4 Corners, Press TV, December 29, 2008:... MKO: Turned On...Turned Down... Turned Out... Iraqi forces take over responsibility for Camp Ashraf, home to 3,500 exiles of the People's Mujahideen of Iran, on Jan. 1 as part of a bilateral deal governing the presence of U.S. troops who guarded the camp in the past ... more...
Reuters News, December 31, 2008:... The People's Mujahideen fled to Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the 1980s and fought with Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq war. U.S. forces declared the exiles "protected persons" after the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam ... more...
Press TV, December 30, 2008:... The Mujahedin Khalq Organization claims that the US has granted it immunity amid reports that Iraq will soon take charge of the group. A US embassy statement said on Sunday that Iraq would take charge of Camp Ashraf, MKO's headquarters and training site, as of Jan. 1, 2009. The statement, however, added that a US force will be present in the camp ... more...
chinaview.cn, December 29, 2008:... The Iraqi government will take over security responsibility for Iranian opposition Camp Ashraf on Jan. 1 when the U.S.-Iraqi security pact comes into force, a U.S. embassy statement said on Monday. "With the end of the UNSCR mandate for the Coalition Forces in Iraq, the Government of Iraq will assume security responsibility for Camp Ashraf and its residents as of Jan. 1, 2009," the statement said... more...
Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, Sunday 28 December 2008:... You are correct in your recent assessment of the terrorist nature of the PMOI. This group has never denounced violence and terrorism in its Persian publications; and indeed continues to endorse and promote them. The recent unclassified reports by the group’s own former members do support our existing knowledge of the group ... more...
Pers et Avenir, Paris, December 28, 2008:... TODAY, fortunately we found out that an honorable IRAQI delegation with honorable MR. MOVAFAGH ALRABIEE, as the head of this delegation, entered ASHRAF GARRISON in IRAQ and officially declared the shutting down of this notorious garrison in the near future ... more...
December 27, 2008:... What the BBC reported as ‘Massive Israeli air raids on Gaza’ has, according to a source near to Camp Maryam at Auvers-sur-Oise, been celebrated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO), aka National Council of Resistance as a ‘massive victory against the Iranian regime'... more...
Press TV, December 27, 2008:... A senior Iraqi official said Saturday that, contrary to Washington contentions, Baghdad has not provided security guarantees to the MKO dissidents. "The Iraqi government is determined to abide by a parliamentary verdict to extradite members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization," IRIB quoted the high-ranking official as saying on condition of anonymity ... more...
By Ahmad Baaraan, December 25, 2008:... A recent comment by David Waddington, a former UK home secretary, published by the EU Observer contains some very serious flaws I intend to address here. I was astonished by the lack of depth in the author's view as reflected in his opinion ... more...
Nejat association, Tehran, December 27 2008:... MKO leaders try to convince the members to avoid the bourgeoisie society and along with their struggle avoid any bourgeoisie thought that according to their doctrine, is equal to Capitalism because from the political view bourgeois is against communism and MKO is obviously a communist cult which claims to be Islamic, advocating a secular regime ... more...
Pars Association, Canada, December 27, 2008:... There are a few Canadian politician such as Mrs. Folco, Quebec MP, and David Gilmour , Former MPs who are consistently are supporting Mojahedin Khalgh , MKO an undemocratic cult and warmongers who are in alignment with neo cons . While the Neo cons policy has failed in at cost of hundred thousands of Innocent Iraqis it is a shame theses two Canadian politician supporting such a group ... more...
Nejat association, Tehran, December 25 2008:... The families, whose names are attached to the letter, have relatives in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. They have always complained against MKO leaders who do not allow them to leave the cult and to contact their families. Instead of answering these demands, the MKO leaders insult the families with indecent words like “animals”...more...
Le Figaro, December 24 2008:... Accompanied with a smuggler, having 3000$ in his pocket, several Kalashnikovs and two satellite cell-phones, Babak and another Mojahed tried to infiltrate the Iranian border during the night. A few weeks later, he succeeded to launch grenade attacks ... more...
Washington Post, Ernesto Londono, December 22, 2008:... Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie on Saturday traveled to the camp with several other government officials to deliver the message to members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group that was closely aligned with deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein but has been under U.S. military protection since shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ... more...
Reuters News, By Michael Christie December 21, 2008:... A delegation headed by National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told the Iranians, who have lived for two decades at Camp Ashraf north of Baghdad, that the government was taking over responsibility for their security from U.S. troops. They told the Iranians the government "...is keen to execute its plans to close the camp and send its inhabitants to their countries or other countries in a non-forcible manner, and that staying in Iraq is not an option for them," the government said in a statement...more...
IRNA, December 21, 2008:... He denied that Britain itself was supporting terrorism by recently deproscribing the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO), which has been responsible for killing tens of thousands of Iranians, insisting it was a court decision opposed by his government ... more...
Sahar foundation, Baghdad,December 21 2008:... I believe if you have not been a member of the MKO cult, it is too hard to understand what the “systematic control” is. I will mention some aspects of it which I myself used to control members with. I name them one by one ... more...
Press TV, December 20 2008:... Director of the Iran-based Nejat [Rescue] Association's Foreign Relations Department, Arash Sameti, said the United States refuses to hand Camp Ashraf over to the Iraqi government.Most of the MKO members currently in Camp Ashraf are ailing, and being physically and mentally abused by their terrorist leaders, he added...more...
Nejat association, December 18 2008:... Shadow Minister for Sport, Mr Hugh Robertson met with the Nejat Society delegation in London to hear about their humanitarian solution for Camp Ashraf in Iraq ... more...
Nejat Association, London, December 17, 2008:... Nejat Society delegation met in the House of Lords with Baroness Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister and National Security Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition. Baroness Neville-Jones welcomed the group warmly and spoke of her admiration for their courage ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 17, 2008:... Reported by MarketWatch from Washington, on 16 December 2008, the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) held a press conference to issue a report about an October 2008 research trip to Iraq and visiting the cult bastion of MKO, Camp Ashraf ... more...
Tobias Pflüger, Brussels, July 15, 2008:... We warn against the misunderstanding that the court's order to remove the PMOI from the terrorist list accords the PMOI democratic legitimacy and credentials as political opposition to the ruling Iranian regime. Moreover, their claim to be the only legitimate opposition rather proves their own totalitarian approach.
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Thai News Service, December 10, 2008;...Peter Van Loan, the Canadian public safety minister, said Ottawa in its final review of terrorist activity decided to keep the dissident MKO blacklisted, based on its past activities.more...
The Hill, December 11, 2008:... Iran-Interlink reporting from London - 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, to the Iraqi military on January 1st 2009 ... more...
Al-Dustur, December 7, 2008:... The only "benefit" that Jordan reaps from the participation of MPs in the MKO's activities is straining relations with Tehran without any reason and laying obstacles to developing relations between the two countries... We are not saying this in order to defend the positions of Iran, but we are saying it out of concern for Jordan's interests.more...
Press TV, December 07 2008:... Press TV aired a 4 Corners program: “MKO: Yesterday’s Men?”. One guest on this program, Anne Singleton, is a former member of the MKO. The other guest, a human rights attorney ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, Iran, December 13 2008:... In a meeting with Lord Eric Reginald Lubbock Avebury, a member of British House of Lords, Secretary General of Habilian Association explained different aspects of MKO criminal cult ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, December 08, 2008:...When the American forces came, we were shocked to notice that the Organization called all the members and sent the women to the gates of the camp to welcome the American soldiers who were surprised wondering what was the MKO up to? Suddenly the organization changed its strategy and sat at the negotiation table with the US officers.more...
Iran Interlink, December 05, 2008:... These two men are members of a destructive cult. Before any criminal charges are considered against them, they need to be given urgent psychological and medical attention. It is necessary to establish whether their past actions came of their own free will ... more...
PressTV, December 05, 2008:...Officials in Helsinki believe the two men do not pose a threat to Finnish national security but are set to decide on whether the country will extradite the criminals to Iran to face trial.more...
PressTV, December 02, 2008:... Meetings between the members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization and their families must take place without the supervision of the leaders who are fearful of their separation from the group...more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, December 04 2008:... Alireza Jaafarzade, MEK’s spokesman in the US and the foreign affairs analyst of Fox News(!) says that he supports sanctions against Iran but he also wants to see that sanctions are coupled with political pressure... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 4, 2008:... The Canadian Minister of Public Safety, the Honourable Peter Van Loan announced completion of the two-year review of the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities, and that the Governor in Council has accepted his recommendation that the forty-one entities currently listed should remain on the list ... more...
Davood, Nejat Association, London, December 04, 2008:... Since the MEK found out that their bases in Iraq and France are under special focus, they have been launching further efforts to increase the number of their European bases. Maryam Rajavi’s trips to Italy, Germany and other European countries might be partly to achieve such goals ... more...
Bahar Irani, December 2, 2008:... Saddam was a notorious dictator himself and could be best known by the company it kept, hardly it can be said that he was unfamiliar with the real terrorist nature of MKO. France on the other hand is well known for developing the embryo of democracy and can plainly distinguish false, pretentious claims of pro-democracy. Therefore, France bears a heavier responsibility if it is beguiled by a handful of disreputable cultist whose ideology is intertwined with violence and terrorism ... more...
Press TV, November 29, 2008:... "The Iranian exile organization of the People's Mojahedin Organization which acts under the cover of the National Council of Resistance of Iran is not a suitable partner in dialogue for a responsible policy towards Iran," a spokesperson for the Green Party, Claudia Roth said late Thursday... more...
Iran-Interlink report from the House of Lords, November 26, 2008:... A government spokesman in the House of Lords confirmed that the Americans will hand control of the Mojahedin-e Khalq’s military base in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, Iraqi authorities before the end of the year ... more...
Steven Edwards, November 2008:... Anyway, the group decided it liked all but three consecutive paragraphs totaling 104 words of the 1,070-word piece I’d written for our Canwest newspaper chain on the plight of some 3,500 Iranian exiles in Iraq ... more...
Nejat association, November 26 2008:... I was born in Bandar Abbas in 1968. I didn’t know the MEK just like most Iranians, however those Iranians, who know them, hated them due to clear reasons but I wasn’t even interested to know about them ... more...
Derstandard, October 23, 2008, translated by Nejat Association, November 25, 2008:... This summer hundreds of polish students figured out that their education in the Political Science field doesn’t protect them against a short free trip to Paris and being hired by a terrorist organization ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin WS, November 23, 2008:... The point is that even Mojahedin leaders refrain to pay attention to the will of Ashraf residents and ignore the fact that they have to let them choose their own destiny. In recent years, many have repeatedly focused on the necessity of holding a free referendum in Camp Ashraf ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, November 23, 2008:... However, the worst aspect of artificial, improper American support for this terrorist cult has been that the US army has preserved and protected its military headquarters, Camp Ashraf, in Iraq for five years. Iraqis consider Camp Ashraf to be a Saddamist stronghold and the MEK inside it as a danger to national security ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 23, 2008:... I remember they used the opportunity of war in 1991 and said: “Due to the war, we can not keep the kids here”, so they arranged another chantage and separated the children from their families. That was a treacherous plan that was executed. They even said themselves:” That’s a good pretext to get rid of children.” ... more...
Thai News Service, November 20, 2008:... Tuesday's letter to The Chicago Tribune stated, "It is imperative that the next US administration recognizes the true nature of individuals and groups that purport to speak for democracy and yet have a discredited record of violence, suppression of internal dissent and dangerous, totalitarian ideology."... more...
Behzad Alishahi, November 20 2008:... MEK created a perfect garrison in the heart of Europe; they have made the French Parisian country side, Ouver Sur Oise, their headquarters to control their cult; they own over 30 phone lines and a powerful internet connection; there are houses aligned next to each other; the walls between the house have been removed so as the houses can serve as a hall in case of necessity ... more...
Press TV, November 20, 2008:... Iran says the accusations have been based on 'forged' data. According to the Iranian envoy to the UN, an anti-Iran terrorist cell, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), is responsible for misleading the agency with the 'fabricated' evidence. A senior MKO member, Mohammad Mohaddesin, has also confirmed that the terror organization had presented the IAEA with evidence supporting the anti-Iranian charges ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, November 18, 2008:... Of the most outrageous, scandalous cult records recently revealed are hysterectomy operations and Rajavi’s sex scandal, his polygamous marriage with the female cadres of the Leadership Council. Being under the constant influence of cultic behaviors that show most abnormal to the outsiders, the insiders and even the separated members consider them as typically normal ... more...
Thai News Service, November 17, 2008:... The Iraqi student also said the group then invited the addicted people to Ashraf camp to supply them with drugs and once some Iraqis returning from the camp and overdosed on narcotics inadvertently shot at a house in the village and murdered all of its residents. "Many of my friends majoring in economics and management became addicted by the group," the student added ... more...
Fars News, November 18, 2008:... "Unfortunately the US voices these unfounded and baseless remarks while Iran is a victim of terrorist measures of a criminal group that is still in Iraq and being unacceptably backed by Washington," he said the remarks which pointed to the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist Organization (MKO). The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, November 15, 2008:... If it is an ordinary camp of some political refugees, why it is so unusual? The fact is that despite pro-democratic and peace-seeking gesture of Mojahedin leaders, Auvers-Sur-Oise is a cultic bastion and an assembly of terrorist plotters set in the heart of Europe ... more...
Guardian Constitution Department, Germany, November 18 2008:... The annual report of “The Guarding Constitution Department “of Westfalen province, Germany, on MKO does not include so many changes regarding its last year’s report. The report contains two pages in which there are various notes on Mujahedin Khalq... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, November 15, 2008:... The centre of executive headquarter of the organization in various domains such as financial, propagandistic, information and intelligence and psychological warfare … Maryam Base is the headquarters to direct MKO’s propaganda machine. The base also organizes some front organizations to do fundraising activities under the cover of false identities. … more...
