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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

America, Saudis and Terrorism

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), popularly referred to as the Monafeqin (hypocrites) in Iran, has to be one of the most if not the most prolific terrorist organisation in the World, it has killed far more Iraqis than al-Qaeda in Iraq and killed far more people worldwide than Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.

It kidnaps children, sexually abuses, tortures and murderers it’s victims, carries out suicide attacks (mainly on Iraqi Shia population) and was a key part of Saddam oppressive regime. It took part in the massacres of Kurds in the North and Shia in the South. It also launched a full scale attack on Iran that cost 8,000 lives and it’s leader Massoud Rajavi, is a wanted war criminal.

The entire terrorist cult based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq is in American custody they have refused to hand them over to Iraqi Government despite Iraqi protests. This terrorist cult, which makes David Koresh’s Branch Davidians seem positively sane and al-Qaeda seem like pacifists, weren’t held in the notorious Abu Ghraib jail were so many innocent Iraqis were tortured by the Americans and they weren’t held in the Guantanamo concentration camp. They’ve been allowed to freely roam Iraq butchering people for the Americans, like they used to do for Saddam.

The Neo Cons in Washington and Zionists in Europe, have been asking for this terror cult to be taken off their respective terrorist lists, on the grounds that your enemies enemy is your friend but cult members using themselves as human fireballs outside Iranian embassies in Europe didn’t help their cause and they’re still on the list of terrorists organisations in both countries.

Iraq’s National Security Counselor Fazel al-Shavili has just disclosed that the Iraqi government has found concrete documents that categorically prove, that Saudi princes pay $30 million a month to the MKO. Last month Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah reported it was reported that Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan (a Bush family friend) has donated $750,000 to the MKO in a meeting attended by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. This is the same Prince Bandar bin Sultan and the BBC say received a Billion pound bribe in the al Yamamah deal with BAE, the criminal investigation halted by Lord Goldsmith in the public interest.

This is apparently what America calls stabilising Iraq.

by Steph

August 25, 2007 0 comments

Raymond Tanter

I am Raymond Tanter’s wife and I would like to make a statement

Constance Andresen-Tanter Comments: (…I am banned from going to my dear friends at Alban Towers since he made a point to keep me isolated from family friends and living in fear of my very well being and life…..One might ask who’s spell is he under. Alireza took my place as Raymond’s wife…..or at least he took my home space and life….)

Michigan daily, August 09, 2007

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Professor Raymond Tanter, Iran Policy Committee, Women’s Rights, and the MEK

Paul Sheldon Foote

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August 9, 2007

Constance Andresen-Tanter has posted her comments on the November 30, 2006 incident at the University of Michigan sparked by Professor Raymond Tanter’s speech promoting the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists. She has worked for the Iran Policy Committee. She is available as a speaker, talk show guest, or as an article or book author (attention: literary agents and publishers). You may telephone Constance at: (212) 920-7748.

For additional details on the incident at the University of Michigan and on the arrests of opponents of the MEK terrorists, see:

http://defendwilkerson.org

Constance Andresen-Tanter posted her comments today at the Michigan Dailyâ€™s Web site:

posted 8/09/07 @ 11:49 AM EST

I am Raymond Tanter’s wife and I would like to make a statement. I married Raymond Tanter May 14. 1999 being a widow living in New York City. I was innoncent to what his work was about but he asked me to become his research assistant and help him promote his work, in fact many letters are written on Georgetown Letterhead how I helped him, how he benefited from my work…I traveled to France London, walked the Halls of Congress promoted what I thought was the Freedom for Women of Iran and all around the globe.

Raymond and I traveled the globe together working in Vienna, etc. and I attending events at the State Dept. and other places helping him as his wife. I hosted parties for him in our Trump Tower apartment…I got him speaking engagements, at the WNRC in NYC, at the BEST social clubs in New York and elsewhere…. I took him to my clubs and gave him my apt NYC ….now I find myself homeless, yes he locked me out of our apartment in ALBAN TOWERS in Washington DC he keeps two not one apartment for himself. He will not pay my dental bills, eye glasses or other medical emergencies. I AM in shock with threats to eliminate me and most of the information is in HOUSING COURT where Raymond Tanter fails to pay on one of our three apartments to make me homeless….he did this in SEPT 2006 the month my mother died after have her in 4 hospitals in 32 days. He threatend that if I did not sign off the lease and perhaps giving up my condo marital rights of the other apt. 507 which he used to work with IPC MEMBERS AND ALIREZA displaces me into another unit that they and yes I say they because they all knew he was making me homeless for no reason……..He apparently is now married to the to the

