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Kari Vogt criticized the Norwegian MPs invitation to Maryam Rajavi

The well known Norwegian Religious historian and Middle East expert Kari Vogt criticized the Norwegian MPs invitation to Maryam Rajavi, the leader of MKO terrorist group.

Although the U.S. has put MKO on its terrorist list, they make use of the organization. Kari Vogt explains the issue:

First, it operates as US intelligence service in Iran what people of that type can do the best.
Secondly, MKO’s military capacity, which the Americans can take advantage of, and give them free passage.

Since the United States disarmed MKO after they occupied Iraq they have obviously invested a great deal, "says Vogt.

In the debate on Saturday she warned not to support the People’s Mujahedin. She said they have no credibility as champions of democracy and human rights, because they are an organization in exile, who are considered traitors among democracy advocates in their home country.

December 7, 2009 0 comments

Habilian Foundation

“Iran victim of terrorism” in Tafresh University

Habilian Association (Iranian terror victims’ families) held an exhibition in Tafresh University under the title of “Iran; victim of terrorism”.

As reported by Habilian Association website, keeping on its active presence in the universities throughout the country, this time Habilian Association held an exhibition about the crimes MKO has so far committed and their enmity with Iranian nation for the illumination of the young generation especially university students and academics in Tafresh.

In this exhibition which had, like other Habilian exhibitions in the universities, getting the university students familiar with Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist cult on top of its goals, students with different political viewpoints visited the exhibition.

Some students who were new entries were either unaware of the existence of such a terrorist cult or at most heard that once there had been a band of Iranian traitors who had betrayed their own people during the Iraq-Iran war by fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein. Some students had limited information about MKO treasonous role in France and Iraq and also the assassination of top Iranian political figures during the early years of Iran after the Islamic Revolution.

In this exhibition new aspects of MKO long history of violence and terror were brought to the eyes of the students; images of MKO crimes in engineering operations , in one of which three guardians were tortured to death in a team house, killings of women and children in our cities, mortar attacks on residential areas, manipulation and brain washing methods they imposed on their rank and file members and a full list of names of more than 16 thousand terror victims over 12 thousands of whom were directly killed by MKO formed different parts of the exhibition.
The first comprehensive software program on MKO terrorism – Qabilian – which was very much welcomed by the students and playing the Wolves documentary which dealt with different dimensions of MKO treasons and the money which was given to MKO by the Ba’ath party in return for their betrayal during the war were other parts of the exhibition.

Providing the students with the images of students martyred by MKO, the most complete bank of books with topics concerning MKO, recognition and informing the students of MKO inter-cultic relations including weekly confessions, self immolations and compulsory divorces were other programs of the exhibition.

One of the aims of this exhibition was to make more familiar the younger generation with the crimes MKO has so far committed against Iranian as well as Iraqi nations and to let them know the fact that Iran has suffered serious damages from terrorist groups and is an oppressed victim of terrorism.

December 3, 2009 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Spanish court judgment about MKO should be local

Spanish court support for Saddamists not legal

ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: Any court judgment in any country regarding an issue related to another country requires the second country’s approval for execution, a Kurdish lawmaker said commenting on a judgment issued by a Spanish court with respect to the operatives of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MKO) exiled in Iraq.

“Executing the judgment requires an approval from the Iraqi side,” Ahmed Anwar, a member of the Iraqi parliament legal committee, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday.

He said that the judgment, which considered the MKO elements in Iraq under the Genève Convention, is a moral support only.

“The court is not international, and I question whether the Spanish government would adopt this issue from the legal and political standpoints,” Anwar said.

He said that the Iraqi government refuses to grant asylum to MKO operatives in Iraq.

“There are Iraqi-U.S. discussions with respect to the MKO issue,” Anwar said.

The MKO operatives in Iraq, hosted in Ashraf Camp in Diala province, oppose the current Iranian regime, and have been in Iraqi since the 1980s.

December 2, 2009 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

French citizens demonstrate against PMOI

On Saturday, November 28th, 2009, a large number of citizens of Cergy, France gathered to protest the presence of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in their country soil.

The rally began at 14:00 when the citizens gathered together in downtown. The gathering started with a performance made by Iran-France music band that played fascinating pieces. A panel was also held for a book show that included 5000 editions of journals, books and revealing catalogues on MKO.

a large number of citizens of Cergy, France gathered to protest the presence of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in their country soil

There were also huge posters, distributed among protestors to reveal the cult-like nature of Mujahedin-Khalq Organization.

