News

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO again feels sheepish!

It was just yesterday that Maryam Rajavi’s hasty message congratulating Iyad Allawi on his victory in Iraq’s general elections appeared on the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka MEK/PMOI) websites. Maryam Rajavi even did not wait for initial vote results before she congratulated both Allawi and Saleh Al-Mutlaq.

Perhaps, ending her fifth decade of life, there is a relapse in Maryam’s Alzheimer’s that she has forgotten Al-Mutlaq had been disqualified from running in Iraq’s general election for his Baathist ties! Or she might want to decrease her depression and Mutlaq’s, as initial results said PM Maliki was leading vote!

Maryam was so sheepish that her message was removed from the MKO website in a few hours!
Let’s not ask Maryam Rajavi about her claims on her allied candidates’ enjoying much support among Iraqis, since – as always – the so-called president elect of the National Council of Resistance does not have any answer. However, let’s not forget it was not the first time the MKO leaders made such a boo-boo.

The terrorists troubled themselves so much to support Ségolène Royal in 2007 French presidential election, but they looked much sheepish after the election!

March 10, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Election will finalize fate of MKO in Iraq

Through general elections, Iraqi people and MPs are going to finalize the fate of terrorists in Iraq, whether they are Baathists, MKO members or Takfiris, former Iraqi MP and current candidate said. The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka MEK, PMOI) presence in Iraq has brought the country much disturbance, since the cult is much close to Iraqi anti-government groups.” Jawad Al-Attar

“The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka MEK, PMOI) presence in Iraq has brought the country much disturbance, since the cult is much close to Iraqi anti-government groups.” Jawad Al-Attar told Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) news website.

“Iraqis generally view terrorist group like the MKO as those involving in the country’s internal affairs, so we should reach a consensus on expelling the MKO as an introduction,” he insisted.

“The government’s decision to relocate the cult’s members inside Iraq shows that the ideal consensus has not been reached yet. The MKO expulsion should be finalized as no Iraqi people as well as MPs want the country to be used to attack the neighbouring countries from,” editor of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Al-Amal Al-Islami newspaper said.

Iraqis will vote Sunday in parliamentary elections to determine who will govern the country.

Al-Attar labeled Saleh Al-Mutlaq and Dhafer Al-Ani views on the MKO as “unimportant”, insisting that “a large majority of Iraqi MPs wish MKO to be expelled”. “The two MPs are disqualified from running in Iraq’s general election,” he added.

“Despite the fact that Iraqi Transitional Council and Parliament insisted on expelling the terrorist cult, it has been able to keep its presence only thanks to the pressures of the US-led occupiers,” director of Iraq’s Centre for Developmental Studies commented.

“Legal mechanisms for expelling the terrorist cult will continue after the new government begins its work,” Al-Attar said. “The expulsion will be done more easily as the US-led coalition leaves Iraq in 2011 summer.”

“All Iraqi witness to the MKO’s involvement in suppressing Iraq’s 1991 anti-Saddam uprising, especially in Kurdistan,” he insisted, rejecting claims about MKO’s not involving in terror attacks against Iraqi people.

March 7, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

A lawsuit against the Mojahedin Khalq

Al-khaddran: We have set up a lawsuit against the Mojahedin Khalq

Al-khaddran added: "We hope the new government will remove this Organization from the land of Iraq and enforce the Constitution, which provides that Iraq not be used as a base for aggression and harm to neighbouring countries that enjoy good relations with them". Governor of Khales, Khalis Uday Al-khaddran, said he had filed a lawsuit on behalf of the citizens of Khales against the Mojahedin organization for the crimes perpetrated against them. Al-khaddran said that the MKO has held around 6000 dunums of land in Khalis district for more than 18 years. This organization was the right hand of the deposed (Saddam) regime and played a prominent role in sheltering and supporting what he described as (criminals of the state).
Al-khaddran added: "We hope the new government will remove this Organization from the land of Iraq and enforce the Constitution, which provides that Iraq not be used as a base for aggression and harm to neighbouring countries that enjoy good relations with them". At the same time I am requesting from humanitarian and international organizations that they find an alternative place for the organization and take them out of Iraq.
Diyala has seen a significant improvement in security since last July after the Camp of New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) came under the control of the Iraqi government, which has in turn offered MKO members that they may return to either Iran or to any other country. They do not come under the rules which apply to refuges or those with families within Iraq according to International law.
Al Dustour, Translated by Iran-interlink

