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On the eve of his visit to Tehran, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al- Maliki once more reiterated the expulsion of the terrorist MKO from Iraq. Speaking to Al-Iraqiya television on 6 August 2007, he said, “The presence of MKO in Iraq is detrimental to Iran’s security. This organization is in the list of terrorist organizations and its presence in our territory is tantamount to ignoring rules, regulations and the constitution.’
Al-maliki’s remarks have annoyed the terrorist group to such an extent that it could not hold back its indignation. In an angry backlash against al- Maliki’s statement, released by NCRI site, the group slanderously condemned him and other Iraqi officials:
There is hardly any doubt that Mr. Al-Maliki and other officials in his government are the main sources of the problems in Iraq as they endeavor to realize the sinister objectives of the Iranian regime. For this reason, a majority of Iraqis view the removal of the Al-Maliki government as the first step in improving the situation in Iraq. Currently, 17 cabinet ministers have boycotted the cabinet.
It is surprising that Mr. Al-Maliki described the presence of PMOI in Iraq as being detrimental to the security of the Iranian regime. It is not clear as to whether Mr. Al-Maliki’s first priority is to safeguard the security of the Iranian regime or that of the Iraqi people, who are being massacred and mutilated ruthlessly on a daily basis by the mercenaries of the religious fascism ruling Iran.
Of course, al-Maliki’s first priority is security of Iraqi people and it is accomplished if terrorism is uprooted and the terrorist groups, supported by the coalition forces, are expelled from Iraq. For sure, a neighbour country’s security guarantees its neighbours” immunity against threats and terrorist operations. It is a country’s right whether to grant asylum to the aliens or expel them if they threaten the social and political security and impudently condemn a national decision as tantamount to the perpetration of war crimes:
In light of the obligations and commitments of the Iraqi government to international laws, in particular International Humanitarian Law, the sacred right to asylum and the Geneva Conventions (specifically the common article 3 of the Conventions), any violation of these obligations as they relate to the residents of Ashraf City, and as suggested by Mr. Al-Maliki, is tantamount to encouraging the perpetration of war crimes. The National Council of Resistance will, therefore, take this case to international bodies.
The presence of MKO in Iraq is not consistent with the Iraqi constitution and laws and it is a responsibility that falls inside of the mandate of Al-Maliki and his government to confront terrorism, whether the terrorists like it or not.
Mojahedin.ws – 10/08/2007
The championship of the Iraqi national soccer team in the Asian Cup tournament was a praiseworthy feat and the Iraqis burst into a celebration of joy and happiness despite the dominant internal chaos that is tearing their country apart. The championship fosters hope that the country has the potentialities to overcome its overwhelming plights inflicted by insurgent and terrorist groups, majority of who are the accomplices of the ousted Saddam’s regime. But can a national sports team’s success or failure signify efficiency and inefficiency of a country’s nationally elected government and parliament to steer a country that is mainly dominated by alien forces?
That is the way MKO, a proscribed terrorist group that enjoys support of the US forces in Iraq, looks at it much because the group is at odds with the Iraqi government over its decisiveness to expel the terrorist group from Iraq. Once forming close alliance with Saddam against Iran, MKO acted also as his loyal mercenaries in suppression of uprising Iraq dissidents. After the fall of the dictator, in a shift of position the group claimed to be standing beside the Iraqi people in a unified front to secure its stay in Iraq. As it is naturally a terrorist group whose strategy of struggle is founded on armed and violent warfare, it preferred to make coalition with Iraqi insurgent groups.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, MKO’s member who has established a close cooperation with Fox News, in his recent article released by Fox News takes advantage of the Iraq soccer team’s championship and attempts to disparage the legally elected government of Nouri al-Maliki and the parliament. He makes wild accusations against the advocates of the nation and country;
Iraqis are wondering: if 11 young men can instill a sense of unity by playing soccer, can the government of Nouri al-Maliki and the 275 politicians elected to steer Iraq to a brighter future achieve the same result? The people are particularly wary of the government as more evidence surfaces suggesting closer ties between Iraqi officials and the secret torture centers, as well as the death squads meant to heighten sectarian violence.
