“Shame on (President Nicolas) Sarkozy! Death to France! Shame on you, France, let go of the hypocrites!”chanted the crowd as police set up barricades outside the embassy in central Tehran, an AFP photographer said.,,Iranians call exiled opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI)”hypocrites,”and Monday’s demonstration was organised to protest against a PMOI rally outside Paris on Saturday
(Aznar and Bolton joined forced to found the Friends of Israel Initiative)… speeches by former Spanish Prime Minister José-Maria Aznar and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton – who recently joined forces to found the Friends of Israel Initiative- calling on the State Department to stop considering the People’s Mujahedin as a terrorist organisation and on the European Union to unilaterally reinforce the sanctions against Iran …
… These families live in difficult humanitarian conditions as their elderly men were scorched in the heat of the sun and the mothers were shedding tears for longing to meet their children. Other families carried photos of their sons and banners that condemn the repressive practices of the MKO/MEK/PMOI leaderships, and they called on the international community to help their children out of what they described as MKO’s hell …
… The organisers of this picket say that there are a large number of their children inside the camp but the leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation do not let them meet their families. The families emphasised that they have no choice except to sit in front of the gates of the camp until they are given access to their loved ones …
The MEK has a long record of carrying out violent attacks inside Iran. During the period leading up to the 1979 revolution, the group proudly murdered U.S. military officers and civilians working in Iran…More recently, MEK operatives inside Iran have carried out hit-and-run terrorist attacks on regime officials and have planted bombs in urban areas that have randomly killed civilians. The MEK and its supporters call these attacks acts of”resistance”against the regime…
…The conference, attended by people from Europe and North America, produced a statement stressing that more must be done to challenge the stalemate at the camp where 3400 people are imprisoned by cult leaders. The statement also forms the basis of a cooperative working document for the next year between the Camp Ashraf families and the conference delegates …
The British Foreign Office Thursday denied any links with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist organisation despite removing the anti-Iran group from its proscribed list two years ago. “The British Government has no form of contact with this organization, as a point of principle,” Foreign Office spokesman Barry Marston said
Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested members of an exiled opposition group who had planned terrorist attacks in Tehran on the first anniversary of a disputed presidential election, state television reported. The report said members of the Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO/MEK/PMOI) were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry before they could detonate bombs in”a few squares in Tehran”.
… The United States of America… asked for American citizens to visit their children who were arrested inside Iran on charges of illegal entry, and Iran allowed them to do so. The U.S. is called upon today to take a humanistic counterpart to the situation of Iran and to get the Mojahedin organization to lift the injustice against those who are detained inside the garrison and let their families and meet with them. But, how far is the one situation from the other? …
… Iraqi officials could not immediately be reached for comment. In the past, the government has said the exiles will not be forcibly returned to Iran, where the Islamic leadership considers the People’s Mujahedeen, or MEK/PMOI/MKO, an enemy of the state…The U.S. military will relinquish control of a base near a compound housing an Iranian opposition group next month