Mujahedin Khalq Terror group

Describing the Mojahedin Khalq crimes at UN

Association of families of terrorism victims described the MKO crimes with its presence at the office of UN human rights in Geneva

According to the repot by Justice Supporters Association, the families of terrorism victims described the MKO crimes with its presence at the office of UN human rights in Geneva.

Presenting the films about MKO crimes and reading a statement from Iran’s Association of families of terrorism victims were some programs of the association at the UN Human Rights Council.

Describing the MKO crimes was so strange for the audiences and they wondered about the violations of human rights’ laws by the terrorist group.

The report stipulates that MKO in Geneva attempted to buy politicians and NGOs participating in this conference by paying enormous amounts of money.

September 22, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

Black Plague – Photos expose the MEK organized crime in Diyala

Diyala – A number of members of the House of Representatives and local government officals of Diyala province along with Senate members, academic figures, the media and managers of departments in the district of Khalis, established the Clans and Families of Diyala Exhibition – named Black Plague. This is a photographic exhibition exposing the crimes and practices of the Mojahedin Organization in the province of Diyala in Iraq.

The exhibition, which comprises 100 large colour photographs (100 × 70) cm, is scheduled to continue for three days at the Hall of the Directorate of Youth and Sports in the city of Khalis, 15 kilometers north of the city of Baquba, the county seat.

The exhibition also includes words and poems condemning the crimes of the Mojahedin. A Conference of the founders of the exhibition called on the government not to deviate from the public call for the removal of the Mojahedin from the land of Iraq.

The Mayor of Khalis, Adi Alkhaddran told Iraq Beituna Agency that the exhibition is the first of its kind in the province, noting that it was preceded by several conferences and demonstrations demanding the expulsion of the Mojahedin from Diyala and out of the country in accordance with the principles of the Constitution, which prohibits the presence of, and harbouring of terrorist organizations on its territory, and using the country as a springboard for aggressive operations against neighbouring countries. The Mayor urged the government to specify its position on the issue of the Mojahedin organization and put pressure on international organizations to support Iraq and not to do deals with it [Mojahedin].

Alkhaddran said that the Mojahedin Organization had plundered the country and the province, taking over 6000 acres of land in Khalis district. He said they took 80% of the citizens’ plots of land, and pointed out the economic gains for the Judiciary by returning the investment in Camp Ashraf taken by the organization for more than three decades.

Noting the tension created in the relationship with Iran created by the former regime by harbouring the Mojahedin and the futility and foolishness of Saddam’s regime, the Mayor said that”some parties, under the flag of the Baath Party, are still in the political arena with external support and local cooperation with the Mojahedin Organization and trying to whitewash their crimes in front of public opinion and demanding humanitarian laws in dealing with members of this organization, which is stained with the blood of Iraqi people.”

The former Congressman and a member of the National Coalition, Taha Shield Saadi said during his speech on the crimes of the Mojahedin and its role in the genocide of the Iraqi people in several areas , notably the south and areas of Tuz and Diyala, revealed the relation of Saddam’s regime with the Mojahedin Organisation over many decades, such as misusing the Oil for Food programme and using the Mojahedin to operate economic resources and commercial companies on behalf of Iraq abroad.

Saadi said that the Iraqis have a legitimate legal right to prosecute the Mojahedin Organization for organized crime before the fall of the regime, and supporting and harbouring terrorist groups after the fall of the regime.

He added: The Mojahedin in their various websites, claim that there are many groups and organisations which support them, but these are fictitious and only exist on the group’s websites. They invite people to anti-Iraq and anti-establishment activities as well as joining in the cult activities. They also spread hatred between religions and ethnic groups in Iraq.

In turn, the Deputy Chairman of the Diyala Council, Sadeq Al-Husseini, denounced the double standards followed by the United Nations in dealing with the Mojahedin, demanding that Iraq be lenient toward members of the Organization. The United Nations for the first time has accepted the classification of the Mojahedin as terrorist but still asked Iraq to be lenient. He added that, the interference of Mojahedin in the internal affairs of Iraq is unacceptable and unjustifiable and that the group are dangerous and saturated with bloodshed and the culture of death.

