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Congress Debates MEK with Obama Officials

Congress Debates War, Sanctions, Diplomacy and Mojahedin Khalq with Top Obama Officials

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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) conveyed his support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) a group, which is widely opposed by Iranians and viewed by human rights organizations as a cult. The group has been actively lobbying the House to pressure the administration to move MEK members back to the group’s paramilitary base at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Late last year, as part of what was widely viewed as a deal with the State Department to get the group removed from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, the MEK agreed to leave the base and relocate to Camp Liberty, also in Iraq, where they would then work with the UN to repatriate members in third countries. In a heated exchange with Rep. Rohrabacher, who called for the U.S. to support the MEK, Amb. Sherman expressed her concern that the people at Camp Liberty were being exploited by the MEK’s leadership. “There are opportunities for the people of Camp Liberty to resettle. There have been offers made by countries like Albania to take many of them,” she said. “And to be very frank Congressman, the leadership of the MEK, both in Camp Liberty and in Paris, have kept the people of Camp Liberty from knowing what their options are. And I so care about their lives, and the threat to their lives in the camp, that I hope the leadership of the MEK will allow them to know their options.”

This follows on the heels of testimony from Secretary of State John Kerry in April indicating that MEK members in Camp Liberty had ceased participating in interviews with officials to determine where best to relocate them. Human Rights Watch and other organizations have documented human rights abuses inflicted by MEK leadership against members who questioned their authority or sought to leave the camps

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May 18, 2013 0 comments

USA

U.S. asks leaders of MEK to give unfettered access to UNHR monitors

14 Camp Hurriya Residents Depart for Albania

Press Statement

Jen Psaki

Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

May 16, 2013

On May 15 the first 14 Camp Hurriya residents departed Iraq for permanent relocation in Albania.

The United States expresses its appreciation to the Government of Albania for its generous humanitarian gesture to accept 210 former Camp Hurriya residents. Albania has been a strong partner of the United States in bringing peace and stability to Iraq.

The United States urges the Mujahedin-e Khalq leadership to cooperate fully with the UNHCR relocation process and to facilitate access by United Nations monitors to Camp Hurriya residents. The relocation of Camp Hurriya residents outside of Iraq is vital to their safety and security. It is the responsibility of the MEK leadership to facilitate for the residents of Camp Hurriya free and unfettered access to UN human rights monitors.

The United States reiterates its strong support for the efforts of UNHCR, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and the Special Representative of the Secretary General Martin Kobler. We continue to emphasize that the camp and its residents must be secured in accordance with the December 25, 2011 Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations and the Government of Iraq, and urge all involved parties to work together effectively on this.

PRN: 2013/0573

May 18, 2013 0 comments

UN envoy welcomes relocation of first group of Iranian exiles to Albania

The top United Nations official in Iraq today[16 May 2013 ] called the relocation of 14 Iranians to Albania from an exile camp near Baghdad, an “encouraging first step.”

“The residents’ arrival in Albania late last night is an encouraging first step in the relocation of the group of 210 residents the Albanian government has agreed to receive,” said the UN Special Representative for the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Martin Kobler.

More than 3,000 residents, most of them members of a group known as the People’s Mojahedeen of Iran, are temporarily housed in a transit facility called Camp Liberty – also know as Camp Hurriya – while the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) carries out a process to determine their refugee status.

Mr. Kobler said that the departure of the group from Iraq is in accordance with the memorandum of understanding of 25 December 2011, which foresees the relocation of the residents to third countries. “I thank the Government of Albania and encourage other Member States to come forward and to receive residents in their countries as well.”

Following the original offer by the Albania Government to assist in the resettlement, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he “unequivocally supports” Mr. Kobler’s efforts “to courageously and creatively, in exceptionally difficult circumstances, help resolve this situation.”

In addition, in his recent report about the situation in Iraq, Mr. Ban urged those who express support for the residents of Camp Hurriya and the remaining residents of another camp, New Iraq, to stop spreading insults and falsehoods about Mr. Kobler and instead help to promote a durable solution.

Following Albania’s announcement, the Government of Germany offered humanitarian admission for approximately 100 residents of the camp.

