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French refugee Mehdi Fathi dies in Camp Ashraf

Rajavi cult refuses Mehdi Fathi safe passage to France for medical treatment

Mr Mehdi Fathi, a hostage of the Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorist group died in Camp Ashraf (CIA protected MKO HQ) in Iraq one year after the Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq) leaders refused to allow his return to France for medical treatment.

The leader of the Mojahedin Khalq is a fugitive. He has been in hiding since the fall of his last benefactor Saddam Hussein. But his third wife Maryam Azodanloo (Rajavi), based at the European HQ of the terrorist cult, today blamed the Government of Iraq and Iraq’s Prime Minister Noori Al Maliki, for the death of the hostage.

According to the statements issued by the cult leaders, the deceased, Mehdi Fathi, had been suffering from cancer. He was admitted to Baquba hospital when it was too late for treatment. But the demand for his transfer to his home in France was denied by the leaders of Mojahedin Khalq (Who themselves live under protection of American and Israeli secret services in Paris).

The news of the death of yet another hostage of the Washington-backed Mojahedin Khalq terrorist organisation coincides with a meeting tomorrow morning of Iraqi tribe leaders, Iraqi dignitaries and officials as well as media representatives and reporters at the gates of Camp Ashraf. The meeting includes the families hostages have picketed outside the camp for the last 10 months demanding the simple right to visit their loved ones.

December 11, 2010 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MKO Ringleaders Resort to Mass Murder to Come out of Crisis

An Iraq-based right group unveiled that ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have resorted to various forms of mass killing in a bid to bring the group out of the current impasse in Iraq.

According to a report by Iraqi daily Motamar, also published by Edalat (Justice) Society web site – an organ of the families of the Iranian victims of terrorism – the Iraqi right group has sent serious warnings to civil society and human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi government about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the MKO’s main training camp in Northern Iraq.

The Sahar Family Foundation also said that the MKO’s ringleaders are forcing the dissident members of the group to commit suicide and massacre defectors.

The right group called on the Iraqi judiciary system, international court of justice and all international human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi and international media to take urgent action to stop the human catastrophe in the camp which, they said, now looks more like a slaughterhouse.

A November report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, said that under the direct order of MKO’s Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leader of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) allow their members to receive medical aids, healthcare and other services in return for given levels of cooperation.

Based on the order, dissident members are deprived of medicine and other medical services or, at least, face much hardship and difficulty in procuring their necessary medicines.

The right group added that the new measure came after protests remarkably increased inside the group, specially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members.

In relevant development, a report revealed in November that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp.

The report said that the move by the MKO ringleaders came after they failed to brainwash their inferiors to convince them to distant themselves from their family members who have been residing and waiting outside the camp for the last 10 months demanding freedom of their relatives.

The right group said after the brainwash policy and efforts of the MKO leaders failed, discontent and protest has both widened and deepened among MKO members.
Earlier reports coming out the camp had said that a large number of MKO’s deprecating members started riots and angry protests to end their forced presence in Camp Ashraf.
According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.

Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.
MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.
Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.

According to international human rights bodies, the MKO has a completely black record in human rights. Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

December 9, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Is there anyone to help the families of MKO terrorists’ hostages?Part3

After ten months of picketing in front of Ashraf garrison:
Is there anyone to help the families whose loved ones have been taken hostage by Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorists? (Part Three)

Ms. Mahrokh Rabbani,
It is now many years that she has been both a mother and a father for her children.
Now that the children are grown up, she has come to the gates of Ashraf garrison to find out about the fate of her husband.

Mahrokh has come to talk with her husband about her years of hard work and misery, but she is now facing barbed wire, ditch and dike as well as the internal and external security and political barriers.

Her husband has been a hostage of the Rajavi cult for years. He is now imprisoned inside Camp Ashraf.

Is there anyone who would listen to this patient mother and a self-sacrificing wife?

Will her sitting and waiting one day bear fruit?

What is it that Rajavi is so afraid of?

What hindering effect could a 3 hour meeting make to the 30 year struggle of a man and of his cult?

What would happen if free air would be breathed by the members held captive inside the camp?

Mehrdad and Hojat,
They have managed to run away from the camp recently. They are now free.
After years of captivity, they are enjoying their freedom by taking a walk in the streets of Baghdad.

Their faces are hardly recognisable compared with when they had just run away from the camp.
It is as though they have been born again. They are fresh, they are alive once again.

