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Iran: Faisal’s attendance at Mojahedin Khalq meeting signifies Saudi stupidity

An informed source at the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that Saudi Arabia uses terrorism against the Muslim countries in the Middle East as an “instrument” to achieve its objectives.

The comments by the Foreign Ministry source came as Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former spy chief, attended an annual meeting of the MKO terrorist group in Paris on Saturday during which he pledged to back the group.

The Foreign Ministry source said that Faisal’s attendance at the meeting is new example of the Saudi government’s “stupidity, indecency and political frustration”.

Political analysts unanimously believe that Faisal is the ideological mentor of terrorist groups.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, an advisor to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Sunday that there is no doubt about the Saudi security bodies’ relations with the MKO.

Financial supports for terrorism are on the agenda of Riyadh, he said.

“Riyadh’s strategic mistake in using terrorism in regional developments will cause us irreparable harms in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian remarked.

The veteran diplomat added that Saudi Arabia should change its “military and security approach” in the region.

He urged the Saudi government to stop supporting terrorism and play “constructive” role in the region.

‘Saudi and foreign media efforts to revive MKO are doomed to failure’

Also, General Ramezan Sharif, head of the IRGC public relations office, said, “Efforts by Saudi and foreign media to revive MKO are doomed to failure.”

He said that presence of the former Saudi official at the MKO meeting proves the “old link” between the terrorist group and Saudis.

It has become obvious for the public opinion that Saudi Arabia backs terrorist movements in the region, he said.

Hamid Reza Asefi, the former ambassador of Iran to France, said on Saturday the Iranian people consider the MKO and its secretary general Massoud Rajavi dead.

He said that the French government’s action in permitting the MKO to hold a meeting is “reproachable”.

He also described Faisal’s attendance at the gathering as a “hostile action” and said that the Saudis should become aware of the fact that they are “playing with fire”.

Hamidreza Moghadamfar, an advisor to the IRGC commander, said on Sunday that Faisal’s attendance at the MKO gathering reveals “terrorist nature” of the Saudi government.

He added that the former Saudi official’s participation at the meeting can link the MKO with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

July 12, 2016 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Love is forbidden and ground for punishment in the Cult of Rajavi

Since the so called “ideological revolution” in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) in the 1980s, relationships and emotions have been destroyed. Rajavi’s “ideological revolution” forced members to divorce their spouses and eventually to forget their families. A few years later, Rajavi sent all children outside the group’s camps.

Thus, in the isolated camps of the group, children were no more with the parents, ex- couples could no more think of each other, brothers and sisters could no more visit each other except for a short time in the new year celebration and under the supervision of the group authorities.

Love is unheard of in the cult of Rajavi. The only kind of love that is not only permitted but also obligatory is the love for leader. All members should kill the love of their children, family and ex-spouses in their hearts, instead they should grow the love of their leader in their mind. Female members should consider Massoud Rajavi as their only love, their only husband!

As the individuals who are taken as hostages in the Cult of Rajavi do not have any access to the outside world, they are not able to contact their families outside the group.

Despite the efforts made by families of the MKO’s hostages to visit their loved ones in the group’s camp, the group authorities use all types of tactics to keep members far from families demonizing families as spies of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry!

Love is a variety of different feelings, states and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. The hostages in the MKO Cult are deprived from all of these interpersonal affections, feelings and pleasures. They are just indoctrinated to idolize their leader, Massoud Rajavi.

Love is one of the most profound emotions known to human beings and this deep relationship is one of the meaningful elements in the life of human beings. Love provides people with a source of deep fulfilment. The MKO leader has tried hard to shallow this source of fulfilment and to alternate it with an absolute obedience to himself.

Therefore, living in the cult of Rajavi requires denial of the love for your spouse, children, relatives and friends. Besides, caring about love make the cult member accountable for punishment. The punishment in the MKO ranges from self-criticism report writing, peer pressure, being humiliates by superior members and peers, psychological and even physical torture.

In case that family of an MKO hostage try too much to contact their loved one in the MKO camp, the hostage is indoctrinated to write a statement against his or her family. This might be the harshest punishment for a person who thinks of love!

Mazda Parsi

July 11, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The late Iraqi dictator did kill many thousands of people—but very few were terrorists

(Benjamin served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department 2009-2012. He is director of The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College)

Donald Trump is, by his own admission, “like, a really smart person,” and someone who has “a very good brain,”

Trump, roughly: Saddam Hussein was thiiiiiiiiis good at killing terrorists.

but he don’t know much about history. His remarks this week—and on multiple other occasions—about Saddam Hussein’s skill at counterterrorism are a reminder of this.

