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khoshroo: US accountable for MKO terrorist acts

Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo has earlier called for a halt on US policies to support anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in separate letters to UN.

The letters dated 11 July, 2018, from the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations were addressed to the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the President of the Security Council Olof Skoog.

The full text of Iranian Khoshroo’s letter follows:

Upon instructions from my Government and following my letters dated 3 January 2018 (S/2018/8), 13 October 2017 (S/2017/862) and 19 June 2017 (S/2017/521) regarding the United States hostile, interventionist and destabilizing approach towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, I have the honour to bring the following to your attention:

Some political figures and associates of the United States Government like Rudolph William Louis Giuliani and Newton Leroy Gingrich participated in a gathering held in Paris on 30 June 2018 by an anti-Iranian terrorist cult that openly incites blind violence against Iranian civilians. These associates of the United States Government have contributed to, and made baseless allegations and false statements against, the Islamic Republic of Iran in the said gathering.

The so-called Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is a notorious terrorist cult responsible for the death of more than 17,000 Iranians, including parliamentarians, high-ranking governmental and military authorities, innocent ordinary citizens as well as foreign nationals, documented with different United Nations bodies and independent organizations (see, for instance, S/1994/983, S/1998/817, A/54/81, S/2000/128, S/2000/164, S/2000/216, S/2000/912, S/2000/1036, S/2000/1169, S/2000/1170, S/2001/271, S/2006/649 and S/2008/675).

This terrorist and violent cult had also been listed and sanctioned for years as terrorist group by the United States, and other States and regional unions for committing terrorist crimes. It is clear that removal of the cult from the United States list in 2012, done after intense lobbying by the United States politicians who have been paid by this group, was just a manifestation of double standard and selective approach of the United States Government in fighting terrorism.

Contrary to the recent misleading claims by this terrorist group, there is enough proof and evidence to the continuation of their dangerous deviant ideology and despicable modus operandi as well as involvement in terrorist operations for all of which the United States has international responsibility. As a case in point, the cult cooperated with adversaries’ intelligence services in the plots to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists between 2010 and 2015. This terrorist group has also militarily assisted Saddam Hussein’s regime in its aggression against the Iranian nation (September 1980–August 1988) and was directly involved in the massacre of Kurds and Arab people in Iraq.

The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest terms the illegal measures of the United States Government against Iranian people including through supporting and financing of MKO as terrorist group, and considers this unlawful action in violation of international law, the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations as well as the well-established international rules on countering terrorism, in particular international obligations of United States Government to prevent, prosecute and punish terrorist crimes. The United States Government shall cease and desist from such illegal measures and discontinue this policy.

I should be grateful if you would have the present letter circulated as a document of the Security Council.

July 25, 2018 0 comment

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Iran Summons French Ambassador over MKO Gathering

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the Ministry has summoned the French ambassador to Iran to protest against the annual gathering of the anti-Iran MKO terrorist cult.

In a Wednesday statement, Qassemi said the director general of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Europe Department summoned French Ambassador Francois Senemaud on Tuesday to express the Islamic Republic’s harsh protest against France for its support for the MKO terrorist group.

“The director general also emphasized that no extremist group with terrorist nature – even if it is trivial or small – should be provided with an opportunity to promote extremism and terrorism under the pretext of freedom of expression,” he noted.

According to the spokesman, during the talks, the Iranian diplomat also expressed the country’s protest over the MKO’s annual gathering in Paris attended by a number of current and former extremist officials of the US as well as their meddlesome and divisive statements against the Iranian nation.

The French ambassador, for his part, said he would immediately convey Iran’s protest to Paris and give its response to the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

The MKO held its annual meeting in Paris on Saturday with a number of American hawks such as Rudy Giuliani – Donald Trump’s personal lawyer – and other former US officials as well as former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in attendance.

Founded in the 1960s, the terror group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam kill thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed war imposed on Iran.

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July 5, 2018 0 comment

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Iran MP slams EU for MKO meeting

A senior Iranian lawmaker on Sunday criticized the European countries for hosting the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and its meetings.

It is expected that the European Parliament clarify the terrorist identity of MKO for the EP members, Iranian chairman of Iran-EP Parliamentary Relations Group Kazem Jalali said in a letter to Janusz Lewandowski, the European chairman of the group.

Jalali wrote also separate letters to Philippe Bonnecarrère, French senator and President of France-Iran Parliamentary Friendship Group as well as Delphine O, a member of French National Assembly.

In the letters, Jalali said that MKO terrorist group’s campaigns and activities in France is against the good relations between Tehran and Paris.