Is there anyone who will take notice of the cries of the rest of the captives inside Camp Ashraf?

Mothers sitting at the gates of Ashraf camp as though they don’t feel the cold and the heat.
They have now passed the hot summer and are well on into the cold winter of the Iraqi deserts.

Does Rajavi know what they want and what has brought them here?

No. He only knows what he wants and is ready to sacrifice everything and anything for his childish fantasies.

One of the mothers said once: “I am not sure he himself knows what he wants”.

The gates of Camp Ashraf

The families have found a brief moment when the gates are opened to take goods in. They are rushing to the gate.

But soon they will find out that the path to their loved ones is more closed than they think.

Will a day come when they can take their loved ones in their arms?
The Iraqi forces in charge of the security of Camp Ashraf
Rajavi is saying that the camp is under siege by the Iraqi forces.

If it was not for this ‘siege’, the Iraqi people would have brought the whole camp to dust and dirt.
If it was not for this ‘siege’, the families would have ways to get to their loved ones.
If it was not for this ‘siege’, the people inside he camp would have ways to get themselves free.
Has anyone seen or heard of a bigger liar than Rajavi?

Translated by Iran Interlink

December 6, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Mossad and Mujahadeen e-Khalq, Partners in Assassination Campaign

Two separate pieces of information have convinced me of the likelihood that the Mossad and the Iranian dissident group, Mujahadeen e-Khalq (MEK) are knocking off some of Iran’s top nuclear scientists. As I’ve posted here, Haaretz’s Yossi Melman has written that the hand of Mossad is in yesterday’s assassination and near assassination of two senior Iranian nuclear researchers. Earlier this evening, a respected Iranian-American academic who knows whereof he speaks, told me he is convinced that the Mujahadeen e-Khalq are behind the killings.

What could be more perfect that Israel providing the external bomb-making expertise and electronic surveillance and the MEK providing the internal muscle, logistics, and the killers to execute such a plan? Keep in mind as well that this plan goes back at least to 2007 when the first Iranian scientist was murdered. Last year, the second one was killed. The Iranian authorities routinely blame Israel and the U.S. for these terror acts but never bring up MEK as a possible culprit. Possibly they have their own internal political reasons for that. But the relationship seems to be made in heaven from a terrorist’s point of view. Israel attacks the Iranian regime “where it lives” while leaving no direct fingerprints of its own. The MEK too gets the glory of “taking out” the bulwarks of the Iranian regime they so despise (the feeling really is mutual).

Several Iran analysts with whom I correspond noted to me that at least one of the al-Mabouh assassins escaped Dubai on an Iran-bound ferry where his trail was lost. At the time, I thought that was incredibly brazen and even bizarre even for the Mossad. But if you consider that MEK has an underground network inside Iran that is possibly second to none, it makes perfect sense, if the two groups are allied with each other. And this is certainly a brazen message that they are both sending to Iran, that we can penetrate your territory at will.

Such a relationship of convenience between the two is nothing new. Gareth Porter, writing in Anti-War.com notes Bush Administration claims in 2004 of Iranian “laptop documents” which proved an intent to manufacture a nuclear weapon. The documents were allegedly provided to the Americans by MEK, no doubt hoping that we would believe they’d been procured by an internal Iranian source.

But a CIA analysis indicated otherwise:
In her February 2006 report on the laptop documents, the Washington Post‘s Linzer said CIA analysts had originally speculated that a “third country, such as Israel, had fabricated the evidence.”

…Shahriar Ahy, an adviser to monarchist leader Reza Pahlavi, told journalist Connie Bruck that the detailed information on Natanz had not come from MEK but from “a friendly government, and it had come to more than one opposition group, not only the mujahideen.”

Bruck wrote in the New Yorker on Mar. 16, 2006 that when he was asked if the “friendly government” was Israel, Ahy smiled and said, “The friendly government did not want to be the source of it, publicly. If the friendly government gives it to the US publicly, then it would be received differently. Better to come from an opposition group.”

Israel has maintained a relationship with the MEK since the late 1990s, according to Bruck, including assistance to the organization. in beaming broadcasts by the NCRI from Paris into Iran. An Israeli diplomat confirmed that Israel had found the MEK “useful,” Bruck reported…
In the same article, Porter notes the love affair between the MEK and the Bush era neocons who, like the Mossad, saw the Iranian group as a useful tool to advance their policy objectives vis a vis Iran.

