Mujahedin Khalq Declining

Nuri al-Maliki: Iraq no conduit for Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists

MKO (Rajavi cult) presence temporary

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stressed that the first and last goal of the terrorism aimed at Iraq and the Iraqis is to disrupt the political process underway in the country… Al-Maliki reiterated that MKO (Rajavi cult) presence temporary the U.S. withdrawal from the country has nothing to do with security, and developments in the field will not affect the withdrawal already scheduled by the U.S. and Iraqi governments.

Maliki has hinted that the country is still the scene of foreign military and political interventions, noting in this context that the evidence provided by Iraq to the United Nations about Syria’s involvement in the bombings is compelling…

Maliki stressed that Iraq is not a conduit for any terrorist organization and that the presence of the MKO in Iraq is temporary. According to the history of this organization and its acts of terrorism, of course, they have no place in Iraq. Maliki stressed that the elections will certainly go ahead whatever the terrorists do…

Report: Mira Ashkar – Alsumaria TV

December 19, 2009 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi Maysan residents reject presence of MKO

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 15 December

[Ali Khalaf video report]

The Iraqi city of Al-Samawah has refused to host members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq group, staging protests to state this refusal. Today, the group was transferred to the area of Al-Mansuriyah al-Jabal, which is adjacent to Baghdad. Al-Arabiya correspondent Ali Khalaf has more details.

[Begin recording] [Khalaf] The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization [MKO] is a knot that the former Iraqi president tied and that the current government has become confused about untying. The former regime supported the organization in response to Iran’s embracing the Iraqi Badr Organization, which was opposed to the former regime. Maysan’s people accuse the organization of carrying out operations they describe as criminal acts against them for the sake of Saddam Husayn during the uprising that followed the war to liberate Kuwait. On this basis, the governorate council was angered when some websites said that some government authorities intend to transfer this organization to their city.

[Unidentified Iraqi man] It [the MKO] repressed worshippers and killed Al-Amarah’s people and notables. Saddam Husyan killed them through this desperate organization.

[Unidentified Iraqi woman] No, we do not want them.

[Another unidentified Iraqi man] Iraq is a secure, respectable, and wealthy country. We do not want these people.

[A third unidentified man] We host them on humanitarian grounds, no more no less, and in accordance with a strategy to be designed by the governorate and the chairman of the governorate council.

[A fourth unidentified Iraqi man] It [the MKO] committed terrorist acts; it quelled the uprising in a very terrifying and extreme manner.

[Khalaf] The chairman of the governorate council has urged the central government to expel this organization from all Iraq governorates and said that the world has labelled it as terrorist. He added that he has documents proving that this organization committed criminal acts against the residents of the Misan Governorate.

[Abd-al-Husayn Abd-al-Ridha al-Sa’idi, chairman of Maysan Governorate Council, addressing a news conference] There are documents proving that, over the past years, this organization and its affiliates were involved in criminal acts and in killing large numbers of Iraqi people in a flagrant manner.

[Khalaf] The Governorate Council of Maysan has flatly refused to host the Mojahedin-e Khalq for fear that the city might become a place for settling scores between the members of this organization and Iran-backed militias. [end recording; video shows the above speaking to Al-Arabiya]

Aljazeera TV (Arabic) – Transcript by BBC Monitoring Middle East

December 17, 2009 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi MPs support the transfer of Mojahedin Khalq to Baghdad

Iraqi MPs support the transfer of Mojahedin Khalq to Baghdad
Demand America respect Iraqi sovereignty and invite them to take responsibility for protecting MKO

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi lawmakers on Monday expressed support for the Government plan to transfer members of the Mojahedin Khalq, an Iranian opposition, to Baghdad, calling on the U.S. Government to respect the decision as a sovereign right of Iraq. But the Vice-Council has urged the U.S. Government to take over responsibility for security for the camp’s members who should be transferred to the U.S. Forces.

The MP, Abdul Hadi al-Hassani, said in respect of the rule of law, the Government would deal with members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization humanely, but at the same time we want the United States to respect our decision and comply with non-interference in the internal affairs and sovereignty over Iraq’s territory, as we do not want to alienate our relations with neighbouring countries.

