Opening of MKO’s bureau in US cannot be regarded a success for MKO
Reports for opening of MKO’s political bureau in the United States have garnered considerable attention from among the group’s opponents and sympathizers. But the pertinent question is if the opening, just a few hundre
d meters from the White House, can be regarded a successful achievement for MKO. The removal of the group from the US FTO’s blacklist implies endorsement of condoning MKO’s terrorist nature for the time being and for certain reasons. As MKO no more brags on radical ideological differences with the US and has since preferably concealed the delight of what it believes to be a victory against the enemy. It seems that MKO has revolutionized the concept of imperialism, ideologically insisting on a face-to-face combat with American imperialism, as it is skillful to create infrastructure about America as the US, even after its removal from the terrorists blacklist, has never expressed that MKO is excused for its past animosity and crimes.
America has never underestimated the appeal of anti-Americanism that ascends MKO’s worldview since its formation and which had a great impact on the opponents of the US to boost the strength of the organization in its claimed war against the imperialism. Although at the present any allusion to the past antagonism is removed from the sources of MKO, the US has still access to Massoud Rajavi’s last defenses made in Pahlavi’s regime military court when he attacked America saying:
“At the end of the war [World War II], another unjust imperialism emerged besides British. It was the United States of America that supported Kaoki in Vietnam and the reactionaries in other countries. In Iran, it even came to ask for its share. Mosaddeq’s mistake was his disregarding the US imperialism nature”.
There is no direct answer to the question that why MKO so eagerly attempts to garner the US attention but for certain it helps to better understanding of MKO’s opportunistic nature; it has always been looking for an alien element to rely on just as it did nearly three decades ago by moving to Iraq in agreement to operate under Saddam’s supporting umbrella. The ultimate outcome of alliance with Saddam was an ever-growing social hatred and antipathy towards MKO.
MKO has never cared for the people’s beliefs, opinions and objectives and Iranian people have never recognized MKO as their combating resistance in exile. The group’s press to be recognized the rightful resistance and democratic alternative is nothing more than a political gambit. If people really despised the current ruling regime and the difference among the authorities ruled as MKO claims, then, there would be no need for relying on an alien alliance to obtain alternative legitimacy! Massoud Rajavi, long arrogating the group’s leadership himself, has so far failed to explain why the positive publicity surrounds the ruling Islamic Republic and all MKO receives is an all-out unwelcome and negative share. Oddly enough, for decades he was accusing the US and other Western countries of compromising with Iran and completely forgetting the fact that they have been the old, tough adversaries. And he knows better than anybody that the US has arrived at a full understanding that MKO is not at all a political weight to be recognized a serious alternative.
Although at the present enjoying the support of the Hawks, MKO is said to be anticipating the Doves’ victory in the next presidential campaign that might promise an end to all oppositions and differences. However, it is hard to believe that MKO is shifting from an enthusiastic option of overthrowing the regime to a peaceful solution. It is doubtful that MKO might so easily sacrifice the little legitimacy garnered for its anti-Americanism sentiments which further reinforces the group’s hypocrisy and demonstrates it as non-trustable. Rajavi calls any investment in Iranian regime counter to democracy and human rights, but the West and the US are well aware that more absurd is to have the slightest investment, at least before the eyes of the public, in a terrorist cult that has neither any respect for the democracy nor for human rights. MKO rarely seems to get the credit it never deserves by being granted an active office near the White House. Although the official opening of the office seems a success that may reflect undue credit for MKO, but for certain it poses the US to challenging questions about such a decision.
Liberty, there came the imperious, short message of Massoud Rajavi, autocratic leader of the group, delivered from his hideout. His belligerent tone condemning the attackers was not something unprecedented but with the difference that this time the victims of his unleashed scathing attack were not the Iranian and Iraqi governments as usual but Martin Kobler, the UN Special Representative for Iraq and the head of UNAMI. In the course of a yearlong campaign, since settlement in Camp Liberty, expressing strong antipathy towards Mr. Kobler, MKO leveled all kinds of unfounded allegations against him and accused him of acting in collusion to displace MKO members. In his message, Mr. Kobler is represented as one among many adversaries whose antagonism is claimed to have paved the ground for the bloody attack:
councils, bodies and committees. It has a global responsibility to fulfill and works on a broad range of fundamental issues and if it ever engages itself in solving regional differences, disputes and conflicts, that is because to achieve greater general causes and to coordinate efforts for a safer world. In the same way, when the UN Secretary-General officially appointed Mr. Martin Kobler as his Special Representative for Iraq and Head of UNAMI on 11 August 2011, he tasked Mr. Kobler with sensitive duties to take up. As Mr. Kobler said upon his arrival in Baghdad, “I am privileged to be here to contribute to serving and assisting Iraq and its people at a time when the country is going through an important phase in its transition towards a peaceful and prosperous state”.
dependent on the blood of its devoted members, calling them martyrs. The terrorist cult of Mojahedin Khalq (aka. MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR, NLA) is just one among a handful. And what is the necessity of such ever-growing dependence? The reason is simple; MKO needs flow of fresh blood to sustain its structure; it needs more and more martyrs to keep the whole enterprise going; it is a necessary means for the accomplishment of its causes, survival, and keeping its impressive propaganda machine going. As a vindication of its rightness in its struggle path, the group has always boasted about the counts of its members killed, injured and disabled as well as imprisoned members who are believed to substantiate its hegemonic legitimacy over all other opposition groups antagonizing the Iranian regime.
Just about three weeks after the justly made decision, some defected members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR) voiced their preparedness to give a testimony before the Swedish parliament about MKO’s key role in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds during the rule of the ousted Saddam. Reportedly, through last few weeks the Swedish Parliament is working to also officially recognize this joint Saddam-MKO military plot, called Operation Morvarid (Pearl), as another crime against the Iraqi Kurds.
under the tag of ideology, MKO inaugurated the ideological revolution to introduce a charismatic authoritarian leader to exert control over every aspect of his adherents’ life and to establishing a totalitarian pyramidal structure where the chosen devoted commanders would act as the leader’s deputies in his absence. But the leader needed certain facilities to implement the newly devised mind control. The most important prerequisite was of course a remote place isolated from the outside world to disconnect the contact of their followers from the outside world, particularly from their families and friends and even from their past. To phrase it in technical terms, MKO was desperately in need of a cultic milieu, the most central in creating the thought reform environment as depicted by Robert Jay Lifton:
fuels global rage against Iranian regime but praises the group and its leaders as pro-democratic unity devoted to peaceful campaign against all cruelties and violations of human rights! MKO is not the first in history clinging to such a paradox but following the footsteps of countless bullies who were determined to shift the focus of public attention and rage away from their own devious intention and plans to a hateful image of a “single adversary”.
members saying: “This [ideological revolution] is to test you; we need iron men. We seek new versions of power and capacity. Those Mojahedin who pass through this forge will be more rough and resistant”. 
prolong its stay in Iraq. Now, after a lengthy process of transferring the members in Camp Ashraf to a Temporary Transit Location and since its settlement there, MKO has kept caviling at the camp’s conditions and now presses to be returned to Ashraf complaining that the recent rainfalls have inundated the whole camp. The call is made after the vain attempt to enforce recognition of the transit location as a refugee camp. However, as the possibility of returning to Ashraf is out of question and a transit location fails to be an appropriate location for a refugee camp, MKO is changing expectations for a third location that could guarantee a few years stay in Iraq; “UNHCR has another refugee camp in Iraq and on the UNHCR Web site it is stipulated that its residents have the right to ownership of land and vehicles and to revenue generating activities”.