News on the MEK

MKO members must leave Iraq within set deadline

Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Abdulkarim Khalaf said on Wednesday that members of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) must leave Iraqi soil within the specified six-month deadline. “Regarding the principle of good neighborliness and non-intervention in neighbors’ affairs, the Iraqi government will not allow regional terrorist groups, including MKO and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), to use Iraqi territory for operations against others,”Khalaf

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MKO given ultimatum to leave Iraq

Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday Iraq’s government has given the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization a six-month deadline to leave the country. He told the Arabic radio Nawa that the Iraqi forces have taken control of Ashraf military base where the MKO were deployed.

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Mujahedin Khalq used as a terror tool

The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK) is known to be used by some elements in Pentagon and in the CIA against Iran …Sahar Family Foundation certainly denounces such utilization of the mentally and even physically captives in the Ashraf camp and calls all international humanitarian organizations to make sure that the prime victims of a destructive cult (the MKO) are not used again to expand terrorism.

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Iraq takes control of Camp Ashraf

After a five-year US military presence and the protection provided by them to the monafeqin in Camp Ashraf [a pejorative that means hypocrites and refers to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)], efforts by the Iraqi government have succeed. Yesterday evening, the Iraqi military was able to take over control of the camp.

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Iraqi army in control of Mojahedin Khalq camp

Iraq’s army has finally gained control of a camp holding anti-Iran terrorists after five years, says an Iraqi military official. ..The action came after the Iraqi government pressured the US forces in Iraq to end its support for the Mujahedin Khalq grroup and give the army control of the camp two months ago.

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N.Y. Judge Green-Lights Trial for Terrorism Case

A federal judge in Brooklyn has upheld a terrorism prosecution against a U.S. citizen working for a group violently opposed to the Iranian government. Zeinab Taleb-Jedi had argued that her indictment for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization was outrageous because the group to which she belongs, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), has been working with the U.S. military in Iraq.

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Mojahedin Khalq to be put in UK terrorist list once again

Member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Javad Karimi said a number of the UK parliamentarians had in a meeting with several members of his Commission said the UK parliament and government will follow the European Union in putting theMujahedin Khalq( MKO) in their terrorist list once again soon.

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EU officials: Keep MKO blacklisted

A number of EU parliamentarians, in a letter have slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The letter adds, the MKO claims to be a democratic Iranian opposition, while it is instead a terrorist group with totalitarian ideals.

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Iranian widow must go to trial in NY

A naturalized U.S. citizen must face trial on a charge of providing material support to an Iranian terrorist organization[Mujahedin Khalq] she’s accused of helping to lead, a federal judge ruled Thursday. …Prosecutors allege that Taleb-Jedi told FBI agents at the time she”wholeheartedly”supported the group and that two informants have since identified her as a member of a leadership council of MKO.

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