Mr al-Hassani told Aswat al-Iraq that the Iraqi Government sees "the need to remove the MKO from the Iranian border and the PKK from the Turkish border," pointing out that the two sides "are a danger to Iraq’s relations with its neighbours ".

He explained that the Government’s holds documents and pictures which are compelling evidence "which condemns the members of the MKO and the PKK for their armed operations during the former regime and the current phase."

The United States yesterday called on the Iraqi government to treat the Iranian dissidents, living on Iraqi territory for twenty years, humanely following the announcement of the transfer of the MEK camp to Baghdad.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in a statement from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, we urged the Iraqi authorities to go about the transfer of Camp Ashraf in a legitimate and humanitarian way, emphasizing Iraqi sovereignty over all Iraqi territory, including the area on which Camp Ashraf stands. And the Iraqi government assured us that "it would not expel any of these persons to a country where they may face inhuman treatment”.

On the other hand, the Deputy of the Iraqi National Coalition, Hamid Malp, in a statement rejected the U.S. State Department demand that the Iraqi government deal humanely with the members of the MKO which were involved in terrorism in Iraq during the former regime as well as now embracing armed groups in Diyala and Baghdad."

Malp told (Voices of Iraq) that there is intelligence information with the Government which "emphasizes the organization and financing of a link from some quarters outside the law." In an afterthought he said "his forces would take the decision to hold people accountable only after support and documentation of this information," he says.

Malp said that the transfer to the MKO camp to Baghdad, "will lead to positive results in the various sectors," pointing out that the Organization’s presence in Diyala has been "a controversial subject for a long time."

The Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Thursday, 10 December, that the population of Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) would be transferred next week to Baghdad.

The Iraqi Government took over responsibility for security inside Camp Ashraf from U.S. forces early this year and re-named it Camp New Iraq in August.

In the same context, Mohammed Tamim, MP for the Dialogue Council, said the U.S. State Department’s demand for the Iraqi government to deal with the MKO humanely was "insufficient" and called on U.S. forces to "take over security responsibility for the camp, so the Iraqi government can transfer members of the organization to the U.S."

Tamim told Aswat al-Iraq that the decision to transfer the members of the Mojahedin from Camp Ashraf to Baghdad after two days of bombings (Bloody Tuesday) was "erroneous and imported from Iran." He said the decision was a “negative step resulting from the Iraqi Government’s efforts to convince the Iranians that the MKO was behind explosions that occur in the country".

Attorney Tamim said that the people of Camp Ashraf are "refugees, entitled to Iraqi Government help to provide an appropriate atmosphere to them after their escape from a terrorist group, such as is the obligation of the Arab and international community.”

According to the MP from the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Abdul Bari Zebari, "the Iraqi Government condemns the group for their documented participation in the suppression of the popular uprising in 1991 and attack on the worshipers in a mosque in Sadr City in Baghdad the same year, and that the regime of Saddam Hussein used the MKO to attack his opponents."

Zebari told Aswat al-Iraq that he believed that the Government "only took the decision to transfer the group to Baghdad after discussion with the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and after guaranteeing the members of the Organization would not be exposed to danger”. He added, "For the time being we should not repeat the process of involving the embassy in local affairs as happened when Iraqi security forces entered into Camp Ashraf for the establishment of a police base inside it."

The Mojahedin Khalq, an Iranian opposition group, numbers about 3500 people, based in Camp Ashraf, which covers an area of 16 square kilometers, 55 km north of Baquba, capital of Diyala province where it has been based since 1986.

December 16, 2009 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Shutting down the notorious Ashraf Garrison, the end of treason and crime

After nearly thirty years residing in Iraq , finally it seems despite of fruitless and futile efforts by cult’s leaders , the stronghold of Rajavi’s cult will be shut down and dismantled for good by popular Iraqi government, and decades of treason and crime against Iraqi and Iranian people will come to end at last.

The Iraqi government has decided to expel the remnant of Saddam’s suppressive forces, PMOI, from its soil according to its national sovereignty and constitution which is a fair and square decision . The first step is to shut down the Ashraf Garrison and transfer all the residents to the remote location which is called “Naqreh Salman” in southern part of Iraq. Iraq with its new and popular government after the fall of its savage dictator , Saddam Hussein, cannot tolerate and bear the existence of such criminals and saddam’s complicit on its soil anymore.