June 12, 2018 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Why Trump’s small-handed plan to strangle Iran will fail

The plans of President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to strangle Iran will fail, said Professor Mohammad Marandi of Tehran University.

US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that Washington would pull out of Iran nuclear deal and reinstate nuclear sanctions on Iran.

This is while most world powers including Russia, China, and European Union have repeatedly stressed that keeping the deal is in the interest of world peace and security.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a speech on May 21 said that following withdrawal from the JCPOA, the US is seeking severe financial pressure and unprecedented sanctions against Iran to contain Iran’s influence in the region and block its nuclear and missile programs.

The Full text of Professor Marandi’d article as appeared in middleeasteye.net follows:

As the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Republic approaches, Washington’s Captain Ahab-like obsession with Iran grows ever deeper. ‘Possessed by all the fallen angels’, Ahab’s chief mate could not shake his captain’s fixation on The Whale.

Like Ahab, the unholy trinity of Donald Trump, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo relentlessly pursue their own Moby Dick.

Captain Mike’s 12 commandments:

Less than a year ago, in a speech to a gathering of the Western-funded Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), a cult-like group formerly under the command and control of Saddam Hussein – a seemingly delusional Bolton claimed they would all celebrate together in Tehran before the end of this year and the 40th anniversary of the revolution.

More recently, a similarly deluded Pompeo delivered his 12 commandments to the Iranian people, warning Iranian men, women and children that the lord will impose not just ‘painful’ sanctions, but also ‘the strongest sanctions in history’. The US secretary of state, formerly Trump’s CIA director, added that he would ‘crush’ Iranian ‘operatives’.

Whether Trump can outdo Barack Obama’s various forms of barbarism – such as his ‘crippling sanctions’, cultivation of extremists in Syria, drone wars, operations in Libya and imposition of hunger on Yemen – is open to question.

After all, there are few ways to objectively gauge the two, as Western media empires are apparently completely unaware that the US funding of takfiri extremists, pushing a dirty civil war, land occupation and strikes against Syrian armed forces are all illegal and constitute crimes against humanity, according to international law.

Rather, the empire’s media seems more focused on Trump’s hand size, Russia Today’s (RT’s) critical role in the US presidential election results, and providing details on the recent weather phenomenon known as Stormy Daniels.

Thus, it cannot be blamed for a collective failure to comprehend that the Israeli air strikes on Syria are also illegal. After all, this is not Lebanon, where Hezbollah ‘terrorists’ successfully expelled the Israeli occupation force from their country after enemy combatants murdered up to 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians.

The corporate media:

It’s understandable. After all, the region is so complex that Western media outlets think young Palestinians were shoved in the path of innocent Israeli bullets by their families, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. They assume that brown Palestinian people, like black South African people in the Sharpeville Massacre during apartheid, do not understand the value of life. ‘Israelis Reflect on Gaza: ‘I hope at least each bullet was justified”, ran a headline in the New York Times.

Perhaps, if Palestinians took their children to Disneyland, instead of lingering in the gloomy Gaza concentration camp, they would acquire an understanding of the civilised world along with its family values. Perhaps, if Ahed Tamimi wasn’t such so spoilt and irrational and oriental, she would not have overreacted to the murder of friends and relatives by European colonialists.

Just because her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces, does not give her the right to slap a law-abiding occupation soldier. Indeed, she should consider herself lucky that she is not dark-haired, dark-skinned, or wearing a hijab, otherwise she would not have received any of the undeserved lukewarm sympathy from a few ‘bold reporters’ in the corporate media.

Returning to Captain – he never got any higher up the military ladder, poor fellow – Pompeo’s commandments, the seventh states that ‘Iran must respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government’. None are more qualified to pass judgment on issues linked to Iraqi sovereignty than the Americans.

After all, they did not interfere when Saddam gassed tens of thousands of his own people with the chemical weapons they gifted him. After ‘liberating’ Iraq, with the blessing of the Iraqi people and international law, they took the best land in Baghdad and built a wonderful new city called the US embassy.

They strengthened the Iraqi judiciary by creating prisons such as Abu Ghraib, where they held First World sex education courses for children in the company of their parents. Sadly, most of the footage and photos have been lost, eerily similar to the experiences of the new CIA ‘glass-ceiling breaker’ chief in Thailand.

Strangling Iranians:

In a strictly non-interventionist manner, the Americans also pursued a progressive policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell when it came to the Saudi-funded al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later evolved into the Islamic State (IS). After all, this was a family affair: IS, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram and Saudi Arabia share the same religious textbooks and lofty ideological values.

Nevertheless, it is clear that the wicked Iranians will ignore the 12 commandments. The apartheid regime in Palestine and their democracy-loving moderate allies in Saudi Arabia will undoubtedly be delighted, even though the world will view them with unkindness, as needy and reckless cheerleaders for regional and global instability.

