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Iraq ‘deeply satisfied’ with expulsion of Mojahedin Khalq terrorists

Iraq has hailed the expulsion of the remaining members of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group, describing the eviction process as an “outstanding success.”

In a statement released on its website on Saturday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry voiced its “deep satisfaction” with the relocation of the last group of the MKO members from Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, “abroad…at the request of the Iraqi government.”

The statement was published one day after the terror group said the last 280 of its members were all flown to Albania. The UN refugee agency also confirmed the transfer.

Iraqi leaders had long urged MKO remnants to leave the Middle Eastern state, but a complete eviction of the terrorists had been hampered due to the US and European support for the terrorist outfit.

International efforts to solve the crisis were met with “an outstanding success,” the statement read, adding that Baghdad “has fulfilled all of its commitments in accordance with [the] Memorandum of Understanding signed with [the] UN in 2011 concerning the resettlement of members of Mujahedin-e Khalq in other countries.”

It further expressed “gratitude for the measures and efforts” by the world body and a number of its member states, including Albania, that helped facilitate the relocation.

In 1986, the MKO members fled Iran for Iraq, where they received support from the then Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and set up Camp Ashraf, now known as Camp New Iraq, in Diyala Province near the Iranian border.

In December 2011, the UN and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriyet.

The last group of the MKO terrorists was evicted in September 2013 and relocated to Camp Hurriyet to await transfer to third countries.

The MKO, the most hated terrorist group among the Iranians, has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades.

Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to MKO’s acts of terror.

There has also been a deep-seated resentment toward the outfit in Iraq both for its criminal past and its full support for Saddam in the brutal crackdown on his opponents.

Washington and the EU have removed the MKO from their lists of terrorist organizations. The anti-Iran terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe, and even hold meetings with American and EU officials.

September 13, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Dirty deals between the MKO, Saudis and their lobbyists in the US

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of 9/11 and many events have been planned to honor the victims who lost their lives. However, you may be shocked to hear that there are still people who celebrate the violent act of terrorist extremists of Al-Qaida.

These people include the Mujahedin Khalq Organization ( the MKO/ the Cult of Rajavi) whose disappeared leader ;Massoud Rajavi gathered the rank and file in Baqerzadeh Camp and congratulated members on the occasion of the collapse of imperialists’ twin towers, offering candies. He said,” this was reactionary Islam, let’s see what revolutionary Islam will do.” (He refers to his group’s ideology as revolutionary Islam)

Surprising is the recent allegations made by one of the American sponsors of the MKO, former senator “Joe Lieberman” in his piece on the Wall Street Journal in which he has tried to link Iran to 9/11!

Lieberman is a famous pro-war figure against Iran. He was the one who called on bombing Iran in a 2010 speech to the Council of Foreign Relations. Lieberman who is a paid speaker for the MKO, addressed the group’s events promising them he will “be working closely” with them for a change of regime in Iran.”

Not only the support for the cult of Rajavi as a “resistance” or “opposition” group indicates the ignorance of the group supporters, but also it demonstrates the complexity and filthiness of the political deals that the MKO and its supporters are involved in.

The Iranian American Progress Action Center ( IAPAC) has posted a photo of Maryam Rajavi and his American friends such as Joseph Lieberman and Rudolph Juliani former mayor of New York.

IAPAC’s comment under the photo is revealing. The page explains how Lieberman is selling the American’s security to the Israel-Saudi-MKO alliance:

“There was a commission dedicated to fact finding about 9/11, so far all we know is they didn’t release the parts associated with Saudis and does not point a finger to Iran as a co-conspirator.”

The page believes that Lieberman’s new allegations “seems to have appeared out of thin air to help Lieberman install his radical Islamic friends.”

However, IAPAC fails to note that the MKO celebrated the 9/11 disastrous event in 2001. It does not notify that Massoud Rajavi has promised his followers to accomplish what AL-Qaida didn’t succeed to do.

