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Should the MEK Stay or Should it Go?

Nejat SocietyMarch 2, 20090107 views

The MEK is still on the list of terrorist groups of the United States, because its fundamental values are anti-western and violent…Are we talking about holy water or the devil itself? The Council on Foreign Relations has a detailed description of the MEK:”…Experts say that MEK has increasingly come to resemble a cult that is devoted to Massoud Rajavi’s secular interpretation of the Koran and is prone to sudden, dramatic ideological shifts.” The MEK, in fact, also has a political arm, called The National Council of Resistance of Iran headed by Maryam Rajavi’s husband, Massoud. No one really knows where Massoud Rajavi is living now..

UK sees MKO as terrorists despite court ruling

Nejat SocietyFebruary 21, 2009072 views

Downing Street still considers the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) as a terrorist group, says the British justice secretary. ..Straw said he sorely regrets the British court ruling which de-proscribed the grouplet from the country’s terror blacklist. “When I was the home secretary, I said it was a terrorist group and the parliament agreed. The difficulty is that there is an independent kind of court which can make the final decisions out of the law.

UK Justice Secretary: MKO remains terrorist

Nejat SocietyFebruary 21, 2009078 views

London-Jack Straw, the British Justice Secretary, says the outlawed Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is a terrorist group from the viewpoint of his government. Straw told IRNA the MKO is a terrorist organisation and the British government is at the same position that the government of the Islamic Republic is.

Russian expert: Europe using terrorism for political purposes

Nejat SocietyFebruary 15, 20090107 views

A Russian scholar said the European Union (EU) manipulated such issues as terrorism and human rights for its own political purposes. Talking to IRNA here on Saturday, Ludmila Kulagina, as a top researcher in the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, criticized the recent EU move in removing the terrorist Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) form its terrorism list.

UK mindful on MEK history

Nejat SocietyFebruary 14, 2009083 views

we remain mindful of the MeK’s[PMOI/MKO] history as an organisation responsible for a number of serious terrorist attacks—it claimed responsibility for large numbers of violent attacks inside Iran for a number of years, including 96 in a three-month period in early 2001. We do not agree with its claim that it represents a credible democratic opposition in exile.

Iraq stands by anti-MKO drive

Nejat SocietyFebruary 11, 2009077 views

Iraq says it is standing by a decision to shut down Camp Ashraf and end the terrorist Mujehedin Khalq Organization’s presence on Iraqi soil. “MKO members who are residing in Camp Ashraf (inside Iraq) should either leave Iraq for Iran or a third country because they won’t be granted permission to stay in Iraq,”Iraq’s National security Advisor, Mowaffak Al-Rubaie said in a televised interview with Al-Alam TV network on Sunday.

PMOI crows … but probably not for long!

Nejat SocietyFebruary 7, 2009076 views

It is true that the decision to withdraw from the European list is motivated solely on technical issues and form such aspects of rights of defense. But now, France has appealed this decision and the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs reiterated that for it, PMOI did have its place on this list. Moreover, the text that was adopted makes it clear that several countries among the 27″are not convinced that the Mujahedin were away from terrorism”. It will be recalled that the process of withdrawal, the Swiss and the French had launched new accusations against PMOI.

Pulling out the fangs of a viper

Nejat SocietyFebruary 2, 2009061 views

A deadly viper pretending to be lying dormant, Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK) suddenly went rampant just when the Iranian people tried to recover from the wreaks of a revolution and had just engaged in fending off the invasion of a greedy neighbor. It emptied all its venom into the nation and inflicted irreparable damages to the same people who had feed it.

Iran Group in Iraq Poses Thorny Issue for U.S.

Nejat SocietyFebruary 1, 20090104 views

many years, the roughly 3,500 members of the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI/MKO) living quietly in Iraq drew little attention… The simmering issue of the MEK’s fate flashed into the open earlier this month when Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki unexpectedly declared that the group would no longer be allowed to remain in Iraq…The E.U. move, which came after a long lobbying campaign by the MEK’s supporters in Europe, sparked an outcry in Tehran. About 300 people were gathered around noon on Wednesday in front of the British Embassy in Tehran

EU Responsible for MKO Terror Acts

Nejat SocietyFebruary 1, 2009067 views

A former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO/PMOI/MEK), who abandoned the outlawed group in protest at its terrorist operations, said the European Union should take responsibility of supporting the MKO in its terrorist acts. Masoud Khodabandeh said deproscribing the MKO by the EU is a politically-motivated move which leads to support for the terrorism spread by the MKO.