News on the MEK

Mojahedin Khalq offer bribe to the UN

MEK has proposed the UN an offer of $ 100m if the UN permits sale of Camp Liberty.

Mehr News quoted a statement by Brussels-based International Fact-Finding Committee, who acts as a pro-MEK association in Europe. “The MEK (Mujahedin-e-Khalq) has committed itself to allocate $ 100m to the UN Development Program if the UN permits the organization to sell Camp Liberty property and assets,” reads the statement.

The news website Al-Iraq al-Jamii (United Iraq) reported that the Committee chairman Alejo Cuadras said that MEK would sign an agreement to sell the Camp Ashraf with a British company, and if the Iraqi government agreed, it would allocate $ 100m to UN Development Program, with the pretext that the MEK had rebuilt the camp investing $ 20m of its own assets.

Camp Ashraf and property and assets are part of Iraqi pubic resources, which were granted to MEK by Saddam Hussein when they entered Iraq.

November 4, 2013 0 comments

UK Hesitant about Admitting MKO Terrorists as Refugees

UK Immigration Minister Mark Harper said the country has not yet made any decision on giving asylum to the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI).

“None of the 52 residents of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty who were previously settled in the UK have any current immigration status here,” Harper said according to a report by the Habilian Association.

“We have agreed to consider, exceptionally, their re-admission as refugees, subject to a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assessment of each individual to ensure that none has been complicit in acts of terrorism or other activities incompatible with refugee status,” he added.

Harper also said that the UNHCR has submitted 17 assessments to the Home Office, adding that “no decision has yet been reached”.

Earlier in July 2013, a British life peer said in an interview with Habilian Association that western European states are not at all wishful of receiving MKO members “because of their recent past history”.

“Albania has agreed to take several hundred in theory, but in practice has only accepted seventy two,” Baroness Emma Nicholson added.

The last group of MKO terrorists at Camp Ashraf, now called Camp New Iraq, was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join other members of the terrorist group in the former US-held Camp Liberty, now called Camp Hurriya, near Baghdad International Airport where they are awaiting relocation to other countries.

The MKO, 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 were killed in bomb attacks by the 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 terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under the US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with the American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

November 3, 2013 0 comments

Britain may admit 17 Liberty residents with no links to terrorism

Menzies Campbell (North East Fife, Liberal Democrat)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 10 June 2013, Official Report, column 84W, on Iraq: Iran, what the current immigration status is of the 52 residents of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty who are seeking resettlement in the UK.

Mark Harper (Forest of Dean, Conservative)

None of the 52 residents of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty who were previously settled in the UK have any current immigration status here. We have agreed to consider, exceptionally, their re-admission as refugees, subject to a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assessment of each individual to ensure that none have been complicit in acts of terrorism or other activities incompatible with refugee status. Thus far, UNHCR have submitted 17 assessments to the Home Office. No decisions have yet been reached.

October 31, 2013 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

Maryam Rajavi shows solidarity with Jaish al-Adl terrorists

Ringleader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization condemned the execution of 16 terrorists in the southeastern city of Zahedan.

In its statement released on Saturday, the terrorist MKO group gave a cold shoulder to the terrorist attack in Saravan and killing of 14 Iranian border guards and described it as an “attack on a center of suppressive forces in Saravan”.

The Friday’s attack carried out by a group known as Jaish al-Adl left 14 Iranian border guards killed and 4 others wounded. The victims were a number of young soldiers who were on military service at a border post near border with Pakistan.

Condemning the execution of 16 men affiliated to terrorist and anti-Iranian groups who had been arrested, tried and sentenced to death several years ago, Maryam Rajavi urged “referral of the file” to the UN Security Council.

The MKO’s statement in support of the armed terrorist groups in southeastern parts of Iran is nothing but a gesture of solidarity by a group which claims that it is a “democratic opposition” which has “renounced violence.”

October 29, 2013 0 comments

Albania

A new life, away from terror in Tirana. No more Mojahedin Khalq

Iranian opposition mujahideens start “new life” in Albania – paper

Excerpt from report by Albanian leading national independent newspaper Shekulli on 21 October

[Unattributed report: " Mujahideens End ‘War’"]

A new life, away from war and terror, for the Mujahideens in Tirana. They no longer want to hear about their old organization or the time when they were Saddam’s mercenaries or fighters against the Shah.