The leaders of this notorious and barbaric cult(Rajavi’s cult) have been terrified by Iraqi government decision upon shutting down the cult’s stronghold in Iraq, because they are perfectly aware that shutting down of their stronghold in Iraq will affect directly upon the cult’s headquarter in Paris which controls and manipulates minds of all those stranded and stuck victims in Ashraf garrison. Ashraf garrison in Iraq has been the heart and Maryam Rajavi’s headquarter in Paris is the brain of this cult, so while the heart stops working and pumping blood to the brain , brain will die.

The cult’s leaders are fully aware that dismantling and shutting down of their notorious garrison in Iraq ,will have harsh and severe consequences in their cult and put an end to the survival of this cult for good , consequently they will resort to inhumane tactics such as “self burning and self immolation” to avert and prevent it. Self immolation and self burning have been the road map and pressure leverage of this cult whenever the cult leaders feel harassed and pestered by outsiders.

They will react severely and harshly and they use their inhumane tactics to confront and deal with their problems and conflictions as they did in the past. The French people have not forgotten self burning and self immolation of a number of PMOI’s brainwashed and deceived victims who set themselves on fire to put pressure on French government to release their cult leader , Maryam Rajavi, from French police custody in 2003.

The essence of this cult rules while the entity of this cult is in danger , the leaders of this cult instruct self immolation of their rank and file in order to rescue themselves from the crisis which they have stuck and stranded in it. Like a scorpion which is surrounded by fire and finds no way out of fire to rescue itself, it stings itself to death , but in this cult the rank and file should pay the price and victimize themselves in order to rescue their leaders from justice.

We have seen and witnessed a number of these inhumane methods such as self burning, hunger strike, and the like, which the cult leaders have imposed upon their victims during past decades.

The only way to stop and put an end to all these brutal and barbaric methods in this cult which has taken numerous lives is to shut down and dismantle the notorious Ashraf- garrison and allow the stranded victims of this cult who have been trapped in this cult for decades to breathe and inhale freedom which has been taken from them by the cult leaders for a long period of time .

The victims who have lost everything they had in their lives and the majority of those victims lost their loved ones without knowing it ,because having any connection with their families was completely forbidden and restricted, any sentiment in this cult toward any member of family was considered as a deadly sin and crime against the well being of the cult leaders.

The members should have sacrificed their love and affection to their families and loved ones just to show their dedication and devotion toward their cultic leaders. Being dedicated and devoted to their supreme leaders , Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, they had to be brain washed and indoctrinated which was implemented via horrendous and terrifying sessions and cultic rituals by the members of governing council under direct supervision of the spiritual leaders of the cult.

All those victims who have been captives and hostages for decades in the hands of the cult’s spiritual leaders need to be rescued from that hell hole ,Ashraf garrison, as soon as possible to breathe and inhale freedom and find their real humane essence after all . The only way to do so is to shut down and dismantle the garrison which carries the curse of history on its name for ever.

I hope such human catastrophe and exploitation which occurred in that cultic garrison never happen for anyone else again. Believe me no one should go through the horrendous and tragic experiences which we went through in Rajavi’s cult.

Respectfully

Hassan Piransar/A victim of Rajavi’s cult/ Paris

December 15, 2009 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Camp Ashraf to get “terrorist-free” on Tuesday

Camp Ashraf, the home to more than 3000 anti-Iran terrorists, will be removed from the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) this Tuesday, Iraq said.

The Iraqi government called all the media to be in Camp Ashraf on Tuesday, December 15, for a live coverage of the MKO removal from the camp in North Baghdad, Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) quoted Al-Wasat news website as reporting.

This came after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday that his government has decided to relocate the terrorist group to a remote area in the southern part of the country before expelling them once and for all.

"Their presence at Ashraf is a major risk because of the historical ties with some groups and political powers in that area, especially the remains of the former regime and al-Qaeda," the prime minister said.

The MKO began as an Islamist leftist group opposed to Iran’s Shah, but turned to oppose the Islamic Republic elected by a vast majority of the Iranian people following the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The opposition led to assassinating more than 12000 Iranian people, including many senior officials, by the cult so far.

