Press TV, December 31, 2009:... The rally took place a day after the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday's violent anti-government protests in Iran. MKO followers cooperated with the demonstrators and coordinated the protests, the organization's leader Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris on Tuesday ... more...
IRIB, Tehran, December 31, 2009:... The MKO mastermind, Mariyam Rajavi admitted that her group had sent several teams to Tehran to stir a turmoil in the capital. Meanwhile, the European Union recently wrote off the MKO from its terror list, in a move denounced by many analysts as bias and double approach ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, December 31, 2009:... The MKO’s official website put a photo of a Lebanese girl with her head bleeding, claiming she had been injured in the midst of Tehran’s Ashura unrests on last Sunday, Habilian Association (families of terror victims) news website reported ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, December 31, 2009:... "We have no doubt that Monafeqin (the Hypocrites, as MKO is referred to in Iran) has been involved in this issue," Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran today ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 30, 2009:... "U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight. The money for Jundullah was funneled to its leader, Abdelmalek Rigi, through Iranian exiles who have connections with European and Gulf states." ... more...
Press TV, December 30, 2009:... According to police reports, at least seven people were killed in clashes that broke out between security forces and protestors during the disturbances. The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years ...more...
Habilian Association, Baghdad, December 30, 2009:... “The MKO has committed the most savage crimes against Diyalah people. They were involved in killing and torturing the 1991 Iraqi Shiite Intifada activists close to the Iranian border in Khaniqain Road and north Diyalah. So there’s no end to their terror efforts and it is a military force used by Saddam Hussein against the Iraqi nation,” Eng. Layla Tamimi said ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, December 30, 2009:... The government is doing nothing but trying to execute the law that the constitution and the nation requires to be accomplished rather than appeasement of a terrorist group that claims an autonomous territory on the soil of a sovereign state. The organization’s subsequent propaganda blitz against the Iraqi Government mainly aims to attract the attentions of advocates to interfere and to take the side of Mojahedin to impose them on the government and guarantee their stay in Iraq ... more...
Aawa Association, Germany, December 29, 2009:... Moving them from this camp is a preludeto moving them to outside Iraq and to anystate that would accept them, or perhaps ifthey benefit from any pardon, which theIranian Government would offer them ...more...
Reuters, December 29, 2009:... In a telephone interview with Reuters, Rajavi said the protest movement was now calling for the same things that her group was aiming for: she said. "They want to overthrow the regime of the mullahs, they want a secular republic to replace religious dictatorship." ...more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, December 29 2009:... The women in the cult of Rajavi are even forced to bear hysterectomy operations, according to Batoul Soltani, former member of MKO’s leadership Council. She said that Nafiseh Badamchi (a doctor in MKO) was responsible to carry out the operation ... more...
Press TV, Tehran, December 27, 2009:... The unnamed source was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying that protestors had attacked mourners participating in Ashura ceremonies and damaged public property and parked vehicles in central Tehran ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 25, 2009:... The publication of Rajavi’s own presence in the management of these sessions is of very significance and may raise some speculations. It may mean the termination of his organizational-cultic hide-out to stop the disintegration of the organization, a warning for the outsiders, or his presence in camp Ashraf and ... more...
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, LA Times, December 23, 2009:... Ros-Lehtinen also supports the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group by the State Department as a foreign terrorist group. Leading up to the Iraq war, in October 2002, Ros-Lehtinen circulated a letter in Congress expressing support for the MEK. She continues her support ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, December 24, 2009:... Sahar Family Foundation asks all relevant Iraqi and international bodies, in particular those in a position of influence in western countries, to intervene to stop yet another disaster committed against the people who are trapped by the MKO leaders in this camp, by opening the doors and letting them have free access to the outside world ... more...
Nejat Society, December 24 2009:... Following their so-called ideological revolution when they forced the couples to divorce they went further and in 1991 they separated the divorced mothers from their children even newly –born babies who were sent to Europe. How can Maryam Rajavi argue about fostering laws of Islamic Republic? ... more...
Press TV, Baghdad, December 22, 2009:... The MKO, which has been residing in a camp to the northeast of Baghdad for two decades, was exiled from Iran and resettled in Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and US-led forces after the invasion of the country in March 2003 ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, Baghdad, December 20, 2009:... Salim indicated that "the members of the MKO do not qualify as refugees, and are not covered by the Geneva Conventions, but the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects them," noting that the Universal Declaration "stresses the need for humane treatment covered by it, in addition ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 21, 2009:... It seems that it is not significant how many members are to be victimized this time since it is willed by the organization leadership, this process may lead to the death of some members. What is of importance is that Iraqi officials are recommended not to submit to illegal demands of Mojahedin as did Americans and ... more...
Staff Reporter, Plus News Pakistan, 21 December 21, 2009:... The failure of the Muthana relocation attempt means the issue of the MEK remains stuck in a stalemate. No new proposals for solving the problem have yet been made. In January the MEK was taken off of Europe’s list of terrorist organisation, raising hopes the Ashraf matter might be dealt with by granting residents asylum in the European Union...more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, December 21, 2009:... The system of sexual apartheid has its exactly obvious example in Mujahedin Khalq Organization. Particularly since 1988, revolution of divorce, MKO leaders ruled the organization with the most sexist ideas ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, December 19, 2009:... Sahar Family Foundation asks all relevant Iraqi and international bodies, in particular those in a position of influence in western countries, to intervene to stop yet another disaster committed against the people who are trapped by the MKO leaders in this camp, by opening the doors and letting them have free access to the outside world ... more...
