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Masoud Banisadr joins Int. experts to discuss “UNDUE INFLUENCE” of extremist groups

Dr Masoud Banisadr is joining a panel of international experts at a workshop in London on the weekend of August 23-24, 2014. The workshop will address some of the major concerns relating to the undue influence of extremist groups and cults. Other participants include:

Steven Hassan – one of the world’s leading authorities on cults and undue influence, and author of two of the most acclaimed books on the subject – Combatting Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs. Steven has appeared numerous times in television programs and on radio shows to share his professional insights on undue influence as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). Steve has developed the BITE model for addressing undue influence. Freedom of minds.com

Masoud Banisadr – a representative of the group Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization (MeK). He left the MeK in 1996 and has written of his experiences in the book Masoud: Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel (and more recently Destructive/ Terrorist Cults: A New kind of Slavery). He is active in raising awareness of undue influence and its links with terrorist organisations. Banisadr.info

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PRESS CONFERENCE – August 22, 2014 at 1.30pm

On Friday August 22, before the two-day meeting a press conference will be held to draw attention to this issue, but also to highlight what some experts consider should be the approach to tackling the fallout. The press conference is for members of the press and AAWA invited guests.

Details of the press conference

22nd August 2014 at 1.30pm

London College, Victoria Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3PE

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International experts meet in London to discuss “UNDUE INFLUENCE” of extremist groups

Iran Interlink from AAwa.co

August 17, 2014 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Conflict in Iraq continues to affect residents of the Hurriya

Update No. 11

Conflict in Iraq continues to affect residents of the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location

The surge in conflict since June 2014 has continued across significant areas in Iraq. Violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, who have either moved internally or across borders to become refugees in the region. UNHCR and its partners have scaled up operations to respond to their urgent needs for protection and assistance.

The dramatic deterioration of the security situation in Iraq as a result of the fighting is equally worrying in the context of the efforts – on-going since 2011 – of UNHCR and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) to find relocation opportunities outside Iraq for former residents of Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf). Approximately 2,700 people reside in the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location (TTL) near the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP).

The residents suffered three separate rocket attacks in 2013, each of which resulted in deaths and injuries. In addition, an attack against Camp New Iraq in September 2013 left 52 dead and seven persons missing. The escalation in conflict across Iraq leaves residents of the Hurriya TTL open to significantly heightened security risks.

In light of the current situation, UNHCR urgently renews its calls upon governments of other countries to admit residents and to find ways to offer long term solutions to all. If long term solutions cannot be made available immediately, the urgent need to relocate the residents would justify an extraordinary evacuation to a temporary platform from where they could be permanently relocated to a third country. UNHCR stands ready to assist states in achieving this.

UNHCR deeply appreciates the measures taken by some countries already to relocate residents to situations of safety and security. These measures contribute greatly to international efforts to find solutions for this group of people.

UNHCR recalls that all residents of the Hurriya TTL registered with UNHCR are persons of concern to UNHCR. They are thus entitled to protection against expulsion or forced movement to any place where their lives or freedom would be threatened. The Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Iraq and the United Nations explicitly recognizes that residents benefit from the principle of non-refoulement.

UNHCR continues to call upon the Government of Iraq to take all possible measures to ensure the safety and well-being of residents, including ensuring access to life saving medical treatment.

UNHCR,Geneva

August 16, 2014 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Leading Al-Dawa Party: al-Abadi committed to expulsion of Mojahedin Khalq

A member of the political bureau of the Islamic Al- Dawa Party, Salah Abdul Razzaq, said today that Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, is determined to work toward the expulsion of the terrorist MEK from Iraq.

Salah Abdul Razzaq, the former governor of the province of Baghdad, stressed that the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi would work to end the presence of the terrorist MEK in Iraq.

Abdul Razzaq said that international bodies will work seriously with the new government to expel the MEK terrorist members and prosecute the criminal elements and restore the rights of the oppressed Iraqis.

Translated by Iran Interlink

August 16, 2014 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Press TV to air documentary on MKO leader’s sexual exploitation of female members

Three women speak about their dark secret past;

They are former members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) who have revealed shocking stories about the leaders of the terrorist cult. According to these women, all female members of the MKO were sexually abused by MKO leader Masoud Rajavi. “Comrades in Arms” is the title of a documentary which is to be aired soon on Press TV. The film that was debuted in the presence of Iranian filmmakers as well as former MKO members, investigates the sexual slavery of women and the unlawful affairs of Masouj Rajavi with female members of the cult. According to this documentary, anyone who refused Rajavi’s sexual demands would be killed. Also the three former female members narrate how couple members were forced to divorce only to be accepted into Rajavi’s circle of comrades. The MKO fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it received the backing of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up a camp near the Iranian border. The terrorist group also sided with Saddam during Iraq’s eight-year imposed war on the Islamic Republic in 1980-1988 and the massacre of Shiites and Kurds during Iraq’s uprising in 1991. The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community but there is no end in sight for its terrorist operations against the Iranian nation.

Saman Kojouri,

August 9, 2014 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

Mojahedin Khalq Leader Expresses Solidarity with Jaish-ul-Adl Terrorists

The ringleader of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI) expressed his solidarity with the Jaish-ul-Adl terrorist group.

Referring to the execution of 16 men affiliated to Jaish-Al-Adl terrorist group, Masoud Rajavi, whose whereabouts are unknown since the US invasion of Iraq, described them as their “brothers”.

Earlier in October 2013, Maryam Rajavi, the co-leader of the MKO, also released a statement condemning the execution of terrorists, while a group of Iranian border guards were killed in cold blood close to the Iranian border with Pakistan.

