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Iraq Blames Mojahedin Khalq for Recent Terrorist Attacks in Khalis

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign announced that the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (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.

"Based on investigations by Iraq’s security authorities working on the case, MKO has had a hand in the recent explosions in Khalis that martyred and wounded dozens of innocent people of the region," the campaign said in a statement a copy of which was released by the Habilian website.
The campaign also called on all active political groups in Iraq to take a clear and immediate stance against the MKO and voice their view about the ongoing efforts to end the group’s presence in Iraq.

"Presence of the MKO in Iraq is a blatant interference in the domestic affairs of our friendly and neighboring country (Iran) and is, thus, a violation of Iraq’s Constitution which considers presence of terrorist organizations that act against the other states as illegal," the statement reiterated.

Earlier in March, the Iraqi people in the city of Al-Khalis in Diyala province had 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 Camp Ashraf 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.

April 15, 2010 0 comments

France

Paris court summons two Mojahedin Khalq members

A French court has summoned two MKO members who incited one of the group’s supporters to set herself on fire in a June 2003 protest.

The 55-year-old Mahmoud Alami and 51-year-old Hossein Amini-Qolipour who are the members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) were summoned to face charges of encouraging a woman to commit suicide.

The MKO staged a protest in June 2003 against the French police raid on the MKO Headquarters in Paris.

Three MKO members committed suicide by fire during the protest held one day after the group’s leader Maryam Rajavi was arrested by the French police.

There are videos showing Alami and Amin-Qolipour buying gasoline near the demonstration site and giving it to Sediqeh Mojaveri who killed herself in the protest.

April 15, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Nejat Families at Ashraf Gates

Another group of MKO members’ families who were mobilized by Nejat Society Khuzestan branch traveled to Iraq where they are hopeful to visit their beloved ones captured by Rajavi’s destructive cult.

A number of families have already gone to Ashraf gates since two months ago, but they were prevented from visiting their children by MKO authorities.

The families who are members of Nejat Society Khuzestan branch joined the other families at Ashraf gates, awaiting for visit with their dear ones.

April 8, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO terrorists tried and appealed in France

Mahmood Aemi (with two false identities of Mahmoud Alami and Mohsen Abbasi) and Hossein Amini Gholipour were brought to trial for cheating their friends to set themselves on fire.

Two notorious MKO elements appeared before the Court of Appeal of Paris on Friday for "incitement to suicide" after the death of one of their compatriots who had immolated by fire in June 2003 in Paris during a demonstration against the arrest of Maryam Rajavi (one of MKO cult leaders).

On November 21, 2007, the Paris Criminal Court had acquitted Mahmood Aemi and Hossein Amini Gholipour, both members of the MKO terrorist group.

The court held that there was "no doubt" the fact that both defendant had "directly and personally delivered the victim the gas can she was sent to death with.

The prosecution, which called for a two-year suspended sentence against the two men, had appealed. Friday at the hearing, the Crown has tightened his submissions, asking the court to impose sentences of three years’ imprisonment.

M. Aemi and H.Gholipour were referred to court in 2006 on suspicion of inciting Sedighe Modjaveri, another MKO member living in Europe, to commit suicide by giving her a gas can at an event June 18, 2003.

It is worth mentioning that Mahmoud Aemi (member of MKO central cadres) is known as the Rajavi’s army commander in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds and has been a commander of MKO death squads against the MKO dissociated members in the Europe.

April 7, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Statement of De-Baathification Campaign against MKO

Issuing a statement the Iraqi anti-Baathist movement declared yesterday: “According to the investigations by the responsible Iraqi security systems, MKO (a.k.a MEK, PMOI, NCRI…) terrorist cult was involved in the recent explosion in the Iraqi city of Khalis which led to the death and injury of dozens of innocent people of the region.”

In this statement, a copy of which was sent to Habilian Association, the anti-Baathist movement urged the active Iraqi political groups to take immediate and explicit position against the terrorist MKO cult.

The full text of this statement is as follows:

MKO presence in Iraq is the flagrant violation of the Iraqi constitution
The anti- Baathist movement asks for all political groups active in Iraq to take an immediate and explicit position against the MKO and to try to end this terrorist organization’s unwanted presence in Iraq, especially now that it’s hidden to no one the heavy costs of damage it has imposed to the Iraqi people, the very recent of which was targeting dozens of innocent people in a brutal explosion in the city of Khalis.