“He was a bad guy—really bad guy,” Trump opined during a rally in North Carolina. “But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights. They didn’t talk. They were terrorists. Over.”

Hussein, it is true, killed a lot of people. The estimates run into the hundreds of thousands, and he murdered in a variety of appalling ways: He had his victims shot, gassed, blown up, beheaded and even torn apart by wild animals. And while all of his victims had excellent reasons for not liking life under the longtime Iraqi dictator, almost none were terrorists. On the contrary, terrorists in Iraq were mostly honored guests and worked at the regime’s behest.

Thousands of terrorists called Iraq home, and their organizations had the blood of Israelis, Turks, Iranians and Europeans from numerous countries on their hands. Among the killers were members of the Palestine Liberation Front, the Arab Liberation Front, the Kurdish PKK, the Iranian Mujahidin e-Khalq and the Abu Nidal Organization. Saddam promised to pay the families of suicide bombers who killed Israelis for their deeds. It is true that he despised jihadists and had nothing to do with al Qaeda, but that hardly diminishes his record. Not for nothing, Iraq was among the first batch of countries designated by Washington as state sponsors of terror in 1979.

Perhaps Trump has information that is not widely available, but only one case of a terrorist being killed in Iraq comes readily to mind: the death of Abu Nidal. Before Osama bin Laden came along, Nidal—also known as Sabry al Banna—was widely considered the most vicious terrorist alive. He worked, by turns, for the Syrians, the Libyans and the Iraqis, engineered notorious airport massacres in 1985 in Rome and Vienna, and ultimately was credited with some 900 deaths and injuries.

Nidal was a particular favorite of Hussein, who employed him for assassinations and other wet-work from the beginning of his career in the 1970s. But as rumors of an approaching war with the United States swirled in the August of 2002, Hussein is said to have worried that Nidal, who lived in Baghdad, might be working for the U.S. Though Hussein might also have decided that as Washington was making its case for action against Iraq, Nidal was a non-essential burden. Iraqi press accounts afterward that said Nidal committed suicide and that he had multiple gunshot wounds. Perhaps that was what Trump was thinking when he applauded Hussein for killing terrorists “so good.” But the bigger picture of Iraq’s ties with Abu Nidal begs the question of whether the end was the most important part of this relationship.

It also seems to have slipped by Trump that the Iraqi dictator often used his own intelligence service to stage terrorist attacks. The best known case got more than a little press because it involved an effort to kill a former American president. In April 1993, shortly after leaving office, George H.W. Bush visited Kuwait, the country his administration liberated from Iraqi occupation. Hussein sought retribution through a car bombing arranged by his intelligence service.

The Kuwaitis uncovered the plot before Bush arrived. Two months later, after the suspects confessed and the full picture of the operation was clear, President Bill Clinton sent 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Iraqi intelligence headquarters. It was his administration’s first use of military force.

This was not exactly a hidden chapter in history. Indeed, President George W. Bush reminded everyone in late 2002 that Saddam was “the guy who tried to kill my dad”—a remark that launched countless conjectures about the motivation behind the American march to war in Iraq.

It is odd that Trump seems to have no memory of the incident and odder still that he holds up Hussein as being on the right side of the terrorism issue. Unimpeachable ignorance and no moral compass. Trump does that so good. Over.

By Daniel Benjamin,

July 10, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Newt Gingrich Attends Meeting Of Controversial Iranian Dissident Group MEK

Gingrich, who is being considered for VP by the Trump campaign, spoke at the annual gathering of the MEK in Paris.

WASHINGTON — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is attending the annual conference of a controversial Iranian dissident group that was until 2012 on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Conservative activist Ken Blackwell tweeted a photo of himself and Gingrich at the gathering on Saturday:

The Mujahadeen-e-Khalq, commonly known as MEK, holds a gathering near Paris every year, where its leader Maryam Rajavi lives, under the aegis of the umbrella group National Council of Resistance of Iran. The MEK, who want to overthrow the current regime in Iran, were exiled from Iran in 1981. The group were for years allied with Saddam Hussein, backing him in the Iran-Iraq War. Saddam gave them arms and allowed them to settle on bases in Iraq. (Donald Trump, who is considering Gingrich as a top-level candidate to be his running mate, has repeatedly praised Saddam for supposedly cracking down on terrorism.)

