it has”decided to provide the PMOI with a statement of reasons for keeping it on the EU’s ‘asset freeze list’ of persons, groups and entities involved in terrorist acts, and to give the PMOI one month to present its views, together with any supporting documentation”. Nothing is violated and the council has decided to comply with the judgment of the Court of First Instance.
Mohammed Mohaddessin issued a statement yesterday, asking the US to adopt a firm policy against Iran and to support the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq:”Delaying the adoption of a firm against the regime of Mullahs inspirits this reme in pursuing its nuclear program. Therefore, applying broad oil, arm, diplomatic and technological sanctions against this regime is becoming increasingly urgent.
The contingent will be under the operational and tactical command of the U.S. forces. During implementation of the mission, Bulgaria will retain its criminal, civil and disciplinary jurisdiction in respect of all Bulgarian service persons. The Ashraf refugee camp, northeast of Baghdad, houses some 3,500 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an exiled Iranian opposition group interned in Iraq, who enjoy protected status under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Exploited beyond their main purpose, the media are practical instruments to fulfill MKO’s ambitions. Besides their utilization to augment psychological warfare and propaganda blitz, the media are turned into the means of diffusing ideological teachings directly and indirectly. The TV affording many privileges, the psychological impacts and popularity to count
Pointing to Bush’s order to US forces in Iraq to shoot Iranian and Syrian agents in Iraq, Pentagon’s emphasis that Iranian agents were behind the deaths of 5 US forces in Karbala and the departure of second US aircraft carrier to the region, Spiegel writes that despite all these, the White House denies any effort to overthrow the rule of Mullahs.
When the Islamic revolution took place in 1979, the MEK initially allied with the Ayatollahs but soon fell out of favor with them. MEK went into exile and they took root first in Europe and later in Iraq where it became a very powerful military wing of the Iraqi Mukhaberat or the intelligence service. Today it’s funded by the CIA in their policy of using this organization to be a stick in the side of Iran. Even now, the MEK continues to be listed by the State department as an international terrorist organization.
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.
This Council announced on January 31 that according to the ruling of the court it would provide the MKO with reasons of freezing its assets. The Council also stated that it would give a month to the MKO to present documents to defend itself before the Council announces the final decision.*
Al Dabbagh said members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, or Mujahideen-e-Khalq, have been told they must go to Iran”or any other country”and should”arrange their residence in a country other than Iraq.””The Cabinet affirms that the legal character of this organisation is a terrorist organisation,”Al Dabbagh said during a news conference.
“The UN has put the amount of losses inflicted on Iran at more than dlrs 100 billion, while Iran has estimated them at dlrs 1,000 billion,”he added. The provisions of the Resolution 598 should be implemented by the Iraqi government, he noted. …