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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Pert Terrorists Challenging a Legal Decision

Any country, especially if it is torn by a critical post-invasion disorder as Iraq is, has the right of speculating any measure that may quench the chaos and guarantee the national integrity and social order. The chief problem in the Iraq at the present is the widespread activities of pro-Saddam insurgents and terrorists as well as the US using certain terrorist groups, particularly MKO, for intelligence conspiracies and as proxies for what it calls counter-terrorism activities. Saddam’s dictatorship threatening its neighbor countries now being ousted, the new national Iraqi government has to respect the integrity of its neighbors to maintain its own. It has to reciprocate pledges of friendship with them all. The first sign of its good-will is, at least, to disband whatever hostile group that is involved in violent activities against Iraqi neighbors.

The recent decree by the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki labeling pro-Saddam MKO, that advocates the overthrow of the Iranian regime, a terrorist entity and its call on the removal of the group from its safe haven in the eastern Camp Ashraf well indicates that it is moving on the right path that fosters hope of constituting a free, safe Iraq. Living under the protection of coalition forces, MKO has recurrently overpassed limitation of its refugee’s status in Iraq and has engaged in activities that are regarded open interference in Iraq’s domestic affairs. Its Camp Ashraf safe haven has reportedly turned into a bastion of conspiracy against the Iraq’s integrity and sporadic gatherings there are only aimed to escalate ethnic tension and intensify the hostilities the Iraqi government is hard working to end.

Reportedly, the Iraqi government has already informed the U.S. and multinational forces in Iraq that they should discontinue involvement with the group and hand over all related checkpoints to Iraqi authorities. The U.S. military is accused of using PMOI as a proxy for its counter-terrorism activities in Iraq. However, enjoying the US protection, the group dares to challenge the government made decisions that amounts to interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs. In a backlash against the government’s decision to disband the group, reported by Voices of Iraq, the group’s spokesman Mahdi Aqbaee said the government decision amounts to a violation of the Geneva Conventions. He said: "The decree violates the principle of not using forced deportation, international laws and the international laws pertaining to the Red Cross. Threatening to deport (PMOI) personnel and handcuffing their freedom of expression can be considered a war crime."

Known as Saddam’s accomplice who has to be brought before the justice for a variety of crimes done against the Iraqi people, not speaking of its atrocities against its own nation, MKO makes bold to consider a legally adopted decision as a war crime. The Iraqi government has to take precautionary measures since it is a proven fact that MKO’s threatening tone takes the form of action if sensing danger against its entity.

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Iran

MKO fabricates anti-Iran evidence

Iran’s UN Envoy Khazaei has accused the terrorist MKO group of fabricating evidence that Iran has been trying to make nuclear weapons.MKO fabricates anti-Iran evidence

The United States is getting unreliable intelligence from the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization which assisted Saddam Hussein during the imposed Iran-Iraq war, said Mohammad Khazaei in an interview with the Associated Press.

Khazaei reiterated that Iran has resolved all six outstanding issues about its nuclear program, insisting that Tehran should not face any new UN sanctions. He also warned that new sanctions would harm the credibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Khazaei told reporters that when the IAEA raised the US allegations and showed Iran several documents on February 15, Iran recognized the papers were fabricated because individuals were named that do not exist, and others named who have not been involved in Iran’s nuclear program.

"I’m afraid to say that, according to my information, some of these allegations were produced or fabricated by a terrorist entity – listed as a terrorist group in the United States and elsewhere in Europe," Khazaei concluded.

Presstv-February 26, 2008

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USA

The Irony of ‘Appeasement’

Abetting Terrorism and Treason, Promoting Aggression on Iran

There is no irony in appeasement, according to major media who, on February 20 and 21, reported on a press conference held in Brussels by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. From an Associated Press account:

in exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Tehran was speeding up a program to develop nuclear weapons.”The Iran regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project,”said Mohammad Mohaddessin of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran.

The NCRI is the political wing of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, which advocates the overthrow of government in Tehran. The Mujahedeen has been designated a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union as well as Iran. [1]

The PMOI”a.k.a., the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MeK)”made the same claim in December 2002. The allegation then”that the Iranian regime was enriching uranium at weapons-grade level within secret facilities”turned out to be only partially (and irrelevantly) true: the facilities existed (not a violation in itself), but contrary to the group’s claims, were not weapons-production sites. Still, the information from the MeK”contrived in conjunction with Israeli entities”was used by U.S. hawks to pass sanctions against Iran. But their case has been so weak; the neocons have had to use blatant coercion to persuade UNSC nations to vote in favor.