The page is right to warn about the dirty relations of warmongers. “Clearly Lieberman and his Saudi owners and Bibi ( Benjamin Netantahu) are creating a pre-text for a war with Iran,” IAPAC commented.” We should not allow American blood and treasure to be wasted on another unnecessary war to make Netanyahu and Saudis realize their dreams.”

The truth is that 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia who were honored by the MKO at that time. Leiberman and other anti-Iran Hawks should be prudent enough to at least know what the MEK is , otherwise they can continue their hypocrisy.

Mazda Parsi,

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Australia

Open letter to the Australian minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Department of Foreign Affairs Trade

R G Casey Building, John McEwen Crescent, Barton ACT 0221 Australia

Dear Minister,

On November the 25th the listing of the Iranian “Mojahedin-e Khalq” organization (MKO/MEK), aka “People´s Mojahedin Organization of Iran” (PMOI) with its political wing, the “National Council of Resistance of Iran” (NCRI) and its military wing, the “National Liberation Army” (NLA) on the Consolidated List has to be extended.

Since years, the MKO tries to appear as a democratic exile-opposition, calling themselves “the Iranian resistance”. They spent a lot of money to acquire support from international former political and military officials and launched a huge public-relations-campaign to present themselves as the “only alternative to the Iranian regime”.

But we as MKO-dropouts, critics and relatives of MKO-members daily suffering the ideology and practices of this Cult know better:

Behind the wall, the MKO is a cultish organization with no support among the most Iranians (exiles as well as those living in Iran). The majority of the Iranians despise the MKO for their alliance with Saddam Hussein in the 80s and for their position against the nuclear program (by most of the Iranian population the program is seen as a legitimate right). At least there is the occult and even messianic image, which has been arranged to Maryam Rajavi “President-elect” and “Sun of the Revolution” and the cultish structure of the organization, which raises questions of democracy within the organization itself because Maryam Rajavi remainedthe President of the organization since her “election” in 1993 without any sign of political pluralism.

Daniel Benjamin, the former U.S. State Department’s counterterror coordinator, told the FP-Website 2015: “Being delisted as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — a decision I took part in — doesn’t mean that this group … has suddenly … become trustworthy or worthy of engagement.”[2], beat up critical demonstrators in Saint-Michel in 2012[4].

As well as in physical violence, the MKO is well trained in psychological warfare:

They strictly separate their Members form families and friends. The members do not have any contact to their relatives. Former members and critics are denounced as “agents of the Iranian intelligence” in general. The MKO fights to silence every critical voice. Therefore they already crashed several homepages from former members and critics with cyber-attacks.

But the MKO members also do not flinch from using violence against themselves:

A lot of MKO-members took part in a large number of hunger strikes in the last years (also in Australia) and so revealed servile obedience to their leader, Maryam Rajavi. You may not forget the self-illumination-protest by MKO-members after the French police raid the MKO headquarter in Paris in 2003.

The terrorist history of the MKO, which was reported to the Australian Parliament in brief by Nigel Brew in 2012[6]

In the last years the MKO tried everything to play a role in the Middle East:

First they were fighting to stay in Camp Ashraf at all costs. But when they had to accept that this fight is not to win, they changed their focus to bring the members to Albania and find some allies in the Region. So Maryam Rajavi met with members of the Syrian Revolution, she swarms over the Saudis and lately she met with Palestine President Abbas. So it is no surprise, when several dropouts, escaping from Camp Liberty, tell the MKO has even close ties to ISIS ensuring the MKO can stay in the region.

We as MKO-dropouts, critics and relatives of MKO-members suffering this Cult, urge you to carefully consider the upcoming decision to extend the MKO-listing, or not.