While there is always a surge of hope in the empire and its Persian-language mouthpieces when they see the faintest flicker of unrest in Iran, it seems pretty clear that ordinary Iranians, whom Trump seeks to lovingly strangle with his undersized hands, will remain decidedly ungrateful to the orange-hued authoritarian.

Instead of questioning the humanity of the threats coming from the White House and worrying about the fate of the innocent men, women and children who are being targeted, ‘enlightened’ Western analysts seem more concerned with who ‘benefits’ from such malevolent US policies in Iran.

When it comes to defending sovereignty and dignity, except for a small group of Western apologists, we are all more or less hardliners. The regime in Washington has already failed.

– Mohammad Marandi is a professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran.

May 27, 2018 0 comment

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Iran: France has turned in to a safe haven for terrorist Mojahedin Khalq

Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei said on Wednesday that France would hopefully make decisions on Iran independent from the US.

In a meeting with French Ambassador to Iran François Sénémaud on Wednesday, he referred to Iran’s stances on international developments, saying, “We expect Europeans to recognize the framework of the Islamic Republic and respect it. This is a new model and we propose the westerners not to run against this model and let cooperation continue.”

Referring to Iran’s large-scale campaign against terrorism, he said, “We have dedicated martyrs and many have been injured in the fight against Daesh and drug smuggling.”

If the operations against drug trafficking and terrorism did not exist, they would have made their ways to Europe, he said.

Referring to the activities of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in France, Rezaei said that today the country has turned into a safe haven for terrorists who have committed many crimes in Iran.

MKO has killed over 17,000 people in Iran and assassinated many statesmen, children and women and now they are freely holding conference in Paris and are seeking to carry out destructive acts in Iran, he said addressing the French ambassador.

As to Iran’s missile capabilities, he said that missile is the most significant deterrent weapon and a replacement for modern military planes such as Mirage, noting, “In the event of any attack, we will defend ourselves and this is not a very complicated issue.”

It seems that the Europeans are pretending to be unaware of these issues and instead have chosen to put pressure on Iran, he said.

“We recommend you not to play the US game and we will not give up the issue because it is vital,” Rezaei said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the SNSC secretary said that the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia have inflicted huge costs on Europe.

‘Ties with Saudi Arabia may have benefits for you, but this has expenses for you, too,’ he said, ‘European members of Daesh have been trained in Saudi-run centers.

Sénémaud, for his part, described the role of Iran’s Expediency Council as significant and said France is well aware of Iran’s counter-terrorism actions.

Daesh came into existence rapidly and France was quick at realizing that the issue would endanger its security on its soil, he said.

Iran’s missile capabilities can be evaluated at different levels, he said, adding that the first level is Iran’s defense doctrine which France understands. The French envoy said nobody tells Iran to have any missile at all.

The second level is regional tensions which must be taken into account and ways should be explored to reduce them, he said, pointing out, “We speak clearly with all countries.

The French president talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump over phone from time to time but he does not say pleasant words to him all the time, he said, noting that for example, two months ago, they discussed two points they disagreed upon.

“First was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which the US intends to scrap but we want to keep and the second was relocation of US embassy to Quds, to which French president is opposed on grounds that it would entail heavy consequences,” he said.

The French ambassador said that bilateral exchanges reached four billion dollars in 2017 and France is the first European customer to buy Iranian crude oil worth two million euros.

February 13, 2018 0 comment

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Iran takes complaints of terror victims to UN Human Rights Council

Iran took the complaints of families of victims of terrorist operations carried by Mujahedeen Khalq Organization to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

During the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council, the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT) called for the realization of human rights of victims of terrorism.

ADVT said that cultural campaign must be initiated to uproot terrorism in the world.

The Iranian Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism raised the slogan of ‘The terror victims, the biggest impressive potential to fight terrorism’ in a series of meetings with senior officials of the United Nations, Non-Governmental organizations (NGO) and the governments’ representatives in the Human Rights Council.

The ADVT delegation held a panel on the subject of UN responsibility to curb terrorism; recommendations for more efficiency in which human rights experts and activists considered major role of the UN must unertake in the international campaign against terrorism.

According to the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism, the major proposals raised during the panel were the UN must prevent granting asylum to terrorists, the UN’s clear reaction to condemn terrorist acts and take the criminals involved in terrorism to the courts of justice by the governments of the UN member states.

The 33rd session of the Human Rights Council is underway in Geneva, Switzerland.

