According to reliable governmental sources, the Iraqi army is to take control of Camp Ashraf – in which is the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq.
The source said, "the MKO, who are responsible for a lot of problems caused to the people and government of Iraq, are part of the former government of Iraq [Saddam’s regime] and the Iraqi govt has been adamant for some time now to expel them from the country.
Now the first Iraqi batallion has been stationed around Camp Ashraf to take over control of the camp.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>Iran commentary speaks on consequence of UK’s de-listing of group (Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult)
‘ font-size: 10pt”>Text of commentary by Abbas Haji-Najjari under the "Aperture" column headlined: "Playing on burnt-out grounds" published by Iranian newspaper Iran website on 6 July
‘ font-size: 10pt”>The American and British failure in containing the Islamic revolution movement and the ever increasing role of Iran in regional and international developments has led them to consider all possible alternatives against the Islamic revolution and has forced Britain to resort to a burnt-out element which is "Munafeqin" [Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization -MKO]. This requires a closer look because the British were famous for their "wisdom" and "ingenuity" in politics.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>Britain has recently eliminated the name of MKO from its terrorist groups list and has accepted their exiled elements dismissed from Iraq and has granted them media coverage and "political opportunities" to turn them to one of the opposition groups against the Iranian government and use them according to its political and security goals.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>Few points should be made in this regard:
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1- During recent years and following the invasion of Iraq by the American forces, the invaders tried to support and reinforce this group in Iraq in spying against Iran and confronting the forces and groups who supported Iran; but the internal conflicts of this group and the hatred of the Iraqi people because of their collaboration with Saddam Hussayn, in suppressing the Iraqi opposition, outdated this groups as a useful tool for Americans and prepared the ground for their move from Iraq.
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2- Before the Iraqi government’s resolution ordering the MKO to go out of Iraq, the US and several European countries tried to find a place to accommodate the MKO, but because of their background and the hatred of the Iranian people, none of the Asian and African and even Latin American countries accepted them.
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3- Finally because of the services of this group to the Western interests against the system of Islamic Republic of Iran, they decided to transfer them to European countries, especially Britain and France.
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4- Considering the fact that this group was listed in terrorist groups in the British government’s list, the parliament of this country, in an "anticipated" manner, cleared their name from the list and prepared the ground for their leaders and key elements to go to Britain.
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5- The simultaneous steps taken by the British government in imposing economic sanctions against Iran and the Iranian Bank Melli, in order to increase people’s dissatisfaction in Iran, at the same time as using the MKO, depicts a dual role for this group in the present situation:
‘ font-size: 10pt”>a. Creating an atmosphere against Iran by using every possible means, especially the human rights issue, and organizing demonstrations and meetings.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>b. Trying to incite social movements inside the country by exaggerating some social problems and dissatisfaction and starting a new round of terrors and insecurity in the country.
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6- Considering the second hand role of Britain in this respect and the role of the US as the principle player, this game is like playing on a burnt-out ground which is doomed to failure because:
‘ font-size: 10pt”>a. The MKO, due to its previous record in treason and crime, is hated in Iraq and Iran and by the Iranian people.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>b. The MKO, because of their terrorist nature has no support among oppositions groups and Iranians outside the country.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>c. The internal crisis of this group and the passive role of its members, who remain in Iraq despite the transfer of their leaders to Europe, makes it very difficult for this group to move. Recently, citing the coalition forces commander in Iraq, the BBC reported that several members of the MKO have abandoned their base in Iraq and are living in bad conditions.
‘ font-size: 10pt”>Iran website –Translated by BBC Monitoring Middle East,
US forces transfer truckloads of cargo from the Ashraf base in Iraq where members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization have been stationed.
American forces transfer truckloads of unknown cargo by night, as the deadline
for handing over the base to Iraqi forces approaches, the Iraqi Aljewar website reported Tuesday.
According to Aljewar, US troops are reallocating the unspecified cargo to a US military base in the city of Balad in the Salahuddin province.
Recognized as a terrorist group by Iran, Iraq, Canada, the United States, and the European Union, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is responsible for bombings, assassinations, and attacks in Iran and Iraq over the past 25 years.
Up until now MKO members, who were closely allied with the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, have been stationed at Camp Ashraf, which is situated in the city of al-Khalis in the eastern province of Diyala.
After the fall of Saddam, the Iraqi government demanded that the MKO leave the country. It recently set a six-month deadline for the group’s departure, threatening to expel them if they refuse to leave of their own free will.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Wednesday it was keeping an Iranian opposition group on its list of banned terrorist movements, days before it leads major power talks with Iran over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
The People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) had called on the 27-member EU to remove it from the blacklist after the British Parliament last month upheld a court ruling that its inclusion on a list of banned groups in Britain was wrong.
The EU, in a decision slipped out without fanfare, said it saw no grounds for amending the list of 48 groups subject to asset freezes and other sanctions in Europe.
"Consequently, the Council has decided to maintain those persons, groups and entities on the list," the decision published in its Official Journal said.
