Head of the Diyala Province’s Foundation of Martyrs said the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) was the first perpetrator of terrorist acts in Iraq after the fall of Saddam.
“After Saddam’s downfall, leaders of this terrorist group held meetings with some Iraqi sheiks and those who have been affected in some kind of the fall of Saddam at their garrisons,” Mohammed Saleh al-Shammari told Habilian Association.
He added that they saw monuments at Camp Ashraf built to the memory of the al-Qaeda terrorists who had been executed by Iraqi government, when they entered the military headquarters of the terrorist group three years ago.
Al-Shammari added that the MKO elements assassinated Iraqi people before and after the fall of Ba’ath regime.
Diyala province, residence of MKO members, was the first province in which terrorist and suicide attacks took place and the terrorist operations subsequently occurred in Iraq was like the methods of MKO.
Earlier in January, Head of the Security Committee of Diyala province Meysam al-Tamimi said a number of al-Qaeda operatives have been trained in the main training camp of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq’s Diyala province (Camp Ashraf) to carry out terrorist attacks against the Iraqi people.
He added that a large amount of money and weapons were also funneled through Camp Ashraf to al-Qaeda and Salafist extremist groups to help them target Iraqis in acts of terror.
in Ahwaz [ a city near border] were children who were playing soccer, chasing each other and speaking Persian. I noticed children’s playing in other cities too. I was really impressed … I thought when I was at their age I was experiencing war. Those days, most nights we were awaken by air raid siren and had to go to shelters. We had only two TV channels and a lot of passionate revolutionary slogans… basically I don’t think my generation can claim to have had a childhood.”
the notorious group.
massage which was released on the MeK’s website, all those who have taken a position against this terrorist group anywhere in the world, are threatened to the fate of martyred Iranian officials such as Sayyed Assadollah Lajevardi, General Ali Sayyad Shirazi, and Ayatollah Sayyed AbdolKarim Hasheminejad.
“The US wants to utilize them (MKO members) as a tool to undermine the Islamic Republic of Iran and also the Saudis want to utilize them as a means to destabilize, discredit and derail the political process with the ultimate goal of dismantling the newly democratic Iraq,” Zayd al-Isa said in a Monday interview.
nature of the group which has a long history of hostility and terrorist attacks against the Iranian nation. Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Maryam Sanjabi had been working for the MKO for over 20 years before escaping from the group’s camp in Iraq almost 10 years ago.
Intelligence Agency (CIA) officially admits it was behind the coup against Iranian democratically elected Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953. However, the release of such a document doesn’t mean that the United States has stopped taking actions to destabilize Iranian government. The Mujahedin Khalq Organization with its dark history of treason and bloodshed against the Iranian nation is now being backed by the US.