Mujahedin Khalq Terror group

Americans can’t accuse us while supporting Mojahedin terrorists

Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is distortion of truth and fully based on double standards, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said here on Thursday.

Rejecting the US State Department’s annual global report on terrorism published Wednesday, she reiterated that Iran, itself, has been a victim of terrorism in the past three decades and the baseless claims regarding Iran’s support for terrorism is politically motivated.

Presence and free activities of terrorists in the United States who assassinated over 15,000 Iranian civilians including senior officials as well as use of drones in massacring innocent regional people and Washington’s inaction towards Zionists crimes against defenseless Palestinians pose serious questions about the US claims of campaign against terrorism.

Such a move threatens international peace and security, she reiterated.

May 3, 2014 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

Rajavi’s visa application challenges America’s stance on terrorism

There are rumours that Mojahedin Khalq leader Massoud Rajavi is contemplating whether and where it would be safe for him to resurface after going to ground during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But in Europe his wife, Maryam Rajavi, is herself keen to expand her reach. According to a source inside the organisation, Maryam Rajavi has recently been ‘encouraged’ to apply for a visa to the United States of America. Maryam is currently based in Auvers-sur-Oise just outside Paris, from where the MEK plans and supports its various acts of violence including aiding the insurgency in Iraq. From here she has been able to exploit the lack of effective oversight in the European Parliament in Brussels to join with anti-Iran politicians in their drive to prevent any rapprochement between western governments and Iran, and to support a level of violence and chaos in the region which benefits Israel. With no other tools at their disposal, neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby have spent years using the MEK – at arms length – to pursue their virulent, provocative campaign to keep the two sides apart. (Matched equally of course by former president Ahmadinejad’s calculated provocations; both sides playing the same game with different footballs.)

Maryam Rajavi’s application for a US visa is embedded in the context of this deliberate animosity.

Certainly because the European Parliament has no foreign policy teeth, Maryam Rajavi tried for over a decade to obtain a visa to visit the UK to promote this agenda; even unsuccessfully using private health treatment as an excuse. Either the system of border control in the UK is more rigorous than it is rumoured to be, or the UK government considers Maryam Rajavi persona non grata. Either way – or both – she has not been welcome in the UK.

But the efforts of MEK backers like MEP Struan Stevenson failed to make an impact. The successful P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran in November 2013 have put rapprochement, no matter how difficult, back on the agenda. Anti-Iran advocates and promoters have been forced to try a new tack – attack Iran’s record on human rights. Again, at the forefront of this push is the MEK. Preparations to use the MEK have been in train for some time. The group’s US presence has been carefully managed since 2009 when Iraq moved to expel the MEK from its terrorist base there. There has been a concerted, well funded campaign to whitewash the group’s past and pass it off as a democratic, feminist opposition group. Fortunately, only the MEK’s western backers have convinced themselves there is some truth to this assertion, and this comes at a price – speaking fees paid to them range from $25-60,000 each time.

In September 2012 Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, reached an accommodation with the MEK over its continued occupation of this base, Camp Ashraf, and removed the MEK from the US terrorism list. By early 2013 the MEK had opened an office in Washington and registered, under its pseudonym the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), as a lobbying group. Interestingly, registration as a lobby group includes a declaration that no money is provided by a foreign government, which raises the question as to where the MEK gets its money within the USA. Previous claims that wealthy Iranian expatriates have backed the MEK’s massive expenditure are unrealistic and in any case have never been backed by any evidence.

Instead, we can join up more than a few dots by considering the MEK’s current place in American foreign policy and linking this back to its previous position as described above. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is Chair of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa has been a long time supporter of the MEK, and recently described ‘her friend’ Maryam Rajavi as a human rights advocate – a description which is nonsense to American-Iranians.