MEK……I am now in court but awaiting court orders. Raymond got into clubs in Washington using my social clubs as his which is untrue, he was never a member of those clubs,,,,then he refused to pay my bills since I could live there…He used my friends, many of high circles including their money in the hundreds of thousands of dollars…..he also took generals and their wives to Paris leaving me homeless with 13 cents in my pocket and without the good church I would be hungry….I worked years for him and am in the process of suing for my promised wages by my attorney.. and Raymond still is living the high life…..fooling many….However I married him as a widow former widow of a Wall Street MNYSE…a man of great character….I thought Raymond was a good man but he fooled me ..he still keeps a checkbook with his former lover in Ann Arbor MI Mia Saverino….some friends of Ann Arbor have come to me and said they are not supprised ….. have missing funds from my deceased husband’s life insurance and well I can tell you this because all you have to do is go to DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSING COURT FIRST IN ARSCHSTONE SMITH V. CONSTANCE AND RAYMOND TANTER…YES Raymond went to housing court refusing to pay rent on our extended apartment to make me homeless when I would not sign off units he now holds,,,,because I believe of the condo rights status,,,,since we moved into unit 507 in June of 2001…..which give lots of value should the ARSCHSTONE DEAL GO THREW the largest private equity deal in the UNITED STATES HISTORY……so you see Tanter is not a nice man…he speaks of women’s rights but he has made his former researh assistant and partner and friend…..homeless after he took all he could get out of me…I pray for his soul daily, because I thought married a good Christian. I have many Jews as friends, Muslims, all faiths…I am white and I recently noticed that Raymond an African American never has even one African American intern or any African American around him.

We had a good marriage I thought and he whispered much in my ear of love and committement and never abandoning me……he whispered much of his internal work and clearly involved me…My photos and media is all over Europe. and in Iran…I still believe one thing…..all people have the right to be free…

Raymond Tanter abuses his own wife…..so perhaps you might want my story how the once happy man I married , we danced at balls, and were friends on the tennis court and went to church and were happy….I was promoting his books and his works and the works of his friends….now I have no idea who he is..>I have been told I am a Mortal Threat but what human being makes a wife homeless stealing not one but two apartments….my clothes my life are in storage….Jack Andresen I married before had an Uncle in Congress for 34 years, his other Uncle Andrew Fleischer invented the blood pressure machine and his other Uncle was Arschbishop Raymond Ettelldorf of the Vatican in Rome.

I am banned from going to my dear friends at Alban Towers since he made a point to keep me isolated from family friends and living in fear of my very well being and life…..One might ask who ‘s spell is he under. Alireza took my place as Raymond’s wife…..or at least he took my home space and life….I met Alireza’s family and I liked them…I was kind to all and well now that watch me being abused and threatened and do nothing…Do the Generals know who are on the board that Raymond is doing all of this…I think not..They took their wives on thousands of dollars to a trip to Paris…I was in Paris in June of 2004 as Raymond asked me to speak and I even introduced Dick Armey….I thought this group was for the rights of women and democracy….but if that is true then why are they helping do this to me….Calls should be made on this issue and I am taking interview so when you email me identify yourself I am looking for a literary agent at this time….My story is inside the box and it needs to be told…>I loved Raymond when I married him…he apparently had other motives for marrying me……….I pray for Peace and love for all people in our world…I pray that all get to speak when they wish to do so..Last July 25 2007 a man was kept from speaking in the Caucus Room at Cannon Building because Raymond did not wish him to…My hand was ignored when raised….I will not be ignored, threatened by death threats or discredited I will fight back for my rights and for my property……I would hope someone out there will listen. The public record of the divorce is Tanter v. Tanter in DC depositions are public record and of course. I am exhausted but people need to know first hand……I am an abused wife….17 years younger of Raymond and I tried to get him to speak with our Minister he would not…….I wonder has he become a member of another religion? thanks and God Bless our World.

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August 14, 2007 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Documentary on Somayeh Mohammadi Wins Intl. Award

It’s not easy for aspiring filmmakers to get their feet wet in the industry, but Erin Mills resident Simon Chang has done just that.

Chang and his Sheridan College classmate were recently honoured with a prestigious award from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, one of the largest film events in the world. Staged in California, the festival recognizes documentaries and business, educational and entertainment productions.

Writer/narrator Chang and his Toronto producer/researcher, Neha Gandhi, were recipients of the student award in the public issues and concerns category. They won for their documentary, Breaking the Ties that Bind.

“It felt good getting recognition on an international level,” says Chang.

Gandhi said it’s a good start for the young filmmakers, students in Sheridan’s Media Arts program.

“(The festival) was about meeting a lot of filmmakers around the world. It’s a step in the door,” says Gandhi.