At the time when there is a nationally unified call for a terror-free Iraq led by a nationally supported government that is determined to uproot terrorism and violence, MKO’ headquarters in Camp Ashraf has turned into a den of conspiracy where terrorist gangs meet to plot. As Jafarzadeh refers to:
In mid June, as many as 10,000 Iraqi tribal leaders and local residents, mostly from the volatile Diyala Province, gathered in the headquarters of the main Iranian opposition in Ashraf City, which is also in the Diyala Province. At this event, which combined speeches and entertainment and was called "solidarity for peace and freedom in Iraq," a statement signed by 450 thousand inhabitants of Diyala called for unity of all Iraqi ranks against foreign intervention, especially that of the Iranian regime.
In an immediate move to confront gatherings of the terrorists, the Iraqi government banned Iraqis’ traffic to Camp Ashraf. No doubt, the people of a country can came together as a whole nation and live peacefully. But the problem lies in the fact that neither can they coexist with the parasites of an ousted regime nor the unwelcome guests consent to the will of a nation to desert the soil once they were housed to conspire against the two nations. MKO in its struggle to survive not only claim a position similar to that Iraqi citizens with all granted rights but also postures as being in the vanguard of accomplishing democracy for Iraqi people. That is what Jafarzadeh cleverly purports in his article by advertising Camp Ashraf as a place of amalgamating solidarity and coalition:
Iraqi sports and music, as well as the large social and political gathering in Ashraf City, are living proof that Iraqis from all political and religious backgrounds can live, work and thrive in harmony.
For sure, hardly any of those, although some unknowingly, who participate in Camp Ashraf’s gathering consider the interests of the nation since a man is known by the company he keeps. These are explicit evidences of MKO’s interfering in Iraq’s political and social sectors to destabilize the solidarity between the nation and the state. Fortunately, Iraqi people and government are well aware of MKO’s masqueraded nature and the objectives it strives to fulfil and are dedicated to work together to overcome problems. The existing anarchy is nothing but the outcome of the negligence of the alien forces that provide for the prowl of the terrorist groups and hold over the will of the nation to be fulfilled.
Sattar Orangi – Mojahedin.ws – August 7, 2007
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Tehran, July 25, IRNA – Two former members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO), Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Jamil Bassam, said that the organisation has reached the dead-end, and the countdown has started for its decline.
Khodabandeh and Bassam, both 54, became members of the MKO in 1983 and quit the terrorist organisation four years ago.
Talking to IRNA, they uncovered issues about the terrorist group which are "interesting and surprising".
MKO, SILENT ON STATEMENT OF US STATE DEPARTMENT
The interview with the two former MKO members started with the…circumstances "surrounding an accident". The question was: "Why the terrorist MKO has remained silent vis-a-vis the annual statement of the US State Department, after more than two months."
Khodabandeh, who was active at the MKO international relations section for some 20 years, said that the main reason behind this silence was that the statement refers to the MKO as a "Cult of Personality".
He believes that this title, as well as keeping the MKO in the list of "Proscribed Terrorist Groups" by the European Union which recently has been announced, would internationally weaken the position of the organisation.
Although the US State Department has put the MKO in the list of the International Terrorist Groups since 1984, it has underlined the organisation being a "cult" this year.
Khodabandeh, who has made broad studies on cultic organisations and cult leaders, said that according to definitions presented by psychiatrists and sociologists around the world, cultic organisations are those whose members are under mental coercion and mind indoctrination.
According to the law in European countries, unauthorized imposing of systematic manipulation on individuals is an offence which is subject to legal prosecution, he added.
Based on definitions, those who are under thought reform processes in such cults would carry out tasks on the demand of the cult leader they would have never done in normal life and natural situations, he noted.
Meanwhile Jamil Bassam, who was active in the MKO publications section in several European countries for years, outlined another important issue.