In pursuit of an agenda to prevent rapprochement, hardliners (I mean neoconservatives) in America surely aimed to slip Maryam Rajavi into Washington during the next round of nuclear negotiations next week (5-9 May). On the heels of the controversy over denial of a visa to Iran’s appointed head of mission at the United Nations in New York, this would indeed have been a poke in the eye to goad Iran with. But whatever incentives have been offered by Ros-Lehtinen to John Kerry to nod through this visa application, the US Secretary of State will no doubt have lent an ear to the voices of the other members of the P5+1 group. It would mean that, after Saddam Hussein, the United States would be the only government in the world which has directly supported the MEK. It would mean that the other members of this group would drift further and further away from the US agenda, and it would mean that Iran would make a net gain rather than the US. Fortunately this time the administration has not fallen into Ros-Lehtinen’s honey trap. But who knows what may happen in future.

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Middle East Strategy Consultants,

May 3, 2014 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Rubin: MKO neither progressive nor non-violent

The Israeli Clarion Project has National Council of Resistance of Iran, the front organization of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO), on its list of “progressive Muslim organizations.”

Describing the move as “surprising,” Commentary Magazine’s Michael Rubin wrote that the MKO may be a lot of things, but it is “neither progressive nor is it non-violent.”

The Clarion Project is an institute founded by Rabbi Raphael Shore. Obsessed with the promotion of Iranophobia and Islamophbia, it has produced such films as Iranium and Obsession.

“Progressive movements tend not to dictate to women who to marry and who to divorce,” he added, referring to the mandatory divorces in the cult of MKO.

“It attached itself to Saddam Hussein and allowed itself to be used almost as a mercenary organization against both Kurds and Iraqi Shi’ites.” According to 1994 US State Department report on the MKO, Masoud Rajavi, the ringleader of the MKO which is in hiding for years, announced the formation of the National Liberation Army (NLA), the military wing of the MKO, which conducted raids into Iran during the latter years of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. The NLA’s last major offensive reportedly was conducted against Irai Kurds in 1991, when it joined Saddam brutal repression of the Kurdish rebellion.

“To accept the Mujahedin-e Khalq as a moderate organization is analytically shallow given the group’s record of behavior, its dishonesty in its written work, its past targeting of Americans, and the fact that its rhetoric about democracy does not match its practice.”

Habilian reporting from Commentary Magazine;Michael Rubin article:"

Why Does the Clarion Project Endorse Mujahedin al-Khalq?"

May 1, 2014 0 comments

Iran

Western Support for MKO shows their hypcritical policies in fighting terrorism

Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani lashed out at the European countries for their double-standard policies in campaign against drugs and terrorism, and called for their seriousness in fighting the two ominous phenomena.

“The European countries slogan about war conterrorism is based on double-standards,” Larijani said in a meeting with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz in Tehran on Monday.

“Today, we are witnessing that the most infamous terrorists, including Monafeq (Hypocrites, a term used for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, MKO also known as the MEK, NCR and PMOI, in Iran) and PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) and other groups whose hands are stained with the blood of thousands of innocent Iranian people, are freely visiting the European countries and are warmly hosted in those capitals,” he added.

Larijani also blasted the European states for their hues and cries about executions in Iran, and said most of those executions in the country are punishments for major drug traffickers and if the European countries increase their cooperation with Iran in fighting drugs and terrorism the number of executions will certainly decrease.

Tehran has always complained about the EU and other international bodies’ lack of serious cooperation with Iran in the campaign against drug trafficking from Afghanistan.

According to the UNODC World Drug Report 2013, Iran accounted for the highest rate of opium seizures (80 percent) as well as heroin seizures (30 percent) in the world this year.

According to official estimates, Iran’s battle against drugs cost the country around $1 billion annually. Strategies pursued by Tehran include digging canals, building barriers and installing barbed wire to seal the country’s borders, specially in the East.

Iran has recently established a central database and strengthened police-judiciary cooperation in a new effort to combat organized crime.

Every year, Iran burns more than 60 tons of seized narcotics as a symbol of its determination to fight drugs.

April 30, 2014 0 comments

France

Open Letter to Ms. Isabelle Meziere, Elected Mayor of Auvers-Sur-Oise

I am Ali Jahani one of the victims and critic of the Terrorist cult of Rajavi. I have lost twenty years of my life in this cult and having been able to release myself from it, now live in Europe.

