++ Reactions to the Paris court case continue. Rajavi is on overdrive to shout \u201cvictory, victory\u201d. But critics asked \u201cwhat victory?\u201d Ali Jahani has written listing all the so-called victories Rajavi has announced, with this as the latest one. He asks \u201cas what part of your non-existent strategy or tactic does this so-called victory have a place, how is this a victory?\u201d Irandidban has reacted to the court case saying that this is not something worth Iran even thinking about, but certainly France lost face when the judge accepted the word of Maryam Rajavi saying she had nothing to do with the Mojahedin Khalq organisation and was therefore not answerable for any crimes. It goes without saying that Massoud Rajavi has suffered the biggest loss here because all his excuses have gone \u2013 similarly being removed from the terrorism lists and similarly the change of government in Iraq. Now we must wait and see what Rajavi\u2019s next excuse is for not doing anything useful. Using the same argument, Maryam Sanjabi\u2019s article asks \u201cwhat is Massoud Rajavi\u2019s excuse for not coming out? With all these victories why is he still hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Rajavi has published an extensive article (in Farsi) claiming that the Paris judge has said \u2018the MEK are a legitimate political force and have not undertaken any wrongdoing whatsoever, and are a respectable group, etc, (basically repeating what the MEK\u2019s hired lobbyists say). It is interesting that the court of around 9 affiliated people have nothing to do with the MEK at all. As usual, there is no source given for this claim, and it its becoming a trend for the MEK to simply make things up on their sites. Their hope is that by repeating these lies they will be made to look like facts. They have increasingly opened new outlets under pseudonyms in London and Brussels, and now manufacture document-like pdf files about all sorts of issues and then link them all together. The MEK are also using these made-up networks against the Khodabandehs and Iran Interlink (as their main exposer and main enemy according to a pronouncement of Rajavi). As usual the outpourings are a mish-mash of everything to hide their true faces and, as usual, they are trying to show themselves as anti-fundamentalist but at the same time attack Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne and anti-war MPs and personalities, (and placing the Khodabandehs in the centre of these). An example is the website standforpeace.org.uk.<\/p>\n
++ An article on Sahar reports that Rajavi has a new audio message for Camp Liberty residents in which the story of the \u201cMoon or the Well (Mah va Chahr)\u201d is explained. He says that some see me at the bottom of the well and some see me in the moon. He says that people who blame me for everything from 30 khordad (1981) to the situation in Iraq, don\u2019t know what they are talking about! He says \u201cI am in the moon\u201d, and declares \u201cyou and the people of Iran should be grateful because I saved the MEK, (he doesn\u2019t say for what purpose), and that was the biggest achievement of its history, and it has been its utmost aim and its highest aim ever. He does not explain what happened to \u2018toppling the regime\u2019 etc. Sahar reports that the situation inside the camp is explosive and trouble can be triggered any day, and the situation is becoming more and more dangerous as members resist orders and fights break out.<\/p>\n
++ Nejat has a briefing article about the members of the so-called Friends of a Free Iran in the European Parliament which had its first meeting on 17th September as announced by the MEK. The article talks about the MEK undertaking damage limitation after the loss of Struan Stevenson and Alejo Vidal Quadras in the EP. \u201cThe new group comprises the same people who denounced Iraq \u2013 which did not take off \u2013 the same disrepute people who have been recruited as the MEK\u2019s paid lobbyists\u201d. Nejat concludes the article describing this as \u201cToo little. Too late\u201d. The new group is described as a mirror for Netanyahu\u2019s policy against any deal between Iran and the West and as advocates for war and bombing.<\/p>\n
++ Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad has written a letter to the French president saying that \u201cnow the country of France (where I live) has accepted that the Mojahedin have done no wrong, could you please ask your friends to let me see my daughter for five minutes after all these years, and arrange for my other daughter, who has never seen her sister, to be allowed to have a short visit? After all you now have a responsibility in this as the head of the Mojahedin Khalq, who have my daughter in the unacceptable camp in Iraq, is operating from this county as your guest.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Parsian Youth site has posted a new article further exposing a number of MEK torturers. Their names are Mortezaee (aka Javad Khorasan), and Abdolvahab Faraji Nejad (aka Afshin), both trained interrogators and torturers of Saddam\u2019s Private Army. They have now been sent to Tirana, Albania, to control the members and ex members there. Both carry \u2018Pentagon ID cards\u2019 to show and they claim thereby to have \u2018full immunity from the law\u2019.<\/p>\n
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++ In Geneva the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT), an Iranian non-governmental organization for people who have lost loved ones to terrorism, hosted a panel in the 27th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council. Speakers from Iran, Britain and the United States attended \u2013 Shia, Sunni and Christian. In the meeting Iranian victims of terrorism were able to tell their story.<\/p>\n
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++ Razak Abdul A\u2019imma al-Haidari, Iraqi MP, from the Badr Parliamentary bloc said that the Mujahedin Khalq Terrorist Organization was counting on the ISIL in Iraq to collude with them to keep its members at Camp Liberty (Temporary Transit Location) and then to take them back to Camp Ashraf. \u201cThe MEK is ready to cooperate with any terrorist party hostile to the Iraqi government and the people\u201d, the MP Al-Haidari told Ashraf News reporter.<\/p>\n
