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Iran-Interlink welcomes transfer of Camp Ashraf residents to Baghdad

Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh, Spokesman for the Government of Iraq (GOI), announced today that Iraq will remove residents of Camp Ashraf in Diyala province to buildings in Baghdad.

Since January 2009 the GOI has tried through negotiations with all interested parties, including the leaders of the MKO terrorist cult, to find a humanitarian outcome to the problem of closing Camp Ashraf and expelling its residents from Iraq.

Since no western country has been willing to take any of the MKO members, Iraq has looked inside its own borders for a solution. Several locations have been proposed and rejected by the local councils and officials for the same reasons as stated by western officials. The Americans have been trying to keep the group in Iraq, but according to advice from Iran-Interlink, the transfer of the MKO members from one closed camp to another will not provide a viable solution.

Instead, Iran-Interlink welcomes the dismantlement of the MKO’s Camp Ashraf garrison and the removal of its residents to the city of Baghdad. The residents of Camp Ashraf, many of whom have not left its confines for two decades, will now be able to return to normal society – albeit not their own.

Returning these reclusive, enslaved individuals back to live among ordinary people will allow them to reconnect with normality and begin to think for themselves. The spell of cult manipulation will be broken and they will be able to make contact again with their families, with one another and with the present. They can then have the freedom to decide for themselves when offered whatever choices there are for their futures.

The transfer of Camp Ashraf residents to buildings in Baghdad represents a significant step forward in finding an eventual humanitarian solution to the necessary expulsion of the MKO from Iraq.

In this light, any violent resistance –as happened in July – will be the responsibility of the cult leaders and their western backers. The death toll of 14 US soldiers, 11 MKO members and 2 Iraqi police is already on their account.

Reported by AFP, December 10, 2009:
Iraq to transfer Iranian dissident group to Baghdad
Iraq will move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the border between the two countries to Baghdad, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

"We will move residents of Camp Ashraf to buildings in Baghdad on Tuesday," he said, without giving details.
The members of the People’s Mujahedeen have lived at Camp Ashraf, a refugee base in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, for more than 20 years.

Iraqi security forces launched an operation to take over the camp in July.
The group was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran and subsequently fought the clerical regime that ousted him in the 1979 Islamic revolution.

About 3,500 Mujahedeen and their families have lived in Ashraf since former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the Iranian opposition to set up bases on his territory during his 1980-88 war with Tehran.

Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, American forces disarmed the Mujahedeen in Ashraf and placed the residents under protection.

Iraq’s increasingly independent government has moved to take charge of the site.

December 12, 2009 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Become acquainted with a sect called MKO

An Iranian opposition group called People’s Mujahedin (MKO). It had a base in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and cooperated closely with the dictator. Now it must leave the country. And sets up in Oslo.

Ebrahim Khadabandeh Ebrahim Khadabandeh. He has spent decades of his life as a member. Now he warns others against the organization.
Ebrahim Khadabandeh has bitter experiences in it. He has spent decades of his life as a member of MKO. Now he warns others against the organization.

He was a member of MKO’s international affairs. He resided in London and his main responsibility was to care contacts with British parliamentarians. The organization gives priority to such works. Ebrahim knew well how important it was in the organization’s propaganda, when the organization’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, was recently received in the Norwegian Sorting.

We owe the reader to announce that Ebrahim is on loan from Evin prison, accused of having link to an opposition organization. He was arrested on the border with Syria, with two millions of dollars in cash, which the organization wanted to ensure that it was no longer safe in Iraq. First, he detained in Syrian prison – where was the "absolutely bad", he says, before he arrived in Evin prison – as "not so bad". There, he read books among other things, about the cults and sects. He says MKO is a sect.

MKO as a sect
"You know," he says, "that at higher levels in the organization only women can be leaders. the reason externally provided is that women have been oppressed. And you want to ‘make up’ for this. But the actual reason is that Massoud Rajavi, the leader, and husband of Maryam Rajavi, fears male rivals. Women will not challenge him. "

So he has deprived male authority competition and has given women authority over men. Foremost among the women is Maryam Rajavi, his wife. Massoud calls it "an ideological revolution".

Maryam was the first woman to become another MKO leader. She was the ex- wife of the second person[Mehdi Abrishamchi] of the organization. Mehdi Abrishamchi was then obliged ‘to express his great joy’ to be able to contribute to ‘the ideological association’ between his wife and Massoud Rajavi.

Ebrahim believes it is the sign of a cult , the leader marries the wife of another leader in this way.

