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Two MKO defectors back home

Two former members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization returned Iran

Mr. Shir Ahmad Ruzrokh and Ali Mohammad Khatami who had left the MKO camp in Iraq earlier could manage to return to their hometowns where they joined their families.

Shir Ahmad Ruzrokh was a war prisoner when he was deceived by the MKO to join it. Then he found out the bitter reality of the world inside the cult but he had no way out for 27 years.

Ali Mohammad Khatami was in MKO camps for 27 years too. He also was a soldier when he was taken as war prisoner by Iraqi forces in 1987. He then was recruited by Rajavi’s fraudulent propaganda team.

Nejat Society offices in Golestan and Khorasan Razavi held welcome meetings for these two defectors.

Ali Mohamad Khatami who joined his family in Nejat Society office in Mashhad was very happy to see his parents after years of separation.

“I’m sorry and at the same time very happy”, he said. “I’m really ashamed to see my mother and father for the grieves I made them suffer for years.”

Nejat Society congratulates Mr. Ruzrokh and Mr. Khatami for being back home nearby their beloved families. And hopes the release of other ex-comrades who are still held as hostages in the MKO camps.

August 28, 2014 0 comments

Nejat Publications

Pars Brief – Issue No. 81

Inside This Issue:

Leading Al-Dawa Party: al-Abadi committed to expulsion of Mojahedin Khalq
Conflict in Iraq continues to affect residents of the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location
MEK Muck-up
The Disgraceful Shilling for the MEK Continues
Comrades in Arms, Cases of sexual abuse by MEK Leader Massoud Rajavi in Camp Ashraf

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August 25, 2014 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Deception in the Substance of the MKO

Once the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) was removed from the list of foreign terrorist organizations of the US department of State, it was believed that it would surely use its lobbying campaign to achieve US financial and military sponsorship. Their support for a group that until less than two years ago was designated a terrorist organization and described by the US State Department as “fundamentally undemocratic” and “not a viable alternative to the current government of Iran”, became legitimate in September 2012.

The portrait of the MKO as a democratic alternative of the Islamic Republic was drawn by the group’s skillful manipulative propaganda machine in the US Congress. A long list of American formerly prominent politicians became permanent participants and speakers at the group’s rallies and lobbying campaigns to flatter and praise Maryam Rajavi.

The MKO, in its turn, allocates a highly focused part of its propaganda on the support it gains by the side of American infamous high profiles such as John Bolton. A highlighted icon on the group’s website demonstrates several speeches by American figures in support of the cult of Maryam Rajavi. Definitely, the MKO propaganda is highly proud of having the support of a number American warmongers who do not believe in engagement with Iran.

Daniel Larison of the American Conservative makes fun of the US mainstream figures who have been deceived by the group’s propaganda apparatus. He points to Hugh Shelton, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who “is opposed to diplomacy with the Iranian government, because he insists that Tehran can’t be trusted to honor its agreements”. [1]

Larison ironically notifies the deceitful approach of the MKO that is deeply trusted by certain American politicians. He suggests, “Leaving aside how crazy it is to spurn diplomacy because governments sometimes lie and break their promises, there is something especially weird about an argument that simultaneously promotes the cause of the MEK while complaining about Iranian deceit.”[2]

“As it has sought to rehabilitate itself in the West, the MEK has claimed all sorts of spurious, self-serving things about what it represents,” he reveals the hypocrisy of the MKO. “Despite being a bizarre authoritarian cult with Marxist and quasi-Islamist views, it now pretends to be exactly what Westerners want an Iranian exile group to be.”[3]

In addition, the American Conservative correspondent clarifies that manipulated Western sponsors of the MKO do not care about the fraudulent attitude of the group as long as it runs their agenda against Iran. “It doesn’t matter to the MEK’s American fans that it is lying about its political views, and they are obviously not worried about reciting those lies for Western audiences,” he writes. “Indeed, it has so completely hoodwinked them that they think it should be rewarded with American support.”[4]

“The shilling for this group by many prominent American former officials and politicians is one of the more disgraceful displays of the last decade, and as long as it continues it should be held up for derision”, he conclude. [5]

This is added to covert spying and military cooperation the group has managed with Israel despite its old history of anti-Zionism ideology. The president of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Trita Parsi states the MKO’s Long time hostility against Israel: “The MEK’s history of violence and anti-Israeli activities is long and bloody. In the 1970s, it established deep ties with Yasser Arafat and both provided and received training from the PLO fighters… Massud Rajavi, the head of the MEK, greeted Arafat in Tehran with a Kalashnikov as a welcoming gift.”[6]

NIAC’s president suggests that the bizarre mixture of Islam and Marxism in the ideology of the MKO had made it totally hated by Israel since the group “fell in both categories”. According to Parsi, “Israeli diplomats knew that whoever seized power in Iran in 1979 would be no lover of Israel—whether it was the Islamists who opposed Israel on religious and ideological grounds, or the leftists who viewed Israel as an outpost for American imperialism in the region.” [7]

How came that the MKO turned out to become an ally of Israel?