Habilian Association, Shahr-e-Rey, December 19, 2009:... Recorded by Habilian Association, a full list of 16403 Iranian terror victims , over 12000 of whom assassinated by the MKO, was also on show at the exhibition. It aroused an increasing sense of hatred of the cult among the visitors who came to know many people assassinated by the MKO were civilians ... more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, Arabic, Baghdad, December 17, 2009:... Moving them from this camp is a prelude to moving them to outside Iraq and to any state that would accept them, or perhaps if they benefit from any pardon, which the Iranian Government would offer them ... more...
Alsumaria TV , Translated by Iran interlink, December 17, 2009:... Maliki stressed that Iraq is not a conduit for any terrorist organization and that the presence of the MKO in Iraq is temporary. According to the history of this organization and its acts of terrorism, of course, they have no place in Iraq. Maliki stressed that the elections will certainly go ahead whatever the terrorists do … more...
Iranian Pen Club, December 17, 2009:... Dr.Nuri al-Maliki Prime Minister of Iraq vowed many times that Al Qaeda and Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization and Baath party have always sought to make Iraq unstable and draw attention away from the fact that they are responsible for terrorist activities and killings in Iraq ... more...
Aljazeera TV (Arabic), December 15, 2009:... [Abd-al-Husayn Abd-al-Ridha al-Sa'idi, chairman of Maysan Governorate Council, addressing a news conference] There are documents proving that, over the past years, this organization and its affiliates were involved in criminal acts and in killing large numbers of Iraqi people in a flagrant manner ... more...
Ernesto Londoño - Washington Post Foreign Service, December 15 2009:... Iranian dissidents protest the Iraqi government's orders that they vacate Camp Ashraf, even as Iraqi policemen, at right, stood ready in case violence erupted. The government says it intends to take the exiles, members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, to camps in the south... more...
Press TV, December 16, 2009:... In Iraq, MKO is seen as “a brainwashed cult from a high-trained terrorist organization” which assisted the Saddam regime in oppressing the Iraqi nation and suppressing the Kurds and Shias in the 1990's. A resolution presented by Democratic lawmakers has also called on President Barack Obama to stop the relocation of members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, December 16, 2009:... For sure, there is no ambiguity in the case of Mojahedin Khalq; it is a proven terrorist organization and has to leave the country that is determined to remove the last remnants of a notorious dictator whose adherents are still embroiling the country in disorder and civil war that is taking many lives every day ... more...
AFP, December 15, 2009:..People’s Mujahedeen representative: Any attempt to expel us forcibly will lead to the same clashes and confrontations as those of July 28 and 29,” he said, referring to violence at the camp this year in which the group says 11 people were killed ... more...
Habilian Association, Baghdad, December 15, 2009:... Upon a call from the Iraqi government, the reporters were going to go to Camp Ashraf to cover the MKO’s relocate to Baghdad. The blast at least wounded a reporter who was waiting with colleagues at Baghdad’s Green Zone to move to the camp. Another car bomb was blasted in a car park opposite to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad ... more...
Aswatal-Iraq, Baghdad, December 14, 2009:... the Government would deal with members of the People's Mojahedin Organization humanely, but at the same time we want the United States to respect our decision and comply with non-interference in the internal affairs and sovereignty over Iraq’s territory, as we do not want to alienate our relations with neighbouring countries ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, December 15, 2009:... All those victims who have been captives and hostages for decades in the hands of the cult’s spiritual leaders need to be rescued from that hell hole ,Ashraf garrison, as soon as possible to breathe and inhale freedom and find their real humane essence after all ... more...
Senate, France, December 2009:... This requirement of respect for human rights must also apply to officers of the PMOI which, by all accounts, continues to use practices to intimidate the camp residents. Thus, they would not be free to decide their fate. As you know, France had objected that the PMOI, on the list of European terrorist organizations since 2002, was withdrawn in 2008 ... more...
UPI, December 12, 2009:... Ian Kelly, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said Friday that while Washington recognizes Iraq's sovereign right to exercise authority over group, human rights should be observed ... more...
Wasat online, Baghdad, November 12, 2009:... The Government has invited the media to attend Camp Ashraf on the fifteenth day of December to cover the transfer of residents to the place allocated to them ... more...
Press TV, December 12, 2009:... Kelley said he will further discuss the importance of this matter with the Baghdad government in future meetings. "We're making it clear that we would expect... that the residents to be treated well and with respect." ... more...
Aswat al Iraq, Muthanna, Iraq, December 10 2009:... The protesters carried placards that carried dozens of expressions of condemnation and rejection of the idea of transferring the members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (the inhabitants of Ashraf camp) to Al Muthanna, and chanted clan songs to express their refusal to meet what they described as “murderers and thugs”… more...
Alsabah, Baghdad, December 11, 2009:... Following the death threats by the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group made against the life of Mr. Hassan Salman, Head of Iraqi Media Network (IMN), the IMN Board of Directors have officially asked the judiciary to launch an investigation into the criminal activities of the Mojahedin Khalq (aka: Rajavi cult)... more...
Iran-Interlink, December 10, 2009:... The transfer of Camp Ashraf residents to buildings in Baghdad represents a significant step forward in finding an eventual humanitarian solution to the necessary expulsion of the MKO from Iraq ...more...
Press TV, December 10, 2009:... According to the report, the Board of Trustees has shown unanimous support for Salman. They urged the network's legal department to take the threat seriously and to file a lawsuit against the terrorist organization ... more...
Reuters Baghdad, December 09, 2009:... Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to oust members of the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an Iranian opposition movement that the United States considers a terrorist organisation, from a camp northeast of Baghdad where they have been living for two decades ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 10, 2009:... Granting that the Ashraf residents are a number of political activists seeking refuge in Iraq for some political reasons under some globally adopted conventions, then, why none of the country members of the EU accepts them on its soil as political refugees and even some of them are expelled or awaiting trial on terrorist charges? ... more...
