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Iranian Government Fires Back at MEK on Nuclear Site Claims

Fars News Agency, the Iranian government’s appropriately named mouthpiece news organization, reports today that the regime rejects its most vocal exiled opponent’s claims of evidence of a hidden nuclear site north of Tehran.

The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK, MKO) is just, like, totally full of crap, is basically what Iran’s foreign ministry flack said in the report. So full of crap, in fact, that he barely wastes any breath refuting them:

Speaking to FNA on Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi strongly rejected the MKO’s claim, calling it continuation of the story-tellings of a desperate group.

“This story-telling is not worth responding [sic],” Araqchi said.

Zing?

Apparently, in an earlier report, Araqchi also called the MEK’s latest release just one more cog in the giant Zionist system to disrupt the Shiite status quo or whatever. Awkward…

The MEK claimed Thursday to have evidence of a nuclear site existing in tunnels beneath the town of Damavand. The AFP story got picked up by a bunch of news sites, including Fox News. Nevertheless, the claim is unsubstantiated by any evidence so far.

By Julie Ershadi.

Julie Ershadi is a freelance writer and producer based in Washington, D.C. She covers Iran–U.S. relations, civil liberties, and politics

October 13, 2013 0 comments

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Who paid for Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists Ad in Washington?

Controversial Iranian Group Attempts To Take Out Washington Post Ad, Accidentally Sends Invoice To Opponent

Whoops

The M.E.K, short for the Mujahedeen-e Khalq or People’s Mujahideen of Iran, is an exiled Iranian opposition group that was previously designated a “foreign terrorist organization” by the State Department until its removal in Sept. 2012.

The M.E.K has a number of high profile backers in the U.S. Here’s former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bowing to M.E.K. leader Maryam Rajavi in 2012. At the time the M.E.K was still labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S.

The National Association of Iranian Academics in Britain took out a Washington Post ad in 2011, writing an open letter to President Obama asking him to take the M.E.K. off the list of terrorist organizations.

Via thinkprogress.org

The letter was signed by a number of prominent Democrats and Republicans, including former members of the Bush And Obama Administrations.

Via thinkprogress.org

The State Department labeled the M.E.K. a terrorist organization for a number of reasons, among other things, they staged terrorist attacks killing U.S. military personnel and civilians. They were also funded by Saddam Hussein.

From the State Department’s website:

The group’s worldwide campaign against the Iranian government uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives. During the 1970s, the MEK staged terrorist attacks inside Iran and killed several U.S. military personnel and civilians working on defense projects in Tehran. In 1972, the MEK set off bombs in Tehran at the U.S. Information Service office (part of the U.S. Embassy), the Iran-American Society, and the offices of several U.S. companies to protest the visit of President Nixon to Iran. In 1973, the MEK assassinated the deputy chief of the U.S. Military Mission in Tehran and bombed several businesses, including Shell Oil. In 1974, the MEK set off bombs in Tehran at the offices of U.S. companies to protest the visit of then U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger. In 1975, the MEK assassinated two U.S. military officers who were members of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Tehran. In 1976, the MEK assassinated two U.S. citizens who were employees of Rockwell International in Tehran. In 1979, the group claimed responsibility for the murder of an American Texaco executive. Though denied by the MEK, analysis based on eyewitness accounts and MEK documents demonstrates that MEK members participated in and supported the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and that the MEK later argued against the early release the American hostages.

Before Operation Iraqi Freedom began in 2003, the MEK received all of its military assistance and most of its financial support from Saddam Hussein. The fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime has led the MEK increasingly to rely on front organizations to solicit contributions from expatriate Iranian communities.

Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the group was disarmed and has said they have renounced terrorism. They started lobbying to get their name removed from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. The group managed to achieve this in Europe in 2009, and eventually, the U.S. in September 2012.

Via state.gov

One of the M.E.K.’s supporters, The National Association of Iranian Academics in Britain, recently attempted to take out an ad in The Washington Post.

Here’s the invoice:

Even though the National Association of Iranian Academics in Britain was supposedly an independent group of M.E.K. supporters, the recent ad invoice is signed by Shahin Gobadi, a Paris-based spokesman for the M.E.K.’s parent organization.

The signed-copy of the invoice is also addressed to the wrong place. The address listed is the office of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), who OPPOSES the M.E.K. and ran a campaign to stop them from being delisted as a terror organization.