The State Department designated the MEK as a terrorist group in 1997. The group has since undertaken an extensive campaign to build an image as peaceful opponents of the regime, enlisting various American figures such as Howard Dean and Rudy Giuliani as supporters, and in 2012 they were removed from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. The MEK has been known to pay its Western supporters speaking fees for attending its events.

According to other photos on Blackwell’s Twitter, Dean is also at the conference this year as well as former attorney general Michael Mukasey.

Gingrich has attended the conference in the past; video from 2012 shows him speaking there. Gingrich has emerged this year as a top candidate for Trump’s VP slot; he confirmed this week that he is being vetted for the position.

Video obtained by BuzzFeed News shows Gingrich speaking to the conference on Saturday:

Video available at: https://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2016/07/09/GingrichMEK-212×376.mp4

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A spokesperson for Gingrich didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rosie Gray is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, D.C. Gray reports on politics and foreign policy.

Rosie Gray, BuzzFeed News,

July 10, 2016 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi — MEK Propaganda Queen — Advertises Her Services For Iran’s Enemies

The Middle East is in turmoil. Deaths and destruction are a daily occurrence throughout the region. Families flee their homes in fear, forced into an uncertain future. No end is in sight. Yet into this calamitous scenario a slick, sophisticated terrorist recruiter’s advert has popped up which ISIS itself could learn from.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) website carries a glamorous advertising campaign for a Grand Gathering. Surrounded by glitzy pictures of flag-waving youth, the central focus of this gathering is ‘Our pledge: regime change’.

Well, we all know what that means. Don’t we? Apparently not. Because this advertising doesn’t reflect the destruction wrought in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen. Here is no promise of jihad and the caliphate. It looks very much like a carnival. Which is exactly what it is – a show. So, what is meant by the promise of regime change?

The first port of call is to understand that the NCRI is just another name for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) which was also known as the National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA).

Back in 1994, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi tasked his wife Maryam to leave Iraq for America in order to regain political recognition of the Mojahedin Khalq as ‘the’ Iranian opposition which had been lost when he refused to abandon Saddam Hussein during the First Gulf war.

Refused entry to the USA as the leader of a terrorist entity Maryam instead took up residence in France as a refugee. But instead of meeting politicians to talk about how the MEK could overthrow the Iranian regime, she discovered she could simply create the illusion of support by paying both audience and speakers. She discovered a talent for dressing up, holding fancy dinner parties and talking about her cult ideology.

To create the appearance of a willing audience for her views, she recruited a rag-tag following of Iranian economic refugees who would happily turn up when paid for their services. She paid for feminists from North America, Europe and Scandinavia to visit Auvers-sur-Oise and attend dinner parties. She posed in her hijab to speak about her version of feminism to these western women; carefully spelling it out for them that they would never really understand what feminism is until they understood her husband Massoud Rajavi.

When Massoud recalled her to Iraq in 1997 she had spent a third of the total MEK budget and had no political support to show for it. She had lost around half the loyal MEK members who had defected whilst in Europe. With morale at an all-time low, Maryam was forced to retreat to Iraq with what remained of her personnel and leave the western bases in the hands of largely uneducated paid ‘supporters’.

When allied forces next invaded Iraq in 2003 Maryam Rajavi again fled to France. This time, as luck would have it, western politics was focused on curtailing Iran’s nuclear programme which it insisted was aimed at creating a nuclear weapon. The MEK’s services as propaganda experts were just what was needed, ensuring the MEK’s ostensible survival as an opposition group.

But in reality the MEK was already in terminal decline. Its fighting forces, disarmed in 2003, are currently being transferred from Iraq to Albania by the UNHCR to begin a process of de-radicalisation and reintegration back into normal society. Nobody expects veterans with an average age of sixty to wage the terrorism of thirty years ago. Disarmament also allowed American experts to investigate years of complaints about human rights and cultic abuses inside the MEK. As long as the MEK was being used to muddy the waters of the nuclear negotiations, such details could be glossed over. But since last year when agreement was reached, the MEK’s murky past can no longer be dismissed.

The main reason, of course, is that the new theme for challenging Iran in the international community is based on the country’s dismal human rights record. But Maryam Rajavi has her own well documented human rights abuse dossier to answer for. The MEK, under whatever name it is used, is simply the wrong tool to use to demonise Iran.