The MKO guerrillas also carried out attacks against Iranian targets and collaborated with Baghdad in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

The Baghdad government had been warning for months that its patience with the cult was wearing thin.

In Iraq, MKO is seen as “brainwashed cult from a high-trained terrorist organization” which assisted the Saddam regime in oppressing the Iraqi nation.

December 14, 2009 0 comments

Iraq

Media invited to witness MKO transfer from Camp Ashraf next Tuesday

The Government of Iraq has decided to move the residents of Camp Ashraf, all of which residents are members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, to another location which has not yet been disclosed.

The Government has invited the media to attend Camp Ashraf on the fifteenth day of December to cover the transfer of residents to the place allocated to them.

The issue of the MKO has been subject to protracted negotiations between the Government of Iraq and the U.S. over the fate of this organization which is classified as a terrorist group by both sides. The former Saddam Hussein’s regime gave it full protection and provided a camp, said to be the base for its [terrorist] activities. The organization’s members participated in military operations in favour of Saddam’s regime until its demise in 2003.

Wasat online, Baghdad, translated by Iran Interlink
http://www.wasatonline.com

December 13, 2009 0 comments

Iraq

Iraq to transfer Iranian dissident group to Baghdad

Iraq to transfer Iranian dissident group to Baghdad Iraq will move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the border between the two countries to Baghdad, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

"We will move residents of Camp Ashraf to buildings in Baghdad on Tuesday," he said, without giving details.

The members of the People’s Mujahedeen have lived at Camp Ashraf, a refugee base in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, for more than 20 years.

Iraqi security forces launched an operation to take over the camp in July.

The group was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran and subsequently fought the clerical regime that ousted him in the 1979 Islamic revolution.

About 3,500 Mujahedeen and their families have lived in Ashraf since former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the Iranian opposition to set up bases on his territory during his 1980-88 war with Tehran.

Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, American forces disarmed the Mujahedeen in Ashraf and placed the residents under protection.

Iraq’s increasingly independent government has moved to take charge of the site.

December 12, 2009 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

The process of MKO Decline

When in 1986 Massoud Rajavi ,leader of Mujahedin Khalq Organization went to Iraq with a lot of fanfare and hype, his flight from France to Iraq was called as heroic and was considered as a great victory for their so-called struggle against the Islamic Republic.

The propaganda system of the organization failed to note that Rajavi actually fled to Iraq since the French government had ordered him to leave France due to the request made by Islamic Republic.

However, the move was titled as strategic because Iran was in war with Iraq at that time so the leaders of MKO had to spend a lot of time presenting reasoning for their supporters who were shocked by the organization sheltering before the enemy that had invaded their nation.

It was too difficult to justifythe treason MKO committed against its compatriots during the eight years of war between Iran and Iraq. When MKO succeeded to launch some operations against Islamic Republic buildings and authorities (in which a lot of innocent civilians were also killed) some other supporters could diminish their doubts and leave their homes in different parts of the world to join the group.

There were also a lot of other unfortunate recruits who were recruited by deceitful methods of MKO after they could not get refugee status in other countries and joined MKO as the last resort.
In 1986 when Islamic Republic accepted the UN ceasefire resolution 598 which consequently meant that Iraq could no longer be used as a place to launch operations , MKO started declining. The process lasted until the fall of Saddam Hussein. It was the worst incident that could happen to MKO since it was very clear that the ones who would achieve power in Iraq are those who opposed Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party and also his accomplice, Mujahedin Khalq who cooperated with him in the suppressive operations against Kurds and Shiites of Iraq. Thus, the situation got the worst.

MKO leaving Iraq means accepting a huge strategic mistake that the ideological leader made 30 years ago. And that’s what Massoud Rajavi has done in his latest message on the occasion of Aban 13th( the anniversary of the US embassy takeover in Tehran in 1979) he declared that MKO is ready to leave Iraq and of course he asked for 200 million dollars as blackmail.

As Camp Ashraf is the symbol of MKO’s existence and so –called ideology, losing Ashraf equals the loss of everything for the leaders. The members have always been told to defend Ashraf in any circumstances. They were ordered to lay down in front of vehicles driven by Iraqi Police when they raided Camp Ashraf on July 28th. They were told to sacrifice themselves to keep the Camp.