"Another aspect of the MKO as a sect is that you always have to follow the leader," he says. "The leader is all that matters, and everyone must follow his wishes. Maryam Rajavi says it in this way: ‘One may doubt God. But we cannot doubt Massoud. " No organization is allowed to doubt him. "

"Leader and the cause are superior to everything," said Ebrahim. "Family and children lead you away from these. Therefore, Massoud decided that the children of MKO members should be sent to other countries, to be adopted or raised there. The members did not have contact with them. Slogan was ‘All for the head!’ "

– "What happened to the children?" We ask.
– "Some will not talk about it. Others have mental problems. While others have returned to Iraq and joined the MKO. Totally, we are talking about around 1,000 people. "
He does one say may well be the rule in Iran. He does not own either. But he considers himself enticed by the MKO.

"MKO bears all the signs of a cult," he says. "It has a self-appointed leader. The organization has a totalitarian structure. The leader has complete control over all members’ lives. The organization uses manipulation techniques to influence people. "
Remains a cult

– "But how could the organization be survived as a cult for many years?”

– "The organization requires hard working by the members," he says. "The members are tired. They do not currently go. They can only read the organization’s publications. They live within cults boundaries. Psychologically, they are locked up. Most are also physically isolated. "

– "But why are you worried about the MKO as a cult?"

– "A cult is like a landmine," he says. "It can explode, and is dangerous. Landmines must be dug up. "
He said: "We have a picture of Iran, in the form of a story. It is about a scorpion and a frog. "And then he gives us the story:

"Scorpion was over a river. But it could not swim and then asked a frog to sit on its back. ‘But you’re a scorpion,’ said the frog. ‘Out on the river, you can stab me. “‘Then I drown myself,’ said the scorpion. So the frog let it sit on.

In mid-river, the scorpion stings him, dooming the two of them. ‘Why did you do that? “ Asked the frog. The other said: ‘I am when I sting! Because I am a scorpion.’ “
Ebrahim says its cool logic, unpredictable and dangerous.

Cult changing faces
He said MKO has several faces. And show the face based on whom they are talking to. When they speak to people in the West, take up the democratic and secular. But their face is "Islamic" and militants, when they see the benefit from it.

"Massoud does not believe in a fixed opinion or ideology," he says. "Massoud is out of power. He is obsessed with the idea of becoming leader of Iran. "

– "Will he be there?"

– "MKO has no support in Iran, and will not be able to take power alone. They are dependent on help from others. Now they addressed themselves to the United States, and ask the U.S. to use them. They want the U.S. to give money and support, as Saddam Hussein did before. But the United States hesitates, for they know that the MKO is a cult. "

MKO or Rajavi group as it is called is now looking for an office in Oslo. They invite you to seminars and meetings. We will certainly hear more from them.

By Trond Ali Linstad 05/06/2008 – Tranalsted by Nejat Society

December 9, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO plots against the Iraqi people fail

While Iranian students protest their government, MKO plots against the Iraqi people fail

Just as the MKO (aka NCRI) had no presence in Iran during the protests following Iran’s June elections, this time on 7th December (16th Azar – the day of national student protests) the MKO were also nowhere to be found. Instead, the next day, after trawling the Iranian newspapers for lists of protests throughout Iran, Maryam Rajavi kindly and thoughtfully (in case we didn’t know) informed the world through her websites that many Iranians vehemently and vocally oppose their government.

Without doubt the era of Rajavi’s association with Iranian politics has come to its inevitable end. Indeed, since 2002 the MKO have had no involvement in Iranian affairs except as second-hand news peddlers.

Still, the group is extremely active, lobbying parliaments and media. But on what issue?
The simple answer is – Iraq. The MKO’s websites are focused on Iraq and the cult’s situation there. The latest legal straw the group is grasping at is to somehow exploit an aspect of Spanish law which deals with international issues. But with no connection to Spain and no legal status in the international community except as a terrorist entity, the MKO really does not have any realistic hope that Spanish law can be used to force the Government of Iraq to allow it to remain as a terrorist group in their country. No doubt this will be a deep disappointment to the MKO’s backers and advocates – particularly those in the European Parliament.

Now, another huge blow has been dealt the MKO as Iraq’s parliament has unanimously approved a new electoral law, paving the way for elections early next year. Although the US’s RAND report makes it clear that the MKO should have been disbanded in 2003, the Americans have preserved and promoted the group for a specific task – to facilitate the eventual return of pro-western elements (such as former Saddamists) into the Government of Iraq.

Since 2003, the MKO’s base at Camp Ashraf has been the meeting place for former Saddamists, insurgent Baathists and Al Qaida in Iraq. Countless meetings have taken place under the eyes of the American soldiers at the camp – 14 of whom lost their lives protecting the MKO.