Husseini said that the Council of Diyala and the parliament had passed a resolution to expel the MKO from the country, but this decision was not acted on properly by central government. He praised the position of the Council of Samawah province which refused to allow the Mojahedin to be relocated to their territory.

The Vice-Chairman of the Board of Diyala who emphasised again the demand of the people of Iraq to expel the Mojahedin, said this organisation is logistically and financially behind all the security problems in the province, and this has been endorsed by the security officials that this is the case. Therefore we do not want them to stay in our country for even a day.
Member of Parliament for the Iraqi List (Ahmad Sharif) said that after parliament passed a decree to remove the Mojahedin from Iraq. He stressed that the settlement of issues between the Mojahedin and the government of Iran is nothing to with Iraq.

Sharif also referred to some of the attacks on mosques during Friday prayers in Sadr City by direct order of Saddam’s regime and emphasised on the need to expel the MKO according to the constitution of Iraq and international laws of the United Nations.

Tribal and religious figures also rejected the presence of MKO in Diyala province. In this respect, Sheikh Hamid al-Azzawi ( religious scholar ) condemned the use of the name of Mojahedin for this organisation with its black history and the murderous acts they carried out before and after the fall of Saddam. He said the presence of the MKO shows the weakness of the Iraqi govt, which should be rectified as soon as possible.

The head of Ezzah tribe, Sheikh Ali al-burhan al- Azzawi explained the confiscation of tens of thousands of kilometres of agricultural land by the Mojahedin and their regular attacks during the time of Saddam, terrorising the villagers and arresting their children. And using repressive methods all under Saddam’s order with the threat that, confronting the Mojahedin means confronting Saddam. He demanded compensation for the tribal people.

Al-Azzawi said, after the fall of Saddam, Mojahedin started buying goods and vehicles stolen from the government and they encouraged weak people to commit burglary and steal things and had a direct role in the lootings and crimes at that time.

Sheikh Mohammed Jassem Al-Tamimi invited all the international and internal bodies and organisations responsible for deporting the MKO to use peaceful means and not to resort to force. He compared the MKO with the Black Death plague which has fallen on the land of Diyala province and especially Khalis. He said that they are still the main place of support for Saddamists and its repressive apparatus in the province.

Sheikh Resan Maamouri head of the Al-mamereh tribe in Diala warned against the presence of this Black Death (Rajavi cult) in Iraq and Diyala province and their role in the support and training and logistics of organised terrorism, and asked the government to put an end to the suffering of the people of the province and once and for all get rid of this dangerous disease (Rajavi cult).

The head of the media committee for Diayal provincial Council, Fakhri al-Obeidi, rejected the claim that 480,000 Diyali residents have asked for the Mojahedin to stay in the province. He said the number produced by the Mojahedin is irrational and added that the total number of residents in the five sections, including all tribes, including adults and children is one million four hundred and eighty thousand. This is considering that I have added the cities of Khaneqin and Balous which are from Mandaly and Gazzanieh, and also huge parts of Muqdadiya , Baquba and people of Khalis, who we know have never had signed such a thing…

Report: Mahmoud request-Iraq Beituna Agency, Translated by Iran Interlink

September 20, 2010 0 comments

Iran

Iran: Americans should stop using MKO terrorists to distort facts

Official: West Seeking to Distort Peaceful Nature of Iran’s N. Program

Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Shirzadian rejected claims about a secret nuclear site near the capital, stressing that the West is trying to distort the true nature of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

"Such rumors are intended to distort the true image of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and are circulated by Western countries," Shirzadian said on Sunday.

Shirzadian stressed that Iran has no undeclared nuclear site and Tehran has already declared all of its nuclear sites to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iran on Friday categorically denied a claim by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) about a clandestine underground atomic site near Tehran.

"We don’t have such a facility, if they have any details they should inform us so that we can thank them," Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday.
The remarks by the Iranian officials came after MKO on Thursday had claimed that it had evidence of a new secret underground atomic site in the country.