Bahar Irani, November 13, 2008:... Except the local residents of Auvers-sur-Oise, hardly any visitor to the calm town is conscious of a globally proscribed terrorist cult having situated its citadel there. Reported by New York Time’s correspondent Craig S. Smith going there on an arranged interview with Maryam Rajavi ... more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, November 12, 2008:... In Rajavi’s dictatorial system, “Individuality” and “Morality” of members are not only denied but also invalided. The member doesn’t feel himself as a human being since he sees and feels everything according to the systematic indoctrinations imposed on him ... more...
Thai News Service, November 12, 2008:... The Ayatollah also referred to the Iranian and Iraqi nations' hatred towards the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) as an indication of close ties and feelings between the officials and people of the two countries ... more...
Tehran Times Political Desk, November 11, 2008:... “We believe that the presence of Mojahadin group in Iraq is illegal, but no country is ready to accept the members of this group,” Al-Shaikh told the Mehr News Agency published on Monday... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin ws, November 10, 2008:... According to many MKO ex-members as well as political activists, terrorist and suicidal attacks ordained by Mojahedin leadership constitute an integral part of the cult approaches adopted by the organization. A brief look at the Mjahedin activities in recent years clarifies the fact that they have resorted to all means and strategies in order to achieve their main objective ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Nov 10, 2008:... Issue No 6 of Sahar Family Foundation's Newsletter in Arabic was published and widely distributed in Iraq. To subscribe the newsletter in Arabic contact the SFF in Iraq or in Britain via e-mail, mail or telephone...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, November 2008:... Of course, as Vice-President of the European Parliament, I was surprised that I did not hear of your visit from Iraqi government officials. Perhaps you did not see the need to discuss your concerns about this foreign terrorist entity with the legitimate government of the country you were visiting. Unfortunately, the unofficial nature of your visit to this terrorist group aligns you with the remains of the Saddam regime in Iraq ... more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, November 09 2008:... Since 1981 when the National Council of Resistance of Iran was founded by Abul Hassan Bani Sadr(the first Iranian President who fled Iran together with Masud Rajavi),the most influential members has left the council . The significant example is Banisadr himself, who left the NCRI after Masud Rajavi made a treaty with Tariq Aziz; the Iraqi general whose country was in war with Iran at that time ... more...
IRNA, November 08, 2008: ... He referred to his meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Tehran on the sidelines of the NAM meeting, where the Iraqi official announced that Baghdad had reached final agreement with Americans to take over the control of Ashraf camp from multinational forces... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, November 2008:... Your visit and that of the delegation along with you from the Ashraf garrison in Iraq is merely used as a propaganda tool in the hands of a cult to further manipulate its captive followers, since no representative from the opponents, critiques or defectors of the organization were present. Cults do need to justify their inhumane actions and that is why they try to whitewash their faces using well-known people. Our expectation from European politicians was that they act more rational and more reasonable ... more...
Milad Ariaee, Nejat Association, November 08, 2008:... The activities of the MKO to be removed from the lists of terrorist groups is the first step towards getting out of the dammed black tunnel which has turned the days of the Mojahedin as dark as nights. By following this strategy is seems that ... more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East, November 07, 2008:... The reason for why some problems are disturbing is that not all of them are political in origin. For example, one of the problems that is worrisome for Iran is the exclusion of the organisation called Mojahedin Khalq [MKO] from the list of terrorist organisations in Britain. But this is a legal case and accidentally there are many common points in this respect between the two governments ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 06, 2008:... After the defection, I could have had a normal life but I had enough motivation to stay in Iraq to help my ex-friends and those who are likely to be captured by MKO; the ones who are like me and who do not know what is waiting for them in the cult despite their deceitful smile and green lights. I know what is behind the smiles of the captives in Ashraf. They are very tired but they are afraid of complaining because they would be marked... more...
MKO Watch, November 2008:... This paper tries to study and analyze in depth the cult – like characteristics of NCRI, its formation, leadership, members, objectives, modus operandi and its terrorist approaches in a documented manner so that any judgment as to whether it is a cult – terrorist group or not, would be quite precise . All the documents referred to in this paper come from NCRI’s own sources and references and also from MKO/NLA, groups already included in the list of terrorist groups drawn up by the European Union and the United States ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 2008:... Since I couldn’t get out alone, I planned a way to escape. At the sunset time, I put a back bag on the front seat of my jeep and I put a cap and a scarf on the pack bag to make the figure of a woman. Therefore I could pass the control station. I told them that my colleague is taking a nap on the front seat. So I could get out until I reached the street around the camp where I parked the car and walked out of the prison I had spent so many years of my life ... more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East from Mardom Salari website, November 03, 2008:... Our general approach is to engage in talks through parliamentary diplomacy, and in this context a decision has been made that a parliamentary delegation from the Majlis should visit Britain and pursue such issues there. This decision has been welcomed by a group of British parliamentarians ... more...
Nejat Association, November 03, 2008:... The armed struggle is not able to survive except by having the military equipments and support and especially the support and accompaniment of the public opinion. When an armed opposition loses such a support in the country, it has to look for it abroad ... more...
Matt Korade, CQ Staff, CQ Homeland Security, October 24, 2008:... The targeted killings of Iranians by groups purported to be proxies for the United States are problematic because they legitimize Iran's fear of U.S.- engineered attempts at "regime change" while handing the country's leaders a salient and ready counterargument to U.S. finger-pointing over Iran's support of terrorist groups in Iraq and elsewhere, Gardiner said at a Century Foundation-sponsored discussion this week ... more...
Thai News Service, October 30, 2008:... The US military also remains in control of Baghdad, Nineveh and Diyala. The Diyala province has been home to the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) since the 1980s ... more...
Nejat Association, October 31, 2008:... The isolated atmosphere of the cult has caused a clear distance between the inside and outside of Camp Ashraf so as it is really unable to do anything out of the camp relations ... more...
Fars News, Arbil, October 28, 2008:... These statements come at the time when some media report of America’s efforts to establish a new fully equipped camp for MKO terrorist group 30 kilometers away from Arbil...more...
Nejat Association, October 26, 2008:... Since its foundation as an opposition to the regime of Shah of Iran, MKO has always been engaged in the armed struggle and has never denounced violence officially. What can MEK do with that long (more than 4 decades) history of bombings, assassinations and military operations mostly against innocent people ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, October 26, 2008:... We do not know exactly when and where these four stated courts ruled removal of the terror tag from the organization, but if she means the last case judged by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg on 23 October 2008 it has to be stated that she has misunderstood the judgment ... more...
Anne Singleton, October 26, 2008:... the decision makers of the European Union should not be overly concerned with the freeing or not of the MKO’s assets (while the group apparently has millions of euros to spend on legal fees) but should be concerned instead with freeing its 3000 militants from enforced membership of a paramilitary group ... more...
Press TV, October 21 2008:... when a tragic catastrophe took place in the US, on the other side of the world, in Iraq 60 Kilometers North of Baghdad, in Camp Ashraf Mujahedin-e-Khalq were celebrating the death of thousands of innocent people in the US ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, October 23, 2008:... I attended the meetings of the Leadership Council which were held once a week. We held several meetings when Masud and Maryam were in Iraq and later, as the layer of the leadership council we had the meetings everyday ... more...
IRNA, New York, October 24, 2008:... Despite the terroristic nature of the group, the UK's Court of Appeals and Britain's government have turned a blind eye to the hostile activities of the group, the envoy wrote to the UN bodies ... more...
Thai News Service, October 24, 2008:... The MKO is on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze, and has been designated by the US government as a foreign terrorist organization. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visits Brussels and despite the ban enjoys full freedom in Europe ... more...
Fars News Agency,Translated by Nejat NGO, October 22, 2008:... The second secretary of the American embassy in Baghdad, published a documented report on the crimes committed by the MEK’s leaders who bloodshed their own colleagues, raped the women of Ashraf, poisoned and executed dozens of the defectors... more...
Press TV, Oct 21, 2008:... Of the most inhuman practices carried out within the MKO terrorist organization is the misuse of modern science to make women infertile. Batoul Soltani, who was a Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) member for 20 years and was promoted to the rank of the leadership council of the terrorist organization, told Press TV ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 20, 2008:... For sure, even the western advocates of MKO and lobbying parliamentarians have been unaware of these inhuman and brutal actions that are only expected of ill-famed, destructive cults. As the elite of their own nations, at least they have to be concerned about the actions of the group they are lobbying for to unleash among their own people ... more...
Fars News Agency, October 20 2008:... The people‘s Mujahedin of Iran does hysterectomy surgeries on women ranks and file and promotes them to the Ideal Summit [total devotion to leader] .They have made 150 women barren so far...more...
Mojahedin.ws, October 18, 2008:... Have you ever paid a visit to prisons to visit those behind the bars? Or prison wardens inspecting prisons as a part of their responsibilities? ... more...
Fars News Agency, October 15 2008:... According to the foreign policy reporter of Fars News Agency, following the disclosing speech of Nassrin (Batoul) Ebrahimi, an ex-member of MKO’s leadership council , in European Parliament ,based on the execution of an operation called “ Ideal Summit” through which the PMOI makes the women members barren ... more...
Nejat Association, October 12, 2008:... According to Ali Safavi, third option would be practical by supporting the MKO and the support would come from the west that has listed the group as a terrorist organization... more...
Camp Ashraf survivors deliver a letter for Iraqi PM during a meeting in Iraqi Embassy in Paris. October 12, 2008:... We are survivors of the Rajavi cult (aka Mojahedin-e Khalq) which for many years was part of Saddam Hussein’s repressive apparatus ... more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, October 12, 2008:... Constance Tanter appeared on Goft-o-Goo TV to explain how she met Professor Raymond Tanter and her past involvement promoting the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists ...more...
Iran Interlink, October 2008:... The MKO misinformation serves a single purpose; to delay the disintegration of the group – an inevitable outcome which can be either facilitated or hindered by western governments and humanitarian agencies ... more...
Nejat Association, October 09 2008:... The slogans like “Dawn with terrorism “, “there is no good or bad terrorism” , “ leave our children “ and the self-will slogans “ Dawn with Rajavi” which are chanted by the families in their gatherings proves their hatred towards MKO cult ... more...
Hassan Piransar, October 07, 2008:... After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Rajavi ordered us to search all the camp. Ashraf camp had to be wiped off any material linked to Saddam's apparatus. He told us, the new hosts (Americans) are stronger and will be able to help us a lot more. He ordered all the anti American and anti imperialist books and documents to be destroyed... more...
Mojahedin.ws, October 5, 2008:... Being trained under the most sophisticated methods of terrorism as well as enigmatic, destructive cult techniques in the safe haven of Camp Ashraf heavily protected by American themselves, MKO leading members are like time bombs that start ticking in any corner of the world where they opt to detonate. As the media have reported lately, several members of MKO were arrested in France and Switzerland on terrorist charges ... more...
Trita Parsi, Washinton times, October 5, 2008:... The Bush administration inherited many of Iraq's problems when it invaded that country, including an Iranian terrorist organization funded and armed by Saddam Hussein, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO). Though in the midst of a war on terror, the Bush administration chose in 2003 to protect 3,000 of the organization's militants ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, October 3, 2008:... Now the Province of Diyali in Iraq becomes known as Val-d'Oise in France in the same way that the mayors of Val-d'Oise replace the Iraqi sheikhs and tribe leaders. Has France really accented to the formation of another Camp Ashraf in the heart of the country? ... more...
Press TV, October 03, 2008:... The official told Fars news agency that the MKO members who were given US citizenship were directly engaged in acts of terror against Iranians and the Iraqi people...more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, October 02, 2008:... He emphasised that mass of misinformation issued by the Rajavis and their backers such as Robin Corbett, Paulo Casaca and Struan Stevenson, is aimed at keeping human rights organisations out of Camp Ashraf so that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi can continue their inhuman mistreatment of their captives behind closed doors ... more...
Thai News Service, October 02, 2008:... ... A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations. According to Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms... more...
A. Kavehpur, Mojahedin.ws, September 2008:... If the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is forced to weigh anchor from Iraq, since the Iraqi government is decisive to expel the group as once France did, it has to drop it in another country; it has already succeeded to drop it partly in France although not officially consented and announced neither by French government nor the organization ... more...
Reuters News, Sep 29, 2008:... Several of the people close to the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) -- listed as a terrorist group in the European Union and United States -- were in police custody on both sides of the border on Monday, the sources said. The police swoop was coordinated between French and Swiss officials who were acting at the request of Swiss judges examining the funding of a group linked to the PMOI ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, September 27, 2008:... Mr. Hamid Siah Mansouri is a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who has managed to escape from the Ashraf Camp which is the base of the MKO terrorist cult in Iraq. He could eventually reach to France after waiting for a long period ... more...
A film by James Longley, Link TV, September 26, 2008:... This special report by filmmaker James Longley focuses on the impact of the MEK on US–Iran Relations. Though the MEK, an exiled Iranian group, is listed on the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, they continue to enjoy both the covert and overt support of some members of US Congress and the Bush Administration ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, September 24, 2008:... In fact the main motivation for conducting collective life in cults is taking members under full control. According to Hoffer, the mechanisms of cultist life change the value system of members in a way that it even puts value on aggression and aggressive behaviors ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, September 25 2008:... In 2005, when the Human Rights Watch published the detailed report on human right abuses committed by MKO ... more...
IRNA, London, September 23, 2008:... The Iranian embassy also confirmed that there had been an attack but there was only minor damage caused. The building, it said, was open for normal business on Tuesday. The attack comes after the UK removed the MKO from its proscribed list of terrorist groups in June, despite the government insisting that it still regarded it as a terrorist group ...more...
