The MEK as Saddam’s private army

Genocide of Iraqi Kurds by the MEK

In order to investigate the various aspects of the crimes of the terrorist group of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in the genocide of the Iraqi Kurds in 1991 and cooperation with Saddam in the massacre of the people of Iran, the Terrorspring Foundation organized an international conference on “Crime against humanity: Genocide of Iraqi Kurds by the MEK” on 1st and 2nd of March 2023.
On the first day of this international conference, speakers from Iran, Iraq and Italy gave speeches, they were Dr. Alireza Abedini, head of the Yassin think tank from Iran, Mr. Ibrahim al-Seraj, head of the Association for the Defense of Journalists’ Rights from Iraq, Professor Lorenzo Maria Pacini, a university professor and the representative of Unidolomiti University from Italy, Mrs. Maria Morigi, writer, archaeologist and researcher of the history of religions from Italy, and Mr. Mohammad Pouladvand, an international relations expert from Terrorspring Institute from Iran.

On the second day, we had the presentations of Dr. Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, Secretary General of Habilian Foundation, Mr. Yaqub Meraji, one of the separated members of the terrorist group of the MEK and one of the eyewitnesses in the terrorist act of killing Iraqi Kurds, from France, Mr. Daniel Perra, a journalist and geopolitical analyst from Italy, Dr. Robert Fantina, reporter and university professor from Canada, Mr. Mohammad Pouladvand, international relations expert of TerrorSpring Institute, from Iran. In the following, we will give a summary of the terrorist act of the terrorist group of the MEK in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in 1991.

two day conference on Genocide of Iraqi Kurds by the MEK

The Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MEK) was established in 1965. Their goal was described as fighting against global imperialism, especially America, and fighting against the colonialists of the Eastern and Western blocs, and their approach was armed fighting. With the victory of the Islamic revolution, the leaders of the organization, by nurturing the desire for power and monopolization to achieve absolute power and government, stand against the people and the people’s choice and neither accepted the Islamic Republic of Iran nor voted for the constitution. With the processes of brainwashing and changing the ideology from Islamic extremism to Marxism, they made their members unquestioningly obedient to their orders and started blind assassinations, which are known among themselves as engineering operations. These brutal assassinations targeted and killed more than 13 thousand Iranian citizens, including the president and prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Ali Rajaee, and Mohammad Bahonar, head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Beheshti, a number of MPs, ministers and religious scholars that they were assassinated by this terrorist group. After failing to gain power and losing their social base in Iran and the invasion of the Iraqi Baath regime, they sought refuge with Saddam and stood against their people and country and served the enemy. The MEK attacked their country in Operation Forough Javidan and massacred a large number of ordinary people that at the end faced the resistance of Iran’s armed forces in an operation called Mersad and which they hit hard from Iran’s armed forces and fled to Iraq with many casualties.

After the Forough Javidan operation and in the First Persian Gulf War and in order to weaken Saddam’s Baath regime, Iraqi Kurds who were chemically bombed by Saddam’s army in Halabja and Khurmal three years before, seized the opportunity to avenge bloodshed, and took over the Kurdish regions. The Kurds were able to take control of the cities of Mosul and Sulaymaniyah and then advanced towards cities such as Tuz, Kifri and Jalula. It was enough for the Kurds to cross the Suleiman Bey highway and reach the main road and advance towards Baghdad. A week after the Kurdish forces took control of the northern cities of Iraq, the MEK forces entered Kirkuk wearing Kurdish clothing and posters of Masoud Barezani and Jalal Talebani. At this stage, the so-called Liberation Army of the MEK carried out “Morvarid 1 and 2” operations and suppressed the people, and the Peshmerga prevented them from advancing in various cities. The MEK surprised the Kurdish militias and Peshmerga of Kirkuk and caused the Baathist government to regain control of the city of Kirkuk, during which, according to Iraqi Kurdish forces, hundreds of Kurdish residents of Kirkuk were massacred by the members of the MEK. It is estimated that more than 4,000 Kurds lost their lives at the hands of the MEK in Morvarid operations 1 and 2.

The purpose of this conference is to reveal the terrorist face of the MEK to people all over the world, especially the politicians, who should keep in mind that MEK terrorists has committed many crimes in every country where it is established to the innocent people of that country, that the concrete example of which can be seen in Iran and Iraq. We hope that by holding this international conference, we will be able to collect evidence for an international court for a fair trial to condemn the crimes of MEK terrorists, so that it will be a salve for the wounds of the families of the victims of the terrorist acts of this group, who lost their loved ones by this bloodthirsty group, for no reason.

The second day of the international conference “Crime against humanity: Genocide of Iraqi Kurds by the MEK” with the presence of political elites and civil activists accompanied by professors and researchers from Italy, Canada, France, and Iran was held on March 2nd, 2023 by TerrorSpring Institute, the experts in this section expressed their analysis and documentation regarding the genocide of Iraqi Kurds in Morvarid 1 and 2 operations, which were carried out by the terrorist group of the MEK in 1991, as a result of which 4 thousand Iraqi Kurds were massacred. To view the materials presented on the first and second days of this meeting and to know the details of the second day of this specialized meeting, please visit the TerrorSpring.com website.

On the first day of the international conference “Crime against humanity: Genocide of Iraqi Kurds by MEK,” we had the presentations of Dr. Alireza Abedini, head of the Yassin think tank from Iran, Dr. Ibrahim al-Seraj, head of the Association for the Defense of Journalists’ Rights from Iraq, Professor Lorenzo Maria Pacini, university professor and representative of Unidolomiti University from Italy, Mrs. Maria Morigi, writer, archaeologist and researcher of the history of religions from Italy, Mr. Mohammad Pouladvand, international relations expert from TerrorSpring Institute from Iran. On the second day, we had the presentations of Dr. Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, Secretary General of Habilian Foundation, Yaqhoub Meraji, one of the separated members of the terrorist group of MEK and one of the eyewitnesses in the terrorist act of massacring the Iraqi Kurds from France, Mr. Daniel Perra, journalist and analyst of geopolitical issues from Italy, Dr. Robert Fantina, journalist and university professor from Canada, Mr. Mohammad Puladvand, an expert of the international relations of Terrorspring Institute from Iran, and here we have a brief description of the statements of these respected experts below.