This new situation has been confirmed by the Iranian news agencies, which were not very happy about the Mujahideens’ accommodation in Tirana. Scores of members of the Mujahideen Khalq Organization, MKO, (also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI) have deserted upon their arrival in the Albanian capital, Tirana, declared a high MKO official on Saturday [19 October].

“At least 70 MKO members have deserted the group since their arrival in the Albanian capital,” the leader of a MKO cell, who has also deserted, declared to the FNA [Fars New Agency] on Saturday. “The deserters’ group includes the names of some leading MKO officials,” added the source, speaking on the condition of anonymity as he fears for his life.

A report published in June also said that the MKO members sent from Iraq to Albania over the past few months were from among those who did not obey the orders of their network leaders. According to the Dedehban Centre, most of the MKO members transferred from their transitional camp in Iraq to Albania were no longer obedient to their masters and could no longer be controlled by the leaders of their network.

Referring to a recent ceremony in France to mark the anniversary of the group’s armed attack against Iran in 1981, a ceremony that was also broadcast via video-conference to a luxury hotel in Tirana for the MKO members in Albania, the report said that only 10 out of 71 MKO members in Albania were present. The others showed no interest.

There has even been an attempt [by the members] to voice their opposition to Rajavi, the cell leader. Many of the MKO members have abandoned the organization, whereas those still remaining in the camp have said that they are ready to leave it, but cannot due to pressure and death threats. [passage omitted with details about the group’s history]

Shekulli, Tirana, Albania,Translated by BBC Monitoring European

October 29, 2013 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Monuments in Camp Ashraf to the memory of al-Qaeda terrorists

Head of the Diyala Province’s Foundation of Martyrs said the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) was the first perpetrator of terrorist acts in Iraq after the fall of Saddam.

“After Saddam’s downfall, leaders of this terrorist group held meetings with some Iraqi sheiks and those who have been affected in some kind of the fall of Saddam at their garrisons,” Mohammed Saleh al-Shammari told Habilian Association.

He added that they saw monuments at Camp Ashraf built to the memory of the al-Qaeda terrorists who had been executed by Iraqi government, when they entered the military headquarters of the terrorist group three years ago.

Al-Shammari added that the MKO elements assassinated Iraqi people before and after the fall of Ba’ath regime.

Diyala province, residence of MKO members, was the first province in which terrorist and suicide attacks took place and the terrorist operations subsequently occurred in Iraq was like the methods of MKO.

Earlier in January, Head of the Security Committee of Diyala province Meysam al-Tamimi said a number of al-Qaeda operatives have been trained in the main training camp of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq’s Diyala province (Camp Ashraf) to carry out terrorist attacks against the Iraqi people.

He added that a large amount of money and weapons were also funneled through Camp Ashraf to al-Qaeda and Salafist extremist groups to help them target Iraqis in acts of terror.

October 26, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Spy nabbed in Israel MKO agent

A former member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) says a man arrested in Israel on charges of spying for Iran has been a long serving member of the anti-Iranian group.

Ali Mansouri, a dual Iranian-Belgian national, was detained on September 11 by Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, allegedly for taking notes on the security screenings at Israel’s international airport and photographing the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli security agency.

The former MKO member, however, said Mansouri was a close member of the MKO for at least 30 years and has been working as a go-between for the terrorist group and Israel’s spy agency Mossad.

He added that Mansouri, who lived in Turkey between 1980 and 1998, travelled to Iran regularly posing as a businessman to gather information for Mossad and MKO leaders.

It was no secret to us even in those days that he was working as an agent between MKO and Mossad and that is why he travelled personally to Israel a few times, the source said.

The amateur nature of the photos taken by Mansouri and the timing of the arrest have raised speculations that the arrest was politically motivated.

The Israeli regime announced the arrest in late September as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for the US to persuade US President Barack Obama that stepped-up sanctions, not diplomacy, is the way to deal with Iran over its nuclear energy program.

The visit came after a trip by an Iranian delegation to the US headed by President Hassan Rouhani, and his UN General Assembly address that many in the West hailed as a first step to a possible resolution to the nuclear standoff.