The most notable and dangerous in all this is that the unproven MeK-Israeli, nuclear weapons claim is the basis for the main finding of the most recent National Intelligence Estimate: that Iran had”halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.”Iran never had a weapons program”at least not one that has been confirmed by U.S. intelligence, the IAEA, or anyone else but Iranian”dissidents”and Israelis and neocons, i.e., the ones who have been wrong all along.

Further deconstruction of the Iranian nukes fraud and the neocons’ nuclear shakedown of Iran:

Iran was late in reporting which is a Safeguard issue. . . . Tehran voluntarily stopped the process of enriched uranium; it also allowed the IAEA to carry out intrusive, spot inspections. No country has allowed as many inspection hours as Iran. [Tehran] proposed to operate Iran’s enrichment program as joint ventures with private and public sector firms from other countries; this would ensure that the program remained transparent and could not be secretly diverted for military purposes, at the same time it would maintain Iran’s sovereignty by having an indigenously enriched uranium cycle . . . Although this was rejected, Iran continued to cooperate.

Iran suspended its enrichment activities for two and half years, but each time under pressure from the U.S., the burden of proof was transferred to Iran knowing the negative could not be proved. [2]

‘Coverage’

All this occurs, when in fact no evidence has ever been verified that supports the weapons charge, as AP surprisingly points out (albeit in the last two sentences of the story and about a year late on the timeline). What media always fail to mention, however, is that the lack of damning proof of an Iranian weapons program, then and now, undercuts the misleading NIE conclusion and the nuclear leg of the neocons’ aggressive campaign.

by omitting such vital facts, major media are perpetuating the prevailing U.S.-Israeli-NCRI conjecture, asserting that Tehran had a viable nuclear weapons program at one time, has resumed it, and is now accelerating the manufacturing process.

In that regard, news media are lying and abetting terrorism and treason. Terrorism, because all individuals who harbor, fund, arm, train, feed, or employ terrorists are terrorists (George Bush’s words not mine). Treason, because the Mek and their handlers in and around the U.S. government are violating U.S. and international law and constantly lying to the people of the United States and the world in an effort to drum up support for further violent insurrection and aggressive war in the Middle East.

Nothing dubious here

Major news media conceal the U.S. government’s dubious relations with the MeK. It is of no consequence that the United States has been harboring, funding, training, and employing U.S.-designated terrorist groups in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. [3] [4] [5]

Some news media provide extra”coverage”by inserting a misleading historical context in an effort to soften the image of the Iranian”opposition group.”From the EU Observer’s report on the NCRI press conference:

[T]he PMOI was persecuted by the Iranian government, with thousands of their members killed. They were subsequently sheltered by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. [6]

The insinuation that the”persecut[ion]”was unprovoked is absurd. Prosecuted is more like it, according to the U.S. State Department:

According to a 2003 report by the State Department,”During the 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians working on defense projects in Tehran.¦ The MEK detonated bombs in the head office of the Islamic Republic Party and the Premier’s office, killing some 70 high-ranking Iranian officials.¦ In 1991, it assisted the Government of Iraq in suppressing the Shia and Kurdish uprisings in southern Iraq and the Kurdish uprisings in the north.”In other words, the MEK was a terrorist group”one that took its orders from Saddam Hussein. [7]

But to”mainstream”news media, it doesn’t matter that the same Iranian opposition group with a history of committing terrorism on U.S. and Iranian civilians is relied upon as the means to justify and accomplish the neocons and the Mek’s mutual ends of regime-change and resource procurement in Iran.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, spokesman for the MeK, has appeared intermittently over the past few years as a”Middle East Expert,”or”Terror Expert,”on CNN and Fox. Of course there’s never a hint as to his affiliation with the MeK, much less its terrorist designation. But hey, how can he be a terrorist when he heads his own D.C.-based think-tank!

Nothing illicit here

The most thoroughly unreported facts about U.S.-Iranian affairs are the most incriminating ones.

The Algiers Accords, signed by Iran and the United States on January 19, 1981, clearly states,”The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.”[8 (.pdf)]

Yet, from the Iraq-Iran War, during which the United States funded Saddam Hussein and supplied him with WMDs which he then used against Iran—to the current war build-up against Iran, whereby groups like the MeK and Jundallah are being harbored, funded, and employed”the laundry list of Algiers Accords violations by the United States is long and ugly. And every violation is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, which states that such contracts are to be treated as law of the land.

