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Mr. Alamdar Shaygan joined his family

Mr. Shaygan, The most recent escapee from the notorious terrorist cult of MKO, returned home and joined his family on 4th July,2010 after twenty two years of membership in the organization, reported Nejat Society Fars Office.

Mr. Alamdar Shaygan, escaped the MKO terror group on 24th April, 2010 after 22 years, and joined the families behind the Ashraf gates.

Mr. Shaygan was welcomed warmly by his family who had been awaiting his return for many years.

Nejat Society congratulates Mr. Shaygan and his family for their reunion after long years of separation.
The complementary report will be published shortly.

July 6, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Iranian families ,after the vigil for more than four months..

After the vigil for more than four months
Iranian families: Camp Ashraf leaders’ refusal to let us see our children a violation of human rights law

After more than four months of the vigil outside the headquarters of Mojahedin called for Iranian Iranian families: Camp Ashraf leaders’ refusal to let us see our children a violation of human rights law families from Iran to the camp said the Iraqi government to end the suffering by intervention and pressure on the organization’s leaders to give them the opportunity to meet with their children, detainees inside the camp since the eighties in the last century, they said.

Ali Ramadan said that his brother has been held within the organization for a long time. He had been one of the prisoners from the Iran-Iraq war which lasted nearly eight years, adding that the former Iraqi regime had sold those prisoners to the MEK and its leadership, Massoud Rajavi, in order to bring them into the organization and help the Iraqi army in the war against Iran.

Ramadan told Reporters Network that the majority of the members of the MKO are mentally ill and have chronic diseases. He said they were suffering more than 200 medical conditions, while some were diagnosed with cancer.

Another person, Ahmed Khalaf Al-Hajri, from the province of Khuzestan in Iran said he lost touch with his brother 25 years ago while he was then a captive of the Iraqi forces in the era of the war between the two countries in Jalawla north-eastern Iraq. He said, “information reached us that he had been taken to Camp New Iraq, which they called at that time Camp Ashraf, and we did not hear anything more about him. But five years ago he called my mother. At the time, however, he did not speak with them long because he said he was surrounded by Guards and intelligence inside the camp. Al-Hajri added that most of the families within the camp did not enter with consent but have been brought force and in different ways, either by kidnapping or deception at the time of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Soraya Abdullah was also talking about the kidnapping of her son, who emigrated to Turkey illegally and was then sold to the MKO. She confirmed she has not seen her only son for five years, and says her only son left after the death of his father and she came here to expose the organization because of the actions exercised by them on the population living within the walls, amounting to torture. She refers to the strict prohibition on marriage by the organisation, a law enacted by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi. She said she will remain until she meets with her son…

Sheikh Mohammed Jassim Abdul, one of Diyala province tribal leaders, said that Camp Ashraf has around 3400 people…

He said the elders and tribes of Diyala are demanding that the government and parliament work on removing this organization as soon as possible for several reasons, including its past cooperation with the former regime of Saddam Hussein against the Iraqi people.

He considered that the MEK leaders’ rejection of families coming from Iran to see their children who were inside the camp is a violation and breach of human rights law and acts contrary to moral values.

Reporters network, Translated by Iran Interlink

July 5, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi Criminal Court issues arrest warrant against Massoud and Maryam Rajavi

The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Massoud Rajavi, head of the Mojahedin Khalq, an Iranian opposition, Arrest warrants Have also been issued against 37 others, including his wife, Maryam Rajavi, and his lieutenant Kazemi, according to (s /1/149) of 13/6/2010, Article (12) in place of Article (15) of the Code of Court No. 10 of 2005, which means that the Iraqi Interior Ministry and Interpol are notified to bring them to court.

On the other hand Diyala recognizes the sovereign responsibility of the Iraqi government and security forces and the dispensing of full security to the camp in the new Iraq Khalis district, (formerly Camp Ashraf) in place of the U.S. troops who were responsible for the inside of Camp New Iraq since the fall of the former regime in 2003.

An official ceremony took place on Friday, the 2nd July which was attended by a number of security leaders and military personnel in the Iraqi army and the U.S. within Camp New Iraq (camp Ashraf earlier) according to the implementation of the security agreement signed between Iraq and the United States for the delivery of venues and sites by the U.S. military to the Iraqi government and Iraqi military in order to achieve Iraq’s full sovereignty over its territory and be responsible for maintaining security and order throughout Iraq. The Iraqi army and the Iraqi security apparatus and the government will take responsibility as the Iraqi administration for the overall security of Camp Ashraf (Mojahedin-e Khalq).