Breaking the Ties that Bind is about terrorist organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The film focuses on an Iranian family’s attempt to rescue their daughter from an MEK camp in Iraq. Almost a decade ago, Somayeh Mohammady left Toronto to go to Iraq to learn about her family history. Instead, she was forced to stay at Camp Ashraf, a terrorist camp. She remains there, brainwashed.

Breaking the Ties that Bind features an emotional interview with Mustafa Mohammady, Somayeh’s father.

“(The film has) been compared to professional news programs, like 20/20,” says Chang, a former University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) student.

Gandhi believes their film, one of 115 student entries, won because they touched on a topic that’s impossible to ignore.

“What’s really important for people to know is that other women and children have been brainwashed (by MEK). Today, it’s Somayeh. Tomorrow, it could be anyone else. It’s not an issue that can be overlooked,” explains Gandhi.

The film began as a class project and took six weeks to complete. It was an unforgettable experience for the filmmakers.

“You get so caught up in the story, you have to remind yourself to be objective (as a filmmaker),” says Chang.

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for more information:

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July 21, 2007 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Free Speech Does Not Include Terrorism

Yesterday, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from seven men charged with supporting terrorism through fund-raising for terrorist-linked organizations. The appeal came after the 9th Circuit had rejected the defense argument that their contributions to the MEK represented free speech:

The Supreme Court refused Monday to block the trial of seven Los Angeles residents charged with raising money for an Iranian opposition group that was designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the U.S. government.

Lawyers for the seven had argued the charges were unconstitutional because they had a free-speech right to raise money for a political group.

That claim was rejected by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which noted the Iranian opposition group — the People’s Mujahedeen, also known as the MEK — had a record of supporting assassinations and bombings.

"Sometimes money serves as a proxy for speech, and sometimes it buys goods and services that are not speech. Guns and bombs are not speech," said Judge Andrew Kleinfeld for the appeals court.

This case is not over. Another defense argument, challenging the status of the MEK as a terrorist group, will get a hearing in the actual criminal trial. The MEK opposes the mullahcracy in Teheran, which makes the defense seem more sympathetic than they would otherwise be in a post-9/11 world. However, the MEK (also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq) has been on the State Department watchlist since November 2001. It will be hard to plead ignorance in this case.

Nor will it be that easy to find sympathy for the MEK, its opposition to Teheran notwithstanding. The MEK started out as a Marxist group dedicating to overthrowing the Shah, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini got there first. Afterwards, it has acted against the mullahcracy but also against American interests. The MEK was one of the terrorist organizations allied with Saddam Hussein, and worked with Saddam to oppress the Iraqis. It hasn’t attacked Americans since before the Shah fell, but it hardly qualifies as a freedom-fighting force in synch with our aspirations for liberty in Iraq and Iran.

The defense has good reason for its disappointment. If this goes to a jury trial, the defendants will have a very difficult time trying to win an acquittal.

The ruling represents a limit on the definition of speech that seems quite welcome after two generations of practically unlimited applications. Nude dancing, flag burning, and a variety of other behaviors have at one time or another found favor with the Supreme Court as "speech". Perhaps the Court has found a limit even for their own predilection for protecting the cornucopia of human actions through the First Amendment.

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January 16, 2007 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Laur de Charette Interviewed Mr. Ali Moradi

“We even didn’t have the courage to think any more”

Ali Moradi, an Iranian aged 47, the ex-member of PMOI for 15 years, explains his tragic experiences.

Laure de Charette: How did you join the organization?

Ali Moradi: I spent nine years in Saddam Hussein’s prison. You can’t imagine how they treated me. I was captured as a war prisoner while I was fighting in Iran army. Mojahedin had a TV network which was broadcasted in prison. All day long they just said:”join us then we will send you to Europe in two years.”

The war was finished but I was still in prison. Therefore I delivered my self to MKO finally. Due to the terrible situation of the prison I joined MKO avidly.

– So you became an organization’s member heartily?

– Yes, but as soon as I arrived Camp Ashraf, I understood that their propaganda was nothing except pure lie.

They had the freedom flag in their hand but they revolted against freedom. They themselves violated the human rights. They said:”outside our camp the people are starving from hunger or addiction. The people are hung and their heads are hung of the trees”.

Any one who tried to escape the organization was delivered to Abu Qoraib in case of being arrested. The life there was evil.

– What was your routine program there?

-We were practicing physical training from 5 pm to 10 am; they scheduled every moment of our lives without consulting us. We were either receiving military training or operating recognition operation or patrolling in Iranian borders. The works were so superior to our power that we had no energy to even think about any thing.Now I am resorting to studying in order to forget that period.

– How was your relationship with other Mojahedins?