No surprise then that at the start of the new European parliament, well-known MKO lobbying MEPs, Mr Struan Stevenson and Mr Alejo Vidal-Quadras, made a significant leap from membership of the Iran Delegation to sit on the Iraq Delegation, where Mr Stevenson is Chairman.

One of the issues to be raised as an immediate concern in the Iraq Delegation’s first meeting in September was not the desperate plight of 31+ million Iraqis suffering massive bomb blasts and consequent insecurity (let’s generously assume that was a given concern) but to support the demands of the MKO leaders to keep their 3400 Iranian cult members trapped in Camp Ashraf in Diyala province.

Members of the Iraq Delegation plan to visit Iraq in early January. But by the time the second meeting of the Iraq Delegation was held in November, the Chair, Mr Stevenson , had been invited to visit Jordan – where the former Saddamist Baathists including Izzat Ebrahim, Massoud Rajavi and Saddam Hussein’s family have taken refuge – to “have an exchange of views with various political figures involved in the political process in Iraq”.

Mindful that the MKO will not be able to remain in Iraq and a new terrorist base will have to be found for the cult, while he was in Jordan, Mr Stevenson again raised the issue of the MKO in Iraq and how they could be helped. Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered that Mr Stevenson “could resolve the situation by offering all 3400 PMOI refugees visas to come to live in Scotland!” No doubt this was not the kind of help Mr Stevenson was looking for.

The MKO’s activities are currently linked to their role in Iraq. The group has been used as a cover to meddle in Iraq’s political process and facilitate – through a violent insurgency – an increase in the role of Saddamists in the country. The agenda has not been successful and the demise of the MKO to those promoting this agenda is sad but inevitable. It remains to be seen who will have the heart to rescue the 3400 cult members who have so far had no say in their situation and no escape from their exploitation.

Although it was not seriously expected that Mr Stevenson offer asylum to the whole MKO in Scotland, it is surely not unreasonable that these people be offered asylum and dispersed between the many European countries which make up the European Union.

December 9, 2009 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi symbol of suppression and disappointment

I was surfing the Internet when I got to see the story of Maryam Qajar Azdanlou [Rajavi] on YouTube where the cult of Rajavi [MKO] has flattered her to the extreme extent. Although Mrs. Azdanlou is one single individual, the cult has portrayed her with various personalities such as a saint, heroic and political woman. What is the fact?

Maryam Qajar Azdanlou, actually inherited her Mujahed background from her sister Narges who, according to an Iranian journal “Partow e Iran”, killed herself by swallowing a cyanide capsule after she was at risk of being arrested by security forces of Shah, before the Islamic Revolution. After the revolution her sister Maryam was lucky to enjoy the advantages of the so-called presidency of National Council of Resistance. Then after the alleged ideological revolution in the 1980’s, she started a new wave of massacre in her movement. She even dedicated her emotional life and her family to sacrifice the fighters of resistance.

In the late twentieth century with her ideological revolution, she led her cult to its darkest days as in the middle-age. She ruined any freedom in Camp Ashraf and even all aspects of members’ lives; instead she replaced suppression and detection of opinion among them.

Maryam Qajar sharpened the edge of her suppressive sward towards the captured women of the cult. She has to deprive them from their basic rights to maintain her cult. She has theorized her revolution as the following: Human’s nature is originated from evil so suppression is a blessing for them. She humiliates the members and tries her best to capture their minds in depression and disappointment. Yes, Maryam Qajar Azdanlou is the symbol of suppression and disappointment for a dark future.

Her suppressive approach and her historical personality characterize her as a completely distinguished woman.

Maryam Qajar Azlanlou has dedicated her life for manipulating the members’ minds to change them into main generating motors of suppression and massacre of generations.
In 2003, she was jailed in France for 15 days but she was never treated badly there. The MKO made too much fanfare to release Maryam Rajavi, launching a wave of self immolations. But, what about those dissident members who are in the organization’s prisons and are tortured every day

It is funny that MKO labels Maryam as ‎Jeanne d’Arc who struggled for freedom of her country and was imprisoned and tortured because for the cause of her nation. Which part of Maryam’s life is similar to Jeanne d’Arc?

They also compare her with Martin Luther king. What a ridiculous comparison! Today former members are denouncing her true face so no one would believe her nonsense. As they described in their memoires of their membership in the cult, Maryam Rajavi orders the female members to bear hysterectomy operation in order to kill the least hope for emotions and family life in the women’s heart.

