Hot Topics

MKO members to be relocated from Iraq

Rajavi lobby silenced in UK Parliament yet again

David Drew (Stroud, Labour) Rajavi lobby silenced in UK Parliament yet again
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on the detention of 36 Camp Ashraf residents without charge or trial by Iraqi forces; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis (Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Bury South, Labour)
The Iraqi Government have given assurances that no Camp Ashraf residents would be forcibly transferred to a country where they have reason to fear persecution, or where substantial grounds exist to believe they would be tortured.

All 36 arrested on 28 July 2009 were released on 7 October 2009 and have returned to Camp Ashraf. The Iraqi authorities have said they intend to resettle all 36 to other countries once suitable arrangements are in place. They had been detained under a combination of charges related to the violence at the camp on 28 July 2009 and immigration violations.

Our ambassador in Baghdad met the Iraqi Human Rights Minister on 6 October 2009 to discuss the detention of the 36. He was briefed on the efforts underway to make arrangements for their release.

During their detention our embassy in Baghdad was in regular contact with the Iraqi authorities, the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The UN confirmed that they have been held in acceptable local conditions. Food and water was available throughout, but the 36 men chose to follow a hunger strike in protest at their detention. Medical care was provided during their detention. The 36 had regular access to the ICRC.
House of Parliament, London, October 13, 2009

October 15, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MKO in historic isolation

Today the process of developments in Iran-Iraq relations has created difficult situation for Mujahedin Khalq who are facing a complicated cul-de-sac. Therefore, the MKO’s claim as the most powerful opposition to Iranian regime is viewed as funny by Western politic men

The new phase was accompanied with the takeover of Camp Ashraf’s control by Iraqi government in January.

However, when the Iraqi control on Ashraf base was leading its executive procedures, MKO leaders ended the takeover by Iraqi Police to a bloodshed which risked the lives of hundreds of members, in vain.

After the bloody clashes in Ashraf, MKO leaders did not obey Iraqi decision and did not make a logic decision and launched a new idiot game. Their hunger strike show was to take ransoms from Iraqi government. The leaders allegedly declared their objective as the takeover of control of Ashraf by American forces but actually the main objective of MKO leaders is maintaining their base in Iraq. And the Iraqi government is determined to expel the terrorist destructive cult of Rajavi from its territory.

The destructive cult of MKO has always claimed to be the most viable alternative to IRI and its large scale propaganda machine has always tried to deceive Western politicians with this claim.

The recent protests after the Iranian presidential election in June took MKO’s card. The international community and Western governments are concentrating on Iranian green movement as the main opposition to Islamic Republic. Western governments, who were not satisfied with IRI’s policies, today hope that the green movement could make changes in Iranian policy. Therefore, the MKO’s claim as the most powerful opposition to Iranian regime is viewed as funny by Western politic men. This make MKO leaders to try extremely to find the least support among Western countries including their new propaganda show for the so called revelations on Iranian nuclear program in a press conference in Paris.

Although the act, once more, confirms the MKO’s treasons against Iran, ignoring the MKO’s propaganda, Western governments called 1+5, are negotiating with Iran in Geneva these days. The considerable fact is that for the first time, US’s representative sat at the same table with his Iranian counterpart. The MKO is now in a historic isolation which will definitely end in its death.

The only way to save the cult is the official declaration of its shutdown by its leaders, but they are so politically stupid that they will never make this rational decision.

By Mohsen Abbaslou

October 13, 2009 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Let’s emancipate women enslaved in Rajavi’s cult

In the contemporary history, no cult has overexposed women using them instrumentally as much as MKO. Although Mojahedin have adopted the false ideological and strategic slogan of setting women free form social, conventional, religious, and historical bonds, yet in practice women have been subject to a kind of modern slavery under the cover of freedom through mental and physical convincing mechanisms.

