U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, May 16 2012: ... Accompanying each convoy are UN human rights monitors, who also observe the screening of residents and property as each convoy loads from Camp Ashraf and provide useful, neutral reports following each convoy movement. The preparation of each convoy is lengthy and disagreements, sometimes heated, have occurred between the Iraqi authorities and the residents about cargo, screening procedures and other issues. The U.S. Embassy and Department of State of followed the progress of each convoy closely, often in real time, in support of the UN; we are well aware of the difficulties involved ... more...
Fars News. May 17 2012: ... another MKO member took the opportunity provided by the group's relocation from Camp Ashraf in Northern Iraq to Camp Liberty and escaped on Monday. Alireza Khamoushi, the ninth MKO member to flee the group in just the last one month, had been imprisoned and tortured before fleeing the camp. The defected members describe improper psychological conditions and strict cult rules and restrictions as their main reason for fleeing the terrorist group. Some defected members of the group had earlier unveiled that MKO ringleaders are using every means within their reach, including execution, to prevent the members' defection from the group ... more...
Trita Parsi, The daily beast, May 17 2012: ... Israel’s image as a victim of terror is taken for granted by most Americans. Thus, the NBC report from February 9 of this year was all the more stunning. Obama administration officials leaked to NBC that Israel had teamed up with a violent, cultish, US-terror listed Iranian organization called the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to assassinate Iranian scientists.Citing US government sources, NBC reported that Israel financed, trained and armed the MEK to carry out the deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists. That Israel had a role in the assassination of the scientists took few by surprise. That it collaborated with a fundamentally anti-Israeli, Marxist-Islamist terror organization ...more...
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, May 17 2012: ... Back when the Bush Administration wanted to go to war in Iraq, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with 9/11, they did their best to persuade terrorist-hating Americans that Saddam Hussein was a sponsor of terrorism. For example, the Bush White House published a document called "Saddam Hussein's Support for International Terrorism." Check out this bullet point especially: Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians ...more...
ISNA, May 16 2012: ... “According to the documents and letters which I translated, I found out that Rajavi was receiving oil in exchange for his services.” He went on to say that the amount of oil they exchanged have increased by 100000 barrels per day (3 million barrels per month) which they turned them into cash in European countries. He continued, “All the claims of the group regarding the financial support from Iranians and their tricks in fund raising for (so-called) SimayeAzadi –the MKO’s TV channel- were sheer lies. They intended to cover up the huge looting of Iraqi oil and justify their expenditures hit millions.” “I was closely observing the MKO’s systematic interference in the internal affairs of Iraq and ... more...
Mohammad Karami, Paris, May 16 2012: ... Mr. Alireza Moazen Tabrizi who was also a former member of pmoi , found a sidearm ( Colt ) and two hand-grenades which were hidden purposely under bushes . He gave them to the TIPF Commanders ,Colonel Wesley Martin and Colonel Leo McCloskey . surely , Brig. Gen. David Phillips and Gellaski the commanders of that time can remember this subject. If they have forgotten this issue , they can go and see their daily memorandum which contains all the discovered and registered items in that time which were signed by the present officers in the scene in those memorandum ...more...
Justin Raimondo, Anti War, May 16, 2012: ... While the Rajavi-ites use the familiar methods employed by cults to strip their members of all their assets – see the Al Jazeera video for a heart-rending account of how a major MEK spokesman ripped off his own elderly parents – it seems likely that, during their sojourn as Saddam Hussein’s favorite assassins, the MEK received compensation from the Iraqi dictator for slaughtering the Kurds and other regime opponents so efficiently and ruthlessly. Which means people like former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who has shilled for the MEK, and former Democratic party chairman Howard Dean, are recipients of Saddam’s gold ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 16, 2012: ... Secondly, the US needs enough time to have a complete inspection of the camp. In contrast to MKO’s claims that the US forces have repeatedly inspected the entire camp and found no sign of weapons or ammunition, nor any plans or intentions to acquire weapons or use violence, there are sound evidences that the paramilitary camp has never been fully searched. Both the US and MKO know well that the group never surrendered its arms but after an enforced ceasefire and hence, the group is under suspicion of concealing arms depot. As verified by RAND’s A Policy Conundrum, “MNF-I has never conducted a comprehensive search of Camp Ashraf ... more...