Trita Parsi finds it not surprising in the MiddleEast where “Political one-night stands are not unusual” but he warns that “associating Israel with a cultish Iranian terror group is damaging to Israel on several levels.” [8]

This warning demonstrates the MKO’s extremely bad fame among intellectuals. It is notoriously known for its deceitful nature.

Mazda Parsi

Sources:

[1] Larison, Daniel, The Disgraceful Shilling for the MEK Continues, The American Conservative, August 9, 2014

[2] ibid

[3] ibid

[4] ibid

[5] ibid

[6] Parsi, Trita, Is Israel flirting with Iranian terrorists? , Open Zion, May 15, 2012

[7] ibid

[8] ibid

August 21, 2014 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Joining hands with the deceitful MKO terror-cult would be a huge mistake

The adept propaganda apparatus of MKO mixes the huge sums of money with huge sums of deception in order to portray the organization the way the audiences want it to be.

Among human rights advocates it wears the mask of human rights defenders and shows itself as a prototype of a favored society. As the most colorful motto of the group, the leaders use slogans in support of gender equality and freedom of women while there are documented and concrete evidences of their modern slavery system against their own members, especially, females who are suffering the worst physical, mental and sexual abuses within the MKO Cult affairs. Batoul Soltani referring to the wide aspect of oppressions imposed on women says:” What I saw in this organization was that women were merely tools in every level I witnessed.”[1]

While they hinder the process of the members’ relocation from Iraq, the Cult leaders show the MKO as an unarmed group, captured in Iraq and are in need of protection as victims of the US invasion in Iraq.

To the pro-war, for-regime change faction they pose as the most organized, legitimate opposition group who are after a west’s friendly establishment. The group plays the role of spies, serves as assassins – as it assassinated the Iranian scientists. It tries to poison the atmosphere of Iran – west relations and bashes to impede the Iran – world powers nuclear negotiations.

The strategy of deception is deep-rooted in the background history of the MKO as a fraudulent cult. As a group which believed in anti-imperialism struggle the MKO fought against the Shah of Iran along with other revolutionary groups. Despite its persistent denial today, MKO fully supported the US embassy takeover of 1997. In fact, on the day that the American Embassy was stormed by militant Islamists, the MKO issued a proclamation with the following words: “After the Shah, it’s Americans turn”.[2]

The group then turned against the newly established government of Iran and started a series of bombings and mortar attacks against both officials as well as civilians. When they assassinated post-revolution government officials on June28, 1981 with a bomb, the MKO said it was “destroying America’s nest in Iran” and Massoud Rajavi announced “we have rendered the regime without future and destroyed their contact with Imperialism by bombing this building and killing the people in it”.[3]

Then it allied with the arch enemy of the Iranian people and fought alongside Saddam Hussein in the 8-year long Iran-Iraq war. In 1992, The MKO leadership denounced the coalition forces efforts in expelling Saddam’s army from Kuwait and called it “colonial schemes and conspiracies,” and once again reiterated the organization’s anti-Americanism by calling the U.S. an “imperialist” entity.[4 ]

However when the MKO lost Saddam as its ally, it took all its adversaries towards the “American Imperialism” for granted and made all its efforts to garner the attention of the US.

Thankful to its deep-pocket and huge lobbying efforts the MKO could get itself delisted from the FTO list of the United States. It also has the support of a list of high profiles –mostly former – and congressmen of the US who view the group as a useful tool in promoting their agenda to pull the US into another disastrous war in the Middle East, this time Iran.

However, the weird point is that these war advocates who are after regime change in Iran, standing up issues like human rights and nuclear program, promote the terrorist cult of Mujahedin Khalq which has killed many civilians in Iran as well as having at one time targeted Americans.

Hue Shelton a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs while accusing the Iranian government for deceptive behavior declares its opposition to Iran, 5+1 negotiations. [5]

Daniel Larison in his recent column in Conservative Magazine mentions this advocacy as a “disgraceful shilling” of prominent American former officials and politicians” and reiterates “doesn’t matter to the MEK’s American fans that it is lying about its political views, and they are obviously not worried about reciting those lies for Western audiences. Indeed, it has so completely hoodwinked them that they think it should be rewarded with American support.”[6].