Writing earlier this month at Truthout, Porter deepens his portrait of collaboration between the two groups:

The National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), the political arm of the MEK, was generally credited by the news media with having revealed the existence of the Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz and Arak in an August 2002 press conference in Washington, DC. Later, however, IAEA, Israeli and Iranian dissident sources all said that the NCRI had gotten the intelligence on the sites from Mossad.

An IAEA official told Seymour Hersh that the Israelis were behind the revelation of the sites and two journalists from Der Spiegel reported the same thing. So did an adviser to an Iranian monarchist group, speaking to a writer for The New Yorker. That episode was not isolated, but was part of a broader pattern of Israeli cooperation with the MEK in providing intelligence intended to influence the CIA and the IAEA. Israeli authors [Yossi] Melman and Javadanfar, who claimed to have good sources in Mossad, wrote in their 2007 book that Israeli intelligence had “laundered” intelligence to the IAEA by providing it to Iranian opposition groups, especially the NCRI.

If my hunch is correct, then the assassination campaign would indicate a ratcheting up of the relationship between Mossad and MEK. Instead of being satisfied with passing on bogus intelligence to the U.S. in hopes of fomenting a military strike against Iran, Israel is now using the MEK to execute high-value targets within the regime.

What is ironic about these marriages of convenience is that they so often blow up in the faces of those who devise them (cf. Reagan era support for the Afghan mujahadeen which morphed into the Taliban). No doubt, Israel would be delighted if the MEK overthrew the Iranian regime as a number of powerful neocons have advocated. But would an MEK dictatorship be any friendlier to Israel than the current Iranian regime? Be careful what you wish for Tamir Pardo and Israel’s Mossad…you might get it. Actually, the idea that MEK could ever come to power in Iran seems preposterous and those proposing the idea seem to be living in a dream (or nightmare) world. But God forbid that something like this should happen and you will see rivers of blood in the streets in Teheran and unrest lasting years. Perhaps that is just what the Mossad wishes. And does the Mossad think that an MEK regime wouldn’t pursue nuclear weapons with the same or greater zeal as its predecessors.

By: Richardsilverstein

December 4, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi

Health and security of Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi

Here and there we read and hear that such and such parliamentarian or human rights activist has demanded that the health and security of the residents of Ashraf Camp, the main base of the Rajavi cult in Iraq, be restored. It is very interesting to learn that some people are concerned Health and security of Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi about the fate of 3000+ innocent followers of Rajavi trapped in his cult. The aim behind the establishment of Sahar Family Foundation was to follow the best interests of the Ashraf inhabitants. The question is of course how these interests can be fulfilled in the best way.

What has happened in the past decade clearly shows that those Ashraf residents who managed to escape the cultic garrison and were freed from the domination of Rajavi, eventually had a far better fate and enjoyed better and more health and security. The facts demonstrate that those who remain there are confronted by all sorts of threats and dangers such as facing death as the result of suicide, self-immolation, unintended shootings, various accidents and misfortunes, being prevented from leaving Ashraf to go to Baghdad or abroad for medical treatment and so on.

During the last decade, several hundred people have escaped Ashraf Camp and were freed. Many of them voluntarily decided to go back to Iran with the help from the International Committee of the Red Cross and they returned to their families and got their lives back through this reconciliation. The ICRC is continuously monitoring their situation and they can state that no-one faced any harm. The parliamentarians and the activists who are concerned about the case of the Ashraf residents can check this out with the Red Cross easily. Even those who were sent from Iraq, with the help of Saddam’s army, to Iran to conduct terrorism and sabotage activities and were arrested before or after their operations had a better destiny. Many of them have since formed a family in Iran or freely moved to another country.

Those separated members who did not wish to go to Iran were located in the American Forces’ camps and after a long wait they accepted the risks (less than the risks they faced in Ashraf of course) and moved to Europe. Some stayed in Iraq and are still waiting to leave the country to get to a third country. Up to now no security threat has threatened their lives, except on one occasion some years ago when a man crossing the border river between Turkey and Iraq was drowned.

All former members can witness that since they left Ashraf Camp they are in a far better physical and psychological situation. Many of them managed to overcome their chronic illnesses and gain their health again after a while. Inside the Camp their illnesses were ignored and they were even accused of pretending to be ill. The hard labour inside the Camp that the members had to suffer as a means to make them stop thinking has had enormous effects on them and most inhabitants suffer severe physical and mental disorders. Some inside the camp say in secret that the rifle and sickle on the MKO’s emblem should be replaced by a shovel and sweeping brush.