A ceremony took place at Camp New Iraq (Camp Ashraf) in the presence of Iranian families in front of the gate of Camp Ashraf who have been there for four months. The families looked forward to the receipt of responsibility for camp Ashraf by the Iraqi government and the Iraqi security from U.S. troops, stressing that U.S. military commanders have, over the past eight years, been supporting the policies and negative attitudes of the organization and leaders within the camp, as well as not sympathising with the families from Iran, nor responding to their demands to meet their children who are detainees inside the camp without the intervention and control officials in the organization, and their rejection of the responsibility over the past years to intervene to end the suffering of families and the pressure on the organization’s leaders to allow the families of Iranian access to their children. The families hope to soon embrace their children and return them to their homes after the success of the Iraqi government and security services in regaining sovereignty and security of the Camp New Iraq (Camp Ashraf).
Translated by Iran Interlink

July 5, 2010 0 comments

Iran

Israel backed terrorist group celebrated the anniversary of their bombing campaign

Iran slams French support for Mojahedin Khalq

Days after France permitted the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) to stage a demonstration in a Paris suburb, the Iranian envoy to France criticizes the country for supporting the terrorist group.
In an interview with Radio Courtoisie of France, Iran’s Ambassador to Paris Mehdi Mir-Aboutalebi questioned the French government’s claim of support for human rights.

"While it claims to be an advocate of human rights, France supports MKO members who have appalling criminal records," IRIB quoted Mir-Aboutalebi as saying in the interview on Friday.
The Iranian ambassador called on France to provide an explanation as to why it allowed members of the MKO to celebrate on the 29th anniversary of a bombing attack in Iran, in which over 70 people were killed.

The decision by Paris to allow the MKO to hold the gathering came while the Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The attacks include the assassination of judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti and more than seventy members of the Islamic Republic Party who lost their lives in a bombing on June 28, 1981.

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

July 4, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Iranian Families of MKO victims asks Europe to ban the group

Representatives of Iranian Families of terror victims called for the European Parliament not to permit terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) to carry out any action in Europe.
The representatives also expressed their readiness to provide evidence showing the MKO crimes.

"Presence of Maryam Rajavi, one of the top leaders of the MKO in the European parliament and her speech against the Islamic Republic of Iran, created a good opportunity to reveal performance and terrorist background of the group," the representatives said in a statement.
The statement highlighted the terrorist measures of the group killing 12,000 Iranians including women and children after victory of Islamic Revolution and its help to army of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hossein and Baath regime security services.

"We as representatives and children of 16,000 families of terror victims that 12,000 thousands of them have been murdered by the terrorist group’s attacks call for you not to let the group carry out any activity based on European and international rules." "We are ready to provide you with evidence of crimes of the group."

The Iraq-based MKO is listed as a terrorist group by many international organizations and some countries.

The MKO founded in 1960s and has masterminded a large number of terrorist attacks in Iran and Iraq, killing and injuring thousands of people.

The US troops disarmed the MKO terrorists following the 2003 US-led invasion on Iraq. Members of the group are now based at Iraq’s Camp Ashraf.

Former Iranian President Mohammad-Ali Rajaei, Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, and Judiciary Chief Mohammad Husseini Beheshti are among victimes of the group’s attacks who all were assassinated in 1981.

July 4, 2010 0 comments

Iran

France’s double-dealing against terrorism

The gathering of Mojahedin Khalq terrorists and their advocates at Taverney, near Paris, on 26 June, just on the anniversary of one the group’s bloodiest terrorist operations inside Iran, has raised suspicions that the group has the support of the West who endorses its violent atrocities perpetrated against the Iranian people and the current regime. Criticizing the West double-dealing concerning the terrorist group, the daily RESALAT, in its editorial entitled “Paris paying tribute to terrorists”, says that the French government allowed Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members to hold a political rally and a political meeting in a suburb of Paris on the anniversary of the 7th of Tir (June 28) incident, which was the most infamous terrorist act in the history of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

