France

Anniversary of Raid on a Sect called MKO

In Paris on Sunday 15 June ,2003, a judge ordered detention of the leader of MKO/PMOI/MEK and a number of her followers to face trial for possible links with terrorism. ..The DST, the French equivalent of MI5, claimed that Maryam Rajavi and her husband, Massoud, were ready to turn Auvers into their terrorist headquarters..’The attempts at self-immolation to protest against the arrest of Madame Radjavi are proof of a new fanaticism..

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The EU Presidency and Terrorism

France is already preparing for its EU Presidency which is scheduled for July-December 2008. For sure, France has identified a number of key policy areas on which to focus when it assumes the presidency. The first issue that is of great importance for the country members of the EU is security and preventive measures against terrorism and its global threat, a responsibility all the countries have a share to fulfill.

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Is France the next option for MKO to settle after Iraq?

..and since the Iraqi government is determined to expel the group and close up the camp, dismantlement of Camp Ashraf drives MKO into much critical situation beyond what it is suffering at the present. Its barren efforts to be removed from the lists of the proscribed organizations have made it much difficult to convince any country to accede to the group’s flow of refugees. ..since some key ranking figuresare already situated in France and the organization is engaged in an extensive campaign aimed at winning support from among the politicians there France might be the next appropriate option.

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French Judiciary Prosecutes MKO

The Foreign Ministry Director for West European Affairs noted that France’s stance ran counter to Tehran’s agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency on a timetable to answer outstanding questions about its nuclear activities.The Foreign Ministry strongly protested over France’s push for another UN Security resolution

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France to Probe Killing of Iranian

French authorities plan to investigate the 1999 killing of a top Iranian general, which was claimed by an Iranian opposition group based in France, judicial officials said Monday.Brig. Gen. Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of the joint staff command of the Iranian armed forces, was gunned down in April 1999 in front of his home in Tehran by men dressed as city cleaners

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Nejat Society Letter to The Ambassador of the Republic of France in Tehran

We wish to inform you that on 17 June 2007, about 50 members of a proscribed terrorist cult named the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO), who had been dispatched from Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands and Germany, attacked a seminar organised by the Association for Supporting the Emigrants and Iranians in France. The venue was at FIAP in the 14th District of Paris.

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Iranian Woman Vs. MKO in French Court

French judicial sources announced that an Iranian woman, who was injured in a terrorist operation by MKO in 2000 in Tehran, met French investigator after fours years of filing her complaint,”AP reported from France. Osaneh Mahmoudi had filed a complaint against terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq in France in 2003, because she had been injured in

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Anniversary of Raid on a Sect

The leafy rue des Gords in this little market town north of Paris hardly lives up to its reputation as a new world capital of terrorism. It was here that hundreds of police smashed open the doors of suburban houses in a dawn raid which the French claimed had pre-empted worldwide strikes by the militant Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahideen.

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