Move along, folks

One of the most irony-deficient (and shamelessly self-effacing) examples of U.S.-Iran media coverage came in the Observer’s uncritical account of the NCRI’s use of fallacious war propaganda to emotionally blackmail and upbraid the EU into taking a more aggressive stance toward Iran:

Referring to the”huge trade”between Europe and Iran, Mr Mohaddessin said:”The EU is trying to achieve security through appeasing the Iranian regime. The EU is appeasing the Iranian regime and it is a disaster for the Iranian people. You remember what happened in the 1930s? They carried out exactly the same policy with Hitler that the EU is doing now with the Iranian regime.”[9]

This reality-inversion of a comparison is trumpeted almost exclusively by fringe pro-war elements within and around U.S. and Israeli governments and in”pro-western”think-tanks; the other 99.7% of the world laughs it off, knowing that the only Middle Eastern regime with a modern history of aggressive war and secret nuclear weapons production is the one in Israel.

In 1986, former Israeli nuclear facility worker, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed to a foreign news news reporter that Israel was developing nuclear weapons in secret facilities—a confirmation of what the rest of the world had already hypothesized. He was kidnapped by Mossad agents in Italy, charged with treason, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Unlike the MeK and others, he didn’t confide in or collaborate with a foreign government, and wasn’t revealing information that wasn’t already known outside of Israel. Nevertheless, he has been a political prisoner for the last 21 years. Even his 2004 release gave him little freedom: he is not allowed to leave the country and is under, among other restrictions, curfew and gag order, not allowed to talk to foreigners. [10]

Although Vanunu’s claims about Israel’s illicit nuclear weapons program were true and were made on moral and legal grounds”and the treatment he has received is unlawful and at times barbaric his story is still ignored by mainstream media.

the other hand, the NCRI-MeK is a U.S.-designated terror organization with a verified history of terrorism against Iranian and U.S. targets and treason against their people; yet they are treated by the U.S. government and major news media as trustworthy allies, and their flawed, Israeli-assisted intelligence is considered more credible than that of any U.S. intelligence agency.

And to top it all: By not giving in to U.S.-Israel-MeK demands for aggression toward Iran”the demands of U.S. and EU-branded terrorists”the EU is”appeasing the Iranian regime.”Such is the criminal hypocrisy of deceptive and aggressive war, and the irony of appeasement.

[1] Raf Casert (AP):”Group Claims Iran Speeding Up Nuke Plans”: Associated Press: February 20, 2008 http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080221/D8UUE8RG0.html

[2] Soraya Sepaphour-Ulrich:”Iran Intelligence Report: Another Psychological Warfare?”: CounterCurrents: December 5, 2007 http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich051207.htm

[3] Rostam Pourzal:”Who Among Iranians Fears the NIE?”: ZNet: December 19, 2007

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=14540§i..15

[4] Ardeshir Ommani:”U.S. Support for Terror in Iran”: CASMII: April 10, 2007

www.campaigniran.org

[5] Larisa Alexandrovna:”On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say”: The Raw Story: April 13, 2006

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/US_outsourcing_special_operations_

intelligence_gathering_0413.html

[6] Leigh Phillips (euobserver.com):”Iran opposition group accuses EU of ‘appeasement'”: EU Observer: February 20, 2008 http://euobserver.com/9/25698

[7] Craig Unger:”From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq”: Vanity Fair: March 2007 http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/whitehouse200703?printable=true¤tPage=all

[8] Algiera, the United States & Iran:”The Algiers Accords”: Pars Times: Accessed on February 22, 2008 http://www.parstimes.com/history/algiers_accords.pdf

More on the 1981 Algiers Accords and the neocons:”US Wants to Have It Both Ways on Iranian Nonintervention Pact,”by Reese Erlich http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/29/5503/