Ancient Iran, Glorious Future Association, Paris, December 10, 2009:... The French people should know that this cult became Saddam Hussein’s full-scale mercenary and puppet just to preserve its cultic interests in Iraq and they began their cooperation with Saddam’s suppressive forces to overcome the Iraqi people’s fair and square uprising ... more...
Habilian Association, Tehran, December 10, 2009:... In order to introduce the crimes and terror efforts of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the Iranian young generation, full documents on the cult's crimes both in Iran and Iraq were on show at the exhibition, Habilian website reported... more...
Anne Singleton, Iran-Interlink, December 8, 2009:... while he was in Jordan, Mr Stevenson again raised the issue of the MKO in Iraq and how they could be helped. Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered that Mr Stevenson “could resolve the situation by offering all 3400 PMOI refugees visas to come to live in Scotland!” No doubt this was not the kind of help Mr Stevenson was looking for ... more...
ISNA, December 08, 2009:... Also regarding the issue of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group, he said Iraq still insists that members of the group should not stay in Iraqi territory and they need to be expelled based on determined standards...more...
Majid Ruhi, December 08, 2009:... Maryam Qajar sharpened the edge of her suppressive sward towards the captured women of the cult. She has to deprive them from their basic rights to maintain her cult. She has theorized her revolution as the following: Human’s nature is originated from evil so ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, December 8, 2009:... In many occasions, Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI) exceeds Al-Oaeda to occupy the first place on the list because it is a potential terrorist group that has initiated novel forms of violence. The innate sense of violence and military strategy leaves it no potation but to seek for new methods and tactics to satisfy itself ... more...
TV 2 Nyhetene, Oslo, December 07 2009:... “They have very limited support inside Iran. They have indeed supported in part by the exile community in Europe and the United States, but not inside the country. They do not represent the real opposition now. I think it is problematic, and in my opinion, politically compromised to meet this movement, "says Vogt ... more...
BBC, December 07, 2009:... Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi had vetoed the previous version of the law, saying it did not provide enough seats for the country's Sunni minority. Following the parliamentary vote, he formally withdrew his veto of the election law and praised the new amendment as providing a fairer deal for Iraq's minorities... more...
Iranian Pen Club, November 506 2009:... In conclusion, we request from you as Ambassedor of Sweden in France that considering the local and internernational threat posed by the terrorist cult Mojahedin-e Khalq and Mr. Akbar Aramideh , member of this terrorist cult as described above ...more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, December 05 2009:... It was the worst incident that could happen to MKO since it was very clear that the ones who would achieve power in Iraq are those who opposed Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party and also his accomplice, Mujahedin Khalq who cooperated with him in the suppressive operations against Kurds and Shiites of Iraq. Thus, the situation got the worst... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, December 3, 2009:... Being disarmed, Mojahedin’s alternative for military operation has been an energetic involvement in intelligence activities. Of course, any probe may fail to discover very sophisticated equipment and apparatuses needed for such activities, but the organization’s potentiality easily solves the question of equipment as it has in the past ... more...
Iran Interlink, December 02, 2009:... An aside by an Iraqi official to Iran Interlink tells the story. “There is no mention of a Spanish judge in our constitution”, he quipped. ”But we are quite clear that the MKO is illegal in our country. If Spain would like to host the MKO on its own soil, they are welcome to them!” ... more...
Habilinan Association, Tafresh, December 02, 2009:... In this exhibition which had, like other Habilian exhibitions in the universities, getting the university students familiar with Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist cult on top of its goals, students with different political viewpoints visited the exhibition... more...
BBC Persian Service, Washington, December 01, 2009:... BBC Persian covers the attacks against NIAC by neo-conservative operators and individuals allegedly connected to the Iranian terrorist organization, the Mujahedin ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, Baghdad, December 01, 2009:... “Executing the judgment requires an approval from the Iraqi side,” Ahmed Anwar, a member of the Iraqi parliament legal committee, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, November 30, 2009:... I would like to know what steps your Government is willing to take to secure the safety and security of anti-terrorism activists who are being threatened by every possible means by the notorious Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation HQ in your country ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, November 30, 2009:... Thus, the armed strategy of liberation hitting its end, since the organization must abandon its concentration camp, what will Rajavi’s alternative will be? Relocation of Ashraf to any other land necessarily means that an alternative is crucial to the survival of the organization ... more...
AK News, Erbil, November 29, 2009:... Al-Houthi mentioned Kurds as example to support his statement, "Saddam Hussein failed to destroy the Kurdish movement in Iraq, now they have their own government, rights, flag, and their freedom" ... more...
Aswat al Iraq, November 27, 2009:... the Iraqi constitution has openly banned any Baathists, or members of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein regime’s Baath Party, from practicing any political activities in Iraq ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, November 28, 2009:... The concluding words of Rajavi in his message of November 4, after putting a price on Ashraf, are boasting about the potentiality of Ashraf residents to overthrow the regime side by side of the Iranian people. How can he bargain so precious a whole potentiality that can so easily play a decisive role to change a regime! But ... more...
Habilian Association, Tehran, November 25, 2009:... In order to introduce the crimes and terror efforts of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the Iranian young generation, full documents on the MKO's crimes both in Iran and Iraq were on show at the exhibition, Habilian website reported ... more...
House of Lords, London, November 23, 2009:... The UK is of the view that the residents of Camp Ashraf, as with all people in Iraq, enjoy rights and protections under the Iraqi constitution and applicable international obligations to which Iraq is a signatory. We do not consider that they have 'protected persons' status... more...
Press TV, November 24, 2009:... This documentary takes us beneath the surface of acts of terror against Iran and shows how Iranians have been targeted by various terrorist groups, some of which enjoying the support of human right organizations.... more...
