Mujahedin Khalq

MKO survival dependent on creating crisis

Discussing the role of the Mujahedin-e-Khalgh Organization in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran;

Four former members of the Muhajedin-e-Khalgh Organization known as MKO in a press conference in Tehran shed light on the role of the MKO in eight years of Iraqi war against Iran in the 1980s. The former MKO members said that since the beginning, the leaders of the organization were looking for a source of support for the group and the Iraqi-imposed war provided them with the chance.

The press conference has been held as Iran is marking the sacred defense week which commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran back in 1980.

The group is notorious for carrying out numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, involvement in the 1991 bloody repression of Shia Muslims in southern Iraq, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north under Saddam.

The last group of MKO terrorists at Camp Ashraf was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join other members of the terrorist group in the former US-held Camp Liberty, now called Camp Hurriya, near Baghdad International Airport where they are awaiting relocation to other countries.

September 26, 2013 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi MP: Iraqis Have Deep-Seated Hatred towards MKO

An Iraqi parliamentarian called for an immediate expulsion of all members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from his country, and confirmed that the Iraqi nation has had a long-standing aversion to member of Iraq’s Parliament Abdul Hussein the notorious group.

The MKO terrorists must face trial as soon as possible and should also be expelled from Iraq entirely, member of Iraq’s Parliament Abdul Hussein Abdel-Azim al-Yasiri said, arguing that MKO members “have committed innumerable crimes against the Iranian and Iraqi nations.”

He went on to say that the Iraqi nation’s hatred of the notorious organization dates back to the era of the executed dictator Saddam Hussein, noting that people of the Arab country have been opposed to the presence of the MKO members on Iraqi soil since a long time ago.

His comments came after the notorious Camp Ashraf, which in its heyday used to house thousands of MKO terrorists in eastern Iraq, was fully evacuated from its few dozen residents by the Iraqi authorities.

The official end of MKO terrorist group’s activities in Camp Ashraf took place some days after clashes in the camp left at least 50 of them dead.

The remaining members of MKO terrorists were transferred from Camp Ashraf (now the Camp of New Iraq) to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport.

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.

September 21, 2013 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Saddam used MKO mercenaries to suppress Iraqi people

Iraqi Justice Minister: Saddam used MKO mercenaries to suppress Iraqi people but we don’t address them out of revenge

Iraq’s Minister of Justice and his Iranian counterpart sign four judicial memoranda of understanding in Tehran

Iraq’s Minister of Justice Hassan Shammari, and his Iranian counterpart Morteza Bakhtiari, signed four judicial memoranda of understanding in Tehran.

Iran’s Mehr news agency today reported that “the Minister of Justice Morteza Bakhtiari, announced during their meeting that four memoranda of understanding with the Iraqi side had been signed. The first three memoranda of understanding, on judicial cooperation in civil affairs and human rights, on judicial cooperation in criminal cases, and the extradition and transfer of convicts, as approved by parliament, and a fourth memorandum of understanding covering the transfer of convicts which remained, awaiting authentication by the Islamic Shura Council.”

Bakhtiari pointed out that during the past year, 40 memoranda of understanding and close cooperation have been agreed with the Iraqi government.

During the meeting, the Minister of Justice thanked the Iraqi government for having the measure of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) opposition. He said, “Iran has had 12 thousand victims of [MEK] terrorism during the past 30 years, and the Iraqi government’s decision gives satisfaction to the families of the victims of the terrorist acts committed by the ‘monafeqin’ (hypocrites) [Mojahedin]. Through our knowledge of the ‘monafeqin’ we know they deal deceitfully with the Iraqi government and the United Nations.”

For his part, the Iraqi Minister of Justice said, “We have a special view of the Mojahedin. Saddam used them to suppress the uprising of the Iraqi people, and after the fall of Saddam, the organization continued its provocative practices. Even so, we do not address them out of revenge, and our actions are completely legal.”

At the conclusion of the meeting, the Minister of Justice replied to a question from an Iraqi Mehr News Agency correspondent on the number of Iranian prisoners in Iraq, saying that there are “400 Iranian prisoners in Iraq and all of them were arrested on charges of illegal entry into Iraq.”

Translated by Iran Interlink

April 20, 2013 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi lawmaker: Iraqis’ wounds made by MKO not healed yet

“Iraqi people do have a dark memory of Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI), and the decision for their expulsion is a key and national decision,” said an Iraqi Kurdish member of parliament.