[9] Phillips/EU Observer

[10] Eileen Fleming:”The Vanunu Saga: 2008″: We Are Wide Awake: February 2008

by Dan Alba, wearewideawake.org

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Former members of the MEK

Masud Khodabandeh replies and”Alseyassah”explains

Anne Khodabandeh, who is of British nationality and the wife of the IranianAl Siyasah Massoud Khodabandeh, replied to the article published by "Alseyassah" on the first of this month under the heading "Iraqi warnings from the agent of the Iranian regime by the name of Massoud Khodabandeh", in a letter sent to the cultural office at the embassy of the State of Kuwait in London, of which "Alseyassah" has received a copy. In the reply, Massoud says that "the article was slanderous and defamatory to my good name and unfortunately its anonymous writer did not try to contact me by email or by telephone or at my address in Britain, or at the Centre de Recherches sur le Terrorism in Paris where I work". He refers to the scurrilous accusation made by the remnants of the Baathist regime in Iraq which links his name and his wife’s name to the Iranian intelligence services – which is completely untrue and there is not a shred of evidence for the lies which appear in that article.  Mr. Masud KhodabandeHe also gives the reason why it was published. Mr Khodabandeh explains that he lives in the United Kingdom and is currently visiting Iraq at the invitation of government officials, and was invited in order to attend various meeting on the issue of foreign terrorist groups in Iraq. He adds that "in the course of this work I have regular contact with the US army and relevant humanitarian bodies and I am seeking ways to rescue people from the hands of the Saddamists in Diyali province". He considers that "as all Kuwaiti citizens know all too well, the "Mojahedin-e Khalq" organisation acted as Saddam’s private army in Iraq and helped to crush the Kurdish uprising in 1991 at the end of the first Gulf war. The Iraqi Government is now determined to remove all remnants of the Baathist regime, including the Iranian foreign terrorist group "Mojahedin-e Khalq", from its territory". He adds "I have travelled to Iraq to help those people who want to leave the group to find refuge and return to their families and to normal life."

He concludes by saying that readers of the newspaper "Alseyassah" will understand now why the Saddamists have tried to blacken his name and he states that the paper’s editors have acted properly in giving him the right to reply.

In this connection, it is important for "Alseyassah" to explain to Mr and Mrs Khodabandeh and to our readers that what was published on the first of February was an announcement and not an article and it was not simply ascribed to anonymous sources but it made clear in it that it was an announcement issued by the "League of Iraqi Academics and Educationalists" and it is important to explain that the accusations made by the League that Mrs Ann and her husband are "working in the service of the Iranian security services in Iraq and that they are carrying out the tasks of the Iranian regime under false pretences" were accusations carried by "Alseyassah" but not espoused by it, as was stated in the announcement itself.  Alseyassah, February07, 2008- http://alseyassah.com/news_details.asp?nid=3713&snapt=الدولية

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

The Terrorist’s Challenged Intelligence

The existing tension between the United States and Iran has compelled the US in the past years to collect intelligence on Iran from various exile organizations including Mojahedin-e Khalg Organization (MKO) that has long been leading a violent struggle against the Iranian regime and was even aligned with Saddam ‘s regime that was at war with Iran. Although its ideology is a blend of Marxism with Islam and from the very initiation strongly advocated an anti-American policy, but in recent years, having taken a 180 degree turn, has begun trying to put forward a thousand and one arguments to prove that it has dropped its Marxist rhetoric and is an apostle of democracy for Iranians.

In December 2002, in spite of being listed on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, MKO informed the US government of the existence of two nuclear sites in Iran. However, Sy Hersh later revealed in”The New Yorker” that Israel had provided the group with the information that it boasted as its own piece of intelligence to reveal Iran’s nuclear threat. From then on, it worked as a good subject to feed the group’s propaganda machine, an alibi to advance its own cult-like ambitions that had nothing to do with Iranian’s true wills. But the machine seems to be dropping as of the Monday.

The latest release of a collective study by all 16 US intelligence services, known as the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), reveals that Iran has turned its back on its nuclear ambitions since 2003. It is a great disappointment to MKO that a big bulk of its propaganda activities concentrates on Iran’s nuclear threat. Of course, MKO has nothing to lose as an opposition group that hardly respects political ethics in its struggle. It is much a new challenge for the US for having put any trust in a proscribed terrorist group that is heavily built on the structure of a cult of personality.

In a recent article entitled Intelligence on Iran Still Lacking, it is explicitly stated why the US has to remain skeptical of expatriate groups like MKO, aks MEK and NCRI.

Perhaps the MEK’s greatest claim to fame was its discovery of clandestine enrichment activity at Natanz in 2002. Shortly thereafter, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) pressed Iran to open the facility up to international inspectors. The U.S.-based Iranian expatriate community and MEK also provided useful intelligence on the existence of Arak, a heavy-water research reactor in Iran. With the State Department now having a more pronounced role over Iran policy, some experts expect Washington to work less closely with Iranian exile groups like the MEK. Paul R. Pillar, a career CIA officer and professor of security studies at Georgetown University, says it’s wise to remain skeptical of expatriate groups. “Iran has its Chalabis, too,” Pillar says. Ahmed Chalabi, briefly a deputy Iraqi prime minister after Saddam Hussein’s ouster, is widely criticized for providing faulty intelligence to the United States about Iraq’s weapons programs and exaggerating his own ability to win support inside Iraq. “There are some lessons to be drawn from having your intelligence coming from some quarters and not others,” Pillar concludes.