May 18, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MKO ex-Supporter Criticizes the Leader

Iraj Mesdaaghi, who has worked in support of the MEK for many years in Europe, published a 230 page open letter to Massoud Rajavi. He asks Rajavi to address this issue of internal dissatisfaction. He has gone into detail about many specific reactions Rajavi has had against current members as well as ex-members like Batul Soltani, Zahra Mir Bagheri and Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad. Rajavi has threatened current members that he has embarrassing information about them and will expose them. Although this 230 page letter falls short of understanding a cult leader, and is still written by someone who is trying to save the soul of Rajavi, but it represents a significant development as the dissent from within is expanding.

After this letter, Rajavi issued a statement in name of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). After swearing at Mesdaaghi and linking him with the ‘agents of the Iranian regime’, Rajavi has banned every member from talking to any media or site which has made any criticism of him (he means independent mainstream media such as the BBC). It is clear to everyone that Rajavi wants to cut such people off and stop the spread of the ‘disease’ of dissent which is already rampant in the MEK and has got out of his control.

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

May 14, 2013 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

MKO terrorists active in Syria under guise of medics

A defected member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has revealed that the MKO terrorists are active in Syria under the cover of emergency and medical service providers. MKO terrorists active in Syria under guise of medics

According to the ex-MKO member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the members of the terrorist group are stationed at a base called “Hanif,” which is disguised as a hospital, Mehr news agency reported.

The people working alongside the MKO members at the base do not know Persian and Arabic, and only speak English, the defected MKO member said.

Two members of the terrorist group, who were dispatched from the Turkish city of Istanbul to Syria to participate in the clashes in the Arab country, have recently been killed, the former MKO member said.

The two MKO members were the citizens of Denmark and Sweden.

The MKO previously cooperated with the foreign-backed militants in Syria through the Jordanian borders, but the terrorist group has now shifted to the Turkish border to infiltrate into the Syrian territory, the Mehr news agency report said.

In August 2012, a number of MKO terrorists detained by the Syrian government confessed that the MKO is training the militants on Turkish soil near the border with Syria, while certain Arab and Western states are providing necessary support for their activities.

In the summer of 2012, Iraqi and Syrian security officials announced that a large number of MKO members had entered Syria.

The unrest in Syria began in March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.

Damascus says the West and its regional allies, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are supporting the armed groups.

May 5, 2013 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Shir Ahmad Rouzrokh Fled Camp Liberty

Another resident of Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty) left the Mojahedin Khalq Organization in the early days of Iranian New Year. Mr. Shir Ahamd Rouzrokh escaped TTL after 25 years of imprisonment in the Cult of Rajavi.

Having heard the news of his defectors, the family of Mr. Rouzrokh got very happy. They hoped for the release of other Rajavi’s hostages and happiness for other families.

Nejat Society Golestan Office congratulates Mr. Rouzrokh for his salvation from the cruelty imposed on him in the cult of Rajavi. We pray for the release of other hostages held in the terrorist Cult of Rajavi.

May 4, 2013 0 comments

Camp Liberty

Rockets hit Mojahedin Khalq camp near Baghdad

Rockets have hit a camp housing members of anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

At least 20 rockets landed at the camp, known as Camp Liberty, reports say, adding some of the rockets hit water canals.

There were no reports of casualties and no one has yet claimed the responsibility for the incident.

On February 9, seven MKO members were killed and 50 others injured in a mortar attack on Camp Liberty. A number of Iraqi policemen were also injured in the attack.

The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The US-backed group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it received the support of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.

Members of the MKO were transferred from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, which is situated about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, to Camp Liberty near Baghdad Airport last year.

May 1, 2013 0 comments

Camp Liberty

A Second Attack on Camp Liberty

The suffering, enslaved insiders of MKO and their families always the frontline victims

Why are the human rights abuses taking place inside Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) not being investigated? The suffering, enslaved insiders of MKO and their families always the frontline victims

According to the reports, nearly 20 rockets hit Camp Liberty early in the morning[April 30,2013]

According to the reports, nearly 20 rockets hit Camp Liberty, the temporary residence for MKO members near Baghdad, early in the morning. There are no reports of casualties and no one has yet claimed the responsibility for the incident. A considerable number of rockets are said to have hit the water canals at the southern part of the camp. It is the second rocket attack since February 9 in which seven MKO members were killed and 50 others injured. A number of Iraqi policemen were also injured in the attack.

