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Mojahedin Khalq Terrorist Commander poses as a human rights advocate to fool the Financial Times

Iranian exile Ali Safavi, who previously enjoyed infamy as a commander in Saddam’s private army – the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) – and who is wanted in Iraq on charges of torture and murder, has now emerged as a ‘human rights’ blogger in the normally conservative Financial Times.

Safavi’s personal blog has been reinvented as propaganda for the MEK by publishing it as article for its National Council of Resistance of Iran website – which curiously has no Farsi language on it whatsoever. This is the site the MEK uses when it wants to disguise its violent beliefs for Western audiences, posing instead as a political, now human rights, organisation.

When the MEK’s main benefactor Saddam Hussein was removed from power in 2003, its leader Massoud Rajavi became a fugitive whose whereabouts are unknown. His wife, Maryam Rajavi claimed refugee status in Paris along with her former husband Mehdi Abrishamchi. Commander Safavi came along with them. They were quickly arrested on terrorism charges and are still under investigation. The rest of the organisation were left at the mercy of vengeful Iraqis who regard them as part of Saddam’s repressive apparatus – his own private army – responsible for the deaths of 25,000 Iraqi civilians.

While the FT is free to publish a variety of views on Iran, the editors should be aware of the hypocrisy of this particular writer. The MEK is reviled by Iranians both inside and outside the country. (The MEK doesn’t even try to pretend the NCRI represents any Iranian constituency and therefore doesn’t need any Farsi on its website.) A blog by anyone associated with the MEK will certainly not enhance the reputation of the Financial Times, rather it will provoke contempt among right minded Iranians and negatively impact the already difficult work of genuine opposition groups who are advocating for their people.

December 13, 2015 0 comments

Iraq

Iraq welcomes the omission of MEK terrorist leaders in Section on Camp Liberty of Congress Report

A freak section in the House Report 114-270 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, gives us the “SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE SECURITY AND PROTECTION OF IRANIAN DISSIDENTS LIVING IN CAMP LIBERTY, IRAQ.” (Reproduced below.)

Iran Interlink spoke by telephone with one of the Iraqi officials in charge of expelling the residents of Camp Liberty from Iraq. He agreed to speak off the record to say that Iraq “welcomes and agrees with all seven articles”. He emphasised that “we noticed in particular that there is no mention of the MEK or the Rajavi leaders in the Senate document” and this has been “the most helpful position from America for twelve years… We take this as a green light to go ahead, without interference, to work with the UNHCR and deal with every resident of Camp Liberty as a separate individual with no connection with any group.”

The official indicated that the whole Government of Iraq is “fully committed” to working closely with the US authorities in Baghdad and elsewhere to implement these seven non-binding recommendations of Congress. In this respect, he said, “Iraq will happily issue visas to anyone who would help remove the MEK – in particular, and naturally, the families of residents”. But that “any other independent person” would be welcome if they could help.

For years, both UNAMI and the Government of Iraq have tried to deal with the camp residents as individuals according to Iraqi and International law, but these efforts have been hindered by the MEK’s Western lobbyists and outside forces which have forced barriers between the UN and the individual camp residents. It is welcome news that in this report Senate has ignored these lobbyists and forces.

Following is the text of Section 1227 of House Report 114-270 – NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016

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SEC. 1227. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE SECURITY AND PROTECTION OF IRANIAN DISSIDENTS LIVING IN CAMP LIBERTY, IRAQ.

It is the sense of Congress that the United States should–

(1) take prompt and appropriate steps in accordance with international agreements to promote the physical security and protection of residents of Camp Liberty, Iraq;

(2) urge the Government of Iraq to uphold its commitments to the United States to ensure the safety and well-being of those living in Camp Liberty;

(3) urge the Government of Iraq to ensure continued and reliable access to food, clean water, medical assistance, electricity and other energy needs, and any other equipment and supplies necessary to sustain the residents during periods of attack or siege by external forces;

(4) oppose the extradition of Camp Liberty residents to Iran;

(5) assist the international community in implementing a plan to provide for the safe, secure, and permanent relocation of Camp Liberty residents, including a detailed outline of steps that would need to be taken by recipient countries, the United States, the Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Camp residents to relocate residents to other countries;

(6) encourage continued close cooperation between the residents of Camp Liberty and the authorities in the relocation process; and

(7) assist the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in expediting the ongoing resettlement of all residents of Camp Liberty to safe locations outside Iraq.