March 6, 2010 0 comments

Zeinab Taleb Jedi

US: Homeless woman was MKO top terrorist leader

An Iranian widow who became a naturalized US citizen 10 years ago was a top official for a heavily armed, Iraq-based terrorist organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of Iran’s government, the US government alleges in court documents. The documents, obtained from Brooklyn court files on Monday, say two confidential informants in Iraq identified Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, 51, as a leader of the Mujahedeen Khalq.

The group was identified in court papers as Mujahedin-e Khalq. One of the informants told the FBI that Taleb-Jedi was on a council”responsible for making leadership decisions for the organization, including approving specific acts of terrorism”against Iran, the papers said. Taleb-Jedi was arrested in March after flying from Jordan to Kennedy International Airport.

A judge agreed to release her on $500,000 bond. The court papers said she has been living at a women’s shelter in Manhattan. Taleb-Jedi was among 200 Muhjahedeen Khalq members detained and questioned by the FBI in 2004 after US military forces took over parts of Iraq once controlled by the group, the documents said. US soldiers seized tanks, anti-aircraft weapons, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and more than 420,000 pounds of plastic explosives.

At the time, Taleb-Jedi allegedly told agents she”wholeheartedly supports the Mujahedin,”the papers said. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, who have been investigating the group, announced last week that a grand jury in Brooklyn had indicted Taleb-Jedi on charges of providing support to a terrorist organization. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison. The group, also known as the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, and its affiliates were deemed foreign terrorist organizations by the US State Department in 1997. The designations bar anyone in the United States from providing material support. The defendant, who was born in Iran, came to the United States on a student visa in 1978 to pursue a master’s degree in political science in Georgia, court papers said.

She later moved to Queens before settling in Virginia, where she became a naturalized US citizen. In her FBI interview, Taleb-Jedi told agents her husband joined the Mujahedeen and went to Iraq in 1986. In 1999, after learning her husband was killed in a bombing, she”left her job, sold all her belongings and traveled”to the group’s Ashraf Base in Iraq, 40 miles north of Baghdad, documents said. A call to her attorney on Monday was not immediately returned. Arguing for her release at an arraignment, defense attorney Justine Harris said her client had returned to the United States to see her adult son and to seek medical treatment for a severe digestive ailment that had pushed her weight down to 95 pounds.

“This a middle-age woman with absolutely no record,”the lawyer said. The group was founded in Iran in the 1960s and moved to Iraq in the early 1980s to base its activities against Iran’s government. It sided with Iraq in its 1980-88 war against Iran. The State Department says the groups were funded by Saddam Hussein, supported the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and are responsible for the deaths of Americans in the 1970s.

March 6, 2010 0 comments

Iran

Does fighting terrorism means supporting professional killers?

Iran: US war on terror, plot to train terrorists

Iran’s foreign minister says former US President George W. Bush’s so-called war on terror has actually served as a guise for training terrorists.

"Does fighting terrorism mean supporting professional killers?" Manouchehr Mottaki asked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast who accompanied him on the trip.

"The US must explain why it has scheduled a meeting with AbdolMalek Rigi. The US must explain what AbdolMalek Rigi was doing at the US base in Afghanistan and why he was going to meet high-ranking US officials at the US Manas base near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek," he added.
Last week, Iranian security forces captured ringleader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, while he was on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.

"Doesn’t the US know that over 400 people have been killed or wounded in criminal activities carried out by this group?" Mottaki asked.

Mehmanparast said that the Iranian foreign minister had also criticized the United States’ European allies for removing the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their list of terrorist groups.

The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years.

The attacks include the assassination of the late president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei, prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar and judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

The MKO is also known to have cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The organization is, moreover, notorious for using cult-like intimidation tactics against its own members, such as the torture and murder of defectors.

March 3, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

American Army charge on families in a joint operation with MKO terrorists

In what can only be interpreted as an attempt to assert their hegemony over their terrorists in Iraq, fifteen American soldiers arrived yesterday (March 01, 2010) in armoured vehicles at the gates of Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) to confront the families who have established a long-term picket there.