The MKO fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala, near the Iranian border.

The group also cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.

October 23, 2013 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Baghdad Renews Determination to Expel All MKO Members

Iraqi Ambassador to the US Lukman Faily stressed that his country is determined to put an end to the presence of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members in line with an agreement reached between Iraq and the UN. The envoy said the Iraqi government is committed to coming up with a plan to relocate the remaining members of the terrorist organization out of Iraq.

He said his country is going to discuss the issue with the United Nations representatives and European countries, according to Nahrainnet.

Faily’s comments come after the notorious Camp Ashraf, which in its heyday used to house thousands of MKO terrorists in eastern Iraq, was fully evacuated from its few dozen residents by the Iraqi authorities on September 11.

The official end of MKO terrorist group’s activities in Camp Ashraf came less than two weeks after clashes in the camp left at least 50 of its members dead.

The remaining members of MKO terrorists were transferred from Camp Ashraf (now the Camp of New Iraq) to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport.

The MKO — listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community — fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, was armed and funded by its regime and fought on the side of Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88).

The group has been behind numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, and was involved in the 1991 bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

The Iraqi government planned to close the camp at the end of December 2011, but the US pressure forced it to delay the closure.

Based on an agreement reached between the Iraqi government and the UN, almost 3,000 MKO terrorists, now residing in Liberty Base in the vicinity of Baghdad, should be swiftly transferred out of Iraq.

October 22, 2013 0 comments

Jordan

Jordanian Parliament boycotts MEK gathering in Paris

A number of Jordanian parliamentarians and political figures stated that they have refused to attend the annual conference of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK).

According to a report by the Arabic language newspaper al-Arab al-Yawm, a number of Jordanian members of Parliament have turned down invitation to the annual gathering of MKO in Villepinte, due to the presence of some Syrian opposition members.

The oral statement adds that the Syrian government opposition is performing the Western countries’ anti-Arab programs targeting the unity of this country.

Former deputy speaker of Jordanian Parliament, Nariman al-Rousan, said “we’ve informed the MKO that due to inviting the Syrian opposition members, we have boycotted this year’s annual conference of them.”

She said the boycott is because they cannot ignore Syria and the support for its unity and Army, adding that some members of the Syrian opposition who were executor of the foreign plans aimed at dismantling the unity of Syria were among the attendees of this conference.

The event, held annually by the terrorist MKO group, is intended to celebrate the anniversary of MKO’s armed struggle against Iranian civilians in June 1981. The group-let claims that tens of thousands of Iranians attend the Villepinte gathering from across Europe.

October 22, 2013 0 comments

Albania

Tens of Members Defect MKO upon Arrival in Albania

Tens of the members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) defected the group upon arrival in Tirana, the capital city of Albania, a senior MKO ringleader said Saturday.

“At least 70 more members of the MKO have defected the grouplet after arriving in Albania’s capital,” an MKO ringleader who has also defected the group himself told FNA in Baghdad on Saturday.

“The names of a number of high-ranking MKO officials are seen among those defected members of the group,” the source who called for anonymity for fear of his life added.

The source said the defected members are kept in a separate building away from those who are still an MKO member and they have access to different means of communication to contact their families.

The ringleaders of the group, including Farzaneh Meidan Shahi and Esmayeel Mortezayee also known as Javad Khorassan, do not allow other members to leave their residence and contact their families.

A relevant report in June also said that members of the MKO who have been sent from Iraq to Albania in recent months were disobeying the orders of their ringleaders and seeking to defect the group.

Didehban Center said that most of the MKO members who had been transferred to Albania from their transit camp in Iraq no more obey their masters and cannot be controlled by their ringleaders.

Didehabn Center referred to a recent ceremony in France to celebrate the anniversary of the terrorist group’s armed attack against Iran in 1981, which was broadcast for the MKO members in Albania through video conferencing at a luxurious hotel in Tirana, and said merely 10 people from the 71 MKO members in Albania participated in the ceremony, while others did not show up in a bid to display their opposition to the group’s ringleader Massoud Rajavi and the terrorist group.

Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the group are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A recent 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.

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 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.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who eventually took the MKO off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September 2012, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty which lies Northeast of the Baghdad International Airport.

Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.

October 20, 2013 0 comments

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