Now Rajavi’s new message has left the members in a new contradiction. Since to MKO members Rajavi is an infallible saint leader who never makes mistake; they are not allowed to think of the possibility of his fault.

The leader of the cult never cares about what will happen to Ashraf residents, who have to pay the price of their leaders’ ambitions. Once their opportunist leader sheltered near the notorious Saddam Hussein, they were convinced to go to Iraq too as a heroic, strategic move. Today, designated as a terrorist organization it is hard to make third government accept them!

By Mazda Parsi

December 5, 2009 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

French citizens demonstrate against PMOI

On Saturday, November 28th, 2009, a large number of citizens of Cergy, France gathered to protest the presence of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in their country soil.

The rally began at 14:00 when the citizens gathered together in downtown. The gathering started with a performance made by Iran-France music band that played fascinating pieces. A panel was also held for a book show that included 5000 editions of journals, books and revealing catalogues on MKO.

a large number of citizens of Cergy, France gathered to protest the presence of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in their country soil

There were also huge posters, distributed among protestors to reveal the cult-like nature of Mujahedin-Khalq Organization.

During the rally a play was performed by a group of former members to present a symbolic show on torture, imprisonment, suicide operations committed by Rajavi’s cult. The participants were moved by the performance.

Hundreds of Iranian-French citizens sang the famous Iranian song “Ey Iran” standing in organized lines and then walked through streets of Cergy under the rain.

They ended their rally after they issued a resolution at 18:30.

The move was executed by cooperation of some NGOs and foundations formed by former members of MKO.

At the ending phases of the demonstration, a few suppressive henchmen of Rajavi’s cult attacked the demonstrators and hit them on face and eyes. The attackers were sent from Auver Sur Oise to break down the peaceful rally. Three French citizens and an Iranian were injured by MKO agents who were consequently arrested by French police.

Aria Iran – Translated by Nejat Society

December 2, 2009 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq stands firm on swift MKO expulsion

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has urged Mujahedin-e Khalq organization to immediately leave the country, saying Baghdad had no place for the MKO.

The Iraqi government and parliament have a resolve to expel members of the notorious group Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki after they committed crimes against the Iraqi people, exercised terrorism, cooperated with the Bathists and interfered in domestic affairs, said a statement by al-Maliki’s office.

The statement added that Iraq would not allow the MKO members to stay permanently in the residents of the group’s training camp in eastern Iraq, known as Camp Ashraf.

The statement came after a meeting held between al-Maliki and the new President of the International Red Cross mission in Iraq McKenna Bart.

Some 3,500 MKO members are held in a camp under the control of the Iraqi security forces.

The MKO is the most hated grouplet among both the Iranian and the Iraqi nations, and suffers from total unpopularity in these two countries.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization, which blended elements of Marxism and Stalinism, was founded in Iran in the 1960s but was exiled some twenty years later over terrorism.

The group masterminded a torrent of terrorist operations inside Iran, one of which was the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in which more than 72 Iranian officials were killed.

A 2007 German intelligence report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has identified the MKO as a "repressive, sect-like and Stalinist authoritarian organization which centers around the personality cult of [MKO leaders] Maryam and Masoud Rajavi".

The Iraqi premier touched upon mass graves contained Kuwaiti nationals who had fallen victim to the Ba’ath regime’s seven month-long invasion of Kuwait and said, "The issue of missing Kuwaitis is a humanitarian and not political case."

He expressed Iraq’s full readiness to "cooperate with our brothers in Kuwait."

He said that Iraq remains committed to cooperation on missing Kuwaiti property and money in letters previously sent to the United Nations and the Kuwaiti government aimed at putting an end to this humanitarian issue.

A mass grave, discovered in the headquarters of the MKO in Iraq in August, cast light on the crimes the terrorists committed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

If confirmed, the reports would expose MKO complicity in Saddam Hussein’s war on Kuwait, which killed more than 3,664 Iraqis and 1,000 Kuwaitis
MKO leaders are said to have kept the mass grave a secret so far by refusing the entry of Iraqi forces into their base.

The grisly discovery came at a time when scores of regional correspondents were granted a permit by the Iraqi government to prepare a report from Camp Ashraf, where MKO dissidents were stationed for more than two decades.

November 25, 2009 0 comments

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