Press TV, September 22, 2008:... Backed by the United States and the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hossein, the group has used its northern Iraq enclave - Ashraf - to launch military incursion against Iran. The MKO is blacklisted as a terrorist group by a majority of the European Union member states as well as the United States... more...
Mojahedin.ws, September 19, 2008:... It would be a good thing if the EU advocates of terrorist and cultist MKO made a thorough study of group’s atrocities or contacted the ex-members before making a fuss to be included on the list next to terrprists. If they believe that those in Ashraf ... more...
4 corners, Press TV, September 18, 2008:... Massoud Khodabandeh and Arash Sametipoor who are attending the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Participate in a discussion about the future of Camp Ashraf after hand over to the Iraqi Govenment ... more...
The Christian Science Monitor, By John Hughes, September 18, 2008:...Refugee status in the US might seem an obvious solution to the problem. But in another bizarre twist, the Iranian Mujahideen members, who are considered "protected persons" under the Geneva Convention by US forces in their "Camp Ashraf" north of Baghdad, are actually listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department. They allegedly supported the takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. more...
Reuters, Wed Sep 17, 2008:... A delegation from Nejat Society in Iran is in Geneva this week to participate in sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council and to meet with delegations from other international human rights organizations. Their aim is to prevent further political abuse of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI) members in Camp Ashraf held captive by their leaders ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, September 15, 2008:... If FIDH, ICRC, and other humanitarian groups and committees are really concerned about Ashraf residents, the best they can do is a close cooperation with the Iraqi government so a decisive and secure decision can be taken. To release members from the bond of a terrorist cult and prepare for them to find a secure living-place ... more...
Nejat Society, September 15, 2008:...They made the officials aware of the threats that exist for the captured members in the cult, asking for the creation of a convenient situation for the members to return a normal life in a free society.more...
Thai News Service, September 9, 2008:...the Iraqi foreign ministry said the US military officials have moved the key members of the terrorist group from Ashraf Camp to prevent Iraqi government to have access to them. "Current members of MKO inhabiting the camp are remorseful and not effective for the US military", the source added. more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Iraq, Sep. 14, 2008:... The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is a destructive cult according to all modern psychological and sociological definitions of cults. This cult is of course fully developed and has exposed all known cultic characteristics. All cults behave in a similar manner both from inside and from outside although they defer vastly in their publicized ideas ... more...
Fars News, Sep. 14, 2008:... Al-Mefleh said Jordan's foreign minister, on the sidelines of NAM foreign ministers meeting in Tehran, had stressed that the country does not recognize the terrorist group ... more...
Iran-Interlink, September 12, 2008:...Jafarzadeh extolled in glowing terms the great achievement of the MKO in creating this wonderful “city” and described the facilities ‘enjoyed’ by the MKO there.
Without contradicting his words, let us have a little glimpse at this ‘city’ and compare it with our own towns and cities, the places we all live and work and send our kids to school.more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, Sep 11, 2008:... The families whose children are taken as hostages in Camp Ashraf, asked the Iraqi government to execute the regulation ruled by the council of ministers, based on taking the responsibility of protection of Camp Ashraf from American forces and paving the way for MKO expulsion ... more...
MNN, Sep. 10, 2008:... Iraqi Defense Minister Abdulqader Mohammed Al-Obeidi said on Wednesday that the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization `MKO` has been engaged in illegal activities on Iraqi soil. more...
Mojahedin.ws, September 12, 2008:... On the anniversary of 11 September terrorist incident, and while the world media take positions and analyze the incident from different angles, MKO-run media have purposefully remained silent, as they have all through these years ... more...
Nejat Society, September 11, 2007:... ... Massoud Rajavi called the operation the consequence of the US policy and also the exhibition of the power of the ideology of Islam! He declared that "wait and see the fruits of our revolutionary Islam!"...more...
Reported from EU Parliament, Sep. 09, 2008:... Ms Ebrahimi said she saw Mr Paulo Casaca when he visited Camp Ashraf. We were not allowed to approach him and speak to him, she explained to delegates. If they had somewhere to go, she told delegates, without doubt ninety-nine percent of the people in Camp Ashraf would leave the camp and the MKO... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, September 8, 2008:... In general, a cult cannot be truly explored or understood without understanding its leader. No follower is to attain what is he or she looking for unless through a leader who is believed to be endowed with magical powers or has connection to God or whatever higher power or belief system he is espousing ... more...
Cynthia Dizikes, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 9, 2008:... "Whenever somebody is transferred or repatriated, the authority in charge should make sure the person is going on his or her own free will," said Dorothea Krimitsas, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, one of several human rights groups following the situation... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Sep 08, 2008:... The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. This foundation is solely focused on charitable and human rights issues ... more...
Press TV, Sep. 07, 2008:... US forces have relocated leading members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) after Iraqi authorities took control of their camp. Following a decision by the Iraqi government to take over the security of the MKO headquarters, the US forces relocated selected members of the organization.... more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East, September 6, 2008:... In the past couple of years we have witnessed a number of them repatriated and returned to their families. What they explained is a picture of dejection and suffering. Many have endured hardship and they would have taken any opportunity to remove themselves from this grouplet earlier had it been available.
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Reuters, September 5, 2008:...The U.N. refugee agency says the Ashraf residents do not fall under its protection mandate until they agree to lay down arms and uniforms, and denounce armed struggle.
Over the years, some 200 residents have done so, but it has been hard to find countries of asylum for those granted refugee status due to their background, a UNHCR spokeswoman said.more...
Sahar Foundation, Sep. 06, 2008:... In the past two statements, it was emphasized that the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) captured in the Ashraf military camp are demanding an urgent meeting with their beloved ones in a place other than the Ashraf camp and without the presence of any person but the members of the family and for adequate duration ... more...
Press TV, Wed, 03 Sep 2008:.. Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), Ammar Hakim, confirmed a six-month deadline set by the Iraqi government for the MKO to leave Iraq and added that the MKO had helped former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein commit his crimes ... more...
Amnesty International Public Statement, August 28, 2008:...Amnesty International considers that those living in Camp Ashraf would be at grave risk of torture or other serious human rights violations if they were to be returned involuntarily to Iran, whether by the Iraqi authorities or by the US-led MultiNational Force (MNF). The organization has told the Iraqi and US governments that it strongly opposes any such forcible returns, either of those at Camp Ashraf or of other Iranian nationals who currently reside in Iraq having left Iran for political reasons or to escape persecution. more...
PressTV, September 2, 2008:... "Iraq will not consider expelling MKO members forcefully from the country and will deal with them according to international regulations." (Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraq's government spokesman)more...
Tehran Times Political Desk, September 1, 2008:...“Iraq can provide political asylum to foreigners but will not provide asylum to groups which have a military and political nature, such as the MKO, which has carried out some activities against the Iraqi nation and was a part of the oppressive regime of Saddam.”more...
Aswat al-Iraq, 30 August 2008:... Sayyid Ammar al-Hakeem on Saturday morning received Wejdan Mekhaeel, the human rights minister, at his office in Baghdad. The two sides conferred on human rights issues, especially those related to the government measures taken to deal with the MKO file, in addition to the mass graves left by the former regime ... more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, August 28, 2008:... The Iran Policy Committee (IPC) promotes the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, the murders of American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranians and Iraqis. The United States State Department has listed the MEK as a Marxist terrorist organization since the administration of former President Bill Clinton. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked the MEK at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, killing some of the communist terrorists. Then, the American government ordered the American military to protect these terrorists ... more...
Press TV, Aug 29, 2008:... Major General Mohammed al-Askari, spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, told Iraqi al-Forat TV that a battalion of military forces has surrounded Camp Ashraf of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) since Wednesday night, Fars News Agency reported ... more...
Fars News Agency, Translated by BBC Monitoring, Aug 28, 2008:... The al-Forat television network reported that spokesperson for Iraqi defence ministry, Gen Mohammad al-Asgari made the announcement. He said: At this time, the camp is surrounded with support form an Iraqi military battalion and Iraqi forces have placed it inside a security enclosure ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, August 24, 2008:... Naturally, the members distanced from the influence of the laboratory could cause problems for the organization and they had to be controlled according to the same controlling measures imposed on them in Camp Ashraf despite living in Auvers-Sur-Oise or anywhere else in the Europe. Oddly enough, these cultic, controlling measures proceeds in the heart of the modern, democratic world ... more...
Press TV, Aug 25, 2008:... In a recent move, Britain removed the banned Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terror organizations. The MKO has committed acts of aggression against both Iranian and Iraqi nationals and remains banned by the European Union and the United States ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Aug 25, 2008:... In an article in the NEWSTATESMAN by John Pilger dated 29 May 2008, it is shown that the MKO is being used by the Bush administration against Iran for terrorist activities, even though the organization has been designation as a terrorist group by the State Department ... more...
Pars Iran, Canada, Aug 25, 2008:... WE are wondering how come you stand behind MKO as a women while they have been systematically violation UN human rights charter such as the freedom of marriage, right to make a family , the right to education. You sold Canada very cheap by the trip to Paris paid from Sadam's pupet...more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, August 22, 2008:... It may seem hard to believe that the first seeds of MKO’s transition to a cult of personality were sown in the heart of the Western democratic and free soil following the initiation of the ideological revolution within MKO. In fact, before MKO relocation to Iraq to execute cultic relations in Camp Ashraf ... more...
Middle East Today, Press TV, Aug 17, 2008:... Anne Singleton and Ebrahim Khodabandeh discussing US protection for MKO Terrorists in Camp Ashraf...more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Aug 19, 2008:... "...Oddly enough, the group, the Mujahadeen-e Khalk, is listed as a terrorist organization by our own State Department. The MEK worked with Saddam Hussein and even fought as his ally in the war against their own countrymen. But the MEK shares the same goal as the Bush-Cheney administration ... more...
Mojahedin Monitor, Aug18, 2008:... perhaps no story is more tragic than that of the former members of the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who wish to leave their state of limbo in war ravaged Iraq, can not return to Iran and hope for safety, and have not yet managed to gain asylum to any other corner of this earth ... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, Aug 16, 2008:... Sir Geoffrey Adams, British Ambassador to Tehran, paid a visit to the Nejat Society
The British Ambassador to Iran, Geoffrey Adams, along with a high ranking official from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) who was visiting the country required a meeting in the office of the Nejat society in Tehran. A number of members and associates of the society including Mr. Arash Sametipour, the international relations secretary, were present in the meeting ... more...
Sahar Foundation,Baghdad, Aug 14, 2008:... Regarding the fact that the control of the base of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq called the Ashraf camp, as a part of the Iraqi territory, is going to be handed over to the Iraqi authorities by the coalition forces ... more...
Habilian Association, Aug 11, 2008:... He asked the Iraqi security forces to deport MEK terrorists from Iraq as soon as possible. He called MEK a terrorist cult which is responsible for all the existing unrests and violence in Dyali...more...
ISNA - Tehran, Aug 09, 2008:... Meanwhile regarding a committee founded in Iraqi defense ministry to pursue the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) case the official said that Iraqi government is willing to take charge of the MKO terrorist group and make a decision about them. According to this official the U.S. is also willing to concede the MKO responsibility to Baghdad ... more...
IRNA, Aug 08, 2008:... After the MKO members' expulsion from Iraq, Iran will follow up the issue of the grouplet leaders' hand over to Iranian judicial authorities and if necessary, they should be tried at the Hague as war criminals ... more...
Iran-Interlink, Aug 07, 2008:... Iran-Interlink heartily congratulates Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Atefeh Naadalian on their recent marriage in Tehran ... more...
John Pilger The Guardian, Wednesday August 6 2008: ... the lies of justification grow more outrageous. Iran is the current "threat". But Iran has no nuclear weapons and the disinformation that it is planning a nuclear arsenal comes largely from a discredited CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition group, the MEK - just as the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction originated with the Iraqi National Congress, set up by Washington ... more...
The Arkansans Democrat Gazette, August 5, 2008:...But the MEK shares the same goal as the Bush-Cheney administration: regime change in Teheran. So they're useful for American purposes. When's a terrorist not a terrorist? When he's on your side ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, August 6, 2008:... The last lines clearly delineate the intention of what he refers to as ‘the international community’. Nobody is the least interested in the life and destiny of these enslaved people in Camp Ashraf as human beings. The Europeans and Americans have reached a consensus to manipulate these members as means of leverage to be used against the Iranian regime ... more...
Constance Andresen Tanter, Washington DC, Aug 05, 2008:... I BELIEVE THAT MADAME RAJAVI AND THE GROUP DO NOT SUPPORT WOMENS RIGHTS SINCE THEY KEEP PAYING AND FUNDING RAYMOND TANTER AND SINCE I WAS THE WIFE AND AM ON APPEAL THAT ALL THEIR INTERNAL AUDITS WILL BE BROUGHT FORTH......HE FOOLED ME AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS....HE HAS THREATENED MY LIFE IF I SPEAK OUT OR EVEN HAVE AN ATTORNEY TO DEFEND MYSELF. I WONDER WHY HE HAS HIDDEN ALL OF THIS AND IN THE DIVORCE ALL DOCUMENTATION OF AL OF THE EMAILS AND UNDO INFLUENCE IS DOCUMENTED FROM THE MEK CAUSING A US STATES DISTRICT COURT IN WAHSINGTON DC TO NOT GRANT DISCOVERY OR EVEN DUE PROCESS.....I AM SEEKING AN ATTORNEY ON APPEAL AND ALSO I WONDER IF I MAY NEED TO SUE THE MEK FOR WHAT IT HAS DONE TO A UNITED STATES CITIZEN I HAVE LIVED IN FEAR OF MY LIFE ... more...