The first speaker on the second day of the conference was Dr. Mohammad Javad Hashminejad, Secretary General of the Habilian Foundation. He started his presentation with the philosophy of the presence of terrorism in Iraq and stated that the reason for this presence was the war and conflicts. As you know, the terrorist group of the MEK joined the Iraqi dictator Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war and entered the battlefield against their country. He further added that the name of the terrorist group of MEK is reminiscent of murder, killing, deception, and betrayal of their country, they entered Iraq in 1986 and were known as the military arm of the Iraqi Baath army for 3 decades, and in these 3 decades, nothing but bloodshed remained for the people of Iraq. On the other hand, the Baath army of Iraq provided financial support to this terrorist group by the order of Saddam and provided 15 military bases with full facilities, the right to a share of Iraqi oil sales, and monthly salaries for this group. The MEK came to support Saddam in suppressing Iraqi Kurds and Shiites and carried out heavy mortar attacks on the Kurdish and Turkmen areas of Iraq, which caused the massacre of 4,000 Iraqi Kurds. At the end of his respected speech, Dr. Hashminejad stated that the governments that have been harmed by the terrorist group of the MEK must enter the field and take steps to protect the rights of the families of the martyrs and terror victims.

The second speaker on the second day of the conference was Mr. Yaqhub Meraji, one of the separate members of the terrorist group of the MEK and one of the eyewitnesses in the terrorist act of killing Iraqi Kurds from France. At the beginning of his speech, while thanking Terror Spring Institute, he pointed out how the Pearl 1 and 2 operations were started, which were carried out by deceiving the members of the terrorist group of the MEK by the leaders of this cult. He went on to talk about the memories of this operation and the brutal killing of ordinary people, among whom there were many women and children, who were massacred with tanks and heavy weapons without shelter. At the end of his speech, he mentioned his readiness to appear in international courts and insisted on the necessity of condemning the terrorist group of MEK.

The third speaker on the second day of the conference was Mr. Daniele Perra, a journalist, and analyst of geopolitical issues from Italy. He started his speech by thanking the Terrorspring Institute for dealing with the important issue of this conference and pointed out the infiltration of the terrorist group of the MEK into Italy using the Brothers of Italy party, which several members of this party follow Giulio Terzi (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy) who is one of the supporters of the terrorist group of MEK. He also mentioned the history of the establishment of the MEK and the ideological change of this cult from Islam to Marxism, which later, since it was neither Islamic nor Marxist, but a customized combination of the two, caused them to hate the Islamic Revolution and joined the Baath party of Iraq which was the enemy of that time and then in 1988, they carried out a military operation against Iran called Forough Javidan, which was accompanied by a heavy failure. In this regard, Massoud Rajavi, with his new ideology, forced the members to divorce after the defeat of Forough Javidan, this was while the leader of this cult is still brainwashing and torturing her members in Albania. The leaders of this cult tell their members that they have nowhere to go, but Iran has repeatedly announced that the members of this cult can return to their country and be safe, of course, this does not include the leaders of this cult. Among the features of this cult are preventing members from communicating with their families, forced divorce, forced marriage with cult leader Massoud Rajavi, forced separation of children from their families, prohibition of marriage and childbearing, and even prohibition of thinking about marital issues. After being in Iraq, the MEK helped Saddam in suppressing Iraqi Kurds, which of course they deny this issue now. In Morvarid operations, 1 and 2, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi lied to their members that Iran’s revolutionary guards and military forces were wearing Kurdish clothes and were planning to attack you, and with this deception, they forced their members to kill Iraqi Kurds. At the end of his speech, he added that people in Europe and America do not have any information about the actions of this terrorist group, no one knows that the MEK’s money laundering activities, they gave a lot of money to European parties such as the Vox party of Spain and American personalities to have their support to infiltrate those countries, no one knows that the MEK is involved in drug and human trafficking for money laundering and many other actions that people should be aware of these activities.

The fourth speaker on the second day of the conference was Dr. Robert Fantina, a journalist and university professor from Canada. At the beginning of his speech, he mentioned the hatred of the Iranian people for the terrorist group of MEK because this group supported Saddam and betrayal of their country, and then he discussed the dual policy of the United States in dealing with such a terrorist group, which has been on the list of terrorist organizations for several years but due to its enmity with Iran, the United States removed this group from the list of terrorist organizations in 2012 and put it in front of Iran. In the continuation of his speech, he mentioned the killing of Iraqi Kurds in the Morvarid operations and the history of this operation in 1991, which happened during the Gulf War, because of the Gulf War which caused the terrorist activities of Saddam like the killing of Iraqi Kurds in Anfal operation who killed 200,000 Iraqi Kurds and the operations of Morvarid which MEK killed 4 thousand Iraqi Kurds be hidden for the eyes of world’s people. At the end of his speech, he mentioned the words of Maryam Rajavi during the Morvarid operation, who said, “Throw the Kurds under the wheels of the tank and save your bullets for the Iranian revolutionary guards.”

The fifth speaker on the second day of the conference was Mr. Mohammad Pouladvand, an international relations expert from TerrorSpring Institute from Iran, who mentioned the internationally substantiated documents. At the beginning of his speech, he mentioned the CIA report and added that, according to the CIA report, the People’s Mujahedin was introduced as a terrorist group that assassinated several American advisers. The FBI also released a report from 2004 that explicitly called the MEK “a terrorist organization.” In several parts of this FBI report, the terrorist nature of MEK and Massoud Rajavi has been clearly stated. Interestingly, this report also emphasizes the assassination of several American citizens by MEK. The FBI report says that MEK attacked 12 Iranian diplomatic centers abroad and assassinated several other innocent people. If you read the reports of the New York Times, Guardian, and other prominent American news agencies, you will understand how Maryam Rajavi deprived the members of this group of their basic rights. The propaganda group now offers huge sums of money to invite politicians to its annual gathering, who are largely ignorant of the background and true nature of the MEK, some of the reports said.