According to him, after the MKO was put on the list of terrorist groups by the US State Department as well as the EU, the organisation made great efforts, through American and European Courts, to be dropped from the list.
Regarding the issue, Bassam believes that the US State Department has adopted a "tougher" position on MKO by classifying it a cult as well as putting it in the list of terrorist organisations.
The US State department has come to such conclusion by receiving information from the massive number of former members of the organisation both in Iraq and in other countries, he added.
The statement has reiterated that the MKO, in addition to its terrorist record, has displayed cultic characteristics, too.
The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997.
This statement quotes: "In addition to its terrorist credentials, the MEK (MKO) has also displayed cult-like characteristics.
Upon entry into the group, new members are indoctrinated in MEK ideology and revisionist Iranian history. Members are also required to undertake a vow of "eternal divorce" and participate in weekly "ideological cleansings." Additionally, children are reportedly separated from parents at a young age. MEK leader Maryam Rajavi has established a "cult of personality." She claims to emulate the Prophet Muhammad and is viewed by members as the "Iranian President in exile."
Khodabandeh believes that the statement by the US State Department is the work of experts and professionals and is not politically motivated.
MKO EFFORTS TO DRAW ATTENTION OF WAR-MONGERING PENTAGON FACTION
The two former MKO members further unveiled the efforts made by the terrorist organisation to establish relations with the war-mongering faction of the Pentagon.
According to them, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the terrorist MKO made efforts to attract the attention of certain war-seeking elements of the Pentagon.
They also referred to internal disputes in the US saying the US State Department, contrary to the view of the Pentagon war mongers, is opposed to using the MKO as a tool.
Khodabandeh referred to the statement of the US State Department plus the classification of the MKO as a cult, the two huge "obstacles" in the way of such efforts.
He believes that by inserting the MKO in the list of terrorist organisations again, both by the US and the EU, efforts for the MKO cooperating with the west in general and the USA in particular are "blocked".
Considering the expert views presented on the terrorist MKO, the US State Department would argue that the cult is not trustworthy and would be placed in the rank of such groups as al-Qaeda, the two former MKO members said.
Regarding the question of the cults, they said that "methodology" is the prime issue, not the "ideology". In other words, in a cult, the use of methods for total mental domination on a person in line with the cultic tendencies would be under consideration.
Khodabandeh said that the position of the terrorist MKO for Washington is similar to those terrorist groups supported by the US in certain countries of the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, who later took action against the US interests.
Bassam also believes that the MKO is trying to take advantages of the existing Iran-US disputes for its survival.
He added that as to restrictions faced by the MKO since it was included in the list of the International Terrorist Groups, the MKO members, in order to escape the restrictions in Europe and in the US, were active under the cover of "Iranian Societies" and "National Resistance".
WHY SILENT
The remaining question is that due to the negative impacts of the statement of the US State Department on the activities of the MKO, why the cult had remained silent over the past two months and had not given any response?
Khodabandeh gives an interesting answer to this question. He said that the MKO used to take a tough stance vis-a-vis previous statements issued by the US State Department but this time the case is different.
According to him, one reason behind the stillness is that the MKO is faced with a political "deadlock" in the international arena and is incapable of showing any reaction.
They both said that all cults are obliged to provide propaganda to feed their members in order to pretend that everything is going well.
The two former MKO members reiterated that the organisation has inducted its members that the west and the US are currently supporting the MKO. Therefore they do not want such negative reports reach their members so they keep silent regarding the statement.
The two believe that members of the cult are living in "delusion".
They give an example saying: "Those living in Ashraf Camp are presented with a false image of Iran. Therefore when we arrived in Tehran, we saw that the situation was totally different from what we had thought."
They added that the MKO has told its members inside the organisation that Maryam Rajavi is the designer of "third option" strategy, which in reality is to be executed by the Pentagon!