The NIAC still has an entire section of their website devoted to opposition to the M.E.K. So accidentally signing a copy of contract addressed to them is particularly embarrassing.

Via niacouncil.org

By accidentally signing this invoice and somehow failing to notice that it was addressed to their opposition, the M.E.K. outed itself as the ones pulling the strings at the National Association of Iranian Academics in Britain.

Andrew Kaczynski,Buzz Feed

October 12, 2013 0 comments

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MEK Makes Desperate New Iran Nuclear Accusation, Reuters Yawns

With the world anticipating real progress at the next round of P5+1 talks set to start next week in Geneva, the MEK is getting desperate. Because they appear to only want a violent regime change in Iran, talk of actual diplomacy is their worst nightmare. Today, Reuters reports on the latest wild accusation tossed out by the MEK using the “umbrella” organization of the National Council of Resistance of Iran:

An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday it had information about what it said was a center for nuclear weaponisation research in Tehran that the government was moving to avoid detection ahead of negotiations with world powers.

Reuters clearly was unmoved by the accusation, as they immediately pointed out that NCRI is biased and politically motivated. However, even in pointing out the bias of NCRI, Reuters perpetuates a myth that has been disproven:

The dissident National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) exposed Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and a heavy water facility at Arak in 2002. But analysts say it has a chequered track record and a clear political agenda.

Uhm, yes. Having your major group spend decades on the list of terrorist organizations (before eventually buying their way off the list and registering as a lobbying group) would indeed qualify as “a chequered track record”. But Reuters insists on repeating the falsehood that the NCRI and MEK were responsible for exposing the underground enrichment site at Natanz. That myth has been thoroughly debunked by Jeffrey Lewis:

The debate about whether Iran has constructed a clandestine centrifuge program drives me nuts.

You mean other than the one we already found?

And by we, I mean the United States—or at least its intelligence community. As I understand the sequence of events, the United States—knowing full well that Iran had a clandestine centrifuge program—watched Iran dig two MASSIVE HOLES near Natanz (see the big picture), then ratted the Iranians out to the IAEA. About the same time, someone leaked that information to an Iranian dissident group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which then released the second-hand dope in a press conference where they got the details wrong.

Lewis goes on to cite multiple independent sources to confirm that the intelligence community, not the NCRI, was responsible for discovering the Natanz facility. [It is also instructive to note the role ISIS played in the charade of promoting NCRI responsibility.]

Aside from that major error on attribution of the discovery of Natanz, Reuters was so unmoved by the newest ploy from NCRI that they didn’t even rewrite today’s article very much from the last wild NCRI accusation in July (the link here is to CBC carrying the Reuters story):

But analysts say it has a mixed track record and a clear political agenda.

But in that July story, Reuters went further in linking that accusation to a desire to derail diplomacy:

The latest allegation comes less than a month after the election of a relative moderate, Hassan Rouhani, as Iran’s new president raised hopes for a resolution of the nuclear dispute with the West, and might be timed to discredit such optimism.

Yes, the MEK clearly sees diplomacy as the real enemy. That article also rehashed the abject failure of an accusation NCRI and MEK made in 2010:

In 2010, when the group said it had evidence of another new nuclear facility, west of the capital Tehran, U.S. officials said they had known about the site for years and had no reason to believe it was nuclear.

It would appear that NCRI and MEK need to step up their acts. They have reached a level of incompetence that is barely worthy of rewriting the standard dismissal that Reuters keeps on file.

by Jim White , EmptyWheel

October 12, 2013 0 comments

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The MEK’s worse days coming soon