House of Lords, London, November 23, 2009:... Baroness Nicholson: Why is no European nation, or North America, willing to accept any of the residents of Camp Ashraf? May it have something to do with their previous activities? Is the Minister absolutely determined either to prove that the Camp Ashraf residents cannot return to the Islamic Republic of Iran or to press European nations to bring them out? What responsibility do the Iraqi Government have to keep these former enemies of the Iraqi people? ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, November 23, 2009:... Rajavi’s message of November 4, seemingly addressed to Iranian mobs who instigated the recent sporadic domestic crises, is nothing more than desperate struggle to cease the already started measures to put an end to the issue of Mojahedin in Iraq and the Camp Ashraf residents in particular ... more...
Al Forat TV, Baghdad, November 23, 2009:... Our demand is fair, we do not force them to return to Iran and do not allow them to stay permanently in Camp Ashraf. There is no place for them in Iraq after the crimes they have committed against the Iraqi people by exercising their terrorism and because of their cooperation with the Baathists and their interference in Iraq’s domestic affairs ... more...
Press TV, November 23, 2009:... This documentary takes us beneath the surface of acts of terror against Iran and shows how Iranians have been targeted by various terrorist groups, some of which enjoying the support of human right organizations ... more...
Nejat Society, November 23 2009:... The isolation of dissident members of Rajavi’s cult prevents them from enjoying the capacities and facilities they could use to release themselves from the suppressive atmosphere of the organization ... more...
AFP, November 22, 2009:... Two of the three men had been officers in Saddam's army and in recordings shown to reporters they said a Saudi national assisted them as they drove three cars from Taji, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Baghdad ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, November 19, 2009 (translated by Iran-Interlink):... He pointed out that "There are documents and documentary tapes which stress that the organization carried out terrorist acts against people of the province and in coordination with the previous security which was aimed at the elimination of rebellion."... more...
Daniel Luban, Inter Press Service, November 2009:... Massoud Khodabandeh, former MEK member who is now a leading expert on and critic of the group: “I can say without doubt that Hassan Daioleslam is a member of what I call for accuracy ‘the Rajavi cult’ [referring to MEK leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi]. In this respect he is obedient to the Rajavi leadership and would not act in a way inconsistent with their requirements and certainly not without their knowledge or consent ... more...
By: Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, November 19 2009:... Rajavi’s false reasoning for taking possession of a part of Iraqi territory or otherwise asking for 200 million dollars as blackmail seems so funny. Ashraf residents, who have been under psychological manipulation techniques of Rajavi’s cult, have never had a penny as their own personal property. How can Rajavi claim to have possessions in Iraq? The members have built some replicas of famous buildings and monuments of Iran and some other facilities for military training during the years of their slavery in Ashraf.
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Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, November 17, 2009:...
All the humanitarian organizations have the camp under their monitor in spite of MKO’s strong objection to any interference in its internal affair as it harshly reacted when the Iraqi forces tried enter the camp and to establish a police station within its walls just to monitor its suspicious activities and stop further exploitation of its members. And the United Nation knows all about Ashraf.more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, November 17, 2009:... "The US keeps being the main support to the MKO, though it considers it as a terrorist organization," he added. "Who can believe that the MKO members are living in Iraq's Camp Ashraf as civilians? The cult has a 40-year background of terror efforts and it needs to keep it in order to survive." ... more...
Hassan Piransar - Paris, November 15, 2009:... In their ideology they believe that Ashraf garrison is their fairyland and the people who are residing there are the best God created creatures, Massoud Rajavi is the God sent leader and Maryam Azdanlo is an innocent fairy and the rest of the world are criminals and devils unless they convert and accept their cultic ideology and begin flattering and eulogizing PMOI leaders and their cultic ideology.
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Akhbar News, Iraq, Nov. 2009:... "The rejection of the Commission's request matched the view that the" hypocrites organisation" will be a heavy burden on the people of this province which is peaceful and quiet." He added that "the existence of Camp Ashraf, especially in the countryside of Samawah would present major threats to its security ... more...
By Reza Sadeghi, November 12, 2009:... As we ex-members all know, the MKO leaders will now be holding all kinds of meetings among the rank and file about that 200 million dollars. They will be saying that Brother Massoud is trying to do whatever he can for you, and that he wants to get this money to give to you ... more...
Aswat al Iraq, November 15, 2009:... The Iraqi premier said the Baathists will not even be partners in the political process in the country, resembling Baathists’ “seizure of power from 1968 until 2003” to the “Moguls’ invasion that swept Iraq”... more...
Fars News, November 15, 2009:... The Iranian envoy said the recent EU decision on removing the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from its list of terrorist groups is an indication of the West's double-standard policy on the issue ... more...
Written by NIAC Staff, Friday, 13 November 2009:... NIAC has provided tens of thousands of documents and all its financial records in order to prosecute a defamation case against Hassan Dai. Those documents prove the allegations made against NIAC are completely false. The judge denied Dai’s motion to dismiss the case on 18 out of 19 counts. Realizing this, the defendants have decided to maliciously leak those documents to a reporter at the Washington Times, Eli Lake ... more...
Tehran Times, Baghdad, November 14, 2009:... The MKO began a campaign of assassinations and bombings in Iran shortly after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The group moved to Iraq in the early 1980s and fought Iran from there until the United States invaded the country in March 2003 ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, November 12, 2009:... At the time of Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein who was MKO’s land lord, Massoud Rajavi ordered to stop all family relationships under the title of “Ideological Revolution”. The parents were separated from their kids; the couples were forced to divorce ... more...