During the rally a play was performed by a group of former members to present a symbolic show on torture, imprisonment, suicide operations committed by Rajavi’s cult. The participants were moved by the performance.

Hundreds of Iranian-French citizens sang the famous Iranian song “Ey Iran” standing in organized lines and then walked through streets of Cergy under the rain.

They ended their rally after they issued a resolution at 18:30.

The move was executed by cooperation of some NGOs and foundations formed by former members of MKO.

At the ending phases of the demonstration, a few suppressive henchmen of Rajavi’s cult attacked the demonstrators and hit them on face and eyes. The attackers were sent from Auver Sur Oise to break down the peaceful rally. Three French citizens and an Iranian were injured by MKO agents who were consequently arrested by French police.

Aria Iran – Translated by Nejat Society

December 2, 2009 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Nejat families, Mazandaran branch meeting with MKO defectors

Following the incidents took place in Ashraf during recent months and the takeover of the Camp by Iraqi Police of which the news was published by the mass media, a large number of families who are members of Nejat Society, Mazandaran Branch contacted Nejat Office to get news on the latest situation of their beloved ones in Camp Ashraf.

Therefore, on Oct 25th, 2009, the families gathered together at Nejat Office with a number of defectors of the cult. They discussed the cruel behavior of the Rajavis during the recent incidents, which ended with the death and injury of some of their children in order to achieve solutions so that they would be able to release their beloved ones from the hellish organization and to prevent the Rajavis from instrumentally abusing those captured ones.

The family members attended the meeting were:

Mr. Mehdi ramazani from Sari, Maryam Ramazani’s brother
Mr. Hassan Heidarzadeh from Amol, Parviz Heidarzadeh’s brother
Mrs. Oulia Heidarzade from Amol, Parviz Heidarzade’s sister
Mr. AliReza Rezaee from Behshahr, AhmadReza Rezaee’s wife
Mr. Naser Hosseini Motlaq from Amol, Mir Nezad Hosseini Motlaq’s brother
Mr. Nemat Allah Mohammadi from savadkouh,Majid Mohammadi’s mother
Mr. Ali Akbar Babapur from Babol, Ali Asghar Babapour’s brother
Nejat families, Mazandaran branch meeting with MKO defectors
and a number of recently defected members of MKO were:

Nowruz Tavakoli,Abdullah Afghan,Iraqj Salehi,Hadi Shabani and Samad Nazari.

The meeting was held in a friendly atmosphere.

The head of Nejat Society Mazandaran introduced all the participants and then presented a report on the latest circumstances of Camp Ashraf.

He spoke of the recent visit by some families at Camp Ashraf describing the way the MKO treated them.

He also noted that Iraqi government is determined to expel the MKO from its territory, declaring the following:
Nejat families, Mazandaran branch meeting with MKO defectors
• Disobedience committed by Rajavi’s cult regarding the six-month deadline that Iraqi government had assigned.

• The latest negotiations between the police of Diala Province and other Iraqi authorities and Camp Ashraf officials.

• Complete description of the incidents happened in Ashraf on July 28 and 29th following the raid by Iraqi police and the order made by the MKO leaders for resistance in front of Iraqi forces which ended with heavy casualties for the residents.

He pointed out that Massoud Rajavi ordered the members to resist for show-off and to prove the so called ideological vitality of his cult.

Maryam Rajavi also ordered public hunger strike at Ashraf that apparently lasted 72 days and according to many evidences it was held to feed the cult’s propaganda machine.

November 30, 2009 0 comments

Britain says MKO in Camp Ashraf subject to Iraqi law

Britain says MKO in Camp Ashraf subject to Iraqi law – protected persons status not applicable

Iraq: Iran Britain says MKO in Camp Ashraf subject to Iraqi law - protected persons status not applicable

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Written answers and statements, 25 November 2009
Andrew Dismore (Hendon, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his Department’s assessment is of the status in international law of the residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis (Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Bury South, Labour)

Camp Ashraf is in a sovereign and democratic Iraq and the camp residents subject to its laws.

The UK is of the view that the residents of Camp Ashraf, as with all people in Iraq, enjoy rights and protections under the Iraqi constitution and applicable international obligations to which Iraq is a signatory. We do not consider that they have ‘protected persons’ status.

We do not feel a ministerial statement is necessary at this time.