Over a decade after the fall of Iraqi dictator, the step father of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization and its main military, financial sponsor, the group is passing difficult days. It is widely detested by Iraqi nation and government who consider it the active arm of their former oppressor.
The MKO’s alleged “home of 26 years”, Camp Ashraf was finally evacuated following the recent deadly, suspicious clashes in the camp where 52 high ranking member of the group were killed. The survivors of the incident were relocated in the Temporary Transit Location Camp Liberty near Baghdad airport together with other members of the group. However, the group leaders were seriously insisting on return to Ashraf until the last attack.
Residents of the Camp Liberty are gradually –but reluctantly—transferred to European countries such as Albania and Germany. The dark background of the MKO in committing terror acts and its cult-like practices makes it hard for western states to simply accept some 3000 brainwashed zealots who may endanger their citizens. The most recent reaction to the resettlement of a number of MKO members in Koln, Germany was published in the city’s newspaper Kolner Stadt –Anzeiger. The United Nation representatives and German government agreed to transfer 97 resident of Camp Liberty. German government has ordered the city officials to receive 77 people of the refugees, according to the report. The German newspaper adds that the city officials including Mr. Guido Kahlen the director of city council seriously protested the decision. They consider the presence of those people with records of military, terrorist and cult-like activities as a risk to security of Koln citizens.
The other side of the equations over the MKO crisis is the Iraqi government that has so far shown enough tolerance to allow a foreign terrorist force to occupy a piece of its territory and to use its public utilities. The government is still offering services to the accomplice of the collapsed dictator! The undersecretary of US State Department for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman noted that the Iraqi government has provided 50,000 sand bags and physical barriers to protect the dissidents, now relocated to Camp Liberty in Baghdad. The group advocates in the US Congress who mostly belong to warmonger parties think Iraqi’s efforts are not efficient and threatened Iraq that it could face a sharp cut in aid if it continues to fail to protect the MKO forces.
Nonetheless, Sherman expressed concern but also noted that the MEK’s leadership in Paris was obstructing the process to resettle MEK members. This is not the first time that western authorities mention the MKO leaders’ resistance against leaving Iraq. Why such a reluctance? Because as what National Iranian American Council (NIAC) puts, “A key demand of the MEK’s leadership is that the group’s members be allowed to relocate together as a single unit, rather than to be relocated individually to different countries.”
This not only a key demand of the MKO leadership but also a vital element for the survival of their cult of personality. Once the MKO forces are relocated in different part of the world the cult hierarchy and manipulative control over members disappear. No mind control system – self criticism sessions, indoctrination meetings, peer pressure—no hegemony over the cult. This is what Maryam Rajavi and her disappeared husband Massoud fear the most.
Bad news for them: about 70 individuals among those who were relocated in Albania defected the group immediately after they were released from the mental bars of the cult of Rajavi. They announced their defection and were settled in a separate apartment although they are still irritated by their ex-comrades who try to recruit them again using their deceitful methods.
Definitely these days are not the worst days for the Rajavis. They deserve much worse days. They must see the gradual death of their dream that was built on the ruins of the lives of thousands of innocents killed by them physically or mentally.

Mazda Parsi

October 8, 2013 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

MEK terrorists found Saddam as their true patron

An Iraqi politician said Baghdad lacks proper security structure to identify terrorist ploys, but added that Iraqi Majed Qamas authorities can refer to the neighboring Iran as a role model to fight terrorist groups, like Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).

“Lack of an intelligence structure on the basis of scientific principles, as well as lack of benefitting from popular forces to detect terrorist operations are among the weak points of the Iraqi security apparatus,” Majed Qamas, the representative of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) in Tehran, told Tasnim on Friday.

The Iraqi lawmaker, however, added that Iraqi security forces can learn from Iran’s valuable experience in taking advantage of grass roots support to tackle and eradicate the MKO terrorists years ago.

“In that time (during MKO activities in Iran), (Iranian) people and mosques had a very active role in identifying and thwarting the MKO’s terrorist measures,” Qamas explained.

MKO members were involved in many terrorist activities in Iran before they went to Iraq in 1986, where they found a true patron in Iraq’s deposed dictator Saddam Hussein who gave them shelter and arms.

They fought along Saddam forces in the war it had imposed on Iran (1980-1988) and later turned their guns against the Iraqi citizens who had revolted against the ruthless dictator in 1991.

In relevant remarks on September 26, Commander of Iraqi Army First Lieutenant General Ali Ghaidan, during a visit to Iran at the head of a military delegation, announced that Baghdad is determined to expel the remaining members of the MKO terrorist organization.

On September 1 some 52 MKO members were killed in clashes at Camp Ashraf, which the Iraqi authorities blamed on infighting among the camp’s 100 residents.

The notorious camp, which in its heyday housed thousands of MKO terrorists, was fully evacuated by the Iraqi authorities from its much-hated residents on September 11.

Camp Ashraf’s residents have been relocated to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad’s international airport, under a United Nations-brokered deal that wants them resettled in other countries. A total of 162 MKO members have been resettled abroad so far, mostly in Albania.