Habilian Association, Tabriz, November 12, 2009:... As reported by Habilian database correspondent, in this exhibition which was held to the efforts of families of terror victims and the cultural and extracurricular activities department of Tabriz University, new documents disclosing the MKO atrocities and crimes in Iran and abroad were brought to the eyes of the students and intellectuals ... more...
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, New York Times, November 10, 2009:... The group that lives here, the People’s Mujahedeen, has had a long and winding history. It killed Americans, supported the takeover of the United States Embassy in Iran during the 1970s and was given sanctuary in Iraq by Saddam Hussein. But after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the group was protected by the United States ... more...
AFP, Baghdad, Nobember 10, 2009:... "Why did you choose the justice ministry?" Maliki said, recalling one of the transcripts he had consulted, to which the suspect replied: "Because it has a lot of glass and would maximise the number of victims." ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, Novermber 10, 2009:... The participants confessed that they held their self - criticism meetings even in Iraqi prison! They told to their God-like leader, Massoud Rajavi, that they held the meetings even in groups of two under any circumstances. As MKO’s TV channel showed, Current Operation ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 09, 2009:... At first, the organization thought she had been killed. So it began praising and glorifying her daring deed in its official gazette, Mojahed. Then it was surfaced that she was alive and arrested and it was brought into the Leadership Council to start advertising her collaboration with the regime’s information system ... more...
Anne Singleton, November 2009:... This threat does not come from outside agencies, but arises directly from the cult nature of the organisation itself; hence the MKO leaders’ hysteria over eight family members knocking at the camp gate asking to see their relatives ... more...
Nejat Society, Western Azarbayjan, November 07 2009:... The families also discussed their requests and problems. Mr. Mehdi Palideh spoke of his brother who was recruited by MKO recruiters while he was studying in college in Sweden and since then he has been captured in Ashraf under manipulative cult of Rajavi ... more...
News from Press TV, November 06, 2009:... Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Aref Tayfour, said MKO members must be transferred to a third country far from Iraq and Iran to be unable to infiltrate the borders of the two countries ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin WS, November 5, 2009:... can anybody doubt the pure feelings and emotions of the families who had suffered the pains of a long journey just to be disappointed to visit the loved ones they had longed to see? Naturally, families who care about their children and are eager to see them ... more...
Aswat al Iraq, November 04, 2009:... the (Iraqi) government does not want to force them to go to a country against their wishes, just as it does not want them to stay in Iraq,” Ali al-Allaq said in an exclusive statement to Aswat al-Iraq news agency ... more...
Iranian relatives, Outside Camp "New Iraq", November 4, 2009:... Sadly, we have discovered that a terrorist cult is still calling the shots in your country and that it is because of them that we cannot see those dear relatives whom we have travelled so far, and waited so long to see. Really, what harm can the eight of us do? ... more...
Iran Interlink, Al Khalis, Iraq, November 04, 2009:... From November 2 the families began a hunger strike. They demand that the Iraqi government as the only responsible body in Iraq must take charge and allow the freedom of their children ... more...
Almotamar, Baghdad, November 02, 2009:... To achieve their aims the families have begun a sit-in at Camp Ashraf to demand that the Iraqi government and international community intervene to pressure the leaders of the organization in Camp Ashraf to give their children complete freedom ... more...
Aswat al Iraq, Baghdad, November 02, 2009:... The source explained that "the Governor and provincial Council refusal is linked to the idea that Al Muthanna province will be a safe haven for the group. It will reflect negatively on the security reality and sabotage the security of the region." ... more...
Quil Lawrence, National Public Radio, November 02, 2009:... Ali al-Zuhairi, an Iraqi tribal sheik in the town of Khalis, near Camp Ashraf, recalls bitterly how the MEK helped Saddam put down the Shiite and Kurdish uprisings in 1991. Zuhairi claims the MEK killed rebel Iraqis and left their bodies in the street. He calls them "terrorists." ... more...
Iranian Pen Club, November 03, 2009:... Mr Vidal-Quadras ,The aim of the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), which you are pursuing in the European Parliament very determinedly, is to keep the people in Ashraf cult garrison isolated from the outside world ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 02, 2009:... The red-line to observe was to frustrate the hope of the regime’s forces to capture teams alive by committing suicide through swallowing cyanides or any other possible means at hand. Thus, the perquisite ... more...
Fars news, Tehran, November 02, 2009:... The terrorist group joined Saddam's army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran ... more...
Fars News, November 02, 2009:... Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so. A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations .... more...
Ancient Iran, Glorious Future Association, Paris, November 02, 2009:... This cult has even had no mercy upon its own members and these members for variety of reasons are imposed and coerced to set themselves on fire or hunger strike to death to safeguard and preserve the cult’s interests and its leaders ... more...
Habilian Association, November 01, 2009:... As a sideline of the 1st regional course for political training teachers in Mashhad, Habilian Association held the exhibition in order to reveal the crimes of the MKO. The exhibition was highly welcomed by hundreds of school teachers from ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, October 31, 2009:... I want to take the opportunity to tell them that we are also concerned about the members not living but enslaved and held in Camp Ashraf against their own will. If they cannot, we can see how the organization is exploiting them as human shields to safeguard its own entity ...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 27, 2009:... While the organization calls the world’s attention to Ashraf to intervene to stop the human tragedy taking place there, which also puts its great impact on the Ashraf residents as well, it does not shrink to sacrifice all of the camp’s members to survive and further its ends ... more...
Reuters, October 27, 2009:... An al Qaeda-linked group has said it carried out the twin suicide bombings that killed 155 people in Baghdad on Sunday and revived doubts about security in the run-up to Iraq's elections in January ... more...
Republican Broadcasting Network, October 25, 2009:... Anne Singleton covers the history and ideology of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) for one hour on Mark Dankof’s America on the Republic Broadcasting Network...more...