House of Lords, London

November 30, 2009 0 comments

Habilian Foundation

“Iran: A Victim of Terrorism”in Tehran Polytechnic University

"Iran: A Victim of Terrorism" exhibition was held by Habilain Association (families of Iranian terror victims) in Amir Kabir University of Technology (formerly known as Tehran Polytechnic University).
In order to introduce the crimes and terror efforts of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the Iranian young generation, full documents on the MKO’s crimes both in Iran and Iraq were on show at the exhibition, Habilian website reported.

Through various books, posters and videos, the exhibition sought to present shocking documents on the MKO’s terror efforts and its ideological and behavioural deviations. The students were introduced to new dimensions of the MKO’s crimes through classified posters on the cult’s background, intra-cult relationships, assisting Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, its crimes against Iraqi people, the cult’s propagation and fundraising tricks and some of Iranian figures assassinated by the MKO.

The exhibition also included cartoons on various dimensions of the cult’s crimes.

Recorded by Habilian Association, a full list of 16403 Iranian terror victims ,over 12000 of whom assassinated by the MKO, was also on show at the exhibition. It aroused an increasing sense of hatred of the cult among the visitors who came to know many people assassinated by the MKO were civilians.

The exhibition also revealed the cult’s lies on Tehran Polytechnic University. News of a debate between two Iranian politicians at the university a month ago appeared as an uprising by the students on MKO’s websites. Interestingly enough, the debate began several minutes after the cult’s websites revealed the news!

As in several other universities, "Iran: A Victim of Terrorism" was highly welcomed by teachers, students and the staff of Tehran Polytechnic University. This led to the MKO terrorists’ excessive anger as they failed to prevent the students to bury five anonymous martyrs in the same university just a few months ago.

The following are only a few comments by many visitors who signed the exhibition’s guestbook:
•Excellent, helpful and influential. I feel this should be done in a broader sense for all groups of the society especially the youths.

•I have never believed in many Islamic teachings, however I will never forget the MKO’s obvious crimes, just the same as no one can forget Hitler’s. I hope the world is filled with eternal peace on day.

•I was so influenced by the exhibition when I remembered my own friends martyred by the MKO.

•Thank you very much for your efforts. The Supreme Leader’s comments on the enemies’ "soft war" necessitate exploring the MKO’s role in this regard.

•Quite informative! I never imagined that the MKO had done so many bad to us. Woe to the West that removed it from the terror list.

November 29, 2009 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq stands firm on swift MKO expulsion

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has urged Mujahedin-e Khalq organization to immediately leave the country, saying Baghdad had no place for the MKO.

The Iraqi government and parliament have a resolve to expel members of the notorious group Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki after they committed crimes against the Iraqi people, exercised terrorism, cooperated with the Bathists and interfered in domestic affairs, said a statement by al-Maliki’s office.

The statement added that Iraq would not allow the MKO members to stay permanently in the residents of the group’s training camp in eastern Iraq, known as Camp Ashraf.

The statement came after a meeting held between al-Maliki and the new President of the International Red Cross mission in Iraq McKenna Bart.

Some 3,500 MKO members are held in a camp under the control of the Iraqi security forces.

The MKO is the most hated grouplet among both the Iranian and the Iraqi nations, and suffers from total unpopularity in these two countries.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization, which blended elements of Marxism and Stalinism, was founded in Iran in the 1960s but was exiled some twenty years later over terrorism.

The group masterminded a torrent of terrorist operations inside Iran, one of which was the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in which more than 72 Iranian officials were killed.

A 2007 German intelligence report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has identified the MKO as a "repressive, sect-like and Stalinist authoritarian organization which centers around the personality cult of [MKO leaders] Maryam and Masoud Rajavi".

The Iraqi premier touched upon mass graves contained Kuwaiti nationals who had fallen victim to the Ba’ath regime’s seven month-long invasion of Kuwait and said, "The issue of missing Kuwaitis is a humanitarian and not political case."

He expressed Iraq’s full readiness to "cooperate with our brothers in Kuwait."

He said that Iraq remains committed to cooperation on missing Kuwaiti property and money in letters previously sent to the United Nations and the Kuwaiti government aimed at putting an end to this humanitarian issue.

A mass grave, discovered in the headquarters of the MKO in Iraq in August, cast light on the crimes the terrorists committed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

If confirmed, the reports would expose MKO complicity in Saddam Hussein’s war on Kuwait, which killed more than 3,664 Iraqis and 1,000 Kuwaitis
MKO leaders are said to have kept the mass grave a secret so far by refusing the entry of Iraqi forces into their base.