By Scott Ritter, Special Contriburtion, Seoul Times, Aug 04, 2008:... The organization represents no state and can be found on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations, yet since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the MEK has been under the protection of the U.S. military. Its fighters are even given "protected status" under the Geneva Conventions. The MEK says its members in Iraq are refugees, not terrorists. And yet one would be hard-pressed to find why the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees should confer refugee status on an active paramilitary organization that uses "refugee camps" inside Iraq as its bases... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, Aug 04, 2008:... Initially in this symposium Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh a former member of the international relations department of the MKO in the UK discussed two topics which were the de-proscription the MKO in Britain and the recent resolution passed by the Iraqi governments which indicates that the control of the Ashraf Camp must be handed over to the Iraqi authorities. He pointed out that the families have suffered most from the latest decision ... more...
Press TV, Aug 04, 2008:... The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, it said, adding that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. According to Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts deserters under torture and jail terms...more...
UPI, August 1, 2008:... The United States and Iran have had an acrimonious relationship since a CIA-backed coup in 1953 overthrew the Iranian government. Now, the report said, "U.S.-Iranian political atmosphere and dominant American philosophies have encouraged the U.S. government to forge a friendship with an Iranian opposition group that is living in exile, the People's Mujahedin of Iran." ... more...
Interview with Ali Kordi, 1 August 2008:... The situation in today's Iran is very different from the circumstances which prevailed in the early 1360s decade [early 1980s]. Not only small groups such as the Mojahedin, but also major powers and countries too are not capable of confronting Iran. The recent missile manoeuvres of the [Islamic Revolution] Guards Corps bears testimony to that fact. On the other hand ... more...
Press TV (The Agenda), London, July 31 2008:... Is American using Terror Groups to fuel a Dirty War inside Iran? - Presented by Yvonne Riddley, Anne Singleton from Iran-interlink participates in a one hour discussion on "The Agenda", Press TV, London studiomore...
By Selig S. Harrison; Harrison is director of the Iran Program at the Center for International Policy.
Newsweek International, July 31, 2008:... To start a broader dialogue on the nuclear issue, Obama would have to take one crucial step sought by Iran: end CIA and Special Forces support for insurgents seeking to overthrow the Islamic republic, especially Kurdish separatists and the Iraq-based Mujahedin-e Khalq. This move wouldn’t need to be publicly announced, however, and would thus have a low domestic political cost for Obama ... more...
Julia Murray, NIAC, Jul 31, 2008:... Washington DC - NIAC held a briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill to shed light on the risk of a possible proxy war between the USA and Iran through various sectarian and political groups in Iran and Iraq, including the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The event featured Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.), an expert on strategy and military organizations ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, July 31, 2008:... Generally, as Thaler Singer suggests, “Cults tend to require members to undergo a major disruption or change in lifestyle”. Many cults put great pressure on new members to leave their families, friends, and jobs to become immersed in the group's major purpose. This isolation tactic is one of the cults' most common mechanisms of control and enforced dependency ... more...
IRNA, July 29, 2008:... The protestors were families of those MKO members who have been kept (mostly unwillingly) in the terrorist cult's camp some 60 km north of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.
The center, called the Ashraf Camp, is a place where the MKO members are brainwashed to get prepared to participate in terrorist operations against civilians targets ... more...
Ahmad Baaraan, July 20, 2008:... I wish to express my gratitude for His Excellency’s efforts to maintain the Iranian group in the EU terror list. This group has many aliases such as PMOI, MEK, MKO, NCRI, NLA, to name just a few Many Iranians living in France and other EU countries share this sentiment with me, most notably those who have recently escaped from the group’s infamous camp in Iraq, publicly known camp Ashraf ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 27, 2008:... Twenty years ago and after the Iran-Iraq cease-fire in 1988, Rajavi dispatched thousands of his warriors on ''Operation Eternal Light'' across the border to capture Iranian territory and reach Tehran in less than two days. It was a total military failure and a proven suicide operation excluding the leader himself. In fact, Mojahedin hurried to take advantage of a no-war no-peace situation created after the ceasefire ... more...
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer, July 25, 2008:... They said that the Iranian-born widow was never involved in violence and that the group, the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, also known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, has won the backing of some U.S. military officers and politicians because it advocates the overthrow of the Iranian government ... more...
Rahai Association, July 24, 2008:... On Tuesday July 22, 2008, eight survivors of the Rajavi cult, who have managed to get themselves out of Iraq and into Europe, attended a meeting in the US embassy in Paris and presented a letter in support of the people who are left back in Camp Ashraf in Iraq ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, Translated by Mojahedin.ws, July 22, 2008:... I suggest you open your eyes and see lots of people you have enslaved, the many families you have disintegrated, and the numerous people who are lamenting the loss of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children and husbands. My concluding advice, resign if you ever think of the organization and the members so more qualified persons with matured, novel ideas may assume to lead the organization as a political force... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, July 22, 2008:... In a meeting with secretary general of Habilian Association(Representatives of 16000 terror victims in Iran), a group of Falujah political figures and newsmen as well as the heads of different Iraqi tribes called for the expulsion of MKO terrorist group from their Country ... more...
Press TV, London, July 21, 2008:... During the program, Jazayeri claimed the Iranian government executes and stones people on a daily basis. She also said the country's economy has collapsed, alleging that nearly 85 percent of the Iranian people live below the poverty line and demand a regime change...more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 21, 2008:... as the life of cults depend on the multiplicity of members and continuation of recruiting new members, they have to let unqualified members in as well. But in political cults, and in MKO in particular, the suspicious members are recognized to be purged or forced to adapt themselves to principles through a especially contrived process ... more...
Iran website, Tehran, July 2008. Translated by BBC:... The American and British failure in containing the Islamic revolution movement and the ever increasing role of Iran in regional and international developments has led them to consider all possible alternatives against the Islamic revolution and has forced Britain to resort to a burnt-out element which is "Munafeqin" [Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization -MKO]...more...
Mary Frances Hill, Vancouver Sun, July 17, 2008:... A longtime Vancouver resident who has been denied Canadian citizenship for 14 years may have downplayed his involvement with Iran's Mujahedin-e-Khalq terrorist group, Crown counsel alleged Wednesday ... more...
Mojahedin WS, July 17, 2008:... In her meeting with a group of Iraqi sheikhs, who were on a visit to Paris to attend MKO’s gathering on June 28, in Auvers-sur-Oise, Maryam Rajavi stressed that there was a close consanguinity between Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization and Iraqi people as reported by MKO’s run Iran-efshagari site ... more...
By David Brunnstrom and Mark John, Reuters, July 16, 2008:... The European Union said on Wednesday it was keeping an Iranian opposition group on its list of banned terrorist movements, days before it leads major power talks with Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear program ...more...
Press TV, July 17, 2008:... The European Union has declared that it will keep the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK) on the list of outlawed terrorist groups. The EU officials have declared that the decision to keep the MEK on the list of the terrorist groups is not related to the Western efforts to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program, Reuters reported ... more...
Press TV, July 16, 2008:... US forces transfer truckloads of cargo from the Ashraf base in Iraq where members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization have been stationed. American forces transfer truckloads of unknown cargo by night, as the deadline for handing over the base to Iraqi forces approaches, the Iraqi Aljewar website reported Tuesday...more...
Al araghieh TV, Baghdad, July 16, 2008:... Therefore, "this organization should not interfere in Iraqi's domestic affairs or try to harm any neighbouring country."... more...
Al Jewar Baghdad, July 14, 2008:... According to reliable governmental sources, the Iraqi army is to take control of Camp Ashraf - in which is the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq. Now the first Iraqi batallion has been stationed around Camp Ashraf to take over control of the camp ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, July 14, 2008:... Now we see he has taken the first step to make England a safe haven for MEK by bringing it out from the terror list. The move is encouraging other proscribed groups, and Al-Qaeda of course, to start defending their rights! I in my turn congratulate Prime Minister for his initiative measure ... more...
Press TV, July 13, 2008:... According to a source close to northern Iraq's Kurds, the US army and the security forces of the President of Iraq's Kurdistan Massoud Barzani faction will provide the members of the outlaw Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who have defected from the organization, with all the necessary welfare and security services ... more...
Mojahedin.ws. July 11, 2008:... Patrick Cockburn’s article Security firms lose immunity in Iraq deal discusses that the US forces will really face difficulty in getting intelligence help from Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization under a new agreement between the US and the Iraq ... more...
Junge Welt, Germany, July 09 2008:...We were told that we had to participate in the event. That it would be important. It should demonstrate how many people support the Rajavi woman. On arrival we were meticulously searched, just as at the airport we had to go through a security gate. Our bags were searched. We had to hand in our mobile phones and cameras. They did not want us to take pictures. It would be embarrassing when you look at the photos of the Mojahedin-e Khalq and just see Russians.more...
IRNA reporting from Edalat Association, Tehran, july 10, 2008:... Talking with the Iranian news agency IRNA, the members of the Edalat Society who are the victims of the MKO terrorist activities inside Iran held the British government responsible for the past and future terrorist acts of the MKO...more...
Batul Soltani, Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, July 07, 2008:... Referring to the recent decision made by your government to de-proscribe the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), I wish to write to you and let you know about myself as a former member of their Leadership Council ... more...
PEN Association, Germany, July 05, 2008:... Do you believe that MKO has any support in Iran? Please believe us, people and all political groups opposing the Islamic Republic, whether monarchists, republicans or nationalists, they all consider MKO as waste, being left over from the former dictator Saddam Hussein. Nothing else ... more...
Various Sources, July 7/8 2008:...“This terrorist group is in Iraq without having legal and international reasons”.
Accusing the group of cooperation with the former Ba’th regime in killing Iraqis, Hakim said: “The group tries to ignite ethnic differences in Iraq and has declared its hostility toward the elected Parliament and government.”more...
4 Corners, Press TV, July 05, 2008:... Anglo - Iraninan Relations: Testy Times and Inside the MKO. One hour program by Press TV with guests from Tehran and London...more...
Al-Arab al Yawm, Jordan, July 05, 2008:... He added: "I have no knowledge of that participation and I do not know the names of the attending MPs, who only represent themselves, and do not represent the Jordanian House of Representatives ... more...
Patrick Cockburn, Independent, July 05 2008:... An embarrassing aspect of the American pin-prick war against Iran is that many of its instruments were previously on the payroll of Saddam Hussein. The MEK even played a role in 1991 in helping to crush the uprising against the Baathist regime at the end of the Gulf war ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mogahedin.ws, July 4, 2008:...MKO insists not to let any dissident and detached member enter the UK and will do anything to stop any attempt... But the truth is that, in spite of all these costs, not MKO but the dissidents are the real winners who will benefit the most...more...
Press TV, July 04, 2008:... Ali al-Dabbagh held a press briefing in Baghdad on Thursday and said the order had been issued because leaders of the Mojahedin Khlaq Organization (MKO) have interfered in the domestic affairs of Iraq and threatened some Iraqi officials by phone...more...
Voice of Iraq, July 04, 2008:... In a recent statement, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet said that the terrorist group interferes in the country's internal affairs and supports anti-government activities. The government banned any deal with the members of the Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, Rajavi cult)...more...
IRNA, New York, July 04, 2008:... "Any country moving officially in line with removal of the MKO from the terrorists' list will from the view point of Iran and Iranians be an accomplice in the terrorist acts taken by the grouplet," Mottaki told IRNA prior to leaving New York ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, July 03, 2008:... The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. This foundation is solely focused on charitable and human rights issues ... more...
IRNA, Tehran, July 03, 2008:... Jenkins said, "As the British Foreign Secretary and other high ranking UK officials have stated, the British government considers the moves made by the terrorist group (MKO), as well as the moves made by the National Resistance Council, as shameful ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 2, 2008:... MR. CASEY: Yeah. Well, you know, our policy is not to engage or have discussions or contacts with terrorist groups. The MEK is a terrorist group, and certainly we don’t – aren’t engaged in any kinds of conversations or discussions with them ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, Iran, July 01, 2008:... Visiting Habilian Association (families of terror victims) and along with commiserating with families of terror victims in Iran, more than 70 Iraqi journalists and news reporters as well as Iraqi tribal leaders and university professors condemned illegitimate presence of MKO terrorist group in Iraq ... more...
Aria Iran Reporting from France24 TV, June 28, 2008:... The only condition of participation is to attend a rally Saturday at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The rally is being co-organised by the radical Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran. In the US, Canada and Iran, is it on the list of terrorist organisations ...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, June 30, 2008:... Since your government has taken the responsibility for the future actions of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult) by trusting its claims to have renounced violence and removing it from your list of proscribed organisations in the UK, I am sure that you agree that the security of myself and my family and my co-workers as well as the security needed to continue our humanitarian work in the UK rests now more than at any other time on the shoulders of your government ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, June 30, 2008:... In his first organizational gathering after the initiation of the ideological revolution, Massoud Rajavi in depiction of the process to arrive at the intended utopia said: “All the discoveries are first made in a laboratory before being generalized. I hope we bring this wave to the surface of the society in the near future”... more...
Press TV, June 30, 2008:... “After the deadline passes, the Iraqi government will not tolerate any pressure, or interference aimed at keeping MKO members in the country,” Arab media quoted Sheikh Jalaleddin al-Saghir as saying. “The procedure will be carried out according to a government decision. MKO members will be handed over to the Red Cross so that they can leave for another country,” said al-Saghir...more...
IRNA, June 29, 2008:... Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, talking to reporters, denounced London's move to remove the name of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization from its terrorist blacklist. "The British government which supports the terrorist MKO should accept consequences of its acts," he reiterated ... more...
World Watch Week, Press TV, June 29, 2008:... Britain removes a terrorist group MKO (Rajavi cult) from the her list as Iraq puts them firmly on the list. A report by Kristiane Backer (World Week Watch). An interview with Massoud Khodabandeh ... more...
Alalam, Iraq, June 29, 2008:... Listed as a terrorist organization by Iran, Iraq, the United States, Canada and the European Union, the MKO is believed to be in charge of several terrorist operations carried out especially in Iran and Iraq ... more...
