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MKO Exploits Crisis for Propaganda

Nejat SocietyApril 21, 20110102 views

The recent clashes at Camp Ashraf were part of MKO’s propaganda campaign to buy support of the West. Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Al-Askari attended a new conference a day after clashes, he showed the media a metal hook used by residents of camp Ashraf to attack Iraqi security forces..Although the allegations of Iraqi officials and MKO propaganda on the case are entirely different, one thing is sure and that’s the victimization of a number of human beings whom unfortunately, among them there are intellectuals and educated people that have been caught in a destructive terrorist cult.

MKO defectors offered suicide option

Nejat SocietyApril 21, 2011088 views

A Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) defector says any member of the terrorist group who wishes to leave has no choice but to commit suicide with a cyanide pill…“It is a custom within the organization to exterminate its defectors. Such a measure on occasions has been emphasized by [MKO leader] Massoud Rajavi. Two members of the MKO leadership council were killed some 2 years ago when they wanted to desert the organization.” ..Abdullatif Shadvari, a former MKO member…

Should Washington Embrace the MEK?

Nejat SocietyApril 20, 2011085 views

..the MEK should not be declassified as a terrorist group, or for that matter receive any U.S. backing, for several reasons…Those who argue for backing the MEK aka MKO/PMOI because it would allegedly help destabilize the regime in Tehran give no specific recommendations, meanwhile affirming that they do not endorse the MEK as future rulers of Iran…Although the U.S. government should urge the Iraqi government to treat MEK members humanely, it must not remove the group from the list of terrorist organizations, or work with it in any way.

UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group

Nejat SocietyApril 19, 20110102 views

..An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Saad al-Matalabi, said forensic tests that included US experts have been completed on the bodies[of MKO/MEK/PMOI members] to determine whether a medical team’s initial findings had been correct…“They were shot execution-style,” Mr. al-Mutalibi told the Monitor. “The first medical reports indicated they were shot at very close range – gunpowder was found on the wounds.”He also said they appear to be have been shot with handguns rather than the rifles used by the Iraqi military.

Iraq: Ashraf camp victims killed by own guards

Nejat SocietyApril 16, 2011083 views

… Deaths resulting from an Iraqi army raid on an Iranian opposition[MKO/MEK/PMOI] camp on its soil were caused by the camp’s[Ashraf] own guards firing on residents attempting to escape, an Iraqi spokesman said Thursday. The comments from Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh came shortly after a United Nations spokesman in New York said 34 people were killed in the April 8 raid on Camp Ashraf, the residence of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), in Diyala province north of Baghdad. ..

UNHCR: Camp Ashraf residents have to renounce violence before applying for refugee status

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2011083 views

A spokesman for the UN High Commission on Refugees, Andrej Mahecic, said residents of Camp Ashraf could apply individually for refugee status, which would help them find a permanent home.But before that could happen, they would have to renounce violence as a means of achieving their goals, which some have refused to do, he added.Shahin Gobadi, a PMOI/MKO/MEK spokesman based in Paris, said the camp residents would be willing to move to the US or EU member states willing to grant them asylum.”We have no intention of staying in Iraq, but there has been no response,”he told the Reuters news agency.

Iran raises probability of MKO members’ return

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2011080 views

Referring to the situation of Iraq’s Ashraf Camp, Danaei-Far said that staying of these people[MKO/MEK/PMOI members] in Iraq is considered illegal on behalf of Iraqi government…”If the residents will and if there is no legal case opened against them either in Iran or Iraq, they may go to Iran or any other country they wish and they are granted passport,”he continued.The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad said,”less than 100 of the residents have legal cases, either in Iran or the both countries. Over recent years, more than 750 of them have left Ashraf Camp and come to Iran…

US moots ‘negotiated’ plan for Iranian camp (Ashraf) in Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011074 views

..Iraq has ordered the exiled Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen of Iran [MKO/MEK/PMOI] to leave the country by the end of this year”We’re prepared to help the government of Iraq develop and execute a negotiated plan ..,”State Department spokesman Mark Toner said….When asked whether the plan could include having the camp’s members transferred to a third country where they would not be tortured or abused, Toner replied:”Conceivably, yeah.”

Iraq to probe Camp Ashraf deaths

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011091 views

..Iraq’s defence ministry said on Tuesday it would probe claims that 34 residents of an Iranian dissident[MKO/MEK/PMOI] camp[Ashraf] died during an Iraqi military operation last week and suggested some may have been killed before troops moved in… Iraqi authorities have said three people were killed at Camp Ashraf on Friday when security forces responded to rock-throwing and threats by residents during an operation to reclaim land from the camp and return it to farmers. ..

Iraqi Commander: MKO Attack on Iraqi Forces Aimed at Killing Dissidents

Nejat SocietyApril 12, 20110117 views

..The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization sparked the armed conflict with the Iraqi security forces responsible for guarding the camp said an Iraqi commander who was present on the scene of clashes last week ..the Iraqi commander, who was speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the move by the MKO aka MEK/PMOI was not unprecedented since the group had previously forced its dissident members to start armed clashes with the Iraqi forces.