More than one hundred individuals have lost their lives inside Ashraf during recent years in different ways. The MKO terrorist cult claimed that more than 50 people were killed due to the U.S. bombing of Iraq during the 2003 invasion of the country. Eye witnesses who have been able to escape from Ashraf Camp say that none of them were killed in that way and many of those named were killed long before or after the bombings. Some of these people were killed on the direct order of Massoud Rajavi the cult leader. Hundreds of statements have been filed with the Iraqi Judiciary in the MKO’s lawsuit in this regard.

Rajavi has never given an explanation to these murders. His cult has not announced the details of even one case of a member losing their life due to the bombings. The cult agents are in the habit of recording every single moment on camera to use for propaganda. Not even one photograph or film was released to show a dead body or a place devastated by the bombings.

Those who are really concerned about the situation of Camp Ashraf’s residents probably know that Rajavi has on many occasions threatened that if he reaches the end of the line he will order all his followers in Ashraf to commit mass suicide or self-immolation, the same way that happened at Waco and in Guyana.
After the cult prevented Ms. Elham Fardipour from going to hospital in Baghdad and after the murder of Mr. Ahmad Razani, the concern of the families at the gates of Camp Ashraf has about the health and security of their loved ones inside the camp has escalated. They are rightfully frightened about the fate of their children and relatives since Rajavi does not think about anything but his childish goals.

Rajavi’s claim about Ashraf’s blockade by the Iraqi forces is totally false and is cultic propaganda. The leaders of the cult frequently travel between Ashraf and Jordan and Paris. Trucks full of medicine, food, fuel, and other essentials keep going into Ashraf Camp escorted by UN officials and American tanks. Those inhabitants who are fully trusted by the cult go to Baghdad for many reasons. The truth is that the Ashraf blockade is imposed by the cult only and the American forces who wish to protect this terrorist base fully assist them in this.

Sahar Family Foundation calls on all humanitarian and international activists and organizations, particularly those who have expressed their concern about the situation of the residents and wish to do something about it, to come to the place or send delegations to gain first hand observation of the actual conditions there. SFF is happy ready for any kind of cooperation and for providing all sorts of documents in this respect.

December 1, 2010 0 comments

Iran

Iran families censure EU for MKO support

The families of the victims of the latest terrorist incidents in Iran have strongly criticized the European Parliament for its support for an anti-Iranian terrorist group, according to a recent report.

A scene of one of the terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on November 29

In a letter to the European Parliament, relatives of the victims of two terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on Monday criticized some European governments and international organizations for their stances on terrorism, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.

The families say the double standard applied by certain European countries toward terrorist groups like the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is a major cause of such inhumane activities.

Last week, the European Parliament issued a declaration urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Terrorists detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi at separate locations on Monday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. local time as they were headed to work at Shahid Beheshti University.

Shahriari was martyred immediately, but professor Abbasi and his wife only sustained injuries and were transferred to a hospital.

Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a motorcycle approached Shahriari’s car and attached a bomb to the vehicle that exploded a few seconds later.

In a separate incident, terrorists attached another bomb to Abbasi’s car and escaped, he added.
He explained that the professor and his wife were injured in the attack but are not in critical condition.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has also condemned the terrorist attack, saying the culprits are linked to Israel.

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

Apparently emboldened by the EU, MKO members openly boast about the deadly acts of violence they have committed against Iranian civilians and government officials.

November 30, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

EU asks US to use MKO terror group overtly But Future Iraq strong

The European Parliament has urged the United States to remove the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its terror list.

The European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday urging the removal of the MKO from Washington’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The European Union removed the MKO from its similar list of terrorist organizations in 2009.
The MKO, which has been on the US terror list since 1997, filed a petition against the blacklisting in 2008.

The administration of former US president George W. Bush rejected the request in its final days in 2009, after examining material submitted by the group and US intelligence agencies, including classified information.

In July, a US federal appeals court ordered the US State Department to reconsider its decision.
The State Department said it would study the decision, but added that the US government continues to view the group as a terrorist organization.

The Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The MKO is also known to have cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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Future Iraqi government ‘strong’

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-MalikiIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be able to form a strong government with the participation of all political blocs, says an expert on Middle East affairs.