Khodabandeh said: "By issuing such statement, the US in fact has disappointed the MKO. Therefore, leaders of this terrorist group, in order to keep their members away from the reality, preferred to remain silent regarding the statement.
He emphasised that the recent report by the US State Department had passed through a point of no-return and has faced the MKO strategy in seeking a substitute for Saddam Hussein in the west with a complete deadlock.
He said that the stillness of MKO regarding the report precisely originates from this strategic deadlock.
Due to the severance of relations between those living in Ashraf Camp with their families and friends and in general with the realities of the outside world, Bassam said that the Iraqi formula is different from those in other parts of the world.
Despite the issuance of such statement by the US State Department, reports point to the cooperation between the MKO and some elements in the US Defence Department, he added.
Khodabandeh is of the view that Washington may use this card in its negotiations with Iran. However, the card is not so important because the Ashraf Camp in not a security concern for Iran any longer, he added.
Bassam believes that Washington has been trapped in Iraq. The MKO is trying to pretend that Iran is involved in the Iraqi problems and thus get closer to Washington, he added.
He said that the Iraqi government is willing to dismantle the Ashraf Camp. Referring to the current situation as sensitive for the MKO, he added that they are trying to come out of this quagmire before George W Bush’s second term is over.
MKO SEEKING AN ALTERNATIVE FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN
The two former MKO members added that the objective of the terrorist organisation is to gain power by any means including cooperation with Saddam Hussein. The cult is seeking a person like the former Iraqi dictator to lean on, they noted.
They were convinced that the statement has placed an obstacle in the way of MKO efforts, to create such a point of backing by the US, and has made the organisation face an impasse.
Asking Khodabandeh about the role of the French government in toughening the tone of the statement, in response he referred to acts of self-immolations by MKO members in Paris in 2003, after the arrest of Maryam Rajavi and added that those MKO members arrested by the French police at that time, unveiled some realities indicating cultic relations inside the organisation.
Meanwhile, Bassam reiterated that in addition to the reports by the French government on the terrorist cult, disclosure made by over 2000 MKO breakaway members was effective in making the tone of the statement stronger.
According to them, the West is currently well aware that such cults are a threat to both their members and their surrounding environment.
ALARM FOR EUROPE, US
The statement of the US State Department has referred to Europe as the two command headquarters of the organisation. Commenting on the issue, Khodabandeh and Bassam said if true, this could be alarming for Europe.
They further reiterated that both the US and Europe should be concerned over terrorist operations by the MKO members.
The move by some MKO members who committed self-immolation after the arrest of Maryam Rajavi on 17 June 2003 in Paris, is an indication of this alarm, they said urging both the US and Europe to be sensitive towards possible terrorist operations by MKO members.
Khodabandeh said that noting is more dangerous than a cult having reached the state of impasse. Under such condition, he said, the behaviour of a terrorist cult would be unpredictable and such a threat would endanger, before anything else, the security of countries they live in as well as its present and breakaway members.
In occasions, I feel ashamed because of what other people have done or said to justify felonies of criminals. It happens mostly when I hear people claiming to be advocates of global peace and security but for them the term ‘global’ is defined within the context of their own people and nation, or interests better to say. They walk side by side of groups that are known as terrorists and criminals by the rules of law because they are misled by the enchantments of “have we ever been a threat to your people and country?” totally disregarding the atrocities these groups have perpetrated against other peoples and nations for whom they shed crocodile tears of sympathy.
Once home secretary under Margaret Thatcher’s government, Lord Waddington in his comments, published in The Scotsman, said in defence of MKO stated: “Laws passed to defend our society against terrorism are being used by the Iranian regime to buttress its own position and to make it easier to crush dissent within the country”.
Lord Waddington seems to have forgotten that MKO is hardly a “dissent within the country” for Iranian regime; the group is lying at his own county’s gate at the moment. It is hard to accept that he knows nothing of the group’s past bloody terrorist activities in Iran predating and postdating 2001 when he shows his objection to the EU’s decision of maintaining MKO on its list of terror:
Shamefully, the European Council has refused to honour and abide by the CFI ruling, claiming – wrongly – that the finding was merely procedural. When forced to state the evidence on which it relied, it advanced only irrelevant allegations that do not even relate to the present time, but predate 2001.