Translated by Nejat Society

December 8, 2009 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Rajavi’s big lies and misinformation apparatus

Rajavi’s disinformation apparatus, like its other misleading networks, are engaged in never ceasing propaganda, political and cultic activities in an attempt to influence on public opinion through the distorted information. The least thing observed in this ever-going blitz is ethics, that is to say, Rajavi is strictly adhering to Machiavellian codes to use available means to achieve objectives. What is most vivid in Rajavi’s ethical values in his conducts is novel definitions for these values like trustfulness, veracity and honesty.

To what extent can Rajavi be trusted in ethical considerations requires a thorough unearth of his ideological principles in this respect. In practice, it is a matter of fundamental inconsistency in the normative ethics and Rajavi defines ethics according to the interests and goals he attempts to achieve. In his newly defined ethical literature, the unethical can be identical with the ethical in the same way that wrong and right can be.

As defined in one of the organization’s early ideological, instructional pamphlets, “right can be transformed according to certain time and setting conditions”. Also “It might be possible that some means is right to use in certain conditions since it helps to achieve an end”. “There is another condition wherein the very same means is wrong because it can no more lead us to accomplish our ends.”

Thus, consistency, which is the hallmark of ethics, is absent in Mojahedin’s literature of ethics that is full of contradictions. Ethics requires consistency in the sense that our moral standards, actions, and values should not be contradictory. Examining Mojahedin’s ethical standards uncover inconsistencies that totally go against the standard values.

Stated by Rajavi, “all phenomena are constantly changing and moving and none are consistent”. No doubt, Rajavi’s inductions play a decisive role in his relations with the outside world and he has been facing a big challenge for his publicity as a violator of dominant ethical standards. Even Americans through multitudes of reports on Mojahedin have repeatedly reiterated the duality of the organization in its conducts and relations. Regardless of few advocates that try to criticize propagations they believe to be aimed at discrediting the organization, there is a broad consensus on the untrustworthiness of Mojahedin and that, they adhere to Machiavellian ethical codes to accomplish their ends.

As an evidence, take Rajavi’s message of November 4 in which he, concerning Camp Ashraf, states:
Mojahedin in Ashraf welcome the present Iraqi Government’s plan to be transferred to a third country from among the country members of the European Union or the United States.
Reading these lines, one may come to believe that the Iraqi Government has already conferred with the mentioned states to reach an agreement for the relocation of Ashraf residents. That is true that the Iraqi Government welcomes any country that will accept the organization but it has never named any certain host so far. Furthermore, the authorities have asserted that none of the 25 countries they have engaged in talks on behalf of Mojahedin to host it have agreed to accept the group. We do not know the basics of his claims but his misinformation will have their effect as he intends.

Here is another excerpt from his message:
The Iraqi Government must respect the rights of Ashraf residents according to the European Parliament’s Resolution issued on 24 April 2009 until they are transferred to the U.S. member countries of the E.U.

Some may infer that the message points to the alternates of the organization’s relocation settings agreed by the EU’s Resolution while it has nothing to do with the host countries but requiring the Iraqi Government to respect the rights of Ashraf residents. A look at the EU’s Resolution talks for itself.

Somewhere else he states:
The fighters of the National Liberation Army (NLA) surrendered 20 thousand pieces of arms and 20 thousand tones of ammunition to the American forces as a deal to give them protection until the ultimate solution.

Those who are unaware of the consequent invasion of the coalition forces and the seizure of the arms depots in Ashraf by American forces may be misled by such words that may imply the organization has surrendered its arms willingly to guarantee the camp’s security and that, the arms will be returned to them after its issue has been dealt with. It seems that Rajavi has learned his lessons associated with propaganda, conjuring lies and deceit from the known instructor of them, that is Joseph Goebbels; a master of the "Big Lie” who is quoted “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”. And in fact, it has been the infrastructure of Rajavi’s propaganda machine at least during the past thirty years.

December 8, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MKO terrorist leader in Norwegian Parliament

Iranian opposition leader in Parliament
But her organization is on the U.S. terrorist list.

In front of a small fan was the Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi welcomed when she arrived in Parliament on Thursday. Rajavi is in Oslo for talks on the situation in Iran – both on the human rights front, and when it comes to the country’s nuclear program. She would particularly ask for Norwegian support to a camp for exile iranians in Iraq.

“I came here to ask the Norwegian government for help prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of historical dimensions in the Camp Ashraf, Iraq, "said Rajavi.
Iranian opposition leader in Parliament But her organization is on the U.S. terrorist list.
Bipartisan support
Rajavi was very well received in the Parliament. A smiling Marit Nybakk (Labor) gave the Iranian exile leader a hug, and in foreign and defense committee, she met representatives from the Labor Party, Progress Party and the Christian Democrats.