The group had said that a facility intended to enrich uranium was deep under a mountain near Qazvin and was about 85 percent complete.

Meantime, Washington said it had known about the facility for years and had no reason to believe it is nuclear.

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West plays ‘political game’ on N-program

Press TV, Septembe 17, 2010
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the country’s "transparent" nuclear program has been dragged into a "political game" by certain countries.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran’s peaceful nuclear activity is one of the most transparent cases in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," Mottaki said on Wednesday in a meeting with his Armenian counterpart.

"Unfortunately, such a transparent case has been dragged into the political games of certain countries which always repeat their claims against Iran," Mottaki said in reference to recent remarks made by IAEA chief, Yukiya Amano, on Iran’s nuclear program.

On Monday, Amano said the IAEA was looking into a report by the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), claiming that the agency did not have complete information about the extent of Iran’s nuclear program.

MKO claimed last week that it had evidence of a new secret uranium enrichment site under a mountain near the city of Qazvin — about 120 kilometers west of Tehran — which was about 85 percent complete.

Mottaki said that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program is carried out under the supervision of the IAEA.
"Compared to other IAEA member states, Iran has been the most cooperative with the agency in the past years," the Iranian foreign minister said, adding that at least 29 IAEA reports have confirmed the non-diversion of Tehran’s nuclear program from its peaceful objectives.

September 19, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MKO Terrorists from Iraq on the move

Washington has reportedly called on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants to allow members of an anti-Iran terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) into mountainous area along Iran’s northwestern border, the Fars News Agency reports.

Washington’s proposal comes as the deadline for complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq draws near and Baghdad is set to hunt down and expel MKO terrorists which are historically aligned with the former Saddam Hussein regime.

The US is reportedly seeking to relocate the MKO terrorist before leaving Iraq. The MKO is regarded as a terrorist organization by much of the international community including the United States.

An informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Press TV last month that a group of 150 long-time MKO terrorists has been moved from their base in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad to a US base in central Iraq to be trained as spies against Iran.

More recently the group appears to have been looking for new locations further afield, where it can operate and survive independently, or even retire its older members without being tracked down.

MKO is believed to have several thousand members, one-third to one-half of whom are fighters. MKO activities have dropped off in recent years as its membership has dwindled.

The fall of Saddam Hussein‘s regime affected the circumstances of the designated foreign terrorist organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The MEK was allied with the Iraqi regime and received most of its support from it. The MEK assisted the Hussein regime in suppressing opposition within Iraq, and performed internal security for the Iraqi regime. The National Liberation Army was the military wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

MKO is known by various names, including National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA), People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI), National Council of Resistance (NCR), National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Muslim Iranian Student’s Society.

MKO is the largest and most militant group opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is led by husband and wife Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. MKO was added to the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist groups in 1997.

The group has targeted Iranian government officials and government facilities in Iran and abroad; during the 1970s, it attacked Americans in Iran.

When Saddam Hussein was in power, MEK received the majority of its financial support from the Iraqi regime. It also used front organizations, such as the Muslim Iranian Student’s Society, to collect money from expatriate Iranians and others, according to the State Department’s counterterrorism office.

Maryam Rajavi is MEK’s principal leader; her husband, Massoud Rajavi, heads up the group’s military forces. Maryam Rajavi, born in 1953 to an upper-middleclass Iranian family, joined MEK as a student in Tehran in the early 1970s.

After relocating with the group to Paris in 1981, Maryam Rajavi was elected its joint leader and later became deputy commander-in-chief of its armed wing. Massoud Rajavi was last known to be living in Iraq, but authorities aren’t certain of his whereabouts or whether he is alive.

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September 19, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Letter to the families of victims of September 11

The letter of Iran’s families of terrorist victims to the families of victims of September 11

Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 marked a painful beginning for the millennium of the The letter of Iran's families of terrorist victims to the families of victims of September 11 human civilization history. This event was the evidence of the obvious savageries of groups which do not consider any respect for human lives and do not hesitate in committing any crime for achieving their goals.

Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 marked a painful beginning for the millennium of the human civilization history. This event was the evidence of the obvious savageries of groups which do not consider any respect for human lives and do not hesitate in committing any crime for achieving their goals.

We, the members of Justice Supporters Association, compromising the families of 16000 terrorism victims of Iran, once more condemning the September 11 attacks and expressing our sympathy with the victims’ families, believe that terrorism is an ominous phenomenon which revealed its cruel nature more than ever in 2001 attacks.

The happiness of terrorist organizations across the globe following this heart-breaking event showed that the global community is encountering interacted and dangerous organizations which do not follow any role in murder and violence, these organizations kill innocent people throughout the world from the biggest cities of the United States to the small villages of the Middle East.

One of these organizations is the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization which celebrated after the September 11 attacks due to its Marxist-Leninist ideologies. Now the question is that, why the leaders of terrorist organizations like MKO and Al-Qaeda which have bee designated as cult-like terrorist organizations, are not arrested and tried.

Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization, which has murdered more than 12000 civilians in Iran and cooperated in the suppression of Kurds and Shiites in Iraq, has perpetrated various crimes including kidnapping, highjacking, armed robbery, however, not any step has been taken by international societies for its eradication.

We, the families of terror victims and members of the Justice Supporters Association who have lost our dearest ones by MKO attack, call for the arrest and trial of the leaders of this terrorist organization. We would like to witness a day in which no one grieves for his beloved ones. This is not possible unless an international effort and cooperation of non-governmental organizations comprised of terror victims’ families of the world.

September 19, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Mojahedin Khalq holds penitent members hostage

The terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization bars its penitent members from leaving the organization and joining their families, an Iranian envoy says.

There are some "remorseful Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members [at Iraq’s] Camp Ashraf who wish to join their families but are prevented from leaving the camp by the group’s leaders," Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Danaei-far, told Mehr news agency on Wednesday.

He also made a reference to the "frequent" reports on infighting at the camp over such issues and said, "We hope the incoming [Iraqi] government applies more pressure [on the terror group] and helps reunite youth with their families and hands the criminals over to the judiciaries."

The Iraq-based MKO is listed as a terrorist group by much of the international community.
Founded in the 1960s, the MKO has masterminded terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq, killing thousands of people and wounding many more.

The group is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, US troops disarmed the MKO terrorists at Iraq’s Camp Ashraf, where they were based, and surrounded it until Iraqi forces took over responsibility for the camp in 2009.

The Public Prosecutor of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Jaafar al-Mousawi, stated in mid-August that investigations have also incriminated MKO members in playing a leading role in the killings of Iraqi civilians.

Mousawi further commented that the terrorist group had supported Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, aiding in the suppression of the Iraqi people’s uprising in 1991 and the torture and massacre of innocent people in the northern and southern regions of the country.

September 12, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

Iraq considers the presence of Mojahedin Khalq as illegal

Iran will deal with any political bloc in Iraq – ambassador

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Danayeefar, said on Wednesday that his country will deal with any political bloc, which will form the new government, considering the prime minister’s post as an internal affair. Iraq considers the presence of Mojahedin Khalq as illegal

“Iran is Iraq’s neighbor and this is a fact and the two states should work with each other within all circumstances,” Danayeefar told Iran’s Mehr news agency.

“Arguments on who will lead the government is an internal affair and the Iraqi parties will determine who will become the new premier,” he explained.

Regarding the Iranian visitors jailed in Iraq, the ambassador said that the issue included in his agenda and he follows up the issue with the Iraqi officials, noting that Iraq and Iran have reached an agreement in this regard.

“The Iraqi government considers the presence of the Iranian rebel group Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) on its territories as illegal,” he said.

MKO, an Iranian opposition group, stationed in Ashraf camp in Diala since 1980’s when the former regime of Saddam Hussein was fighting the Iranian government from 1980 until 1988.

