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Iranian group in Iraq part of high-stakes politics

Nejat SocietyApril 15, 20090106 views

The Iraqi government is stepping up efforts to pressure Iranian exiles into leaving the country, pushing an obscure group to the forefront of Baghdad’s relations with Washington and the Obama administration’s overtures to Iran..The Iraqi government says 261 residents were returned to Iran over the last two years and reported no persecution..To outsiders, the MEK/PMOI/MKO may seem a strange cult-like group that bans sex and family life. But both the U.S. and Iran consider it a terrorist organization.

Ryan Crocker pointed out US designated the PMOI as terrorists

Nejat SocietyJanuary 11, 2009081 views

U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker pointed out the Americans have designated the People’s Mujahedeen as a terrorist organization, and he understands the Iraqi government wants the group removed from its territory.But he said the Iraqis have promised to respect the human rights of the group’s members…”The Iraqi government’s position is that members of the Mujahedeen Khalq are unwanted here and they should leave Iraq and their camp should be closed, but Iraq will not make them leave forcibly,”Iraq’s deputy Foreign Minister told The Associated Press.

Iranian widow must go to trial in NY

Nejat SocietyJuly 28, 2008064 views

A naturalized U.S. citizen must face trial on a charge of providing material support to an Iranian terrorist organization[Mujahedin Khalq] she’s accused of helping to lead, a federal judge ruled Thursday. …Prosecutors allege that Taleb-Jedi told FBI agents at the time she”wholeheartedly”supported the group and that two informants have since identified her as a member of a leadership council of MKO.

Iranian Opposition Group Seeks Legitimacy In US

Nejat SocietyJune 28, 2008066 views

A cult to some and freedom fighters to others, the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its affiliate groups typify the gray areas in the often black-and-white world of the war on terror. While Mujahedin /PMOI have been designated foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department, the groups’ members still maneuver between the restrictions aimed at disabling them.

Mojahedin Khalq Leader on trial in USA

Nejat SocietyJune 19, 2008075 views

Taleb-Jedi, 52, escaped serious harm. But more than five years later, she remains stuck in legal limbo in New York, facing federal terrorism charges labeling her a leader of a militant group(Mujahedin) advocating the violent overthrow of the Iranian government. … Originally a Marxist-Islamist group, the People’s Mujahedeen/PMOI formed in the mid-1960s to oppose the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During the 1970s, it killed U.S. citizens working in Tehran, supported the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy there and participated in Iran’s Islamic Revolution, according to the State Department…

Four Mojahedin-e Khalq combatants arrested in Iraq

Nejat SocietyFebruary 12, 2008077 views

U.S. and Iraqi forces say they are targeting rogue, criminal elements of his and other militias. But several Shiite imams, during Friday prayers, suggested Iraqi forces were taking advantage of the cease-fire to crack down on rival groups. Al-Sadr has threatened not to extend his cease-fire unless the government purges rival Shiite militiamen he alleges have infiltrated the security forces and are targeting his followers.

France to Probe Killing of Iranian

Nejat SocietySeptember 19, 2007055 views

French authorities plan to investigate the 1999 killing of a top Iranian general, which was claimed by an Iranian opposition group based in France, judicial officials said Monday.Brig. Gen. Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of the joint staff command of the Iranian armed forces, was gunned down in April 1999 in front of his home in Tehran by men dressed as city cleaners

Iranian opposition in exile rallies to denounce EU decision to keep it on terror list

Nejat SocietyJuly 4, 2007059 views

Thousands rallied Saturday outside Paris to decry a recent European Union decision to keep an Iranian opposition group on a terror blacklist, while a group leader insisted Iran is”on the verge of exploding.”

EU keeps Mojahedin Khalq Organisation on terror list after review

Nejat SocietyJuly 3, 20070103 views

The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been formally announced, said EU governments rejected the group’s arguments that it should be removed from the list. Maryam Rajavi, head of The National Council of Resistance — the Paris-based political wing of the PMOI — condemned the decision.

Iranian Woman Vs. MKO in French Court

Nejat SocietyJune 25, 2007082 views

French judicial sources announced that an Iranian woman, who was injured in a terrorist operation by MKO in 2000 in Tehran, met French investigator after fours years of filing her complaint,”AP reported from France. Osaneh Mahmoudi had filed a complaint against terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq in France in 2003, because she had been injured in