Rajavi has focused all his efforts in recent years to misuse various social, cultural, religious, and ethical backgrounds to submit women. In this regard, he has exploited the emotional attachments and nature of women as well as their ethical, religious, and traditional constraints to increase their dependence on the organization preventing their leaving from the organization.

Meanwhile, promoting women in leadership cadre of the organization is one of the tricks for intensifying the various aspects of this slavery. In this regard and up to the time when the well-founded documents of these misuses are revealed publicly, we will discuss the open aspects of these misuses and ask all human rights organizations to do their best to save these victims from Rajavi’s slave-house and revive their lost soul.

What is of utmost significance at the time being is setting thousands of women free from the bonds of MKO. As MKO leaders acknowledge, the main role of MKO female members as silent hostages is to be used as human shields for protecting leadership.

However, the difference between these hostages and their reactionary and seemingly outdated counterparts is that the former are captive in invisible and cultic bonds of Rajavis rather than visible chains and bonds. The statements made by the separated members indicate that these women in MKO are used as more than anything accessible instruments and levers in the hands of Rajavi to be victimized whenever necessary. Up to that time their role is securing camp Ashraf as the ideological and strategic container of Mojahedin.

Mojahedin media has recently called the world for supporting these women in order to sidetrack the reality. MKO leadership is aware that according to an unspoken consensus, the main efforts of western intelligentsia and the focus of public opinion at the time being is on defending the rights of women hence concentrates all his efforts to win the sympathy of outsiders toward female members of Mojahedin.

However, the issue of misusing MKO female members has been ignored due to Rajavi’s covering it under the banner of the emancipation of women. The former members have repeatedly referred to the significance of women for Rajavi. He is well aware that the special characteristics of these women like their emotional attachments, lack of support and ethical and religious constraints has excluded the possibility of their leaving from the organization.

The affairs of Rajavi with the female members of leadership council in the form of ideological marriages revealed by Mrs. Batool Soltani, a member of MKO leadership council who has recently managed to escape camp Ashraf, as well as flattering them have been levers at the hands of Rajavi for keeping them in the organization.

Parallel to the exposure of these issues, Rajavi has focused on these women insisting on the existence of a potential threat for them through an extensive propaganda blitz to sidetrack the public opinion. Evidently, the life of tens of female members of MKO leadership council as well as other Ashraf residents is in danger yet here the question arises that who poses this threat?

During the recent events and conflicts in camp Ashraf, it was observed that these women were used as human shields to prevent the entrance of Iraqi police to camp Ashraf and also to win the sympathy of the world toward Ashraf residents.

Regardless of the achievements of Mojahedin in recent days, what is of significance is the full-scale propaganda blitz of MKO on the necessity of saving the life of thousands of women living in camp Ashraf. Although the efforts of Mojahedin media were focused on MKO leaders, Masoud and Maryam Rajavi, now they have been concentrated on the issue of MKO female members and their security. It is for the first time that Mojahedin dare to put the members of their leadership council in attention.

The reason of this turnabout is to be investigated. Surprisingly enough, these women’s photos have been published and worries for their safety has been expressed. What are the objectives of this approach? The statements of Mrs. Soltani on the role and position of women in leadership council as human shields for defending camp Ashraf may be problem solving. According to the events of June and warnings given by Rajavi, the challenges inside camp tend to be intensified.

However, Rajavi makes his utmost efforts to determine the destiny of Mojahedin in either remaining or leaving camp Ashraf once forever. According to the above reasons, female MKO members are of a high potential to be victimized, therefore, Rajavi has decided to use them as human shields for defending Ashraf. In this regard, taking necessary measures for setting Rajavi’s victims free from cultic relations is of highest priority for Iraqi government and international bodies.

Our main responsibility is making the public opinion and the concerned bodies aware of this imminent disaster. As it was said before, MKO female members have been the most ill-fated and vulnerable stratum of the cult of Mojahedin in recent years and now after years of suffering pain and misuse, they are supposed to be used as Rajavi’s scapegoat of Rajavi.