Morten Høglund of Progress Party believed there had been a good and constructive meeting.
“We talked about the situation in Ashraf, but also about the situation in Iran in general. I think everyone who works with foreign affairs are concerned about the situation in Iran,” said Høglund after the meeting.

In the U.S. terror list
But Rajavi is a controversial figure: The group she leads, the People’s Mujahedin, should have been behind a series of terrorist acts against the Iranian and Western targets over the years. According to the United States, she leads a terrorist organization.

– What thoughts do you think is behind the designation of this organization as terrorist by the US?

– I have discussed with the Americans many times, and I think they are absolutely wrong. I am very pleased that the EU no longer has this attitude. I see this organization as an ally in the fight for a free and democratic Iran, "said Morten Høglund.

Terror
But religion researcher at the University of Oslo, Kari Vogt, looks completely different on the group leader Rajavi. Religious Researcher Kari Vogt says there is no doubt that the People's Mujahedin has conducted terrorist acts

Religious Researcher Kari Vogt says there is no doubt that the People’s Mujahedin has conducted terrorist acts.

– Have they been behind the terrorist acts?

– Of course, they have,. They are a military movement based in Iraq and who collaborated with Saddam Hussein. For this reason they are seen as traitors in Iran, "said Vogt.

Limited support
The organization was formed in the 1960s, and helped to overthrow the Shah-board during the revolution in 1979. But soon they also ended up in conflict with Ayatollah Khomeini and his regime.

In the 80s, they fought on Saddam’s side in the war between Iran and Iraq. Today, the People’s Mujahedin is the largest group in the Iranian opposition umbrella organization National Council of Resistance of Iran of which Rajavi is also the leader.

Although Rajavi said that she leads a credible alternative to the regime in Tehran, and that the Islamic Republic have forced the U.S. to lead the People’s Mujahedin to the terrorist list.

“We were labled as terrorists by Mullah’s office. This is a benefit Europe and the United States have given to mullahs. This party means the end of Khamenei and Ahmadinejads regime …"said Rajavi.

Authoritarianism motion
When the U.S. is trying to appease the Iranian regime, Vogt was asked, who believes that the statement falls on its own absurdity.

“ This is definitely not a democratic alternative to the present regime. On the contrary, they are known for great an authoritarian movement with an emphasis placed on personality cult, "says Vogt.

Removed from EU terror list
People’s Mujahedin was earlier this year removed from EU terror list after a long struggle in the legal system. In 2008, it provoked strong reactions among British politicians, including Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, then a judicial chair ordered the United Kingdom to remove the organization from its terrorist list.

Religious historian Kari Vogt believes nevertheless Norwegian politicians are betting on the wrong horse when they meet Rajavi.

“They have very limited support inside Iran. They have indeed supported in part by the exile community in Europe and the United States, but not inside the country. They do not represent the real opposition now. I think it is problematic, and in my opinion, politically compromised to meet this movement, "says Vogt.

Translated by Nejat Society

December 7, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

The process of MKO Decline

When in 1986 Massoud Rajavi ,leader of Mujahedin Khalq Organization went to Iraq with a lot of fanfare and hype, his flight from France to Iraq was called as heroic and was considered as a great victory for their so-called struggle against the Islamic Republic.

The propaganda system of the organization failed to note that Rajavi actually fled to Iraq since the French government had ordered him to leave France due to the request made by Islamic Republic.

However, the move was titled as strategic because Iran was in war with Iraq at that time so the leaders of MKO had to spend a lot of time presenting reasoning for their supporters who were shocked by the organization sheltering before the enemy that had invaded their nation.

It was too difficult to justifythe treason MKO committed against its compatriots during the eight years of war between Iran and Iraq. When MKO succeeded to launch some operations against Islamic Republic buildings and authorities (in which a lot of innocent civilians were also killed) some other supporters could diminish their doubts and leave their homes in different parts of the world to join the group.

There were also a lot of other unfortunate recruits who were recruited by deceitful methods of MKO after they could not get refugee status in other countries and joined MKO as the last resort.
In 1986 when Islamic Republic accepted the UN ceasefire resolution 598 which consequently meant that Iraq could no longer be used as a place to launch operations , MKO started declining. The process lasted until the fall of Saddam Hussein. It was the worst incident that could happen to MKO since it was very clear that the ones who would achieve power in Iraq are those who opposed Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party and also his accomplice, Mujahedin Khalq who cooperated with him in the suppressive operations against Kurds and Shiites of Iraq. Thus, the situation got the worst.

