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Protest against the MEK intensifies security treats in Iraq

Nejat SocietyJune 12, 2011082 views

The protesters who gathered at the front of the Ashraf camp called on the government to deport the members..This is the right time for the Iraqi government to now step up its actions against the MKO/MEK/PMOI group as well as other armed groups which are directly or indirectly linked with any other armed group in or outside of the Iraq territories, the tightening of securities in and outside of Iraq will create an enabling environment for more investment companies to thrive and even expand their operations in the country,

New committee to follow”Mojahedin Khalq”file

Nejat SocietyJune 12, 2011095 views

… The Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense, revealed Thursday, that his committee had agreed with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to form a committee to follow up the file of the MKO. He also agreed to raise the financial budget of the military institutions. Said Hassan Sanead, told the Kurdish news agency that the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense met with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as a leader of the armed forces and discussed with him the three major security files of the country. ..

MEK’s U.S. Congress lobbyists expelled from Iraq as”undesirable”

Nejat SocietyJune 12, 20110101 views

… Members of Congress who had been in Baghdad on an official visit were expelled from Iraq on Friday. According to reliable sources the government decided to expel a delegation, chaired by [Rep. R-Calif.] Dana Rohrabacher, as undesirable elements. The U.S. Congress called on the Iraqi government to pay compensation for losses to the U.S. army in Iraq, pointing out that the U.S. government cannot afford to incur huge amounts of financial expenditure in light of the current economic hardship…

CIA use MKO terror group to counter Anti-war campaign

Nejat SocietyJune 11, 2011085 views

.. Supporters of the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, a controversial Iranian resistance movement that was once allied with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, took up a couple of rows in the Dirksen Senate office building hearing room. They were wearing matching day-glow yellow T-shirts and vests that read, “Protect Camp Ashraf” and “Delist MEK.” Also in the audience was a smaller contingent from Code Pink, the antiwar group. Code Pink members, wearing their signature pink shirts, silently held up signs in the aisle opposite the MEK. Their signs read, “End war – rebuild America”; “Bring our war $ home”’; and “Diplomacy not war!!” …

U.S. saw leftist Iran opposition group Mujahadeen Khalq as a ‘cult’

Nejat SocietyJune 6, 2011093 views

… The State Department has concluded that the Mujahadeen Khalq, or MEK, was holding Iranian exiles against their will in Iraq’s Camp Ashraf. The department, in cables sent to Washington over the last 20 years, asserted that Mujahadeen set a policy of killing suspected defectors from the movement supported by the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. Wikipedia said the group which played a major role with the leftist Tudeh Party in the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, was more”religious, radical, anti-American”than the earlier generation of Iranian leftists …

The MeK Badly Needs Rebranding Makeover

Nejat SocietyMay 30, 2011097 views

the then-secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote in a 2009 internal cable:”The most powerful myth the MEK has been able to lodge in minds of most supporters is that they are the democratic alternative to the current regime in Tehran.” She also referred to the MEK’s “terrorism and Cult-like repression of its members.”..The writer offers solution to supporters of MKO in order to succeed in selling their cause. He also notices the difficult path they have to take to purify the background of MKO,” like trying to get opium qualified as “all natural”

Retired US Officer: No Country Willing to Shelter MKO Members

Nejat SocietyMay 29, 2011092 views

No country in the world is ready to shelter the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) members and their only left option is a return to Iran, a retired US intelligence officer said.”We have talked with several countries via the US State Department but no one is willing to accept them in his country,”Steve Hasty said, addressing the audience at the ‘International Policy Institute’.”And the only way left for them might be a return to Iran,”he added.Hasty also warned about the MKO members’ severe sexual misconducts,

Escape of three more leaders of MEK from Ashraf

Nejat SocietyMay 21, 2011094 views

Three leaders of the MKO/MEK/PMOI in Camp Ashraf northeast of Baghdad have escaped and surrendered themselves to Iraqi security forces. A source, who asked not to be named, said in a press statement on Wednesday that,”the three leaders were able to escape from Camp Ashraf”, noting that one of the three defectors from the organization is a high ranking member. The source pointed out that”there is information from the Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) which have been confirmed stating the existence of many numbers of those resident in the camp who are trying to get out”.The source said that”dozens of them managed to escape..

European lawmakers: Try MKO members for crimes against humanity

Nejat SocietyMay 19, 20110161 views

Shortly after this raid, German MEP Barbara Lochbihler wrote a letter to fellow MEPs and maintaining “the claim by Ashraf residents to be cut off from water supplies was incorrect.” She stated that the “inhabitants of the camp [were] themselves victims of this totalitarian cult”…They said the recent bloodshed at Camp Ashraf “should not … distract us from an objective and level-headed analysis of the PMOI’s track record,” urging “all members [of parliament] to seriously consider the history, actions and behaviour of the PMOI before signing any declarations or letters of support in favour of this group in the future.”

US seeks to keep Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq

Nejat SocietyMay 18, 20110101 views

The U.S. declared the MEK/MKO/PMOI a terrorist organization in 1997, citing a series of attacks in Tehran.When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 it disarmed the group, seizing thousands of weapons from Camp Ashraf. The residents lived an almost monastic life, separated by sex and observing a strict ban on alcohol and smoking. Iran has demanded that camp residents be repatriated to Iran and has promised to reintegrate them into Iranian society,..