The group’s cult-like preaching infused with its old notorious motto of ‘the end justifies the means’ embolden all insiders, at the command of the leaders, to sacrifice themselves along with whoever in wherever to accomplish the ends of the organization. Once they were predominantly active inside Iran and now in European countries. The Iranian contemporary history is full of bloody pages of the group’s terrorist operations and assassinations. But its tactics are different in other countries; Western citizens hardly fail to remember the instances of the group’s cult-like self-immolations in Paris, London and some other Western cities that demonstrated MKO’s potentiality to jeopardize social security and psychological health.
The supporters of MKO, whether being of any political weight or not, that act as the mouthpiece of the organization to remove its name from the terrorist lists are not only betraying their own people but also Iranian nation. Nobody condemned the group’s deeds when it was shedding blood of Iranian citizens following its open declaration of a violent, military war against the regime because it was believed to be struggling for peace and freedom! Look how Lord Waddington justifies terrorist acts of MKO:
The PMOI never belonged on the terrorism list and the CFI has rightly ruled that it be removed. It is high time that our government acknowledged the ruling and removed the obstacles it has placed in the way of the PMOI as it struggles to draw attention to and mobilise opposition to a brutal regime. Surely the PMOI and NCRI deserve our support in the struggle for peace and freedom in their country.
It is really shameful to see that there are people who believe in support of terrorism for the accomplishment of democracy and peace. Only God knows what might happen to the nation whose freedom lies in the hands of terrorists. If people like Lord Waddington believe MKO deserve their support on behalf of Iranian people, then I, on behalf of the same people say oh, God save us from our friends.
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, July 21, 2007
It was obvious from the very beginning, even for Mojahedin themselves, that the EU was decisive to keep the group on its terror list. Although there is a unanimous agreement that even if the group were unleashed it could be of no weight, as it is not at the present, the inclusion of its name in terror list is working as a good subterfuge for the group to stage an all-out propaganda blitz.
In an attempt to use a leverage to force Nicolas Sarkozy’s government to halt the process of the June 17th dossier accusing it of terrorist allegations and also to remove its name from the French list of terror and, consequently, to unfreeze its assets in France, MKO staged an extravaganza in Nord Villepinte of Paris on 30 June. The organized rally was not an abrupt decision at all. For the past previous months MKO was planning the rally with the support of its sponsors in the US and some European countries.
also facts about its financial supporters. The details presented by Aawa Association, originally in Persian, are translated by Iran-interlink.
mojahedin.ws – 15/07/2007
Anyone opposing Iraqi constitution is a terrorist, violating the laws. Since terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda, remnants of Baath party, the Army of Mohammed al-Fateh (headed by infaomous Izzat al-Dowri and Mojahedin-e khalq) have taken Diyala province as a safe haven and use it to plunder people, and despite witnessing daily terrorist operations in this province, Al-Bayyenah al-Jadidah newspaper could enter MKO’s conference in order to inform Iraqis and expose the plots of enemies, targeting Iraqis’ unity.
Location: Camp Ashraf
Less than three months ago, the paper (Al-Bayyenah al-Jadidah) received secret information that a person called "Vahid Asghari", officer of MKO’s intelligence unit, had called Saleh Mutlaq, delivering Maryam Rajavi’s letter to him. He had informed Mutlaq that the MKO is still faithful to its promises with the former regime and the Baath party and that all MKO members mourned the death of Saddam Hussein and would have put his statute in the camp if they hadn’t had fears. Maryam Rajavi had said that several former Baath and Estekhbarat officials, along with al-Qaeda and the Army of Mohammed al-Fatih, would take part in their conference, supposing its chairmanship to Mutlaq. It was also stressed that the conference would provide Mutlaq with a good opportunity to meet Ansar al-Sunnah, Al-Qaeda, Mohammed al-Fateh and Al-Eshrin Revolutionary Brigades.