Sattar Orangi comments on Coucil of Foreign Relations Article, December 5, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Another Big Crowd of Advocates!

Referring to recent news released by Washington Post , Reuters , CNN and the Chinese newspaper People’s Daily, Cernig goes through a propaganda claim about how 300,000 Iraqis supposedly signed a petition complaining about alleged Iranian involvement in Iraq. The claim is strongly supported by a globally blacklisted terrorist organization, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), aka MEK, PMOI, NCRI. It is not the first time that the terrorist group, on the verge of expulsion from Iraq, exaggerates the supposed number of some supporters, this time 300,000. As Cering says:

That’s a lot, isn’t it?

But…

It isn’t as many as when this story was last hawked around, back in June. Then, according to the MeK’s own website, it was 450,000 members of the Iraqi tribes of Diyala who were condemning Iran’s presence as part and parcel of expressing "full solidarity with the Mujahideen Khalq (MEK)"

But…

Even that is nothing compared to the attempt before that to hawk the self-same story. Back in June 2006, the MeK’s political wing – the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which FOX News expert on Iran Alireza Jafarzadeh used to be spokesman for – announced that:

Solidarity Congress of Iraqi People announced the support of 5.2 million Iraqi’s to a declaration condemning Iranian regime’s meddling in their country. The declaration also lends support to People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran [The MeK’s other alias – C] whose presence in Iraq has acted as a major obstacle to mullahs’ fundamentalist ambitions in Iraq. The announcement was made before a huge crowd of Iraqis in Ashraf City on June 17.

Ashraf City, by the by, is the MeK’s own name for "Camp Ashraf" – the rather salubrious location, situated conveniently close to iraq’s biggest munitions dump – where thousands of MeK members are "guarded" by a handful of US and Bulgarian troops.

Back then, the breakdown of the notable signatories to the petition was even more admirable:

121 political parties and social groups, 700,000 women, 14,000 lawyers and jurists, 19,000 physicians, 35,000 engineers, 320 clerics, 540 professors, 2,000 tribal sheikhs and 300 local officials among 5.2 million signitaries of the declaration.

Maybe it was the claim that fully a third of Iraq’s population had signed something supporting such an odious terror group that lead to general disbelief and the story sinking without a trace.

So either the folk supporting the MeK against an alleged infiltration of the Iraqi government from top to bottom are changing their minds – by the millions – or the latest version is just the MeK scaling down their entirely fictitious nonsense to a more believable level.

Were it not for the fact that anti-Iranian rhetoric is currently fashionable, and is being stirred at every opportunity by U.S. neoconservatives both in and out of the White House, this latest story would have sunk without a trace too.

 Mojahedin.ws, November 24, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO Backlash against Al-Maliki’s Recent Remarks

On the eve of his visit to Tehran, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al- Maliki once more reiterated the expulsion of the terrorist MKO from Iraq. Speaking to Al-Iraqiya television on 6 August 2007, he said, “The presence of MKO in Iraq is detrimental to Iran’s security. This organization is in the list of terrorist organizations and its presence in our territory is tantamount to ignoring rules, regulations and the constitution.’

Al-maliki’s remarks have annoyed the terrorist group to such an extent that it could not hold back its indignation. In an angry backlash against al- Maliki’s statement, released by NCRI site, the group slanderously condemned him and other Iraqi officials:

There is hardly any doubt that Mr. Al-Maliki and other officials in his government are the main sources of the problems in Iraq as they endeavor to realize the sinister objectives of the Iranian regime. For this reason, a majority of Iraqis view the removal of the Al-Maliki government as the first step in improving the situation in Iraq. Currently, 17 cabinet ministers have boycotted the cabinet.

It is surprising that Mr. Al-Maliki described the presence of PMOI in Iraq as being detrimental to the security of the Iranian regime. It is not clear as to whether Mr. Al-Maliki’s first priority is to safeguard the security of the Iranian regime or that of the Iraqi people, who are being massacred and mutilated ruthlessly on a daily basis by the mercenaries of the religious fascism ruling Iran.

