The MEK; the Hypocrites

Iraq to probe Camp Ashraf deaths

..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. ..

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Iran refutes MKO’s ‘secret’ factory claim

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday the factory mentioned by the MKO was not a “new discovery.”Salehi said the factory located in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, has been visited by reporters.”We manufacture components there [in the factory], but it is in no way a secret,”he said.

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Ex-Member: MKO Falsifying Quranic Verses to Deceive Members

..”Thus, we went to the authorities[of the MKO/MEK/PMOI] with a holy Quran in our hand and asked them to show us the relevant verse. But because all their words were lies, they took away our Quran and told us that they would let us know later.”The next day the camp authorities removed all the Qurans from our resting places in the camp in a bid to block the members’ access to the holy book,”he continued..

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Iraqi Army Strongly Denies MKO Claim

The MKO alleged on Sunday that Iraqi forces had invaded the Camp Ashraf base, saying,”The forces of Iraq’s Fifth Division invaded Camp Ashraf with columns of armored vehicles, occupying areas inside the camp, since midnight on Saturday.”The Iraqi army denied the MKO’s accusation, underlining that no invasion or military advancement has occurred.

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Iraqi Army, rejects accusation made by MKO terror group

…”It’s a replacement of forces, not a new deployment,”Brigadier Tarek Azzawi, chief of military operations in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, told AFP.”The Fifth Division in Diyala has replaced the Ninth Division that protects Ashraf, and we have not advanced even one metre (yard),”he said.”There were no clashes,”he added. The People’s Mujahedeen, a left-wing and Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran. The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime was at war with the Islamic republic. It was disarmed following the US-led invasion of 2003 …

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The MKO Advertises—Does Anyone Care About What They Don’t Tell You?

With the MEK however, and the ad they ran in the *New York Times*, there was little or no resistance to its presence simply because not many people know about the MEK aka MKO/PMOI and not many people care. There was no dialogue to speak of, and yet there seems to be a growing concern over Iran. Why isn’t any one questioning this group?Here’s what you should know about the MEK. The group is a cult and it is true that members’ rights are being violated–by their own leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, not the US government, not the Iranian government and not the Iraqi government…

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When Democracy Turns into hypocrisy

For those US policy makers who make efforts to invest on MKO as a tool against Islamic Republic, the group seems to be a potential means to advance US policy regarding Iran.”To think of the MEK as some kind of policy tool to use against Tehran is both foolish and bizarre,”Paul Pillar writes. He reminds them that MKO has”virtually no support within Iran”. [3]But US warmongers seem to be very choosy about their allies..Indeed, whether or not MKO has left violence or poses any threat to the West, it is a harmful policy to harbor a destructive cult that always poses a potential threat to Iran-US relations. ..

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Former members of MKO welcomed in a meeting in Germany

The three ex-members told the audience some of their bitter experiences in MKO aka MEK/PMOI. They mentioned the group’s tricks and deceitful approaches to recruit members.They spoke of the suffocating, closed atmosphere of inside the cult where members are not allowed to marry, to contact their family, to watch TV or to read newspapers. They just have to work so hard that they could not find any opportunity to think.Although the atmosphere of Camp Ashraf is terribly oppressive, escaping the cult is not impossible,according to former members; people should only decide to save themselves from the bars of Ashraf.

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Mr. Mahmoud Sepahi announces separation from MKO

..In 2000, when I was residing in UAE in hope of immigration to the United States, I was deceived by MKO recruiters and taken to Iraq. After a few days, I found out the lies they had told me and that I had been taken there to remain in Camp Ashraf. Since the early days, I asked them to let me get back to UAE but they created so terrible condition for me that I was convinced to stay there…

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Mujahedeen Khalq – Baby Snatchers

Similarities can be seen between the Mujahideen initiative and the Chinese ‘Cultural Revolution’. One implications of this initiative is that a member’s spouse or a child belongs to the organisation and the organisation is free to do whatever it wishes to do with them. This policy claimed considerable number of casualties. Amongst them was ‘Bihawar[Bahador], the two year old son of an Iranian Kurd by the name of Khurrami. ‘Bihawar'[Bahador] was with an unknown number of children who were separated from their parents to be sent to Europe or North America. What befell to these children will be told a bit later.

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