It is seriously necessary to pursue the rights of the victims of the assassination of the MEK in Iraq, especially in the Kurdistan region. Their crimes should not be forgotten due to the departure of this terrorist group from Iraq or political considerations. There are numerous and reliable documents of the crimes of this hated terrorist group, and by working together, good results can be obtained for the benefit of justice and the victims.

By: Alireza Niknam

March 29, 2023 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MEK cult neither likes women nor Kurds

written by Nejat Society

These days, the propaganda of the Mujahedin Khalq makes efforts to exploit the incidents in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish 22-year-old girl. Although the heartbreaking death of Mahsa sparked wave of protests in Iran, the MEK is absolutely incompetent to take any position in support of Mahsa or Iranian women in general. The group has a long record of women rights abuses and killing Kurds.

When the group was located in Camp Ashraf –the group’s base in Iraq donated by Saddam Hussein– the MEK continued to launch its terror acts staging cross-border attacks against Iran. As Saddam’s private army, it helped Saddam to crush uprisings against his rule after his defeat by the US in the 1990 Gulf war.
In March 1991, Saddam deployed the MEK to help quell the armed Kurdish independence movement in the north. According to the New York Times, Maryam Rajavi told her fighters: “Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian revolutionary guards.” The MEK vehemently denies it participated in Saddam’s campaigns to put down the Shia and Kurdish rebellions, but an Iraqi human rights tribunal has indicted MEK leaders for their part in suppressing the uprisings.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization is notoriously known as the Cult of Rajavi, an apparently feminist cult which is actually a polygamist cult. Near a thousand women who have been members of the group since the 1980s were forced to wear hijab according to the group’s regulations. However, gender discrimination in the MEK is not only restricted to forced headscarves.

Female members of the group are victims of a cult of personality around Massoud Rajavi who forced them to divorce their spouses in 1989 and a year later ordered to separate their children from them. The children of Mujahed parents were smuggled to Europe under the order of Massoud Rajavi. Mothers were indoctrinated under the cult of Massoud. They were elevated in the hierarchy of the cult until they were coerced to marry Massoud Rajavi, under the rule of his third wife, Maryam Rajavi.

A number of children were smuggled back to Iraq in their teen years. These teenagers included dozens of girls. They were recruited as soldiers of the MEK’s so-called National Liberation Army (NLA). They were ordered to wear military uniforms and headscarves. They were forced to receive military trainings by MEK commanders.
Although several of MEK female members could manage to escape the group and eventually reveal facts on women rights violations in the MEK, there are still hundreds of women in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania. These women usually show up in the group’s propaganda with red silk headscarves tightly tied under their chins. They do not even have the right to choose a different color for the scarves or they are never allowed to push the scarves just one or two centimeters back on their foreheads.

Thus, Maryam Rajavi is neither a representative of Iranian women, nor she is a sympathizer of Iranian Kurds. She is just a chameleon who chants slogans according to the incidents in Iran in order to please her paid advocates in the West.

September 24, 2022 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

A glance at the crimes of the MEK in killing the Kurds

written by Nejat Society

In the spring of 1991, at the request of Saddam, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization killed the people of Iraqi Kurdistan; Of course, the organization denies such things these days.

In the spring of 1991, during the first Persian Gulf War, the People’s Mojahedin Organization (MKO) killed the people of Iraqi Kurdistan.

However, in recent years, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has denied any involvement in the clashes with Iranian forces Mohammad Mohadessin, the foreign policy chief of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Paris, said in an interview: “The Mojahedin did not cooperate with any government against the opposition of any country, including the Iraqi opposition.” But there is evidence that the MEK committed Kurdish genocide in an operation called “Pearl” after the imposed war and in support of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime.

In the first Persian Gulf War, following the weakening of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime, Iraqi Kurds, who had been chemically bombed by Saddam’s army in Halabja and Khurmal three years earlier, seized the opportunity and captured the Kurdish territory.

Maryam and Massoud Rajavi

Operation Pearl of the MEK against the Kurds

At the direct request of the Iraqi army, Massoud Rajavi sent troops to the Kurdish areas to save Saddam’s regime, under the pretext of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s forces attacking the MEK bases, and suppressed the Iraqi Kurds until the Iraqi Ba’athist forces which all gone south, return to northern Iraq.

Rajavi claimed that the Revolutionary Guards brigades had captured the city of Khanaqin militarily and issued an order to move artillery, tanks and infantry to the city at night. The city of Khanaqin was under heavy bombardment for a week, and many Kurdish forces opposed to Saddam’s regime were killed, and many homes in Khanaqin were completely destroyed in the operation.

Prior to the invasion to Kuwait, Saddam’s army had evacuated towns and villages in some specific area of northern Iraq from the Kurdish population, killed a number of people in the area, and exiled many to Iran and Turkey.

After Operation Forough Javidan, which led to the defeat of the MEK in Iran, Saddam entrusted the guarding of northern of Iraq, region of Kurdish villages to the Mojahedin Khalq Organization that with the beginning of the first Persian Gulf War, Rajavi’s forces went to that area from Ashraf garrison.

The Kurds were able to take control of the cities of Mosul and Sulaymaniyah and then advance towards cities such as Tuz, Kafri and Jalula. It was enough for the Kurds to cross the Sulaymaniyah Highway and reach the main road and advance towards Baghdad, in which case it would be very difficult to confront them; But the so-called Liberation Army of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization at this stage carried out Operation “Pearl 1 and 2” and suppressed the Kurds, but the Peshmerga in various cities prevented their advance.