The fact is that the lack of support and hope has led many of them to submit to Rajavi. Arriving at an international consensus, the world is to provide these women with reliable guarantee and support, let them govern their own destiny and breathe new life into their captive soul.

October 11, 2009 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Neda had been tutored from the childhood

An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 26

Sahar Family Foundation: Ms. Soltani, you know better that the organization had highly invested Neda Hassani,had been tutored from the childhood to become a devoted MKO memebr on Neda who was hardly of any weight and importance within and without the organization until she was burned to death, an anonymous girl who had suddenly become the focal attention of the media in a week. I believe she achieved preeminence in public and it can be said that she had great impact on the whole situation. Of course, that was exactly what the organization expected. As Neda’s case is sensitive, let’s talk about her and her life and struggle background and I will pose further question if necessary.

Batool Soltani: You are right. Neda was not a preeminent among the members before her immolation. It was possible that in the higher echelons they had given her some attention but nothing amongst the rank and file. Her popularity is considered to be for a variety of reasons especially her age. To talk of my acquaintance with her, we were once on the same team-work in Camp Ashraf before the US invasion of Iraq and when Maryam (Rajavi) was still in Ashraf. the organization had highly invested on Neda who was hardly of any weight and importance within and without the organization until she was burned to death, However, Neda left for the Europe simultaneous with Maryam’s relocation to France. Of course, Neda had been raised and living in Europe and came to Ashraf after she was graduated.

SFF: Pardon me, Ms. Soltani, I prefer to pose questions on the spot. Was Neda an active member of the organization abroad?

BS: Not from the very beginning. The organization first worked on Neda’s family and they became sympathizers through participation in rallies and protest meetings. Gradually, the organization succeeded to recruit Neda and her brother to transfer them to Ashraf. The family, however, remained just sympathizers. You know, it is one of the approaches through which the organization recruits members. There are countless instances of the families that ceased their support for the organization while their children are still enthusiastic cadres who gainsay their own families. There are also instances of the parents detached from the organization while their children are active members or vice-versa; a real tragedy that has been going on all these years within the organization.

SFF: There is a photo of Neda in her seven or eight busy fundraising for the organization. Have you seen the photo?

BS: Yes, I have seen. The very same year Neda set herself on fire, it was one of the many photos they publicized in a biography of her. It is an indication of the organization’s impact on her family to have convinced them to let their daughter to engage in fundraising activities because of her low age. So she was somehow a sympathizer from the childhood. She was naive and emotionally sensitive and could be easily impressed. I think such photos talk enough to condemn the organization of abusing the sympathizer’s children.
SFF: Were Neda’s family political refugees?

BS: I do not know. But it was typical of the organization to establish contacts particularly with the political refugees since a cause of sympathy could easily convince them to cooperate with the organization especially when the families were on the fence or were facing problems. Because of its influence abroad, the organization could attract some of these families under its umbrella to exploit them for its political aims. Noteworthy, many of these families that had been granted political asylum through mediation of the organization faced troubles after they announced their detachment.

SFF: Was Neda born in Europe?

BS: I do not know, but I know she was raised in abroad.

SFF: What about her education?

BS: I have no exact information but I have seen a videotaped celebration of her graduation as well as her photos.

SFF: I think there is something ambiguous about her academic education because of her age. How old was she when she committed suicide?

BS: I think she was twenty-one.

SFF: Naturally, she could not have possibly been a university graduate. Beside her age, she was on a continuous process of moving and relocation.

BS: I may have seen a videotaped party of her becoming a high school graduate. So she must have been nineteen when she came to Ashraf. (Here Ms. Soltany pressed some keys on the laptop at her hands to make sure) Yes, it is here, she was nineteen. However, she was in Ashraf for a year and then left for the Europe accompanying Maryam; she came in 2001 and left in 2002.