Yours sincerely,

Cologne, August the 31th 2016

1 Hassan Abbaskhani

2 Jahangir Abbassi

3 Amir-Hooshang Abdi

4 Assdollah Abdi-Nematabadi

5 Sorayya Abdollahi

6 Marhemat Abolfathi

7 Heidar Abolhassani

8 Alireza Abooli

9 Amirhossein Abrishamkar

10 Esmael Aghapoor

11 Roya Ahmadbeigi

12 Sajedeh Ahmadi

13 Mohammad Ahmadi

14 Baba Ali Ahmadi

15 Batool Ahmadkhani

16 Mahnaz Akafian

17 Behrooz Akbari Motlagh

18 Reza Akbari Nassab

19 Ali Akrami

20 seyyed Saeed alavian

21 Rostam Alboogheibish

22 Jalil Alboogheibish

23 Behzad Alishahi

24 Asghar Alizadegan

25 Gholamali Allafpoor

26 Ali Amani

27 Zommorod Amini

28 Samad Amiri-Param

29 Bagher Amiri-Param

30 Haj Abdolhamid Anssari

31 Hamid Arab-Dargi

32 Zahra Arab-Dargi

33 Behzad Arab-Dargi

34 Ali Arab-Dargi

35 Amir-Hossein Arab-Dargi

36 Mohammad Araghi

37 Gholamreza Araki

38 Fatemeh Arbabi

39 Hadi Arbabi

40 Eskandar Arjomandi

41 Arman Armani

42 Milad Aryaei

43 Mehdad Ashena

44 Zahra Ashraei

45 Mohammad-Javad Assadi

46 Siavosh assadi

47 Abbas Assadi

48 Mastaneh Assadzadeh

49 Behrooz Assadzadeh

50 Abdolreza Asskereh

51 Mohammad Atabai

52 Siavosh Atighi

53 Maasoomeh Attarian

54 Issa Azadeh

55 Hedieh Azadi

56 Adel Azimi

57 Hassan Azizi

58 Ahmad-Reza Azizi

59 Shahin Baba Ahmadi

60 Fariborz Baba Ahmadi Karimi

61 Mohammad-Reza Bagheban-bashi

62 Hamdamali Bahmani

63 Davood Bakhtiari

64 Reza Bamadi

65 Nader Banifarhan

66 Fahim Bavi

67 sekran Bavi

68 Hossein Bazzazian

69 Rabee Behbahani

70 Raheleh Behbahani

71 Khanom Behbahani

72 Narges Beheshti

73 Mohahmmad

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Albania

Albanian Paper: Last of the Mojahedin Khalq arrived to Albania – USA thanks Albania

Yesterday the last 280 Mojahedin members from Camp Liberty, Iraq, arrived in Albania.

Senator McCain welcomed the completion of the mission of transferring the Mojahedin, and thanked the Albanian government.

“In 2003, the United States made a commitment to protect thousands of members of the Iranian dissident organization. Today marks the culmination of this commitment with the safe and successful relocation of all these Iranian dissidents in Albania.

“I express my deepest thanks to the Albanian Government for its hospitality and courage in its efforts to resolve the humanitarian crisis. Albania’s readiness to provide shelter for dissidents is a true testament to the spirit and values of the Albanian people”, he said.

The Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) is an Islamic movement founded in September 1965 to oppose the Shah of Iran and later to fight against the Islamic regime which came to power through violent revolution and murder in 1979.

The group moved to Iraq in 1986 and built Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border, after being granted refugee status by the then president Saddam Hussein.

Washington described the MEK as a terrorist organization in 1997 which had killed six Americans in 1970. In August last year, the United States removed it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.

The decision was taken by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who argued at the time that the Mojahedin had renounced violence and terrorist acts and worked for the closure of Camp Ashraf, after which the MEK engaged in violent protests with Iraqi security forces.

Shqiptarja, Tirana, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

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Vijnë muxhahedinët e funditSHBA falenderon Shqipërinë’Testament për vlerat e shqiptarëve’Çfarë janë muxhahedinët?

Dje kanë mbërritur në Shqipëri 280 muxhahedinët e fundit nga “Kampi i Lirisë” në Irak.

Senatori amerikan McCain ka përshëndetur përfundimin e misionit të muxhahedinëve, ndërsa ka falenderuar qeverinë shqiptare

“Në vitin 2003, Shtetet e Bashkuara ka bërë një angazhim për të mbrojtur mijëra anëtarë të organizatës disidente iraniane.