During a ceremony at Baghdad’s presidential palace on Thursday, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani officially named Maliki as the country’s prime minister, giving him thirty days to form his new cabinet and present it to parliament for approval.
"The political will of the [Iraqi] National Alliance, who are heavily backed by the Kurds — I do believe — is going to prevail, and a government will be formed within those thirty days," London-based expert on Middle East Zayd al-Isa told Press TV on Thursday.

"There are still obstacles. There are still noises here and there, particularly from the leader of the Iraqiya List [Iyad Allawi] who basically did not attend the ceremony in which the formal request by Jalal Talabani has been made to Maliki," Isa added. After the March 7 parliamentary elections that failed to hand a clear-cut victory to either Maliki’s State of Law coalition or former premier Allawi’s al-Iraqiya, the Iraqi political rivals have been struggling to decide about who will lead the country.

In November, the political blocs reached an agreement that reinstated Maliki as premier, but gave the right to choose the parliament speaker to the Iraqiya Alliance.
"The Iraqiya List won’t be successful because it is already witnessing huge divisions and huge fragmentations, and it has already accepted the position of the parliament speaker which [was] given to al-Nujaifi … So, I do believe that Maliki’s efforts will actually work out, and a strong government will be formed," al-Isa concluded.

November 27, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO Ringleaders Cut Medical Supplies to Dissidents in Iraqi Camp Ashraf

Leaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have resorted to various types of torture and pressure, including a cut of medical supplies to ailing members, to suppress growing dissidence in their main training camp in Northern Iraq.

A report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based huma MKO Ringleaders Cut Medical Supplies to Dissidents in Iraqi Camp Ashraf n rights group said that under the direct order of MKO’s Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) have made any kind medical, health and other services to the members dependant on the level of their cooperation.

Based on the order, dissident members are deprived of medicine and other medical services or, at least, face much hardship and difficulty in procuring their necessary medicines.

The right group added that the new measure came after protest remarkably increased inside the group, especially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members.

In relevant development, a report revealed on Saturday that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp.

The right group said after the brainwash policy and efforts of the MKO leaders failed, discontent and protest has both widened and deepened among MKO members.

Earlier reports coming out the camp had said that a large number of MKO’s deprecating members started riots and angry protests to end their forced presence in Camp Ashraf.
According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.

Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.

MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.

Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who was killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last year and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.
The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

November 24, 2010 0 comments

The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

MKO’s Response to Tariq Aziz’s Death Sentence out of Character

The former Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, who was also a close ally and personal advisor of Saddam Hussein, has recently been sentenced to death. A CNN report of the news states that he was “one of the best-known faces of the Iraqi government for more than two decades.” [1] But this well-known face was not known for his good deeds. The Iraqi tribunal had decided on a MKO’s Response to Tariq Aziz’s Death Sentence out of Character death sentence because of his crimes which include his role in eradicating rival political-religious parties while holding power during the Ba’athist regime. Aziz had been on trial in a long-running case in which he was accused of being part of a campaign of persecuting, killing and torturing members of the Shiite opposition and other banned parties. [2]

For the Shiite population especially, Aziz’s death sentence means a step toward justice, and the majority of Iranians would agree. But for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), a bizarre Iranian opposition group led by self-appointed husband and wife, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, news of Aziz’s sentence prompted a statement of condemnation. Tariq Aziz was both their friend and ally. Before Saddam Hussein bankrolled the MKO, Iranians remember clearly in 1983 when Massoud Rajavi signed a treasonous pact with Aziz—a pact which enabled the MKO to become heavily armed and shortly thereafter violently turn against their own countrymen. A detailed report on the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MKO) published by the US Department of State in 1994 points out how Massoud Rajavi’s alliance with Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist Regime was formed while Iran was being invaded by Iraq during the 1980’s:

*In Paris; the non-Mojahedin members of the NCR encountered the autocratic style of Rajavi. In particular, Rajavi’s unilateral decision to tie the Council to Iraq alienated the others, who viewed the alliance as a traitor’s deed. The Council’s most important participant, former president Bani Sadr [sic], formally split in 1984, castigating Rajavi as "a pawning [sic] the settlement of the Iran-Iraq conflict." (Bani Sadr [sic] asserts that the first formal pact between the Mojahedin and Iraq was negotiated during a January 1983 meeting between Rajavi and Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz in Fragce [sic]. Mojahedin publications also confirm this meeting.)* [3]

