A group of fourteen people of families of Ashraf residents left Tabriz for Baghdad along with the one-year strike of picketing families at Ashraf gates. They endeavor to visit their loved ones taken as hostages by MKO cult leaders.
It is of importance to call on Iraqi authorities and international human rights bodies to assist these families.
A number of Gilani families join others picketing at Ashraf Gate on February 9th,2011
The families set off for Iraq Camp Ashraf chanting their motto " Open the doors of Ashraf" in order to visit their beloved ones captured by the cult of Rajavi.
The 30-people group of family members of Ashraf residents are determined to tolerate all difficulties on their path to achieve their human, legal requests.
They also called on humanitarian communities and the Red Cross to aid them to visit their brainwashed children.
May all families of MKO captives will be relived and pleased to see their loved ones!
Mojahedin Khalq terrorist forces inside Ashraf garrison have organised a provocative demonstration during which they have attacked the Iraqi military forces stationed inside the camp resulting in the injury of several of the Iraqi forces.
The pre-meditated attack follows an audio message from the leader of the cult a few days ago.
The Mojahedin forces of around 3000 people gathered on the main street of the camp (called Road 100), in a so called condemnation gathering against the execution of Ali Haj Aghaei and Ja’far Kazemi in Iran (not Iraq) during which they started attacking the Iraqi security forces injuring some of them.
They shouted slogans at the Iraqis saying “I will kill, I will kill, the one who killed my brother” while attacking the Iraqis in charge of the security of the camp. They were apparently trying to overcome the Iraqi security forces in a bid to reach the families who have been picketing in front of the camp for the last 12 months demanding visiting rights to their loved ones taken hostage by the Rajavi cult inside Ashraf garrison. (Ashraf is the HQ of the Washington-backed Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group. The place was given to them by Saddam Hussein in exchange for their co-operation in the massacre of Iraqis and Iranians during their stay.)
The Iraqi forces in charge of the security of the camp were forced to shoot over the heads of the crowd in order to stop the Mojahedin from harming the old and sick picketing families at the gates of the camp.
Following are parts of the film taken by the MKO itself (broadcast on their American backed TV station) showing clearly their attacks on the Iraqi security forces.
President of the US-sponsored Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Antonio Cassese had called for the US and Europe’s widespread support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist 
group, a report says.
Addressing a conference, dubbed "In Search of Justice, European Committee for De-listing the MKO" held in 2008, Cassese said the terrorist group should benefit from judiciary immunity, Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
Cassese is expected to issue a verdict at the STL — created two years after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and more than 20 others with him in Beirut on February 2005.
The tribunal, supported by the US, has sparked tension and plunged Lebanon into its worst political crisis since 2008.
The MKO is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war on Iran.
It has also claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks and the assassination of significant figures and ordinary civilians in Iran over the past three decades.
The group is listed as a terrorist group by Tehran and much of the international community.
A number of judges attending the 2008 European conference on the MKO claimed that including the group in the list of terrorists would be “illegal.”
They also claim that according to two resolutions passed by the European Parliament on July 12, 2007 and September 4, 2008, the MKO members in Camp Ashraf, in the Iraqi province of Diyala, are regarded as “political refugees” and should benefit from the Geneva Treaty.
It urged the United States to continue protecting Camp Ashraf, warning that a complete removal of support for the MKO members could lead to a catastrophe.
The European Union removed the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations in 2009.
The MKO, which has been on the US terror list since 1997, filed a petition against the blacklisting in 2008.
Massoud Rajavi the cult leader has realized that the pressure put on the families who have been picketing in front of the Camp Ashraf for the last 12 months demanding their right to visit relative, has not worked and he has now has started a new criminal campaign against them. He has ordered his henchmen to make missiles with whatever they can find and to launch them at the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, who have been sitting in the Iraqi desert with only the hope of seeing their loved ones taken hostage by Rajavi cult inside the infamous camp.
The cult leaders have also constructed dykes along the southern and eastern boundaries of the garrison in order to hide behind them and use catapults and other equipment to target the grieving families.
This new ploy by the Rajavis started when their use of parasite equipment failed to stop the voices of the families reaching the hostages inside. The families never accepted to stop broadcasting their messages to their loved ones inside the camp.
According to the news from inside the camp there are only a few mercenaries inside the camp who carry out such orders. These are the same people who have been involved in the insurgency in Iraq during the past few years since the fall of Rajavi’s benefactor Saddam Hussein.
Sahar Family Foundation once again asks international human rights organisations to send fact-finding groups to this camp and see the behaviour of the cult leader with their own eyes. We ask all international human rights organisations to support the basic human rights of the families who have been picketing here for the last 12 months.
