Mujahedin Khalq in the List of terrorist Organizations - Page 10 of 29

MEK as Human bargaining chips in deals with Iran

Nejat SocietySeptember 9, 2009096 views

This is not the first time that the MEK has served as a bargaining chip in Middle Eastern politics. The group was placed on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations in 1997 at a time when the Clinton administration hoped the move would facilitate opening a dialogue with Iran and its newly elected president,who was seen as a moderate..Those at Camp Ashraf, including around 1,000 women, have become, in effect, bargaining chips in the complicated relationship between the United States, Iraq and Iran. ..

The Continuing Story of Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyAugust 23, 20090188 views

Unfortunately for the PMOI, it was categorized as a terrorist organization by the Bill Clinton administration. It continues to carry this designation in the US, although the designation was removed by the European Union earlier in 2009. On top of this label, which has certainly isolated the NCRI and PMOI from potential support among certain elements of the US power structure.. the PMOI is asking one of the greatest human rights violators in Iraq and elsewhere around the world–the US government–to protect them

Tension Grows Over Plans to Close Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyJune 30, 20090114 views

The prospect of a change in Iran’s government is viewed by many to be as unlikely as the MEK’s hope that Iraq will change its mind about shutting down a camp that has been a major irritant in Iranian-Iraqi relations.. The prospect of a change in Iran’s government is viewed by many to be as unlikely as the MEK’s[PMOI/MEK/MKO] hope that Iraq will change its mind about shutting down a camp that has been a major irritant in Iranian-Iraqi relations..

James Longley on his ‘MEK and US Relations’

Nejat SocietyJune 7, 20090114 views

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, ‘The U.S. State Department lists the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq aka PMOI,MKO,MEK as a terrorist organization for its association with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime until the dictator’s ouster by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.’ It also states that ‘the MEK was blamed for Western targets in the 1970s and for supporting the 1979 American embassy takeover in Tehran. Over the last two decades, however, the group’s continued presence on the U.S. terrorist group list primarily involves its activities directed from Iraqi territory against Iran

Jundullah admits MKO connection

Nejat SocietyJune 3, 20090204 views

Rigi told a US-based satellite TV station,”They (MKO/MEK/PMOI) have had good intelligence collaborations with us and have provided us with much information about the activities of the Iranian regime.”..The al-Qaeda-affiliated Jundullah is a sectarian Sunni organization that occasionally launches terrorist attacks against Shias in the southeastern Iranian province of Baluchestan from across the border in Pakistan..Rigi told a US-based satellite TV station, monitored by the ISNA news agency on June 2,”They (MKO) have had good intelligence collaborations with us.

Iraq Plans to Start Expulsion of MKO in Weeks

Nejat SocietyApril 15, 2009077 views

Iraqi Minister of Displacement and Migration Abd al-Samad Sultan said Baghdad would most likely start practical measures for the expulsion of thousands of anti-Iranian terrorists from the country within the next few weeks. The required coordination has been done for the expulsion of 3,000 members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), from the Ashraf camp near Baghdad.

An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 20090171 views

Most of the time there’s nobody outside Camp Ashraf to hear the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), ..the Iraqi government has made it clear it’s withdrawing the welcome mat extended to the MEK/PMOI/MKO by Saddam Hussein,.. in recent years the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has helped more than 250 members enter Iran from across the Iranian border..former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information.

European Justice

Nejat SocietyMarch 12, 20090101 views

Now that you have decided that the Mojahedin-e Khalq”random mortar launchers”are not a terrorist group, please would the European Council put me and my family on their terrorism list so that the system will be completed.

MKO; Iran Exile Group in Line for Huge Cash Windfall

Nejat SocietyMarch 4, 20090119 views

The controversial Iranian exile organization MEK, which the United States calls a terrorist group, could soon see a windfall of tens of millions of dollars as the result of the European Union’s decision ..The MEK can use some of that cash to pay legal settlements with former members that they tortured, as well as the families of Iranians they killed when they fought on the side of Saddam against Iran

Iran pushes Iraq to close MKO camp

Nejat SocietyMarch 3, 20090142 views

Baghdad announced that it planned to close the camp last December, the same month the US reaffirmed the MKO’s”terrorist”status…at least one high-ranking MKO/PMOI/MEK member forced back to Iran received prison time but relatively lenient treatment…The problem for the organization is they haven’t had a martyr for many years.