Beyond this, the MEK is not the popular opposition its own advertising claims it to be. The group is almost universally despised among Iranians both inside the country and in the diaspora. Not only did the MEK fight alongside Saddam Hussein’s army during the devastating eight-year Iran-Iraq war, but the MEK’s anti-Iran role in the nuclear negotiations hit a nerve with most ordinary Iranians who regarded support for their country’s right to nuclear technology as an issue of nationalism rather than politics.

Maryam Rajavi cannot get support from Iranians unless it is paid for. Nor can Maryam Rajavi deign to share a platform with any other Iranian opposition personality. So this year Maryam Rajavi will again do what she does best; pay audience and speakers alike to give the illusion of support.

So, back to the recent advertising campaign. Any publicity campaign will be successful if it is newsworthy. Maryam, however, simply churns out the same scenario ad infinitum. Starting with describing a terrible situation in Iran – based on news items that can be gleaned from any serious reporting outlet – she then proposes a ten-point plan for Iran, approved this year by Italian parliamentarians. And then she promises regime change.

Clearly this message is not aimed at Iranians. The clamour for regime change in Iran does not emanate from inside the country in spite of its many social, civic and political problems. Who then is Maryam Rajavi’s constituency? From whom is she hoping to garner support?

Many constituencies outside Iran wish fervently for its destruction. It is enlightening that Maryam Rajavi’s websites are home to a bizarre mixture of anti-Shia, anti-Iran, anti-Syria, items which reflect very closely the views of neocons, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Maryam Rajavi is not promising regime change, she is advertising her services as a propaganda queen.

Follow Massoud Khodabandeh on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ma_khodabandeh

Huffington Post,Massoud Khodabandeh, Co-authored by Anne Khodabandeh

July 9, 2016 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran-Interlink Weekly Digest – 151

++ In the lead up to Maryam Rajavi’s propaganda event on Saturday, many MEK formers have gathered together in Paris to alert both the public and participants about the MEK’s deceptive practices. Every day over the past week they have been distributing leaflets and holding pickets in various locations around Paris, including in Auvers-sur-Oise. This was particularly welcomed by neighbours of the closed MEK base in that village. The residents complained to the formers that “we are as sick of them as you are. They constantly interfere in our local affairs and use money to bribe and mollify various people”. At the same time as this activism, many people have written open letters addressed to the MEK’s advocates asking them not to participate just because of money. There is a moral responsibility too. The MEK are glorifying terrorism.

++ Nejat Society has published the fourth interview for the Mothers: The Forgotten Victims series. This time Mrs Mahmonir Jalali, whose son Shahab Firouzmandeh is in Camp Liberty, talked about her son and how he has no contact with his family because it is forbidden by the MEK.

++ The Mojahedin, predictably, embarked on a burst of anti-former propaganda last week. One example is the paid Youtube TV channel called Rang-a Rang. The person they have brought to character assassinate formers is called Abedin Janbaz. Majid Rouhi has written an article published in Iran-Interlink exposing this person using documentary evidence. He says “while in the MEK this man was known to everyone as a torturer and enforcer. He ‘escaped’ from Camp Ashraf and took up residence in the American TIPF. But while there he went on working as a spy for the MEK, reporting on the ex-members. When he got to Europe he continued doing the same thing.” Janbaz is used in a really nasty way. Rouhi says “the fact that the MEK would rather use even this notorious character to attack the formers than use their own outlets which are much more widespread, serves to demonstrate just how dirty their own outlets are.”

++ Following the recent attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq, 103 formers and human rights activists and families wrote open letters of condemnation. Families in particular expressed worry about their loved ones. Fortunately this time there were no casualties. Nevertheless the concern is justified. All those writing have one thing in common. They are suspicious that this attack, like all the others, occurred at a time advantageous for the MEK – this time just before the Paris meeting. Other attacks were similarly significantly linked to other MEK events. The writers believe the attacks create food for the MEK propaganda machine (in other words, they are done by the MEK themselves). All the writers also acknowledge that while asking the Iraqis to try their best, in war-torn Iraq it is impossible to fully secure this place. The point is that the only person who insists they stay there in Camp Liberty is Rajavi. If it wasn’t for him, all the residents would have left Iraq before now.

In English:

++ Nejat Society reported that 40 more Camp Liberty residents have been successfully transferred to Tirana in Albania. The names of the two groups of twenty each were published for the benefit of their families. A total number of 294 Camp Liberty residents have been transferred to Albania in the last 16 groups of relocations since January 2016.