December 9, 2015 0 comments

Albania

40 Camp Liberty residents moved to Albania

Two groups of 20 individuals transferred to Tirana on 1st and 3rd December, Peyvand-e Rahayee Website reported.

MKO Cult leader forced to comply with the quota set by UNHCR to facilitate the weekly transfer of 40 TTL residents. So as 40 more Camp Liberty residents relocated to Albania during the last week bringing the total to 257 in 15 series.

The names are as follows (some of the names may be aliases):

Ali Reza Ebrahimnejad
Alireza arjmandpour
Saeed Amirkhiz
Somayeh Bagherpour
Abolghasem Bahrami Dizchi
Zahra Baghi
Amir Tehrani
Ahmad Ali Husseini
Habib Husseini
Seyyed Javad Husseini
Morteza Khangah
Shokrollah Rabiei
Davoud Zareie Habib Abadi
Mohammad Taghi Sarparast
Khosro Salighedar
Esmaeil Samadi Takalou
Ali Tahouri
N ahid Alizadeh
Nurali Ghafarnik
Seyyed Alireza Ghafourzadeh
Meymanat Fazl Mashhadi
Asghar Fahimi
Nasrin Fayazi
Asadollah Fayazi Dizchi
Alireza Ghanbari
Gholamrasul Karimdadi
Ghodsi Ganjeie
Maryam Lari
Mohammad Moaddab
Reza Mojaveri
Sedigh Morsali
Maryam Massoudi
Parvin Moshtari
Alireza Massoumi
Zahra Mofrad
Esmaeil Mansouri
Sareh Mansouri
Somayyeh Nahid
Ali Nejati
Rashid Naghinejad

December 6, 2015 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 123

++ Nader Naderi in France has published an article about the 24 Camp Liberty residents killed in a recent attack, saying Massoud Rajavi is responsible for their deaths because he would not allow them to leave the camp. Naderi identified 14 out of the 24 as being “on a list of those to be transferred to Albania”. He asks “given the random nature of the attack, is it not somehow too much of a coincidence that so many of them were killed all together?”

++ The MEK are now on overdrive to support President Erdogan claiming that Russia is targeting Turkish aid work with its bombing raids. The Farsi Commentariat points out that the MEK are keen to denounce Russia and President Putin and to side with Turkey because they are afraid of being left out in the cold. The MEK has jumped from supporting one government to another in an attempt to find a new benefactor. Last time it was Saudi Arabia.

++ The MEK reacted after Iraq’s parliament vowed to support the families of Camp Liberty residents. The UN and the government of Iraq are now coming to the conclusion they should by-pass the MEK heads and deal directly with individual residents. This is the worst nightmare of the MEK. The MEK has tried to reanimate some of its old lobbyists in Iraq and send them to the American embassy in Baghdad. Alongside this they have published a petition signed in only a few days by “millions of Iraqis”, and another petition by “thousands of Iraqi lawyers and lawmakers”, but without any names.

Former MEK Arabic translator, Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad, has published screenshots of these items from the MEK’s websites and has patiently worked through many ‘letters of support from Iraqi lawyers’, correcting the mistakes in their Arabic. Clearly they are not written by Arabic speakers. Hossein Nejad jokes, “I used to write such letters while I was with the MEK, and since the MEK have found nobody to replace me, I find myself doing the same work for them now that I have left!”

++ The MEK is still trying to find someone, anyone, whose name is not associated with the MEK to declare that it is the right of Camp Liberty residents to demand to stay in Iraq. To say, it is not Rajavi’s fault since 2003, because they are adults and can make up their own minds. One such fossil, resurrected after many years, is Hossein Farshid, who lives as Hossein Pouya in London, who is a member of the so-called NCRI. Farshid has written to say the residents “must stay there and give blood, or else they would have to give up the name and title of ‘Mojahed’”. Former MEK member, Mohammad Razaghi, wrote a short note exposing Farshid’s decades of sitting on the side-line doing the MEK’s dirty work and getting paid per page for it without being willing to sacrifice anything himself.

Outside the MEK, Farshid claims he is forced to do this because two of his daughters are Rajavi’s hostages. However, Razaghi accuses him, “you are lying through your teeth. First, I know you are being paid. And second, remember the meeting in which we were both present and your daughter stood up in front of thousands of members and denounced you. She said, ‘When you visited Baghdad as a member of the NCRI and I was in Camp Ashraf, I wanted to meet with you but you refused. Why didn’t you ask to see me? I would have come. Apparently, you are afraid of Massoud Rajavi criticising you for not undergoing the Ideological Revolution’.” Razaghi then reminds Farshid of what he publicly replied, “At that time you told her ‘No, I’m not afraid. Rajavi needs people like me to save his ass outside of Iraq because we are clever at whitewashing for him’.”