ّFrance 24, 28 June 2008:... During the war between Iran and Iraq, PMOI forces, financially supported by Saddam Hussein, attack from France and Iraq Iranian troops along the border. “At this time, the Mujahedeen took refuge in Iraq” explains Alain Chevalérias ... more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, June 27, 2008:... In a video posted online, Professor Raymond Tanter has denied that the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) is a lobbyist for the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists. The MEK is a communist terrorist organization responsible for killing large numbers of Iranians and Iraqis. The MEK has murdered American military officers and Rockwell International employees ... more...
Gazeta, June 28, 2008:... ... Polish students are going to Paris to support an organisation recognised by the US as terrorist. The students aren't aware of this, they're going to have fun ... more...
Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, June 27, 2008:... A common deceptive tactic that has been overlooked by EU officials is that terror groups operate under various aliases and mantles. This is an effective tactic that enables them to continue their operation on our soil even when they are banned. For example, the PMOI has many aliases such as MeK, MKO, NCRI, NLA, to name a few. But all refer to the same group, the Mojahdeen-e Khalgh (MeK) ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 26, 2008:... Some may congratulate Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) for the ruling to be removed from the UK terror list and some may be shocked and dismayed. But the truth is that there are enough telling evidences on the group’s appalling terrorist deeds against Iranian people to make its supporters ashamed of giving the group an iota of backing ... more...
Research Bureau، Mojahedin.ws، June 26, 2008:... In its past four decade history, MKO, as a leftist terrorist cult similar to a handful of other cults, has been allegedly associated with numerous recorded or unrecorded instances of tragic deaths, either in the course of terrorist operations, tortures, suicides and commanded self-immolations ... more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, June 26, 2008:... In response to the British Parliament’s removal, on June 23, of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists from the United Kingdom’s list of banned terrorist organizations, Amir Taheri (“Iran’s Troubling Opposition”, Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2008, page A15) posed this question: “Does all of this mean that the British decision is morally wrong and perhaps politically counterproductive?” ...more...
By AMIR TAHERI, Wall Street Jurnal, June 26, 2008:... On Monday the British parliament removed the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK) from the U.K.'s list of banned terrorist organizations. The decision upholds a Court of Appeals' ruling in May that there is no evidence linking the Iranian opposition group to terrorism, and that it should be free to recruit, organize and raise money in Britain ... more...
Fars News, June 26, 2008:... Nekoui said the groups, armed with missile launchers and other weapons, were trained outside the country, without elaborating. Iran has blamed US and British agents based in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan for launching deadly attacks in border provinces in recent years ... more...
Al-Iraqiyah television, June 19, 2008:..."...we call upon the United States to send a message of assurance to the Iraqi people, telling them that it respects Iraqi sovereignty, and that it seeks to ensure respect for Iraqi sovereignty by handing over control of Camp Ashraf to the government troops, particularly since law has been enforced in all governorates."more...
Press TV, June 25, 2008:... “This ruling will without a doubt isolate the UK," Hosseini cautioned, adding that the move was in line with London's new policy 'to use the terrorist card' to step up pressure on regional nations and governments ... more...
Fars News and IRNA, June 25, 2008:... Referring to the use of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) terrorists by UK government, Larijani said: The backers of Terrorists who have killed thousands of people are now portraying themselves as supporters of Human Rights in Iran!!... more...
Fars News, June 25, 2008:... This decision is supported by Nejat Association because once it is materialized, family members of those in the base can meet them and members of this group can make a decision (about their future) independently and away from the psychological pressures imposed on them by the Monafeqin (hypocrites) leaders," Secretary of the Association Arash Sammeti told FNA here on Tuesday...more...
Research Bureau,Mojahedin.ws, June 25, 2008:... Potential for violence exists in many cultic groups particularly if they are engaged in underground activities or follow a Machiavellian philosophy of ‘ends justify the means’. Obviously, there is no easy way to predict which group may become involved in terrorism, violence, or suicide operations unless there is a record ...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...
Press TV, June 24, 2008:... According to a report by Counterpunch magazine, the US president signed a secret finding in March authorizing a covert offensive against Iran which called for the arming and funding of terrorist groups, such as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and Jundallah (Army of God) ... more...
Iran Interlink, June 24, 2008:... It is now clear that the UK is fully responsible for any future acts of violence committed by the MKO in Iraq, Iran or elsewhere. The MKO has been and is a tool of US, UK and Israeli foreign policy and they should now take them and put them back in their tool boxes in London ... more...
Translated by Habilian, June 22, 2008:...People of Khalis called for staging demonstrations against MKO terrorists. According to FNA foreign policy correspondent after issuing several resolutions against MKO by Maliki administration on June 18, Sunni people in Khalis called, through different announcements, for all Iraqis Demonstration against MKO presence in Iraq ... more...
Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor, The Times, June 22, 2008:... Gordon Brown is preparing to defy Britain's most senior judge to keep an Iranian opposition group on the list of proscribed terrorist organisations ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 22, 2008:... We are thinking what evidences MKO can present to gainsay its close collaboration with the ousted dictator who funded them and granted them the deserted military camp of Ashraf to rebuild it a ‘city’; its espionage and military activities, the operation Eternal Light as the group openly boasts, against ... more...
Press TV, June 22, 2008:... According to a source close to the ruling coalition in Baghdad, the Iraqi government is currently negotiating with US forces to take control of MKO bases in the country. The MKO has been blacklisted as a terrorist group by many countries and international organizations ...more...
Solh (Peace) Association, Oslo, June 21, 2008:... At the end of the seminar, Representative of Anjomane Solh, Ghasem Ghezi presenting a document to Bill Richardson informed him about 120 disaffected people of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq ...more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, Baghdad, in Arabic 1200 gmt 19 Jun 08:... as the Iraqi Constitution stipulated the inadmissibility of the presence in Iraq of terrorist organizations that operate against other states. Nonetheless, the Multinational Force headed by the US troops continued to provide protection for this organization, which was given freedom of movement, which does not happen in any world state ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, June 21, 2008:... The chief problem in the Iraq at the present is the widespread activities of pro-Saddam insurgents and terrorists as well as the US using certain terrorist groups, particularly MKO, for intelligence conspiracies and as proxies for what it calls counter-terrorism activities. Saddam’s dictatorship threatening its neighbor countries now being ousted ...more...
Ghalam (Pen) Association, Germany, June 21, 2008:... We think Contrary to its private statements, PMOI has not denounced violence and terrorism publicly. In fact the group’s glorification of violence and terrorism remains as a major security threat to our EU citizens ...more...
Al Alam, June 19, 2008:... Ebrahim Khodabandeh said, “It is important to recognise that these people have been working against the Iranian and Iraqi people for the last three decades in line with the interests of the U.K., U.S. and Israel - during Saddam’s war against Iran and against his own people. Although the organisation is a terrorist entity by nature, many retired individuals need to be rescued by those who have used them. 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...
Mehr News, June 18, 2008:... Iraq is seeking to expel the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization, the largest armed Iranian dissident group for interfering in Iraq’s domestic affairs and inciting terror acts against the Iraqi nation.
“Baghdad regards the MKO as Saddam’s accomplice” and is opposed to its presence in Iraq, an informed official who requested anonymity told the ISNA news agency... more...
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer, June 19, 2008 :... Originally a Marxist-Islamist group, the People's Mujahedeen formed in the mid-1960s to oppose the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During the 1970s, it killed U.S. citizens working in Tehran, supported the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy there and participated in Iran's Islamic Revolution, according to the State Department...more...
Press TV, June 18, 2008:... Before the US-led invasion in 2003, the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization had enjoyed Saddam Hussein's support. After the US-led invasion of the country the US put the group's members under protection in a northern part of Iraq amid reports that they had been used for by Washington for espionage and violence-related activities...more...
Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, June 15, 2008:... My intention of writing this memo is to first support your tough stance against the ruling mullahs in Iran, and second to caution you, as the president of the EU Council, about the Iranian opposition group known as MEK, MKO, PMOI, NCRI, etc. You are certainly right in opposing the mullahs’ access to nuclear arms. I hope you continue your solid position to prevent the Mullahs from building such destructive weapons, if they are indeed pursuing it...more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, June 17, 2008:...I, keyvan Radbin, after fighting against Iranian dictatorial regime for many years and being bothered and tortured by Iranian Islamic Republic, have also been tortured physically and psychologically by a cult which is called PMOI (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran). Since I left this hellish organization, I have been subject to the inhuman abuses of the organization all the times, and for various reasons the organization has tried to kill me or at least damage my reputation...more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 14, 2008:...Physical and psychological pressures inflicted on the MKO’s rank and file and particularly on the disaffected members is so crushing that these members end in a variety of physical and psychological afflictions which, of course because of the cultic atmosphere, remain unattended by the least medical care...more...
PressTV, June 15, 2008:...Referring to the problems of the prolonged presence of MKO elements in Iraq, al-Obeidi pointed out that their presence imposes heavy costs on Iraq.more...
A. Kavehpur, Mojahedin.ws, June 13, 2008:...who has appointed them as the advocates of another nation to befriend the enemies of that nation? ...Not only are people like Struan Stevenson interfering in the internal affairs of another country which is in absolute contradiction to principles of democracy, but also exploiting terrorists as tools in a variety of ways for political interests.
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Sahar Family Foundation, June 12, 2008:...In a meeting with some of the survivors in Dahuk, Ms. Soltani gave a brief report on her meetings with various officials and said that the representative of the US Army in Camp Ashraf has clearly announced that, contrary to the propaganda of MKO, for the people trapped in the camp, anyone who approaches the US army personnel would be taken under the protection of the army and under no circumstances would the person seeking protection be handed back to the cult leaders inside the camp...more...
PressTV, June 12, 2008:...EU diplomats say the bloc has postponed a decision on whether to remove the Mujahedin Khalq Organization from its list of terrorist groups...more...
Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, June 9, 2008:...When PMOI whispers statements denouncing terrorism, it is not referring to its own acts. Rather it means the acts of others that fall within the group’s own definition of terrorism. This is a trickery by which PMOI continues to deceive our politicians...more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, June 6, 2008:... Rajavi’s advertized charismatic leadership was now the source for emotionally grounded actions and impelled a number of sympathizers to become immersed in the organization to prove their revolutionary commitment as zealous revolutionary youths. To test his charismatic influence in public and political scene, he nominated himself for the first president election that proved to be a failure and gravely disappointed him.
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Ahmad Baaraan, Global Politician, June 1, 2008:...A recent UK Court of Appeals decision to uphold a lower court ruling that PMOI (MEK, or MKO) is no longer “concerned in terrorism” revealed serious flaws and a lack of sophistication in the UK legal framework when it comes to combating terrorism. In addition to other vital means, a serious fight against terrorism requires a mature legal system that could not be easily manipulated by deceptive tactics and faulty reasoning developed by terrorist organisations in their efforts to take advantage of our legal apparatus with its pre-911 outlook and structure.more...
By Chris Zambelis, Asia Times Middle East, June 5, 2008:...From Iran's perspective, the US position on MEK is both ambiguous and at times hypocritical. On the one hand, the MEK remains on the US State Department's list of banned terrorist organizations, yet the group remains on Iraqi soil, albeit disarmed and under surveillance by coalition forces.more...
By Dan Alba, Media With Conscience, June 3, 2008:...The only sources cited by Reuters are the PMOI (MeK) and "U.S. military officials." Those officials have released no further statements and there is nothing from Tehran. The only sources are Jafarzadeh's organization (Mek/NCRI/PMOI) and its keepers ("U.S. officials"). Keep in mind that no one was injured and that the "U.S. military officials" from the Reuters report said that no projectile hit the camp. So, how do we know that it was "a sinister plot hatched at Tehran’s Baghdad embassy"? The MeK ("reports from Iraq") said so; that's how.more...
News Post India, June 3, 2008:...Calling the justification as legally and judicially unjustified, the official said: 'Any move to clean criminal record of the outfit will portray Britain in minds of the public as an accomplice of terrorists and the approach is strongly condemned.'more...
IRNA, June 2, 2008:... On presence of MKO in Iraq, he said the Iraqi government would under no circumstances let any individuals or organizations take action against its neighboring countries and the Iraqi government is to expel them. No country in the world would host MKO, he underlined. more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 2, 2008:...MKO’s separated members scattered here and there facing an uncertain destiny are also human beings needing to be taken care of. Do not you feel a responsibility to save them?more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 29, 2008:... As people say, the truth will out. That is to say, there will come the day when your real intention behind supporting Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is brought to light. It appears that the main goal behind your advocating of MKO is to bring democratic change in Iran through recognition of the organization as the sole legitimate, pro-democratic alternative ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, Research Bureau, May 27, 2008:... As a terrorist group, MKO considered violence and aggressive actions as ethical and legitimate for the accomplishment of the cause since the Machiavellian motto of “the end justifies the means” permitted it to take advantage of any unconventional and violent means in the power struggle. As Walter Reich explains; “A terrorist if considers something ethical, according to his understanding of ideology, it turns to be accepted ethics by all members. Thus, according to that same ideology, the killing of anybody as enemy would be justifiable and necessary”...more...
Jahanshah Rashidian (Iran/Germany) - May 25, 2008:...Although, for many people, the MEK is not in the category of Islamists like the members of IRI, Taliban and Hezbollah, but rather a sectarian group, the guru-like-leadership has a divine power within the group to brainwash the members. The leadership enslaves their devotees to the point to decide about the most personal matters ... more...
Habilian, Mashad, May 25, 2008:... In this exhibition which was attended by Interpol authorities and members Habilian Association, families of 16000 terror victims, disclosed the terrorist entity of MKO to the attendants and provided them with valuable documents about this terrorist cult's atrocities and treasons ... more...