++ News Analysis, Xinhua News: DAMASCUS, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) \u2014 Washington\u2019s recent decision to arm and train the Syrian rebels, who will supposedly fight the Islamic State (IS) terror group, will only exacerbate and prolong the Syrian crisis in what analysts said would be like \u201ccasting oil on a smoldering fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ An article by Massoud Khodabandeh published in Huffington Post and Iranian.com says \u2018America Must Make Its Underlying Intentions Toward Iran Clear\u2019. \u201cIf America\u2019s Iran policy was designed to weaken and isolate the country, it has failed. Iran certainly feels itself in a much stronger position moving forward. Ultimately, the real leverage behind a sanctions regime is that it stops short of, but still depends on the ability to follow through with the ultimate threat, war. It is, however, now possible to state that if Israel, with or without the backing of the United States, could have launched a pre-emptive air strike to take out Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure, then it would have done so by now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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++ TEHRAN (FNA)- Yuram Abdullah Weiler, a Colorado-based writer and political critic, believes that the broad international coalition against ISIL is a massive media event to justify direct US intervention in Syria, underscoring that last year\u2019s false-flag chemical attacks were not sufficient, but this year\u2019s beheadings of western journalists seem to have sold intervention in Syria to the West.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Washington regime has a history of using covert action to attain its geo-political goals. From the Philippines to Latin America to the Middle East, the US has intervened in so many countries that it is difficult to count them. And what some would call covert action, I would call state-sponsored terrorism, so in that sense, the US is the world\u2019s leader in its support of terrorism,\u201d he said in an interview with Fars News Agency.<\/p>\n
++ Open Letter of 57 victims of the Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq Terrorist Cult to Barak Obama, President of the United States of America. \u201cWe believe there are a tremendous amount of similarities between the ISIS that was described in your speech, and the Iranian terrorist Mujahidin-e Khalq. Indeed, many experts on Iraq and Iran share the view that the Mujahidin in Iraq provide media and logistics support for ISIS. Some of the common characteristics of the Mujahidin and ISIS are as follows: 1. The Mujahidin hide their anti-western and anti-democratic thinking from the general public. While they believe in religious lifelong leadership and Islamic Caliphate and have been practicing it within their cult for years, they pretend publicly to believe in democracy and free elections\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
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++ Expert in cultic abuse and terrorism in the MEK, Anne Khodabandeh, speaks in a London charity meeting. \u201cA lively discussion followed. In particular the issue of Muslim dress code was raised in terms of the adoption of the Niqab by western middle class educated Muslim women. Anne Khodabandeh explained the structure of terrorist organisation by using the \u2018onion\u2019 analogy. At the core of the onion are the suicide bombers and beheaders, these are surrounded by financiers, logistics and arms suppliers, but beyond that are layers and layers of people not identified as terrorists but who support and hide the innermost activities. Some do this by creating diversionary issues like provocative dress.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Fars News published a piece by Gareth Porter titled: The False Intelligence Behind the \u201cManufactured Crisis\u201d over Iran\u2019s Nuclear Activities. Extract: \u201cSomeone leaked to David Sanger of the New York Times that those documents had come from the laptop computer of an Iranian scientist involved in the alleged program who later feared that he had been discovered and managed to get the computer out through his wife. US officials told senior IAEA officials that they feared the \u201cthird party\u201d that had brought out the documents was now dead, according to former Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei. But that was a crudely constructed cover story to hide the real source of the documents. In fact, the German intelligence agency, BND got those documents from a member of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK, also known as MKO, NCRI and PMOI), the Iranian terrorist organization that had become a client of Israel. The MEK member was a sometime source for the agency, but senior BND officials regarded the source as \u201cdoubtful,\u201d according to former senior German official Karsten Voigt, who told me the whole story of his November 2004 conversation with his BND contacts on the record a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
++ Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya writes for Global Research: The March to War: Fighting ISIL is a Smokescreen for US Mobilization against Syria, Iran. Extract: \u201cLike Syria, Al-Malaki government\u2019s cardinal sins were tied to blocking the pathway to Tehran. Firstly, the Iraqi government evicted the Pentagon from Iraq at the end of 2011, which removed US troops stationed directly on Iran\u2019s western border. Secondly, the Iraqi federal government was working to expel anti-government Iranian militants from Iraq and to close Camp Ashraf, which could be used in a war or regime change operations against Iran. Ashraf was a base for the military wing of the Iraqi-based Mujahidin-e-Khalq (MEK\/MOK\/MKO). The MEK is an anti-government Iranian organization that is bent on regime change in Tehran. It has even openly endorsed US-led attacks on Iran and Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n
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