JAY SOLOMON And EVAN PEREZ , Wall Street journal, May 15 2012: ... Other officials briefed on the MeK issue said Mrs. Clinton purposefully tied the closing of Camp Ashraf to the designation issue to defuse a thorny diplomatic issue between Washington and Baghdad. The U.S. military had provided security at the camp before pulling its forces from Iraq last year. Baghdad now controls the camp and has threatened to return MeK members to Iran if it isn't swiftly closed.These officials stressed that Mrs. Clinton could still rule against delisting the MeK due to other information gathered on its role in terrorism. But they acknowledged it would be difficult politically for Mrs. Clinton to maintain the designation after publicly stating the importance of the Camp Ashraf issue ...more...
Press TV, May 15 2012: ... MKO members are currently being relocated to Camp Liberty near the Baghdad International Airport under an agreement reached between the United Nations and Iraq last December.The MKO is designated as a terrorist organization under US law, and has been described by State Department officials as a ‘repressive cult.’ The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border. It is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds ...more...
Star Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, May 15, 2012: ... In a post-immolation meeting with Neda Hassani’s family, Maryam Rajavi did her best to persuade the family that Neda’s death was the outcome of her great devotion and commitment to her leader and thus, on the one hand Neda would be the sole responsible for her own death and on the other hand, it would be Maryam who pocketed the merit of her action. Proven as in the letters of the members volunteered for self-immolation and also in the messages of the leaders all these and other similar suicidal operations have been ideologically justified. To be more exact, Rajavi as the ideological leader has been ... more...
Foad Izadi, Iranian Doplomacy, Tehran, May 14 2012: ... Before the Iraq war, the Americans claimed that weapons of mass destruction could be found in Iraq and that this country supported terrorism. At that time, a reporter for NBC News asked Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's Vice President, what terrorist groups Iraq supported. Cheney was reluctant to answer this question, but after the journalist insisted, which was in itself rather interesting, he finally said that the MKO was a terrorist group that Saddam supported. But after the invasion of Iraq, Dick Cheney was himself a sponsor of the MKO. Therefore, the US government's relations with the MKO continued ... more...
Fars News, Baghdad, 13 May 2012: ... Speaking to Ashraf News in Baghdad, Sanjabi stated that there is strong evidence on the tight relations and cooperation between MKO and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, adding that the same documents show that the organization has worked hard in Jordan, particularly with the parliament members of the Arab country. She called for the remaining members of the MKO in camp Liberty to think rationally and take advantage of the Iraqi government and United Nations' decision about their resettlement in another country. Earlier reports said that Zionist lobbies are seeking to shelter members of the MKO in ... more...
Seyed Hojat Seyed Esmaeeli, the MKO former member, May 13 2012: ... On Wednesday, March21, 2012, Mr. Kobler reported to the meeting of the Foreign Affairs committee on the work of UNAMI (United Nation’s Assistance Mission for Iraq) and UNHCR in Iraq and the situation of the MKO at Camp Ashraf and TTL. In response to Mr. Kobler’s report, the meeting director said:”regarding the descriptions you reported about Liberty, it is much better than refugee camps in Europe…” Daniel Fried also confirmed Kobler’s report, saying that the information the united States has of the situation in Camp Ashraf and Liberty is consistent with Kobler’s description.” the conditions at Camp Liberty are ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 12, 2012: ... The remarks by the attorney for the U.S. Department of State, Robert Loeb, have provoked backlashes from MKO. During a May 8 hearing before the US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia, Mr. Loeb stipulated that a decision on MKO’s status could be made within 60 days after the group’s main base, Camp Ashraf, is completely evacuated. He said that said the lack of total unfettered access to the MKO’s base inside Iraq demands more deliberation and time be given to the decision. Loeb argued questions still remain whether “hard core” elements of the group harbor weapons inside the base and thus retain the “capacity” to launch attacks ... more...