Open Letter to Ms. Isabelle Meziere, Elected Mayor of Auvers-Sur-Oise I would like to congratulate you from bottom of my heart upon your election as new Mayor of Auvers-Sur-Oise and wish you success in your objectives.

Dear Mayor

I fully support your election slogan, that the ex-Mayor has badly damaged the reputation of your beautiful town by supporting the Rajavi Terrorists that has used Auvers Sur Oise as a base for terrorist activities.

As you know, Mojahedin headquarter is in your town, and they are intending to transfer Auvers Sur Oise to a new barracks after leaving the Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Of course the supports of the ex-Mayor had given them an open hand in this line. I hope that you will prevent them from transferring Auvers-Sur-Oise to a Military barrack to further damaging your town.

Dear Mayor

Mojahedin has long left a political entity, and are transferred to a full cult by the Rajavi couple. At the time of Saddam Hussain, Iraq dictator, they were fully supported by him and committed many terrorist acts in Iran and also against the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites to help Saddam. They have also been involved in killing the Iranian soldiers during the Iran and Iraq war.

Although, Mojahedin claim to be democratic and freedom lovers, they physically suppress their members and their opponents and do not tolerate any critics. In this respect we and many French people have been witness to how they attack the peaceful actions of their ex-members in revealing Mojahedin atrocities, by sending club wielders from Auvers-Sur-Oise in Paris. Where several people were beaten by the club wielders sent from Auver s Sur Oise.

Mojahedin also claim to support womens freedom, but in their cult they forced them to divorce their spouse and took their children from them and later were sexually assaulted by Rajavi himself.

While they pretend to support human rights, deceives the European people humanitarian feelings especially of the people of Auvers-Sur-Oise to gain support to cover up their atrocities inside their cult. They don’t allow the parents or the children to meet each other. They use children in military operations. They jail and torture their critics inside their cult. All this resembles that they have no support inside Iran and within the opposition outside Iran.

Dear Mayor

At the end I would like to wish success, and hope that you can stop this terrorist cult from transforming Auvers-Sur-Oise to a new barrack like the one in Iraq.

Sincerely yours

Ali Jahani, Iran Pen Association (Iran Ghalam),

April 30, 2014 0 comments

France

Open Letter to the newly elected mayor of Auvers sur Oise

Madame Isabelle Mézière,Maire d’Auvers sur Oise

We, as members of the Iranian community in France , congratulate you on your victory in the municipal elections. As you pointed out in your campaign, the former mayor, Jean Pierre Becquet, politicized Auvers by supporting the Rajavi cult. The support he gave to this sect had drawn the beautiful town of Auvers into unwanted politicization in favour of a political group expelled from Iran and, more recently, Iraq. This resulted in neglect of the public interest and freedom of speech.

As you demand, freedom of speech must return to the people of Auvers and groupings associated with the sect’s dictatorship should disappear, and the hidden social policies of recent years must be reported!

In recent years, the constant presence of the forces of the People’s Mojahedin Organization (MEK, MKO, NCRI, PMOI) in Auvers sur Oise and the relentless support of the former mayor for the terrorist group, has degraded the social esteem of this great city, transforming it into one couple’s totalitarian fortress.

As you probably know, Auvers sur Oise serves as the main base for the Rajavis, leaders of the MEK. This group was on the international list of terrorist organizations until 2011. Most members of this group were transferred to the base at Auvers sur Oise from Iraq. Your city really needs you to restore freedom of speech and depoliticize the role of mayor in order to better integrate social and economic development.

Madam Mayor,

The Mojahedin Khalq under the totalitarian leadership of Rajavi is not a political group. During the last thirty years, and with the support of Saddam Hussein, this organization has murdered over 17,000 Iranians under the pretext of wishfully anticipating the overthrow of the ruling system of Iran. This group sowed terror and fear within Iranian society. Before the 1979 revolution, the same organization murdered seven U.S. military advisers on Iranian territory in the name of supporting the movement of the Palestinian people. Thus, the MEK is a great pioneer in the history of the provocation of anger between the American and Iranian nations.