The decision to keep the PMOI on the list was rubber-stamped by EU agriculture ministers who met in Brussels on Tuesday.
A French source said Paris — a key player in Iranian diplomacy and holder of the bloc’s rotating presidency — came forward with grounds for it to be maintained on the list.
The PMOI began as a leftist-Islamist opposition to the late shah of Iran but fell out with Shi’ite clerics who took power after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Western analysts say it has little support inside Iran because it joined Iraqi forces during the 1980-88 war between the two neighbors. The group, which exposed Iran’s covert nuclear program in 2002, is also banned by the United States.
Its political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has some support in Europe. A petition expressing support for the NCRI won the backing of 290 members of the French Parliament, a majority in the 577-strong lower house, one of its sponsors said on Wednesday.
Left-wing MP Jean-Pierre Brard told a news conference in Paris one of the motivations of the petition was to seek the removal of the PMOI from lists of banned groups in Europe.
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EU officials said the timing of the decision was not related to efforts to persuade Iran to halt uranium enrichment which the West suspects is aimed at acquiring the atom bomb.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Geneva on Saturday to discuss Iran’s response to an international offer of incentives if its halts enrichment. Iran insists its program is peaceful.
In a shift in U.S. policy which European officials see as a sign of support for the process, the United States is due to send a senior envoy to the one-day Geneva talks. Solana said on Friday he hoped for a "constructive response" from Iran.
A spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political arm of the PMOI, denounced the EU decision to keep the group on its terrorism list.
"The Iranian resistance views the futile attempt of the agriculture ministers to appease the religious fascism ruling Iran and defying the ruling of competent European courts devoid of any legal standing and in outright violation of the rule of law," Shahin Gobadi said.
"This attempt by European appeasers on the eve of the meeting of Solana with representatives of the clerical regime on the nuclear file, is nothing but an attempt to get mileage from a discredited list."
The NCRI has been active in mobilizing parliamentary support in many European countries for removing the PMOI from the terrorism list and denouncing Iran’s human rights and nuclear policies.
(Additional reporting by Francois Murphy in Paris; editing by Paul Taylor)
By David Brunnstrom and Mark John, Reuters, July 16, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1673796320080716
As MKO terrorists hired Polish students, Afghani refugees and actors to cheer
Jordan rejects any connection with Mojahedin Khalq gathering Reported by: BBC Monitoring Middle East Text of report by Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm on 30 June [Report by Walid Husni: "Twelve MPs Are Among 33 Jordanians Attending Mojahedin-e Khalq’s Conference in France"]
Engineer Abd-al-Hadi al-Majali, speaker of the House of Representatives, has
denied that the House has anything to do with the participation of 12 MPs in the conference of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in France. The conference is expected to conclude its meetings today, Monday, 30 June.
In press statements yesterday, Al-Majali said: The House has nothing to do with the participation of the MPs in that conference. None of the MPs has consulted with the House, or its standing bureau, or has even spoken with me about that participation.
Al-Majali said that the participation of the MPs was in response to personal invitations and that each MP who attended the conference only represents himself, and does not represent the House of Representatives. He added: "I have no knowledge of that participation and I do not know the names of the attending MPs, who only represent themselves, and do not represent the Jordanian House of Representatives."
Twelve MPs were among 33 Jordanian figures who left Amman for the French capital, Paris, last Thursday to participate in a conference held by the Iranian opposition organization Mojahedin-e Khalq, led by Maryam Rajavi, who delivered a speech at the opening of the conference the day before yesterday. In her speech, Rajavi called for removing the organization’s name from the list of terrorist organizations, like the decision made by Britain last week, while the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations still includes Mojahedin-e Khalq among global terrorist organizations.
It is said that the participants in the conference include MPs Mamduh al-Abbadi, Nariman al-Rusan, Muhammad Abu-Hudayb, Fakhri Iskandar, Abdallah al-Gharayibah, Muflih al-Ruhaymi, Ahmad Dandan al-Utum, and Ibrahim al-Umush. The conference will conclude its meetings in a north Paris district today. The Jordanian delegation, which includes political, media, and party figures, will return to Amman this evening.
Al-Arab al-Yawm, Amman
An Iraqi government spokesman says arrest warrants have been issued for some leaders of an anti-Iran terrorist group based in Iraq.
Ali al-Dabbagh held a press briefing in Baghdad on Thursday and said the order had been issued because leaders of the Mojahedin Khlaq Organization (MKO) have interfered in the domestic affairs of Iraq and threatened some Iraqi officials by phone.
The Iraqi cabinet and main political parties demand the expulsion of members of the terrorist group from the country.
Iraqi officials say the group is playing a significant role in promoting violence and insecurity in the war-torn country.
Dabbagh added that Iraqi security forces have provided proof of their criminal activities.
The MKO is blacklisted by many countries including EU member states as a terrorist organization.
Additionally, the group has claimed responsibility for several terror attacks inside Iran. They were also involved in the massacre of Iraqis under Saddam Hussein’s regime.