October 6, 2013 0 comments

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MKO, A Year after Delisting!

September 28 was the first “anniversary “of the delisting of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) from the US list of Foreign Terrorist organizations. The group’s propaganda celebrated the occasion regarding it a MKO, A Year after Delisting! great victory! However, they were forced to leave Camp Ashraf in exchange for such a granted advantage by the United States. The group leaders know well that leaving Ashraf is a disastrous failure for their cult of personality so they launched new propaganda to keep members in. they tried to manipulate their forces by assuming their removal from the black list as a game changer in the region.

“…annulment of the terror tag has given regime’s crises an overthrowing characteristic, has tilted the balance of power between the resistance movement and the regime, and has prepared the ground for recuperation of Resistance’s forces inside Iran and the expansion of its units”, said Maryam Rajavi charmed with the removal of the MKO from the terror list.

She claimed that the terror label had been the greatest obstacle against the MKO in its way to overthrow the Islamic Republic and by its removal “the policy of appeasement” failed in the West and a new era started!!

A year past that alleged historical incidence for the MKO, a look at the group’s situation indicates that all events turned out to be against the will and ambitions of the MKO leaders. Being delisted not only didn’t aid them in their efforts to destabilize the Iranian government but also paved the way for their expulsion from Iraq and the eventual collapse of the cult-like structure of the group.

The examination of what the MKO has gone through during the past year, demonstrates:

– The declining course of the group’s breakdown is on the rise. The relocation of Liberty residents to Albania and Germany contrasts what Rajavi used to claim about Ashraf, as their “strategic centre that should be saved to death”.

– A large number of transferred members in Albania (about 70 people) announced their defection from the group immediately after they settled down in the third country.

– Another large number escaped Camp Liberty near Baghdad, last year after Ashraf was evacuated .

– Two prominent and old members of the so-called National Council of Resistance (Mohammad Reza Rouhani and Karim Qasim ) defected the council criticizing Massoud Rajavi’s undemocratic approaches in the MKO . Based on their usual suppressive tone, the group authorities attempted to isolate the two defectors but they faced with more revelations and protestation by the side of Mr. Rouhani and Mr. Qasim.

– A long time companion of the cult, Iraj Mesdaqi was another critic who wrote a 200- page open letter to reveal crimes of Massoud Rajavi.

– Fear of the cult and in particular Massoud Rajavi’s personality has decreased dramatically. Every day, revelations are published to denounce the MKO Massoud Rajavi although the group propaganda used any means to suppress opposing voices.

Today the number of the MKO cult hardly ever mounts to a dozen in some countries.

– Lacking public support in Iran as well as outside Iran, the group propaganda has to spend large amounts of money to rent attendees for its demonstration shows. Poor people and students are trapped by the cult for a hotel room, a free trip or a few warm meals. This is widely broadcasted in the media.

– The MKO leaders were awaiting the collapse of Syrian government. Massoud Rajavi had promised the overthrow of Bashar Asad till last spring. The group members and officials were disappointed by the recent changes in the equations of the region.

– The suspicious massacre at Camp Ashraf to where the Rajavis urged seriously to return their forces, resulted in the suspicious killing of 52 remaining residents of the Camp and the disappearance of 7 others. Thus the group leaders disgracefully admitted to move the 42 survivors of the Camp. Camp Ashraf was completely evacuated. A piece of Iraqi territory got back to its main owners, Iraqi people.

One year after the removal of the MKO from terror list , the equation in the region has changed a lot but against the group. The MKO even lost the only pretext – delisting by the US – it had to put the blame of its failures on!

October 5, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Common Nightmare of the MKO and Israel

With the expected openness for diplomacy between Iran and US governments following the UN annual general assembly where President of both countries delivered their optimistic speeches for better relations, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) and Israel were played into fears. As usual the MKO propaganda groups held rally outside the UN chanting slogans against the newly elected Iranian President.