Sot shënohet kulmi i këtij angazhimi me zhvendosjen e sigurt dhe të suksesshëm të të gjitha disidentëve iranianë në Shqipëri.

I shpreh falënderimet e mia më të thellë të Qeverisë së Shqipërisë për mikpritjen e tij dhe guximin në përpjekjet e saj për të zgjidhur këtë krizë humanitare.

Gatishmëria e Shqipërisë për të siguruar strehim për disidentët është një testament i vërtetë për frymën dhe vlerat e popullit shqiptar’ shprehet ai.

Muxhahedinët (MEK) është një lëvizje islamike e themeluar në shtator të vitit 1965 për të kundërshtuar lëvizjen “shah” në Irak dhe më tej për të luftuar kundër regjimit islamik i cili erdhi në pushtet nga revolucioni i dhunshëm dhe i vrasjeve në vitin 1979.

Ky grup u vendos në Irak në 1986 dhe ndërtuar kampin Ashraf pranë kufirit iranian, pasi i është dhënë statusi i refugjatëve nga presidenti i asaj kohe Adam Hyseni.

Uashingotni e ka cilësuar si një organizatë terroriste pasi në 1997 vranë 6 amerikanë në vitin 1970. Në gusht të vitit të kaluar, Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës kanë hequr nga lista e organizatave të huaja terroriste, një grup muhaxhedinësh iranian të vendosur në Irak (Mojahedin-e-Khalq) ΜΕΚ.

Vendimi është marrë nga Sekretarja e Amerikane e Shtet, Hillary Clinton, i cili u argumentua në atë kohë me faktin se muhaxhedinët kishin hequr dorë nga dhuna dhe nga aktet terroriste dhe bashkëpunuan për mbylljen e kampit Ashraf, për shkak të të cilit ka pasur protesta të dhunshme me forcat e sigurisë të Irakut.

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

‘MKO was expelled from Iraq in disgrace’

Majed Ghamas, the representative of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council in Tehran, has said that the Iraqi nation disgraced the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) by expelling their remaining members from Iraq, Tasnim reported on Saturday.

The top Iraqi envoy described the MKO as one of the shadowy groups that sought to launch a new wave of terrorist activities in the region.

He said the MKO must stop their terrorist activities as they want to enter other countries.

“The MKO reminds Iraqi people of very painful memories. This is a mutual feeling between Iraqis and Iranians,” Ghamas said.

“Saddam, as the key sponsor of the MKO, was ousted and then the Iraqi government attempted to expel the terrorist group from Iraq, and today, with the Iraqi people’s support, the MKO has been expelled from the country,” he added.

The MKO has existed as an Islamist-Marxist group in Iran since 1965, when it fought against the former Shah of Iran. It performed a number of attacks against the United States soldiers stationed in Iran and then it was put on the U.S. State Department terrorist list.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the group resorted to bombings and assassinations. It then sided with the Saddam Hussein army the war against Iran in the 1980s.

Backed by the Saddam regime, the MKO launched a military attack on Iran in 1987, one week after UN Resolution 598 brought the war between the Iraq-Iran to a halt.

Iran accuses the group of being responsible for 17,000 deaths.

Saddam also used the group against Shias in the south and Kurds in the north.

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Albania

Last remnants of anti-Iran MKO terrorists relocated from Iraq to Albania

The last remaining members of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have been relocated from a camp in Iraq to Albania.

According to a Friday statement released by the terror group, the last 280 MKO terrorists were all flown to Albania after leaving Camp Liberty (Hurriya), a former US military base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

“This final round of departures marks the successful conclusion to the process of relocating members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) outside of Iraq,” it said.

The UN refugee agency also confirmed that all the remnants of the group had left the Arab country.

“The international community has now successfully achieved the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents from Iraq to third countries,” said William Spindler, the spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday.

Back on August 25, another 155 members of the group, including a number of its senior leaders, had fled Iraq for Albania.