Also, a week after Kurdish forces took control of northern Iraqi cities, Mujahedin-e Khalq forces entered Kirkuk in Kurdish costume with posters of Massoud Barezani and Jalal Talebani. They surprised Kurdish militants and Peshmerga in Kirkuk and caused the city of Kirkuk was recaptured by the Ba’athist government, during which, according to Iraqi Kurdish forces, hundreds of Kurdish residents of Kirkuk were killed by members of the MEK.

Kurds Massacre

Separators of the organization; Witnesses of the operation

Many members of the organization have shared narrations of the operation. Even some members left the organization due to the attack on the Iraqi Kurds, although these were the people who escaped the purge of the organization. “I did not say anything for fear of being harmed or sending me to the Iraqi intelligence” said Shokrollah Gorgizadeh, a separated member of the organization.

Shams Haeri, an old and separated member of the organization, wrote in the book Mordab: “The Mojahedin Khalq Organization occupied a large part of the Kurdish areas … before the Kurds came to these areas. In the city of Sulaymanbag, the first Mojahedin operation against the Kurds began. The weapons of these Peshmerga were Kalashnikovs and sniper rifles, but the MEK attacked them with B.M.P, A55 tanks and other heavy weapons.

… Many Iraqi Kurdish soldiers who fled the war and wanted to go to their families, crossing the mountains for fear of the Iraqi army and the insecurity of the roads, were attacked and killed by the MEK on the way.”

In this book, Haeri, in addition to stating that members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization shot at Kurdish houses in the city of Tuz and looted their property, responds to the organization’s claim in recent years: “The MEK has called the war against the Kurds “Operation Pearl” to cover up Kurdish genocide and interfere in the internal affairs of the Kurds; If only in Khanaqin, that means in the border area between Iran and Iraq, a part of the Mojahedin Khalq forces… were attacked by the forces of the Islamic Republic; But in other places… there was no Revolutionary Guards. During the operation, four teenagers under the age of 20 were arrested and brought in front of Iraqi television cameras as ‘Guards’ to prove that the Iraqi Kurds were not – all – Kurds, but that agents of the regime were among them.”

Reza Asadi, a pilot and air force officer who was among the flight crews during the escape of Bani Sadr and Rajavi and was a member of the organization for many years and left the organization after a few years, has stated in his memoirs entitled “Vapasgara”: “Saddam had promised to stand in front of the Kurds until the Iraqi forces arrived and block the way for them … The MEK justified its forces and members by saying that they(the Kurds) were not – in fact – Kurds; but, it is the forces and soldiers of the Islamic Republic that are dressed as Kurds!”

Rajavi’s enmity with the Kurds

“Iranian soldiers, dressed in Kurdish uniforms, are trying to attack the Mujahedin,” – Massoud Rajavi told in briefing meeting to members of the organization. He said shortly afterwards when members became skeptical that “The Revolutionary Guards of the Islamic Republic and the Union of Kurdistan have united to attack the Mojahedin.”

After Operation Pearl, summarizing operations were held at Camp Ashraf. “The Iraqi Kurds were our long-time enemy … In this operation, we had strategic unity and common interests with the landlord and we saved the landlord (Saddam),” – Massoud Rajavi told in the meeting.

Maryam Rajavi also said: “I had previously told you that these people do not deserve to be shot and put them under the tank and keep the bullets for the guards.”

Majid Alamian, the commander of the 1st Axis Engineering, said in a report: “The locals, got killed with the forces surrounded by the armored and mechanized units of the First Axis and gathered in the heights of the Jebehdagh, we buried them with a loader, one of them was alive and was blown up several times by a person named Ghulam Nabi with a loader nail and hit the ground to be killed. This is the hatred of Maryam’s fighters against the Iraqi Kurds.”

Other documents and evidence

In terms of evidence, the Iraqi Kurds have repeatedly stated that they have documentary evidence that the MEK played a role in suppressing the 1991 Kurdish uprising.

After the situation calmed down, during Saddam’s visit to Diyala province, the governor of Diyala told Saddam in front of reporters’ cameras that “we owe Iraq and Diyala province to the services of the Mujahedin brothers.”

Saddam’s first deputy, Ezzat Ibrahim al-Duri, also congratulated Rajavi at the meeting of the Iraqi Ba’ath party after the repression of the Kurds, and everyone that was presented, applauded for a few minutes. The video of this meeting was broadcast by Rajavi at the internal meeting of the organization for all members.

Also in 2009, when the Iraqi Supreme Court was convened to investigate the crimes of the former Iraqi regime during the 1991 uprisings, it was announced that about 5,000 complaints had been filed against the Ba’athist regime and the Mujahedin Khalq Organization.

The Iraqi Kurds hate the MEK so much that after the fall of Saddam, they called for the trial of Massoud Rajavi, accused of collaborating with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the Kurdish people in Iraq.

By Jack Turner , geopolitica.ru

October 9, 2021 0 comment

Role of MKO in occupation of US Congress

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Role of Mujahedin-e Khalq in occupation of US Congress

written by Nejat Society

The Russian news agency Sputnik on January 7, in a report entitled “Strange participation of the opposition of the Islamic Republic (Iran) in the attack on the US Congress” by Dr. Emad Abshenas, revealed the presence of the Iranian opposition, including Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and monarchists in inciting the people and occupying the US Congress.

The presence of members and supporters of the MKO terrorist group and monarchist organizations in the occupation of Congress indicates that the Trump administration intended to create chaos and inflammation in the United States by planning ahead and using terrorist groups.

Dr. Abshenas writes: “On the morning of the incident, some pictures of the presence of these people with their official flags in the demonstrations were published in various media, but even I, who has been working in the field of media for more than thirty-five years, could not believe it. That these images are true and I thought maybe these images are fake. But during the day, I received many calls from friends of my correspondent in the United States, all of whom insisted that well-known collections of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and the monarchists, whose images were usually published in demonstrations against Iranian officials traveling to New York, were also published. , Participated in the demonstration. These reporters who were present at the scene, and some of them also cover Iranian news, and through whom I am familiar with them, emphasized that even if these people did not carry their official organizational flags, they were so famous that they all “They knew.”