Of course, al-Maliki’s first priority is security of Iraqi people and it is accomplished if terrorism is uprooted and the terrorist groups, supported by the coalition forces, are expelled from Iraq. For sure, a neighbour country’s security guarantees its neighbours” immunity against threats and terrorist operations. It is a country’s right whether to grant asylum to the aliens or expel them if they threaten the social and political security and impudently condemn a national decision as tantamount to the perpetration of war crimes:

In light of the obligations and commitments of the Iraqi government to international laws, in particular International Humanitarian Law, the sacred right to asylum and the Geneva Conventions (specifically the common article 3 of the Conventions), any violation of these obligations as they relate to the residents of Ashraf City, and as suggested by Mr. Al-Maliki, is tantamount to encouraging the perpetration of war crimes. The National Council of Resistance will, therefore, take this case to international bodies.

The presence of MKO in Iraq is not consistent with the Iraqi constitution and laws and it is a responsibility that falls inside of the mandate of Al-Maliki and his government to confront terrorism, whether the terrorists like it or not.

Mojahedin.ws –  10/08/2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO Abusing a Nation’s Championship

The championship of the Iraqi national soccer team in the Asian Cup tournament was a praiseworthy feat and the Iraqis burst into a celebration of joy and happiness despite the dominant internal chaos that is tearing their country apart. The championship fosters hope that the country has the potentialities to overcome its overwhelming plights inflicted by insurgent and terrorist groups, majority of who are the accomplices of the ousted Saddam’s regime. But can a national sports team’s success or failure signify efficiency and inefficiency of a country’s nationally elected government and parliament to steer a country that is mainly dominated by alien forces?

That is the way MKO, a proscribed terrorist group that enjoys support of the US forces in Iraq, looks at it much because the group is at odds with the Iraqi government over its decisiveness to expel the terrorist group from Iraq. Once forming close alliance with Saddam against Iran, MKO acted also as his loyal mercenaries in suppression of uprising Iraq dissidents. After the fall of the dictator, in a shift of position the group claimed to be standing beside the Iraqi people in a unified front to secure its stay in Iraq. As it is naturally a terrorist group whose strategy of struggle is founded on armed and violent warfare, it preferred to make coalition with Iraqi insurgent groups.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, MKO’s member who has established a close cooperation with Fox News, in his recent article released by Fox News takes advantage of the Iraq soccer team’s championship and attempts to disparage the legally elected government of Nouri al-Maliki and the parliament. He makes wild accusations against the advocates of the nation and country;

Iraqis are wondering: if 11 young men can instill a sense of unity by playing soccer, can the government of Nouri al-Maliki and the 275 politicians elected to steer Iraq to a brighter future achieve the same result? The people are particularly wary of the government as more evidence surfaces suggesting closer ties between Iraqi officials and the secret torture centers, as well as the death squads meant to heighten sectarian violence.

At the time when there is a nationally unified call for a terror-free Iraq led by a nationally supported government that is determined to uproot terrorism and violence, MKO’ headquarters in Camp Ashraf has turned into a den of conspiracy where terrorist gangs meet to plot. As Jafarzadeh refers to:

In mid June, as many as 10,000 Iraqi tribal leaders and local residents, mostly from the volatile Diyala Province, gathered in the headquarters of the main Iranian opposition in Ashraf City, which is also in the Diyala Province. At this event, which combined speeches and entertainment and was called "solidarity for peace and freedom in Iraq," a statement signed by 450 thousand inhabitants of Diyala called for unity of all Iraqi ranks against foreign intervention, especially that of the Iranian regime.

In an immediate move to confront gatherings of the terrorists, the Iraqi government banned Iraqis’ traffic to Camp Ashraf. No doubt, the people of a country can came together as a whole nation and live peacefully. But the problem lies in the fact that neither can they coexist with the parasites of an ousted regime nor the unwelcome guests consent to the will of a nation to desert the soil once they were housed to conspire against the two nations. MKO in its struggle to survive not only claim a position similar to that Iraqi citizens with all granted rights but also postures as being in the vanguard of accomplishing democracy for Iraqi people. That is what Jafarzadeh cleverly purports in his article by advertising Camp Ashraf as a place of amalgamating solidarity and coalition:

Iraqi sports and music, as well as the large social and political gathering in Ashraf City, are living proof that Iraqis from all political and religious backgrounds can live, work and thrive in harmony.