Initial information suggests that the name of the group was listed in the research results of the security forces about the explosion led to the martyrdom and injury of dozens of peoples in the region.

MKO presence in Iraq is an obvious interference in the internal affairs of our friendly neighboring country and a blatant violation of the Iraqi constitution based on which the presence of hostile terrorist organizations which act against the other countries from inside Iraq is illegal.

As the anti-Baathist movement of Iraq and regarding the necessity of protecting the nation’s achievements and its strategic interests, we demand the Iraqi government to set in motion the expulsion of MKO terrorist group from Iraq as soon as possible and to end the file of a terrorist cult which has caused serious damages to our nation and spilt a lot of blood in suppressing the Shiites Intifada and massacre of Iraqi Kurds and hiding the mass graves of the innocent people in Diyala province.

Immediate trial of this organization or its instant dismissal from Iraq is the least we could do in return for the blood of those who have been martyred by this terrorist cult.

People’s anti-Baathist movement

April 6, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Hamidfar’s mother survives a heart attack ;still waits in front of Camp New Iraq

Mehdi Hamidfar’s mother survives a heart attack but still waits in front of Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) to see her son

Since February this year, a small group of families have been sitting at the gates of Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) demanding that the Rajavi cult give access to their relatives inside the camp. The families have sworn to continue their picket until they succeed in seeing them.

One of the group is Mrs Tajaldoleh Heydarian from Kermanshah province, who is 65 years old. She told Iran-Interlink that she has been in Iraq since 6th February and has come to visit her son Mehdi Hamidfar.”I came to the gates of Camp Ashraf and up to now have been refused permission to visit him. I have waited and waited and done everything in my power, but it seems these people have no fear of God and no compassion. They still do not let me see my son”she said.

Mrs Heydarian continued,”On the first of April, as I was waiting alongside the other families picketing in front of the camp, I became severely ill. I was transferred to the A&E section in a nearby hospital. The doctors diagnosed that I had had a heart attack and they sent me immediately to the main hospital in Baghdad for treatment. I am a little better now. Thank God”.

In spite of her sudden and severe illness Mrs Heydarian has said she will continue to wait outside the gates of the camp until she sees her son. It is not the first time she has visited. She told Iran-Interlink that one day in 1997, her son Mehdi had told her he was going walking in the mountains with his friends. He did not return that night and she became worried and so started searching the hospitals. She searched everywhere for him but had no news. For some time all she could do all day was cry. Then, six years later someone contacted her from Nejat Association and said they had news of Mehdi, that he alive and is in Camp Ashraf.

When she visited the Nejat Association office a gentleman introduced himself as someone who had been with the Mojahedin-e Khalq and who had managed to run away. He had received news of Mehdin from another ex-member who had recently managed to run away. But, even though she now knew where he was, nothing could be done until the fall of Saddam Hussein after which it became possible to visit Iraq and look for lost relatives.

Mrs Heydarian’s first opportunity came in 2003. Although Iraq was still at war, she managed to go to Iraq and visit the camp. On that first visit, the Mojahedin allowed her to see Mehdi for two hours. Mrs Heydarian continued,”It was obvious that he wanted to come with me but he was clearly afraid of the Mojahedin. He told me that they will find out and he will be put in prison and tortured if he mentions anything about leaving the camp. I insisted on staying at least one night there but they did not let me stay with my son any longer. I went back home filled with sorrow and disappointment.”

Since that visit, Mrs Heydarian has visited Camp Ashraf three more times but the Mojahedin have refused to let son see her again.

Mrs Heydarian is a widow. She has seven children, five sons and two daughters. Mehdi is her sixth child, the youngest son. She had expected him to be able to take care of her as she grew older, but now she lives with her youngest daughter instead. All her other children are married but Mehdi remains trapped in the sterile cult of Massoud Rajavi unable to leave and live a normal life.