In English:

Several items dealt with the efforts by families of Camp Liberty residents and their supporters to get progress in the rescue of their loved ones from the clutches of the cult. Iraq’s parliament has pledged to do everything it can to help. There are indications that the UN and Iraqi officials responsible for the camp will now begin to by-pass the MEK heads and deal directly with each individual resident in line with international norms relating to refugees.

++ Iran Interlink exposed Massoud Rajavi’s fraudulent campaign to obfuscate over the issue of Camp Liberty. An MEK banner demands ‘Issue Visas for us to visit our children in Camp Liberty’. Iran Interlink asked the Iraqi Foreign ministry about this. The reply was simple, “Ask for a Visa and if rejected, then you can protest. Iraq is more than happy to issue Visas, especially if it is for reunion between families. We also welcome any help given to remove the residents of Camp Liberty out of Iraq”. Another banner demands money. Massoud Khodabandeh said, “Considering the resettlement of MEK members from Iraq to Albania is financed by the United Nations (and partly by the Iraqi Government), Rajavi’s message could not be more clear. ‘Pay me more if you expect me to release the hostages in Camp Liberty’.”

++ Massoud Bani Sadr writes in Fair Observer, ‘How Do Terrorist Groups and Cults Attract Followers? – Knowingly or unknowingly, we may be supporting and promoting groups like Daesh instead of crippling and destroying them’. The article uses the MEK as the example of why we should not attack Daesh and other terrorist groups according to their ideologies. “I am referring to our governments, our police, our old and established media and even those who claim to be fighting cults and terrorism. They too, in some cases, by calling these groups Muslim or jihadist and by attacking their doctrine, knowingly or unknowingly support and promote them instead of crippling and ultimately destroying them.”

++ Nejat Society, Alborz branch had a heart-warming meeting with two recently escaped MEK hostages, Fereydoun Ebrahimi and Bayramali Mohammadi, and their families. Ebrahimi introduced himself declaring why and how he joined the group: “In 2000, I emigrated to Turkey for sewing; the work I was proficient at. After a month I met a man who said he could send me to Europe via Iraqi border providing me with a good job and residency. I was fascinated by his false propaganda. In a week he provided my documents. Then I was transferred to Iraq and Camp Ashraf. At the Camp the commandants of the group convinced me that I had to wait for two years to be transferred to Europe.

“However, they kept me at the group camps for 14 years without any contact with the outside world. I tolerated many physical and mental pressures within the Cult. At last in March 2015 I managed to release myself. At Camp Liberty I introduced myself to the Iraqi forces and UN members in Camp Liberty. I contact my family as soon as I stepped out of the Cult camp. Then I moved to Turkey and there I could visit my family members after so long years. After Turkey I immigrated to Germany. Although I was decided to stay there, when I heard about my mother’s illness, In October 2015 I repatriated. Now I am married and work at my brother’s shop.“

December 04, 2015

December 5, 2015 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Mujahedin-e Khalq imprisoned me for 14 years

Nejat Society; Alborz branch held a meeting at the NGO’s office.

Families’ of Mujahedin-e Khalq hostages as well as recently defected members of MKO participated the meeting.

Mr. Fereydoun Ebrahimi and Bayramali Mohammadi were the two defectors who participated the meeting.

The families congratulated the defectors for their brave decision in liberating themselves from the bars of Rajavis cult.

Mr. Ebrahimi introduced himself declaring why and how he joined the group:”

In 2000, I immigrated to Turkey for sewing; the work I was proficient at. After a month I met a man who said he could send me to Europe via Iraqi border providing me with a good job and residency. I was fascinated by his false propaganda. In a week he provided my documents. Then I was transferred to Iraq and Camp Ashraf. At the Camp the commandants of the group convinced me that I had to wait for two years to be transferred to Europe.