In a statement, as it was expected, MKO accused the Iraqi government and Martin Kobler, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, of keeping the residents intentionally unprotected. The group’s leader, Maryam Rajavi asked for an immediate return of the residents to their previous location, Camp Ashraf.

The attack itself is condemned as a crime against humanity regardless of whoever the attackers might be. But the fact is that MKO is the side that best benefits from the attacks since the leaders are not at all looking for the responsible to accuse; it makes no difference for the Rajavies who is sacrificed from which side; the emphasis is on the applied brutality to claim victims. And for the time being the more victims and bloodshed the faster towards a cultic press to return to Ashraf.

The suffering, enslaved insiders of MKO have always been the frontline victims and their families, pressing effortlessly to rescue them, have repeatedly declared that Iraq is not a safe place for their children and relatives to stay. From the very day the first group of members arrived at Liberty, the leaders began a widespread campaign to stop the process of relocation. However, they failed. Now they are making excuses, urging and plotting to be returned to Ashraf. And any threat in any form provides a golden opportunity the leaders have been looking for.

May 1, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

Report Discloses MKO’s Key Role in Stirring Recent Unrests in Iraq

The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) has ordered its Report Discloses MKO's Key Role in Stirring Recent Unrests in Iraq members to fuel sectarian unrests in Iraq through bombing Sunni centers, media reports revealed on Monday.

In a report today, Didehban Center quoted an unnamed source in Iraq as saying that the MKO members have been ordered to use all possible means to increase tension in the country.

"Owing to the sectarian and ethnic nature of the recent unrests in Iraq, the MKO elements are tasked with planting bombs in Sunni mosques and public centers in a bid to intensify clashes in Iraq and blame the terrorist operations on Iraq’s Shiite government," the report said.

The source noted that the terrorist group is seeking to delay its expulsion from Iraq by igniting instability in the country, warning that the MKO plot can worsen the situation in Iraq.

Earlier media reports had disclosed that the MKO has offered the US to help it spark Syria-like unrests in Iraq.

In a report earlier this month, Didehban Center disclosed that the MKO has on many occasions asked the US administration to provide the group with financial support in a bid to make Iraq insecure.

The report said that the proposals have been put forth to the US officials through former and retired Washington officials who are now among the MKO advocates, including former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Former presidential candidate John Mc Cain and former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey

The MKO has claimed that it can recruit extremist and terrorist groups in Iraq due to its three-decade-long stay in that country which has also provided them with some in-debt knowledge of the Arab country, and then organize bombing plots, suicide attacks and spark sectarian and ethnic conflict in a bid to make Iraq’s atmosphere tense similar to the present conditions in Syria.

April 30, 2013 0 comments

Terrorist groups and the MEK

Two Western based Mojahedin Khalq fighters killed in Syria

A defecting MEK member coming from Syria says two MEK members have been killed in the fighting there. They had gone from Denmark and Sweden via Turkey. They took a flight to Istanbul and travelled overland by Two Western based Mojahedin Khalq fighters killed in Syria cars into Syria.

We knew the MEK has an open presence in Syria and a camp called Hanif – the MEK calls this ‘the hospital’ as a code name. The source claims to have come across several fighters among the MEK personnel who do not speak either Arabic or Farsi, but only speak English. This is a new development. The MKO have been open about working with the Free Syrian Army but have never admitted to being engaged in military activity.

Up to this point their connection with the Free Syrian Army has been through Jordan alongside the Saddamists – Ezzat Ibrahim branch – who have always been based there but who have a much better relationship with the West than does the Iraqi government.

The leadership of the Mojahedin Khalq and the Free Syrian Army have been and do visit and meet in Paris and other Western capitals openly. (According to their own statements they are very close and strategic partners.) But the use of Turkey as a route and more than that, the use of European residents especially on the front lines (where these two have been killed by the Syrian Army) seems to be new.

It is not clear if this new development has been by the MEK’s own initiative or is a new strategy by their western backers and with their prior knowledge. (If their backers are in the know, why would they not use the usual way of Jordan instead of Turkey?)

We are, however, sure that the internal security authorities of Western countries would not be so happy to see their residents going for training and fighting alongside al Qaeda and MEK and come back to the EU or the US without their knowledge. My source is now travelling and I hope will be able to talk more when he is in a safer place.

April 29, 2013 0 comments

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