Families to US army: bring Obama himself and we will not be intimidated

The families have travelled from Iran and other countries to demand that the MKO leaders allow their children to meet with them. The MKO have refused and have bunkered down out of fear. Now the Americans have had to intervene on their behalf to try to send the families away.

The Americans were accompanied by three MKO personnel who acted as translators and who hid their faces so they would not be recognized. The Americans and the translators tried to approach the families to get information from them and film them, but Iraqi soldiers advised the families to keep their distance.

Hourieh Mohammadi from Canada, who is in Iraq to find her sister, used a loudspeaker to inform the Americans of the families’ demands. She told them ‘even if you bring Mr. Obama himself here I will not leave until I have found my sister’.

Iraqi officers at the camp said they will not take action now but the role of the Americans in this situation has been noted. The Iraqi’s have assured the families that if the intimidation becomes more invasive, they will certainly step in to protect them.

March 3, 2010 0 comments

France

Ancient Iran Association writes to Bernard Kouchner

How do you tolerate such terrorist organization on your soil?

MR. Bernard Kouchner The Honorable French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
How do you tolerate such terrorist organization on your soil?
With Our best greetings and wishes to you and the honorable people of France,

As you are well informed that the people mojahedin organization (PMOI) which is a terrorist – cultic organization, unfortunately has pitched its main headquarter in your country for many years and they have masterminded and commanded numerous terrorist measures in iran and Iraq during past decades.

France is among the countries which in war against terrorism is in the front line, so according to this fact how can it tolerate and bear such a terrorist and bloodthirsty organization on its soil? The organization which perpetrated the assassination of American Colonels and Generals in Iran in mid 70,s and even they have composed and written anthem and articles in tribute of those assassinations. The organization which its ideology is based on violence and terrorism and believes in violence and bloodshed and even along furthering its cultic objectives is coercing and compelling its own followers and trapped members to burn themselves vis a vis the astonished and astounded eyes of French people.

The organization which its terrorist record in Iran and Iraq is not covert to anyone and its crimes and abuses are revealed and divulged by brave disclosures of separated and critics and `as a result of that its evil and detestable image is disclosed and divulged.

MR. Kouchner we ,according to our experiences which are the outcome of decades of captivity in this cult, know it as our humane task to draw the French law makers and politicians’ attention and yours to the following facts:

1. The Rajavi’s cult is a very dangerous and organized which by using the brainwashing and religious indoctrinations’ techniques , they are capable of utilizing their deceived members `whenever and wherever requires like the self burnings in 2003 in Paris.

2. This cult by taking advantage of freedom and democracy ruling upon European and western countries and by spending huge amount of money is reinforcing its cultic bastion in France and across Europe, presence of the cult’s leader , Maryam Ghajar Azdanlo (Rajavi) in European parliament and meeting with French politicians and mayors are among those efforts.

3. The leaders of this notorious cult by taking advantage of western – favorite words and playing with words as well as showing off as freedom lovers and democratic organization have deceived a number of European politicians and parliamentarians and unfortunately they are utilizing them along furthering their cultic interests.

4. This cult which does not allow its members’ families to get in touch with their loved ones and some of the families who have gathered behind the closed gates of the notorious Ashraf Garrison since one month ago just to meet with their loved ones ,have been insulted, accused and mistreated by the operatives and ringleaders of this cult and so far they have not succeeded to meet their children and loved ones after almost one month of entreating endeavors . While this notorious cult and its leaders are dealing and behaving with their own members’ families who are their fellow countrymen and compatriots in like manner ,so what do you expect them to do while their cultic interests are in danger in your country? Are they trustworthy?

The only answer and solution to prevent the violence and inhumane activities and measures of this Mafia -terrorist cult is to confine or stop their activities fully in France once and for all.

With our best wishes to you and the honorable French people.

Ancient Iran Association, Paris

March 2, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

PMOI denied families meetings with their captured children in Ashraf

The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MEK, MKO) has refused to grant meetings to the families who have came from Iran to Iraq to meet their children who are members of the Mojahedin Khalq and who for years have been held captive by the organization’s leaders in Camp Ashraf.