Habilian Association, October 25, 2009:... He refers to Maryam Rajavi, MKO leader's wife, as "the Iranian president". There is a link on his website covering Iran's post-election events and including all MKO's statements in this regard... more...
Aljazeera, October 25, 2009:... Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman, said he suspected al-Qaeda or remnants of Iraq's former government were behind the attacks. "The initial analysis shows that it bears the fingerprints of al-Qaeda and the Baathists," he said. Al-Dabbagh said he was in the nearby al-Mansour hotel when the bombs went off ...more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Association, October 25 2009:... the isolated members of the cult who are brainwashed through complex manipulation sessions and other cult jargons are not able to have any access to outside world. They are never informed of the true events taking place outside Camp Ashraf. All news and incidents are filtered and censured by cult leaders and ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 24, 2009:... RAND National Defense Research Institute Corporation has published a comprehensive report on MEK in 2009. It may be considered the official position taking of the US toward MKO as a supplement to the statements of the US state department in 1997 as well as that of April 2009 ... more...
Nejat Association, Gilan/Iran, October 24, 2009:... Hamid Hajipour, another defector who had returned to Gilan four months ago, also attended the little celebration. He welcomed Mr. Mohebi and spoke of his life experiences during the last four months ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 22, 2009:... I believe that the organization is entirely depended on Ashraf for a range of pivotal political, strategic, social, propaganda and even fundraising concerns. For the insiders, Ashraf would be depicted as a strategic bastion where ... more...
Evanherzoff1, All Voices, October 2009:... The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), also known as the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), among several aliases, has been the subject of desire by neoconservative lawmakers in the West, in recent years, to use as a proxy army for a "regime change" in Iran, developing another angle of pressure on US President Barack Obama... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 21, 2009:... what is the role of some well-known and effective MKO leaders like Abbas Davari, Mehdi Abrishamchi, Mohammad Hayati, Sedigheh Hosseini, Mahvash Sepehri, etc in the current critical situation of Mojahedin? None of them risked his/her life to be in front-line ... more...
Fine Point, Press TV, October 19, 2009:... A RAND study examined the evolution of this controversial decision, which has left the United States open to charges of hypocrisy in the war on terrorism. An examination of MeK activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies ... more...
Republican Broadcasting Network, October 18, 2009:... Cal State-Fullerton professor, Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote, covers the history and ideology of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) for two hours on Mark Dankof’s America on the Republic Broadcasting Network... more...
Novosti, Moscow, October 19, 2009:... "We believe that the fight against the threat of terrorism and extremism - wherever they originate from - requires a pooling of efforts by all countries. We are ready to cooperate with Iran in countering these threats," he said...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 19, 2009:... The reactions concerning Zamani’s execution that I mentioned were limited to the members of the Leadership Council. On the surface and among the rank and file you could see what was commonly seen outside of the organization; they were in tears and mourned his death. Massoud and Maryam always ... more...
Habilian Association, October 19, 2009:... Highly welcomed by the visitors, the exhibition was held in order for various groups of people to become familiar with the background and crimes of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)... more...
Press TV, October 18, 2009:... Telegraph report revealed that the CIA created Jundullah to achieve 'regime change in Iran', and said the US intelligence agency was trying to destabilize Iran by 'supplying arms-length support' and 'money and weapons' to the group ... more...
New Straits times, Kualalampur, October 16, 2009:... The Immigration Department has confirmed that a wanted Iraqi former MP was detained at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) here last Saturday evening. However, it is learnt he entered Malaysia on Oct 8 with a British passport ... more...
Nejat Association, October 17, 2009:... When the American camp (TIPF) was shutdown, he went to Iraqi society where he could get to know about Nejat society. He went to Iranian consulate and returned to Iran. “Now that I am here with you I am married and living a happy life with my family” he said ... more...
Press TV, October 17, 2009:... Hersh wrote that, "Israel and the United States have also been working together in support of a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan. The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran."... more...
Al Sabah Newspaper, Baghdad, October17, 2009:... "No refuge for MKO in Iraq as long as they keep their terrorist nature. By the way, the cult's leaders have refused to seek refuge to Iraq and elsewhere as well as to disarm," the Iraqi deputy interior ministry said... more...
Press TV, October 16, 2009:... "The coalition's decision to provide security for an FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) was very controversial because it placed the United States in the position of protecting a group that it had labeled a terrorist organization," it adds ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 15, 2009:... Beheshteh Shadroo was at the charge of the operation teams sent to Iran, after the frequent successful return of a team, she would order the head of the team to take the forces under his/her command to a non-reconnoitered region where they could be easily hit and killed ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 13, 2009:... The report of RAND on MKO, regardless of unexpected events due to the hidden aspects of the true nature of Mojahedin, can be considered an evidence of conservative and ambiguous behavior of the US toward MKO ... more...
House of Parliament, London, October 13, 2009:... The Iraqi authorities have said they intend to resettle all 36 to other countries once suitable arrangements are in place. They had been detained under a combination of charges related to the violence at the camp on 28 July 2009 and immigration violations ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Association, October 12 2009:... After about 5 days since their release there has been no special news or interviews on MKO’s websites although its propaganda system has always been ready to hunt an opportunity for a big show-off. Even the cult’s TV channel, Simaye Azadi ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 12, 2009:... the suicides had to be carried out first individually and one by one. In the next stage, if threatening forces behind the gates of Ashraf were resolute to break into the camp, the members had the order of committing suicides in groups ... more...
Press TV, October 12, 2009:... Zamani is convicted for being a member of "a terrorist group, and for trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic as well as spying on behalf of the [Central Intelligence Agency] CIA. He has been arrested for his participation in the Shiraz bombing and killing a number of Iranian nationals,"...more...