There is no doubt that in the next stage, the cult leaders will resort to direct assassination, in which case the various UN bodies and the international organisations who have been keeping silent to protect the political benefits of some in the US and the EU, will be partly responsible for such a disaster.
Translated by Iran Interlink
Nejat Society meeting in Tehran
On January 16th,2011, a number of families who are members of Nejat Society Tehran Branch attended a meeting where three recently defectors of MKO, Hamid Hajipour, Akbar Mohebi and Muhammad Bagher Keshavarz analyzed the most recent situation in Camp Ashraf Iraq.
Nejat Society official in Tehran described the presence of families at Ashraf gates as effective and positive to encourage captured members to escape the cult of Rajavi. They also notified that other families of Nejat Society are so eager to join their peer at Ashraf gates.
The defectors who had been captured by MKO dictatorship for more than twenty years assured the families that families strike at Ashraf gates is like a message of love and hope for captives of Camp Ashraf.
Families, for their part, shared their memoirs of their loved ones with dissociated members.
During the meeting, it was decided to send a new group of Tehrani families to Iraq. Besides, participants signed a petition to UN Secretary General and UN representative in Iraq asking that their letters be delivered to their children directly by UN or ICRC’s representatives. They also asked for release of their children as soon as possible.
MKO faces 24 judicial cases in Iraq including assassination of Iraqi citizens
The Mayor of Khalis township in northeast Iraq’s Diala Province has said on Sunday that the Province’s citizens have raised 24 judicial cases against members of the anti-Tehran Mujahedin E-Khalq Organization, including the control of agricultural lands.
"Twenty-four judicial cases have been raised till Saturday by Diala citizens against members of Mujahedin E-Khalq Organization, who are using Ashraf Camp in Diala’s Udheim township as their headquarters, among their control on broad areas of agricultural lands, belonging to Diala citizens, along with involvement of the Organization’s members in the assassination of a number of the Province’s citizens and having supported security elements of Iraq’s former regime in detaining large numbers of innocent people and throwing them in jails," Mayor Uday al-Khidran told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Northeast Diala’s Ashraf Camp, carrying the name of (Iraq Camp) by the Iraqi government comprises over 3,000 Iranians, belonging to Mujahedin E-Khalq Organization, opposing the Iranian regime, had moved to Iraq in 1985, where it enjoyed support by Iraq’s former regime, is now under Iraqi security protection after the withdrawal of the U.S.Forces from the area.
Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, is 57 kms to the northeast of Baghdad.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi says the Islamic Republic has succeeded in overcoming the so-called strong Israeli intelligence service Mossad supported by the US and Western states.
Iranian forces managed to penetrate into the depth of Mossad information system and recognize and dismantle its different networks, Moslehi told reporters on Tuesday.
His comments came after Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Monday it had dismantled an Israeli spy network and arrested the main perpetrators in connection with the assassination of Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, an Iranian nuclear scientist and a lecturer at the University of Tehran.
One of the detained terrorists, Majid Jamali-Fash, confessed that he had received training in a military base outside Tel Aviv.
On July 12, the Iranian nuclear physics scientist was killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
The bombing took place near the professor’s home in northern Tehran.
“One of our biggest achievements was penetration into intelligence system of (Mossad) culprits which enabled us to recognize the nature of their measures,” the Iranian minister went on to say.
“The spy and terror networks were working as a cell which means that they had no information about each other’s activities and they did not know one another,” Moslehi added.
He also warned of threats against top scientists in regional countries, saying, “All prominent scientists are posed to the terror threats of security service of the Zionist regime (Israel).”
He stressed that Israel opposes scientific progress of Muslim and regional countries and said, “We feel responsible to give information to other regional and Muslim states about moves by the Zionist regime.”
The Iranian minister pointed out that Israel is a regime whose existence is based on “terror, horror and occupation” and stressed that the Islamic Republic would definitely adopt intelligence measures to counter Israel.
Moslehi further noted that sedition incited by enemies after the June 2009 presidential election in Iran raised the enemy’s hopes and urged leaders of sedition to give explanation about their roles in creating an intelligence gap which inflicted such damage on the country.
“With regard to an intelligence gap created in the Islamic Republic during (last year’s) sedition movement, the enemy though that it could use the opportunity to achieve successes while (Iran’s) intelligence bodies were embroiled in the sedition,” he said.
Moslehi warned regional countries which cooperate with Israel that any facility they provide to the regime is regarded as a “threat” to Iran and the entire region.
“These countries will turn into bases for terrorist moves of the Zionist regime,” he said.
The Iranian minister reiterated that based on information obtained by the Islamic Republic, Israeli and NATO officials had meetings with members of terrorist cells, including Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), Jundallah and the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), to achieve their own objectives.