++ Jason Ditz in AntiWar.com wrote about the attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq. “At least 40 people were wounded today when rocket fire landed at Camp Liberty, a base of operations of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), with the attacks causing considerable destruction and leaving several large craters in the camp.” The report concludes “The UN has been trying to relocate the MeK out of Iraq, but has only managed to remove about a third of them as of the most recent reports. That leaves nearly 2,000 still stuck at Camp Liberty.”

++ Several articles and letters focus on Maryam Rajavis ‘grand gathering’ on 9 July. Some ask the MEK paid advocates to think again about what it is they are involved in. An article by Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh exposes the shallow extent of Maryam Rajavi’s ‘offer’. She is merely a propaganda queen who has discovered a talent for dressing up and putting on events to give the illusion of support.

July 8, 2016

July 9, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Do not participate in the gathering of a cultic terrorist organisation

Condemn and Boycott the anniversary of violence and terrorism

Open letter from the Iranian Pen Club to foreign citizens who intend to participate in the Rajavi cult’s gathering in Paris

Greetings and with respect to you all.

The Iran-Ghalam (Pen) Club consists of former members with more than twenty years record of service in the People’s Mojahedin Organization. We are informed that Maryam Rajavi will hold a ceremony to commemorate violence and terrorism in Villepinte, Paris this year like previous years, and she has invited you to attend this notorious ceremony as well. Regarding this invitation, the Iran-Ghalam Club decided to write this letter to remind you of the following facts about this cult organization.

Dear friends,

According to international news agencies, in 2003 when Maryam Rajavi and some of pmoi operatives got arrested in France , 11 million dollars was found in their headquarter in Auvers sur Oise . The PMOI leadership forced some of their followers and members in France and in Europe in front of the French Embassy and in USA to set themselves on fire to show their anger about the arrest of Maryam Rajavi . the leadership of pmoi wanted to create panic and fear among the French people to force The French government to release Maryam Rajavi as soon as possible . unfortunately two People – Sadighe Mojaveri and Neda Hosseini – lost their lives by sels-immolation carried out under pressure Maryam Rajavi praised this violent cutic Action and called the victims “sacred martyrs”

In june 1981 , Mojahedin Khalq announced the resumption of “Armed Struggle” and “ Terrorism” which led to thousands of deaths and a surge in violence and destruction.

Mojahedin Khalgh now celbrates the anniversary of These two Events every year. The celebration of their commitment to violence, terrorism and cultic beliefs.

Are you aware that the People’s Mojahedin Organization has changed from a political and revolutionary organization to a cult led by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi? And do you know that as a result of all its cultic and terrorist activities, it has a black record of treason and crimes against the Iranian people?

Do you know that this organization, despite its claim that it is a democratic organization and is an advocate for human rights and is fighting against fundamentalism, but inside its medieval relations there is a severe breach of human rights and censorship and inquisition and political strangulation and severe suppression in this so-called organization?

Do you know that the leader of this cult does not tolerate hearing the smallest criticism and that he issued an audio-tape on 11 Aban 1393 against all his opponents and critics, in particular the separated members of this notorious cult, and that in this audio-tape he threatened all his opponents, critics and separated members with death?

Do you know that the People’s Mojahedin Organization, despite its claim of supporting the women’s movement and its claim to support the slogan ‘freedom for women’, in its medieval relations the women members are annoyed and harassed and sexually abused by Massoud Rajavi and he has forced them to get divorced from their husbands and be separated from their children?

Do you know that this terrorist organization supports the other terrorist organizations in Syria and Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq, which it calls “Revolutionary Nomads”, and that they are more dangerous than Daesh (ISIS)?

Dear friends,

Do you know that this organization through its interference in Iraq’s political affairs and with a variety of excuses such as the protection of Camp Ashraf and its property, has caused the deaths of many of its members in Iraq and right now with a variety of excuses hampers the meeting of relatives and families with their loved ones in Camp Liberty in Iraq, and it hampers transferring those stranded members from the hell-hole of Iraq to safe countries by creating many false obstacles?

Dear friends,

Because of the treason committed by the leadership of the PMOI (Massoud and Maryam Rajavi) and the operatives of this notorious organization against the Iranian people, this cult not only has no popular support among the Iranian people, but instead the Iranian people hate their guts. For this reason they are not capable of attracting Iranian people who live outside Iran to this notorious and ridiculous ceremony in Villepinte. For that reason they want to drag you into this notorious ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of terrorism and violence in order to take full political advantage of your presence in this ceremony.

