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The Uses of Political Violence

Nejat SocietyJanuary 11, 2011083 views

MEK has attacked US military and diplomatic personnel, and has been described by former members as a cult: ideologically, the MEK started out as a far leftist group, but like the neocons who have taken up its cause, has traveled to the other end of the political spectrum, offering itself up to the US … MEK’s American supporters want to use it as a battering ram against the Iranian regime, what support they had inside Iran evaporated when they fled to Iraq and took up with Saddam Hussein, whose government succored and armed them. MEK fought in the Iran-Iraq war – on the Iraqi side.

Britain and America should beware supporting the Mujahideen-e-Khalq

Nejat SocietyJanuary 10, 20110107 views

However, there are limits to the logic of”the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. The decision by the US and UK to permit arms sales to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq propped up a regime even worse than the one it was fighting against (Iran), and enabled Saddam to subsequently invade Kuwait…. there is a strong credibility gap between the group’s rhetoric and its past actions, especially its associations with Saddam between 1986 and 2003.According to the Council on Foreign Relations, MEK directly participated in the savage reprisals against ..

Iraqi Officials Underscore Immediate Expulsion of MKO

Nejat SocietyJanuary 10, 2011070 views

Iraqi officials are resolved to immediately expel the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country’s soil,..the Iraqi officials underlined that their country would not be a stronghold for terrorist groups like the MKO, he added.

MKO Terrorists Attack Iraqi Tribal Leaders

Nejat SocietyJanuary 10, 2011097 views

Members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) attacked a group of Iraqi protestors outside MKO’s main training camp in Northern Iraq and injured several people, including a reporter..thousands of Iraqi tribal leaders and figures along with a number of reporters had gathered outside the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) in Iraq’s Northern province of Diyala to call for the expulsion of the terrorist group from the country’s soil..

Republicans’ Support for MKO Angers US Media

Nejat SocietyJanuary 10, 20110110 views

The US Republicans’ increasing support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and their extensive lobbying for taking the group off the list of terrorist organizations have received harsh reactions from the side of the US political analysts and media.

Mujahedin Khalq as a bargaining chip for Allawi bids

Nejat SocietyJanuary 9, 20110105 views

Sources close to Iraqi political bloc al-Iraqiya said leader Iyad Allawi in October had attempted to persuade Iran to support his bid for prime minister but that Iran rejected the request .. In the request, Allawi said if Iran helped him, he would expel members of anti-Iranian militant group Mujahideen-e-Khalq/MEK/MKO/PMOI and would support further expansion of bilateral ties.Tehran’s answer was that the post of prime minister is an internal Iraqi issue.

Open letter in solidarity with the Iraqi and Iranian victims of MKO

Nejat SocietyJanuary 9, 2011088 views

… We are now increasingly aware that MEK leader Massoud Rajavi is denying seriously ill members from accessing life-saving medical treatment because he benefits from the publicity surrounding their deaths … As the people of Iran and Iraq are the most affected by the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Massoud Rajavi and his wife and lieutenant Maryam Rajavi, it is very difficult to see how they can be pardoned in these countries (considering the social problems which come with bloodshed). Therefore it is only fair to ask Europe and America, where we have witnessed extensive favours toward the group, to take and house the remaining aging people trapped in this camp …

Former MEK Members Back Iraqi Citizens and GOI Demand to Oust MEK

Nejat SocietyJanuary 9, 2011094 views

In a letter by Massoud Khodabandeh (Iran-Interlink.org), to the Government of Iraq, former members of Iranian terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq backed”a large and peaceful gathering of citizens, Council representatives from the Diyala Province and NGOs from all over Iraq, calling for the removal of foreign terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq aka MKO/MEK/PMOI from their country.”

MEK Part of Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering campaign

Nejat SocietyJanuary 9, 20110114 views

In November 2005, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chair of the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (otherwise known as the Islamist/Marxist terrorist cult Mojahadeen-e Khalq, or MEK, which is currently designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. government) addressed a European Parliament conference and proclaimed that the”Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is determined to pursue and complete Tehran’s nuclear weapons program full blast…[and] would have the bomb in two or three years time.”

MKO, in a Bid to Change from Coercive Diplomacy to Diplomacy of Begging

Nejat SocietyJanuary 9, 2011088 views

Another reason for her change of tone is the illusions she has undergone; first being motivated by a political simplicity that America has adopted a desired attitude against Iran and second, the organization has to regain its alternative priority if derogated from the status in anyway. In the past to convince, or better to say coerce, America to consider the sole alternative, MKO’s position takings and statements were totally different. Once, nearly two decades ago, Mehdi Abrishamchi actually warned Americans against espousing any other alternative rather than MKO..