Iran Human Rights, New York, July 30, 2010:... Many Shiite scholars believe that a mohareb is an individual who takes up arms. This was not the case for my client. He merely participated in the post-election gatherings.. Jafar Kazemi is accused of moharebeh, through his alleged support for the Mojahedin-E Khalgh Organization (MEK), even though he has not accepted these charges ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 29, 2010:... Consequently, what MKO is trumpeting as a ruling of being removed from the terrorist list is nothing but an urge by the court requiring the State Department to grant MKO an opportunity to defend itself against unclassified information, an opportunity already granted. The court has judicial responsibilities to fulfill, as it will be also held accountable for the consequences of unleashing a terrorist organization ... more...
Habilian Association, July 29, 2010:... London Kayhan, an opposition News paper in London in an article from a reader wrote; I watched the BBC news, I am so angry, my message is this that we should not keep quiet in dealing with traitors like MKOs, and MKO in collaboration with Iraqis invaded our country. We are sitting and watching ... more...
Mark Dankof’s America, Texas, July 28, 2010:... Tancredo advocates U.S. support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a cult-like group that is cultivating a broad base of support among Iranian expatriates around the world. Mujahedin e-Khalq means ‘people’s freedom fighters.’ MEK affiliates are the Iraq-based National Liberation Army of Iran and the National Council of Resistance in Iran ...“Although identified as a terrorist organization by the State Department and accused of a pattern of human rights abuses, Tancredo ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, July 28 2010:... Presently the MKO’s existence depends on the West’s support. Without the West’s support they have no place to call home. Currently their headquarters is located in Paris. They own “safe houses” all over Europe and the US, and as long as they have this support, they can maintain their now secret and subversive violent exploits against Iran. As one anonymous ex-member, who fears retribution for using his name, puts it, “The MKO doesn’t offer democracy, and ... more...
Rachel Schneller, Chatham House, August 2010:... MEK also participated in the 1979 take-over of the US Embassy in Tehran and so its members, as designated terrorists, are not eligible for resettlement in the US. Camp Ashraf, however, postpones the inevitable and risks becoming another Guantanamo Bay. MEK members who took part in acts of terror should face justice, possibly through an ad hoc United Nations tribunal that would ensure a fair trial. Those exonerated should then qualify for resettlement ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 27, 2010:... In spite of MKO’s widespread terrorist operations of bombing and assassination inside Iran and its later out-of-the-border organized hit and run operations perpetrated in the last three decades as well as its broadly launched military operation like that of the Eternal Light, it seems that the organization has never been considered a serious threat for the Iranian regime ...more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, July 25, 2010:... VOA in its programs,broadcasted in Persian, has always insisted that its doors are open to all organizations and legal entities as well as ... But the right is followed with a proviso that none of the terrorist groups and entities are permitted to avail themselves of such right as it might lead to an act of propaganda in their favor. Despite such a claim, so reasonable and sound decision as it seems, VOA is itself the first to violate the set standard and the rule, as an organization that presents the US government ... more...
Sahar Family Foundtion, Baghdad, July 25, 2010:... This is of course the heritage of Saddam Hussein for the Iraqi people, created by the Europeans. And American Forces, according to the RAND report, protected their base and kept it exactly as the MKO leaders desired. If the Americans are worried about their human rights why don’t they take them to their own country? The truth is that the Americans are not prepared to issue even one single visa for MKO members to enter their country while they force the Iraqis to ... more...
Baqi Barzani, Kurdishaspect.com, July 25, 2010:...the role that MKO played and the horrendous crimes it committed against Kurdish citizens of South Kurdistan, especially their collaboration with Saddam in massacres and genocides, hold us ethically liable to disallow them any access to our Kurdish mountains. Kurdish Regional Government should press charges on moral grounds against MKO for joining Saddam's army during the Iraqi-Iran war (1980-1988) and helping the dictator in suppressing Kurdish 1991 uprisings and massacre of Iraqi Kurds.MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror, violence, assassination ...more...
Anton Chaitkin, LaRouchePac, July 24, 2010:... From 2005 to 2008 DLA Piper was paid $910,000 to lobby for the MEK. Armey said in a 2007 article in {The Hill}, "Supporting the democratic opposition holds great promise for promoting the cause of freedom and democracy in Iran, particularly the group feared most by the regime (MEK)." Armey's hostilities with Iran continued until the summer of 2009, when he resigned from the firm, his attempt to manipulate the rising Tea Party conflicting with public exposure of his dirty role with DLA Piper... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, July 22, 2010:... On re-designation of MKO as a FTO, the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism in itsApril 30, 2009 report once more asserted MKO’s terrorist activities done against America: “The group's worldwide campaign against the Iranian government uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives and has been supported by reprehensible regimes, including that of Saddam Hussein. During the 1970s, the MEK assassinated several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians ... more...
Fars News, Jully 21, 2010:... "The government of the (Iraqi) Kurdistan region and the central government in Baghdad will in no way agree with such a measure," Spokesman of Pishmarga Ministry of the Iraqi Kurdistan region Jabbar Yavar told FNA. An official of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who asked to remain anonymous, told FNA on Tuesday that the White House had in a message called on his group to harbor the members of the MKO in the Qandil Mountains at the Iranian borders ... more...
Press TV, July 21, 2010:... Washington has called on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants to allow members of the anti-Iran terrorist group access to the Qandil mountain rage along Iran's northwestern border, Fars quoted an informed source close to PKK Leadership Council on Tuesday. The remarks came hours after an explosion damaged a gas pipeline near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit, close to the Iranian border. Regarding the July 15 terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan ... more...
Fars News, July 20, 2010:... Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and, despite the ban, enjoyed full freedom in Europe. Some other members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France ... 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...
Iran Interlink, June 24, 2008:... We cannot expect Iran or Iraq to offer succour to people who have committed acts of violence against the people of those countries. It is clearly the responsibility of the MKO’s western backers to now rescue them ... more...
Al Alam, June 19, 2008:... It is not the duty of Iran or Iraq to help these people but the U.K., U.S. and Israel should grant safe haven and retirement opportunities for their cohorts ... more...
