Opponents of delisting say it serves no useful purpose, saying that MEK’s alignment with Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war has led to it being universally reviled…They say that delisting would only needlessly provoke Iran during a period of sensitive negotiations over making its nuclear program more transparent.
Maryam Sanjabi, a former ringleader of the MKO aka MEK/PMOI, said based on the agreements held between MKO ringleaders and Iraq’s officials in 1987, Saddam’s regime allocated the revenues gained from selling 50,000 barrels per day of oil to the MKO in addition to arms and logistic support.
We continue to review the MEK’s designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in accordance with the D.C. Circuit’s July 2010 decision and applicable law. Our review includes all relevant materials, including extensive materials provided by counsel to the MEK. At the conclusion of the review, the Secretary will make a decision regarding the designation…
Those backing the MEK /MKO/PMOI have staged a very expensive campaign to call for the group to be removed – a move that would enable the MEK itself officially to lobby Congress the BBC’s Bahman Kalbasi has previously reported.But detractors say the government should not bow to the group, saying ample evidence remains to justify keeping them on the terror list…
The United States designated the MKO as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. The group has appealed to be taken off the list, claiming it renounced terrorism in 2001. This is while the MKO/MEK/PMOI has been confirmed to be involved in or behind several terrorist attacks against Iranian citizens since then. ..
“With regard to the black record of the terrorist group and their being frequently utilized for assassinations and massacres by former Iraq’s dictator, US and Israeli intelligence agencies, it is not inevitable that the group perpetrate terrorist acts on Syrian soil,” said Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad..
Rajavi has invested these large amounts in Western countries under the cover of front companies. Today the outcomes of such investment are spent for Maryam’s expenses in her Parisian Palace and her various fashionable clothes, as well as the group’s [MKO/MEK/PMOI] conferences and luxurious parties in Europe and the US. ..
A defected member of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) disclosed on Wednesday that the group’s ringleaders are collaborating with the leaders of Iraq’s dissident groups as well as the Al-Qaeda network in the country to topple Nuri al-Maliki’s government.
The senior member of Iraq’s National Alliance pointed to the West’s obstructionism in the MKO expulsion from Iraq, and said, “Both Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights have repeatedly proposed the expulsion of the Organization. “In fact, we wanted the expulsion of the group from the very beginning, and we have conducted negotiations with Western organizations, but they were opposed to it.”
A leading member of the Kurdistan Coalition in the Iraqi Parliament on Monday denounced allegations by some Iraqi authorities of the Kurdish officials having contact with the Mujahedin-e Khalq, calling Kurds as “the major victim of MKO’s presence in Iraq.”