Duplicity of the MEK nature

Iranian Communist Lies About Iran

Michael Rubin’s “Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq” (FrontPage Magazine.com, January 13, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=20780&p=1)

classified correctly the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. Even the New York Times has reported that some Iranians refer to Massoud Rajavi as the “Pol Pot of Iran”. (Elizabeth Rubin, “The Cult of Rajavi”, New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003,

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/13MUJAHADEEN.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5007&en=6b6a11b0fdb450b1&ex=1373428800&partner=USERLAND

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Ali Safavi’s “Missing the Mark on Iran” (FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21064) should become a textbook case example on how easily America’s terrorist enemies can have their lies published in the American media.

 Michael Rubin’s “Hitting the Mark on Iran” (FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=21065&p=1) has exposed some of the dishonest tactics the MEK has used with success in duping the American media and the American public. One could fill books about the dishonesty of the MEK, if any American publisher dares to expose the names of Democrats and Republicans in Congress who have been duped.

The MEK has been on the terrorist lists of the State Department since the administration of former President Bill Clinton. In September 2002, President George W. Bush’s background paper for his remarks at the United Nations listed the MEK as one of three Saddam Hussein-supported terrorists operating in Iraq. The MEK was a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. In April 2003, American and coalition forces did attack and kill some of the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. However, some analysts have claimed that this was a staged attack because the American military could have destroyed easily the entire camp and its four thousand or more terrorists. The American government ordered the American military to protect the MEK and to permit the MEK to keep individual weapons. In 2004, the American government recognized the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq as having protected person status under the Fourth Geneva Convention (civilian individuals!). The American government has closed the Washington, DC office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the National Press Building. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a supporter of the MEK while a Republican Senator, raided the home of NCRI spokesperson Alireza Jafarzadeh and took boxes of documents from his home.

The following are some of the deceptive tactics contained in Ali Safavi’s article:

1. He introduced himself as a sociologist and as someone who has studied the history of the MEK. While it is true that he studied sociology at the University of Michigan, he has been actively involved in the MEK as a military commander and as a spokesperson for the NCRI. A photograph of Ali Safavi in military uniform is posted at: http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/info/Safavi.htm

Anne Singleton and her husband Massoud Khodabandeh know the MEK well. Anne Singleton was involved with the MEK for nearly 20 years. She is the author of the book, Saddam’s Private Army. Massoud Khodabandeh was an MEK commander, too. Anne Singleton’s Web site in the United Kingdom, Iran Interlink, is an excellent source of the truth about the MEK.

2. Ali Safavi claims that the most anti-MEK Web sites in America are left-wing Web sites. Of course, he did not cite even one example of a left-wing Web site critical of the MEK. The truth is that the major American Web sites critical of the MEK are right-wing, not left-wing. Examples of right-wing Web sites publishing authors critical of the MEK: (a) Traitors USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/

(b) Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/

(c) LewRockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/

Traitors USA is my Yahoo! Group specializing in the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists and the Democrats and Republicans who support the MEK. My Republican Party credentials are easy to check in the public records. In 1990, while I lived in Los Angeles County, California, Republican voters elected me to the Republican County Central Committee. In 1992, I was a Republican candidate for California State Assembly, endorsed by the California Republican Assembly. Now that I live in Orange County, California, it is a matter of public record that I am a registered Republican. The Web site of California’s Secretary of State discloses my contributions to conservative Republican candidates. Next to the door of my office at California State University, Fullerton is information on how students can join David Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom: http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/

In a few minutes, anyone who cares to do Internet searches can find postings about me as a Republican professor at California State University, Fullerton. Even as an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, I was an active member of the College Republicans. I have never been in the left wing.

Many Americans who rely upon comedians or the evening television news might think that Antiwar.com must be left-wing. The American media continues to publish lies that only left-wing activists are anti-war. For years, right-wing writers at Antiwar.com have been exposing the lies of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. The most prolific critic of the MEK at Antiwar.com has been Justin Raimondo. Justin Raimondo is a former Libertarian Party and Republican Party candidate for public offices. Justin Raimondo is the author of the book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement

LewRockwell.com is anti-state, anti-war, pro-market. It is an important resource for writings supporting capitalism. A search for MEK will return articles exposing the MEK.

