growning up in Leeds in the 1970s, life was ordinary and uneventful, but I wannted to change the world for the better. At university, I started going to meetings of a group called the People’s Mujaheddin, who were fighting to overthrow the Ayatollah in Iran….
Hosseini recalled the crimes perpetrated by the MKO including the murder of many Iranian high-ranking officials and civilians. He lambasted the EU for failing to enter the so-called ‘National Resistance Council of Iran in its list of terrorist organizations and called on the EU to avoid a selective approach.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said here Sunday Tehran and Caracas would sign 20 agreements and memoranda of understanding in various fields during the current visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Iran…
The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been formally announced, said EU governments rejected the group’s arguments that it should be removed from the list. Maryam Rajavi, head of The National Council of Resistance — the Paris-based political wing of the PMOI — condemned the decision.
Mojahedin Khalq have opened an office in Port Bagnolet and, falsifying the information about their attack on a meeting in Paris on the 17th of June in which a high ranking terrorist member of the cult was arrested, try to gather support and bring people from French society. They have also put in place a system to transfer people from other countries to increase the audience.
The EU removed three Italian groups, Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti (Anti-Imperialist Territorial Units); Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria Rivoluzionaria (Unit for Revolutinonary Proletarian Initiative); Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria (Units for Proletarian Initiative) and added the Greek group Epanastatikos Agonas (Revolutionary Struggle).
A violent attack was made on a public meeting in the FIAP building in Paris, France by the Mojahedin Khalq proscribed terrorist Organisation (run by the self-appointed, life-time leaders of the cult Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi). Several participants were seriously injured.
These include the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossedegh, the US support of the oppressive regime of the Shah, the attack on the US embassy and the subsequent hostage crisis and US support of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
According to EU sources, the new list which remains unchanged from last December will be published Friday in the EU’s Official Journal. The European Court of Justice last December annulled the decision by the EU to put the MKO on the terror register in 2002.
An agreement has been reached by Iraq and Iran to raise the issue of an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq in the next round of talks between the United States and Iran.Iraqi parliamentary sources told Gulf News according to an Iraqi-Iranian agreement the presence of Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Iraq will be discussed in US-Iran talks.