The grisly discovery came at a time when scores of regional correspondents were granted a permit by the Iraqi government to prepare a report from Camp Ashraf, where MKO dissidents were stationed for more than two decades.

November 25, 2009 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Saddamist lobby’s lies exposed in U.K. parliament

[Iran-Interlink – The MKO do not have Protected Persons status under the Fourth Geneva Convention. The group has no legal status in Iraq. The U.N. has refused to give them refugee status in Iraq.

The Government of Iraq has stated that the relocation of the 3,400 MKO members in Camp Ashraf to a place distant from Iran’s borders is necessary for their safety. The MKO has violently resisted any attempts to enforce Iraqi law inside the camp.]

Iraq: Camp Ashraf — Question

All Lords debates on 23 Nov 2009

Saddamist lobby’s lies exposed in U.K. parliament
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale (Labour)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the Government of Iraq about their threat to use force to relocate 3,400 Iranian dissident refugees at Camp Ashraf to elsewhere in Iraq.

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
My Lords, we encourage the Iraqi authorities and the Camp Ashraf leadership to find a lasting and acceptable solution for the future of the residents. We have relayed this message to the Iraqi Government at the highest levels, including to the Iraqi Prime Minister. Camp Ashraf is in a sovereign and democratic Iraq and, ultimately, decisions on the future location of the camp are for the Iraqi Government to resolve.

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale (Labour)
Will my noble friend confirm that the United Kingdom supports the views of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, the ICRC and the UNHCR that it would further breach international humanitarian law if Iraq carried out its threat to again use violent force against defenceless Iranian refugees at Ashraf, so adding to the toll of 11 dead and hundreds injured in its July assault? Will the Government join efforts to persuade Iraq to accept a UN monitoring force at Ashraf to help talks between Iraq and the residents on their future to continue in a calm atmosphere?

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
My Lords, in light of the tragic deaths of 11 people and many others injured at Camp Ashraf on 20 July, the Government have raised the issue with the Iraqi Government seeking a review of the event. We also raised the question of a UN presence in the camp.

That was acceded to in discussions between the PMOI and the Government of Iraq and is now established, with a mission that is monitoring human rights and the humanitarian situation at Camp Ashraf, liaising with American and Iraqi counterparts as well as with the PMOI, regularly reporting on the situation to the SRSG and the OHCHR in Geneva, and assessing the possibilities and the presence of enabling conditions by the GoI-the Government of Iraq-for a later deployment of UNHCR staff and other actions as required.

Lord Waddington (Conservative)
Perhaps the noble Lord can help on this. Did Her Majesty’s Government make representations to the Iraqi authorities about the blockade of Ashraf, subsequent to the attack in July, and about the outrageous situation in which the authorities prevented even doctors from entering the camp to look after people who had been injured in the attack, or are Her Majesty’s Government washing their hands of the whole matter and saying that they no longer have any real responsibility for the people of Ashraf as protected persons under the Geneva conventions? If it is the view of Her Majesty’s Government that they have no responsibility in that regard, how did they come to that conclusion?

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
I refer the noble Lord to an answer that I gave to the noble Lord, Lord Eden of Winton, when I dealt with the whole question of the immunities that people believe exist but which do not exist in relation to Camp Ashraf. It is in sovereign Iraqi territory-a democratic state.

On the other hand, we do not resile at all from trying to ensure that humanitarian conditions exist and that assurances are kept that no one will be transferred from that camp to a country in which their lives are in danger. In that sense, we are clear about the issue. We are less clear about accusations, for which we have no independent authoritative evidence from the UN or anywhere else, that people are being prevented from having medicines and other things. If there is any hard evidence, I would be more than delighted to refer it to my Foreign Office colleagues for investigation.

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Liberal Democrat)
Why is no European nation, or North America, willing to accept any of the residents of Camp Ashraf? May it have something to do with their previous activities? Is the Minister absolutely determined either to prove that the Camp Ashraf residents cannot return to the Islamic Republic of Iran or to press European nations to bring them out? What responsibility do the Iraqi Government have to keep these former enemies of the Iraqi people?