As a right-wing author, I do submit articles or comments critical of the MEK across the entire political spectrum. I have had some success with postings at progressive Web sites.

The background paper for my September 15, 2005 speech to a Libertarian Party group is available at:

http://www.liberty66.org/

The title of the speech was “Libertarians and the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) Terrorists”.

So, while it is possible to find some postings critical of the MEK at left-wing Web sites, I rely upon right-wing Web sites to find large numbers of postings critical of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

3. Ali Safavi did not include the red, communist flag of the MEK. Kenneth Timmerman has posted some photographs of MEK demonstrators near the United Nations Building on September 14, 2005 at: http://www.iran.org/news/24-Irandemos.htm

The American military has permitted the MEK to continue to fly its communist flag at Camp Ashraf, Iraq:

http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2003/April/base6.html

4. Ali Safavi has not written a true account of the embarrassment of some members of Congress for signing Iran statements. While the January 15, 2003 New York Times contained a full-page advertisement by MEK supporters, the advertisement listed only six of the members of Congress. Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen refused to release all of the 150 names she claimed supported the MEK. For a more accurate account of the members of Congress, see Sam Dealey’s “Rep. Ros-Lehtinen defends Iranian group labeled terrorist front for Saddam Hussein” (The Hill, April 8, 2003, http://www.thehill.com/news/040803/roslehtinen.aspx)

5. Ali Safavi’s history of the MEK failed to include that both MEK and Islamic leaders were prisoners in the same jails during the reign of the Shah of Iran. Islamic leaders of Iran know that the MEK is 100% communist and 0% Islamic. A popular Persian term for the MEK can be translated as two-faced.

6. Massoud Rajavi, the supreme leader of the MEK, learned from Iranian history that the pro-Stalin Tudeh Party failed to sell godless communism in Islamic Iran. Massoud Rajavi thought that the techniques of Che Guevara and of the liberation theology in Latin America would be a more successful model for a communist takeover of Iran. Roman Catholic popes have been strong opponents of liberation theology. Ali Safavi is wrong about Roman Catholic positions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

7. The MEK have committed terrible atrocities against Kurds in Iraq. To save bullets for Iran, the MEK ran over Kurdish civilians with armored personnel carriers or tanks. The American military has interviewed hundreds of MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq and has identified many who should be tried for war crimes. See: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball’s “Shades of Gray” (Newsweek, October 13, 2004, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6242223/site/newsweek)

8. Ali Safavi’s tales of the treatment of MEK members at Camp Ashraf, Iraq are pure fiction. The MEK’s leaders hate any MEK members who try to leave the MEK. Near Camp Ashraf, Iraq is Camp Freedom, Iraq. At Camp Freedom, Iraq, there are approximately 200 former members of the MEK who were able to escape from Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Ali Safavi failed to mention that the MEK has tortured for many years many MEK members who attempted to leave Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Some MEK members died during the MEK torture at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. For details, read books by former MEK members: (a) Anne Singleton’s Saddam’s Private Army

http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/child%20pages/book_I-I.htm (b) Masoud Banisadr’s Masoud.

9. Ali Safavi’s description of the roles of women in the MEK is fantasy. He failed to mention some details covered in books by Anne Singleton and Masoud Banisadr, such as: (a) mandatory divorces (b) segregation of men and women at Camp Ashraf, Iraq (c) mandatory assignment of spouses for MEK leaders (d) mandatory confession of masturbation. Ali Safavi can start by writing the truth about how Maryam Rajavi became the third wife of Massoud Rajavi. Members of the right wing who claim to support family values will reject the Pol Pot of Iran.