Larison refers to the opportunistic substance of the MKO and describes the group as:” a bizarre authoritarian cult with Marxist and quasi-Islamist views, [that] now pretends to be exactly what Westerners want an Iranian exile group to be.” [7]

The MKO Terror Cult promoters should consider the fact that the least investment in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization and Joining hands with the group as a terrorist cult with no respect to human rights or democracy would be a historical mistake.

A.Sepioud

References:

[1] PressTV, Comrades in Arms, August7,2014

[2]Open Democracy.net, MKO, US Congress’s support for Terrorism Mujahedin-e Khalq

[3] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/5184

[4] Open Democracy.net, MKO, US Congress’s support for Terrorism Mujahedin-e Khalq

[5] Shelton, Hue, To Stop Iran Gaining Nukes, Stop Rewarding It for Lying, Newsweek, June8,2014

[6] Larison,Daniel, The Disgraceful Shilling for the MEK Continues, The Conservative Magazine, August9,2014

[7] ibid

August 17, 2014 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Embracing the MKO, Success in the Short Term, Disaster in the Long Term

Regarding heavy expenses and large amounts of money, energy and time the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) spends to portrait itself as a pro-democracy movement, its so-called Great Gathering in Villepinte Paris, was expected to be addressed by at least a few Iranian political and intellectual figures, as it is usual in other oppositions’ meetings and conferences. The large group of speakers who addressed the gathering almost entirely included foreign politicians, particularly American former high profiles.

The absence of Iranian prominent figures in the MKO propaganda indicates the unpopularity of the group among Iranian diaspora although large number of audience were bused to the hall from different parts of Europe. Speakers were offered first class flights and luxurious hotels in Paris to address the bused audience.

But, why this large number of non-Iranians –especially Americans- speak in favor of the MKO despite the numerous reports and documents that confirm cult-like undemocratic substance of the group ?

Ray McGovern, an ex-CIA operative was one of those individuals –lesser known than the heavyweight list that supports the cause of the MKO in the US—who are enough concerned and informed about the dark record of the group. McGovern explained the use of the group in the US to Monitor in February 2005, years before the group was removed from the list of terrorist organizations of the State Department:

"Why the U.S. cooperates with organizations like the Mujahedin, I think, is because that they are local, and because they are ready to work for us. Previously, we considered them a terrorist organization. And they exactly are. But they are now our terrorists and we now don’t hesitate to send them into Iran….for the usual secret service activities: attacking sensors, in order to supervise the Iranian nuclear program, mark targets for air attacks, and perhaps establishing secret camps to control the military locations in Iran. And also a little sabotage."[1]

At the time, Pat Long a former department manager in the military secret service, also said to Monitor, “Global Option has been taken up as buffer by the Pentagon in order to hide the Pentagon’s relations with a terrorist organization from the public.”[2]

The ex-civil servant of Pentagon secret services added: "Secret Services adopt security measures in their operations to which we can’t link the orders of government. So, if the operation fails, one can claim that the government has had no role in it and that there were other hands involved.”[3]

Pat Long predicted the puppet role of the MKO for the world powers. "They are again in business,” she said. “This time not beside Saddam Hussein but at the side of the US: always useful, always a puppet in the hands of powers."[4]

As Saddam Hussein’s private army during the 1980s and the 1990s, the MKO shifted to serve the US and Israel in the following decades. Karen Kwiatkowski, ex Pentagon official notifies, "MKO is ready to do things over which we would be ashamed, and over which we try to keep silent. But for such tasks we exactly use them."[5]

Considering the fact that the Cult of Rajavi is such an opportunistic group that may resort to various powers from time to time depending on its regional situation, Elizabeth Rubin of The New York Times warns western Politicians, "MEK is not only irrelevant to the cause of Iran’s democratic activists, but a totalitarian cult that will come back to haunt us." [6]

However, the MKO elements are almost the only Iranians who are seen in the halls of the US Congress “mingling with Hill staffers and representatives”.

Congressional support for the MKO as a cult-like terrorist entity is widely questioned because the leaders of the MKO operate their organization autocratically, stifling opposition within the group and fostering a cult-of-personality around Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam. Practically the MKO isolates its members from the outside world, manipulating and abusing them in its modern slavery system. The mind controlling and brainwashing structure of the cult defy everything that democracy represents.

If the cult of Rajavi comes to power in Iran, it would continue its quest of goals that are contrary to democracy and increase the likelihood of continued terrorist activity, perhaps building a nuclear bomb. By the way, embracing the MKO is finally a lose-lose game for both its supporters and the group.