July 04, 2008
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=62446§ionid=351020201
Hakim: Presence of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) terrorists in Iraq lacks any
legal or international cover
The Unified Iraqi Coalition says the terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is provoking sectarian violence in the country.
"MKO seeks to fuel the sectarian ordeal, intervenes in the Iraqi issue, and takes aggressive position toward the parliament and the elected national government", Unified Iraqi Coalition’s chief Abdel Aziz al-Hakim was quoted by Voices of Iraq News Agency as saying.
At the fifth anniversary ceremony of the assassination of his brother, Seyyed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the UCI chief said the "MKO presence in Iraq lacks any legal or international cover".
The MKO, blacklisted by many countries including EU member states as a terrorist organization, has been involved in the killing of many Iraqis under Saddam Hussein’s regime.
In a recent statement, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Cabinet said that the terrorist group interferes in the country’s internal affairs and supports anti-government activities.
The government banned any deal with the members of the MKO.
Hakim said "Iraq’s constitution forbids using Iraq as a base of aggression, and the governmental demands are fair and constitutional to gain sovereignty and independency".
Iraqi parliamentarians and other officials have also called for the expulsion of MKO members from the country.
Voice of Iraq, July 04, 2008 – Reported by Press TV,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=62486§ionid=351020201
Iran: States involved in Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult, MKO, MEK,…) removal from terrorists’ list are accomplices in its crimes
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday that countries involved in removing the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the terrorists’ list are accomplices in the terrorist crimes committed by the grouplet.
“Any country moving officially in line with removal of the MKO from the terrorists’ list will from the view point of Iran and Iranians be an accomplice in the terrorist acts taken by the grouplet,”Mottaki told IRNA prior to leaving New York.
He said,”Surely, such a move is condemned and we reserve the right to follow necessary procedures and lodge complaint against the country supporting terrorism.”
He went on to say,”The cowardly move of clearing the MKO’s name from the terrorists’ list started from Britain and definitely such a cowardly effort will have no impact on our people’s attitude and the nature and position of the terrorist group.”
He noted that the MKO is the most notorious groups in the eyes of Iranian people due to its crimes during the Sacred Defense era (1980-88) and assassination of personalities and officials as well as thousands of innocent citizens.
“The MKO will continue to be regarded as a terrorist group by survivors of the victims of its terrorist measures and the Iranian nation.”
He said terrorism, in any form, is condemned and equal and indiscriminate approach should be shown against it.
“Terrorism can not be classified into good and bad today. Terrorism is terrorism and is so condemned. Equal and indiscriminate approach should be shown against all of them (all forms of terrorism),”said Mottaki.
“While trying to put in the terrorist groups’ list a media or a liberation group which fights for freedom of its land, these (the westerners) want to bring out from the list the groups which have a long record of terrorist acts,”he said.
He concluded,”Today, the world public opinion does not at all accept such a contradictory and dubious approach being based on the double-speak and political standards and we condemn such an act.”1420
UK gov’t should revise antagonist stands to expand ties with Tehran – Diplomat anaging Director of IRI Foreign Ministry’s Western Europe Affairs Office emphasized here Wednesday any kind of expansion of ties with London depends on UK government’s revising of its antagonist stands regarding Iran. According to Foreign Ministry Press Department, Ali Dowlatyar made the comment in a meeting with the Head of the Middle East and North Africa Bureau of the British Foreign Office, John Jenkins. Dowlatyar added,”Intensifying of the MKO’s recent antagonist moves, pursuing measures aimed at imposing more limitations against our country, efforts aimed at closing the branches of Bank Melli Iran (BMI) throughout Europe, Mr. Tajik’s issue, immediate extradition of Mr. Badavinejad, and other issues of such nature cannot be ignored by Tehran.” He denounced a recent verdict issued by a British court, resorting the reasoning that the MKO terrorist grouplet has conducted no antagonist move during the course of the past few years, as a political verdict, arguing,”The great Iranian nation considers as unacceptable the double standards observed by Britain in its campaign against terrorism, regrading the recent verdict as a strongly antagonist act.” Touching on Tajik’s issue, too, the Foreign Ministry’s Managing Director of West Europe Affairs said,”It was obvious from the beginning that Mr. Tajik’s case is a conspiracy led by the US intelligence agents, and that the matter was politically motivated.”Dowlatyar added,”There are numerous questions related to Mr. Tajik’s case that have still remained unanswered and keeping in mind his physical conditions, and particularly his heart’s status, in addition to the nuisances and problems with which him and his family have been entangled during the past couple of months, this inhumane trend should end as soon as possible.” Jenkins, too, said,”As the British Foreign Secretary and other high ranking UK officials have stated, the British government considers the moves made by the terrorist group (MKO), as well as the moves made by the National Resistance Council, as shameful.”The Managing Director of the British Foreign Office’s Middle East and North African Affairs Bureau emphasized,”We, too, hate the MKO terrorist group, and despite the existence of lots of differences of opinion, that is something natural in relations among countries, we favor improvement and expansion of ties with Tehran.” Tehran, July 03, 2008