October 2, 2016 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

MKO sympathizers’ family members gather in front of Camp Liberty in Iraq

Several Mojahedin Khalgh Organization (MKO) sympathizers’ family members gathered before the Camp Liberty gates on Friday morning, it was reported on Saturday.

MKO sympathizers’ family members were asking for meeting their relatives inside the Camp Liberty.

They also were urging MKO to free their relatives and asking the international community to help release of their family members from the hands of MKO.

Since last year, the MKO sympathizers’ family members have gathered in front of the Camp Liberty gates four times.

In June 2015, Several MKO sympathizers’ family members asked the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to help them meet their family members.

They urged the international community including US to help release of their family members.

The MKO – listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community – fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq and was given a camp by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

They fought on the side of Saddam during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88). They were also involved in the bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq in 1991 and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The notorious group is also responsible for killing thousands of Iranian civilians and officials after the victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979.

More than 17,000 Iranians, many of them civilians, have been killed at the hands of the MKO in different acts of terrorism including bombings in public places and targeted killings.

Back in December 2011, the United Nations and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, to the former US military Camp Liberty outside Baghdad.

The last group of the MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11, 2013 to join other members of the terrorist group at Camp Liberty and await potential relocation to other countries.

February 29, 2016 0 comment

Terrorist groups and the MEK

Ebrahim Khodabande: Daesh, MKO fed by same sources

A former member of terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) said on Monday financial sponsors of both terrorist groups, the MKO and Daesh are the same.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh said that if the Iranian people had not resisted to the MKO, which receives its financial support from the same source as Daesh, and the Iranian intelligence officers and security forces were not mighty enough, Iran’s western provinces were the scene of similar events what happened in Syria and Iraq.

Speaking in a panel discussion titled ‘From the MKO to Daesh’ at Iran Press and Cultural Institute, the former MKO member said that such clans as the two brainwash their supporters and destroy their sound reasoning capability.

He said that the other similarity between the MKO and Daesh is that they both take advantage of religious beliefs of the people aimed at securing their horrendous hegemony.

Meanwhile, Khodamabdeh ridiculed the terrorist MKO group’s anti-imperialist slogans and that they were the one and only one such group in Iran, accusing the Islamic Republic that it will eventually roll to the Imperialists camp.

‘The heads of the terrorist MKO groupe in Paris hold meetings with the most brutal branches of imperialists, ignoring all their initial anti-imperialist slogans,’ he said.

He said that the similarity of MKO and Daesh in this regard is that the latter publicized Shiaphobia to attract the fanatic Sunni people and then they control their minds and isolate them.

June 30, 2015 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Mojahedin Khalq makes anti-Iran allegations by forging EU statement

The terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), also known as Monafeqin, has made new and fabricated anti-Iran allegations, specially about the human rights situation in Iran and claiming that the European Union has issued a statement accordingly.

MKO alleged that 220 representative of the EU parliament in a statement have warned against the deterioration of human rights in Iran, but further investigations by the concerned bodies have shown that it is not so and the EU has not taken any official or unofficial stance in this regard.

Some Persian-language and counterrevolutionary media today (June 2) claimed that over 220 EU parliamentarians in a statement had warned against the worsening of situation in Iran and Iran’s role in the Middle East crisis, and in the meantime asked Tehran to allow surprise visits from all military and non-military sites of the country on the pretext of nuclear inspections.

The MKO claimed that the EU has also supported the terrorist group in its statement.

After making thorough investigations, it became evident that the European Union has not adopted any official or unofficial stance in this regard.

The statement attributed to the European Parliament has been released on the website of Gerard Deprez who is the main lobbyist of the MKO in the European Parliament.

Deprez in his site claimed that 220 European Union parliamentarians have signed the EU’s statement.

June 6, 2015 0 comment

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Informed source in IRI Embassy in Paris rejects Reuters’ claim

Paris– An informed source in Embassy of Iran in France here on Friday strongly rejected as ‘false and baseless’ a claim made by the Reuters on Iran’s nuclear and missile cooperation with North Korea.

Terming the news in question as ‘politically motivate news fabrication’, the informed Iranian Embassy source said that the false news is based only on biased information provide for the Reuters by the ill-famed terrorist group Mojahedine-e Khalq Organization (MKO – also known as the People’s Mojahedin of Iran – PMO), which is comprised of a bunch of mercenaries of the aliens.

He said that such false news’ broadcasting by the Reuters is highly questionable and suspicious in this particular period of time.

‘It was quite predictable in advance that with approaching deadline for signing of an Iran-Sextet final nuclear agreement and increased chances for cracking a win-win deal with the West on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program the broadcasting of such false and baseless news, too, will accelerate,’ he added.

May 30, 2015 0 comment

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