Rajavi’s seditious meeting with Tariq Aziz was the starting point of a long-lasting alliance with the former Iraqi dictatorship. The State Department report concludes that "government-controlled Iraqi media accounts of recent Saddam-Rajavi contacts provide further insight into the MKO’s current relationship with Baghdad. Meeting [sic] between the two are announced to buttress Saddam’s isolated position or to send a message to the government of Iran. For example: On July 31, 1994, Rajavi sent Saddam a ‘message of congratulations.’ On January 26, 1994, Rajavi met with Saddam and Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s deputy prime minister."[4]

The State Department’s conclusion regarding the association is confirmed by another source, the former Iranian president, Dr. Abulhassan Banisadr. Banisadr refers to Massoud Rajavi as a "power addict" in his interview with Pen Club’s representative, Muhammad Hussein Sobhani. During the interview, which took place in Farsi, Banisadr recalls the time Rajavi was planning to meet with Tariq Aziz:

*I told him [Rajavi] now that you accepted to visit him [Aziz], you should treat him the way our Iranian Emperor Shahpour the First treated the Roman Valerian. Our Emperor humiliated the invader to our country. He [Aziz] should’ve understood that he has invaded a country which has national pride.
I advised him [Rajavi]: You shouldn’t let the visit last more than half an hour.*

*He said, Ok, I will but instead of behaving like what he was supposed to, the meeting lasted five hours so that the following day Le Monde newspaper wrote that Mr. Tariq Aziz bought Mr. Rajavi or something like that […]. **After that visit, Rajavi’s behavior changed and changed. **[5]*

*Aziz, the MKO, and France*

Tariq Aziz has been under a microscope for a number of years by justice seeking-Iranians, and accordingly the official report of his death sentence comes as a small victory. Many French citizens would agree. Aziz’s relationship with the MKO—whose European headquarters is located in Paris—has always been a political thorn for the French where the MKO is heavily scrutinized because of their cult mindset and their violent terrorist activities. Geoff Hutchison interviewed Amir Taheri, a French–Iranian affairs analyst, in June 2003 following the arrest of Maryam Rajavi and 160 other MKO members, who were located at the MKO compound in Ouver Sur d’Oise, Paris. After the arrest by French police, Taheri suggested two reasons for France’s decision on taking MKO terrorists into custody.

Taheri said that interior minister at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, "is trying to appear very tough, especially against illegal immigrants and the Mujahedin have been running a racket of political asylum and so-on for many years. The second reason is that the presence of the Mujahedin in France was negotiated by Tariq Aziz, number two of Saddam Hussein in 1981, and now with the fall of the Iraqi regime there is no reason for the presence of the Mujahedin on French soil."[6]

The accounts of MKO activities are agreeably and accurately documented by the governments of France, the United States, and Iran. All have the same opinion that the noteworthy initial visit with the MKO’s Masoud Rajavi and Tariq Aziz signifies a precise turning point in the history of MKO endeavors. That meeting was the start of a long-term strategy in which Rajavi lassoed power and led the group into a bizarre existence as he became an autocratic ideological leader with a cult of personality. For Banisadr, who was one of the main founders of the National Council of Resistance, the meeting was fundamentally immoral. Banisadr points out in his interview that three basic principles, “independence, freedom and non-existence of hegemony” [7] were needed in order to generate positive results in the cause. Massoud Rajavi’s treasonous pact was a contradictory element for Banisadr and others because it violated the most important principles of the NCR. In taking part in this act of treason Rajavi dedicated the NCR’s capacity to act, and his warped vision led the MKO to become a mercenary force for Saddam Hussein. As Rajavi proceeded he rejected the integrity of the NCR, but more importantly, in doing so, he rejected the people of Iran. Rajavi cultivated and broadened hegemony over all the members of the NCR. Many groups did not agree with him and they were excluded. Eventually the NCR consisted only of MKO supporters. Other opposition groups simply left the organization, feeling tainted by the MKO.