Habilian Association, Gazvin, October 11, 2009:... Thank you for holding the exhibition. It introduced the enemies of Islam and Iran openly to the youth who do not have much knowledge about MKO's background. I hope this will continue through the educational year ... more...
Bahar Irani, October 11, 2009:... the difference between these hostages and their reactionary and seemingly outdated counterparts is that the former are captive in invisible and cultic bonds of Rajavis rather than visible chains and bonds ... more...
Addustour, Baghdad, October 10, 2009:... The Minister indicated that the suspects arrested during the recent events were held based on the decision of the Director of Residence, after violating residency law. For his part, the British Ambassador showed interest and praised the Ministry of Human Rights Affairs over the 36 detainees who were released last Tuesday ... more...
BBC, October 08, 2009:... If the US allowed this to happen, it would not fit well with Washington's professed support for opposition activists in Iran. The issue is further complicated by the fact that the PMOI is still designated a terrorist organisation in the US ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 09, 2009:... To talk of my acquaintance with her, we were once on the same team-work in Camp Ashraf before the US invasion of Iraq and when Maryam (Rajavi) was still in Ashraf. However, Neda left for the Europe simultaneous with Maryam’s relocation to France ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 8, 2009:... The Iraqi judiciary system can well make use of former MKO members as live eyewitnesses to Mojahedin crimes by consulting them and using their statements for identifying the key MKO leaders in charge of all terrorist and cultic activities ... more...
ISNA, October 08, 2009:... Also Gass vowed he would do his best to remove the mistrust in Iranian public opinion towards Britain and added London does not consider the MKO an official organization and has no respect for it...more...
SAMEER N. YACOUB , Associated Press, October 07, 2009:... The 36 Iranian opposition members were returned to Camp Ashraf, where nearly 3,500 members of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran have been confined since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, while the Iraqi government works to find a country other than Iran that will take them, said spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 07, 2009:... Those who easily turn their back on their children, parents and any beloved one are in fact practicing to cut all attachments with the outside world. When Rajavi states that all love and devotion has to be directed to him, he means to be replaced with all the sources of attachments; he must be the sole entity ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 6, 2009:... The present position of Mojahedin in Iraq is the other side of the coin of their presence in France. As much as the legal basis of Mojahedin claims in Iraq is unclear, France government may not be aware of the reason why Maryam Rajavi was granted temporal freedom after her arrest in France in 2003 ... more...
Associated Press, October 05, 2009:... The official said the detainees would not be sent to Iran, where they would likely face arrest, but Iraq is seeking to send them to a third country. The official gave no other details or specific timetable ...more...
Fars News, October 05, 2009:... Speaking to the reporters in a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Larijani expressed the hope that close cooperation between Iran and Iraq will lead to expulsion of anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from the region ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 05, 2009:...their daughter had committed suicide and they could change nothing for her loss. Then, the organization put two choices before them; to move in parallel with the organization’s scenario in glorification of their daughter’s death or take an opposite side and spoil everything and sully their daughter’s name ... more...
IRIB, October 02, 2009:... the grouplet was active in murdering innocent Kurds in northern and Shii Muslims in southern Iraq under Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq. The ideas of the grouplet violated the religious structures, civil law and human rights. The grouplet has slaughtered 12,000 Iraqi civilians and Iranian officials ... more...
Iran-interlink, October 02, 2009:... The charges include: illegal entry into Iraq and interference in national security - charges which carry severe penalties. The GOI is working with the Judiciary to bring these individuals to trial in a court with the participation of interested international parties. The 36 have been moved to a secure location to await trial ... more...
Press TV, October 01, 2009:... Adnan al-Seraj, the head of the Center for Iraq Media Development, on Wednesday described the US embassy's support for the MKO as an apparent violation of the principle of the Washington-Baghdad security pact, and called for the immediate expulsion of MKO members ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 01, 2009:... Now compare the organization’s indifference to Khata’s death and its manner and conduct with Neda’s family before and after her suicide operation. That is because Neda’s family lived abroad since long and they could push the organization into real crisis if they wanted and reacted against her death ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 29, 2009:... As Rajavi stated in one of his speeches, the identical aspect in all these letters was volunteering for self-immolation. Thus, there remains no doubt that the operations were all organizationally orchestrated and aimed to achieve certain goals ... more...
Tehran Times Political Desk, September 29, 2009:... The Iraqi parliamentarian confirmed that the U.S. is pressuring the Iraqi officials to allow it to return its military troops to Camp Ashraf which houses the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization members. The majority of Iraqi political and parliamentary groups will oppose the U.S. demand ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, September 28, 2009:... The information provided by these separated members helps Iraqi officials to recognize the objectives pursued by MKO leaders at the time being. The fact is that they are not aware of the true nature of MKO and its potential dangers for Iraq in this phase ... more...
Fars News, September 27, 2009:... Meanwhile, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said he was cautiously upbeat on prospects for progress at next week's nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring Iranian officials and diplomatic representatives of the five UN veto powers plus Germany ... more...
Alfeyli, Baghdad, September 27, 2009:... "MKO supposed they will be welcomed by France thanks to their role in Iran's post-election events, but Paris left them hopeless in Camp Ashraf," said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 26, 2009:... A look at the organization’s own media at that time and later reveals that it had designated a big bulk of its propaganda space, both cyber and non-cyber, for the reflection of the relevant issues and news and did not spare to stick even at the trifles. The origin of these news was often the organization itself and ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, December 25, 2009:... Iraqi officials assert that despite conferring with 25 countries, they have failed to convince any country to offer political refuge to MKO. Although the US has shown eager in adopting a policy of supporting Mojahedin in recent years, it refuses to let them in and also describes MKO as a terrorist and unreliable group ... more...