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
The noble Baroness raises a question that has undoubtedly been the subject of considerable discussion in Iraq. People in the camp probably find no favour in the country from which they came and little favour in the country of their adoption, given their previous adherence to the regime that has now been removed. The short answer is that no one outside the country seems to show any great enthusiasm for bringing in people in Camp Ashraf. Many of them may be innocent, but there are people in that camp with a clear history of attacks in Iran-attacks which they may have now abandoned-that makes them unpopular in that country and of support for a dictator that makes them equally unpopular in Iraq.

Baroness Turner of Camden (Labour)
My Lords, is my noble friend not aware that these people have protected person status under United Nations law? That being so, would it not be possible to persuade EU countries to provide these people with refuge? These are genuine refugees who deserve protection.

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
Alas, it is not the case that people in Camp Ashraf have protected person status under the Fourth Geneva Convention. That has ceased to apply. That view is shared by the United Nations, the Government of Iraq, the United States and us. It is a mistake to believe that there is international protection for these individuals. However, that does not mean that we should abandon them to be subject to inhuman treatment or to be transferred to regimes in countries where their lives would be in danger.

Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Liberal Democrat)
My Lords, I appreciate the clarification provided by the Minister regarding the status of these people in Camp Ashraf. However, in light of the Iraqi Government’s pledge that these people will not be forcibly repatriated to Iran, have Her Majesty’s Government been in any discussions with the Iraqi Government as to whether they might be given political asylum in this country?

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
As I said, the UK Government have no locus in Iraq in relation to these people. The discussions have been held internationally through the United States, which had control prior to the ending of the Geneva Convention status. That status was given in the first place only because the Americans chose to accept and adopt it, rather than because there was any international obligation. It is clear that there is no nation-alas, it might be said-for these individuals outside the country that they are in, albeit that they are very reluctantly accepted; no other country is prepared to give residence status to them.

Lord Dholakia (Liberal Democrat)
My Lords, following the violence that was perpetrated on residents of Camp Ashraf, Members of the House of Lords met the Minister, Ivan Lewis, who promised to make representations when he visited Iraq and to convey our concern. The Minister has given the answer in relation to making representations, but what was the response of the Iraqi Government?

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
The Iraqi Government agreed to put in place an inquiry, the results of which we do not know. My ministerial colleague Ivan Lewis will visit Iraq in December and will no doubt keep the promise that he made to the noble Lord, Lord Dholakia, and colleagues to raise this issue at the highest level.

Lord Elton (Conservative)
My Lords, there are many settlements around the world of people who are unwelcome in the country from which they have fled and unwelcome in the country to which they have fled. The United Nations does a considerable job in getting them settled in third countries. What steps are we taking to assist that effort in this case?

Lord Brett (Government Whip (technically a Lord in Waiting, HM Household); Labour)
The United Nations is seeking a solution to the problem but, as I hope I have explained, it is not easy when the country of origin sees the individuals as people who attack them and the country that they are in sees them as people who attack them. In that sense, we are protecting the humanitarian support for these individuals where they are and trying to ensure that they are humanely treated and not transported to other countries. But we have a very limited locus in this matter.

House of Lords, London

November 25, 2009 0 comments

Iraq

Maliki: No place for the Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he "no place for the MKO in Iraq."

According to a statement issued by Maliki’s office: "The Prime Minister today received the new President of the International Red Cross mission in Iraq McKenna Bart."

The statement quoted Maliki as saying:

"Our demand is fair, we do not force them to return to Iran and do not allow them to stay permanently in Camp Ashraf. There is no place for them in Iraq after the crimes they have committed against the Iraqi people by exercising their terrorism and because of their cooperation with the Baathists and their interference in Iraq’s domestic affairs."

On the issue of missing Kuwaitis, Maliki said: "The issue of missing Kuwaitis is humanitarian and not political, and we are fully prepared to cooperate with our brothers in Kuwait."

He continued: "We confirmed our commitment to cooperate on missing Kuwaiti property and money in letters previously to the United Nations and the Government of Kuwait, and seek to end this humanitarian issue, and seek to protect the integrity of the remains of any missing Kuwaitis."
He added: "Iraq has overcome many difficulties during the past two years, and [we see] the development and improvement on what the security situation was before."

For his part, according to the statement, the head of the Red Cross praised the developments witnessed by Iraq and Iraq’s commitment to resolving the issue of missing Kuwaitis, referring to the adoption of the International Committee of Red Cross’ joint efforts with the Iraqi government and its cooperation in this respect.

November 24, 2009 0 comments

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