With all these facts mentioned above, we advise you not to participate in such a ceremony which is organized by a terrorist and cultic organization. Because despite its claim that it is the most democratic political group, each year it commemorates the anniversary of terrorism and violence and it continues to insist on the strategy of violence and terrorism. So, by participating in this ceremony you are helping to fortify the terrorist and anti-democratic front. We are sure you do not have any intention of fortifying the terrorist and anti-democratic nature of this group, so not only should you not you participate in this ridiculous ceremony, but you should instead boycott and condemn it.

All the best,

Iranian Pen Club, Germany

06.07.2016

July 9, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

40 Wounded As Rockets Fired at Mojahedin Khalq (MeK) Camp Liberty

At least 40 people were wounded today when rocket fire landed at Camp Liberty, a base of operations of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), with the attacks causing considerable destruction and leaving several large craters in the camp.

A former US military base near the Baghdad Airport, Camp Liberty was where the MeK, an ally of Saddam Hussein, was relocated after their expulsion from Camp Ashraf. The group is considered a terrorist organization in Iraq and Iran, though US pressure has kept meant they’ve mostly just been left alone at the camp, with Iraq eager to be rid of them outright.

The MeK spokesmen are accusing groups “affiliated” with Iran of being behind the attack, and indeed Shi’ite militias have been responsible for previous attacks. So far there has been no claim of responsibility for the latest strike.

The MeK was also listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department for decades, though heavy lobbying by the group and a number of hawkish politicians believing they could make the MeK an ally against Iran ultimately ended that designation. Canada and the European Union have also removed the designation in recent years.

The UN has been trying to relocate the MeK out of Iraq, but has only managed to remove about a third of them as of the most recent reports. That leaves nearly 2,000 still stuck at Camp Liberty.

Jason Ditz,

July 5, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Rockets target Iran exiles at Iraq camp Liberty

A barrage of rockets targeted a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group near Baghdad on Monday, injuring several people, an Iraqi security spokesman and the exiles said.

The People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) members are waiting at the camp to be resettled outside the country.

The camp was targeted in a rocket attack last year that killed at least 26 people.

"A number of rockets fell on Camp Liberty," Baghdad Operations Command spokesman Saad Maan said in a statement, referring to the camp where the PMOI members are housed.

Maan said that some 20 rockets were launched towards the camp from a truck in an area west of Baghdad, some of which fell short, wounding Iraqi civilians.

"According to reports from Camp Liberty, as of midnight tonight, more than 40 residents were wounded or injured in the missile attack on the camp," the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the PMOI’s parent organisation, said in a statement.

The statement blamed Iran-affiliated militias for carrying out the attack.

Powerful Shiite militia forces that are hostile to the PMOI are present in areas west of Baghdad, while the Islamic State jihadist group lacks the interest to attack the group.

Camp Liberty, a former US military base, has since 2012 housed members of the PMOI, a group that originally opposed the shah but later fought alongside Saddam Hussein’s forces against Iran’s clerical rulers after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The PMOI was also accused by the US State Department of taking part in the brutal suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam, making it widely reviled by members of the country’s Shiite majority, which came to power after 2003. It has denied the accusations.

The exiles have been repeatedly targeted in the years after being disarmed following Saddam’s overthrow, with dozens of its members killed in attacks it generally blamed on Iranian and Iraqi authorities.

At least 26 people were killed and many more wounded in a rocket attack on Camp Liberty last October, according to the United Nations.

July 5, 2016 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

MKO Cult was exposed at the city of its headquarters

A number of Mujahedin-e Khalq former members denounced the Cult in Auver Sur d’Oise

Defectors of MKO Cult distributed and installed hundreds of booklets, journals, brochures, flyers and posters in Auver Sur d’Oise, France, Yaran- e Iran Website reported.

MKO defectors denounced the group as a destructive cult which attacked its own members’ families in front their base in Iraq[Camp Liberty].

The brochures involved also the French foreign Ministry as well as France’s Media and research institutions’ analysis on the Mujahedin-e Khalq as an undemocratic, violent Cult.

Survivors of the Cult of Rajavi handed out dozens of the book “Mujahedin Khalq, a cult in the heart of Paris” written by the French Senator Ms. Nathalie Goulet between the Aver sur d’Oise residents esp. the youth and students.

The people welcomed the denouncing campaign and asked for more information on the true face of the MKO Cult and its background and activities. The residents expressed their dissatisfaction on the group’s presence on their homeland.

The MKO elements tried to disturb the defectors’ enlightening action; however the townspeople’s support drove them back.

July 5, 2016 0 comments

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