Camp-Ashraf.com, October 2011: The fascinating story of the controversial life of Camp Ashraf in Iraq from its foundation in 1986 to the present day is told in this book. Originally created to accommodate the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (aka MEK, MKO, PMOI, Rajavi cult) and its leader Massoud Rajavi for coordinating the violent overthrow of the regime in Iran, Camp Ashraf became the MEK’s main military and ideological training base. The MEK later became known as Saddam’s Private Army as it became an integral element in the Iraqi dictator’s repressive apparatus.
But, even years after the fall of Saddam the MEK still has the support and backing of many in the West and is therefore able to resist opening its doors to the outside world. It is the hidden life inside Camp Ashraf which renders it so controversial ... more...
Iran Interlink, Baghdad, April 17, 2011: ... It is not known how many of the 3400 residents at the camp continue as members of the terrorist group. Singleton visited the camp at the start of a week of meetings with Iraqi officials to demand that the organisational infrastructure of the group be dismantled, and that the leaders are prosecuted under Iraqi and international law. The remaining residents should be enabled to determine their own futures without pressure from the MEK leaders. Their families should be involved to help in this process. Over 1000 Camp New Iraq (Formerly Ashraf) residents have residency or citizenship rights in Europe and North America ... more...
... One young woman weeps for her lost father. He has been, she explains, in Camp Ashraf for23 years. He was captured as a POW in Iraq 25 years ago and after two years was among those transferred to the Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) camp Ashraf where he has been ever since. She hasn’t seen him for 25 years. She wants him to come home with her, and, she says, she will not leave until she can take him out of the camp. Still the families wait and call out to their long-lost relatives in the hope of reaching them. Although the gates of Camp Ashraf are now open, there is still no access to the people held hostage inside. The MEK have simply withdrawn into a smaller circle ... more...
Iran Interlink, November 06, 2010: ... Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism. What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power, then this paper tiger (the USA) will be ... more...
Reuters, July 11, 2010:... "An arrest warrant has been issued against 39 leaders and members of the organisation including the PMOI's head Massoud Rajavi, due to evidence that confirms they committed crimes against humanity," said Judge Mohammed Abdul-Sahib, a spokesman of the Iraqi High Tribunal. Rajavi's wife Maryam, leader of the French-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the PMOI's political wing, was also included in the warrant, Abdul Sahib added ...more...
Hadi Shams Haeri, March 17, 2010:... At least some have been released temporarily even though with hefty bail to spend Norooz with their families. But on the side of the Mojahedin Khalq who claim to be the 'National Liberation Army' (that is, to liberate people) we do not even see this minimum ... more...
Reuters, September 22, 2009:... Massoud Khodabandeh made several recommendations in his report. The Government of Iraq should remove around seventy MKO leaders in order to protect the rank and file members from human rights abuses and coercion. The camp must be thoroughly searched -- something the U.S. Army failed to do since 2003...more...
RAND, August 05, 2009:... An examination of MeK activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies. A series of coalition decisions served to facilitate the MeK leadership's control over its members. The government of Iraq wants to expel the group, but no country other than Iran will accept it ... more...
UK Parliament, April 20-21 2009:... In the case of occupied territory, the Convention continues to apply for a year after the general close of military operations, and partially thereafter if the occupying power continues to exercise the functions of government. The occupation of Iraq formally ended on 30 June 2004... more...
Reuters, April 06, 2009:... Asked what can the UK , European and other western governments do to help resettle the MEK, Dr. al Rubaie replied, "These governments can agree to allow their citizens and others who have status in their country to return." ...more...
The Hill, December 11, 2008:... Nejat [Rescue] Society, an Iranian NGO, has sent a delegation to London to brief policy and decision makers, human rights organisations and media on the US army handover of the Mojahedin-e Khalq's (MKO, MeK, NCRI, PMOI) military base, Camp Ashraf ... more...
Reported from EU Parliament, Sep. 09, 2008:... Discussion of the Mojahedin-e Khalq/National Council of Resistance and its activities in the EU Parliament ...more...
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