Role of MKO in occupation of US Congress

To overcome his doubts about the presence of the counter-revolution, the author of the article refers to an interview with one of his media friends, and finally the veracity of the news is confirmed. Dr. Abshenas writes in this regard:

“I hesitated for a while, but on Thursday evening I saw an interview with Mr. Mansour Farhang in one of the anti-Iranian Persian media, which he also confirmed. “American journalists may be mistaken in identifying these people, but if someone like Mansour Farhang confirms this, it is clear that there is no longer any doubt about it.”
The presence of MKO and other terrorist members in demonstrations in favor of the Trump administration suggests that Saudi Arabia and Israel invested in this terrorist group not only to destabilize Iran or West Asia, but as the fifth pillar within the United States. They also work for the benefit of their masters. The MKO and monarchists, who have seen Trump’s defeat as a kind of defeat for themselves, have played a role in inciting the people to occupy Congress with prior planning.

Mr. Emad Abshenas points to another point in this regard and writes:
“I immediately remembered the words of several Saudi journalists, two of whom are editors of well-known Saudi publications. We talked separately a few days ago, and both of these editors insisted that Mr. Jared Corey Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, had taken large sums of cash dollars from Saudi Arabia to the United States during his recent visit to the United States. The money is to lure Trump to attack Iran. But by putting the puzzles together, it can also be inferred that maybe the money was for something else. And it came to my mind, does it mean that it is possible that Mr. Kushner needed this money to create a revolt in the United States and Saudi Arabia gave it to him? “It is no secret that Saudi Arabia and Israel have invested heavily in Trump and had high hopes for the next term of Trump’s presidency and suffered a heavy blow with his defeat in the election.”

There is no doubt that the members of the terrorist organization are puppets and mercenaries of Saudi Arabia, and there is even a history of ties between this group and the Zionist regime. The groups appear to have been involved in the attack on Congress at the behest of Saudi Arabia and the Israeli Green Light, and may have been at the forefront of inciting people to enter the building.

Masoud Khodabandeh, a former member of the Central Council of the MKO, said in a detailed interview with the Islamic Revolutionary Documentation Center on May 12, 2016, about how to finance the organization:

“As you know, part of the costs of Saddam’s war with Iran were paid by Saudi Arabia (of course, with the approval of the United States) and sometimes by Kuwait or other sheikhs. The MKO’s share of the budget was part of the same budget, with Saddam contributing part to the dollar (through money laundering through charities they founded, such as Iran AIDS in London) and part to the dinar (which Saddam’s secret televisions filmed after the delivery of banknotes). It came out) until Saddam’s relationship with the United States and the West began with the invasion of Kuwait and the first Gulf War. I remember that at that time the relationship between Mr. Massoud Rajavi the leader of MKO and Saudi Arabia was temporarily straightened out and Rajavi was summoned to Saudi Arabia (where travel was secret at the time but later the video and photo were made public) Prince Turki al-Faisal was in charge of Saudi intelligence at the time.

Those years go back and of course King Abdullah was the crown prince and the person above Turki al-Faisal. King Abdullah sometimes even directly controlled Rajavi’s actions. On one of those trips, I brought to Baghdad three trucks of gold (about one ton each) and lots of gifts, including Royal Rolex gold watches and other items, which were later paid for with the help of a number of Jordanian businessmen affiliated with the Saudi court. We converted. The organization, of course, in these three or four decades with the property it stole from the families of its members, with the money it received from the services under the name of personnel expenses, with the per capita money it received from Saddam Hussein and the money it earned through smuggling oil and a thousand other illegal ways. “Open a company, a hotel and a trading post.”

Mr. Khodabandeh’s confession confirms that the MKO organization has served the interests of these countries for many years as mercenaries of the United States and Saudi Arabia in different parts of the world, and even welcomed cooperation with ISIS and terrorist acts in Iraq and Syria. One of the reasons that the United States and Europe removed this group from the list of terrorist groups was their surrender to the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

In his Sputnik article, Mr. Abshenas points to another point, referring to the presence of hypocrites in the occupation of the US Congress:
“Of course, the supporters of these groups may have wanted to warn both US lawmakers and the president-elect that they have a strong military presence in the United States, and if the next US administration wants to improve its relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, “There will be various riots and terrorist acts, and the main reason for carrying these flags is to convey the addresses of their supporters, and they naturally wanted to tell Trump and Trump’s allies that they are with them to the end.”

The question is, will the Biden administration and the security officials of the new US administration, who are undoubtedly aware of the unusual movements of the MKO and monarchists occupying the US Congress, allow this terrorist group to operate again? There is no doubt that the MKO, wherever they are, will act as mercenary terrorists in the interests of their employers and will be a stopping factor for instability in the country.

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August 26, 2021 0 comment

The MEK to launch Armed Struggle

How the MeK Tries to Revive the Militia of Saddam’s Regime?

written by Nejat Society

The National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA) is a label invented by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK) and took by some individuals to describe the so-called Military Wing of this group. However, those who are familiar with the MeK know the wrongness of this designation. That is because members of this terrorist cult along with its leaders are either actual or potential military forces.

The NLA was established in 1987 during Saddam’s regime. Formed by a few thousand members of the MeK, this militant entity was equipped by Saddam with a variety of light and heavy weapons including various models of tanks, cannons, helicopters, and fifteen military camps in different parts of Iraq.

Carrying out terrorist acts in the border areas of Iran, numerous military attacks on Iranian territory during the Iraq-Iran war, and cooperating with Saddam’s regime in the widespread repression of Iraqi Kurds and Turkmen in the north and Shiites in the south of Iraq after the Persian Gulf War are among the actions of the MeK’s army which took place in cooperation with the dictator of Iraq. Scattered bombings in various parts of Iran during the 1990s, which killed dozens of innocent Iranian citizens, were also part of the terrorist activities of the Liberation Army.