For sure, hardly any of those, although some unknowingly, who participate in Camp Ashraf’s gathering consider the interests of the nation since a man is known by the company he keeps. These are explicit evidences of MKO’s interfering in Iraq’s political and social sectors to destabilize the solidarity between the nation and the state. Fortunately, Iraqi people and government are well aware of MKO’s masqueraded nature and the objectives it strives to fulfil and are dedicated to work together to overcome problems. The existing anarchy is nothing but the outcome of the negligence of the alien forces that provide for the prowl of the terrorist groups and hold over the will of the nation to be fulfilled.

Sattar Orangi – Mojahedin.ws – August 7, 2007

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO Hosted Baath Party Conference

Anyone opposing Iraqi constitution is a terrorist, violating the laws. Since terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda, remnants of Baath party, the Army of Mohammed al-Fateh (headed by infaomous Izzat al-Dowri and Mojahedin-e khalq) have taken Diyala province as a safe haven and use it to plunder people, and despite witnessing daily terrorist operations in this province, Al-Bayyenah al-Jadidah newspaper could enter MKO’s conference in order to inform Iraqis and expose the plots of enemies, targeting Iraqis’ unity.

Location: Camp Ashraf

Less than three months ago, the paper (Al-Bayyenah al-Jadidah) received secret information that a person called "Vahid Asghari", officer of MKO’s intelligence unit, had called Saleh Mutlaq, delivering Maryam Rajavi’s letter to him. He had informed Mutlaq that the MKO is still faithful to its promises with the former regime and the Baath party and that all MKO members mourned the death of Saddam Hussein and would have put his statute in the camp if they hadn’t had fears. Maryam Rajavi had said that several former Baath and Estekhbarat officials, along with al-Qaeda and the Army of Mohammed al-Fatih, would take part in their conference, supposing its chairmanship to Mutlaq. It was also stressed that the conference would provide Mutlaq with a good opportunity to meet Ansar al-Sunnah, Al-Qaeda, Mohammed al-Fateh and Al-Eshrin Revolutionary Brigades.

Asghari had also praised Sunni clerics for their stance on the MKO.

To show up in the conference, Baathists had to come under cover; this was especially true about infamous terrorist Aref Taha Suheil, whose pictures have been spread all over Iraq. He has been in MKO’s camp three times before. He wore Arabic clothes with a long beard, with a lot of changes in his face. This is how MKO’s annual conference turned to a large meeting for former Baath officials.

Saudi Arabia’s interference in Iraq is no longer a secret issue. Iraqi government has evidence indicating that Saudi Arabia, and Amir Bandar in particular, play active role in the unrest in Iraq. Amir Bandar has given 750000 dollars to the MKO in the conference. In return, the MKO should stand against the Iraqi government and the participants should be only from Sunnis unless few Shiites with ties to Baathis.

MKO settled in Iraq more than 25 years ago and since then the MKO leader have succeeded in establishing ties with some tribal leaders, before and after the fall of Saddam. The MKO follows Saddam’s model in dealing with tribes, distributing money and gifts among them to win their support.

Mazen Habib al-Kheizaran, former Estekhbarat officer, was the mediator between his organization and the MKO. He is a radical activist, working against the Iraqi government. He has received 150000 dollars for recruiting some tribal leaders. His activities have led to conflict inside Al-Azzah tribe, because some tribesmen don’t like to act against the government.

In Mazen’s meeting with Al-Dayeni last year in Camp Ashraf, conducted by the assistance MKO officer "Rahmani", they agreed to disrupt the political process of the government and to provide financial support for terrorist operations so as to achieve their goal that is toppling the new government.

Some sources informed Al-Bayyenah that Zarqawi spent a whole day in Mazen’s house and then went to Habhab region. Zarqawi had described Mazen as a hero and Jihadist.

MKO’s conference, held under the protection of US forces, raises the question that why wasn’t it covered by the Iraqi government and media?

Why the violators of law are not prosecuted? Is the government unable to arrest Baathists and terrorists who took part in the conference? Is the government unable to detain the sponsors of the conference, which is in contradiction with Iraqi constitution?

2007/07/19 – www.albayyna-new.com/studies.htm

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Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO, Political Refugee or Opposition Force?

Considering the position and role of MKO in Iraq and disregarding its interference that escalate the internal tension, it is a proven fact that MKO’s so-called political stance toward the Iraqi government, parliament, and constitution display tokens of interference in internal affairs of Iraq. To what extent these hostile and blasphemous attitudes are in broad violation of what MKO claim to be asylum rights activities according to international conventions is a matter of consideration. But the current position of Mojahedin in Iraq, before they are recognized a legal or illegal group of refugees, is naturally the reputation of a violent opposition that intends to destabilize a sovereignty.