10. Ali Safavi failed to disclose that even foreign reporters at Camp Ashraf, Iraq have written about the celebrations of the murders of Americans. Iranians who lived in Tehran during the American hostage crisis know that the MEK were demanding the executions of all of the American hostages. Ayatollah Khomeini refused the demands of the MEK. Ali Safavi failed to disclose that the Persian language Web sites and satellite television programs of the MEK have anti-Western, anti-imperialist content. The MEK rose to power in Iran in the 1960’s and 1970’s by being the most anti-Shah and most anti-Western terrorist group in Iran. There are posted videotapes of Massoud Rajavi meeting with leaders of Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq. The anti-Western, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist ideology of the MEK is common knowledge to any Iranian who lived in Iran before the Iranian Revolution.

11. Ali Safavi failed to disclose the location of the MEK’s supreme leader, Massoud Rajavi. Recent posted reports include claims that the American military is keeping Massoud Rajavi at Camp Mercury, Iraq. The reports do not include whether Massoud Rajavi is being kept for future war crimes trials in Iraq or is being protected by the American military.

In a few minutes, anyone can perform an Internet search for “Ali Safavi”. They will discover that he has been speaking for the NCRI or the MEK for many years. They will discover that many famous American newspapers have quoted him without bothering to check the accuracy of anything he says. Michael Rubin was correct in concluding that the writings of Ali Safavi are dishonest but useful. The real villains in this case are the idiots and dupes in the American media who cannot be troubled to publish truthful, investigative reporting about the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

At Traitors USA, you can find my exchanges of emails with Ali Safavi. When he discovered that I graduated, too, from the University of Michigan and am a professor, he found it difficult to attack my academic credentials. While he describes himself as a sociologist, he fails to disclose on which faculty he serves or in any other way he works as a sociologist. His fictional tales about the MEK do not work with me. I have known MEK members for 37 years. While I was a doctoral student at Michigan State University, I attended MEK meetings. I studied Persian at Harvard University and met a Harvard professor who writes truthfully about Iran. Professor Richard N. Frye’s Greater Iran is a truthful story of an American professor who spent 60 years researching Iran and the surrounding areas: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568591772/qid=1138430187/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4092926-4396717?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Relatives of my Iranian wife of 37 years have died fighting for the MEK.

The Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists publish daily large amounts of print, television, and of Internet media lies. Unfortunately, most American journalists are either too stupid or too dishonest to expose America’s communist terrorist enemies.

I am a Professor of Accounting who has graduated from the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and from Michigan State University. As a life-long registered Republican and as an elected member of the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee, I have always been in the right wing of the political spectrum. Ali Safavi’s statements about left-wing attacks on the MEK are misleading. While you can find some progressive Web sites critical of the MEK, you can find communist Web sites supporting the MEK.

During the Vietnam War, I volunteered and served in the Army in Vietnam to fight the communists. If I were young enough to serve in the Army today, I would not join the Army to further the goals of corrupt Democrats and Republicans in Congress who support the communist overthrow of Iran by the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

From Lenin to Fidel Castro to Pol Pot, there have been some evil American political and business interests who have supported the communist takeovers of countries. Americans need to cancel subscriptions to any newspapers supporting or publishing lies about the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. Americans need to vote out of office all Democrats and Republicans who accept campaign contributions from the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists’ supporters.

Professor Paul Sheldon Foote

California State University, Fullerton, pfoote@fullerton.edu

January 27, 2006 

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

THE MUJAHEDIN DOES NOT REPRESENT IRANIAN AMERICANS!

TELL CONGRESS THAT THE MUJAHEDIN DOES NOT REPRESENT IRANIAN AMERICANS! The Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO/MEK) is beefing up its campaign to get off the State Department’s terrorist list and receive US funding by presenting itself as representative of the Iranian-American community.

The MKO has since the early 1990s been on the State Department’s terrorist list. In 1997, their political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran was also added to the terrorist list, making it difficult for the organization to lobby in Washington in theory.

In practice, however, the Mujahedin has maintained a very strong lobbying arm in Washington DC, and continued to pursue their political objectives while arguing that they represent the Iranian-American community. On January 20th, the Los Angeles Times wrote that “Iranian Americans generally… oppose a nine-year State Department crackdown on an organization [the MKO] that it classifies as terrorist but that the Iranian community considers a resistance group.”