MKO leaving Iraq means accepting a huge strategic mistake that the ideological leader made 30 years ago. And that’s what Massoud Rajavi has done in his latest message on the occasion of Aban 13th( the anniversary of the US embassy takeover in Tehran in 1979) he declared that MKO is ready to leave Iraq and of course he asked for 200 million dollars as blackmail.

As Camp Ashraf is the symbol of MKO’s existence and so –called ideology, losing Ashraf equals the loss of everything for the leaders. The members have always been told to defend Ashraf in any circumstances. They were ordered to lay down in front of vehicles driven by Iraqi Police when they raided Camp Ashraf on July 28th. They were told to sacrifice themselves to keep the Camp.

Now Rajavi’s new message has left the members in a new contradiction. Since to MKO members Rajavi is an infallible saint leader who never makes mistake; they are not allowed to think of the possibility of his fault.

The leader of the cult never cares about what will happen to Ashraf residents, who have to pay the price of their leaders’ ambitions. Once their opportunist leader sheltered near the notorious Saddam Hussein, they were convinced to go to Iraq too as a heroic, strategic move. Today, designated as a terrorist organization it is hard to make third government accept them!

By Mazda Parsi

December 5, 2009 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Secrets that may slink out of Ashraf

The countdown to quitting Camp Ashraf started, the case is a matter of great magnitude to turn attention to. The significance lays in the fact that at least for nearly thirty years the organization’s main bastion in Iraq has been active headquarters of militarism and, after the fall of Saddam, multilateral espionage because of its geopolitical location and Mojahedin’s skill in the profession. Although now an accumulation camp of some disarmed members of a once liberation army, Ashraf preserves its importance for Rajavi because of its potentialities in implementing suicide threats and formation of human shields that may lead to some crises. Possibly, Rajavi’s insistence on the strategic significance of the camp is a ploy to deflect the attention of the Iraqi Government from what is much noteworthy than a piece of land.

Going back over the organization’s past four-decade history demonstrates an undeniable fact that it did not hesitate to be engaged in espionage activities and attempts to infiltrate into the most sensitive security-protective establishments of the governments and social organizations to gather information it justified to be utilized for organizational, ideological and revolutionary interests but abused for terrorist and cultic purposes. For sure, during its three decade-long settlement in Iraq the country has been vulnerable to such activities which have been substantially expanded after the fall of Saddam to walk out of the encountered stalemates in collaboration with other terrorist groups. At least this information could habitually work as effective precautionary measures to react just in good time.

The Iraqi Government should have monitored Mojahedin to ascertain the breakdown of such potentiality but, unfortunately because of Americans sham conflict with Mojahedin who benefited their support, the government failed to make any scrutiny into the camp to discover what was really going on therein, where Mojahedin claimed to be a residing place and nothing more. Only an access to the pile of the existing documents in Ashraf can reveal to what degree the organization has been engaged in spying and intelligence activities that are tied to Iraq’s present and future, documents that Iraq may have classified as top secret and would expose Mojahedin to charges of treason.

Almost all the countries that were in some variance with Mojahedin had to deal with such trouble. France is one example that is still grappling with the consequences of Mojahedin’s presence on its soil. The reports of the DST (French Counter-intelligence), some parts of which have been released publically, well indicate that the country has hardly been immune to intelligence activities of the organization. Noteworthy about Ashraf, no responsible authority and forces have done a thorough search of the camp and the organization’s quantity of hardware and software that may contain sensitive documents and information which can be easily carried out of the camp unnoticed and under the cover of the organization’s properties. It will not be wrong to say that Ashraf is an unearthed centre of accumulated secrets and untold not only about the mysteries of Saddam’s reign but post-Saddam events that played a role to deter restoration of security to war and terrorism worn Iraq. Some do not heed warnings as they may believe that a disarmed terrorist group is like a fangless viper but Mojahedin are professionals in intelligence activities, a threat identical with terrorist operations and even exceed the danger.

Being disarmed, Mojahedin’s alternative for military operation has been an energetic involvement in intelligence activities. Of course, any probe may fail to discover very sophisticated equipment and apparatuses needed for such activities, but the organization’s potentiality easily solves the question of equipment as it has in the past and in the course of its struggle. Testimonies by the ex-members are the best evidences to fathom the organization’s intelligence menace. Engaged in a struggle against the Pahlavi’s regime, the organization exploited a variety of methods to intrude and eavesdrop on the regime’s systems, security and confidential conversations. Here are assertions of intelligence intrusions dating back nearly to thirty years ago exposed by Saeed Shahsandi.