The MEK has been removed from national blacklists in order to encourage a radical change in its ideology and its practices. But the violent, terrorist nature of this organization has remained intact and it has simply changed its outward showcase. This group is still seen as a hopeless, draconian, sectarian and secret organization by all Iranian communities abroad.

MEK officials have repeatedly attempted to disrupt rallies held by Iranian dissidents, using threats to stifle any voices that oppose the terrorist proclamations by the leaders of this group. These manoeuvres demonstrate that the MEK cannot tolerate any opposition and has no concept of democracy and freedom of speech. Several ex-combatants of this organization have already denounced the persecution they suffered at the hands of agents of the MEK from Auvers sur Oise.

While preparations made for the evacuation of the Mojahedin from Iraq are progressing this year, Rajavi is trying to transfer MEK members from the MEK’s former main camp (Ashraf), to Europe. That is, members of the MEK who received military training and have lived for years under the ideological influence of armed struggle (Jihad). These men and women have participated in various terrorist operations (bombing, targeted and non-targeted attacks). Rajavi has spent his whole life training and building a destructive military group, and for the same reason, will not abandon his terrorist aims and will try to re-group his scattered jihadist forces in Germany, Albania and elsewhere!

Rajavi proposes to transform the region of Val d’Oise, and in particular the town of Auvers, into a safe place for his Mojaheds (Jihadist fighters). Several gangs of smugglers and human traffickers have been mobilized to bring Rajavi’s top level commanders from Iraq to France under the name of “refugees” and “anti-clerical regime activists”. If this group is formed and strengthened in France, we expect the threats and blackmail from the Rajavis to continue because this politico-religious cult has always made use of these doctrinal practices. With the collapse of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, Rajavi strongly believes that a new camp should be built, ideally in France and Auvers sur Oise!

We regret to see some Western politicians on the speakers panels of gatherings and meetings of the Rajavis; although most of these persons have confessed to reporters that their presence is motivated by money (between $25,000 and $160,000 for each to speak and take a photo alongside Maryam Rajavi). Mr. Jean-Pierre Becquet also attended such meetings. Unfortunately, the former mayor has never offered a single convincing argument concerning his true motivation for the huge support he offered to this foreign terrorist sect on French territory.

Madam Mayor,

As you know, it is from Auvers sur Oise that the ideological leaders of the MEK plan and organise its various terrorist operations against Iranian interests inside and outside of Iran. The arrest and imprisonment of Maryam Rajavi on June 17, 2003, came about for this reason.

She is a liar and the manipulative leader of a group that exploits the authentic humanitarian feelings of European people in order to prevent any change in the situation of the Iranian people. All political and international organizations can confirm that the leaders of the MEK have no popular support in Iran and they are completely rejected by the Iranian nation.

We would be proud to have the opportunity to meet with you and show you documents that may better clarify the true nature of the MEK.

A copy of this letter is sent to :

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France

French Ministry of Justice

President of the French Senate

French President and members of the National Assembly

French Ministry of the Interior

24 April 2014

Ariya Iran,Paris,

Translated by Iran Interlink

April 26, 2014 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

French Senator Philippe Dallier: Had no idea rally staged by MKO terrorists

French Parliamentary Delegation to Have No Unscheduled Programs in Iran

Head of the French parliamentary delegation that is on a visit to Tehran said they will not have any impromptu meetings during their stay in Iran.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Senator Philippe Marini said the delegation’s itinerary will be limited to the programs arranged by the Iranian parliament and the French embassy in Tehran.

This comes after EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton’s secret meetings with a number of Iranians in March drew criticism from Iranian officials.

During her official visit to Iran in March, Ashton had a meeting at the Austrian embassy in Tehran with some individuals convicted of having a hand in the 2009 post-election events.

Senator Philippe Marini further said he and his colleagues have come to Iran for high-level talks with Iranian officials.

“This is a very important period for ties between Iran and France,” he said, expressing hope for a major boost in the two countries’ relations in 2014.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Marini rejected reports about a member of the delegation, Senator Philippe Dallier’s support for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), saying that Dallier had unwittingly attended an MKO meeting in Paris.