The Mujahedin has increased its political activities in Washington in the hope that a showdown between the US and Iran would lead Washington to de-list them from the terrorist list and support them as a legitimate and popular opposition group.

For instance, HR 282, introduced by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a long time supporter of the Mujahedin on Capitol Hill, states that the White House must “designate at least one democratic opposition organization as eligible to receive assistance” from the US government within 90 days of the bills passing.

Analyst point out the similarities between the Iran Democracy Act (HR 282) and the Iraq Democracy Act (from 1998), which resulted in Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress receiving millions of dollars from the US government.

The Mujahedin is seeking to present themselves as representatives of the Iranian-American community in order to get off the terrorist list and receive financial support from the US government.

NIAC has prepared a letters to your House Representatives as well as to the Los Angeles Times, pointing out that the MKO does not represent the Iranian-American community.  It is extremely important that Iranian Americans participate in this debate, and that they lend their expertise and unique perspectives on this matter.

Please edit the letter and make it more personal. A personal perspective has a far greater impact than a letter with only abstract arguments. Do also strengthen or soften the arguments to make it better reflect your personal perspective.

Please note that due to the existing terrorist classification of the MKO, NIAC will not prepare a letter endorsing or favoring their position

The National Iranian American Council

January 2006

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MKO, Part of Zionist Lobby

The scandal of infiltration of some people-affiliated with Zionist lobby- into the US government and spying for Israeli government, with the purpose of directing the United States towards a war on Iran, is a reality that shouldn’t be ignored.

FBI and US Justice Department have concluded in their investigations that some anti-Iran figures want to instigate neoconservaties against Iran.

“Larry Franklin”, who’s been sentenced to 12 years in prison, is a tough anti-Iran figure who transferred Pentagon and NSA’s intelligence on Iran to AIPAC officials and Israeli diplomats. He tried to transfer secret reports on Iran’s threat for Israel and US interests to Zionist AIPAC lobby, with the hope that AIPAC could press the US to take tougher stance towards Iran.

Larry Franklin has admitted having contacts with two senior officials of AIPAC: Steven Rosen former director of AIPAC, Wiseman and an Israeli diplomat in the United States.

According to a file presented by US Attorney General, Rosen and Wiseman tried since 1999 to penetrate US officials and get sensitive intelligence through contacts.

David Sutterfield, second American diplomat in Iraq, gave secret information to Rosen in 2002.

Larry Franklin, formerly deputy of Douglas Feith, had close relationship with some US neo-conservatives outside Bush administration. The case also includes the names of Richard Rhodes, head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, and Michael Ledeen, an American Enterprise Institute scholar who arranged a meeting between Franklin and several Iran opposition figures. Iranian oppositions gave them some information on Iran’s threat for US forces in the region.

With a brief look at the type of propagandistic attacks by these people (who work to guarantee Israel’s interests -even if its costs Iran’s destruction- and consider Iran an obstacle in the way of killing innocent Palestinians) and considering the timing of MKO’s shows under the name of”revelations”, the roots of MKO’s propagandas (particularly in the US) could be well understood.

Douglas Feith is behind the scenario, the performance of part of which has been given to the terrorist MKO; in return for this cooperation, MKO would be protected in Iraq.

All their purposes can be summarized in”efforts for instigating Bush administration to attack Iran, before Iraq crisis could effect decisions of Bush administration”.

The presence of David Sutterfield in Iraq should also be considered a part of warmongers’ plans.

Since this policy has repeatedly been revealed (in Irandidban.com and elsewhere) and there are solid evidences on the issue, FBI officials should clarify the MKO’s dangerous role in spreading propaganda to instigate public opinion against Iran and prevent them from conducting illegal anarchical activities.

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Former members of the MEK

Survivors’ Report, No.20- Editorial

This month’s article reviewing the activities of the Association of Victims of the MEK has brought back some special memories.

One thing that is clear from the past year’s activities is that some extraordinary people are involved in this Association; people whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and working with over the past year; people who have displayed a wealth of ability, humanity, kindness, wit and good humor; people with strengths perhaps they are not aware of in themselves. For some of these people, to have survived the crushing experiences during their time with the MEK is an extraordinary feat in itself. For them to find the strength and conviction to continue to speak out the truth is truly inspiring.

