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MKO and Demagogic Propaganda

Reported by the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, 25 thousand letters by Danish citizens have been addressed to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish Prime Minister, calling for removal of the proscribed Mojahedin-e Khalq Organizaton (MKO) from the EU terror list. Although many might be misled by the exaggerated five digit-number of supporters in a Nordic country, those familiar with the propaganda tricks of the group have no doubt that it is typical of MKO as unbeaten master of masterminding a propaganda blitz.

It is so easy a task to hire people to compose letters in the same way people are paid to chant slogans in MKO’s orchestrated protesting rallies in different European countries. The group’s earnestness to buy supporters are aimed to advance claims that the EU court of Justice has ruled that MKO listing must be annulled but the European Council of Ministers refuses to comply with the court’s ruling.

The court never ruled to remove MKO from the EU terror list but to unfreeze its assets and be granted a fair chance to defend itself against terrorist charges. The EU complied and gave MKO time to present justifiable evidences but the group failed to spare defensible documents and instead got engaged in demagogic moves under the cloud of propaganda.

mojahedin.ws – 19/06/2007

June 21, 2007 0 comment

MEK Camp Ashraf

The Terrorists’ Peace Conference in Ashraf

As soon as Nuri al-Maleki’s government assumed power by people’s vote, it announced expulsion of terrorist MKO from Iraq in near future and banned the group’s activities. Since then, MKO has been engaged in strengthening its ties with dissident Iraqi groups to combat in a front against al-Maleki. The Iraqi province of Diyala has turned into a bastion of meetings of dissident factions with MKO to take oath of allegiance against the vote of Iraqi nation.

Reuters reported on Sunday that the Iraqi tribal leaders and local politicians and parliamentarians from the Iraqi province of Diyala attended a conference that was held in the Camp Ashraf, resided by MKO members and located north-west of the city of Baquba, and voiced their support for the presence of MKO in Iraq and stated that the organization contributed to the stability and security of the province. Nobody doubts that such conferences, masterminded and orchestrated by MKO, are aimed to mislead the public opinion against the will of Iraqi people; peace and order are never supposed to be originated from a bastion of terror and anarchy.

A remarkable point concerning the conference was that Massoud Rajavi, the escaped leader of the group whose whereabouts is unknown, sent a message from his hideout to the conference to salute the participants and reiterated the claims that the Iranian regime has been implementing a phased plan aimed at the occupation of Iraq!

Regardless of all these counter-national moves and violations of imposed bans by a proscribed group that abuses its insiders under cult-like measures, the Iraqi government, as the legal representative of the nation, is determined to expel MKO as soon as possible.

mojahedin.ws – 19/06/2007

June 21, 2007 0 comment

William Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter’s New Book, Target Iran

Scott Ritter’s recently published “Target Iran: The Truth about the White House’s Plans for Regime Change” reveals that the present Iranian crisis was mainly manufactured by Israel. Ritter’s book is based on IAEA reports, media accounts, and his extensive contacts among academics, weapons inspectors, nuclear experts, intelligence officials, and diplomatic sources.

Ritter reveals that in order to advance their agenda against Iran, the Israelis have used intermediaries which include the Kurds loyal to Mustafa Barzani, the Mujahidin-e Khalq, and US neo-conservatives. Quoted in Reader-list Book Review concerning MKO’s intelligence collaboration with Israel we read:

Like the separatist Kurds, the People’s Mujahidin of Iran, known as the Mujahidin-e Khalq or MEK, has also been providing Israel with information regarding Iran’s military capabilities for decades. In order to gather public support for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, Israeli intelligence started to feed false information to the National Council of Resistance in Iran in Washington DC, often using the Israeli lobby as an intermediary. The NCRI, of course, is merely the official façade of the Mujahidin-e Khalq, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the US, Canada, the EU, and Iran. The Israelis denounce Iran for its support of Hizbullah and Hamas when the Israelis themselves support terrorist groups such as the MEK.

Mojahedin.ws – 08/06/2007

June 11, 2007 0 comment

European Union

Exaggerated Numbers of Supporters Come up

The EU Council is determined to keep MKO on its terrorist list regardless of Mojahedin-run media advertising exaggerated numbers of European supporters calling its removal from the list. In one instance, Mojahedin claimed that in a petition, 30,000 Canadians demanded from their government to give up the misguided policy of appeasing the Iranian regime and remove the terror label from MKO.

The petition is reported to have been addressed to Mr. Stockwell Day Minister of Public Safety wherein the signatories stress that the only way to prevent another catastrophe such as foreign war, export of fundamentalism, terrorism or competition for nuclear proliferation in the region is an indigenous solution by Iranian people. It also states that Mojahedin-e-Khalq reflect a modern and democratic alternative to the present regime ruling Iran and it is essential to remove their name from terrorist list. How the Canadian citizens have come to such a unanimous agreement and to use Mojahedin’s literature is another question.