Asghari had also praised Sunni clerics for their stance on the MKO.
To show up in the conference, Baathists had to come under cover; this was especially true about infamous terrorist Aref Taha Suheil, whose pictures have been spread all over Iraq. He has been in MKO’s camp three times before. He wore Arabic clothes with a long beard, with a lot of changes in his face. This is how MKO’s annual conference turned to a large meeting for former Baath officials.
Saudi Arabia’s interference in Iraq is no longer a secret issue. Iraqi government has evidence indicating that Saudi Arabia, and Amir Bandar in particular, play active role in the unrest in Iraq. Amir Bandar has given 750000 dollars to the MKO in the conference. In return, the MKO should stand against the Iraqi government and the participants should be only from Sunnis unless few Shiites with ties to Baathis.
MKO settled in Iraq more than 25 years ago and since then the MKO leader have succeeded in establishing ties with some tribal leaders, before and after the fall of Saddam. The MKO follows Saddam’s model in dealing with tribes, distributing money and gifts among them to win their support.
Mazen Habib al-Kheizaran, former Estekhbarat officer, was the mediator between his organization and the MKO. He is a radical activist, working against the Iraqi government. He has received 150000 dollars for recruiting some tribal leaders. His activities have led to conflict inside Al-Azzah tribe, because some tribesmen don’t like to act against the government.
In Mazen’s meeting with Al-Dayeni last year in Camp Ashraf, conducted by the assistance MKO officer "Rahmani", they agreed to disrupt the political process of the government and to provide financial support for terrorist operations so as to achieve their goal that is toppling the new government.
Some sources informed Al-Bayyenah that Zarqawi spent a whole day in Mazen’s house and then went to Habhab region. Zarqawi had described Mazen as a hero and Jihadist.
MKO’s conference, held under the protection of US forces, raises the question that why wasn’t it covered by the Iraqi government and media?
Why the violators of law are not prosecuted? Is the government unable to arrest Baathists and terrorists who took part in the conference? Is the government unable to detain the sponsors of the conference, which is in contradiction with Iraqi constitution?
2007/07/19 – www.albayyna-new.com/studies.htm
Considering the position and role of MKO in Iraq and disregarding its interference that escalate the internal tension, it is a proven fact that MKO’s so-called political stance toward the Iraqi government, parliament, and constitution display tokens of interference in internal affairs of Iraq. To what extent these hostile and blasphemous attitudes are in broad violation of what MKO claim to be asylum rights activities according to international conventions is a matter of consideration. But the current position of Mojahedin in Iraq, before they are recognized a legal or illegal group of refugees, is naturally the reputation of a violent opposition that intends to destabilize a sovereignty.
The very present attempt by MKO to regulate relations with the Iraqi government constitutes part of the legal challenges met by international organizations which has to be elaborated on. On the other hand, the current position of Mojahedin claiming to be refugees since a long past compared with their status in the reign of Saddam is not a matter of least significance. They are the same Mojahedin that before Saddam’s fall adulated him as their strategic and ideological ally, but now they have made a complete shift to maintain solidarity with the same people they colluded with the dictator to suppress. How these contradictory attitudes and positions have convinced Mojahedin’s current Iraqi associates is another question. Unfortunately, neither the Iraqi government nor MKO’s supporters are interested to engage in a realistic analysis of the issue. It might imply that MKO’s supporters in Iraq are Saddam’s sympathizers although nothing is certain. In any case, it is Iraqi people and the government that have to pay the cost.
The main cause of MKO’s interference in Iraqi affairs is an indetermination to confront Mojahedin’s dissident moves that emboldens the group to consider it certain right to play a political role in Iraq. Alireza Ja’farzadeh in an interview with al-hurra TV rejected the accusations made by Ali Al-Dabbagh, Iraqi government spokesman, that Mojahedin are engaged in terrorist moves in Iraq but he did not denied that the group is engaged in political activities:
Dabbaq could not present even one example of terrorist activities of Mojahedin in Iraq. I just heard him saying, ‘they are engaged in political activities’. Is it equal to terrorism!!