We all know people who have left the Mojahedin for whom simply the experience of having been in the cult has become a virtual prison from which they cannot escape. MEK indoctrination infects their thinking even now and stunts their lives in every aspect.

The former members who have had the courage to speak out about the crimes of the Mojahedin leaders are all extraordinary people. When these people joined the MEK it was because they were not ordinary; they felt the desperate need of their people for freedom and they acted on it. Now, they have come out of the MEK with their integrity intact. They did not give way to the crushing manipulations of Rajavi. It is because of this that they are able to resist the threats and expose the machinations of the leaders. It is also, we should not forget, because Rajavi is not godlike; he is mortal and fallible like the rest of us.

News of Massoud Rajavi’s arrest and interrogation by US forces in Camp Mercury in Iraq should not come as a surprise.

After all, the man is fallible. What is of greater significance is that the unanswered questions which the MEK leadership tried so hard over the past three years to sweep under the carpet have now infiltrated into the body of the organisation. Questions about Rajavi’s relations with Saddam Hussein, human rights abuses inside the camps and the massacre of Kurds and Shiites are no longer the questions of former members, but are rather the question of existing members.

Rajavi, having failed to fob off the ‘enemy’, is now hearing the same questions emitted from the mouth of his devotees inside the organisation. Looking back over the past, as we do at this time of year, what strikes me as most interesting is just how far the MEK has shrunk from its glory days at the time of the revolution in 1979, when it could command thousands of supporters. Now, instead of trying to set up her own regime in Iran, Maryam Rajavi is spending her entire resources on squabbling with a handful of former members – the Association – in the west. No doubt the people of Iran will be truly grateful to know that the MEK’s attention is taken up elsewhere.

Iran-Interlink

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Targeting a ‘terrorist group’

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Reader’s Reply: Targeting a ‘terrorist group’

Original Article: Iranian Americans Rally for a Different Approach Jan. 20, 2006

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Targeting a ‘terrorist group’

 

‘ font-size: 10pt”>It is sad to read about the Mujahedin Khalq organization (a.k.a. MEK, MKO, NCRI and several other names) in that the terrorist group is portrayed as the representative of a quarter of a million Iranian Americans. The group was in charge of killing several Americans during the shah’s regime in Iran. Its ideology is a mixture of Islam and Marxism. The group is run like a cult, in that the "holy" leaders (Maryam and Massoud Rajavi) must be obeyed at all costs, even if this means sacrificing families and children.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>In 1980s and ’90s, the group’s leaders forced members to abandon their children to come to military camps in Iraq to participate in fighting the Iraqi Shiite uprising alongside Saddam Hussein’s troops. It is no exaggeration to say that more than 95% of Iranians and Iraqis, both in their native countries and in the U.S., abhor the organization and are puzzled by the fact that some U.S. politicians sympathize with this terrorist group. More shocking is the Pentagon’s move to provide it with a haven in Iraq for potential future attacks on Iranian soil.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>I guess terrorist groups can be supported by the Pentagon whenever the goals justify the means.

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KAMIAR ZADEH

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Los Angeles

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Here we present paragraphes of mentioned article:

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Iranian Americans Rally for a Different Approach

‘ font-size: 10pt”>By Nick Timiraos, Times Staff Writer

‘ font-size: 10pt”>http://www.latimes.com/news/

‘ font-size: 10pt”>WASHINGTON —….

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The Iranians demonstrated as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded that the United Nations take action against Tehran for its nuclear development ambitions.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>"We’ve been very clear that we believe that the time has come for a referral of Iran to the Security Council," Rice said. "The Iranians have been given every opportunity to find a way to a solution…. They have not taken those opportunities."