We would eavesdrop on all SAVAK’s controlled six zones in Tehran and would record all their reports sent to their headquarters. We had also succeeded to have access to radio frequencies of SAVAK’s operation and hunting teams to gain information and thus, little by little we had an accumulation of accurate information about personal information of SAVAK’s ranking officers.

Our hold was so influential that we had exact information about the operation teams and knew many ranking SAVAK officers by name and tone of their voice.

Moniri Javid (a member of Mojahedin) had developed an ordinary tape recorder into a device that could automatically trace the radio frequencies and record conversations.
We had built devices as small as a pocket radio. It could be easily turned into a wireless radio and so sophistically it had been designed that hardly any professional technician of the Counter-Saboteur Committee could distinguish it from an ordinary radio.

I am not exaggerating when I say how we gathered information. I remember recording conversations of Dr. Iqbal’s driver checking in room in Mashad Hotel Hite for his mistress. Or the conversations of Abdol-Majid Majidi, a Minister in Hoveyd’s cabinet, and many other authorities of the ousted regime.

Our gathered information included a list of hundreds and thousands agents infiltrated into offices and organizations, accurate reports of the wanted or arrested people and students and the reports of many labor and social protests by SAVAK sent to its headquarters. So precise and up to date were the information that sometimes we had to deliberately change some parts to reduce the sensitivity and suspicious before publishing them for the public.

Reza Rezaee would reiterate that the gathered information were of the highest strategic importance to the organization and worth of a few lives to safeguard them.

Our eavesdropping equipment referred to as “silent” as well as a security bulletin published under the guidance of Sharifvaqifi effectively safeguarded the organization against unexpected strikes. The bulletin’s paper was so thin that could be easily destroyed if subjected to a danger.

As stated, such activities belong to the organization’s early days of struggle and no doubt it has made significant progress in many fields. Another point, it never lets precious experiences and potentialities idle whenever it has opportunities to utilize them for its interests; it is the extent of these intelligence and security information that remains a matter of obscurity. The Iraqi Government needs to be more watchful before the secrets and data slink out of Ashraf.

December 5, 2009 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi official: Spain welcome to host Washington backed MKO

We can only wonder whether the army of lawyers acting on behalf of the Mojahedin-e Khalq cult does not in fact exceed the number of people in the organisation itself. Putting aside the obvious question as to where the money comes from to pay for two such armies, we can see that in recent weeks the MKO’s lawyers have been very busy.

The MKO, backed by the Israeli lobby and various neoconservatives, has tried to exploit a loophole uncovered in Spanish law in order to manufacture a ‘victory’ with which to dupe the cult’s victims – that is, its membership.

According to El Pais, the argument put to a Spanish Judge (who apparently does not read newspapers) to accept a court case on behalf of the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist cult against the elected Government of Iraq, is based on the well-worn fabricated lie that the MKO’s cult members in Iraq enjoy protected persons status under the United Nations Fourth Geneva Convention.
The UN has repeated ad nauseum that no such status applies to the group.

The Government of Iraq has so far ignored this attempt by the Israeli lobby to meddle in relations between Spain and Iraq, and has seen the reality through the clouds. Indeed, nobody who has any knowledge of the MKO would imagine that this is anything more than a three day propaganda offensive designed to shore up the remnants of the Saddam regime to irk the Iraqis who refuse to hand over their country to Saddamists.

An aside by an Iraqi official to Iran Interlink tells the story. “There is no mention of a Spanish judge in our constitution”, he quipped. ”But we are quite clear that the MKO is illegal in our country. If Spain would like to host the MKO on its own soil, they are welcome to them!”

Iran Interlink believes that the support of the Israeli lobby and neoconservatives given to the notorious terrorist Rajavi cult, and the concomitant misuse of the democratic institutions of European countries will not result in anything greater than the protracted suffering for the individuals trapped in Camp Ashraf in Iraq and their families who are unable to free them because of this support.

Report from EI Pais:

High Court takes on case against Iraqis accused of attacking Iranians
JOSÉ YOLDI, 02 December 2009
El Pais – English Edition

Justice system admits lawsuit despite no links to Spain or Spaniards
A Spanish High Court judge has accepted a lawsuit against a contingent of Iraqi forces who deliberately attacked a group of 3,500 unarmed Iranian civilians in a refugee camp on July 28 and 29, causing 11 deaths and more than 450 serious injuries.

