{"id":2218,"date":"2009-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2009\/01\/17\/mkos-expired-role-for-the-west\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:57:22","slug":"mkos-expired-role-for-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2218","title":{"rendered":"MKO\u2019s expired role for the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\">&ldquo;An Iranian resistance group that has been living in exile in Iraq for decades is no longer a welcome guest in the country&rsquo;&rsquo; ,Anita McNaught the correspondent of Fox News in Iraq reported on January 12<sup>th<\/sup>. <img alt=\"the viewpoint of a Western diplomat:&rdquo;there is nothing we lose from Camp Ashraf except a huge headache and taxpayer dollars.&rdquo;\"hspace=\"10\"align=\"right\"vspace=\"10\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/MEK\/MEK_Decline\/MKO_Expired.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2213\">Ms. McNaught<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2213\">&nbsp;has based her documented report <\/a>on evidences made by Iraqi Kurds who were victims of MKO&rsquo;s atrocities while their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/tag\/saddam-collaboration-mek\">cooperation with regime of Saddam Hussein <\/a>to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/256\">suppress Kurdish uprisings<\/a>. Although, as McNaught reports &ldquo;MKO denies involvement in the repression&rdquo;, she cites the testimonies of Kurds including a Kurd military commander of Pishmerga who lost many forces of his battalion that was attacked by MKO, and a Kurdish researcher assured her that he has handed many secret documents of Baath Intelligence Service to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/79\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>; the documents show that MKO helped the Ba&#8217;ath forces to occupy Kirkuk province to resist Kurdish forces. <\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\">This two-page report of Anita McNaught gives some evidences on the terrorist nature of the MKO and as she quotes from Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group MEK &ldquo;acquired its reputation as the ruthless tool of a thuggish regime.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\">Finally she concluded with the viewpoint of a Western diplomat:&rdquo;there is nothing we lose from Camp Ashraf except a huge headache and taxpayer dollars.&rdquo;, as the reason of MEK&rsquo;s expired role for the West. <\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\">Now that Fox News has too much evidence on the terrorist activities of MKO agents at least in Iraq. There is a question: why does Fox News hire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/496\">AliReza Jaafarzade<\/a>, the official member of MKO, as the foreign affair analyst? <\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\">Jaafarzade has never denounced his membership in MKO and has always advocated MKO&rsquo;s cause in his so-called analysis on Fox News programs. <\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana\">Why such a contradiction in Fox News&rsquo; policy? &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Mazdak Parsi<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">As an <span style=\"line-height: 115%\">organization designated FTO by the Department of State and as it is no more useful for the West, the only use of Jaafar Zade&rsquo;s propaganda on FoxNews is to deceive the MKO members who are captured in Camp Ashraf, Iraq and Camp Maryam, France. Because they have no free access to the mass media, they only can view the Medias filtered by the cult leaders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p  style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><font face=\"Verdana\"size=\"2\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%\">Therefore , the systematic propaganda of MKO on TV channels including FoxNews is an effort to keep the members hopeful to an uncertain future. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. McNaught has based her documented report on evidences made by Iraqi Kurds who were victims of MKO\u2019s atrocities while their cooperation with regime of Saddam Hussein to suppress Kurdish uprisings. Although, as McNaught reports \u201cMKO denies involvement in the repression\u201d, she cites the testimonies of Kurds including a Kurd military commander of Pishmerga who lost many forces of his battalion that was attacked by MKO, and a Kurdish researcher assured her that he has handed many secret documents of Baath Intelligence Service to Human Rights Watch; the documents show that MKO helped the Ba&#8217;ath forces to occupy Kirkuk province to resist Kurdish forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[79,85,178,64],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-news-agency","tag-mujahedin-khalq-declining","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-pmoi-iran-people","tag-mkos-terrorist-activities","module-article","ctype-story","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}