SFF: How did she behave in Ashraf?

BS: She was a kind of friendly, I mean, she was warm and intimate and very active.

SFF: What organizational rank did she carry?

BS: She was a K2, the lowest organizational rank. But she caught their attention because of her active potentiality and they were satisfied with her activeness. At the time, they hardly sent anybody abroad and they were sensitive to select one if one had to be sent to Europe. But they selected Neda to send abroad and she was one of the few who accompanied Maryam.

SFF: Did not it raise question when they decided to send someone in her eighteens abroad especially after she had just arrived at Ashraf?

BS: She was too close to organizational standards and was well melted in the relations. These parameters were influentially decisive.

SFF: How is it possible that a young, europeanized girl who had just detached from a common, bourgeoisie world to join a remote camp and whose only distinctiveness was to have been recruited from a sympathizer family could so fast become the main focus of the organization’s attention. Could she in a one-year span reach a practically ideological maturity?

BS: You know, a great drawback that disputed sending members abroad was a risk of sticking to the tastes of the bourgeoisie life there. In contrast to what you think, the age and
struggle background were not the fixed canons to pick a member for a mission abroad.

There were members with a forty-year record of struggle who the organization never consented to send abroad because they could be easily enticed by the threats of the bourgeoisie life. Nasrin Asadi, for example, was a real expert in accounting who had long lived in abroad. Then, she could be a suitable choice to be sent abroad since she was well acquainted with the social atmosphere there to play an influential role but they opposed her dispatch.

Even I, who had been already sent to England for some time to receive computer trainings, had failed to win their trust since there was a possibility of making contacts with my family and children. In general, they never selected exhausted, questionable members to dispatch to abroad where they could be probably magnetized by the bourgeoisie life. It was of great importance for the organization to learn that the selected members had truly despised the bourgeoisie life and abhorred returning to it in the same way that they loathed the imperialism and the regime.

SFF: How is it logically acceptable that a girl in Neda’s age had reached a point to despise such a life? Of course by logic I mean the very logic that rules within the organization. Possibly that is because the organization had worked on Neda from her childhood when values deeply form in man. It can be said that Neda received her ideological trainings from the very childhood which precisely differentiated her with the adults who received their trainings in their young and mid-ages. Besides, Neda voluntarily came to Ashraf while the organization insisted her stay in Europe. She had reiterated many times that she preferred a militia life to political activities and she was absolutely opposed to her transfer to Europe and even cried and begged to stay in Ashraf while others like Laleh Tariqi and Zelal Habibi who had been picked to be sent abroad submitted to orders with pocketed pleasure. I want to know how Neda could overcome the threats of being melted in bourgeoisie life while the more experienced, old members had failed?

BS: Neda was selected for abroad because she felt no attraction for the bourgeoisie life. There was no doubt and the organization had been convinced. She had no craving to return to the world she had divorced. As a rule, the organization dispatched recruits to Ashraf to caulk their bourgeoisie appeals and to obviate threats of returning to it. Talking about Neda, it is different. She was young and standing at the beginning of a long path full of costs and threats and she lacked the organizational maturity to understand these facts in a theoretic, political and ideological framework. Her sympathy for the organization was the result of her childhood enthusiast and the information the organization had instilled into her in a one way relation. Above all, she was so young to face any challenge and adversary.

She was different with those who had been tied in with the organization at least from its post-revolution phase and had long been witnessing repeated losses and Rajavi’s promises that never came true. They had surmounted a tortuous path that had raised further doubts in each step; they had been broken many times but remodeled through Rajavi’s justifications and promises. They know how Rajavi dealt with the dissidents and they were well aware of the costs they had to pay to defect; they have long been engaged in a never-ceasing battle with the past and future and the organization has to devise approaches to monitor them and to discover what passes in their mind. How busy is the young mind of Neda to know anything of these wrestling?