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] Schmidt, Markus & Goetz, John, US Government’s Secret Plans for Iran, MONITOR – WDR TV, Germany, February 3, 2005

[2] ibid

[3] ibid

[4] ibid

[5] ibid

[6] Rubin, Elizabeth, An Iranian Cult and Its American Friends, The New York Times, August 13, 2011

August 13, 2014 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Three Liberty residents fled the MKO Cult

Three Camp Liberty residents managed to escape the Camp, Mojahedin.com website reported quoting informed sources.

In December 2011, the UN and Iraqi government agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf, to the Camp Liberty near Bagdad International airport, as a temporary Transit Location to be transferred to third countries.

The Iraqi government transferred the last group of Camp Ashraf residents to TTL on September 11, 2013.

Dozens of Temporary Transit Location residents have fled the Camp since the beginning of the relocation process.

August 4, 2014 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

MKO offers financial, military and logistical contributions to ISIS

The representative of the International Parliament for safety and Peace in Iraq, revealed that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) offers financial, military and logistical contributions to ISIS terrorist Tekfiris.

Heidar Ashara’, the representative of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace in Iraq told FNA reporter in Baghdad:” the MKO terrorist group has long been contributing ISIS elements. They also support the Tekfiri ISIS logistically and militarily.”

He states that recent allegations of Maryam Rajavi in favor of ISIS extremists criticizing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki proves the MKO’s involvement in the Iraqi internal affairs.

“The sides involved in Iraqi crisis include the groups linked with Al Qaida and other terrorist groups linked with former Baath regime and some Intelligence forces of regional States,” he added.

Nejat Society reporting from Fars News Agency

August 3, 2014 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MKO and ISIS constitute an Axis of the Israeli Evil

The death toll is rising as rockets rain down on the citizens of Gaza. Children, women, men – nobody is safe from the indiscriminate bombing. Israeli tanks reportedly shelled a hospital in Gaza, killing at least four people and wounding 60. More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in the offensive on Gaza, according to the latest United Nations statistics, despite Israel’s claims to be waging a targeted military campaign against Hamas.

As the bully of the world, the Israeli government does not agree to stop the massacre of civilians of Gaza. In an unmoved and delayed position taking by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said it was his "hope and belief" that there would be an end to the fighting soon!

Acting as the proxy force of the Israeli Empire, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) together with other extremist group of the region run Zionists’ agenda in the Middle East. Professor James Petras, Boiling Frogs Post contributing analyst and the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals confirms the role of terrorists to expand the US Empire that turned out to be replaced by the Israeli empire:

"Thanks to US military and financial aid, Israel has become the dominant military power in the Middle East and the only nuclear power in the region. The US has used Israel’s wars and invasions of its neighbors to secure several Arab collaborator client states (notably Jordan and Egypt). More recently the US-Israeli power axis has been expanded to include the client regime in Kurdistan (northern Iraq). In addition, the US-Israeli axis has been deeply involved in financing and promoting collaborator opposition forces in Lebanon (currently the Hariri political formation), sectors of the armed mercenaries in Syria, Kurdish Peshmerga militias in Iraq and the so-called ‘Mujahedeen al Khalq’ terrorists in Iran. The US CIA and Israel’s Mossad engage in clandestine violent operations directly intervening to destabilize secular and Islamic nationalist regimes like Iran, to disrupt their communications and to assassinate Iranian scientists and leaders. Israel has secured political and intelligence agreements with Egypt and Jordan to isolate and dispossess the Palestinians. The US has secured military bases and operational platforms in Egypt and Jordan to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, President Bashar al Assad in Syria and the Iranian government."

Although the MKO claims to be a pro-democracy movement, its violent record and cult-like attitudes very naturally links it to other terrorist forces including ISIS that act for the interests of Israel. To deny such links the MKO’s propaganda arm National Council of Resistance issues a statement in which the group accuses the Iran of launching disinformation campaign against the group. According to the group propaganda anyone in the Iraqi administration and legislation bodies who reports of the cooperation between the MKO and ISIS terrorist extremists in Mosul, is an element of the Islamic Republic and his words in any news website is part of the Iranian "fabrications".

To justify its support for the Iraqi crisis makers the MKO propaganda refers to "remarks" of its self-claimed leader Maryam Rajavi who is swollen with pride to address "parliamentarians and prominent political figures, especially former U.S. senior officials". Her so-called remarks says, " Iranian regime made vain attempts to confront the Iraqi people’s uprising". What Iraqi people’s uprising Rajavi means? Today the most propagated news of the crisis in Iraq is focused on the crimes and atrocities committed by ISIS and the horror the Iraqi people are exposed to.