Doctors in Baghdad have warned Mrs Heydarian that she should remain in hospital, under supervision and medication. But like all the families at the gates of the camp whose love for their children is stronger than any concerns for their own wellbeing, she says she will not return home until she sees her son.”My first wish is to see him once more and my next wish is to release him from the clutches of Rajavi and his henchmen”, she said.

April 5, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

MKO million dollar supporter’s defeat in Iraq’s elections

One of those who in recent years provided MKO with comprehensive support in Iraq and praised the terrorist cult in every opportunity is Ayad Jamal al-Din, a notorious backer of MKO who is on his last legs of presence in the Iraqi parliament. The out of favor Iraqi cleric was badly defeated in the parliamentary elections and despite the heavy costs of millions of dollars for the elections neither him nor any other members of his list named “Ahrar movement” found a way to the parliament.

Anti-Iranian attitude
Having spent 16-year of clerical studies in Iran, Jamal al-Din declared in an interview with Al-Arabia satellite channel late last march that “if I had the authority I would have provided MKO with much more freedom of action to make them an active opposition against the ruling regime in Iran”.

Jamal al-Din always calls members of the sect as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and claims that nobody has the right to forcefully relocate them inside Iraq and that such a relocation is prohibited according to international laws and regulations. “We should support the MKO and let them have satellite television in Iraq” he also argues.

In a different interview with “Alaan” network, the zealous advocate of MKO reveals how he looks at the MKO as a tool for putting pressure on Iran and says: “MKO would be the first pressuring tool I would use against Iran as soon as I seize the power in Iraq.”

In a so-called conference for supporting MKO presence in Iraq held in camp Ashraf in 2008, MKO announced they have collected about 3 million signatures from Iraqi people to stay in Iraq. At the same conference Ayad Jamal al-Din addressed the Islamic Republic of Iran with an offensive literature and expressed his full support for Rajavis’ cult which was welcomed by the cult members.

Scandalous defeat in Iraq’s elections
Ayad Jamal al-Din, who was absolutely sure of his victory in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, spent about a hundred million dollars for his political movement and even chose the advertising team of his campaign from London and applying modern campaigning methods he was prepared for celebrating his victory.
But how could a political figure that would talk of Iranian interference in Iraq and the need to legally support a terrorist group be successful in Iraq even by exorbitant spending for his political organization?

About 12 million Iraqis participated in march7, 2010 parliamentary elections in Iraq which equals 62 percent of those qualified for voting. This is while Jamal al-din’s movement gained merely 48 thousands of the total number which is something less than %0.5 of the total number. So, in spite of all the money he spent for buying votes, neither the pro-MKO cleric nor any other members of his movement could find a way to the parliament.

Of course it’s hidden to nobody that in pro-democracy countries like Iraq one cannot expand terrorism and support terrorist groups such as MKO under the cover of nice words like human rights…

April 5, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO in a mire called Ashraf

MEK has been stuck in a sheer pragmatism for more than two decades. The strategy of armed struggle using terror tactics in order to achieve power in Iran did not succeed. MEK’s ideological leader has not been able to realize and analyze the concrete situation and the reality of Iranian society so it has been suffering dizziness.

The terrorist cult of Rajavi, apparently relying on ideological Islam and passive understanding of Marxist instructions as their rhetoric of struggle, has had structural and fundamental contradiction in both its thinking system and its view on the world.
MKO in a mire called Ashraf
In its political aspect, MEK has not realized that having a public base among masses of people is a vital factor. Instead they have resorted to a closed cycle of violence for violence and terror for terror.

For three decades, they have never reviewed their strategy and never reconstructed their cult relationships. Because of their psychological, mental problem, they may think that they do not need any change in their ideology and strategy.

Now, where are the MEK going? The captured members of Camp Ashraf have an ambiguous fate. Being stuck in Ashraf, they encounter the risk of being expelled from Iraq; however, their leaders do not permit them to get released from closed bars of the organization in order to visit their families in a free atmosphere without any systematic control by the cult!

MEK speaks of Ashraf a garnished city but there are no children or teenagers in their so-called city. The residents of Ashraf do not have any idea of the notion “Family” because about two decades ago the ideological leader of MEK forced the couples in the cult to divorce and separated their children from their parents. They sent them to Europe to be grown up in a sympathizer family on the basis of terrorist, cult-like believes. They would then be transferred to Ashraf where they would serve as operational agents for terrorist activities.

