamel and Sattar Salah zahi returned to Iran.  These two who were two of the most professional members noted that Rajavi’s cult is destroying and the leaders of the group do anything to prevent the demolishment of the cult. Recently, they even have resorted the Zionist lobby. Therefore they, who know themselves as Abu Amar’s children and were trained in Palestinian Camps, don’t show any reaction to massacre of Palestinians by Israelis.

Nejat Society reporter, July22, 2006 

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USA

White House Denies Backing of Terror Group in Iran

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 16, 1963

Raw Story is reporting that the White House is denying the use of terrorist organizations to undermine the Iranian regime.

Earlier today at the White House Press Briefing, Scott McClellan, the outgoing press secretary, denied reports that the U.S. is employing terrorist groups for special operations in Iran, RAW STORY has found.

When asked if U.S. policy has been changed with respect to three different terrorist organizations that have reportedly been active recently against Iran “based on the notion that an enemy of our enemy is our friend,” McClellan insisted that it hadn’t.

“Our policies haven’t changed on those organizations,” said McClellan. “They remain the same.”

“And you’re bringing up organizations that we view as terrorist organizations,” McClellan added.

The reporter cited three different terror group activities: “PKK going over the border into Iraq, the MEK southern border of Iraq into Iran, and also certain operations from Balochistan involving also the Pakistanis.”

In April, RAW STORY’s Larisa Alexandrovna reported (link) that “[o]ne 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.”

It prompted me to consult the book State of War by James Risen (pages 216-217):

… This time, the Iranians wanted a trade; in return for the al-Qaeda leaders, Tehran wanted the Americans to hand over members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian exile terrorist organization that had been supported by Saddam Hussein and based in Iraq since 1986. After the fall of Baghdad, the U.S. military had disarmed the MEK’s thousands of fighters and taken custody of the group’s heavy military equipment, more than two thousand tanks, artillery pieces, armored personnel carriers, and other vehicles provided by Saddam Hussein. But the Bush administration was divided over what to do with the group next.

In a principals committee meeting at the White House in May [2003], the Iranian prisoner exchange proposal was discussed by President Bush and his top advisors. According to people who were in the meeting, President Bush said he thought it sounded like a good deal, since the MEK was a terrorist organization. … The MEK was officially listed as a foreign terrorist group by the State Department; back in the 1970s, the group had killed several Americans living in Iran, including CIA officers based there during the shah’s regime. …

But the idea never got that far. Hard-liners at the Pentagon dug in and ultimately torpedoed any takl of an agreement the Iranians. Defense Secertary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz seemed to think the MEK could be useful in a future war with Iran, and so they appeared eager to keep the group in place inside Iraq. CIA and State Department officials were stunned that the Pentagon leadership would so openly flaunt their willingness to cut a deal with the MEK; they were even more surprised that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz paid no price for their actions. At the White House, officials soon learned that the Pentagon was dreaming up excuses to avoid following through on any further actions to rein in the MEK. One argument was that the military was too busy, with too many other responsibilities in Iraq, to devote the manpower to dismantling the MEK. The Pentagon basically told the White Hosue that “we will get around to it when we get around to it,” noted one former Bush administration official. “And they got away with it.” (emphasis mine)

I cannot help but to be reminded of the United States backing Osama bin Laden and other Islamic militants in Afghanistan, only for them to turn against the U.S. years later. In the short-term, it supported our objective in the region – push out the Soviets – but in the long-term, it has created much more headaches. This is why I studied history as a minor (poiltical science major). To avoid making mistakes in the future, it is best to learn from the past.

The Bush administration doesn’t seem to get that.

The Great Society – Wednesday, May 3, 2006 

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Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraq PM accuses Iran opposition group of meddling

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday accused the main Iranian opposition group, which has been based in Iraq for the past 20 years, of meddling in his country’s affairs and suggested it could face expulsion.

Nuri al-Maliki said the Mujahideen Khalq, which is dedicated to toppling Iran’s Islamist government, had become too involved in political and social issues in Iraq.

"It is interfering as if it is an Iraqi organisation despite the fact that it is considered to be one of the terrorist organisations and its presence in the country contradicts the constitution," Maliki told a news conference.

"The cabinet has taken decisions on this matter and the group will be informed."

A Mujahideen Khalq statement said its members are protected under the Geneva Convention and that their safety therefore was the responsibility of the US-led forces.

"Any action against the (Mujahideen) represents nothing but the demands and wishes of the theocracy ruling Iran that have been conveyed to the Iraqi Prime Minister," said the statement.

The group, in a statement sent to Reuters in Dubai, urged the international community to intervene against what it described as pressure by Tehran’s "evil regime" on Baghdad.

A Mujahideen spokesman said earlier the group had not been informed by Baghdad it may have to leave Iraq, whose Shi’ite-led government has significantly improved ties with non-Arab, Shi’ite Iran.

Iraqi Sunnis, once dominant under Saddam Hussein, have accused Iran of meddling in Iraq’s affairs and are likely to interpret any expulsion of the Mujahideen as a result of pressure from the Tehran government.

The Mujahideen, who have carried out attacks inside Iran, were believed to have received military support from Saddam, whose troops fought the Islamic Republic in the 1980s.

But their fortunes changed after a US-led invasion toppled the former Iraqi leader in 2003. US forces bombed their bases and the group handed over its weapons.

The group has many supporters in Europe and North America.

Its members in Iraq, believed to number about 4,000, are based at Ashraf Camp, north of Baghdad.

The Mujahideen Khalq are on a US list of terrorist organisations.

Stuff (New Zealand) –  July 20, 2006

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