After the MeK’s forcible disarmament in 2003, the Liberation Army was disintegrated. Taking advantage of this forced event, the group introduced itself as an opposition group and political opponent of Iran. However, this show was oriented to foreigners to disguise the group’s terrorist nature and did not pursue any internal goals.

During all these years, the MeK tried to masquerade itself as a democratic political group to international public opinion and foreign political officials. Hypocritically, they behave completely otherwise when interacting inside the country. This paradox is highly visible in the group leader’s message on June 20, 2021, and the subsequent developments.

Eighteen years after forcible disarmament of the group and the disintegration of the national liberation army, in a hateful message on June 20, Rajavi, leader of the group, announced the formation of the new militia of the liberation army entitled Fifth Round of the Liberation Army’s Founders. Afterward, the official Persian website of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization distributed tens of images and recorded videos of armed men claiming that they are citizens who have joined the Fifth Round of the Liberation Army’s Founders as a response to Rajavi’s call.

Female soldiers of the National Liberation Army of Iran stand in formation at a training camp east of Baghdad, Iraq. Women make up nearly half of the NLA, the armed wing of the MEK.
Photo: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images

The question that the MeK leader should answer is that why the videos of the people with guns in hand using violent literature are not released on the group’s English websites so that their non-Persian supporters can see them too? Why did the MeK, in its annual gathering held in Tirana this year, only show their international guests the images of unarmed members of the Fifth Round of the Liberation Army’s Founders and no the armed ones? Isn’t this so deceitful, hateful, and violent that the Mojahedin has no inclination to let the world see the reality and its true nature?

The Iranian people know the Mojahedin-e Khalq and its history very well and this group should not be mistaken for a democratic political group. There are foreign figures who, due to political reasons, do not want to face the truth. We suggest that they get to know the nature of this cult. The MeK had been a militia and now almost after two decades, they are reviving their militia under different titles.

During the activity of MeK’s Liberation Army, the Iraqi dictator Saddam, in flagrant disregard of international law, was their sole supporter. Now that Saddam is gone, are the Mojahedin-e Khalq supporters seeking to assume the role of the former Iraqi dictator?

August 3, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin-e Khalq and Saddam cooperation

The MEK; Baath Party Accomplice

An alliance that destroyed MEK diminishing credibility inside Iran

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A controversial feature of the organisation was its decision in 1983 to ally itself with the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. Massoud Rajavi moved to Baghdad in 1986 and the following year announced the formation of the National Liberation Army (NLA). The NLA fought alongside Iraqi forces against Iranian troops, an alliance that completely destroyed the organisation’s rapidly diminishing credibility inside Iran.

Mujahedin-e Khalq and Saddam cooperation

July 28, 2021 0 comment

Massoud Rajavi

The advantages of war for Massoud Rajavi

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After Massoud Rajavi gained the absolute authority over the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi), which was achieved with the death of Musa Khiyabani in Tehran, as an opposition movement he could also gain some support from Western countries.

Their argument was that the fate of the Islamic Republic was first of all linked to the outcome of Iran-Iraq war and secondly, the other superpowers do not want Iran to win in the war, and thus Iraq will not lose the battle. Therefore, Rajavi decided to formally sit next to Saddam Hussein and to link the whole entity of his organization to the Iraqi Ba’ath regime.

Rajavi arrived in Baghdad from Paris to sign treaties with Tariq Aziz, the then Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, on June 7, 1986. As a result, the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare turned into the strategy of the liberation army.

Rajavi and Tariq Aziz

Rajavi’s analysis included the followings:
1. Regional warfare is not stable, its activity and inactivity are relative and sporadic
2. Urban guerrilla warfare with the goal of killing the regime’s agents, although it is linked to the regional warfare in a progressive phase, takes a lot of time and prompts the enemy’s full cover so it is futile in short-term. When someone kills an agent of the Iranian revolutionary guard, he believes that the system is still stable. In this case, rapid and fast overthrow do not work.

3. The Liberation War is a completely new experience in the contemporary history of the world and it’s with more subtle and more perfect than any military strategy. With the aim of breaking spells in the short run, and by resorting to the golden principle of maximum invasion, total warfare and absolute mobility, it manifests itself in revolutionary warfare.

Rajavi’s ostensible analysis survived the collapse of Saddam Hussein, and the eventual expulsion of the MEK from Iraq, and ultimately, its relocation in Tirana in Albania. It is still considered as the main strategy of the group.
For years, however, there has been no war of this kind, but the priority for the MEK leaders is to launch a new war against Iran. They spend millions of dollars in their lobbies in the US government to obstruct any possible negotiations between Iran and the US.
The question is that, exactly what kind group is the MEK which is ready to make all its efforts to rebuild a new war with Iran? The priority of military invasion to Iran is so crucial for the MEK that they are ready to admit the disgrace of their wish against the Iranian nation!

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Stay in war conditions
The two main dimensions of this important issue are the maintenance of forces within the organization and the use of the group as a proxy force against the Islamic Republic of Iran for Western government like US and Israel. More precisely, the leaders of the MEK can only promise to their victory to their members in a direct conflict with Iran after 40 years of frustration and failure. On the other hand, the experience of the group in Saddam’s war against Iran will be appreciable inside the group, only during the repetition of the war on Iran.

Subversion only with war
Today, the political estimates of the world show that in the current stability and security of Iran there is no sign of the collapse. Iran is one of the most powerful countries in the region and it can even impose its will on the region and even the world – an incident that has actually occurred.
This estimate for Iran is so clear that MEK can understand even with all that mistaken analysis and strategies of Massoud Rajavi, they have to admit that their 40 years of their work will bear no fruit. So the only option left for them to collapse the Islamic Republic is a military warfare. Aside from the fact that over the past decade no power in the world has been willing to launch a war on Iran because of its risks, but the MEK leaders still hope that the conditions will reach a stage where this option will be implemented.

