++ Many letters and articles talked about the Daesh attack on France, sympathising with all the people of France, but highlighting the MEK’s presence there for the last 34 years. Some spoke to President Hollande directly, pointing out there is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ terrorism. One is a statement by former MEK members in France asking their government to ensure that in the wake of these events the MEK is made to state publicly that they will not kill any ex-members or any other people, especially because they have a history of suicide bombing and attacking people in France and Europe. The statement says this is urgent because “we know that suicide bombers arrive when the leaders give up hope of political gains and this is exactly what is happening now with the MEK. We remind everyone that after 34 years the MEK members still haven’t applied for French citizenship and are living on false passports. This clearly shows that they haven’t abandoned their violent and criminal activity.”

++ After the Paris attack the MEK went quiet and even condemning the attacks took some time. This was unusual because the MEK normally jump on anything after only minutes. This time it took days until they decided to turn their backs on Daesh – Rajavi previously they called them ‘revolutionaries’ and ‘brothers’. Suddenly the MEK changed their tune to offer condolences to the French people and hold candles in Notre Dame Cathedral – although significantly they haven’t actually condemned Daesh. The MEK are now flying Le Tricolour in Camp Liberty and Auvers-sur-Oise and wearing flag pins on their jackets. The universal response among Farsi commentators is that this is the epitome of hypocrisy. Massoud Khodabandeh commented on Facebook, “there are two reasons we can look deeper into for this kind of behaviour. One is that Rajavi and the MEK love crowds and cameras for their own publicity, hence the candles. The second is that they are shitting themselves because they think that now France has been hit like this the government will crack down on all terrorist groups and the MEK’s association with Iraq’s Baath Party and Daesh is not an unknown or hidden fact.”

++ The MEK asked all its forces to write in to support of the MEK remaining in Camp Liberty and to swear at former members who demand they be taken to safety elsewhere. The MEK say all the residents are over 18 and can decide for themselves and they choose to stay there in order to struggle against Iran and Iraq and Assad etc. One of the MEK’s writers is Hossein Farshid, who is registered in the UK as Hossein Pooya. In response a couple of articles have been written exposing him and his hypocrisy. They point out that all his life he has stood on the side lines and cheered and applauded for people to get killed. When asked by non-MEK people, his excuse is always that his two daughters have been taken by Rajavi has hostages in Liberty therefore he is doing this so his daughters won’t be harmed. In direct contradiction to the above stance that they are all free to choose for themselves. The articles have exposed Farshid as being in the MEK’s pay as well as much of his previous activities which have been to sit outside Iraq and whitewash the MEK’s massacre.

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++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers and Anne Khodabandeh in Iran Interlink reminded us that the Mojahedin Khalq is on record in its own media as supporting Daesh. Maryam Rajavi publicly announced her support for ISIS terrorists after they took over Mosul in Iraq praising them and calling the ISIS attack as “the public uprising of Iraqi revolutionary tribes”! This fact is undisputable, it is in the group’s own media archive. Rajavi used a speech given inside the French parliament only a year ago as a platform to support Daesh and condemn President Obama.

++ Nejat Society has published the names of 28 more Camp Liberty residents who have been flown to Albania on November 3rd and November 10th in two groups of 14 each.

“A total number of 172 TTL residents have been relocated in Tirana during the last month. Despite the UNHCR recent update on the situation of Camp Liberty residents which refers the arrangements for the transfer of 200 more Camp residents to Albania, that is 40 individuals a week, the MKO Cult leaders have reduced the number to just 14 people weekly. The UNHCR statement reads: ‘The solutions being delivered by UNHCR are current with more than 260 residents relocated since July 2015. Arrangements are in place to relocate in excess of 200 more people by the end of 2015.’”