‘ font-size: 10pt”>…The People’s Mujahedin, also known as Mujahedin Khalq, or MEK, was added to the State Department’s terrorist list in 1997 after attacks inside Iran. Some of the attacks were directed toward Americans, U.S. officials charge. But the group’s supporters, including many members of Congress, dispute the grounds for the terrorist designation.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>At Thursday’s rally, Iranian Americans from across the country demanded a change in U.S. policy toward the MEK, a step they said would allow the group to pursue internal resistance in Iran.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>…In a video shown at the rally, Rep. Bob Filner (D-Chula Vista) supported the call to remove the MEK from the list.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Rice, in remarks Wednesday, said the administration’s position on the MEK "has not changed."….

‘ font-size: 10pt”>Iran’s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, supports the Islamic regime’s push on nuclear research, arguing that the country has the right under international law to pursue a peaceful nuclear energy program.

‘ font-size: 10pt”>…"We are not looking for a war or military action from the West. We don’t want financial support," said Shirin Nariman, of the Council for Democratic Change in Iran, which planned the rally. "We are merely asking for a third option, to support a democratic regime change in Iran."

‘ font-size: 10pt”>"The MEK is the only opposition group that Tehran fears," said Raymond Tanter, a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

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‘ font-size: 10pt”>LA Times online edition, January 2006

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Iranian Mojahedin Accepts Defeat

Survivors’ Report: Iranian Mojahedin Accepts Defeat — Rejects Armed Struggle

To: National and International desks

Contact: Anne Singleton, 44-113-278-0503

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following was released today by Survivors’ Report, the publication name of the Association to support the victims of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO/MEK):

A source close to the National Council of Resistance of Iran — led by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi — has stated to Survivors’ Report on condition of anonymity:

"A few years ago the Mojahedin Khalq started to take their case to the court of the European Union to come out of the list of Terrorist organizations in Europe.

"According to their own statements, they hired squadrons of lawyers and advisors and were very hopeful that the result would be in their favor.

"A court session is scheduled in early February 2006 in Luxemburg to hear this case.

"The Mojahedin have spent the past few years gathering petitions and letters of support from whoever they could get their hands on, but their lawyers and advisors have told them clearly that for their organization to be removed from the lists of terrorist organizations, they will have to clearly and unequivocally denounce terrorism as a means to achieve their political aims, and that they have to announce that they clearly and totally reject armed struggle (freedom fighting) and do not believe in it any more, and from now on, their struggle against the Iranian regime will be only in the form of political, social and cultural activities.

"The Mojahedin have now accepted this advice and have declared to the relevant officials that: The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation rejects armed struggle and commits itself only to non-violent means of struggle and therefore asks the relevant authorities to remove it from the lists of terrorist organizations."

— Iranian Mojahedin reportedly accepts defeat of its thirty-year armed struggle.

— Source close to NCR says officials in Europe told: "The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation rejects armed struggle and commits itself only to non-violent means of struggle and therefore asks the relevant authorities to remove it from the lists of terrorist organizations."

This recent announcement by the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation is in total contradiction to what has been portrayed to the members and supporters who have been led to believe that armed struggle is the only form of struggle possible, and that it is rooted in the history of the Mojahedin as its most fundamental value.

The Mojahedin have always talked about armed struggle as the honor and legacy of the movement, and that it represents the basic red line between the Mojahedin and the outside world.

If true, this new rejection of armed struggle (which has been the core belief in the organization for the last 25 years) can be seen as the biggest ideological setback for the leaders of the organization since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. This reflects the last desperate attempts by the leaders to delay the total disintegration of the organization by accepting big losses in their remaining loyal forces.

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EDITOR’S NOTE:

Survivors’ Report is the publication name of the Association to support the victims of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO/MEK). The Association comprises several groups of and individual former members of the MKO/MEK in Europe and North America.

Survivors’ Report acts as a pressure group/support organization which provides a point of contact for families and friends of members of the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq. It informs about the real nature of the Mojahedin as a religious/personality cult; exposes the Mojahedin’s abuse of its members’ fundamental human rights; pinpoints responsibility for the terrorist actions and human rights abuses of the Mojahedin on leaders, Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi; helps individuals who wish to leave the Mojahedin to find refuge; assists those who leave the Mojahedin come to terms with their experiences within and re-establish themselves in the wider community; and reunites people who leave the Mojahedin with their family and friends.