“I suppose Dallier fell in MKO trap like many others,” he said, adding “we are well aware … how unpopular this group can be in Iran.”

On his participation in an MKO gathering in France a long time ago, Senator Dallier told Tasnim that he had no idea it was a rally staged by the terrorist group.

He said he once was invited to a rally in his constituency, a city near Paris, along with some other elected officials.

“All of a sudden, I realized I am sitting next to individuals from other countries. Actually, that day I went there, a general gathering, without any specific plans… At the end of the program I left and have had no contacts with the group ever since,” he said.

The MKO — listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community — fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, fought on the side of Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88), and was given a camp by Saddam.

The group has been behind numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, and was involved in the 1991 bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

April 26, 2014 0 comments

Iran

Senior MP: Parliament Not to Allow MKO Supporters to Visit Iran

A senior Iranian lawmaker cautioned that the parliament would allow a French parliamentary delegation which has filed a request for visiting Iran to take the trip since one of the group members is a supporter of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI).

"The time for the visit has not been specified and it has just been under discussion," member of Iran-France Parliamentary Friendship Group Amir Khojasteh told FNA on Wednesday.

Stressing that Iran is willing to expand relations with other states based on mutual respect, he said any country which shows hostile behavior towards Tehran will be deprived of bilateral ties with Iran.

Asked about the presence of one of the supporters of MKO terrorist group in the French parliamentary delegation which has asked for a visit to Iran, Khojasteh said, "The parliament will no way allow the advocates of the MKO and Rajavi (the MKO ringleader) to visit Iran."

European countries have shown willingness for the development of relations and cooperation with Iran following the implementation of Iran’s November nuclear deal with world powers in Geneva.

In February, French Ambassador to Tehran Bruno Foucher said his country is ready to broaden its trade cooperation with Iran.

The envoy said the French delegation of more than 100 businessmen visiting Iran is preparing the grounds for more trade ties between Tehran and Paris.

The ambassador was addressing a joint meeting of Iranian and French businessmen in Tehran on Tuesday.

Foucher noted that more French companies and enterprises are willing to invest in Iran.

“Some of the companies represented in this delegation were already active in Iran’s market and they are well familiar with this market. New companies have also come to Tehran to get familiar with Iran’s market,” said the top French diplomat.

“I hope that this meeting will clear the way for the development of relations between Iranian and French trade and industrial sectors and remove obstacles to better ties,” said Foucher.

But France is among the few countries which have sheltered the MKO members and a number of French officials and parliamentarians have supported the terrorist group.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and western targets.

The group 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 the MKO members in 1981.

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 eventually took the MKO off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September 2012, one week after the then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under the US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with the American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time

April 24, 2014 0 comments

The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

MKO as a Ruthless tool of Baath Regime not welcome in Iraq

Violence and instability have continued in Iraq throughout the last decade.

Indeed Iraqi people have suffered a lot not only as victims of the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein but also after Saddam at the hands of US-led Western governments who are more concerned with access to the regional oil resources and with perceived strategic interests other than human welfare and also by extremist groups taking over parts of the country . Although the government of Iraq is trying hard to stabilize the country it still has problem confronting terrorists.

Although Iraq has experienced many bloody days in both Saddam and post Saddam era, still some days remain stronger in the historical memory of the people. April is indicative of the al-Anfal notorious operations by Baath regime against Kurds that killed at least 50,000 civilians and destroyed thousands of villages. April 14 is now the national day of remembrance for those killed in al-Anfal.

al-Anfal is not the only operations Saddam Hussein launched against the Kurds.

In April 1991, after Saddam lost control of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, he cracked down ruthlessly against several uprisings in the Kurdish north and the Shia South.

Mujahedin Khalq who had made common cause with Saddam Hussein served as part of Saddam’s internal security operation and hand in hand with Hussein forces committed full-scale massacres and other gross human rights violations. The death estimate during that time range from 20,000 to 100,000 for Kurds, and 60,000 to 130,000 for Shi’ites.[1]

Though the MKO has tried outrageously to deny helping Saddam in his crackdown on the Kurds, many eyewitnesses testified on this fact.