It continues that granting permission to MKO members to hold a rally and a meeting, which endorsed terrorism and the murder of former Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti and 72 Iranian officials, once again showed that the French government is a pro-terrorist government. It also shows that the French government is aware of the atrocities committed by the MKO and endorses them. Former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton attended the MKO meeting as an unofficial on representative of the U.S. government, which was the Zionists’ expression of solidarity with the MKO. The MKO members gathered in a suburb of Paris to remind the U.S. and Europe to tighten the sanctions on Iran and to discard respect for human rights and humanitarian considerations. It seems that the U.S. and Europe were in dire need of such a reminder from the MKO.
Resalat

July 3, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi Official Reiterates MKO’s Terrorist Nature

A senior Iraqi provincial official underlined the terrorist nature of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), reminding that the terrorist group had played an active role in sparking insecurities and suppressing the people in Iraq’s Diyala province.

"MKO has played a remarkable role in creating insecurity and political disruption in Diyala province, and it had massive collaboration with former Iraqi regime to suppress the people," Uday Adnan al-Khudri, the Governor of the town of Khalis in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, said.

According to the website of the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, the Iraqi official said that a group of local authorities and tribal sheikhs have recently visited Camp Ashraf – now called as the Camp of New Iraq – to prepare the ground for a meeting between MKO members and their families but the delegation’s efforts yielded no result due to the strong opposition shown by the terrorist group’s commanders.

Khudri said that the group rejected the Iraqi side’s request for mediations for three times, saying that the group opposed the meeting in an effort to prevent defection and voluntarily return of its members to Iran.

The authority of the MKO camp was transferred to Iraq after a security pact was signed between Iraq and the US. In April, Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign announced that the MKO was behind the recent terrorist attack in the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad.

Explosions that ripped through a cafe and a restaurant in the Diyala province town of Khalis in March killed 43 people and wounded at least 65 others. The blasts occurred hours before the government released the results of the country’s March 7 parliamentary elections. The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Citizens of the city of Al-Khalis in Diyala province in March called on the future Iraqi government to expel MKO members from the country as soon as possible. The people of Al-Khalis urged the next government to expel the members of terrorist MKO group, stationed in the Camp of New Iraq in Diyala province. The group is responsible for numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials as well as Iraqis during the rein of Saddam.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the Islamic Revolution in Iran 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 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 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.

July 3, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi TV stations report from Camp Ashraf

Iraqi TV stations report from Camp Ashraf (Mojahedin Khalq and backers still refuse access to victims)

Mojahedin Khalq and backers still refuse access to victims… Iman Yeganeh, who escaped the camp in April 2010 after 22 years of captivity, described the situation for people inside the MKO as despairing.

He said,”People are being told the Iraqis will kill them if they leave. Knowing about Saddam’s security services, when I left I believed I would be killed. Even then I had to plan carefully how to finally get out.”In Iraq, victims and their families are helped by Sahar Family Foundation …

قناة الاتجاه الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

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قناة الفرات الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

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قناة المسار الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية
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قناة الحرية الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

قناة المــسار الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

قناة افاق الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

قناة العالم الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

قناة الكوثر الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية

قناة المنار الفضائية اعتصام العوائل الايرانية امام معسكر اشرف لرؤية ابناءهم المحتجزين لدى منظمة خلق الارهابية
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7XdrbBu6yU

Iran Interlink reporting from Iraqi TV stations

July 3, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Camp Ashraf residents prevented by PMOI from meeting their families coming from Iran

Local officials in Diyala province said on Saturday that leaders Pople’s Mujahedin Of Iran (PMOI) or the Mojahedine Khalq refused, again, to let the families coming from Iran to enter Camp mayor of Al-Khalis city, Uday Adnan Al-Khaddran. Ashraf to meet their sons on the pretext that they belonged to Iran’s security agencies.

A large delegation of the local administration, elders and dignitaries of the areas went to the camp today to persuade the leaders of Camp Ashraf to let the families coming from Iran to meet their sons, according to mayor of Al-Khalis city, Uday Adnan Al-Khaddran.

"This attempt, like the first and second attempts faced the intransigence of Ashraf leaders. They did not agree on the entry of the families of the members," Al-Khaddran said.