Unlike Neda, these members have lost a precious life with no hope to refurbish. At least they try to take advantage of any possible opportunity to rebuild the remaining days of an unsecure future, let them call it threats of reunion with the bourgeoisie life or anything, for them it is closeness to freedom. They have long been filled with promises but nothing has ever changed. That is the reason why the young Neda is selected while the old veterans are kept behind the closed doors.

To be continued

October 10, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin-e-khalq Organization Members

Iraqi official: 36 Mojahedin members released but their deportation order stands

Iraqi PM: Number of security forces strains budget, hinders reconstruction

BAGHDAD – The number of Iraqi soldiers and police has strained the government’s budget, hindering reconstruction projects, Iraq’s prime minister said Wednesday. Iraqi official: 36 Mojahedin members released from prison but their deportation order stands

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said more of next year’s budget should go to reconstruction rather than security, setting the stage for possible layoffs at a time when questions have been raised about the ability of its existing force to keep a lid on the violence.

The comments came the same day that a group of 36 Iranian opposition members were returned to an exile camp in northern Iraq after nearly three months in Iraqi custody and despite an ongoing effort to expel them, a government spokesman said.

About three-quarters of Iraq’s budget was used to pay salaries and operations of Iraq’s more than 640,000 security personnel, al-Maliki said.

"This is a dangerous phenomena for the Iraqi economy," he told a group of businessmen gathered in Baghdad. "Instead of allocating 74 percent of this year’s budget to pay salaries, we think that a big part of our budget should go to construction."

The comments came a week after Iraq’s deputy finance minister said that although the proposed $70 billion budget for 2010 is almost 20 percent higher than the one this year, it still falls short of the country’s funding needs.

It is unclear when parliament will vote on the budget.

The 36 Iranian opposition members were returned to Camp Ashraf, where nearly 3,500 members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran have been confined since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, while the Iraqi government works to find a country other than Iran that will take them, said spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.

"We demand the international community help provide a place for them because they are unwanted persons," al-Dabbagh said. "We are looking for a country that is willing to accept them."

The 36 were detained in July following a deadly melee between the exiles and Iraqi security forces at the camp, an incident that caused an international outcry from human rights groups and raised questions about the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government’s ties to Iran.

The men were detained during two days of confrontations at the camp that left at least 11 people dead — shot, beaten or run over by military vehicles, officials have said.
The opposition group claimed the 36 were on a hunger strike during their detention and were in a weakened state when they arrived back at Camp Ashraf.

The Iraqi government has said it was trying to establish a police station at Camp Ashraf and blamed the violence on the resistance by Iranian exiles.
Iraqi judicial authorities did not pursue charges against the men after their detention and ordered them freed.

The group, known as MEK, operated for years in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military turned over responsibility for Camp Ashraf to the Iraqis on Jan. 1.
The U.S. considers MEK a terrorist organization, though one that has provided the Americans with intelligence on Iran. The European Union removed it from its terror list this year.

SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press Writer Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.

October 8, 2009 0 comments

British Ambassador to Tehran: London has no respect for MKO

Boroujerdi criticizes London’s policy towards Tehran Service: Islamic Parliament
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Chief of Iran Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi criticized London’s policy towards Tehran saying it is not helpful for bilateral ties. London does not consider the MKO an official organization and has no respect for it.

Boroujerdi told the new British ambassador Simon Gass during a meeting that Iran public opinions have always had a sort of pessimism about Britain’s policies and the British ambassador should focus on removing this mistrust.

Referring to the removal of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from Britain’s black list and London’s attempt for imposing sanctions on Iran Boroujerdi said, “Britain’s current policies towards Iran do not help promotion of bilateral ties.” Also criticizing UK hardline stances over Iran nuclear issue, he asserted Tehran took a transparent path in cooperation and talks with the UN Security Council five permanent members and Germany in recent Geneva meeting and made a positive step towards resolve of issues.