Living in an insecure environment
A survey on 40 years of MEK’s activities and possible achievements show that at the peak of its power and capabilities due to the lack of the least popular base, the group has never been a source of social movements in Iran, and has only been able to move into insecure slots. In fact, a stable and secure Iran risks the existence of the group.

Stability and progress of Iran mean death to the MEK, so they struggle to obscure the media atmosphere in the absence of military options against Iran. This psychological act is not just limited to the media of the group, the elements of the group try to induce a military strike against Iran in an extreme manner in the various media spaces and social networks in which they are active.

The arrival of the Lincoln Aircraft Carrier to the Persian Gulf or the dispatch of an American bomber into the region are examples of news headlines in the MEK-run media.
The MEK makes efforts to insecure the mental space of the Iranian society. This way, they provide justification for members who are no longer in control of the group leaders to stay in Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania.

May 29, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Beware of MEK’s activities in Western media

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The Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) has indicated that it counts on the impact of propaganda and psychological war rather than practical activities. Its propaganda work started from the Mujahed journal, the Mujahed radio and later on their TV channel Sima-ye Azadi. Rajavi’s efforts were to show off his group’s so-called activities.

The MEK have constantly tried to showcase their large-scale, popular form of advertising through media and promotional activities, instead of succeeding in creating a successful social base among Iranian nation. Using such techniques, the MEK leaders deceive their members and their foreign sponsors about the social base of the group in Iran. They have to make them believe that the so-called supporters in Iran donate funds to the group.
Perhaps this is not the case for Saddam and Rajavi relationship but Saddam was one of the most deceived ones by the Cult of Rajavi. Although the Ba’ath Party’s intelligence service tried to make a precise assessment of the veracity of Rajavi’s claims, the fact was in the videos of the meetings of the Rajavi’s representatives with the Ba’athist security officers that were published after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

The MEK: Masters of Propaganda

The assassination of the Iranian civilians in the streets and markets was actually sold to Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi dictator also paid large amounts of money to the group for the assassination of Iranian officials and military figures. The group’s terrorist acts were actually used as a fuel for their propaganda machine.

However, during Saddam’s era for a group that was looting the Iraqi people’s oil, using media capabilities of the Ba’athist regime and international capabilities with Saddam’s help was nothing special. But after the collapse of Saddam, it was also discovered that the MEK used to use Iraqi media tools. One of the most prominent examples of this action were one-page or half-page advertisements of the MEK in Iraqi newspapers, calling Iraqi tribes for support. In one case, they had allegedly issued a statement to prevent the group’s expulsion from Iraq!

Photo: President of the National Resistance Council of Iran Massoud Rajavi, left, meets with and the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Iraq in June 1986.

Meanwhile, the use of western and European media capacity was also considered by the MEK who was seeking to attract western politicians. The MEK-sponsored expensive reportage advertainments became possible by paying hefty amounts of money to politicians and journalists. All expenses were made to gain support of the terrorist Cult of Rajavi.

The MEK has more or less kept on the policy throughout the recent years. Today, the list of politicians and journalists who sell their dignity to a handful of dollars can has been revealed in the mainstream media several times, even the exact amount of money that they were pail has been made public. Eventually, the group has repeatedly has lost its connections in Western media over the past years, its communications have been blinded, and it has been forced to spend a lot of money on new connections.

Nevertheless, the sensitivities of Western audiences on the credibility of their media should be regarded as serious. The disclosure of such communications with MEK as a cult-like violent group, will make the Western audience react.

Studying the websites owned by the MEK simply reveals the clues of the communication of the Cult of Rajavi with certain Western media, and the repetition of the reportage ads for an event related to the group, indicates the links. The Western governments should prevent the publication of such contents because it is a case of material support for a terrorist group.

May 15, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Saddam’s Private Army

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Ms. Ann Singleton wrote the book Saddam’s Private Army in 2003 on “How Rajavi changed Iran’s Mojahedin from armed revolutionaries to an armed cult”

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Part One – From prison to Ideological Revolution

Chapter 1 – Historical context
Chapter 2 – Rajavi’s first bid for power
Chapter 3 – National Council of Resistance
Chapter 4 – Foreign Relations
Chapter 5 – Armed Struggle
Chapter 6 – Internal Relations
Chapter 7 – Ideological Revolution

Part Two – From Ideological Revolution to Cult Status

Chapter 8 – Internal Relations
Chapter 9 – Armed Struggle
Chapter 10 – Foreign Relations
Chapter 11 – Rajavi’s second bid for power
Chapter 12 – Internal Relations
Chapter 13 – National Council of Resistance

Part Three – The Mojahedin in the Present

Chapter 14 – Dissent within the Mojahedin
Chapter 15 – Political Scene

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April 15, 2021 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Anti-Iran Terrorist Group Mojahedin-e Khalq’s Ties to Iraqi Army in 1980s

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Below is an interview with Mr. Yaghout Meraji, a former member of the anti-Iran terrorist group the Mojahedin-e Khalq MEK, conducted November 24 and 25, 2020.

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Robert Fantina: The participation of the MEK in the joint operation with Saddam Hussein has been one of the most controversial disputes between the Mojahedin-e Khalq and their opponents. You claim that you participated in 1988 the Mojahedin-e Khalq military operation from France. Can you explain the facts of this war?

Yaghout Meraji: Our main reason of presence in Iraq was the total collaboration with Saddam’s army against Iran during the war between the two neighbor countries.

Each MEK military action was completely dependent on the Iraqi army, including all authorization. Unfortunately, we betrayed our country by participating with the Iraqi army in the war against the Iranian regime and it’s an unforgivable sin forever.

RF: The opponents of the Mojahedin claim that there are many strict requirements regarding the separation of men and women, brainwashing, etc. Is this true? What information do you have in this regard?

YM: When you are an MEK member you don’t have any right to think of anything else; just the two leaders. Every other thought is strictly not allowed. You must obey as they order to do.