Aria Iran, Paris, May 24, 2008:... Here we must question the western backers of the Mojahedin, and especially Lord Corbett who likes to present a nice democratic mask, about the situation of this organisation: Is it not true that the leaders of this organization have promised their members that they will pay their airfare if your country gives them asylum? ...more...
IRNA, May 23, 2008:... A banner carried by two Tehrani women read, "British Appeals' Court's decision on MKO equals ignoring most obvious, most primitive human rights and is aimed at encouraging terrorist moves in United Kingdom and Europe." ... more...
by Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran-Interlink, May 2008:... Ms Soltani emphasised that considering the wide range of use of this organisation by western countries during the two decades of Saddam’s war against Iranians, it is expected that help to them would come not from Iran or Iraq but legally and morally should come from Britain, USA and Israel...more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, May 20, 2008:... Today, from a different angle, MKO, developing a leftist, anti-democratic ideology and pursuing a lead of totalitarianism, is seemingly moving quantitatively from the left to the right. Is it possible that the US is convinced MKO has retreated from its originally left, anti-imperialist ideology to receive American support?... more...
by Alain Chevalérias, Centre of Research on Terrorism, Paris, May 19, 2008:... The Mojahedin-e-Khalq, and the political front the ‘National Council of Resistance of Iran’ relay their propaganda through Iran Focus, and those who repeat their words on my trial against Sara Naseri seriously distort the findings of the trial. Moreover, they renew their lies and slander against my person ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 17, 2008:... It is an undeniable fact that MKO remains a terrorist group and will retain its terrorist potentialities even if removed from all countries’ lists. It might only question credibility of claims to combat terrorist threats. MKO’s resort to militarism is ... more...
Fact not fairies, May 17, 2008:... McInerney urges U.S. government to support terrorist organization MEK, Bush administration already bankrolling Al-Qaeda-linked Jundullah group ... more...
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Counter Currents, May 17, 2008 :... Yet, a certain Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, a member of the House of Lords from Gordon Brown's ruling Labor Party, has coauthored an opinion piece with Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA), both of whom promote the terrorist organization of the MEK. In their opinion, these two argue that engagement with Iran would risk, among other things, a “support for international terrorism”... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, May 17, 2008:... Long expelled from Iran, MKO have no iota of publicity in Iran let alone being recognized a legitimate alternative. Any made claim in this respect is a fabrication of MKO propaganda machine in accomplice with a number of its advocates ... more...
National Iranian American Council (NIAC), May 15 2008:... On April 30, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) filed a lawsuit against Hassan Daioleslam in response to his defamatory articles about NIAC. Daioleslam, who has been identified by former members of the terrorist-listed Mujahedin organization as a member of the group's executive committee, has since ... more...
George Arnold, The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 13, 2008:... In Iran, it's more important that the MEK was allied with Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran back in the 1980s. Such history isn't likely to be approved of by patriotic Iranians, no matter how much they dislike their own government ... more...
Press TV, May, 14 2008:... Iran Intelligence Minister ruled out any link beteen Shiraz bombers and Rajvi cult (aka: Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, PMOI, MKO, MEK)... more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 14, 2008:... Is it ever important for Over 3000 MKO members confined in Camp Ashraf whether the organization’s terrorist tag is removed? As reported by MKO’s official website, the Iraqi News Agency in an article entitled 'Ashraf people win again' stated “the skies of London, Paris and Ashraf embraced the new victorious and jubilant cheers for removing the terrorist tag from the PMOI. The new victory was not only the victory of Ashraf residents and the Resistance inside and outside Iran, but it was also the victory for all supporters of this steely resistance across the world”.... more...
Mojahedin.ws, Research Bureau, May 14, 2008:... Since the presidency of Jimmy Carter up to now, one of the main factors the US relies on for any supposed alternative to assume another country’s political control is the least ostensible evidences of adhering to universal declaration of human rights. In fact ... more...
Fars News, May 13, 2008:... Iran's judiciary said on Monday it would file international lawsuits against the United States and Britain, accusing them of providing financial support to those behind a blast at a religious center in the southern city of Shiraz last month that killed 13 people ... more...
Press TV, May 12, 2008:... Referring to remarks by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on the issue, Adams said the MKO is responsible for a series of vile acts of terrorism and that the British government had no plans to change its position regarding them ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, May 12, 2008:... The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq ... more...
IRNA,Tehran, May 12, 2008:... The minister said recent moves by the British government, including concocting a case against a former Iranian diplomat, a recent ruling by a British court on removing the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the list of terrorist groups and supporting the terrorist organization to broadcast live programs in Persian from London, have clearly indicated London's double-standard approach toward terrorism...more...
Press TV, May 10, 2008:... These British units are deployed along the Iraqi border with Iran, using Apache helicopters, the sources said. Members of the terrorist group, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), have reportedly been sighted among them in American uniforms... more...
by Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran-Interlink.org, May 11, 2008:...Ultimately, those who had the power but who have failed or been unable or refused to dismantle a tiny foreign terrorist camp and its military structure in Iraq – despite continued requests by the Iraqi government to do so - are responsible for whatever disaster befalls its victims there. more...
Iran-Interlink, May 9, 2008:...In these circumstances, as soon as the MKO is de-proscribed in the UK, the militants in Camp Ashraf must be given asylum there, so that they can continue what Maryam Rajavi describes as their peaceful opposition to the Iranian regime. more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 8, 2008:...Camp Ashraf is now the prison of about 3,500 MKO’s members who are held against their will under the protection of the coalition forces. How can a military camp that its leaders violate and disrespect all principles of freedom and democracy can be called a bastion of freedom as Brian Binley, a Member of Parliament from the British Conservative Party, claims?more...
Press TV, May 07, 2008:...Mojahedin Khalq Organization - known in Iran as Monafeqin or hypocrites - assisted Saddam in the massacre of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and has committed several terrorist acts in Iran...more...
Iran-Interlink, May 7, 2008:...With the MKO de-proscribed in the UK, moves should immediately be underway to have the Camp Ashraf militants moved to safety in the UK where they can continue their peaceful opposition to the Iranian regime...more...
by: Justin Raimondo, Antiwar, May 5, 2008:...The "war on terrorism" now consists of a worldwide campaign to fund the "good" terrorist groups... groups that have previously been beyond the pale as far as the U.S. is concerned are now being welcomed into the anti-Iranian united front, which includes everyone from the neo-Marxist Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) to shadowy Arab Sunni groups whose ideology is not far removed from Osama bin Laden's...more...
By: Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, France, May 6, 2008:... not only has the MEK refused to denounce violence in its Farsi publications, but a review of its recent Farsi materials reveals the opposite. A true denunciation of terrorism should start with a publicly-stated commitment to a peaceful and non-violent agenda in the group’s mainstream media, and in its native language...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, May 01, 2008:... Nowruzi sisters (Elham, Susan, Simin, and Soheyla) urge the Iraqi authorities to investigate on suspicious death of their brother in camp Ahsraf in Iraq ... more...
Fars News Agency, May 01 2008:... At the end the Iraqi ambassador notified: The families of those imprisoned in Ashaf can file petitions and deliver it to Iraq's embassy via Iran's ministry of foreign affairs. Then we will send the petitions to Iraq's foreign ministry so that the families could follow the case in Iraq in accordance with Iran's embassy in Iraq ... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, Iran, April 30, 2008:... We expect the British government, as well as some active politicians like Lord Corbett who is a strong advocate of the MKO, to help these people who have been waiting for a third country to accept them for many years. The British government can surely accept some of these individuals and pave the way for other countries to take the rest ... more...
NPR: Morning Edition, April 28, 2008:... Like Baltun Sultani and thousands of others, Arash Semitipour(ph) could've been trapped in Camp Ashraf all these years. He joined the MEK in the 1990s, and in 2001 he was sent from Iraq into Iran to assassinate an Iranian general. The plot failed, he lost his right hand in a grenade explosion and was imprisoned in Iran...more...
NPR News Morning Edition April 28, 2008:... We're about to bring you up to date on a group that's called a terrorist organization or even a cult. It's called those things but it's under the protection of the U.S. military. It's a group of Iranians. They want to overthrow Iran's government and they are in exile right now in Iraq ... more...
By: Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, April 28, 2008:... Patrick Clawson in his article titled “ A Roadmap for the Foreign Terrorist Organization List ” dated April 25, 2008, rightfully questions a lack of objective criteria for de-listing an organization deemed at some point to be a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). A direct reference to Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization with its diverse aliases such as MEK, MKO, PMOI, OPMI, NCR, NCRI, NLA, to name just a few, draw my attention to the Clawson’s views ... more...
UNHCR, April 25, 2008:... The Iraqi border authorities allowed 42 Iraqis to enter the country, but refused to admit 18 Iranian and Syrian nationals. The Turkish police then took the 18, which included five Iranian refugees recognised by UNHCR, to a place where a river separates the two countries, and forced them to swim across...more...
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Middle East Online, April 26, 2008:... It appears that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D -Texas), co-chair of Hillary’s presidential campaign, not only shares her friendship with America’s presidential hopeful, but she also promotes America’s terrorists[v]. The Mojaheden-e Khalgh (MEK) were put on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list by President Clinton for they were responsible for the assassination of Americans in Iran in the 1970’s, as well as for their role in the US embassy takeover[vi], yet their leader and Hillary have a common friend and promoter ... more...
Mojahedin ws, April 23, 2008:...Redesignation of MKO as a terrorist organization underlines the fact that the organization has failed in its lobbying efforts to convince its supporters in the Congress to reconsider its outlaw position. Reportedly, MKO has been engaged in unproductive intelligence collaboration with American forces in Iraq to ... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, April 23, 2008:... In January 2008, I left TIPF, without any money and returned to Ashraf since the group had announced that they would give money to any one who wants to go to Europe. We were 5 people who returned to Ashraf. There, Zhila Deihim,Reza Moradi,Mohammad Ali Salehi and Hamid Araste and Yousef Anbaz encountered us. We stayed with them for 21 days. Mohammad Ali Salehi talked to me to convince me to stay there, he took me to the entrance part. Ne’mat Oulaiee and Adel (Mohammad Sadat Darbandi) tried to keep me but finally I said to Batul Rajaiee: ” I am insistent to leave “ they paid 1800 $,took my signature and receipt. I left Ashraf for Turkey where the defectors of the organization helped me be settled in Istanbul ...more...
Tehran Times Political Desk, April 22 2008:... Petitions signed by the Iraqi people show that about 18 million Iraqis want to see members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization expelled from their country, Iraqi MP Honein Qaddu said Sunday in a meeting with a number of Iranian political figures in Mashhad. more...
Solh Association, Oslo, April 11, 2008:... The purpose of the talks was to introduce the organization specially activities of the Anjoman with regard to human rights and secondly, explaining about disaffected people from Mojahedin Khalig (MOK) in Iraq. Mr.Ghasem Ghezi presented a document about the issue and urged for necessary assistance to the people ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, April 21, 2008:...The red line Rajavi delineates to distinguish between a sympathizer and an opponent is not the Iranian regime but the extent to which a person rejects or submits to his hegemony...more...
The news was first published by ALseyassah in Arabic on April 20, 2008:... Announcing that the US officials have had contacts with terrorist groups in Iraq, He said, "The visits were aimed at making Iran-Turkey joint border lines unsafe and insecure.The US forces have also had met with members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) inside and outside Iraq...more...
Mojahedin.ws, April 19, 2008:... A number of MKO-run sites have recently published an announcement entitled Deployment of previously used agents against Iranian Resistance depicts Clerical Regime’s extreme frustration in an attempt to justify landslide member splinter within the organization. During the past recent months, a number of the detached members ... more...
By Iranpeyvand on Apr 17, 2008:... We are former members of MKO who are appealing to you and your colleagues to use your influence and contacts to allow members of MKO in camp Ashraf the opportunity to see their families ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, April 18, 2008:... Defining destructive cults as organizations that remold individuality to conform to the codes and needs of the cult and have the potential for aggression and violence, cults and violence are commonly bound inextricably together in the public mind. There have, after all, been some horrifying testimonies of cults’ connection with violence in the recent past ...more...
Anjoman Solh (Peace Association), Norway, April 10&11, 2008:... His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shanker, the founder of International Association of Human Values welcomed the delegation of Amomane Solh in the conference and assured that he necessarily would look over the issue of disaffected people from MOK in Iraq and whatever he could be able to do for them on the humanitarian bases ...more...
Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, April 15 2008:... "We know the MKO and PEJAK both have relations with the U.S.," said Hamidreza Taraghi, an official of the Islamic Coalition Party, which is close to Iran's conservative religious leadership."The Americans have given the MKO a lot of technology to monitor Iranian phone traffic," he said in an interview. "Where is the Baluchistan separatist money coming from?" ...more...
by nmilaninia , Iranian.com, April 14, 2008:... This stands in stark contrast with the perspectives of the MEK and its front organization. As part of its propaganda campaign, the MEK publish newspapers and websites like IranTerror.com and IranFocus.com. As an Iranian American, I am outraged that the MEK is attempting to hijack the perspectives of my community. The MEK do not represent Iranian-Americans in California – or anywhere else for that matter ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, April 14, 2008:... Sensible people know that cults threaten normal social order and must not be allowed to spread in any country and the governments have to be vigilant against the formation of cults and take preventive measures to stop them ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, April 13, 2008:... Iran is fighting the PJAK, a PKK offshoot operating in Iran. Tehran has long accused the United States of supporting anti-Iranian armed groups, including the PJAK and Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). Both PJAK and MKO have been enlisted by the European Union and even the US as terrorist groups ... more...