On the same side of the anti-Iran alliance, the Israeli Prime Minister “Benjamin Netanyahu voiced deep skepticism about the new Iranian President’s outreach to the west, saying the world “should not be fooled”. Terrified by a likely normalized relationship between Iran and the US, Netanyahu said Rouhani’s address was filled with “hypocrisy”. [1]

While the Iranian president said his nation is ready to restart stalled negotiations over its nuclear program, the MKO propaganda rally wants to “halt Obama administration from carrying out talks with Hassan Rouhani.” [2]

In his 50-minute address to the UN General assembly, Obama said he will use the remainder of his term to pursue better relation with Iran in the hope of resolving the controversy surrounding its nuclear program. President Obama told the UN that he had instructed Secretary of State John Kerry to explore contacts with Iran.[3]

On Sep. 27, the Iranian Foreign minister Javad Zarif and his American counterpart held their first private meeting following the meeting on the sidelines of General Assembly between foreign minister of US, UK, France, Russia, China, Germany and Iran over Iranian nuclear program. US secretary of State John Kerry said after meeting Dr. Zarif that it was “constructive “.[4] As Euronews puts, “It is a moment many have been impatiently waiting for, the breaking of more than thirty years of ice between Iran and the United States,” it is also the moment that many including the MKO and Israel have feared for many years.

Bad news continues for Netanyahu and Maryam Rajavi. Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani also held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief Tehran from crippling economic sanctions, reported the Guardian.[5]

While the MKO’s propaganda websites prefer to keep silent over the enormously broadcasted news of the highest level contacts between leaders of Iran and the United States and the reportedly positive talks between secretary Kerry and Dr. Zarif, in a Press Conference held at the White House, Obama said he and Rouhani had directed their teams to work quickly toward an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. [6]

Regarding the reactions to such historic phone call in both Iran and the United States , Alex Johnson of NBCNews states that American Republicans were” scoffed” by the news of President Obama’s telephone call. He reports that the speaker of US House of Representatives, John Boehner accused Obama of preferring to talk to “Iranian dictators over talking to them.”[7]

This is not a coincidence that Mr. Boehner belongs to the list of well-paid American politicians who sponsor the MKO’s war-crisis mongering campaign to stop any diplomatic effort in US-Iran relations. In September 2012 on the eve of MKO’s removal from list of Foreign Terrorists Organizations of the US State Department, the Guardian presented a relatively detailed account of large amounts of money paid by the MKO to buy sponsors in the US Congress. Chris McGreal of the Guardian wrote of John Boehner as one of the receivers of donations by the American Society of Texas, a MKO-affiliated group that paid more than 110,000 in fees to campaign for delisting the group.[8]

John Boehner is not alone among those MKO-paid politicians who do not favor the improvement of US-Iran relations. Other former US officials generously paid by the group, spoke at the rally which was “a well–orchestrated affairs”, according to the author of Mondoweiss piece. “The group seems flush with cache”, he write.[9]

In the MKO-run rally outside the UN, Tuesday, some other prominent figures of warmongers appeared. Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Rhode Island Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy, and former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele delivered speeches to support the MKO and to stop Obama administration from negotiating with Iranian president. [10]

Kane notices, “Kennedy, along with Bolton, Giuliani and Steele have all received handsome speaking fees in the past from MEK – affiliated organizations.”[11]

Kane also reports of other participants at the rally who included Americans from around the country-some of whom “didn’t have a clue what it was all about”. He refers to the words of one attendee who had their tickets, food and hotel paid for by the organizers of the rally. Photos of black demonstrators with images of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi on the shirts mark the MKO’s masquerade in New York. [12]

In his address at the general Assembly President Obama notifies that his government is not seeking to overthrow the Iranian government. It seems that the MKO-Israeli futile efforts to launch another destructive war in the Middle East are in decline. Both enemies of the Iranian nation, particularly the MKO always clearly replicate their desire to overthrow the Iranian government. Needless to say, in the least probable case that they succeed to run their propaganda against Islamic Republic, they are both largely detested by the Iranian people. No public support, no power.

By Mazda Parsi

Sources:

[1] The Associated Press, Rouhani’s UN address filled with ‘hypocrisy,’ says Israeli PM, September 24, 2013

[2]Kane, Alex, Former US officials blast diplomacy with Rouhani at MEK rally outside UN, Mondoweiss.net , September24, 2013

[3]Wilson, Scott, Obama, Iranian president open door to better relations, The Washington Post, September 24, 2013

[4]Euronews, Kerry an Zarif hold highest –level US-Iran meeting since Islamic revolution, September27,2013

[5]Roberts, Dan & Borger, Julian, Obama holds historic phone call with Rouhani and hints end to sanctions, the Guardian, September27,2013