++ The Secretary General of Habilian Association, Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, dismissed as wrong the US policy towards MKO which resulted in overstaying their welcome in Iraq. “Referring to the Iranian terror victims who fell victim to the terrorist acts of MKO, Hasheminejad said the damage MKO members have brought to Iraq were twice more than the amount they have brought to Iran. ‘Accordingly, their presence in Iraq shouldn’t have lasted long. If they are now existing in Iraq, that is because of the US’ direct and indirect supports for the terrorist group’, he said.”

++ Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, provides an introduction to an article by the editors at the monthly magazine Rāh, which is the organ of the Cultural Front of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Barrett says “Thirty-four years ago – on August 30th, 1981 – a bloodthirsty terrorist group assassinated the most popular President in history. You say you haven’t heard about it? Maybe that’s because it was ‘their’ president … and ‘our terrorists. The MEK terrorists who murdered Iranian President Rajai (and thousands of other Iranians) still enjoy the protection and support of Western authorities. As the West moves to normalize relations with Iran in the wake of the P5+1 nuclear deal, accept the existence and legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, and cooperate against takfiri terrorists including ISIL, maybe it’s time to declare an ‘information war on terrorism.’ It’s long past time to tell the truth about terrorism: Beginning with the undeniable fact that the vast majority of terrorism since World War II has been perpetrated or supported by Western governments.”

++ Fars News: TEHRAN “A field commander of Iraq’s al-Mukhtar Army that attacked the camp where the commanders and members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization have been sheltered revealed that one of the MKO members had provided them with intelligence to carry out the operation.

‘The coordinates and locations of the (Liberty) base had been given to us by an MKO member who is now in Liberty,’ the commander said on Wednesday. He said that the difficult and painful living conditions at Liberty Camp makes the MKO members, who don’t see any chance to escape the camp, cooperate with groups like al-Mukhtar Army as their only chance for reversing the situation as they prefer to be killed or injured and be transferred out of Liberty than stay in the Camp.

Al-Mukhtar Army rocket attacks crashed in and around Liberty on Thursday, killing 23 members and wounding over 200, including senior commanders of the terrorist group.”

November 20, 2015

++ Esmail Fallahranjkesh, who ran away from Camp Liberty during the bombing attack on 29 October, has already been reunited with his family. Another escapee, Shahroud Bahadori, has given an interview from the hotel in Baghdad. He stressed that “not a single person” in Liberty wants to be there of their own volition. They are all there by force.

++ 28 more Camp Liberty residents arrived in Tirana this week bringing the total last month to 172. Their names can be found online in the Farsi section of the Iran-Interlink site.

++ The MEK has suspended all other activity to focus on attacking former members and critics. MEK TV programming is based on this project. MEK websites have been flooded with hundreds of articles and comments written by everybody against everybody. In addition, there have been several instances of threats and intimidation of critics in the streets of Europe. In one such incident, an internal critic who was passing one of the MEK’s street pickets in the Netherlands was jeered at for not joining the picket. As he continued on his way he was first sworn at, then pursued and beaten up.

++ The MEK has put forward its version of the attack on Camp Liberty on 29 October. It is “because the critics have been emboldened”. Nobody except themselves believes this theory. Farsi commentators have written that for decades Rajavi has been trying to kill his own people and live on their blood. Apparently this time Rajavi really has broken the camel’s back and nobody in the world, not even among the MEK’s supporters in America, is willing to go along with Rajavi’s games. All parties place the blame on Rajavi for keeping the MEK in Iraq where they are in great danger. Significantly, in not a single part of its communications does the MEK say they should be removed from Iraq and taken to safety. Rajavi is not even able to pretend that he doesn’t want to leave them in harm’s way. In this respect, this tragic event has worked directly against him and his interests.