Even if the MKO is able to wipe its history of cooperating with terrorist extremists –there are many reports of links between the Cult of Rajavi and other terrorist groups including Jundullah and its new affiliate Jaish aladl– its association with Israeli Empire cannot be neglected because in this case this is Israel that decides how, when, and where to use its proxy.

Mazda Parsi

July 31, 2014 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

A remembrance to the MKO’s suicide Operation

“After you arrive in Tehran, you can do anything you like for 48 hours, kill anyone you like until I come to grant public amnesty.” Massoud Rajavi told MKO members while addressing them before the so called Eternal Light Operation; recalls Hadi Shabani who was present at the meeting. [1]

The Mujahedin Khalq launched "Eternal Light," against Iran in the immediate aftermath of Iran’s acceptance of the U.N.-brokered cease fire agreement on July 18, 1988.

Massoud Rajavi falsely analyzed the ceasefire as notifying the weakness of Iranian forces. So as the group leader tried to make advantages of the so called opportunity disregarding the disastrous outcome it may impose.

Rajavi dispatched its mostly untrained, inexperienced forces to the 4-day long operation.

The operation had no result but a total failure with more than 1300 MKO members being killed; many of whom just had been arrived from European countries to reach the operation with no or least military training under the order of Massoud Rajavi.

Massoud Banisadr ; MKO former member who was an active member of the group for twenty years and served as the organization’s representative to the United Nations and to the United States recalls:

“It was very horrible. There were 15 students who were from the United States, they were supporters. They were brought to Iraq and in the same night they were moved to the battle field. Because of my political rank I was a commander even though I had no military background. Only a few days before for the first time I saw a machine gun, and I only shot it once. .. Unfortunately I learned all 15 died because they didn’t have any training…”[2]

Actually it was not the only occasion the MKO Cult leaders who see the members’ lives just as a tool towards their cause, victimized the members in vain.

Their futile resist against transferring members from Camp Ashraf which caused several tragic events and led to the death of dozens of members as well as their reluctance to cooperate in moving Liberty residents who are living in limbo in terrorism dominated Iraq without clear future – – to third countries are just examples of the Cult leaders ignoring the members’ most basic rights to live in safe places.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization either haven’t hesitate victimizing their own countrymen as they terrorized more than 12ooo Iranians ; during their so called struggle to bring the same people democracy! And now hand in hand with the enemies of the Iranian nation promote sanctions and war against Iran, the true targets of which are the ordinary people rather than the government.

So with regard to a cult-like group with no sympathy towards its countrymen or even its own members it is not weird to see them turning a blind eye to the genocide taking place in Gaza by its new lord, Israel.

A. Sepinoud

References:

[1] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/2026

[2] Potter, Richard,The Cult in the Shadow War: An Interview with a former member of Mojahedin-e-Khalq, mondoweiss.net, November 26, 2013

July 28, 2014 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

The dangerous side of the MKO rally in Villepinte

Members and sympathizers of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) together with thousands of paid non-Iranians gathered in Villepinte, Paris on June27, 2014.

Peace Association, which operates against violence and sectarian practices was invited to the event by a British body affiliated to the MKO.

Peace Association was previously accused by the MKO of working for the Iranian Intelligence Ministry after it had held a demonstration against the group in Ouver sur d’Oise, Paris!

The Association stated that it attended the MKO gathering in Villepinte to closely examine the true face of the cut-like group. “Peace Association is here in Villepinte , near its critics, in order to reveal the fraudulent fake show of the MKO,” reported Peace Association.

The Association suggested that the invitation was sent to them as actually a trap.

By the way, members of the Peace Association arrived in the gathering. They took photos and filmed the event before they were come across and beaten by the MKO agents.

“As you see, the hall is full of foreigners from Eastern Europe, homeless people, the Arabs, Chinese refugees…A few Iranians are seen,” reports Peace Association.

The invited members of Peace speak of tourists who are wondering inside and outside the hall!

“They are invited for a show, for deception and Lie!", the association wrote.

The tourists who are bused to the hall are not allowed to leave it before the event ends.

Peace Association notices a list of former French politicians who attended and/or addressed the gathering.

Attendees from Peace Association use the opportunity to denounce the terrorist Cult of Rajavi in the proper place for its pro-democracy show but they are faced with the harsh reaction of a dozen of MKO agents who beat them and force them to leave the hall.

The MKO Agents snatch their cameras and smash them. Chasing their cars they damage them. According to Peace Association the damage the MKO agents inflicted to their cars mounts to 10 thousands Euros!

“This is the true face of the MKO!”, concludes the Peace Association.

July 26, 2014 0 comments

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