In another case, Mojahed, MKO’s official organ, in its issue 855 reported that 20,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition demanding the same as Canadians. No official source has so far approved the authenticity of Mojahedin’s claims. It is not so hard a task for MKO to forge documents as they are masters of counterfeiting as they did in Iraq and released a fraud of Millions Iraqi signatures.

mojahedin.ws – 10/06/2007

June 11, 2007 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The Decision Unfulfilled

In his recent e-mail, Paul Sheldon Foote quotes remarks by Robert Baer, who has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Middle East, revealing that the White House, gearing up for invading Iraq, distributed a background paper listing the MEK as a pretext for a future war with Iraq. The paper provides evidences that Iraq is notoriously known to sponsor terrorism and is a bastion of terrorist groups including MEK. The paper’s first evidences are as the follow:

Iraq is one of seven countries that have been designated by the Secretary of State as state sponsors of international terrorism. UNSCR 687 prohibits Saddam Hussein from committing or supporting terrorism, or allowing terrorist organizations to operate in Iraq. Saddam continues to violate these UNSCR provisions.

In 1993, the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) directed and pursued an attempt to assassinate, through the use of a powerful car bomb, former U.S. President George Bush and the Emir of Kuwait. Kuwaiti authorities thwarted the terrorist plot and arrested 16 suspects, led by two Iraqi nationals.

Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians.

In April 2003, American and coalition forces attacked the communist terrorists at Camp Ashraf in Iraq and disarmed them. Although now the group is under the control of American and Bulgarian forces, the Americans themselves are well aware of the group’s terrorist threats and, of course, disregard the pressure exerted by the few advocates of the group. The decisive decision is not yet taken.

mojahedin.ws – 31/05/2007

May 31, 2007 0 comment

European Union

MKO on the EU’s Terror List Next Week

Reported by MKO-run website, NCR, the EU’s Council of Ministers intends to maintain MKO on the terrorist list. It is planning to announce its decision next week.

Calling it a continuation of appeasement of Iranian regime, MKO condemned the decision taken by the EU and said: “In defiance of EU Court ruling, the EU Council intends to maintain the PMOI on the terror list”.

The Council intends to designate MKO because the group has failed to provide any convincing document that would justify its deproscription. Although MKO claims it has forsworn terrorism since June 2001, there are countless evidences that the group was actively plotting and carrying out terrorist operations until 2003 when it was disarmed by the coalition forces in Iraq. A remarkable document on the group’s activities is recently released report by the State Department after the group was redesignated as a terrorist group. On the description of MKO and its terrorist activities after 2001 the report reveals:

In 2003, French authorities arrested 160 MEK members at operational bases they believed the MEK was using to coordinate financing and planning for terrorist attacks. Upon the arrest of MEK leader Maryam Rajavi, MEK members took to Paris’ streets and engaged in self-immolation. French authorities eventually released Rajavi. Although currently in hiding, Rajavi has made appearances via video-satellite to "motivate" MEK-sponsored conferences across the globe.

According to evidence which became available after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the MEK received millions of dollars in Oil-for-Food program subsidies from Saddam Hussein from 1999 through 2003, which supported planning and executing future terrorist attacks. In addition to discovering 13 lists of recipients of such vouchers on which the MEK appeared, evidence linking the MEK to the former Iraqi regime includes lists, as well as video footage of Saddam Hussein handing over suitcases of money to known MEK leaders, and video of MEK operatives receiving training from the Iraqi military.

The Mojahedin cult’s she-guru, Maryam Rajavi, in reaction to the decision states that “If the Council decides to maintain the PMOI on the list, the organization will again refer the matter to the European Court of Justice”.

Mojahedin.ws – 27/5/2007

May 28, 2007 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The US and the Issue of Terrorism in Iraq

According to the Iraqi Al Sabah newspaper, the US and Iran are expected to discuss weapons leaked from Iran to groups termed “terrorist” by the US, the Mujahedin Al Khalq organization, US manoeuvres in the Gulf and the US forces’ pull-out from Iraq.

The US allegation posed against Iran in helping what the US calls terrorist and insurgent groups before anything calls down the US dual manner in its war against terrorism, the made excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

The US is well aware of the fact that MKO, long supported by Saddam and his accomplice in many crimes, surrendered its arms only when it was forced to and had no other choice. The group has been on the State Department’s list of Terrorist Organizations since it was first initiated in 1997. However, the group is under the US protection at a time when Iran is rebuked for helping the groups with no terrorist identity on the State Department.

The US has to convince the Iraqis calling for the expulsion of MKO. The US should convince the Iranian part to have confidence in its claims of waging a war against terrorism. But can you convince others that you are concerned about the threat of terrorism and intend to uproot it while you take a most hated terrorist group under your cloak to protect it against any harm?