Voice of America, March 4th,2008. Translated by Nejat Association, Tehran, April 13, 2008:... Ryan Crocker: we consider MKO as a terrorist group. They killed American military officials in Tehran and were a part of Saddam’s intelligence service. Everything is clear. We oppose all terrorist organizations whoever and wherever they are ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, April 9, 2008:... A cult, particularly a destructive one, is almost any kind of organization whose followers have been deceptively and unethically recruited and retained. They use manipulative techniques, which are imposed without the informed consent of the recruit and are designed to alter personality and behavior ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, Iran, April 09 2008:... The MKO issued a statement assuming the responsibility of the assassination of Sayyad Shirazi. They declared that they had killed the general as revenge for his role as commander of Iranian ground forces in Mersad operation which resulted in their heavy loss ...more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, April 7, 2008:... It is not the first and will not be the last report of the children being abused by a cult. Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (a.k.a. MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI), a globally blacklisted terrorist cult, has long abused children and has separated them from their parents sending them to many countries far from their parents to live with foster-parents or in orphanages in an attempt to force their parents stay ...more...
News wire, April 06, 2008:... Ms. Nasrin Ebrahimi, 26 years old, who served in the group for over 10 years explained how two years ago she used a military vehicle to escape the terrorist run camp and take sanctuary with the American Army. She alleged that Marjan Akbari, daughter of Bashir Akbari, was killed by the organisation about two years ago ... more...
BBC persian, April 06, 2008:... In the past months, groups of separated members have struggled to get to Western countries through neighboring countries. Many of them were arrested especially in Turkish borders and were returned to Iraq. Following Saddam’s fall, a big number of MKO’s members held within the Camp Ashraf against their will, found the opportunity to escape the cult and take refuge in an American-run temporary facility not properly accommodated for the huge number of defectors ...more...
By Honor Mahony, EU observer, April 03, 2008:... In December 2006, the court found that member states had failed to give sufficient reasons for including exiled Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI) on the list ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, April 04, 2008:... I Ali Biglari was born on 1969 in Kermanshah, Iran. During the Iran-Iraq war I was arrested by the Iraqi forces. On October 1989 the MKO people including Mehdi Abrishamchi came to the camp of the prisoners of war in Iraq and recruited me telling many lies and giving false promises. On the year 2000 I announced that I wanted to dispatch the organisation and consequently they put me in solitary confinement. The condition to get out of the jail was to announce that I regretted my previous request to leave the organisation. Eventually they handed me over to the Iraqi security forces and they took me strait to Abu-Ghraib prison under the charge of illegally passing the boarder ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, Iran, April 03, 2008:... A group of Iraq’s Islamic supreme assembly members comprised of Baghdad university professors met with secretary general of Habilian Association. In this meeting along with welcoming his guests, Sayyed Muhammad Javad Hasheminejad said: It would be my pleasure to welcome you here and to hold your presence in Mashhad ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, April 03, 2008:... Mr Gholam-Reza Sadeghi a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who was in Ashraf Camp from 1997 until 2006 and stayed about 8 months in the camp controlled by the US Forces called TIPF had previously filed a lawsuit against the MKO in the French judicial system. He has complained the MKO for forcing him to stay in Iraq against his will, imposing psychological and physical pressure on him, and beating him so that his thumb was broken in two places ...more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, April 02, 2008:... The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. This foundation is solely focused on charitable and human rights issues regardless of political or group considerations and geographical boundaries and only aims to help the suffering families ...more...
NZZ online March 31, 2008 (Translated by Iran-Interlink):... Hoshiar Esmail says the biggest mistake of his life was to leave his safe exile in Switzerland and to return to the Mojahedin-e Khalgh (Volksmujahedin). In 1998, he went to Iraq, where the armed Iranian opposition group, equipped with weapons and money from the former Iraqi regime, led the struggle against the mullahs’ regime. But since then the political situation in Iraq has changed fundamentally ... more...
Al-Quds al-Arabi website, London, in Arabic 28 March 2008:... forces and encouraging the cultivation of opium? Why is Britain following a double-standard policy in dealing with Iran, seeing that in the past it stood against the American groups that supported the Irish Republican Army (IRA) but is now supporting Iranian opposition groups that have chosen the military option, such as the Mojahedin-e Khalq?... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, April 01, 2008:... Cults are complex phenomenon in the modern world because of their dubious positions towards the media and the sophisticated communication technology. They, based on their natural potentiality, misuse the media and modern means for censure, persuasion, distortion, brainwashing and mind-control activities against their insiders and sympathizers ... more...
Press TV, March 28, 2008:... A senior Iranian cleric has called the US the biggest terrorist in the world, accusing it of supporting terrorist organizations in Iraq. (US army has been protecting Mojahedin Khalq Organisation or Rajavi cult for the past 5 years in Iraq) more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, March 25, 2008:... Mr. Radbin is a former member of the MKO. He managed to leave the Ashraf camp just after the occupation of the country. He lives in Canada now. The letter was originally in English which is as follows:...more...
Al-Arabiya TV, Dubai, in Arabic,19 March 2008:... Asked about the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq's presence in Iraq, Salih says the Iraqi government "is committed to preventing the presence of elements that harm neighbouring states," ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, March 21, 2008:... For sure, in this coming spring, many detached ones will celebrate their return by their families and we appreciate their daring move for tearing the bonds. Their move of course encourages other buddies still in bonds of the cult and ... more...
By Louis Charbonneau at the UN Security Council meeting | March 20, 2008:... An Iranian envoy also addressed the council, accusing the United States of supporting the Iraq-based People's Mujahideen (MKO) guerrilla group. The MKO is banned as a terrorist group in Iran, the United States and the European Union. Washington issued no direct rebuttal of the comments...more...
Radio GRR, Italy, March 09, 2008:... The report reads that:” an Iranian intelligence expert revealed that the organization is able to launch terrorist attacks in Europe. It seems that MKO has an influence in Brussel organizations something that makes Tehran be on the alert. The 27 members of European Union are still opposed to the removal of the group from terror list and the Supreme Court issued a ruling on the freezing of the MKO’s assets ... more...
Aso (Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan funded daily), Kirkuk,12 March 2008:... On the other hand, although the Americans consider the Mojahedin [e-Khalq] as a terrorist organization, it is important to the Americans that they remain as a resistance force against Iran. If it were not for America, Iran's sectarian allies in Iraq would have forced the Mojahedin out of the country a long time ago ...more...
Sahar Family foundation, Baghdad, March 16, 2008:... In 1991 we were separated by the order of the organisation and had to give up our children who were sent to Europe later. At first my husband and I resisted against these demands, but being under enormous psychological pressure, we were forces to yield to their orders and eventually we were separated both from each other and then from our children... more...
Iran Ayandeh- Translation: Nejat Society – March 7th, 2008:... On Thursday, March 6th, a number of human right associations and MKO defectors attended a roundtable, investigating the human aid to captured people of Camp Ashraf and TIPF; in the round table which lasted the whole day, Mr. Masud Khodabandeh submitted a report on his activities in Iraq during previous weeks, then they discussed the ways to aid the Iranian captives of Ashraf and ...more...
Nejat Society, March 16, 2008:... ... A'zam Farahani Mullah-Hassani Kohneh, who has now changed her name to Leila Jaza'eri is an active supporter of the proscribed terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation of Iran (MKO) in London. In the early 80s she married another supporter of the MKO called Hassan Jaza'eri who later died in Ashraf Camp, the main military and ideological training base of the MKO in Iraq ...more...
Nejat Society, March 2008:... We therefore strive to inform the international public opinion in this regard and draw the world’s attention to our cause. We do hope that our publication would create some interests with you. We also would be happy to be in contact with you. You would be quite welcomed to visit us in our office in Tehran...more...
Solh Association, Norway, March 15, 2008:... Mr.Ghasem Ghezi explained the critical situation of Iraq specially 120 disaffected people from the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MOK) in the country. He drew the attention of the vice president of NJ to the detail in the context and handed over a letter of Anjomane Solh in the context ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, March15, 2008:... The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. This foundation is solely focused on charitable and human rights issues regardless of political or group considerations and geographical boundaries and only aims to help the suffering families ... more...
Sahar foundation, Baghdad, March 11, 2008:... My name is Batul Soltani daughter of Morteza. I was born in 1965 in Iran and at the moment I live in Baghdad. I married with Mr Hosein Moradi in 1986 in Iran and then we moved to Pakistan together the same year. We were recruited by the MKO in that country and then we were ordered to go to Iraq a year later in 1987. In 1991 we were separated by the order of the organisation and had to give up our children who were sent to Europe later ... more...
Habilian, March 9, 2008:...According to Albayyenah newspaper, the MKO terrorist group made death threats to Iraqi newsmen through the internet and their mobile phones as well. These newsmen had published documents on the MKO having a hand in suppressing the Intifada of Iraqi Shiites.more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, March 11, 2008:... On Sunday March 2nd, a meeting was held by Nejat Society Gilan Branch, in Rasht, where a lot of families of Nejat Society attended to represent their determination to save their beloved ones from camp Ashraf and stop taking them as hostages by MKO Cult...more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, Iran, March11, 2008:... In the sideline of their meeting with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ,twelve Iraqi media representatives met secretary general of Habilian Association and exchanged opinions with him ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation (Iraq), March 5, 2008:...I will do anything I can for these families. I would urge international and humanitarian organisations everywhere to help these suffering families - families who in some cases have not seen their beloved ones for nearly 20 years. The members of the MKO are in a sort of captivity which is worse than any ordinary prison...more...
Middle East Online, Opinion, March 4, 2008:... Given that the MEK’s history has been fully explored and recorded by the Human Rights Watch organization and the United States State Department, one has to examine Lord Corbett’s risky undertaking in associating his distinguished title with this group...more...
Mojahedin.ws, March 3, 2008:... MKO now plays a key role in masterminding organized protests against the decisions adopted by Iraq’s legal government... Iraq needs to end a phase of anarchy following the fall of the dictator who acted as the god-father of terrorism and groups like MKO that is notoriously known to have acted as Saddam’s mercenaries and private army...more...
By Tina Susman and Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers, March 2, 2008:... some in Washington have cultivated ties with the group and advocated using them to destabilize the Tehran government. Numbering up to 3,000, they remain under U.S. guard at their former base northeast of Baghdad... more...
By Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service, Washington, February 29, 2008:... German officials have identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation. There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad...more...
Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation, Baghdad, February 29, 2008:... My name is Teymur Kattar. I was born in 1948 in the city of Hamadan in Iran and at the moment I live in the city of Karaj in the province of Tehran. My wife and I wish to appeal to the Iraqi security and judicial authorities to deal with the case of the suspicious death of our son Soheyl Kattar in the base of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Iraq called Camp Ashraf ... more...
Omid Pouya, February 27, 2008:... The present status of Mojahedin is one of full desperation and any attempt made to conceal it may lead to aggravate the crisis. Of the main reasons playing a key role in creating such a condition of desolation is Mojahedin's insistence on outdated military strategy followed by complementary approaches to pursue a policy of using foreign levers such as the U.S...more...
Press TV, February 29, 2008:... Commenting on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization terrorist group in Iraq, al-Sheikh admitted there is an MKO presence in Iraq, but noted the Iraqi government is opposed to their remaining in the country...more...
Christian Science Monitor, February 22, 2008:...We wish the Monitor had called PMOI before publication of such an unbalanced article. [Note: The article's author has called the PMOI many times over the years without response. The PMOI was not contacted for this story.]more...
Alaraghiah TV, Baghdad, February 2008:... Alaraghiah TV reports on theSymposium held in Baghdad on the subject of foreign terrorist organisations in Iraq ...more...
Press TV, February 26, 2008:...Iran's UN Envoy Khazaei has accused the terrorist MKO group of fabricating evidence that Iran has been trying to make nuclear weapons ...more...
Nejat Society, February 2008:... With regards, we the former members of Mojahedin-é Khalq Organization (MKO) in Nejat Society present you with our briefing publication called Nejat Newsletter. Nejat Society has been established by those defected members of MKO who have managed to break through the boundaries of the Organization in Ashraf Camp in Iraq and return home to their families...more...
Iran-Interlink, February, 2008:... In January through February, Iran-Interlink representative Massoud Khodabandeh was invited by the Iraqi Government for a series of consultation meetings on Camp Ashraf. His report has now been published...more...
Daily Telegraph, reported by Press TV, February 24, 2008:... Some of the groups have resorted to terrorist methods. These include the notorious Mujahedin Khalq Organization [MKO] which has a long and bloody history of targeting Iranian civilians and government officials alike...more...
Habilian Association, February 24, 2008:... 105 Iraqi political figures , MPs and leaders of different tribes and parties met with the secretary general of Habilian Association . In this meeting Muhamad Javad Hashemi Nejad said in a speech :”I would be really appreciated to welcome you for coming to the holy city of Mashhad . It’s so honorable meeting you here in the vicinity of Imam Reza holy shrine ... more...
Sahar Famly Foundation website, February 23, 2008:... ...Mr Teymur Khattar and Mrs Khattar Appeal to the Iraqi legal authorities to deal with the case of the suspicious death of their son Soheyl Kattar in the base of the MKO in Iraq called Camp Ashraf... more...
Habilian, February 21, 2008:... I would strongly approve your statements .Iraq is a holy land considering the holy shrines of number of Imams which are located in our country . Right now a human disaster is about to take place in Iraq and I ‘m afraid of the day it may affect all Iraqis and its main cause is occupation and the support the occupiers give to terrorists like Monafeghin . Rajavi’s cult is up to set up discrepancies via committing terrorist operations as they did Shiaat and Kurdish regions ... more...
By Mike Taylor, PA-Press Association National Newswire, February 18, 2008:... The hearing, set for three days, was adjourned until tomorrow. The judges are expected to reserve judgment on Wednesday...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws. February 19, 2008:... the English may have concluded that MKO, as a political organization with a military infrastructure, has reached the end of its political life and must run a peaceful life of retirement. For sure, it takes time to instil the truth into old veterans, a responsibility some British factions have assumed on themselves. However, precautionary measures deem necessary concerning MKO ; as a globally proscribed terrorist organization and a destructive cult, it has to be under constant, strict surveillance...more...