September 12, 2010 0 comments

Letter of Sahar Family Foundation to the UN Secretary General

Demanding the UN Secretary General to send a Special Rapporteur for human rights to visit Camp Ashraf in Iraq along with the former members and the families of present members

Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Is it not necessary in such circumstances to send a Special Rapporteur from the United Nations to visit the camp along with the former members
The United Nations Secretary General

You may be aware that Camp Ashraf in Iraq is the main base of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). This group has been designated as a terrorist destructive cult by the United States which is protecting it and by Iraq which is hosting it.

At the present time more than 3000 individuals are living in this camp under the cultic training of Massoud Rajavi (leader of MKO) and tough cultic regulations are imposed on them. These people do not have any right to demand contact with the outside world and their families. They live in a totally isolated atmosphere. The way that the leaders of the cult rule their followers is in such a manner that it is a clear example of violating their most basic human rights and an example of new slavery in our era.

Since the inhabitants of the camp have been away from the free world for many years and they are constantly under the influence of the leaders, they are not in a normal physical and mental condition. The phobic fear of the outside world has been planted inside the minds of these victims in such way that they can no longer think or act freely and they have become like robots which carry out the demands of the leaders without thinking.

Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq until now, roughly one thousand members of the MKO have managed to leave the cult at different times. Most of these persons have reported dreadful incidents of systematic brainwashing, solitary confinement, torture, and even murder inside Camp Ashraf. These reports and witness statements have been registered in the Iraqi Judiciary System. Some international human rights organizations have approved these reports.
It is now more than six months that a great number of families of the captive members inside Camp Ashraf have been picketing outside the main gate of the cultic camp under very challenging circumstances. They have announced that they will not leave the place unless they see their beloved ones. The leaders of the cult of course have denied their just demand and in reaction they have mobilized their psychologically manipulated victims to harass the families. Sahar Family Foundation is writing this letter on behalf of these families.

Is it not necessary in such circumstances to send a Special Rapporteur from the United Nations to visit the camp along with the former members who are familiar with the internal situation of the camp, as well as the families of present members? Most certainly the leaders of the cult would not accept such a demand. In this case doesn’t the UN and the UN Security Council possess tools to force the MKO to comply with this demand? In view of the suffering families, the minimum that the Human Rights Commission of the UN can do is to bring up this issue and if the leaders of the cult did not accept such an inspection, to base its report on what the former members have to say from their long experience (some even from their childhood) with the group.

The reports issued by the US Department of State since 1994 up to the present time (2010) and their contents as well as the 2009 report issued by the RAND institute about the MKO in Iraq and the 2005 report of Human Rights Watch about the violation of human rights inside the cult and the comments given by the Prime Minister and the President of Iraq on several occasions as well as the Iraq security authorities’ comments and the continuous confession of the MKO leaders about violation of human rights are enough to condemn the leaders even without trial. If not, at least these should be basis enough for the UN to instigate an investigations into the human rights violations and send a Special Rapporteur to visit this isolated, closed and secretive camp and issue a report. Surely if the leaders of the MKO were honest they would not prevent a mother visiting her son and if the followers have divorced their spouses and their children and the normal life willingly, there is no need to hide things and disconnecting the members from the outside world.

All that the suffering families wish to be assured of is the mental and physical health of their relatives inside the camp as it is the most basic right of an individual to enjoy every Article of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Now, regardless of any political interests, the systematic violation of such rights cannot be acceptable and cannot be ignored. The families cannot help but blame the UN if it turns its face in a different direction and does not fulfill its duties. If the UN in Iraq does not meet these requests for any reason it should be held responsible for misconduct in these matters. One can say that the UN could do something but they did not.
The suffering families picketing outside Camp Ashraf in Iraq are looking forward for your reply and your action.

Sahar Family Foundation
Baghdad, 1 September 2010

Attachments:
1. Reports given by the US Department of State since 1994 until this year (2010) which emphasizes that MKO is a terrorist cult
2. The2009 Report of the American RAND institute about the MKO In Iraq
3. The 2005 Report of Human Rights Watch titled “No Exit” about the violation of human rights inside the MKO
4. The resolution passed by the Iraqi administration in its 27th session dated 17 June 2008 (no. 216) about the MKO being a terrorist cult and its illegal presence in Iraq. This resolution emphasized that the MKO base most be dismantled and their forces should leave Iraq.