[6]Mason, Jeff& Charbonneau Louis, Obama, Iran’s Rouhani; old historic phone call, Reuters, September 28, 2013

[7]Johnson, Alex, Obama-Rouhani phone call gets divided reception, NBCNews, September28, 2013

[8]McGreal, Chris ,Iranian exiles, DC lobbyists and the campaign to delist the MEK, The Guardian, septemer21,2012

[9] Kane, Alex, Former US officials blast diplomacy with Rouhani at MEK rally outside UN, Mondoweiss.net , September24, 2013

[10] ibid

[11] ibid

[12] ibid

October 1, 2013 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq set to deport Mojahedin Khalq

The Iraqi government is planning to deport Iranian dissidents of an opposition movement in exile that had led a guerrilla campaign against the US-backed Iranian Shah during 1970s, which included attacks on US targets

BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi government is reportedly planning to deport Iranian dissidents of an opposition movement in exile, known as the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (MEK), which had led a guerrilla campaign against the US-backed Iranian Shah during 1970s, which included attacks on US targets.

The UN called on the Iraqi government earlier to do all it can to protect the Iranian exiles left in a camp north of Baghdad after confirming that 52 people were killed there.

Iraq’s government wants to shut down the facility known as Camp Ashraf (Liberty) and transfer thousands of Iranian exiles living there to another camp out of the country as it is growing impatience with a UN coordinated effort to resettle them abroad.

Undersecretary of the Iraqi National Security Falih al-Fayyaz said the Iraqi government ran out of patience as there were no international efforts to resettle them outside Iraq.

“Iraqi government will put an end to this issue soon,” Fayyaz said. “We want concrete solutions to transfer them to different countries”.

The Iraqi government had moved 3,400 MEK members to Camp Liberty in Baghdad in 2012 under an agreement with the United Nations.

Anadolu Agency,

September 24, 2013 0 comments

Iran

MKO terrorists incurred Iraqi nation’s wrath

An Iranian military commander says Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) incurred the wrath of the Iraqi nation and resulted in the attack on camp Ashraf.

Deputy Commander of Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi said on Wednesday that attacks on Camp Ashraf, now called Camp New Iraq, had precedent.

“When the MKO committed all those injustices against Iraqis and they saw that they (MKO) usurped their lands, helped Saddam’s regime in their suppression and committed innumerable crimes against Iraq, it was natural for the public fury to erupt and consume them.”

He further noted that the latest attack on the terrorist group’s notorious camp in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala was something that had happened before, adding that Iraqis had earlier gathered outside Camp Ashraf and demanded the expulsion of MKO terrorists.

“The Iraq people’s rages finally afflicted MKO members… This was the inevitable destiny that awaited the MKO,” he pointed out.

On September 1, over 70 MKO members, including top commanders, were reportedly killed in an attack on Camp Ashraf. There were around 100 MKO members in the camp at the time.

The attack came at the hands of a group of Iraqi people and the relatives of those martyred by the terrorists when they had joined forces with executed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, in 1991 to crush an uprising by Iraqi Shias.

The Iraqis who stormed the terror camp further demanded the immediate expulsion of all MKO terrorists from their country.

The last group of MKO terrorists at Camp Ashraf was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join the 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 fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.

The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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

September 19, 2013 0 comments

Albania

70 MKO terrorists defect after arriving in Albania

According to an official at the Iraqi prime minister’s office on Friday, out of over 159 MKO terrorists granted asylum by the Albanian government, 70 members announced their separation from the group.

The unnamed Iraqi official revealed that these MKO members had been transferred from Camp Liberty, a former US military base in Baghdad.

The Albanian government has accommodated the 70 defectors in some apartments.

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

The group fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it received the support of Iraq’s executed dictator, Saddam Hussein, and set up a terror camp known as Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province near the Iranian border.

In December 2011, the United Nations and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp New Iraq (former Camp Ashraf) to Camp Liberty.

On March 16, Albania’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha announced in a statement that the Albanian government is ready to accommodate 210 members of the MKO group in Tirana “for humanitarian reasons.”

Political experts, however, warn that Albania’s decision to grant asylum to the MKO members has nothing to do with humanitarian concerns, and will give the terrorists a safe haven where they can work with former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

The KLA is notorious as a murderous group of drug traffickers and terrorists who receive training from NATO and the United States for operations around the world.

September 19, 2013 0 comments

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