Clare Dyer, legal editor The Guardian, Monday February 18 2008:... The cross-party parliamentarians backing the delisting of the PMOI - an organisation dedicated to overthrowing Iran's fundamentalist regime by democratic means - include a former law lord, Lord Slynn, two former solicitors general and a former home secretary, Lord Waddington... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, February 17, 2008:... We the signatories of the present text would wish to draw your good attention to the subject described below and request you to add this document to the case dealing with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Iraqi judiciary system. We do appreciate and thank you for your sincere cooperation beforehand...more...
Press TV, February 17, 2008:... Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari says Baghdad has managed to secure the departure of 200 former MKO members from Iraq. These people who had previously distanced themselves from the cult demanded Iraqi officials to allow them to leave Iraq, Zebari said in a news conference ... more...
Anjomane Solh (Peace Association) Norway, February 16, 2008:... According to the reports received in the last few days by Anjomane Solh, the Peace Association Norway, about 120 people of the disaffected people escaped from the TIPF in a extremely grave condition ... more...
Ali G. Scotten, NIAC, February 16, 2008:... As the MEK has a long relationships with the Iraqi Baath Party, the camp was also used to protect Saddam Hussein from the Iraqi Shi’ite revolt after the first Gulf War. The camp has been surrounded by U.S. forces since the 2003 American invasion ... more...
SAHAR Family Foundation, February 15, 2008:... The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. This foundation is solely focused on charitable and human rights issues regardless of political or group considerations and geographical boundaries and only aims to help the suffering families ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, February 13, 2008:... Commemoration of the killed terrorists held in the military camp of Ashraf in which hundreds of MKO combatants marched in military uniforms in no way imply forswearing of terrorism but its exaltation ... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, February 13, 2008:... On Monday 5 February 2008, a delegation consisting of representatives of different Moslem organisations and societies in Britain, who were busy visiting Iran, paid a visit to the Nejat (rescue) Society in Tehran. They met with Ms. Hura Shalchi, Ms. Marjan Malek, Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Mr. Jamil Bassam while some representatives from the British Embassy in Tehran as well as families of the MKO members in Ashraf Camp were present ... more...
Nejat Society, February 12, 2008:... According to reports ,Akbari Nasab family are trying in Baghdad to return the body of their son Yaser who last year died in Ashraf prison and his death was announced as self- immolation... more...
Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, 11 February 2008:..."The Islamic Republic's policy toward the MKO is very clear - there is nothing hidden," says a foreign ministry official who asked not to be named. "In our opinion they are a terrorist cult. When it comes to cults, only the leaders are responsible, and the rest are all victims themselves."...more...
Fars News, February 10, 2008:... The Iraqi criminal court issued warrants for the arrest of Mozhgan Parsayee, Abbas Davari and Sediqeh Hosseini, who are deemed to be among leaders of the terrorist group, following the several complaints lodged by the relatives of a number of MKO members ... more...
SINAN SALAHEDDIN, The Associated Press, 2008-02-09:...Thousands of its members remain in Iraq, and both the U.S. and Iraq consider the Khalq a terrorist organization...more...
IRNA, February 06, 2008:...Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown says that the British government is not convinced at that the Mujahideen-e Khalq has given up terrorism, saying its forced disarmament by US forces was "entirely pragmatic." During the Iraq war, the MKO was "considered by coalition forces to be completely assimilated into the security apparatus of the Saddam Hussein regime," Malloch-Brown said...more...
Infowars.net, February 7, 2008:... What you have to go to the FOX News website to discover, however, is that Jafarzadeh served “for a dozen years as the chief congressional liaison and media spokesman for the U.S. representative office of Iran’s parliament in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.” But it is scarcely known that the sonorous-sounding National Council of Resistance of Iran is in fact a front name for the MEK...more...
Alseyassah, February07, 2008:... He concludes by saying that readers of the newspaper "Alseyassah" will understand now why the Saddamists have tried to blacken his name and he states that the paper's editors have acted properly in giving him the right to reply...more...
Sattar Orangi،February 5, 2008:... Mr. Williams has to be notified that a globally proscribed terrorist group whose leading president-elect is neither elected by Iranian people nor even by a single ballot of the organization’s own insiders but promoted to the position by her egocentric husband is not legitimate at all to lead the campaign for the change inside Iran... more...
Juan Cole, February 06, 2008:... It also shows that the Mojahedin-i Khalq terror group engaged in hostile action toward the US forces, but also were granted a truce in 2005. The MEK is an Iranian terror group that has killed civilians inside Iran and was given a base in Iraq by Saddam Hussein ... more...
Lords Hansard, February 4, 2008:...We continue to believe that the PMOI was responsible for a number of serious military attacks over a very long period of time and that its disarming was entirely pragmatic—in the event of the coalition forces forcing it to disarm after the intervention in Iraq. We have seen no evidence that the organisation has publicly renounced violence and terrorism....more...
Mohammad Mohammady, January 26, 2008:...It is not only because we are worried for her and miss her... but simply because we are Canadians and the day we took the oath we were promised the same rights and protection as the rest of the citizens of this great country...more...
Straits Times, Robert Karniol, Defence Writer
February 4, 2008 :...Though part of the Iraqi army, the MEK effectively declared itself neutral when coalition forces invaded the country in March 2003, and surrendered without a fight after suffering a few air attacks. But there is some confusion concerning its subsequent status...more...
Iran-Interlink, February 2, 2008:...Mr Khodabandeh said that in his belief and according to all the studies of the Centre de Recherches sur le Terrorisme, the phenomenon of terrorism cannot have a single solution and needs inter governmental cooperation as well as the involvement of NGOs to protect the human rights of the who have been inveigled by terrorist leaders into this path, and to give them a second chance of integration back into their societies...more...
Statement No. 6 of Somayeh Mohammadi's Family, Baghdad, January 22, 2008:...We are not politicians and we don’t have the science either but is the absence of the leader of a political and military organization after the American invasion normal? ...more...
BBC Persian Service, January 26, 2008
Javad Firuzmand interviewed by Mehrdad Farahmand :...
Mr Firuzmand told the BBC that 70 of the dissidents tried to go to Turkey after they left the Americas with the aid of some smugglers, but the Turkish border police arrested them and after one month in prison and remaining in compulsory camp were handed over to the Iraqi Police.more...
Iran-Interlink, January 27, 2008:...the case of the Mojahedin has now been moved from the jurisdiction of the Government of Iraq to the Iraqi Judiciary which now has the task of making ruling judgements on the group and its members...more...
PRESS TV, Sat, 26 Jan 2008:...the Mojahedin separated many families by using persuasion techniques similar to those of Pol Pot, the former communist head of Cambodia...more...
Mohammadi Family, 23 January 2008, toeme.blogfa.com:... The judge also ordered that Somayeh must be taken away from Camp Ashraf and the MKO must pay compensation to the Mohammadi family...more...
Julie Kosterlitz, National Journal, 19 January 2008:... DLA Piper has received $860,000 in fees over the past four and a half years from Saeid Ghaemi ... In its latest filing with the Internal Revenue Service, the group reported revenues of nearly $917,000 -- with Tanter receiving about $102,000 in salary, and the group's co-chairs, Bruce McColm and Chuck Nash, getting just over $32,000 and $21,000, respectively...more...
Aria Iran, January 24, 2008:... I’m writing to you on behalf of the following 8 UNHCR recognized refugees who have been forced by Turkish Security and Political Police under gun fire to leave Turkey and cross the border back into Iraq ...more...
The Iranian Pen Club, January 22, 2008:... We have emphasized to you and the Prime Minister of Iraq Mr. Al Maleki that the remaining 3400 members of the Rajavi cult in Ashraf camp near Khales are part of the body of this organisation, many of whom have themselves been experiencing mental and physical torture at the hands of the leaders of the Mojahedin. They have been denied any contact with society or even members of their family for years ... more...
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, 15 November 2007 :...Massoud Rajavi is so certain about the outcome of the manipulation of the members of his organisation with his ideas that he does not see the rows of people tired of his "ideological revolution" and those who are trying to escape the boundaries of Camp Ashraf in Iraq...more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, January 21, 2008:...I doubt that Mr. Gale has failed to have access to published reasons by the mentioned countries for proscribing MKO. Or he might have been kept in the dark about the group’s long, bloody, terrorist activities perpetrated against Iranian people...more...
Alaraghiah TV, Iraq, January 10, 2008:... Alaraghiay TV broadcasted a documentary about two Canadian sitizens, Mostafa and Mahboobeh Mohammady, who have gone to Iraq in an attempt to rescue their daughter from Mojahedin Khalq Organisation terrorist cult currently under protection of US army in Ashraf camp North of Baghdad ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 18, 2008:...the move by MKO to challenge the EU and lodge an appeal against the EU’s decision seems to have encouraged other blacklisted persons to make a try...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, January 17, 2008:... The existing facts signify that MKO cannot possibly maintain its present organizational structure and its insistence to preserve Camp Ashraf as a whole is a strategic attempt to avert whatever destructive and repulsive effects that might affect the totality of the organization. Rajavi in his messages has repetitively focused on the preservation of Camp Ashraf as ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 17, 2008:... MKO-run iran-efshagari originally in Parsian, threatened the author of the articles to a lethal reaction from the group’s agents. In the ending part of his article he writes ... more...
Iran Interlink, January 2008:... US Military Police have also told visitors to TIPF that a deadline of 6 months has been given to disperse the remaining individuals in both camps. Five years after its disarmament the MKO is regarded as dismantled. The six month deadline will not be used to dismantle the organisation but to find a place of refuge for the individuals contained there...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, January 15, 2008:... Encampment of MKO, after its expulsion from Iraq, in France and other European countries as well as the United State of America for the reasons discussed is out of the question. The next option, then, might be the region Arab countries, Latin America and the continent Africa ... more...
Press TV, January 14, 2008:... According to the documentary, the Iraqi dictator had equipped the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) with sophisticated gadgets to pave the way for their terrorist acts against the Iranian nation...more...
Mehr News Agency, January 12, 2008:... In a letter released on Saturday, Iran’s Union of Islamic Students Association (UISA) in Europe has thanked the European Union for its decision to keep the terrorist Mojahedin Kalq Organization (MKO) on the blacklist of terrorist organizations ... more...
Nejat Society,11th of January 2008:... A seminar on the subject of how to release the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who are held both mentally and physically captive in the Ashraf Camp in Iraq was highly attended by the families in the city of Shiraz despite the cold and snowy weather ... more...
Fars News, January 12, 2008:... Ayatollah Shahroodi dismissed US blacklisting of the IRGC as irrelevant and unfounded, and stressed that this is the United States which should be accused of running terrorist operations... more...
Mohammad Mohamadi, January 12, 2008:... Today at 16:10pm I was informed by Canadian government that according to Iraqi government my parents , Mostafa Mohamadi and My mom, Mahbobeh ( Hamzeh) Mohammadi , are not safe any more in Iraq and asked Canada to help them to be transferd to a safe country. The Canadian agent expressed the government’s concern on their safety ...more...
Bahar Irani,Mojahedin.ws, January 12, 2008:... For the reasons discussed, relocation of MKO to France, and also other European countries, after its expulsion from Iraq is out of the question. The next option, then, might be the United State of America. In spite of telltales that the organization benefits from a number of supporters inside the Congress and other lobbying bodies, for many reasons, including ideological and strategic challenges, MKO is barred to inter the US territories, let alone to be accepted as political settlers ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, January 10, 2008:... Looking at it from a different angle, the excitement of MKO over the POAC’s ruling is for something beyond its mere removal from the list of the proscribed organizations. That is to say, the judgment plainly decrees that MKO, as a political organization with a military infrastructure, has reached the end of its political life and must run a peaceful life of retirement in an appropriate resort place with no better alternative than England ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, January 8, 2008:... Regardless of many contradictions in POAC’s judgment and remaining of MKO on the list of the proscribed organizations, MKO’s insistence to recognize the judgment necessitates its compliance with some rules ...more...
Centre for Thought, Dialogue and Human Rights in Iran – Toronto (CTDHR), January 6, 2008:... The volume of the threats, allegations and accusations that we received so far, particularly me and Mr. Saeed Soltanpour, has been beyond tolerable. The most recent wave of attacks started when Mr. Mohammadi and his wife, with serious concern for the future of their daughter after the negotiations between Iran and USA regarding the future of residents of Camp Ashraf, traveled to Baghdad and after an unsuccessful visit with Somayeh on their way back to the city were physically attacked by MKO members, started a desperate campaign in Iraq ... more...
Iran's Radio Dialogue broadcasts discussion with strategists on ties with US, January 07, 2008:... Kharazi: Washington continues to support terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organisation in Iraq ... more...
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, Middle East Today, Press TV, Jauary 2, 2008:... One-hour appearance on a Middle East Today (London Edition) program with panels discussing the major political events of 2007 has been posted online at... more...
Steph's blog, January 03, 2008:... The group responsible were the Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO), who are responsible for the deaths of 16,000 victims, including a president, a prime minister, 80 parliamentarians, but more importantly, 80% of their victims were innocent civillians...more...
Official Journal of the European Union, December 2007:... you can consider Muajhedin-e-Khalq listed as a proscribed Organization by the EU. However on Dec.18th Maryam Rajavi addressed the European Parliament urging on the removal of her terror cult from the EU terror list. The EU listed MKO as a terrorist entity once more...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, December 31, 2007:... Many assume that since some key ranking figures, including the leading cadre and its president-elect, are already situated in France and the organization is engaged in an extensive campaign aimed at winning support from among the politicians there, then, France might be the next appropriate option...more...
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