Dozens of families from Iran are on a sit–in since February 8, in front of the camp’s gate, in an attempt to persuade the leaders of the camp to let them meet their sons who are members of the PMOI.

PMOI accused the families in front of the camp’s gate of being Iran’s security agents.

But Al-Khaddran attributed Ashraf leaders refusal to let the Iranian families in to "fears" of the leaders of revealing their practices with the deluded people who wish to return home, on the one hand, and to prevent the world from knowing the secrets and mysteries of collaboration with, and the support of the organization, for militant terrorist groups, on the other hand, as he put it.

There area three thousand 3,400 residents in Camp Ashraf who had warned that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the camp and handing it over to the Iraqi government would pave the way for a "humanitarian disaster"

Mujahedine Khalq described an effort by a number of sheiks and dignitaries of Diyala province on June 19 to end the ongoing suffering of the Iranian families outside the camp’s main gate as an "attempt to agravate the crisis against Camp Ashraf as a prelude to attack the camp again", according to an statement released by the organization.

On 28 July 2009, hundreds of Iraqi police and army troops attacked the Camp Ashraf and clashed with the PMOI members in the camp, and according to the organization 13 of their members were allegedly killed and more than 500 were injured.

Camp Ashraf or Ashraf City is situated northwest of Khalis town, 66 kilometers north of Baghdad. Camp Ashraf is currently an Iranian refugee camp in Iraq guarded by the United States military. Some 3500 PMOI members reside the camp. On January 1, 2009 its control was formally transferred to the Iraqi government.

The Camp was set up during the former regime of Iraq. After the fall of the former regime of Iraq, the US military disarmed the camp and took on the responsibility of protecting it which the Iraqi government has been attempting to evict it for several years.

Mujahedine Khalq was formerly on the list of "terrorist" groups in America and Europe, but the situation began to change when it helped to identify some of the secrets of Iran’s nuclear program, which represents a crisis between Tehran and the West.

Mojahiden E-Khalq is an opposition group led by Massoud Rajawi. It was founded in 1965 and played a major role in fighting the Shah and ousting his regime, PMOI supported the former Iranian President Bani-Sadr in facing the religious institution in the early eighties when they engaged in bloody clashes with the Iranian government that claimed many of the groups members and many others were arrested. It resorted to exile to continue its war against the "Islamic Republic" under the slogan of building an alternative "Islamic democracy" state.

During the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, the group’s sites were bombed by the U.S. and British forces and considered it as a part of the Iraqi formations, but the U.S. troops maintained security of the camp after the war was over and according to an agreement they were allowed to keep their weapons, stay in Iraq and continue their armed struggle against Iran, which raised Tehran’s worries that prompted some of its officials to describe America as a "liar" in its campaign against terrorism.

Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s government of Iraq tried to take measures that would remove the organization from the country, but the organization was protected by the United States.

July 1, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Families of Iranian Terror Victims Call for Trial of MKO Leaders

Family members of the Iranian victims of terrorism in a statement issued on Monday blasted France for its support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and asked for the trial of the group leaders in a tribunal.

"In addition to condemning the western countries’ support for the MKO which indicates their double-standard and selective approach towards terrorism, the families of terror victims in Iran urge these countries and the international organizations to work on the trial of the MKO leaders for killing thousands of innocent people," the statement said.

The statement was issued at the end of a gathering in front of the French embassy in Tehran by a large crowd who protested at France’s support for the terrorist MKO.

The statement also called on the French government and other European countries to implement the UN Security Council’s resolution 1373 in which any financial and human support for terrorists is recognized as crime.

The family members of the terror victims also in their statement asked the European governments if providing support for the terrorist MKO is not an obvious violation of the resolution 1373.

The gathering took place on the anniversary of a bomb attack on the central office of Jomhuri Eslami party (Islamic Republic party) in Tehran in 1981 by the terrorist MKO in which 72 of party members, including senior Iranian political and religious officials, were martyred.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

Some other members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.

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, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 30 years of armed struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In recent months, high-ranking MKO members have been lobbying governments around the world in the hope of acknowledgement as a legitimate opposition group.

The UK initiative, however, prompted the European Union to establish relations with the exiled organization now based in Paris. The European Court of First Instance threw its weight behind the MKO in December 2009 and annulled its previous decision to freeze its funds.

The group 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 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.

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.

June 30, 2010 0 comments

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