For further information, please contact:

Survivors’ Report in the UK:

Anne Singleton (editor), Tel.: +44-113-278-0503

Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCR) in the UK: Hossein Abedini, P.O. Box 2516, London, United Kingdom NW4 2DD; info(at)ncr-iran.org

Alternative email addresses for the NCR and Mojahedin:

http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?ReleaseID=59742&Link=mailto:mojahed@mojahedin.org

http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?ReleaseID=59742&Link=mailto:info@iranefshagari.com

http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?ReleaseID=59742&Link=mailto:info@iranterror.com

http://releases.usnewswire.com/redir.asp?ReleaseID=59742&Link=http://www.usnewswire.com/

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Duplicity of the MEK nature

MKO Betrays Iraqi people

Terrorist organization of the Mujahidin-e Khalq is illegitimately accusing Iraqi clerics of deploying Iraqi youths to Iran to be trained militarily. They have even gone further by claiming that "these youths are Iraqis and non-Iraqis from some Arab Islamic groups". Please not how roguishly the report has been prepared. About the news itself, I should say that it’s really an old trick. There are no documents or evidences for this report, but there are reasons that prove the report to be only a dream:

1. Occupying forces are watching Iraqi borders with Syria and Iran; in addition, Iraqi army is also settled along the border and intelligence agents of occupying forces and Iraqis are watching the borders closely with modern equipments.

2. To train Iraqi youths, we don’t need Iran. Resistance movement against occupiers is active in Iraq; if this claim is true that Iran trains Iraqis, then why there’s no attack against occupiers in the south? These people suffered a lot during Iran-Iraq war and they don’t wan to fight.

3. We all know that before the fall of Baghdad, the terrorist group of Mujahidin-e Khalq fought against Iraqis and killed innocent people in Abu Ghraib region only because they people passed MKO’s land to reach their farms. After the fall of Saddam, all Iraqi farmers work on their lands without any problems, but this terrorist group is under the protection of American occupiers, giving intelligence on resistance forces of Diali province to US army. In this regard, they take advantage of some simple-minded tribesmen, athletes and students; Mojahedin has established so-called "Association of Iran’s Friends" which is only an American plot to collect information on resistance forces in Diali, Mosul and Kirkuk. The MKO has also established contacts with Iraqi Lawyers Syndicate and some supporters of Ayad Allawi’s party.

4. All Iraqis declare explicitly that cooperating with clerics doesn’t mean cooperation with Islamic Republic; their positions are clear due to being Shiite. Every religious authority has Fatwas on relations with other countries and it’s unlikely for Sunni religious authorities to allow deployment of Iraqi youth to Iran for training.

The major reason for naming this group-based in Iraq- a terrorist organization is that it is the mercenary of occupiers and colonialist countries. As you know, for the time being, Iraq is not stable and the question is why this group doesn’t go to another country! The interests of occupiers convince them to keep this group in Iraq to get to their goals by using the group against Iraqis. Members of this organization in France even feed coalition forces with information on Muslim insurgents coming to Iraq to fight occupiers. Why does the group make contacts with those tribes leader who are away from political scenes? Why do MKO members leave their camp to go to Mosul and Kirkuk?

There’s no doubt for us that these mercenaries victimize Iraq to achieve their goals and that they are seeking another war against Iran. In this way, they want to blemish on the reputation of Iraqi clerics and clergymen.

Mo’taz Mohammed Jamal Al-Iraqi  –  Soutaliraq website

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We do have a problem with MEK – Secretary Rice

“We do have a problem with MEK “ Secretary Rice

On Thursday, Jan.18th. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice had a Q & A meeting with students of George Town University, where Raymond Tanter a supporter of MEK in IPC, and the professor of George Town University asked her to use MEK against Iran and lift the terrorist designation of the group. Secretary Rice answered:” we do have a problem with MEK. It is a terrorist organization. It was engaged in killings which actually ended up on the death of even   Americans. That situation has not changed.”

The Response given by Secretary of state clearly presents the US unwillingness to use the remnants of Saddam Hussein in case of military facing with Iran.

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