Fox news quoted a Kurdish English teacher who was in Kifri when the MKO mobilized against his town in 1991.Safir recalled how the MKO shelled Kurdish towns”at random,”took locals hostage, and in one incident attacked a busload of young people from Kifri, killing all 20.[2]

After the Swedish Parliament in a majority vote formally recognized the Anfal Operation as genocide and crimes against humanity in early December 2012, some defected members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization voiced their preparedness to give a testimony before the Swedish parliament about MKO’s key role in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.[3]

The United States Department of State and the Foreign Affairs group of the Parliament of Australia also asserted the MKO’s assistance to Baath regime brutal suppression of the uprisings.[4][5]

Iraqi authorities have issued 148 arrest warrants for MEK members for crimes against Iraqis since 1991 but none have been arrested, according to officials. Maryam Rajavi was also included in the warrants. [6]Maryam Rajavi has been reported by former MKO members as having said,”Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.”[7]

The crimes against humanity the group committed in Iraq, beside its frequent interference in the internal affairs of the country and group war mongering attitudes has incurred a seated-hatred of the Iraqi people toward the group members. The hatred which may lead to revenge as it had been the case during last year. 4 rocket attacks launched against the TTL caused the death and injury of several Liberty residents. And the Camp Ashraf September1th clashes caused the killing of 52 members.

Beside the dangers which threats the Camp Liberty residents from outside the Camp, they are under the menace of the group members within the affairs of the cult as Rajavi has ordered a new- though accustomed- decree based on which members are required to sign papers and declare their readiness to emblaze themselves in case of Camp Liberty evacuation.[8]

So what can really be a wake-up call for the international community to prevent a disaster and save 3000 lives?

By A.Sepinoud

[1] Human Rights Watch, ENDLESS TORMENT, The 1991 Uprising in Iraq And Its Aftermath, September25, 2009

[2] Foxnews, Iranian Militant MeK Group Losing Fight to Stay in Iraq, January12, 2009

[3] Open Salon,Suppression of Kurds a crime against humanity,January30,2013

[4] Graff, James, Iran’s Armed Opposition Wins a Battle — In Court, Time Magazine, April 28, 2011

[5] Department of the Parliamentary Library, Australian Parliament, Research Note, No. 43,Behind the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK), June 16, 2003

[6]al-Salhy, Suadad ,Iraq says no success tracing killers of Iranian dissidents, Reuters, Nov 27, 2013

[7] Rubin, Elizabeth, The Cult of Rajavi, NewYork Times, August 5, 2009

[8] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/5656

April 23, 2014 0 comments

Iran

IRGC ‘not to allow’ acts of terror in Iran

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it will not allow terrorist groups and foreign-sponsored mercenaries to carry out acts of terror in the country.

In a statement released on Thursday, the IRGC described the policy of targeted assassination, fomenting insecurity and disruption of public security as being among the tactics pursued by the enemies of the Iranian nation.

“Resorting to medieval methods and the institutionalization of state terrorism and the incitement of violence and killing are the top policies and strategies of the hegemonic system, arrogance and the less-than-truthful advocates of democracy, freedom and human rights and the mendacious advocates of the campaign against terrorism,” the statement read.

It said, however, that the perilous and evil policy against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian nation has been and is doomed to failure and disgrace.

The statement also condemned the biased silence of the international organizations claiming to advocate human rights concerning the crimes perpetrated by the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and other terrorist groups against Iranians.

“It is a matter of great regret that some European and Western governments and circles have picked the despised and criminal mercenaries of the MKO terrorist group as advisors on Iran issues, and have adopted cheap positions and formal statements against the respected Iranian nation on the basis of their (MKO terrorists’) wrong, distorted and biased information,” the IRGC statement pointed out.

The MKO has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians.

The group fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it received now-executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s support and set up Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border.

On December 20, 2012, the Canadian government removed the MKO from its official list of terrorist organizations. Ottawa’s move followed similar measures by the US and the EU.

April 20, 2014 0 comments

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