The very present attempt by MKO to regulate relations with the Iraqi government constitutes part of the legal challenges met by international organizations which has to be elaborated on. On the other hand, the current position of Mojahedin claiming to be refugees since a long past compared with their status in the reign of Saddam is not a matter of least significance. They are the same Mojahedin that before Saddam’s fall adulated him as their strategic and ideological ally, but now they have made a complete shift to maintain solidarity with the same people they colluded with the dictator to suppress. How these contradictory attitudes and positions have convinced Mojahedin’s current Iraqi associates is another question. Unfortunately, neither the Iraqi government nor MKO’s supporters are interested to engage in a realistic analysis of the issue. It might imply that MKO’s supporters in Iraq are Saddam’s sympathizers although nothing is certain. In any case, it is Iraqi people and the government that have to pay the cost.

The main cause of MKO’s interference in Iraqi affairs is an indetermination to confront Mojahedin’s dissident moves that emboldens the group to consider it certain right to play a political role in Iraq. Alireza Ja’farzadeh in an interview with al-hurra TV rejected the accusations made by Ali Al-Dabbagh, Iraqi government spokesman, that Mojahedin are engaged in terrorist moves in Iraq but he did not denied that the group is engaged in political activities:

Dabbaq could not present even one example of terrorist activities of Mojahedin in Iraq. I just heard him saying, ‘they are engaged in political activities’. Is it equal to terrorism!!

With such a confession made, now the question is why Mojahedin are interested in interfering politically in Iraq’s domestic affairs. Moreover, it has to be taken into consideration that Mojahedin repeatedly have maintained that they are political refugees threatened by the Iranian government and are to be supported according to international conventions. They justify their stay in Iraq as individuals who have been legally granted asylum for 20 years or so. Thus, granted that Mojahedin are sincere in their claims that they are trying to work out a strategic objective of establishing democracy in Iraq, the question now is why Mojahedin in the reign of Saddam MKO never made such a claim and formed a strategic alliance with him in total dismissal of people’s demands, namely democracy in Iraq. It might imply that Saddam was believed to be much more democratic than the new Iraqi government! Besides, Even if Mojahedin’s current opposition to the Iraqi government is, as they propagate, a recognized legitimate right, why they were deprived of the right in Saddam’s time when the asylum is claimed to have been granted?

It has been obvious from the beginning that Mojahedin’s attitude, as a violent opposition, toward Nuri al-Maliki’s government has been hostile and cynical. The attitude in no way conforms to the standards of asylum-seeking. Mr. Al-Dabbagh reiterates that Mojahedin unlawful role played in Iraqi internal affairs is far beyond the claimed refugees’ right. Referring to some instances of MKO’ moves to challenge Iraqi legal government he said:

Last Saturday, the organization held a session with Iraqi politicians; an issue that has to be investigated by the parliament. But concerning their opposition and propaganda against Iraq’s political trend, their Arabic published paper Mojahed, for instance, addresses the legally elected government calling it a preposterous cabinet.

The statements made by Ali al-Dabbaq imply that the Iraqi government tolerates MKO despite being aware of the negative role it plays in Iraq. Iraqi spokesman claims to have access to some documents against MKO that are kept secret due to security concerns. He asserts that:

The Iraqi government does not intend to expel MKO by force. Therefore, we are cooperating with the U.N. to find a third country to receive them. There are numerous documents against Mojahedin but as it is an issue of national security, they cannot be publicized. We keep documents that indicate they are even watching the Iraqi government. Even the U.N. is not allowed to visit their camp freely and it has no clear description of the organization since MKO conforms to none of its published descriptions.

At this juncture that Iraq is engulfed in crisis and disorder, MKO is demanding for more than refuges might ask because they receive full backing of the coalition forces and the U.S. in particular. Although the Iraqi government insists on expelling MKO, the group considers its political interference in Iraqi affairs as an absolute right for itself. The Iraq’s present dilemmatic situation makes it difficult to prove that Mojahedin are turning from being mere refugees to a formidable opposition force. It seems that the Iraqi government has actually sensed the threat of MKO and that its base constitutes a bastion for the Iraqi opposition and insurgents since all traffic from and to Camp Ashraf are banned and Iraqis have been prohibited to take part in the group’s gatherings held there.

July 14, 2007 –  Mojahedin.ws

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