Jaish-Al-Adl is a Salafi extremist group which along with a number of assassinations of Iranian border guards, abducted five Iranian border guards in Jakigour region in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on February 6 and transferred them to the Pakistani territory.

The group released four of the abductees on April 6 and announced that it had killed the last one.

Iranian Interior Minister said the groups and individuals who have become playthings in the hands of spy agencies of foreign countries carry out desperate but futile measures in border regions to create insecurity.

August 5, 2014 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Three Liberty residents fled the MKO Cult

Three Camp Liberty residents managed to escape the Camp, Mojahedin.com website reported quoting informed sources.

In December 2011, the UN and Iraqi government agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf, to the Camp Liberty near Bagdad International airport, as a temporary Transit Location to be transferred to third countries.

The Iraqi government transferred the last group of Camp Ashraf residents to TTL on September 11, 2013.

Dozens of Temporary Transit Location residents have fled the Camp since the beginning of the relocation process.

August 4, 2014 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

MKO offers financial, military and logistical contributions to ISIS

The representative of the International Parliament for safety and Peace in Iraq, revealed that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) offers financial, military and logistical contributions to ISIS terrorist Tekfiris.

Heidar Ashara’, the representative of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace in Iraq told FNA reporter in Baghdad:” the MKO terrorist group has long been contributing ISIS elements. They also support the Tekfiri ISIS logistically and militarily.”

He states that recent allegations of Maryam Rajavi in favor of ISIS extremists criticizing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki proves the MKO’s involvement in the Iraqi internal affairs.

“The sides involved in Iraqi crisis include the groups linked with Al Qaida and other terrorist groups linked with former Baath regime and some Intelligence forces of regional States,” he added.

Nejat Society reporting from Fars News Agency

August 3, 2014 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

The dangerous side of the MKO rally in Villepinte

Members and sympathizers of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) together with thousands of paid non-Iranians gathered in Villepinte, Paris on June27, 2014.

Peace Association, which operates against violence and sectarian practices was invited to the event by a British body affiliated to the MKO.

Peace Association was previously accused by the MKO of working for the Iranian Intelligence Ministry after it had held a demonstration against the group in Ouver sur d’Oise, Paris!

The Association stated that it attended the MKO gathering in Villepinte to closely examine the true face of the cut-like group. “Peace Association is here in Villepinte , near its critics, in order to reveal the fraudulent fake show of the MKO,” reported Peace Association.

The Association suggested that the invitation was sent to them as actually a trap.

By the way, members of the Peace Association arrived in the gathering. They took photos and filmed the event before they were come across and beaten by the MKO agents.

“As you see, the hall is full of foreigners from Eastern Europe, homeless people, the Arabs, Chinese refugees…A few Iranians are seen,” reports Peace Association.

The invited members of Peace speak of tourists who are wondering inside and outside the hall!

“They are invited for a show, for deception and Lie!", the association wrote.

The tourists who are bused to the hall are not allowed to leave it before the event ends.

Peace Association notices a list of former French politicians who attended and/or addressed the gathering.

Attendees from Peace Association use the opportunity to denounce the terrorist Cult of Rajavi in the proper place for its pro-democracy show but they are faced with the harsh reaction of a dozen of MKO agents who beat them and force them to leave the hall.

The MKO Agents snatch their cameras and smash them. Chasing their cars they damage them. According to Peace Association the damage the MKO agents inflicted to their cars mounts to 10 thousands Euros!

“This is the true face of the MKO!”, concludes the Peace Association.

July 26, 2014 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

US politicians bribed to back MKO: Iran diplomat

An Iranian diplomat has slammed the US for backing the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), saying the terrorist group has bribed American politicians into showing public support for it.

In a column published on the USA Today daily on Thursday, Counselor and Head of Press Office for the Permanent Mission of Iran to the UN Hamid Babaei, criticized Washington for removing the MKO from the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations in 2012.

The Iranian official also highlighted the crimes perpetrated by the MKO members against the Iranian and Iraqi nations and said the support of some American political figures for the terrorists as an Iranian “opposition group” shows “their cluelessness about Iran.”

“Washington lobbyists and former American politicians and officials have accepted millions of dollars from the group…in return for which they have publicly supported” them, wrote Babaei.

He further censured the Western states for sheltering the terrorists instead of bringing them to justice for their crimes.

“It remains unclear why an organization with such a violent history would be allowed so freely to operate in many Western countries,” said Babaei, stressing that the “dual nature of standards against terrorism is likely the greatest threat being faced by international efforts to stop terrorism today.”

The MKO fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it received the backing of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up a camp near the Iranian border. The terrorist group also sided with Saddam during Iraq’s eight-year war on the Islamic Republic in 1980-1988.

The group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is notorious for committing numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.

The European Union also removed the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations in 2009 after the group filed a petition against the blacklisting in 2008.

July 13, 2014 0 comments

Iraq

Al-Ahrar Member called for international arrest warrant for MKO leaders

Baghdad – Awad Al Awadi member of the Sadrist Al Ahrar Bloc of the Iraqi Parliament, called on the Iraqi attorney general to make the Interpol issue the international arrest warrant for the leaders of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO), in particular Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.

Regarding that some of the elements of the MKO who had come from Europe Entered Iraqi territory crossing Turkey borders in order to join ISIS forces in Mosul, Al Awadi stated," This is considered a threat to Iraqi national security and the Iraqi Government has the right to persue the issue via international bodies."

Member of Iraqi National Coalition continued," We had previously warned Iraqi Government on the danger of the group’s stay in the country; these forces were developed in the arms of the fallen Baa’th dictatorship." He insisted on the necessity of encountering the MKO terrorists seriously.

AlRaie International News Agency – Translated by Nejat Society

July 9, 2014 0 comments

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