With such a confession made, now the question is why Mojahedin are interested in interfering politically in Iraq’s domestic affairs. Moreover, it has to be taken into consideration that Mojahedin repeatedly have maintained that they are political refugees threatened by the Iranian government and are to be supported according to international conventions. They justify their stay in Iraq as individuals who have been legally granted asylum for 20 years or so. Thus, granted that Mojahedin are sincere in their claims that they are trying to work out a strategic objective of establishing democracy in Iraq, the question now is why Mojahedin in the reign of Saddam MKO never made such a claim and formed a strategic alliance with him in total dismissal of people’s demands, namely democracy in Iraq. It might imply that Saddam was believed to be much more democratic than the new Iraqi government! Besides, Even if Mojahedin’s current opposition to the Iraqi government is, as they propagate, a recognized legitimate right, why they were deprived of the right in Saddam’s time when the asylum is claimed to have been granted?
It has been obvious from the beginning that Mojahedin’s attitude, as a violent opposition, toward Nuri al-Maliki’s government has been hostile and cynical. The attitude in no way conforms to the standards of asylum-seeking. Mr. Al-Dabbagh reiterates that Mojahedin unlawful role played in Iraqi internal affairs is far beyond the claimed refugees’ right. Referring to some instances of MKO’ moves to challenge Iraqi legal government he said:
Last Saturday, the organization held a session with Iraqi politicians; an issue that has to be investigated by the parliament. But concerning their opposition and propaganda against Iraq’s political trend, their Arabic published paper Mojahed, for instance, addresses the legally elected government calling it a preposterous cabinet.
The statements made by Ali al-Dabbaq imply that the Iraqi government tolerates MKO despite being aware of the negative role it plays in Iraq. Iraqi spokesman claims to have access to some documents against MKO that are kept secret due to security concerns. He asserts that:
The Iraqi government does not intend to expel MKO by force. Therefore, we are cooperating with the U.N. to find a third country to receive them. There are numerous documents against Mojahedin but as it is an issue of national security, they cannot be publicized. We keep documents that indicate they are even watching the Iraqi government. Even the U.N. is not allowed to visit their camp freely and it has no clear description of the organization since MKO conforms to none of its published descriptions.
At this juncture that Iraq is engulfed in crisis and disorder, MKO is demanding for more than refuges might ask because they receive full backing of the coalition forces and the U.S. in particular. Although the Iraqi government insists on expelling MKO, the group considers its political interference in Iraqi affairs as an absolute right for itself. The Iraq’s present dilemmatic situation makes it difficult to prove that Mojahedin are turning from being mere refugees to a formidable opposition force. It seems that the Iraqi government has actually sensed the threat of MKO and that its base constitutes a bastion for the Iraqi opposition and insurgents since all traffic from and to Camp Ashraf are banned and Iraqis have been prohibited to take part in the group’s gatherings held there.
July 14, 2007 – Mojahedin.ws
In an exclusive interview with IRNA in Tehran and in response to a question on what prevents the expulsion of MKO despite Iraqi government’s decision to do so, Seyed Abdul Aziz Hakim, the head of Iraqi Unity Coalition, said: "The MKO has acted against the interests of Iraqis and Iraqi constitution doesn’t allow them to act."
The head of Iraqi Unity Coalition said that terrorist MKO cooperated with Saddam and his secret services, adding: "Not only they acted against Iran but also suppressed the uprising of Iraqi people in 1991; they have always been the enemy of Iraqis and now they play an ugly and negative role in Iraq."
"Coalition forces prevent their expulsion with the excuse that they’re refugees. We in the Iraqi government and SCIRI call for the expulsion of this group from Iraq," he said.
IRNA – 2007/07/12