May 24, 2007 0 comment

France

MKO’s Days in France Might Be Counted

Taking a clear political stand in support of Ségolène Royal, MKO looked with dismay a resounding win by Right Wing UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. It does not necessarily mean that Ms. Royal intended to sacrifice the people’s interests and political concerns to meet the demands of a proscribed group long leeching onto France.

Of the diplomatic controversies that have clouded French-Iranian relations, which Nicolas Sarkozy has on his political agenda to improve, was the issue of MKO. Darius Kadivar, a freelance journalist, in an article released in persianmirror makes a short reference to the issue and is of the opinion that the days of MKO in France may well be counted with Sarkozy who is anti-communist.

Another issue of controversy between Iran and France has been the Armed Opposition Organization of the Peoples Mujahedin Khalge known as the MKO which is labeled as a terrorist organization by the EU and the US. The Para Military organization founded by Massoud Rajavi and led by its self elected wife Maryam Rajavi combines Marxist and Islamist ideologies and has made headlines for the spectacular fanatical actions of its members such as self immolation to protest against the arrests of its leaders. It claims to have given up military actions against the Islamic Regime and seeks respectability amongst European deputies and personalities such as Bernard Lavillier, and controversial excommunicated Bishop Jacques Gaillot. It has however found amongst its staunchest ally the former First Lady Danielle Mitterand, who has often been at odds with her own husband the late French President François Mitterand who favored political ties with Iran whilst selling Arms to both Iran and Iraq during their 8 year war. The days of this organization in France may well be counted with Sarkozy who is anti-communist, with pro-American sympathies and claims to combat terrorism and support Human Rights.

19/05/2007 – Mojahedin.ws

May 21, 2007 0 comment

USA

The US and a Decision to Show Good-Will

According to released reports approved by officials from the two nations, the U.S. and Iran will hold rare meetings within the next few weeks in Baghdad to discuss the dominant disorder and insurgency in Iraq, "The purpose is to try to make sure that the Iranians play a productive role in Iraq," said Gordon Johndroe, a National Security Council spokesman. "This is not about the United States and Iran. This is about Iraq."

But there is a big question mark here. Among the many questions imposed by Iranian side concerning Iraq would be the US forces’ supporting of a terrorist group blacklisted by its own State Department. If the both countries are indeed concerned about the troubled situation in Iraq, first they should deal with the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq or the Mojahedin cult that has long threatened the security of certain Iraqi regions.

The Iranian side might at least require the US officials to respect the facts they have released on MKO in the State Department’s 30 April report on the designated terrorist organizations. It is a good opportunity for the US to show its good-will and that the actions speak louder than the words.

14/05/2007

May 17, 2007 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The US Instrumental Use of MKO

As reported on April 24, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a resolution to the United States Senate to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors. One of the broached allegations included in the third article of the resolution presents evidences of Dick Cheney’s contacts with Mojahideen-e Khalq Organization (MKO). The article states:

M(3) The Vice President is fully aware of the actions taken by the United States towards Iran that are further destabilizing the world as evidenced by the following: …

MMM(D) The United States has been linked to anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), even though the state department has branded it a terrorist organization.

The report comes at a time when the EU has taken a decisive step to keep MKO as a terrorist group on the list and the State Department continues to consider it a blacklisted terrorist group with no possible revision. However, Scott Ritter’s earlier statements concerning the US position in utilizing MKO against Iran’s nuclear issue well patronizes the US dual stance in dealing with MKO.

All these reports and remarks highlight a fact that among the American political wings there can be found an explicit contradiction concerning the instrumental application of MKO and the ways to deal with it. It has emboldened the group to avail itself of the existing leverages in the West to wedge into the subsisting gap between Iran and the West to accomplish its own interests in spite of being proscribed a terrorist group.

Regardless of the US possible engagement with MKO to secure its global interests and that to what extent MKO could be effective to satisfy the wish of Americans, it has been actually evidenced that MKO, because of lacking a social support for its terrorist atrocities and since the Americans are fully aware of its ideological drifts, will be made into another fundamentalist al-Qaeda. The West and the US in particular should bear it in mind that if al-Qaeda perpetrated suicide operations to jeopardize the US interests, MKO is capable of inducing the members to commit self-destruction operations such as those self-burnings in June 2003 for whatever trifle cause that can be easily worked out.

The US sponsoring of MKO similar to that of al-Qaeda, with the exception that MKO ideologically inherits characteristics of a destructive cult, might end to a much bitter experience with that of al-Qaeda. MKO, as the State Department asserts, moves on a dual strategy that enables it in any circumstance to accomplish its strategic ends. It seems that the current challenge within the US Administration concerning utilizing or boycotting MKO should necessarily end to a comprehensive unanimity by tracing that al-Qaeda held pestilent factors in MKO. The made comparison, from the structural and contents point of view, will give way to whether utilize MKO or not.

Mojahedin.ws – Bahar Irani – May 1, 2007

May 3, 2007 0 comment

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