Although it has been three decades since the MKO hijacked the National Council of Resistance, it still exists, and still the MKO assumes total control. The MKO is very tight-lipped about synonymy with the NCR and they would rather not disclose that the two are essentially under the same management. This is an important and little known reality for the masses in the West. What is surprising is that the Rajavis decided that the NCR needed to publicly lament the news of the Tariq Aziz’s death sentence. Their website states “the Iranian resistance strongly condemns the death sentence against Tariq Aziz." [8] The statement is a puzzling response from a group who, since the Iraq war started, has been trying to sanitize their image in the West. It’s highly conceivable that the statement is a part of a new strategy to justify the fact that they turned against Iran. Perhaps they are just taking advantage of the fact that the West is still largely unaware of the murderous atrocities the MKO committed against not only their own Iranian countrymen, but against Americans.

Mostly likely the MKO is seeking publicity and they want to make a statement in order to prepare for hitchhiking on the much-anticipated execution of Tariq Aziz. Whatever the case, the MKO knows the world will be watching. The power hungry MKO-controlled NCR has a plan up its sleeve, and it is not in the best interest of the people of Iran; it is for themselves. That much is for sure.

References:
[1] CNN Wire Staff. "Iraqi court sentences Tariq Aziz to death." *CNN* 26
Oct 2010: Web. 17 Nov 2010. <
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-26/world/
iraq.aziz.sentence_1_iraqi-high-tribunal-death
-sentence-malcolm-smart?_s=PM:WORLD>.
[2] AP. *CTV News* 26 Oct 2010: Web. 17 Nov 2010. <
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20101026/
tariq-aziz-death-sentence-101026/>.
[3] Note: In 1981, the Mojahedin leadership fled to France and with other
Iranian opposition movements formed the National Council of Resistance
(NCR).
Katzman, Kenneth. US State Department Report, Library of Congress.
Congressional Research Service. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
Washington, Nov 1992. Doc. call no.: M-U 42953-1 no.92-824F as posted on the
Iran-interlink.org website:
http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/child%20pages/USstatedept.htm
See also: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
website: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4ac9c2c52.pdf.
See also: CORI (Country of Origin Research and Information) website:
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4ac9c2c52.pdf
[4] Ibid
[5] Iranian Pen Club. "The outset of Rajavi’s longtime treason." *NEJAT
Society* 06 Nov 2010: Web. 17 Nov 2010. <
https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/3339>.
See also original interview in Farsi: Banisadr, Abulhassan interviewed by
Mohammad Hossein Sobhani
http://www.iran-interlink.org/fa/index.php?mod=view&id=8888
[6] “France targets Mujahedin e-Khalq." (transcript) *Current Affairs*.
Geoff Hutchinson Amir Taheri in Brussels. Australian Broadcasting Company:
702 ABC, Sydney, AM – Wednesday, 18 June, 2003 08:11:05 Radio. 17 Nov 2010.
<http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s882312.htm
[7] Iranian Pen Club. "The outset of Rajavi’s longtime treason." *NEJAT
Society* 06 Nov 2010: Web. 17 Nov 2010. <
https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/3339>.
See also original interview in Farsi: Banisadr, Abulhassan interviewed by
Mohammad Hossein Sobhani
http://www.iran-interlink.org/fa/index.php?mod=view&id=8888
[8] NCR Website

By Mazda Parsi

November 23, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Call for Rescue of Camp Ashraf patients

Rajavi’s Cult prevents members’ leaving the Camp for medical treatment in Baghdad.

According to the latest information on Camp Ashraf, the Camp leaders do not permit the residents who suffer serious diseases to leave the camp in order Rajavi's Cult prevents members' leaving the Camp for medical treatment in Baghdad. that they are able to receive treatment in Baghdad hospitals. The leaders are especially crucial about those members who are considered as "problematic ". They fear the possibility of their escape in case of their departure from the isolated garrison of Ashraf.

For instance the reports show that Iraqi doctors have insisted on transfer of Ms. Elham Fardipour to hospital but the leaders of the cult procrastinate to send her to hospital since her runaway as a member of Leadership Council might reveal confidential information of the group’s internal relationships.

There are some residents who have been diagnosed of cancer but they are not allowed to go under proper treatment in hospital.

In some cases, MKO leaders have used a trick to prohibit the patient’s escape and to watch him all the time in order that his information on inside of the Camp is not infiltrated by any one. They send to the hospital another member – a more reliable one – with him. The supervisor has to monitor the patient otherwise the group might lose the member.

The bottom line is that barring the prisoners from receiving medical care is a war crime and should be brought into justice in war criminal court. The reports show that several members have so far died in Ashraf Garrison due to lack of proper medical treatment.

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