In fact, I can consider the MEK as a brainwashing factory.

RF: Do the security forces of the Mojahedin Khalq control the members and their behavior?

YM: I think have answered this in previous question; however, they control all.

RF: Some opponents of the Mojahedin Khalq claim that its leaders are violently opposed to other groups opposed to the Iranian government, especially the monarchists. Can you discuss this?

YM: Yes, it’s true. In each big general meeting, Mr. Rajavi used to start his speech by attacking the other opponents for saying that MEK is a unique alternative to the Iranian regime; he couldn’t ever support the other opposition groups.

RF: You say that you were present at the Zaerian residence. Do you know Mr. Amir Saadouni, who is currently participating in the vandalism case in Villepinte? Who was in charge of him and what were the duties and missions assigned to Saadouni by the Mojahedin Khalq Organization?

YM: Yes, I’ve seen Mr. Saadouni two or three times in Zaerian, when MEK needed help; generally, several people came from different European countries and Amir Saadouni was one them. His stay lasted one or two weeks. He was in charge of driving and transporting the food and any other foodstuffs to different residences of MEK. He has a very good relationship with the official members, such as Mr Abrishamchi etc.

RF: Which of the officials and cadres of the Mojahedin Khalq have you been in contact with and what have been your main duties and responsibilities in this group?

YM: The official cadre who was directly in contact with me was Mohsen Jarari (Issa) and in Zaerian Hossein Pourheidari.
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My duty was mainly that of a translator.

RF: Were you involved in the financial transactions of the Mojahedin Khalq in France? How much money were transferred to the accounts related to the group?

YM: This question is very difficult to respond to, but in Zaerian I saw two financial transfers two times monthly from England.

RF: Maryam Rajavi and some of the group’s cadres have gone to Albania from France for nearly two years and have not returned to France. What is the reason for this non-return?

YM: After widespread transfer of the MEK from Iraq to Albania, all members of the group were living downtown with the population. In this case the new lifestyle has changed the vision of a large number of the MEK members and this action caused them to separate from and abandon the MEK. This situation was seriously hard, for which Maryam Rajavi understood that if she doesn’t move to Albania immediately, MEK will be finished.

This program was very interesting for the French government and it was the wish of the French government that the MEK leave France definitely without any eventual return.

RF: Have you ever been with the group’s delegations to the European Parliament? How are these programs coordinated, and what were the goals of the group during these meetings?

YM: Yes, each opportunity to speak with European countries is important just for showing that MEK and its political branch, NCRI, are alive. The MEK foreign relationship organized the meeting with EU and into two groups, one to support Mrs Maryam Rajavi; this group was present in the meeting room just to applaud her speech, and another group outside of EU parliament for lunch and slogans. Ultimately, it was useless as usual.

RF: Are the contents presented by the supporters of the Mojahedin Khalq on Twitter, Facebook, etc., based on personal analysis and political views of the members of the Mojahedin Khalq, or do the group officials order the posting of these articles by their supporters?

YM: When you are a member of a cult you don’t have any one to talk you out of the MEK goals so you become like a robot and have to execute everything they demand. This is exactly the same situation for the supporters who are very active in the social media.

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RF: Did the Mojahedin-e Khalq also commit fraud against the French government and the French people? What were the details of these actions?

YM: Unfortunately yes, specially the members of NCRI. Those who received the wages monthly in cash didn’t report to the tax authorities. That is the same situation for the foreign workers.

RF: As you know, the Mojahedin massacred more than 12,000 Iranians since the 1990s, and then assassinated people like Sayad Shirazi, nuclear scientists, etc. in Iran; however, the group was removed from the European and American terrorist lists. What do you think was the reason for these removals?

YM: Yes you’re right, it’s a political game to put them on terrorist list for pressing Iranian regime to come to the negotiation table and remove MEK from the same list trying to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

RF: Until a few years ago, the organization had more than 500 members at its headquarters in France, and if we assume that it spends € 500 per month per member, more than € 250,000 would be the monthly cost of the headquarters of Auvers-sur-Oise. Were the incomes of the organization enough for these costs and were taxes paid to the French government?

YM: MEK had obtained sufficient financial means from Saddam during the time he was in power. Because of that abundant financial aid, the MEK is able to continue. In 2003, French security forces during a search discovered more than € 8 million cash in their office.

RF: Do you have any information about the arrest of Mrs. Rajavi by the French police on charges of money laundering in France?

YM: Early in the morning, MEK members called me to tell the news about this and asked to go to the front of security French forces office in 15th district near the Eiffel tower. A few minutes after gathering in this place, I saw a man burning in the flames.

RF: According to the US State Department in 2011, the MEK has no social base inside Iran, but abroad they declare themselves as an alternative to the Iranian government. Is the organization unaware of this or does it just intend to deceive the thoughts of European and American political elites?

YM: That is right. Since 1981 MEK hasn’t had any legitimate prestige in Iran for a simple reason, collaboration with Iraqi invading army. For the Iranian people that is unforgivable forever and for this reason was forced to link its existence to foreign forces.

RF: One of the methods of assassination the organization used was suicide operations, such as the method used in the assassination of Martyr Madani, who was assassinated by a member of the Mojahedin with an explosion. How does the organization convince its members to carry out such operations?

YM: Yes correct, this terrorist action has never existed before, MEK is founder of this kind of terrorism in the world.

RF: Saadouni, a member of the Mojahedin and close to Abrishamchi, was arrested in Belgium for carrying explosives and falsely stated during interrogation that he had received the bomb from an Iranian diplomat. Is this part of the organization’s new suicide operation, established with the intention of damaging the international image of Iran?

YM: As you know, survival of the MEK is absolutely essential in these circumstances, so sacrificing the other members as Saadouni or anyone else is very simple and crucial. And it may be mainly to attract the attention of the media as was done in the beginning of this year regarding the rumor of Maryam Rajavi’s death.

By Yaghout Meraji and Robert Fantina, Global Research,

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