Also Gass vowed he would do his best to remove the mistrust in Iranian public opinion towards Britain and added London does not consider the MKO an official organization and has no respect for it.

He also denied his country’s interference in post-elections events in Iran.

Gass also emphasized Britain favors Iran’s right to access peaceful nuclear energy according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and believes it is necessary to continue talks to sort the nuclear issue properly.

October 8, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Mojahedin’s suicide operation knows no limits

The challenges posed against Iraq to persuade it to bypass the constitutional legitimacy of expelling terrorist groups, and in particular concerning MKO, can be regarded as a warning for those countries that have offered refuge to members of this organization or authorize its organizational activities. governments should put precautionary actions on their agenda from the time being for preventing the negative consequences of accepting a cultic group.

Currently, many MKO members individually or under the cover of organizational activity are residing in the European countries and France in particular as lawful or even unlawful political refugees. As Mojahedin have mostly concentrated their forces in France where they were provided with political refuge, its government has been confronted with many more problems compared to other European countries regarding the terrorist activities of this cultic group.

Mojahedin’s open dossier of 17 June is one of the main challenges the France government has kept fighting against. It is predictable that France has to go through a long and costly process regarding this challenge added to the considerable costs imposed on this government following the widespread immolations of a number of MKO members in Paris just after the arrest of Maryam Rajavi in June 2003. It seems that these costs will have many ups and downs up to the closing of this dossier and impeachment of its main defendants.

The negative consequences of the presence of Mojahedin in Iraq and its bitter conflicts for the Iraqi government can be regarded as a proof of the challenges caused by 17 June dossier for France. The anti-civil actions of Mojahedin in Iraq exemplify the general approach of Mojahedin toward governments willing to give refuge to its members. While there is a long way up to the final decision about the destiny of MKO in Iraq, its government has been faced with considerable political and financial costs as well as casualties including three dead and numerous injured Iraqi police officers. The recent disturbances in Iraq gives a strong warning to all European countries and France in particular to be on full alert regarding the potential dangers of the settlement of MKO members in their soil.

By the termination of the one-month ultimatum of Iraqi government to MKO, Iraqi officials are highly concerned about the intensification of anti-civil and cultic reactions of Mojahedin in camp Ashraf. It seems that in the next phase of the dealing of Iraqi government with MKO members, Iraq is faced with many more appalling actions on the part of Mojahedin like using Ashraf residents as human shield. These conflicts will continue up to the expelling of Mojahedin from Iraq yet what is of utmost importance is that European countries and France in particular are to monitor the anti-civil and cultic activities of Mojahedin in Iraq watchfully.

Evidently, the misbehavior of Mojahedin toward its host countries is a common procedure of this terrorist organization. They have dunned Iraqi government in many instances one of which is their claim of ownership of a part of Iraqi soil where they are settled under the cover of international conventions. Likewise, they may claim the possession of their settling in Auver-sur-Oise in France. Regardless of the basis of this claim, the significant point is that Mojahedin insist on it firmly even at the cost of members’ victimization.

The present position of Mojahedin in Iraq is the other side of the coin of their presence in France. As much as the legal basis of Mojahedin claims in Iraq is unclear, France government may not be aware of the reason why Maryam Rajavi was granted temporal freedom after her arrest in France in 2003. The current misdeeds of Mojahedin in Iraq are in fact renewing its terrorist attacks in France in June 2003 based on which the warning of Masoud Rajavi of the occurrence of a human disaster in camp Ashraf was predictable. According to the statements of MKO former members and confirmed by the suicide attacks of MKO members in France in 2003, the issue of using human shields has no red line.

According to the history of Mojahedin, they are not a reliable group. If the European governments and France in particular monitor the process of decision making on Mojahedin in Iraqi soil, they would be able to foresee their own challenges and problems in future regarding the presence of Mojahedin in their soil. In other words, the present stranglehold of Iraq in dealing with Mojahedin can be a mirror of the future situation of governments concerned with the settlement of MKO members. These governments should put precautionary actions on their agenda from the time being for preventing the negative consequences of accepting a cultic group.

