Why is it that the very US government who had despised the MEK aka MKO/PMOI in its early years is now coming around to shake hands with them and become an ally?According to Justin Raimondo of *antiwar.com* “the War Party is bound and determined to drag us, kicking and screaming, into a military conflict with Iran.” Raimondo asserts that the “nexus of this network is the government of Israel and its intelligence services which is ..
Large groups of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI are escaping Iraq stealthily and the number of residents in Camp Ashraf – the MKO’s main training center in Iraq – has dropped from 3,400 to 3,200 as the deadline for the expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq is nearing..The report said these terrorists have stealthily left Iraq for unknown destinations, but some of them have been sited in various countries,…
The special spokesperson for the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) has announced that the members of the terrorist group will leave Iraq and give up their ‘right’ to claim asylum in the country..the spokesperson said, “However, our situation will not be conducive to the departure of the country until the end of the current year.”..The Leaders of the terrorist group had repeatedly claimed their right to stay in Iraq..
The MEK, whose ideology fuses Islam and Marxism, was formed in Iran in 1965. It allied itself with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and fought against the Shah and his Western backers during the Iranian Revolution. After falling out of favor with Khomeini, the group was given shelter in Iraq by Saddam Hussein, who used them to conduct brutal cross-border raids during the Iraq-Iran war. After the fall of Saddam, the United States helped broker an agreement whereby ..
analyzing the reasons for Rajavi’s withdrawals, which Mujahedeen call it”relentless battle”, Indicates that the MEK/MKO/PMOI tactics in confronting the Iraqi government with the U.S, Europe and the United Nations are defeated and they are forced to retreat.Also, this situation shows that the MeK long term plan to be delisted and their efforts to satisfy the U.S are failed, because
With the arrest of 615 Saddamist Baathists in the middle and south of Iraq charged with activities that threatened the safety and security of the state, it may be that the dots are finally being joined up. Up until yesterday the MEK’s/MKO/PMOI websites and media were forcefully promoting the views of several Iraqi politicians who are among those arrested. Today their names have been carefully expunged from the site…
Significant changes that we will see in near future are managed changes that will be provided only in the context of MeK leadership Turbulence, pertinacity and conflict after George Bush’s presidency and U.S political change in the region. Hypocritical, contradictory and opportunistic approach of MeK leadership often causes them to lose Opportunity from the developments. Each time they have accepted the new conditions and requirements, they have engaged to Imaginative theorizing about victory…
… Entry of international organizations to this issue will provide arrangements and conditions for adjudication of Ashraf residents’ personal rights, the matter that is strongly opposed by MEK/MKO/PMOI leadership, so he will try all his efforts to abrogate it… it was proven once again that Mujahedeen should Adopt civilized behavior, also they should stop medieval and sectarian relations, even for survival of themselves. …
Since 1997, the MEK has been through many ups and downs and now, on the eve of its 50th anniversary, has mobilized all its efforts to be removed from the United State’s list of terrorist organizations. The MEK/MKO/PMOI says it renounced violence in 2001, after claiming responsibility for 350 attacks in 2000 and 2001, according to a RAND Corporation tabulation. However, a 2004 FBI report found that the group was “currently actively involved in planning and executing acts of terrorism.”
For now, however, there is virtually no sign of any American goodwill toward Iran, only animosity. Another clue to the tone of engagement is the delisting of the Iranian group, Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), from the US list of terrorist groups, which will be decided on in the next few weeks. This is bound to heighten tensions as Tehran abhors the US protection of the MEK’s Camp Ashraf inside Iraq.