Parizad Shaban was quoted by Ashraf News as saying that the hands of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) are “smeared with the blood of people of southern and northern Iraq,” and the wounds of these people have not been healed yet.

MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was welcomed by Iraqi executed dictator, Saddam Hussein. In return, MKO helped him suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the Arab country in 1991.

Parizad Shaban called on all organizations and the media to work for the clarification of the crimes of this group-let for Iraqi people as well as the people around the world.

Surprised by the silence of some politicians and activists on the crimes of MKO, she reiterated that the presence of this group in Iraq “has no legal basis” and that Iraq is opposed to their presence on its soil.

Ashraf News, translated by Habilian Association

March 6, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

We witnessed the massacre of Kurds by MKO

Open letter to the Swedish parliament

Dear Mr Per Westerberg, President of the Swedish Parliament We witnessed the massacre of Kurds by MKO

Members of the Swedish Parliament

Ladies and gentlemen, we are a few long serving ex-members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI) who have been in Mojahedin Khalq prisons because of our disagreements with the ideology and the policies of the organisation. We have all been humiliated and undergone physical and psychological tortures while inside and even after being let out of the MEK prisons. We only managed to free ourselves from the claws of the Mojahedin Khalq after the fall of the infamous dictator regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In 1991 we witnessed the biggest co-operation between the leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, with the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein.

In a time that the Kurdish people had the chance of taking advantage of the weakness of the suppressive apparatus of Saddam. In that year when the military machine of Saddam Hussein had been severely weakened by the American forces in the first Persian Gulf war. The Kurdish forces had the best opportunity to move towards Baghdad and topple the regime of Saddam.

In March 1991 Massoud and Maryam Rajavi gave the order to massacre the Kurds with the heavy weapons given to them by Saddam and therefore stopped the Kurds from reaching Baghdad. This massacre of the Kurds is the most disgusting and shameful part of the history of this terrorist organisation during its entire existence.

The Swedish Parliament has accepted in the last few weeks to officially recognise the reality of the suffering of the Kurdish people of Iraq carried out by the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation in 1991. We believe that this just and humanitarian gesture should not be left unnoticed. We believe that other European countries should now pass similar resolutions and show their solidarity and respect for the people of Kurdistan.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are a few long serving ex-members of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation who have managed to survive after the fall of Saddam Hussein and now live in European countries. We are living witnesses of the crimes the Mojahedin Khalq have committed in 1991. We urge you to allow us to present ourselves to your parliament and let you know what we have seen with our own eyes. In doing so we are sure that many other aspects of this horrifying crime would be revealed.

Faryade Azadi Association

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January 30, 2013 0 comments

The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

Defectors to Testify MKO’s Massacre of Kurds

The defected members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) voiced their preparedness to go to the Swedish parliament to give a testimony about MKO’s key role in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds during the rule of executed dictator Saddam Hussein.

"In order to shed light on (Massoud) Rajavi’s involvement in the killings of the Kurds in Iraq during Saddam’s era, we are ready and willing to provide you (the Swedish parliament) with witness accounts and documents in this cause," the Iranian Pen Association said in an open letter to the Swedish Parliament Speaker, Per Westerberg.

The full text of the letter is as follows:

Greetings,

In a brave and humanitarian move, the Swedish Parliament passed a resolution on 5 December, 2012 acknowledging the massacre of Kurdish people. We as members of the Iran Pen Association salute this decision by the Swedish Parliamentarians and ask you to set up further investigations and research into the disastrous killings of Kurds, so that more people around the world would learn and realize how badly the Kurds have suffered under tyranny and therefore; similar atrocities against them in future could be prevented.

Among the ruling regimes in the Region which have suppressed the Kurdish people, Iraq’s ousted dictator Saddam Hussein had committed the most savage crimes. Especially, by the chemical bombardment of the town of Halabche and later by attacking the Kurds with heavy weapons and artillery, tanks and missiles when they rose up against Saddam’s despotic rule at the end of the Kuwait War. In fact, it was in this very brutal war against the Kurds that Saddam Hussein used the Iranian group of PMOI/MEK armed forces to savagely suppress the Kurds’ uprising and widespread massacres followed.