++ Rajavi claims that former MEK members and families of Camp Liberty residents have gone to the camp as spies only to get information about where and how to attack the camp. According to Rajavi’s analysis, they pass this information on to Iran so the regime can formulate attacks. [Note: Camp Liberty is a half a square kilometre space in the former US Army base near Baghdad International Airport. It can be seen clearly by anyone via Google Maps:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Camp+Liberty/@33.2987099,44.2405099,1976m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x1559d793cfffbea7:0x7f709b3469d96187!2sCamp+Liberty!3m1!1s0x1559d793cfffbea7:0x7f709b3469d96187!6m1!1e1]

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++ Acclaimed investigative journalist Gareth Porter writing in Fair (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) says ‘The New Yorker Doesn’t Factcheck What ‘Everyone Knows’ Is True’. The article is a critique of journalistic standards in relation to “the subject of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s untimely death and its relation to his role in indicting senior Iranian officials for a 1994 Buenos Aires terror bombing…” Porter finds that Dexter Filkins, one of the top journalists covering America’s wars since 9/11, did not go far enough in “questioning conventional wisdom”. Typically, Porter uncovers a great deal of important detail. “Filkins appears to have been unaware, however, of Nisman’s reliance on the testimony of the armed opposition to the Iranian regime, with its shady history, for the crucial information on which his indictment of the Iranians was based. ‘Much of the testimony that guided Nisman toward the Iranian regime,’ Filkins writes, ‘was provided by a man referred to in court documents as ‘Witness C’—Abolghasem Mesbahi, an Iranian intelligence agent who defected to Germany in 1996.’

But in identifying Mesbahi as the key source, Filkins not only misrepresents the alleged evidence in Nisman’s indictment, but also demonstrates a remarkable lack of curiosity about a figure whose record as a witness on this and other cases was marked by serious anomalies and even absurdities.”

++ Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, writes about Maryam Rajavi’s bloodthirsty propaganda. He points out that both the UN and US are committed to relocating the residents of Camp Liberty but that the process has been very slow because Maryam Rajavi doesn’t want it to happen.

“Human casualties are always a tragedy. Particularly, in case of Liberty residents, many of them were not able to leave the cult-like structure of the group. Although most of these members left Iran to struggle for what they called “freedom”, once they found out that they were laboring for the evil Massoud Rajavi as the mercenary of Saddam Hussein, it was too late for them to return home. They were taken as hostages by the Cult of Rajavi. Maryam Rajavi holds both the US and the UN ‘officially and legally responsible’ for the loss of lives in Camp Liberty while she never thinks of her own part in the disastrous incident.”

++ An Open Letter by the sister of one of Rajavi’s victims, killed in the October 29 attack.

Narges Beheshti was denied contact with her brother Mostafa for 14 years even though she had travelled to Camp Ashraf, Iraq several times and appealed to the UNHCR in Baghdad for help. However, the MKO Cult leaders didn’t allow any families to visit.

“It is now 4 years that the Camp Ashraf residents have been relocated to Camp Liberty. They were due to stay there as a temporary location to soon be transferred to third countries. However, during all these four years just some 400 individuals have been transferred to Albania that is 100 people a year.

“I believe that Rajavi does not intend to save the helpless residents of Liberty. He just thinks about his zeal for power, his relatives and friends. How is it, while my brother and other stranded Liberty residents are kept by the MKO Cult leaders within the violence and insecurity of Iraq as captives and not transferred to third countries… Rajavi’s own relatives were transferred to foreign countries.

“I plead with all human rights bodies to probe the suffering families petitions. I declare that Rajavi is personally responsible for the lives of our loved ones.”

++ On November 12, the BBC updated an information page “Who are the Iranian dissident group MEK?” on its English language site. After the 1979 revolution the MEK “launched an armed struggle to topple the Islamic Republic, claiming responsibility for the assassination of several high-profile figures. The authorities launched a bloody purge of supporters of the MEK, also known as the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), and Mr Rajavi fled to Paris. He later relocated to Camp Ashraf in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, near the Iranian border, with most of his followers. There the movement steadily acquired the characteristics of a cult, with veneration of Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam.”

 November 13, 2015