(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 26).. … To talk of my acquaintance with her, we were once on the same team-work in Camp Ashraf before the US invasion of Iraq and when Maryam (Rajavi) was still in Ashraf. However, Neda left for the Europe simultaneous with Maryam’s relocation to France…
Reported by Times, a group of ailing hunger strikers from Barnet ended their 72-day fast..Noteworthy in this entire story is application of pressure prompted by the hunger strikers to enforce anMKO/MEK/PMOI organizational will. No doubt, a government like Iraq has to take precautionary measures to guarantee its people’s security at a time when the country is facing violent challenges from a variety of dissident factions and remnants of the ousted dictator and his collaborators..
.. The Iraqi judiciary system can well make use of former MKO members as live eyewitnesses to Mojahedin crimes by consulting them and using their statements for identifying the key MKO leaders in charge of all terrorist and cultic activities … The trial of the MKO members by Iraqi judiciary system for charges of assault and riotous assembly and resisting the lawful presence of Iraqi police in camp Ashraf that lead to the death of a number of Iraqi polices could turn into an all-out judgment on all crimes and misdeeds of Mojahedin inside Iraqi soil in recent decades
… The group, known as MEK, operated for years in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military turned over responsibility for Camp Ashraf to the Iraqis on Jan. 1. The U.S. considers MEK/MKO/PMOI a terrorist organization, though one that has provided the Americans with intelligence on Iran. The European Union removed it from its terror list this year…”We demand the international community help provide a place for them because they are unwanted persons,”al-Dabbagh said.”We are looking for a country that is willing to accept them.”Ali al-Dabbagh
Chief of Iran Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi criticized London’s policy towards Tehran saying it is not helpful for bilateral ties. ..Gass vowed he would do his best to remove the mistrust in Iranian public opinion towards Britain and added London does not consider the MKO an official organization and has no respect for it..Gass also emphasized Britain favors Iran’s right to access peaceful nuclear energy according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and believes it is necessary to continue talks to sort the nuclear issue properly.
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 25).. the term ‘pardakhtgar’ can be defined; that is to say, a member of the organization sacrifices his love and affection for the family and associates so they may transcend the limits of the material world and achieve the sphere of an unconditional love and affection that could include not only the beloved around them but the humanity in general. His struggle and immolation is to stop people paying for the attention and affection they receive and to purify the atmosphere ..
many MKO members individually or under the cover of organizational activity are residing in the European countries and France in particular as lawful or even unlawful political refugees. As Mojahedin have mostly concentrated their forces in France where they were provided with political refuge, its government has been confronted with many more problems compared to other European countries regarding the terrorist activities of this cultic group.Mojahedin’s open dossier of 17 June is one of the main challenges the France government ..
Secretary General of Habilian Association wrote an open letter to the leader of the Anglican Church in a response to his recent support of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka PMOI).”Your support of a terrorist cult highly involved in genocide in Iraq and killing more than 12000 innocent Iranian people surely means supporting their crimes,”Mohammad Javad Hashemi Nejad said in his letter to Rowan Williams..On September 20, the Archbishop of Canterbury issued a statement highlighting his concerns for the residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
An official in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Iraq is looking for a country to accept 36 detained members of an Iranian opposition group. The announcement was the first clear signal from the government on its plans for the men, who were arrested in a raid on their camp in northern Iraq in July ..The men were moved to Baghdad last week from Diyala Province, northeast of the capital. They are members of a resistance group, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran[MKO/MEK/PMOI], which claims many of the men are severely weakened from a hunger strike..
Iraqi Ambassador to Iran on Monday called for expulsion of members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) group from this country. .Abu Haidar al-Sheikh made the remark during his visit to the Islamic Republic News Agency Headquarters in Tehran. The visit of the Iraqi ambassador coincided with the National Day of Iraq.