This is the first suit involving the principle of universal jurisdiction to be accepted in Spain following the October 15 reforms that set limits on Spanish courts’ ability to try such cases. The new legislation establishes that the case must have some relevant link to Spain, such as the victims being Spanish nationals or the crime being perpetrated on Spanish soil.

But in this case there is no such connection. Joan Garcés, the lawyer who presented the lawsuit, invoked a segment of the law that adds "without prejudice to the international treaties and conventions subscribed to by Spain." The Fourth Geneva Convention for the protection of civilians in times of war obliges states to pursue serious violations of this principle anywhere in the world.
Article 146 of the convention specifies that each of the signatories "shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts."
High Court Judge Fernando Andreu admitted this line of reasoning and petitioned Iraqi legal authorities to disclose whether there was already an ongoing case there relating to the attack on the Iranians on Iraqi soil.

The public prosecutor, Pedro Martínez, opposed letting the High Court take on the case because of the nonexistent link to Spain and due to the fact that there is no proof that Iraqi courts are not already handling the case.

But, given the lack of such proof, Andreu has decided that rather than rejecting the lawsuit outright, the court should first determine whether another penal case is already underway in Iraq, in which case the Spanish case would be dropped.

December 3, 2009 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Quitting Iraq, a matter of reasoning or retreat for MKO

What Rajavi reiterated after the fall of Saddam as Mojahedin’s main patron in the region is the resistance of Camp Ashraf and he has repetitively stated that the resistance of Ashraf means a global resistance. He has, however, realized that, according to the existing agreements, he has to sooner or later evacuate Ashraf to move to another country. The retreat to submit to the legal demands, although there were threats of some human tragedy to some extent, indicates that Rajavi has at last come to be logical and reasonable although hard to believe.
Quitting Iraq, a matter of reasoning or retreat for MKO
Regardless of all merits, there are inevitable consequences but one thing is for certain that one can be optimistic about the political, ideological and strategic outcomes of departure from Ashraf. Rajavi’s consent denotes that nothing will change in the world whether Ashraf residents resist or leave and that, he has to submit to Iraqi Government’s determination to carry out its decision; a complete negation of his chanted slogans calling Ashraf the ideological bulwark of the organization. Our concern here is not the negative consequences but how a promising prospect can it be for Rajavi if he yields to the opportunity.

Evacuation of Ashraf is tantamount to an end to the adopted strategy of the liberation war to overthrow the regime. To put it in a nutshell, Rajavi insisted to preserve Camp Ashraf as he believed it was the main concentration of the forces ready for the ripe time to overthrow the regime. He put his theory into practice through a number of military operations, namely Chelcheragh (Blazing Light), Aftab (the Sun) and Forugh Javidan (the Eternal Light). Although none of them brought the least success for him, this was the main reason that made him move and settle in Iraq close enough to the borders for the purpose. Consequently, relinquishing the possession of Ashraf implies that the organization has reached the end of a 24 year-long propagation attempt of legitimizing the strategy of the liberation army. And the paid price has been the life of at least half of the members for no gain. How will Rajavi accept his errs and sit to a self-criticism is a matter of future but of course nobody expects him to feel under any obligation to reveal truths and facts.

Thus, the armed strategy of liberation hitting its end, since the organization must abandon its concentration camp, what will Rajavi’s alternative will be? Relocation of Ashraf to any other land necessarily means that an alternative is crucial to the survival of the organization. Can it be a thorough negation and renouncement of the ideologically inwoven armed strategy to replace it with a purely political one identical to other active opposition in abroad? An irrevocable decision as it may seem, it is far more logical for Rajavi to concede rather than to engage himself in any violent backlash to counteract the crises before him.

He must adapt himself to the situation willingly or unwillingly though not entirely unexpected. No doubt, he cannot establish a similar military camp anywhere and no land will admit his companions unless Rajavi has absolutely renounced armed strategy and violent struggle and completely disarmed. He has to make it clear about his alternative method of struggle now that he has decided to abolish the ideologically militarist centre.

It is the prerequisite of settlement in the US or any other European or non-European country since no land permits the seeds of violence and discord sown on its soil unless it is itself an advocate of violence and a danger to the global peace. Even if an adopted tactic, the consequent impact on the organization will not be something of trifle; the minimum of this will be an avalanche-like separation and desert of the insiders or possible inter-organizational schisms.

The last point, Rajavi’s decision should not receive remonstrant and scornful responses since any wise and logical decision deserves encouragement be it from Rajavi’s part or else. The least one can expect is a remarkable decrease in possible, consequent costs of such relocation.

December 1, 2009 0 comments

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