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UK still views MKO as terrorist group: Miliband

Nejat SocietyFebruary 9, 2009070 views

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband made clear his country’s position on the terrorist nature of the MKO grouplet had not changed, despite the European Union’s controversial decision to remove the MKO from the terror list, IRNA reported…Miliband’s latest comments on the MKO came in the wake of earlier statements by Larijani who in his address to the Munich security confab on Friday voiced outrage over the West’s harboring of known terrorist groups, alluding to European countries providing safe haven to the MKO.

EU delisted MKO to manipulate it

Nejat SocietyFebruary 8, 2009089 views

the European Union (EU) delisted the terrorist Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) only to exploit it in line with its own interests. Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Javad Jahangirzadeh said the members of the terrorist MKO/PMOI/MEK will continue to serve their new European masters just the way they did for the toppled Saddam Hussein in Iraq for a long time.

Arrest warrants for 14 top MKO terrorist Leaders

Nejat SocietyFebruary 7, 20090157 views

al-Rubai went on to say that Iraqi courts have issued arrest warrants for 14 MKO members…“The MKO[PMOI/MEK] is a terrorist group and a cancerous tumor in Iraq; The crimes and sins the group has committed are evident and well-documented. Several thousand Iraqi citizens have fallen victims of the terrorist organization and we have provable evidence, that we will submit them to Iraqi courts,” said al-Rubai in an exclusive interview with IRNA.

EU Responsible for MKO Terror Acts

Nejat SocietyFebruary 1, 2009067 views

A former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO/PMOI/MEK), who abandoned the outlawed group in protest at its terrorist operations, said the European Union should take responsibility of supporting the MKO in its terrorist acts. Masoud Khodabandeh said deproscribing the MKO by the EU is a politically-motivated move which leads to support for the terrorism spread by the MKO.

MKO to remain under German secret service surveillance

Nejat SocietyJanuary 29, 2009059 views

The notorious MKO/PMOI/MEK terror group will continue to be monitored by Germany’s domestic Verfassungsschutz intelligence agency despite the decision by the European Union to delist the MKO , a German government source told IRNA in Berlin Tuesday. ..The official made clear that Germany’s federal secret service and its state branches will continue their observation of the MKO. Each German state has also its own separate Verfassungsschutz intelligence apparatus. The MKO has been involved in the mass killings of thousands of innocent Iranians over the past 30 years.

Ban on MKO chief`s entry to UK expected to remain in force

Nejat SocietyJanuary 29, 2009085 views

Head of MKO/PMOI/MEK terrorist group Maryam Rajavi is expected to remain excluded from the UK despite the EU dropping the previously outlawed group from its proscribed list…British Foreign Office said that although it does not discuss individual cases of exclusion, the government continues to believe that the MKO or MeK, as it prefers to call it, was `responsible for vile acts of terrorism over a long period`.

Iraq to close MKO camp in Iraq

Nejat SocietyJanuary 1, 20090175 views

Iraq has decided to shut down the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI) Ashraf Camp as soon as possible, expel the MKO members from Iraq and close their file forever, said a senior Iraqi official. Political advisor of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Muhsin Al-Hakim exclusively told IRNA that Baghdad considered the MKO as a terrorist group.

UK wants”partnership”not”conflict”with Iran

Nejat SocietyDecember 22, 2008058 views

Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell denied that Britain itself was supporting terrorism by recently deproscribing the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO), which has been responsible for killing tens of thousands of Iranians, insisting it was a court decision opposed by his government…

MKO Ex-Member:US impeding efforts to shut Ashraf Camp

Nejat SocietyDecember 21, 2008088 views

Several former members of the outlawed terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK) have accused the United States of hampering efforts to close the notorious Ashraf Camp in Iraq. ..Most of the Ashraf Camp residents are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so. ..Sameti and other members of the Nejat Association are in London to lobby for their release. They have met members of the British House of Commons, government officials and human rights activists to raise their awareness about the misery in Ashraf Camp.

Amman government considered MKO a terrorist group

Nejat SocietyNovember 8, 2008059 views

Mottaki noted that Iran’s envoy to Jordan was invited to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to be informed that the Amman government considered the MKO as a terrorist group and did not support it. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry also announced that Jordanian MPs’ move was personal and is not confirmed by the government of Jordan, added Mottaki.”The Jordanian parliament speaker announced that Jordan does not confirm such a move,”said Mottaki. Mottaki said that as a result of Iran’s reaction, independent Jordanian dailies called the move”wrong”.