During the six past years after the disarmament of Mujahedin Khalq by US military, the majority of Iraqi populations have been asking for the expulsion of MEK due to their notorious cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacre of Kurds and Shiites. Thus both Iraqis and Iranians call MEK “traitors”.
After the US army started withdrawing from Iraq, according to an agreement with Iraqi government, the control of Camp Ashraf was handed over to Iraqi authorities and MEK were left with an uncertain future since the popular, democratic Iraqi government is famous for its friendly strategic relations with Islamic Republic so it was determined to take over Camp Ashraf and expel the MEK from Iraqi territory.

The leaders of MEK launched a large-scale propaganda to portrait themselves as a democratic movement before western politicians and parliamentarians. However, human rights bodies including HRW consider the group as a cult of personality around Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. They introduce Camp Ashraf as a military Camp where the values of modern world and the norms of developed societies are violated and the relations are based on manipulation techniques and constant bombing of beliefs.

In January 2009, once more the Department of State considered MEK as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) and the then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, in a post on US official newspaper, confirmed that the investigations on MEK’s file verified the US administration’s decision for the designation of MEK as an FTO. The Canadian government has also listed MEK as a terrorist group since May 2005.

The members of MEK have not contacted their families for more than two decades, according to Western media. When in 2004, a western visitor went to Ashraf, he used his satellite cell phone to call some of their families. “They could not believe that they were speaking to their children “he said,” Because the leaders of the cult had told them that their beloved ones had been killed.”

Massoud Rajavi, the ideological leader of MEK, has been fugitive since 2003 the Iraqi Freedom Operation by US. Maryam Qajar Azdanlou( Rajavi),the self-assigned president of MEK is always on business trips to deceive western politicians in order to gain their support for her declining cult.

It is not certain what will happen to MEK but what is certain is that the process of defection from MEK has been accelerated. More than eight hundred members have left Camp Ashraf since 2003 and for the time being the Camp is under the control of Iraqi forces. The families come to the Camp to save their children. It is foreseen that a large number of members will return to their homes in near future.

By : Arash Rezaiee

March 31, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Mr. Keshavarz, defector of terrorist cult of Rajavi, returned home

Nejat Correspondent, Gilan – Mr. Mohammad Baqer Keshavarz, another defector of terrorist destructive cult of Rajavi, returned home on March 11th, 2010.

He was welcomed by Nejat Society Gilan Branch.

Mr. Mohammad Baqer Keshavarz, another defector of terrorist destructive cult of Rajavi, returned home on March 11th, 2010.

The newly defected member, who had been forced to stay in Camp Ashraf under severe manipulative control system, seemed to be depressed and disappointed. He revealed some horrifying facts on cult-like relationships ruling Ashraf, which made the members of Nejat Society cry for their beloved ones still captured by Rajavi’s cult.

Nejat society looks forward for the release of other captives of Camp Ashraf and congratulates Mr. Keshavarz family on freedom of their loved son.

March 28, 2010 0 comments

UK: It is in the interest of Ashraf residents to cooperate with Iraq

David Drew (Stroud, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the government of Iraq on the situation in Camp Ashraf; and if he will take steps to ensure that residents of Camp Ashraf are not driven from Iraq.

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

We have discussed the situation at Camp Ashraf with the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Human Rights Minister, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Iraqi Government’s Ashraf Committee. I met the Iraqi Foreign Minister in Baghdad in December 2009 and underlined the need for the Iraqi authorities to deal with the residents of Camp Ashraf in a way that meets international humanitarian standards. In addition we discuss the issue with the UN, US, and the EU.

The Iraqi authorities have told the residents that they can no longer stay at Camp Ashraf but has given assurances that no residents will be forcibly transferred to a country where they have reason to fear persecution, or where substantial grounds exist to believe they would be tortured. The Iraqi Human Rights Minister confirmed to our ambassador on 27 January 2010 that the Government of Iraq would deal with the residents of the camp with respect for their human rights in co-operation with the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross. We believe it is in the interests of the residents to respect and accept the decision made by the Government of Iraq, and to cooperate peacefully with the Iraqi authorities.

House of Commons

March 27, 2010 0 comments

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