… MEK’s initial purpose was realized in 1979 when the group, along with followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, successfully staged the Islamic revolution, seizing the Tehran U.S. Embassy and sending the Shah into exile. Following the revolution, MEK was sent into exile by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Over the following two decades MEK allied itself with Saddam Hussein …
… Maryam Rajavi has no ability to deal with these problems and merely resorts to matters of appearance, showing off and empty gestures – donning expensive dresses and throwing glamorous banquets and feasts where she preaches about democracy. She has succeeded in bewitching some European politicians, and … Massoud Rajavi is hiding out of fear of being tried in a court of law. But he casts a deceitful and demagogic influence over those 3500 victims stranded in that prison..
The people of Al-Khalis urged the next government to expel the members of terrorist MKO aka MEK/PMOI group, stationed in Camp Ashraf in Diyala province. They said the MKO’s case was resolved through the country’s constitution and the group had no place in Iraq, Iran’s Mehr News Agency quoted Nahrain news website as saying…Meanwhile, a leader of Badr Organization, Abbas Al-faridavi in Diyala Province reiterated that the MKO group is behind the assassination of Shia leaders ..
… Government of Iraq would deal with the residents of the camp Ashraf [PMOI/MEK/MKO] with respect for their human rights in co-operation with the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross. We believe it is in the interests of the residents to respect and accept the decision made by the Government of Iraq, and to cooperate peacefully with the Iraqi authorities …
… Whatever the result of these negotiations, the emerging government will be a cooperative government whose first priority would be to get rid of insurgency, the remains of the Saddam era terrorists and to stabilise a country torn apart by foreign interference and occupation. The new government (as all the top officials have already emphasised) will not tolerate a terrorist camp
… For decades the MKO have been in this camp and have not been regarded as refugees. Now neither the UNHCR nor the International Organization for Migration deal with them on that basis. The Ministry has addressed these organisations formally more than once in order to lend a helping hand to them, but they always affirm in their responses that that the MKO is a military organization and has not demilitarized
… The refusal of the MKO to allow family interviews between those who came from Iran to Iraq to meet with their children is a violation of divine laws and international laws recognized all over the world.Iraq’s Senate confirmed that the MKO organization is not welcome in Iraq, especially because terrorist acts
Two terrorist teams belonging to the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka MEK/PMOI) were arrested Tuesday.The teams, one of whom known as Tondar, plotted to make terror attacks in the Iranian Fire Festival on the last Tuesday night of the year.There were guns, Molotov cocktails, wireless communication devices, satellite mobile phones, etc. found in the team house belonging to the arrested.
A quick search on MEK ideology, history and the official reports by international bodies, gives you the connotation that the group has not been founded on secular basis and its founders had not been inspired by a secular doctrine….Ali Safavi initially deals with the Marxist label on MEK. He claims that MEK/MKO/PMOI was founded as a “Muslim organization … and its founders sought a secular republic and establishment of a democracy in Iran.”(!)
… For the families, it makes no difference now who will meet their loved ones first. Now the families, which are growing in number by the day, are in the sixth week of their picket in front of the camp. They have taken a collective oath not to leave the gate until they release all the children and all the hostages from Rajavi cult’s garrison …