Iraqi leaders had long urged MKO remnants to leave the Arab country, but a complete eviction of the terrorists had been hampered by the US and European support for the group.

The MKO, the most hated terrorist group among the Iranians, has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000, including many top officials, have fallen victim to MKO’s acts of terror.

The terror group fled Iran for Iraq shortly after the Islamic Revolution and began receiving support from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, while siding with him in his eight-year bloody war against Iran in the 1980s.

In December 2011, the UN and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province to Camp Liberty. Another group of the MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government in September 2013 and relocated to the camp to await potential relocation to third countries.

On August 4, Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Danaeifar said that the Iraqi government with the cooperation of the UN had expelled 65 percent of the MKO terrorists and the rest would be deported in the next 45 days.

There has also been a deep-seated resentment toward the group in Iraq both for its criminal past and its full support for Saddam in the brutal crackdown on his opponents.

The terrorist group, which has built a cult-like following, is also known for the brutal elimination of its own members over dissent.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.

September 11, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Final group of Iranian dissidents leaves Iraq camp

BAGHDAD — A camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group in Iraq was officially closed after the last 280 residents were flown to Albania on Friday, the group said.

FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization seen inside the Liberty refugee camp in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iranian opposition group said Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 that a camp housing its members in Iraq has been officially closed after the last 280 residents were flown to Albania. The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq has been based in Iraq since the 1980s, when they received arms and support from Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. (Hadi Mizban, File/Associated Press)

The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq has been based in Iraq since the 1980s, when they received arms and support from Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. U.S.-led forces disarmed the group after the 2003 invasion and settled them at a base north of Baghdad.

Late Friday night a car bomb targeting a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad killed 11 people and wounded 28, according to police and hospital officials. Three Iraqi policemen were among the dead, the officials added.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the press.

The attack comes as Iraqi ground forces are moving into position around Mosul ahead of a planned operation to retake the militant-held city from the Islamic State group.

The Iranian opposition group, whose members who were flown out of Iraq Friday, was listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department for years over its killing of Americans. The MEK was also accused of taking part in the brutal suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam, allegations denied by the group.

The MEK says it renounced violence in 2001. The U.S. military in Iraq signed an agreement with the group in 2004, promising that members would be treated as “protected persons” under the Fourth Geneva Convention. The State Department removed the group from its list of terrorist organizations in 2012.

On Friday, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau thanked the governments of Albania and Iraq.

“We are grateful to the Government of Iraq for facilitating the departure of the MEK. And we are specially appreciative of the extraordinary efforts of the Albanian Government, the Albanian Prime Mister Rama, to welcome these people who are in need of international protection,” Trudeau said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon thanked member states and international organizations for “the successful resolution of this humanitarian issue,” in statement issued by his spokesman.

Iraqi forces raided Camp Ashraf, the group’s longtime base north of Baghdad, in 2009, shortly after U.S.-led forces handed over responsibility for the camp to the Iraqi government. The group was later relocated to a former military base in the capital.

Armed groups have repeatedly attacked the group since Saddam’s ouster, killing scores of its members.

While the casualty figures could often not be independently verified, the United Nations repeatedly expressed concern about the safety and security of residents of the group’s camps.

The group said last year that more than 20 members were killed in a missile attack on their camp, but the figure could not be independently verified and the MEK has made exaggerated claims to the media in the past.

By Qassam Abdul-Zahra , Associated Press writer Murtada Faraj contributed to this report.

September 10, 2016 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 160

++ Picketing took place in the city centre of Cologne by MEK formers who say the terrorist group is misusing the newly transferred people in Albania against their knowledge and will. They are unable to contact the outside world as the MEK is re-building its terror camp on the edge of the European Union. Its members are not being allowed to reintegrate into normal society as the UN/US backed agreement requires. People in Albania that Iran-Interlink has contact with say that in the past few weeks over twenty people have separated from the MEK, but that they are afraid to talk because they are convinced the MEK is an American force and that the Americans will harm them if they speak out.

++ Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Taghi Modaressi of Iraq was interviewed. The section in which he talked about MEK was translated by Habilian. In it he refers to the time of Saddam Hussein. He reveals that “they [MEK] kidnapped me and because they were working for Saddam they interrogated me. Even then I knew they were not themselves and I tried to help them come out of this atmosphere [of brainwashing] by talking about facts and logic. At one point my interrogator said ‘you are talking over my head. I have been with the MEK for 20 years and I don’t know anything about the outside world’. I posed the question for him ‘why not?’ After this he was replaced by other high ranking people like Abbas Davari who continued the interrogation.”

++ It is noticeable that in the last week the Saudis have dropped the MEK altogether and as much as the MEK is trying to support the Saudis in their websites, the Saudis are not giving anything back. Analysts say the Saudis have realised what a deep problem they made for themselves. From one side the leading Saudi religious leader has announced that Shias are worse than non-believers and Iranians are not Muslims and they should be killed. With this Wahhabi background they have recruited a group which claims to be Shia and is Iranian – it doesn’t match. On the other side the KSA is accused by the whole world of backing Daesh in Iraq and Syria. So that supporting a terrorist group like the MEK and putting its Marxist logo next to Daesh doesn’t match with that support either. In one way, openly supporting the MEK endorses and affirms their support for Daesh – they will not balk at using any terrorist group. The Saudis have backed away from supporting the MEK to the point that now it is Eid it has become apparent that Maryam Rajavi will not be invited to attend Haj as she had boasted some days ago. Instead, the Saudis have paraded some other Iranians to praise their royal leaders. Interestingly, Iran is translating all this propaganda into Farsi and insists it is done by the MEK. In this way Iran is using the MEK for its own benefit in this situation. The real problem for the Saudis after Ayatollah Khamenei’s recent speech is that they have lost the claim to be leader of the world’s Sunnis. In addition, their support for the MEK is backlashing badly now as some analysts compare the Saudis with Saddam. Saddam denounced Jews and Persians as the burden on humanity who should be killed. At same time, Saddam did host Massoud Rajavi as an Iranian Shia. Apparently the Saudis can’t even do this.

In English:

++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers asks ‘When is Rajavi’s turn?’. His analysis draws on several examples of cult leaders – from Israel, Britain and America – who have been prosecuted for polygamy and abuse of women. But the West – while it bemoans human rights abuses elsewhere – still apparently supports the MEK even though its leader Massoud Rajavi is accused of exactly these crimes.

++ Mehr News (Iran) reported Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi in response to the latest remarks of Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir against Iran, calling them ‘extremely repetitive and unfounded’. Ghasemi said ‘it is better for Saudi Arabia to make serious revisions to its approach to the region and to replace illusion with intellection’.

++ Tehran Times (Iran): Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, accused UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shahid of ‘embedding his latest report on the situation of human rights in Iran with a ‘pack of lies’ to present to the European Parliament. “In addition to the negative report drafted by the UN rapporteur, there are other pens depicting a gloomy picture of Iran, according to the Iranian official. ‘Saudi Arabia and the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (which Iran has designated as a terrorist group) have prepared material on Iran in tens of pages and under 400 articles so as to present their reports to the European Parliament’, said Rezaee.

++ Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters, ‘To Iranian eyes, Kurdish unrest spells Saudi incitement’. The article links accusations that Saudi is backing Kurdish opposition taking up arms against Iran.“(Saudi Arabia) gives money to any anti-revolutionary who comes near the border and says ‘Go carry out operations,’ Mohsen Rezai, the former head of the Revolutionary Guards said after one round of clashes, according to the Tabnak website. ‘When they ask, ‘Where should we carry out operations?’ they say, ‘It’s not important. We want Iran to become insecure’.” A further example is the Saudi backing for the MEK which was recently made public.

++ Arash Reisinezhad, The National Interest, ‘Saudi Arabia Wants to Roll Back Iran’. Efforts by Saudi Arabia to curtail Iran’s growing power and influence in the region is being pursued through Saudi support for Jihadi-Salafi groups and the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group.