Mojahedin leaders did not allow the families who came from Iran to Iraq with the consent and support of the Iraqi government to Camp Ashraf in Diyala province since last month, to meet with their children who are in Camp Ashraf in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad and who have been detained by the Organization since the eighties of the last century with the cooperation and support of the former regime.

The protest surprised officials of the Organization who refuse to allow members of the Organization meet relatives for fear they will leave the organization and Camp Ashraf and return to their homeland and their families. The Organisation launched excuses such as lack of names required for the interview between the elements of the organization, or failure of the children themselves to desire to meet with their families and their refusal to communicate with their families and their relatives.

Sources said that the Iraqi government has sought the presence of the delegation of the United Nations and International Red Cross and international human rights organization to hold direct negotiations with the leaders of the organization. The Iraqi government continued throughout the last month to convince them of the need to deal with this situation in a humane and approved way to allow meeting between Iranian families and their children, and not to accept false statements and counterfeit, which accuses the Iraqi government of violating human rights laws. The failed negotiations have resulted in the rejection of the absolute leaders of the organization to this humanitarian initiative.

Ultimately, to reach an end to the sit-in by dozens of Iranian families outside the gates of Camp Ashraf, the Iraqi government and international community must intervene to pressure the leaders of the organization in Camp Ashraf in order to allow meetings with their children and allow them to make personal decisions in response to their emotions and their sensations.

translated by Iran Interlink

March 2, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

In solidarity with the MKO Cult’s victims families

Declaration of Ancient Iran Association in solidarity with the Cult’s victims families

Ancient Iran ,Glorious future Association declares its solidarity with the honorable families who have been waiting behind the closed gates of notorious Ashraf Garrison to meet with their loved ones for almost a month .

The cult’s dictator leaders who are terrified of giving permission to any meetings and visitations to their members, have hampered of families’ meeting with their loved ones up to now . Face to face Meeting and visitation is everyone’s legal right and according to that the leaders of this cult must allow their victims to meet with their families.

The Ancient Iran , Glorious Future Association based on its humane task urge and entreat of all humanitarian organizations and Iranian freedom lovers as well as the critics and separated members of this cult for their solidarity with those sad families who have been in sit- in for days behind the closed gates of Ashraf Garrison. In this regard notifying all humanitarian organization such as UNHCR, Amnesty International, ICRC, Human Rights Watch and get in touch with Press and Media throughout the world are the first priority to help these families.

Respectfully

Ancient Iran, Paris

March 2, 2010 0 comments

The MEK and Jundullah

MP: MKO Gravely Affected by Rigi’s Arrest

The plots hatched by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) for stationing troops alongside Iran’s eastern borders were defused after Tehran arrested Abdolmalek Rigi, the most notorious terrorist ringleader at its eastern borders, an Iranian lawmaker said Saturday.
The MKO's members were hopeful that after expulsion of the group from Iraq, they could establish a joint den of corruption in the eastern Iran in coordination with (Abdolmalek) Rigi, but this plot fell flat with the capture of Rigi,"
"The MKO’s members were hopeful that after expulsion of the group from Iraq, they could establish a joint den of corruption in the eastern Iran in coordination with (Abdolmalek) Rigi, but this plot fell flat with the capture of Rigi," Mohammad Reza Khabbaz told FNA.

Last Tuesday, Iran announced that it has arrested Abdolmalek Rigi after intensive intelligence and security operations.

Rigi on June 2 admitted receiving assistance from the MKO, but relations between the two anti-Iran terrorist groups had surfaced a long time ago when US started plans to coordinate anti-Islamic Republic moves.

In August, the Jundollah terrorist group warned the Baghdad government that it would retaliate against the closure of a main camp of MKO by the Iraqi forces.

"…the Iraqi government should know that its hostile measures against the residents of Camp Ashraf who are Iranian immigrants in this city are not and will not be in the interest of the Iraqi government," Jundollah said in statement.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, has been in the country’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Six years after toppling Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003, the country’s security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad and changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The Iraqi government and parliament have both voiced strong determination for expelling the group from the country.

The MKO 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 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 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.

March 1, 2010 0 comments

Newer Posts

Older Posts