However, they kept me at the group camps for 14 years without any contact with the outside world. I tolerated many physical and mental pressures within the Cult. At last in March 2015 I managed to release myself. At Camp Liberty I introduced myself to the Iraqi forces and UN members in Camp Liberty. I contact my family as soon as I stepped out of the Cult camp. Then I moved to Turkey and there I could visit my family members after so long years. After Turkey I immigrated to Germany. Although I was decided to stay there, when I heard about my mother’s illness, In October 2015 I repatriated. Now I am married and work at my brother’s shop. “

December 3, 2015 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 122

++ Nejat Association published the names of thirty Camp Liberty who were transferred in two groups to Albania this week. Two groups of fifteen persons flew out of Iraq on Tuesday and Thursday.

++ MEK sites published various items but many of them end with the conclusion that the West should bomb Iran immediately, before it is too late. This, of course, has become a source of much humour in Farsi circles.

++ The MEK’s efforts to sympathise with Paris has continued. Farsi commentators agree the MEK are happy to have found free media coverage and the illusion of being in a crowd. But more than anything, Maryam Rajavi is afraid of a backlash. She is actually afraid the French government will crack down on terrorists in the country because she is one of them. Others have added that ‘the things you did for the French, you didn’t do an iota of this for the victims in Camp Liberty. You have pushed them aside so that nobody cares about them.’

++ Ehsan Bidi, former MEK member in Tirana, has begun publishing a series of articles – this is second part – titled ‘We lost both the land and the blood’. Bidi examines the transformation of the MEK after the fall of Saddam. After the attacks on Camp Ashraf, Massoud Rajavi said, “we give our blood to keep the land”. Ironically, Bidi points out, Rajavi says the same about Liberty. In recent audio messages he claims that “every time a 100 MEK are killed the regime is toppled once. That means the MEK has toppled the regime 300 times in recent times”.

++ Diplomacy Irani, has translated an item from Al Haqiqeh media. Information from Russian Intelligence exposes the close relationship between the MEK in Iraq and fugitive Tareq Hashemi, who is wanted on charges of terrorism. Documents reveal pictures and bank account numbers, one of which is an account in the name of Hashemi and a company related to the MEK which it used in London to send money to a bank account of Ezzat Ebrahim Al Douri (who was killed in Tikrit) in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The article also shows the involvement of other agencies in Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the internal affairs of Iraq.

++ Families of Camp Liberty residents have stood outside the camp this week. They have also written letters to agencies involved with the camp. They were invited to Iraq’s parliament to meet with MPs and attend the meeting of a Committee called ‘Residigi’ or ‘Resolution’ which has been tasked with resolving the problem of Camp Liberty. Iraq’s parliamentary website featured this on its first page along with a report saying that the Committee takes responsibility for attending to the demands of the families and will follow this vigorously. The families are demanding that 1. they have the right to visit their loved ones and 2. They have the right to help them leave Iraq.

In English:

++ Most of the news in English this week covers the activities of the families of Camp Liberty residents who are demanding action to rescue their loved ones. In particular, after trying every avenue for help, they have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the United Nations, which on paper has the ultimate responsibility for the camp, is colluding with the MEK in violating the human rights of the residents. According to the families, the local agents of the UN are clearly in the pay of the MEK and answer only to them, and no other authority, whether the Iraqi government or humanitarian agencies are able to get beyond this barrier.

November 27, 2015

November 29, 2015 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi Parliament take action to aid families of Liberty residents

Following the meeting of families of Liberty residents at the Iraqi Parliament, a parliamentary committee was formed to investigate the situation of residents of Camp Liberty and the demands of their families.

After the families visited Iraqi Parliament on Tuesday November 24th , the official website of the Iraqi Parliament reported that Parliamentary Committee in charge of investigation on the demands of families of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization held a meeting under the supervision of MP Arshad Salehi on Wednesday November 25th . The meeting was attended by members of security, Defense and Foreign Relations committees together with the High Committee of Camp Liberty in Prime Minister’s office.”

The parliamentary committee discussed the demands of the families of MKO members to visit their children in Camp Liberty in order that the administration takes proper action for the visits. They also agreed on discussing the case of Camp Liberty in future sessions of the parliament.

Earlier, on November 24th, the parliament website reported that a member of the parliament’s leadership board, Dr. Humam Hamoudi had recommended the Human Rights Commission and Foreign Relations Commission to form a delegation to visit Camp Liberty and to get informed about the situation of its residents in the Camp and to inform residents about their families’ desire to meet them.

According to the website, Dr. Hamoudi addressed the families and called on Iraqi administration and foreign Ministry to call on the embassies of foreign countries and UN officials to get engaged in their previous commitments and receive Liberty residents.

He suggested that the Liberty residents should be treated as entities who have to leave Iraqi territory as soon as possible.