– We were allegedly friends but we even weren’t allowed to talk to each other. The report of our behavior was sent to our high ranking officials immediately, the system of the organization was very police-like.

-why did you wait 15 years for evasion?

– The visit I had with my family changed everything. After the fall of Saddam Hussein my brothers could come to Iraq to visit me. They brought me some pictures and gifts and told me that life outside is very different from here. My spirit evaluated gradually. The US forces encircled Camp Ashraf last year, so I used the opportunity and escaped.

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January 14, 2007 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

US may support controversial Iranian group

An armed Iranian exile group listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and European Union may now get US support to help topple Iran’s ruling regime. The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has its European headquarters in Norway.

Although the MKO has been listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and EU since 1997 and its leaders are banished from most European nations, it is not listed by the United Nations.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs press spokesman Karsten Klepsvik explained Norway’s stance on the MKO to Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Thursday.

“The USA’s list has nothing to do with us, but in connection with the EU list, which we do follow, we have authority to pursue the group if they do something illegal in Norway,” Klepsvik said.

Support from Washington?

British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that the Pentagon is now considering aiding the MKO as part of an overall strategy of trying to destabilize and topple Iran from within.

According to the Telegraph, the group’s “military expertise and discipline has impressed the Pentagon, which has suggested it could be renamed and operate with clandestine American help”.

The MKO has carried out several political assassinations in Iran and built up an army on the Iran border with the blessing of former Iraq head Saddam Hussein.

Middle East expert Kari Vogt at the University of Oslo is extremely skeptical to a strategy involving the MKO, whom she says is an undemocratic and violent group that has no foothold in Iran.

“They have made themselves extremely unpopular with the Iranian people. Norway has been a bit more willing than other European nations, which have gotten extremely cold feet, towards them,” Vogt said.

Norway’s Foreign Ministry has no plans to investigate MKO activities inside this country.

“If this group had been on the United Nations terror list we would have had obligations of international law to examine how they are financed and what their members do,” Klepsvik said.

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July 3, 2005 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Rights group cites Iran exiles MKO for abuses

A human rights group Thursday leveled charges of torture, psychological abuse and even murder against an Iranian dissident organization that some members of Congress and other influential figures in Washington view as potential allies against the Islamic government in Tehran.

Human Rights Watch, the international advocacy group, made the charges in a report based on people who describe themselves as dissidents and defectors from the group, the Mujahedin al-Khalq or MEK. Former members, interviewed by human rights watch, ?reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members,? Human Rights Watch said.

Mohammad Hussein Sobhani, reached by telephone by MSNBC.com, confirmed that he was held in solitary confinement for eight-and-a-half years inside the group’s encampment in Iraq, from 1992 until 2001, when Saddam Hussein’s government was sheltering and arming the MEK.

I was beaten severely for disagreeing with them, but I thought it would not last. It lasted for years,? Sobhani said.

Sobhari eventually was turned over to Saddam’s government, then repatriated to Iran with a group of Iran-Iraq war POWs. He says he escaped from Iranian detention and made his way to Europe.

The MEK is on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups. However, it also is credited in 2002 and 2003 with providing information on Iran’s nuclear weapons program that revealed the existence of far more sophisticated efforts to enrich uranium than were previously known.

Can ‘terrorists’ be turned into allies?

The group began as a Marxist organization opposed to the Shah of Iran in the 1970s and took part in his overthrow in 1979. But they later broke with the Islamic regime and fled Iran, finding shelter and support from Saddam Hussein during the long Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

The MEK mutated into something of a cult of personality, led by the husband and wife team of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi, and U.S. officials says under their leadership it carried out dozens of terrorist attacks inside Iran and elsewhere in the past two decades. The MEK was still in Iraq when U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam in 2003 and is currently under ?protected persons status? ? a special category of the Geneva Convention — in their encampment outside Baghdad.

Nonetheless, the MEK has support in Congress from both the Republican and Democratic side among lawmakers who want the State Department to remove the group’s terrorist label and allow the U.S. to openly cooperate with their efforts to undermine the regime in Tehran. Among those who have called publicly for rehabilitating the MEK are Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., Rep. Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla. and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

Raymond Tanter, a former White House national security aide and Iran specialist at Georgetown University, is among those lobbying for the MEK’s status to be changed. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," he says.

Tanter, who co-founded a group called the Iran Policy Committee, says that Human Rights Watch has been duped by agents sent by Iran’s government to discredit the MEK.

?It is a humongous mistake for a human rights organization to promote the agenda of a rogue regime by taking at face value the claims of its intelligence agents,? he says. ?Most of the individuals cited in the Human Rights Watch report are agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, including Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani," he said.

Sobhani, in the telephone interview from his exile in Europe, denied that charge.

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