“In the meetings, Mossad told MKO members that they should focus their activities on nuclear sites of the Islamic Republic and damage them.”
However, he emphasized that Iran managed to deal a heavy blow to Israel’s intelligence service and noted that more than 10 Israeli spies have been arrested.
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According to Iranian media sources, the White House had in a message called on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to allow the elements of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) access to the Qandil Mountains in return for an end to Turkish army attacks on PKK strongholds.
Although many officials in Baghdad and South Kurdistan, including spokesman of Peshmarga Ministry, Jabbar Yavar, Iraq-Governor of Erbil, Nozad Hadi, rebuffed the reports, dubbing it fabrication, one cannot recant the US dynamic cooperation with the Iranian Oppositions in Iraq, especially after 2003, including the MKO.
Following the surrender of 7, 000 members of the group to the US Special Forces in 2003, the US intelligence community heavily relied on military, intelligence and logistic support of the group to confront Iranian terrorist activities inside Iraqi territory, and map out any plausible future attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Despite listing the group in FTC (Foreign Terrorist Organization), the group was never meant to be undermined or dismantled in any form.
Over 2,000 pieces of military equipment were seized from MKO by the US forces in Iraq. Some supporters of MKO were recruited as Farsi linguists in Camp Ashraf. Both the US and Iranian intelligence apparatus were closely monitoring the activities of the group. Iran attempted hard to put pressure on the Shiite-led Iraqi government through its proxies and agents to terrorize its members and expel them out of Iraq. Some of the group adherents did not brook the situation in Camp Ashraf in Baghdad, defected and returned to Iran, passing huge amount of highly-classified information to the regime.
"With respect to Iran, there is a clear opportunity for the Iranians … to demonstrate some willingness to engage meaningfully with the international community," Hillary Clinton said in her first remarks since becoming the US Secretary of State.
In 2008 the Bush administration meted out some $400 million for covert operations against Iran, a significant portion of it was diverted to the MKO. The EU has lifted ban on MKO in January,www.ekurd.netand lately an appeals court in the US ruled that the State Department should review the designation of the group, a vivid indication that the group is being prepared for some special assignments in Iran.
The organization is an Iranian opposition group having emerged in 1960s to oppose the Shah of Iran, capitalism, and western imperialism and later fighting the ideology of the Islamic revolution, which does concern us as Kurds as much. However, the role that MKO played and the horrendous crimes it committed against Kurdish citizens of South Kurdistan, especially their collaboration with Saddam in massacres and genocides, hold us ethically liable to disallow them any access to our Kurdish mountains.
What MKO did, it even outstripped shah’s SAVAK (National Intelligence and Security Organization) in terms of its persecution of its opponents.
Kurdish Regional Government should press charges on moral grounds against MKO for joining Saddam’s army during the Iraqi-Iran war (1980-1988) and helping the dictator in suppressing Kurdish 1991 uprisings and massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror, violence, assassination attempts against Kurdish civilians and government officials in South Kurdistan.
MKO and its affiliates owe the Kurdish nation on official apology.
By Baqi Barzani, for ekurd.net
Baqi Barzani is a Kurdish citizen of Sought Kurdistan [Iraq]. He advocates the notion of " establishing an independent Kurdish state". He contributes to various Kurdish media outlets, especially ekurd.net.
Right Group Uncovers MKO’s Huge Soft War Funding in Iraq
Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, reported that the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has made heavy investments to gain soft power in Iraq as part of its broader efforts to secure its presence in the country and gain political influence on Baghdad.
According to the Habilian report, the MKO ringleaders have provided financial and structural support for the establishment of over 20 publications and sociopolitical groups in Iraq in recent years in a bid to see their desired government in power.
The report said that the investment was vital for the terrorist group considering that MKO ringleaders tried hard to make Nouri Maliki face failure in his bid for becoming Iraq’s new Prime Minister.
Also, the soft war funding was an urgent necessity for the MKO since its affiliated publications and groups could support the MKO under the pretext of human rights against the Iraqi people and political groups who are growingly demanding MKO’s expulsion from their country, the report added.
Both Iraq’s parliament and government have ratified expulsion of MKO from the country.
Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last year and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.
The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.
Earlier this month, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari expressed hope that Baghdad would expel the anti-Iran terrorist Organization from Iraq soon in future.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting in Baghdad with visiting Iranian Foreign Ministry Caretaker Ali Akbar Salehi, Zebari said that he and his Iranian counterpart have discussed expulsion of MKO from Iraq at their meeting.
Asked about the fate of the MKO, Zebari said the two sides "hope to find a way to close the MKO’s case in Iraq as soon as possible".
"There are some humanitarian commitments to which our government is loyal, but fulfilling these undertakings should not harm Iraq’s national sovereignty," he said.
The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.
