In June 2003, police arrested 167 people in the Paris suburb of Auvers-sur-Oise where the MKO is based. Of those arrested, 17 were placed under formal investigation, including Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the MKO’s political wing on suspicion of "associating with wrongdoers in relation with a terrorist undertaking".
Following Maryam Rajavi’s arrest in France, a number of Mojahedin’s sympathizers, reported 20, committed self-immolations in streets of Paris and other Western cities to obtain her liberation. These acts of self-burning were organizationally preset acts of dissent dictated to the members who practiced them.
This has been referred to in the website of Mansour Ghadr Khah, a member of NCRI, called “Iran liberty”. In this regard Ghadr Khah states: “Hundreds of people have inscribed themselves in the list for self-immolation. So, if the French government does not put an end to its common plot with the Iranian regime, they are determined to set themselves ablaze.”
Mr. Hassan Piransar arrived in Europe a few weeks ago. He is one of the former executive members of the MKO who managed to escape Camp Ashraf by taking refuge with American forces in the TIPF which was established to help people escape the cult. When TIPF was closed earlier this year, Mr Piransar made his way through Iraqi Kurdistan and on to freedom in the west where he is now a political refugee due to his opposition to the MKO and the IRI.
As one of the executive members, he has experienced and witnessed the many abuses and deceptions practiced by the Rajavis not only toward outsiders but in particular against their own members. He attended a meeting of the Iran Delegation of the European Parliament on September 9, 2008 to ask that Camp Ashraf be opened up to humanitarian bodies and that the people trapped inside be rescued. He emphasised that mass of misinformation issued by the Rajavis and their backers such as Robin Corbett, Paulo Casaca and Struan Stevenson, is aimed at keeping human rights organisations out of Camp Ashraf so that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi can continue their inhuman mistreatment of their captives behind closed doors.
This special report by filmmaker James Longley focuses on the impact of the
MEK on US–Iran Relations. Though the MEK, an exiled Iranian group, is listed on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, they continue to enjoy both the covert and overt support of some members of US Congress and the Bush Administration because of their opposition to the Iranian government.
This filmed report explores the history of the MEK, their ideology, their participation in the Iranian revolution and exile from Iran, and their collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s regime. Using interviews with historians, journalists, and first-person accounts of former members of the MEK, their shifting role is tracked through to the present day, as they continue to play a central role in US-Iran relations and create sharply divided opinions between various branches of the US government.
A film by James Longley
Download The Mujahedin Khalq and US-Iran Relations- Part One
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A delegation from Nejat Society traveled to Geneva to participate the meeting of United Nations Human Rights Council and to visit the delegation from other international human rights organizations in order to prevent the political abuse of the remaining captives in Camp Ashraf, and guarantee the individual rights of those who basically deny terrorism and are willing to return to the society. Nejat Society delegation includes:
Mr. Babak Amin, Mr. Arash Sametipour, Mrs. Marjan Malek, Mrs. Ronak Dashti.
Massoud Khodabandeh and Arash Sametipoor join live from Geneva
Massoud Khodabandeh and Arash Sametipoor who are attending the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Participate in a discussion about the future of Camp Ashraf after hand over to the Iraqi Govenment.
(The recorded video file is 44.04 minutes. the discussion on MKO starts in the second part of the programm. 22.56 min)
4 corners, Press TV,
Following the de-proscription of Mujahedin Khalq from the UK’s terrorist list and open support of that country for MEK terrorists, more than 10 thousands citizens of Shiraz signed a letter for British Embassy, Tehran.
How sweet it is to live within a warm, relaxing atmosphere among your family members.
After years of grieves under physical and mental pressures, it is so fascinating to stay with your own family without being worried about the cult leaders’ punishment or the peer pressure of the comrades.
What a pity that they lost many years of their lives without such CALM!
On Monday 5 February 2008, a delegation consisting of representatives of different Moslem organisations and societies in Britain, paid a visit to the Nejat (rescue) Society in Tehran. They met with Ms. Hura Shalchi, Ms. Marjan Malek, Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Mr. Jamil Bassam while some representatives from the British Embassy in Tehran as well as families of the MKO members in Ashraf Camp were present. The seven members of the delegation each represented a British Moslem establishment which totally covers a good deal of Moslem community in Britain
Another chapter in their history is no less than a permanent stain on the reputation of Massoud Rajavi’s People’s Mojahedin. They lost respectability from this. Having participated actively in the repression of the Iraqi Kurds, the PMOI can hardly win the confidence of Iran’s Kurds whom that often cite as supporters.
It happened in 1991 right in the aftermath of Gulf War while Saddam Hussein ordered Rajavi to help him with suppressing Kurds’ uprising in the north of Iraq.”
To cover their crimes against Kurds, Mujahedin claimed that they repelled the attack of Iranian forces to their bases and called the alleged anti – attack,”Pearl Operation”.