++ An interview by Muslim Press with political commentator Yuram Abdullah Weiler in which he discusses the MEK. Weiler says “Washington uses the Mojahedin Khalq to fight a cover war against Iran”.

++ Iran-Interlink’s title says it all: ‘Rajavi’s lobbyist [French MEP Robert Rochefort] caught pleasuring himself in front of two teenage girls’, reported by The Express newspaper.

++ One of the families of the MEK hostages has written an Open Letter to the Foreign Ministry of Australia urging that the MEK not be removed from the country’s terrorism list when it comes up for review.

++ Rudaw (the Netherlands) writes that tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been fought out by proxy actors across the region, notably Syria and Yemen. Richard LeBaron from the Atlantic Council think tank told Rudaw “both countries have an interest in working toward stability and normal diplomatic relations”. Philip Smyth, a researcher at the University of Maryland, acknowledged that Riyadh is searching “for all types of allies it can use in campaigns to put pressure on Tehran”. Smyth describes Saudi support for the MEK as ‘pragmatic’ but says it shows ‘poor strategic planning in response to Iranian successes in Iraq and Syria”.

++ Mehr News (Iran) reports that Iran has arrested a twelve-member terrorist team backed by Saudi Arabia in the northeastern city of Sardasht wich was armed and planning terrorist attacks inside Iran. Press TV reported that Noam Chomsky, political activist and philosopher has accused the United States and its Western allies of knowing about but choosing to turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s support for terrorist groups. In a separate item, Press TV also quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghassemi saying that “The world has learned that Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism, the radical ideology freely preached in the Arab country, are to blame for the violent acts of extremism in the Middle East region and elsewhere”.

September 09 2016

September 10, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Mojahedin Khalq finally expelled from Iraq

The remaining members of an exiled Iranian opposition group based in Iraq for decades left on Friday for resettlement in Albania following several attacks on their camps in recent years.

More than 280 members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) living at Camp Liberty, next to Baghdad International Airport, departed from Iraq, the group said in a statement.

Under a deal brokered by the United States and the United Nations refugee agency, almost 2,000 dissident Iranians have been resettled in nearly a dozen European countries since the start of 2016.

Until a few years ago, PMOI, also known by its Farsi name Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), was listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union.

The group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq’s war with Iran in the 1980s but fell out of favour with Baghdad after he was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

A rocket attack claimed by a Shi’ite Muslim militia in October killed 23 PMOI members.

The group has offices in the United States and Europe.

The remaining Iranian dissidents in Iraq, who seek the overthrow of Iran’s clerical leadership established by the 1979 Islamic revolution, were disarmed after Saddam’s fall and later moved to Camp Liberty.

September 10, 2016 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Former members denounce the MKO cult in Koln

Former members who actively denounce the MKO destructive cult held a protest gathering in Koln, Germany on Saturday, September 3rd, 2016.

Participants at the rally declared their support for the MKO hostages’ families’ certain right of visiting their loved ones. Sympathizing with the suffering families, they urged the human rights bodies to facilitate their visit with their beloved family members.

They also warned Europe about the threat of the MKO destructive cult entry and spread through their states.

The MKO destructive cult is spreading throughout Europe as its members who are under severe Cult manipulations are entering Europe, ex-members reiterated.

Holding brochures and photos of the MKO Cult’s high-ranking members in Germany and France and also giving some information on their clandestine activities, former members sought to reveal the true face of the MKO destructive cult to the audiences.

Hundreds of brochures handed out to the visitors. The brochures included compendious reports on the terrorist activities of the MKO Cult, smuggling terrorists to Europe by fake identities, self-immolation of the Cult members in 2003, … .

In separate interviews at the end of the protest gathering, former members reiterated their support and sympathy to those who are taken as hostages and their families. They insisted that the members should be recognized and relocated as independent individuals rather than members of the MKO.

Former members denounce the MKO cult in Koln

September 8, 2016 0 comments

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