First deputy speaker of the Iraqi Parliament stated,” The Parliament will try to guarantee the expulsion of the residents under the supervision of the Iraqi government and the Immigration Organization, after they visit their families and would take it as a humanitarian issue. This is our duty based on Islamic rules and international regulations.”

November 28, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families of Camp Liberty residents at the Iraqi parliament

Families who have travelled to Iraq to meet their dear ones captivated at Camp Liberty, visit the Iraqi MPs at the parliament.

The Iraqi MPs: Homam Hamoudi, Arshad Salehi; Chairman of Iraqi Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, Ahlam al-Husseini, Samireh Musavi and Abbas Bayati from the Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Human Rights Committees participated the session.

Journalists from Iraqi TV Channel one, Al Sumaria satellite TV network, Iraqi newspapers as well as Iraqi parliament Rapporteur Niyazi Memar Oughloo;MP accompanied the families and provided reports, videos and photos of the meetings.

The MKO hostages’ families reiterated their call to visit and get news of their loved ones. The families stressed that Iraq is not a safe place for the Camp Liberty residents and they should be urgently relocated in third countries.

Endorsing the families’ certain right to visit their loved ones, the Iraqi MPs reiterated that the pretext that nobody in the Camp Liberty is willing to visit his family is not acceptable.

During the session it was decided that the MPs form a committee in accompany with Foreign and Human Rights Ministries. A delegation is then supposed to visit Camp Liberty and state the families’ demands. The committee is also supposed to visit Western countries’ embassies in Baghdad asking them to give refuge to the TTL residents as they are no more safe in Iraq.

The MPs also reiterated that the Iraqi government and nation as well as all political parties do not tolerate the former Iraqi dictator’s allies in the Iraqi soil.

November 26, 2015 0 comments

UN violate the rights of Liberty residents!

The calls made by families of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) who reside in Camp Liberty, are ignored by the authorities of the UNAMI (United Nations assistance Mission for Iraq).

Following , the sit-in of groups of families in front of Camp Liberty, UN officials in charge of the Camp did not take any action to aid them contact their loved ones who are taken as hostages by the MKO leaders.

Actually, negligence and reluctance of the UN authorities for such a humanitarian case seem strange .So, Members of Nejat Society investigated the behavior of the UN officials by contacting some of the recently defected members of the group who are seeking refuge in third countries. They found out very frustrating facts about the UNAMI’s approach towards Liberty residents.

They told Nejat Society that the UN officials used to patrol in Camp Liberty from time to time and if they were faced with a resident who wanted to speak about his problems, they would tell him “Go and come with your superior commandant”!

In the MKO, as a cult-like group, members have no personal space. They are deprived from having the least freedom to have a private meeting with UN officials. And, the UN officials do assist the MKO Cult leader to maintain his control over members.

According to the defectors, UN officials work together with Massoud Rajavi to violate the most basic rights of residents of Liberty.

Based on recent news of Camp Liberty, the UN officials left their offices while the families’ sit-in in front of the camp. They give the air to the calls of grieving families.

Nejat Society condemns the illegal treatment by UN officials against residents of Camp Liberty. It calls on the UN General Secretary to end these acts of discrimination against Liberty residents and their families.

November 25, 2015 0 comments

Albania

Two other groups of TTL residents to be transferred to Albania

Thirty Camp Liberty residents are due to be relocated in Albania this week.

The residents are to be transferred in two groups of 15, on November 24th and 26th bringing the total to 217 individuals.

Names are as follows:

Parvaneh Osiya
Nayerreh Shahin far
Parvin Farahmand
Esmat Khodabandeh
Akram Taghipour
Neda Tahmtan
Khadeijeh Fathali Ashtiyani
Parvaneh Shahabi Rad
Shahbaz Saeedi
Zeinab Peyravi
Saman Kouhi
Fatemeh Khorasani
Sareh Asaadi
Masoumeh Rashidi Tabrizi
Parvaneh Rabiee Abasi
Somayeh Danafar
Masoumeh Eslami
Nasrin Alafpour
Maryam Vahidi
Nahid Kafayee
Azar Masoudi
Seyyed Esmaeil Khoramniya
Hassan Soleymani
Mansour Balali
Ali khoshkalam
Mohammad Nabi Afzalian
Mohsen Hoshyar
Majid Shams
Ayoub Palideh
Fatemeh Amari Tafti

November 23, 2015 0 comments

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