We, the writers of this letter, are from Iran Pen Association in Europe that consists of defectors from this Iranian group PMOI/MEK led by Massoud Rajavi. Our activities include Human Rights promotion and helping Iranian refugees. The majority of us have each spent more than twenty years inside Rajavi’s cult in Iraq and each one of us is a living witness and has abundant experience and knowledge of the PMOI/MEK leadership (Massoud and Maryam Rajavi), its cult nature, terrorist activities and its rule of terror, deceit and humiliation inside the Organization and also its grave involvement in massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

After the brutal suppression of the Kurds, Massoud Rajavi told his followers in a meeting in Iraq that Saddam’s deputy, Ezat Ibrahim, had personally hailed and thanked him for the killing of the Kurds and putting down their uprising. Furthermore, in video tapes discovered of meetings between Massoud Rajavi and General Haboush (the chief of Saddam’s secret Intelligence Service), Haboush thanked Rajavi for suppressing the Kurds and told Rajavi that he was then considered as a member of Saddam’s Baath Party leadership. In those days of waging war against the Iraqi Kurds, Maryam Rajavi ordered the PMOI/MEK armed forces to "run over the Kurds by tanks".

The truth and reality is that due to the religious-cult nature of the PMOI/MEK, the extent and depth of its crimes in and outside the Cult, including its involvement in bloody massacre of Kurds; has still mainly remained uncovered and untold. Therefore; in order to shed light on Rajavi’s involvement in killings of the Kurds in Iraq during Saddam’s era, we are ready and willing to provide you with witnesses and documentation for this cause.

With best wishes for Christmas and a New Year of Peace and Freedom.

Yours sincerely,
Iran Pen Association

December 27, 2012 0 comments

Sweden

Former MEK members offer witness over Kurdish massacres

Mr. Per Westerberg the honorable speaker of Riksdagen or Sveriges riksdag) , the national legislative assembly and the supreme decision-making body in the Kingdom of Sweden and the distinguished members of Riksdag

We are a group of the former members of people’s mujahedin organization of Iran (MEK, MKO, Former MEK members offer witness over Kurdish massacres Rajavi’s cult) who have succeeded to rescue ourselves from the physical and mind barriers of pmoi after 20-25 years of membership in this notorious organization.

We are currently living in different European countries such as France, Netherlands, Germany and …….).

We got informed that the members of Riksdag (the national legislative assembly and the supreme decision-making body in the Kingdom of Sweden) in a humanitarian move have condemned the massacre of Kurds by MEK.

Mr. Per Westerberg and the honorable and distinguished members of Riksdag,

We had all witnessed the crime perpetrated by pmoi in Iraq in 1991. we had witnessed the suppression and massacre of Kurds in Iraq which happened by the direct order of the leaders of MEK, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi . Mrs. Maryam Ghajar Azdanlo ( Maryam Rajavi) had ordered directly through the military transmitters to the MEK military units quote **squash the Kurds under your tanks and armored vehicles and save your ammunitions and bullets for the border and Iranian soil for killing the Iranian soldiers **. This brutal and inhumane order was broadcast by Maryam Rajavi own voice through the military transmitters and after that the Kurds who began uprising against the Saddam Hussein’s government were crushed out and suppressed brutally by MEK army, NLA( National Liberation Army) in favor of the Iraqi dictator , Saddam Hussein in Iraq’s Kurdish areas such as Kafri, Touz Khormato, Ghareh Tapeh, Ghasreh Shirin and …………..etc.

Mr. Per Westerberg and the honorable and distinguished members of Riksdag,

We, after the separation from this terrorist organization (MEK, mko, Rajavi’s cult) with sectarian and cultic internal affaires led and run by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi , have decided to reveal and disclose all the crimes perpetrated by this notorious and dangerous organization to stop this organization from further crime and killing .

We are urging you to give us the opportunity and permission to reveal and divulge the crimes perpetrated by MEK in face to face meeting with you and the honorable members of Riksdag in your assembly and inform you more about those crimes in details .

We know that some of the MEK terrorist members are active in your country and there are many documents and evidence which show that the MEK have been supporting them covertly and use them to attack its dissidents and opponents in France and other European countries.

We are eagerly waiting for your positive response to our request and we assure you that our face to face meeting will help you a lot to know more about this terrorist organization and also it will be a reliable source for the security of your country and Europe.