October 7, 2009 0 comments

Members of the MEK

36 detained Mojahedin members will be deported from Iraq but not to Iran

An official in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Iraq is looking for a country to accept 36 detained members of an Iranian opposition group.

The announcement was the first clear signal from the government on its plans for the men, who were arrested in a raid on their camp in northern Iraq in July and have been ordered released by Iraq’s chief prosecutor. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The official said the detainees would not be sent to Iran, where they would likely face arrest, but Iraq is seeking to send them to a third country. The official gave no other details or specific timetable.

36 detained Mojahedin members will be deported from Iraq but not to Iran The men were moved to Baghdad last week from Diyala Province, northeast of the capital. They are members of a resistance group, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, which claims many of the men are severely weakened from a hunger strike to protest their detention.

Iraqi judicial authorities did not pursue charges against the men after their detention.

The group operated for years in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, but nearly 3,500 members have been confined to a camp since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The U.S. military turned over responsibility for Camp Ashraf to the Iraqis on Jan. 1.

In Baghdad, former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and seven other members of Saddam Hussein’s regime went on trial on charges of planning the slaying of a prominent Iraqi opposition figure in Beirut in 1994 …

By SAMEER N. YACOUB

October 6, 2009 0 comments

Iran

Iran, Iraq cooperate to expel MKO from the region

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani conferred on Thursday with his Iraqi counterpart Ayad al-Samarraie on expansion of mutual and regional cooperation. Iran, Iraq cooperate to expel MKO from the region

Speaking to the reporters in a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Larijani expressed the hope that close cooperation between Iran and Iraq will lead to expulsion of anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from the region.

Larijani told reporters that Tehran-Baghdad security cooperation would help expel the MKO members from Iraq where they are held in Camp Ashraf.

"We hope mutual talks on various issues will help improve regional security and expulsion of terrorist groups including MKO from the entire region," he said, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The two sides also reached agreements on several political, economic and border issues.

Ali Larijani received his Iraqi counterpart Ayad al-Samarraie and his accompanying delegation on Thursday morning.

Al-Samarraie announced that he had already extended an invitation to Larijani to visit Iraq.

October 5, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO’s new propaganda show

Following their failure in the so-called hunger strike in Camp Ashraf ,London, New York … where Mujahedin Khalq didn’t succeed in drawing Western governments’ attention to their terrorist cult, last week they launched a new propaganda campaign in order that they could find the West’s sympathy by their new show.

The leaders of Rajavi’s cult have always believed that Western support is the only way to achieve political power in Iran.

In their recent press conference they have claimed that they have found classified intelligence on Iranian Nuclear sites.

After the hunger strike comic play, the numerous sources(!) of National Council of Resistance committed another anti-national act but it is obvious that the more Mujahedin play the role of spies for the West, the less they can find support among Iranian people.

MEK’s now show on revealing Iranian nuclear program by showing satellite pictures and maps of Tehran, denounces deceitful nature of the group’s propaganda system since taking photos of military nuclear sites requires military satellites that only belong to governments. Thus MKO as a terrorist group has no access to military satellites and the so-called pictures are allegedly given to the group by other sources. (Some say that the intelligence is given to MKO by Israel).

Therefore, given that the intelligence is true, MKO has always been a tool or a canal to reveal Iranian nuclear program. Indeed Mujahedin have never had such an ability to penetrate Iranian nuclear sites.

The act shows the nature of MKO terrorist leaders who are always trying to get in bed with enemies of their country whether it is Saddam Hussein or America, Israel … but the experience shows that MKO has never been a credible source of intelligence.

The history of People’s Mujahedin of Iran contains a list of treasons and crimes that never were successful.

By Mazda Parsi

October 4, 2009 0 comments

Newer Posts

Older Posts