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UN welcomes Germany’s offer to resettle residents of Camp Hurriya

Nejat SocietyApril 20, 2013099 views

Camp Hurriya serves as a transit facility for more than 3,000 exiles, most of them members of a group known as the People’s Mojahedeen of Iran, where a process to determine their refugee status is being carried out by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). With the latest offer, 10 per cent of the camp’s residents now have offers to relocate to third countries. Mr. Kobler added that “this announcement also follows the Secretary-General’s repeated public and bilateral appeals …

MEK operatives attack Iranian reporter in Rome

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 20130184 views

…. the reporter was attacked and insulted by apparently an MKO member and received a death threat when he wanted to parkhis car near his office in Rome. The attacker, who had chased the IRIB reporter, neared his car and insulted him and then attacked him to stop the reporter from calling the Italian police. The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and …

Obama, Neocons openly back terrorism

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2013075 views

I was shocked when our State Dept. under Hillary Clinton announced last fall that MKO/MEK/PMOI was being rehabilitated by taking them off the terror list. It seems the International Criminal Court might be off the hook for doing absolutely nothing about this group, thinking I guess that mass murderers only lived in the Balkans or Africa.

MEPs support Martin Kobler’s work in camp Liberty

Nejat SocietyApril 17, 20130163 views

… The S&D Group fully supports the efforts of Martin Kobler and the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq towards full and permanent resettlement of the residents of Camp Liberty and believes that the decision by the Government of Albania to accept 210 residents is a welcome first step. The urgency of the resettlement was made clear …

The “Rehabilitation” of the MEK

Nejat SocietyApril 17, 20130100 views

the de-listing of the MEK was mostly a quid pro quo to get most of the group’s members in Iraq to relocate from its old base at Camp Ashraf. It also fails to mention that many of the people at Camp Ashraf were being held there against their will. Taken together with the many disgraceful displays of support by members of Congress and various former officials, all of this creates the impression that the group’s “rehabilitation” is much more meaningful than it is.

European intellectual views on the Cult of Rajavi_Part 6

Nejat SocietyApril 16, 20130135 views

Mr. Rajavi has had a good picture in the mirror of the society. He definitely has been a charismatic personality for his followers who have not simply diagnosed his psychotic desease. I guess that so far no one has seriously and deeply investigated or analyzed Mr. Rajavi’s mental problem

MKO office in US, violation of international law

Nejat SocietyApril 15, 20130124 views

“The claims of such a group about human rights and democracy, when it does not respect the most basic needs of its members and does not care for democratic principles in managing its own internal affairs, are not genuine,” the letter further read. The MKO’s office, located a block from the White House, was officially opened on April 11 only months after the United States formally removed the anti-Iranian group from the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.

Wiped from terrorist list, Iranian group hires former senator as lobbyist

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 20130104 views

An Iranian opposition group that was once considered a terrorist front by the State Department has hired an ex-senator to lobby for them….The MEK was blamed by the State Department for several attacks in the 1970s that killed Americans in Iran…

Iranian ‘ex-terrorists’ open downtown Washington, DC office

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2013092 views

Critics of the NCRI have called the group a front for the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK, the group of Islamic Marxists that helped violently overthrew the Pahlavi Shah during a 1979 revolution in Iran and was credited with killing six American citizens that decade. As recently as 2002, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation told the State Department that ‘‘[i]t is the unanimous view of the FBI personnel who are involved in and familiar with the FBI’s investigation of the [MEK] that the NCRI is not a separate organization

For former Iranian ‘terrorists,’ a warm Washington welcome

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2013090 views

Some US critics of the NCRI [MKO/MEK/PMOI]say there are no grounds for believing the group has anything of a positive image, let alone actual support, in Iran. Going further, they point to the high speaking and lobbying fees that some of the group’s prominent American advocates have reportedly been paid as evidence of Washington support that is only dollars-and-cents deep.