Copy to:
UN Human Rights Commission
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
International Committee of the Red Cross
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights
Iraqi and international media

September 6, 2010 0 comments

The MEK and Jundullah

MKO, Jundollah Having Tight Cooperation

Terrorist Cell Member: MKO, Jundollah Having Tight Cooperation

An apprehended member of the Jundollah terrorist group confessed that the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and his group have established organized cooperation to wage stronger and more frequent terrorist attacks against Iran. Terrorist Cell Member: MKO, Jundollah Having Tight Cooperation

"A member of the Jundollah grouplet has very recently declared after his arrest that the group has established organized ties with the MKO," the Persian-language website, Jahan, reported on Tuesday.

The terrorist also confessed that a number of MKO members in Pakistan pledged to work with Jundollah in a bid to provide the group with intelligence and communications backup and assistance for suicide attacks and sabotage operations inside Iran, the report added.

According to the Persian website, the MKO and Jundollah terrorist groups have agreed to stage suicide attacks on gatherings, meetings and conventions affiliated to the Islamic Republic.

After Iran’s security forces arrested Jundollah’s No 1 and 2 and its other high-ranking and influential leaders in the last few months, an increasing number of Jundollah members have started surrendering themselves to the Iranian authorities.

The Pakistani based Jundollah terrorist group, directly sponsored and supported by Washington, is responsible for several terrorist operations which have killed tens of citizens, officials and security forces in southeastern Iran.

Abdolmalek Rigi, the ringleader of the terrorist group, confessed after his arrest in late February that his group was assisted and supported by the US and disclosed that he was on route to Bishkek to meet a high-ranking US official at a nearby military base when he was arrested by Iranian security forces.

Rigi also said that he and the US official were going to discuss new terrorist attacks on Iranian territory.

Rigi on June 2 admitted receiving assistance from the MKO, but relations between the two anti-Iran terrorist groups had surfaced a long time ago when US started plans to coordinate anti-Islamic Republic moves.

In August 2009, the Jundollah terrorist group warned the Baghdad government that it would retaliate against the closure of a main camp of MKO by the Iraqi forces.

"…the Iraqi government should know that its hostile measures against the residents of Camp Ashraf who are Iranian immigrants in this city are not and will not be in the interest of the Iraqi government," Jundollah warned in a statement issued in Iraq last August.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, has been in the country’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Six years after toppling Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003, the country’s security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad and changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The Iraqi government and parliament have both voiced strong determination for expelling the group from the country.

The MKO started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

August 26, 2010 0 comments

USA

U.S. Intelligence Community: MEK trained females for suicide attacks

In newly declassified documents for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit, US department of State unveiled that based on the assessments of the U.S. Intelligence Community, the MEK trains female members of the organization for committing suicide operations in Karbala. The documents also say that the MEK solicits money under the U.S. Intelligence Community: MEK trained females for suicide attacks false pretext of humanitarian aid to the Iranian population.

Among the disclosures in the declassified material: “the MEK trained females at Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform suicide attacks in Karbala”; “the MEK solicits money under the false pretext of humanitarian aid to the Iranian population”; “an August 2008 U.S. Intelligence Community Terrorist Threat Assessment, clearly states that the MEK retains a limited capability to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism”; “[t]he MEK publicly renounced violence in 2001, but limited intelligence reporting indicates that the group has not ended military operations, repudiated violence, or completely or voluntarily disarmed”; “[t]he [intelligence community] assesses that although there has not been a confirmed terrorist attack by the MEK since the organization surrendered to Coalition Forces in 2003, the MEK retains a limited capability and the intent to use violence to achieve its political goals”; and “UN inspectors say that much of the information provided to the UN by the MEK about Iran’s nuclear program has a political purpose and has been wrong.”

Habilian reporting from declassified Court documents, August 12, 2010

August 14, 2010 0 comments

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