Respectfully
The former members of MEK
Faryade Azadi,

December 25, 2012 0 comments

Sweden

MEK involvement in massacre of Kurds on record

Open letter to the Chairperson of the Swedish Parliament

Greetings,
MEK involvement in massacre of Kurds on record
In a brave and humanitarian move, the Swedish Parliament passed a resolution on 5 December, 2012 acknowledging the massacre of Kurdish people. We as members of the Iran Pen Association salute this decision by the Swedish Parliamentarians and ask you to set up further investigations and research into the disastrous killings of Kurds, so that more people around the world would learn and realize how badly the Kurds have suffered under tyranny and therefore; similar atrocities against them in future could be prevented.

Among the ruling regimes in the Region which have suppressed the Kurdish people, the Iraq’s ousted dictator Saddam Hussein had committed the most savage crimes. Especially, by the chemical bombardment of the town of Halabche and later by attacking the Kurds with heavy weapons and artillery, tanks and missiles when they rose up against Saddam’s despotic rule at the end of the Kuwait War. In fact, it was in this very brutal war against the Kurds that Saddam Hussein used the Iranian group of PMOI/MEK armed forces to savagely suppress the Kurds’ uprising and widespread massacres followed.

We, the writers of this letter, are from Iran Pen Association in Europe that consists of defectors from this Iranian group PMOI/MEK led by Masoud Rajavi. Our activities include Human Rights promotion and helping Iranian refugees. The majority of us have each spent more than twenty years inside Rajavi’s cult in Iraq and each one of us is a living witness and has abundant experience and knowledge of the PMOI/MEK leadership (Masoud and Maryam Rajavi), its cult nature, terrorist activities and its rule of terror, deceit and humiliation inside the Organization and also its grave involvement in massacre of Iraqi Kurds. After the brutal suppression of the Kurds, Masoud Rajavi told his followers in a meeting in Iraq that Saddam’s deputy, Ezat Ibrahim, had personally hailed and thanked him for the killing of the Kurds and putting down their uprising. Furthermore, in video tapes discovered of meetings between Masoud Rajavi and General Haboush (the chief of Saddam’s secret Inteligence Service), Haboush thanked Rajavi for suppressing the Kurds and told Rajavi that he was then considered as a member of Saddam’s Baath Party leadership. In those days of waging war against the Iraqi Kurds, Maryam Rajavi ordered the PMOI/MEK armed forces to “run over the Kurds by tanks”.

With best wishes for Christmas and a New Year of Peace and Freedom.

Yours sincerely,
Iran Pen Association

December 24, 2012 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Iranian People Never Forgive MKO’s Crimes

A defected member of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) disclosed the cult-like group’s horrendous crimes against the Iranian Hussein Nejad;MKO former member who served as Rajavi's inerpreter nation, and said Iranians will never forgive the MKO.

"Rajavi (the ringleader of the MKO) killed a large number of Iranian people as well as the MKO members through deception and temptation," Ghorbanabli Hosseinnejad, a highly trusted veteran member of the MKO and the confided interpreter of MKO ringleader Massoud Rajavi in talks with Iraqi government officials during Saddam’s era, told FNA on Monday.

Asked if he thinks that the Iranian people will forgive the MKO ringleaders and members, he said, "I never think so. Rajavi’s blow at the Iranian people after the (Islamic) Revolution (1979) is not Iranian People Never Forgive MKO's Crimes forgivable."

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 grouplet 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, 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 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 argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after 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 US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty which lies Northeast of the Baghdad International Airport.

Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.

December 19, 2012 0 comments

The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

MKO’s Key Role in Suppressing Iraqis confirmed

The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) acted in full

MKO Ringleader’s Translator Confirms Group’s Key Role in Suppressing Iraqis

subordination to Iraq’s security services during the era of former dictator Saddam Hussein and played a key role in the massacre of Shiites and Kurds during Iraq’s Intifada in 1991, a defected member said.

"The Organization collaborated (with the Saddam-era Iraqi forces) in the suppression of the Iraqi Intifada in 1991, in which the Kurds in Kurdistan and the Shiites in Southern Iraq were massacred," Ghorbanabli Hosseinnejad, a highly trusted veteran member of the MKO and the special interpreter of MKO ringleader Massoud Rajavi in talks with Iraqi government officials during Saddam’s era, disclosed in an interview with FNA on Monday.

He confirmed that the group acted as Saddam’s extra military wing for conducting terrorist operations and kidnappings in Iraq.

Hosseinnejad also revealed that the cult-like group has carried out numerous terrorist operations along the Iranian borders and within the country, a number of which were in Tehran.

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the group 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.

Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.

December 19, 2012 0 comments

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