Minoo Sepehr, September 24 2009:... I have previously notified that this propagandistic show has a few participants who attend the show in turns! to be filmed and photographed. Naturally, their illegal demand will not succeed and the death of each participant, regarding the organized movement of the group, will just thicken their terrorist file of June 17th 2003 ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 23, 2009:... it was the attempt to mythicize their death and consecrate them as saints and legendry heroines. Multitudes of poems, elegies and songs as well as the already mentioned mystical dances were composed and manipulated to justify the wounded and the dead of the immolation operations ... more...
Reuters, September 22, 2009:... The MKO is currently demanding that U.S. Army or the U.N. take control of Camp Ashraf from the GOI. Following publication of the RAND Report it should be the duty of the U.S. Army to help and facilitate in any way possible the immediate closure of Camp Ashraf and the removal of the MKO personnel from Iraq. The more help given by the U.S. to achieve this, the more ... more...
Nejat Association, September 22 2009:... Definitely the question that is posed here is that: what stops you (Maryam and Massoud) going to Ashraf? Why did you prefer to escape from the camp rather than staying with other residents after American invasion to Iraq? Do you really wish to be in Ashraf now?!!! ... more...
Middle East Online, September 22, 2009: ... The People's Mujahedeen, an Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran. It has subsequently fought to oust the clerical regime which took power in the 1979 Islamic revolution. The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s -- when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was at war with Iran -- as a base to operate against the Tehran government ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 21, 2009:... When inside the organization, we looked at these as values that had been violated; but now in an open world where we can freely reconsider the past, we see, alas, we had long appraised big lies as values and had deified people who had nothing of extraordinary ... more...
BBC Monitoring, September 19, 2009:... "Mamusta Sheykholeslam and Mamusta Borhan'ali were two of the most prominent figures and religious intellectuals in Kordestan who were unfortunately martyred by blind-hearted anti-revolution elements during the auspicious month of Ramadan," the new Friday imam of Kordestan said... more...
Chris Bryant, House of Parliament, September 2009:... Our view remains that the residents of Camp Ashraf are not entitled to 'protected persons' status as the Fourth Geneva Convention ceased to apply in Iraq after 28 June 2004, following the end of active hostilities and occupation ... more...
Opinion - By John Hughes, The Christian Science Monitor, September 16, 2009:... One bizarre complication is that the PMOI is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organization, mainly on grounds of guerrilla action it took earlier against the Iranian regime. The US Army was directed in 2003 to protect this "terrorist" organization largely because it has provided helpful information to the US.more...
Plus News Pakistan, September 16, 2009:.. "Camp Ashraf, which houses 3,418 MKO members, is on Iraqi soil and under Iraqi control and all the people residing in the camp are subject to Iraqi law"...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 14, 2009:... He mainly implied that a member of the Leadership Council that was fully briefed on the strategy of self-immolation had to rush to the first police station to set himself on fire immediately after hearing the news of Maryam’s arrest. Instead, he/she had abandoned what had to do and had put it off for the next day ... more...
Fars News, September 14, 2009:... At the time, the MKO played such an outstanding role in suppressing the uprising that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein described the MKO leader, Masoud Rajavi, as his savior and allocated a $30-million monthly budget to the terrorist organization until he was deposed in 2003 ... more...
Arash Rezaiee, Nejat Bloggers, September13, 2009:... Massoud Rajavi told his brainwashed members:”this was the reactionary Islam to do this to America, Wait for the revolutionary Islam when it shows its iron fist”. ... more...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By Susan Cornwell
September 11, 2009: Residents of Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border say the Iraqi government killed at least seven people when security forces moved in on July 28, an incident that raises concerns about the dwindling U.S. influence in Iraq. Thirty-six camp residents were arrested by Iraqi police on charges of rioting.
Camp Ashraf is home to the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) dissident group, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Iraq and Iran. more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 10, 2009:... I was in England for four years and Neda’s family were also there. There was no connection between the organization and the family in all these years and it all happened unexpectedly. Following Neda’s self-burning, the organization exerted much energy to establish close contact with her family and have control over it to persuade ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 07, 2009:... Some are really nasty with repulsive behavior; they may even pass over their most beloved to prove their loyalty and commitment. These are the main actors of the case we are talking about ... more...
Nejat Society, Markazi Branch, September 06, 2009:... During the years of their imprisonment in Ashraf, the cruel Mujahedin Organization has never permitted us to visit or even telephone our children. We ask for your prompt cooperation to provide us with the possibility to visit our beloved ones ... more...
Viktaurenet.org, September 05, 2009:... Adressing the western media, the Mujahedin office in Paris [2] alleged that the operation was carried out by the government of Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at Iran’s behest. Furthermore, the organization accused the International Red Cross of passive complicity with both the Iraqi and Iranian authorities...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 04, 2009:... The immolations were the sole option to overcome the crisis, call it a reaction against violation of Maryam’s sanctity or anything else. What the organization needed at that critical moment was to strip members of their capacity for rational activity because it could not preach for them about the legal adverse consequences of Maryam’s apprehension ... more...
Associated Press, Baghdad, September 02, 2009:... The Iraqi government has forwarded several proposals, including sending them to third countries other than Iran, where they would face possible execution. "The world has to help us find a place for them," al-Dabbagh said, reiterating the promise to treat them humanely and not to forcibly expel them. "We cannot accept the presence of such an organization inside Iraq." ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 23, 2009:... I remember the first words stated by Rajavi concerning Kamal’s suicide. He was much enraged by Kamal’s act and said he threw his corpse on the leadership’s table. I have to point out that Kamal’s suicide was never mentioned among the rank and file who thought he had died of a natural death ... more...
Nejat Society, September 03, 2009:...
Liberation Army and Camp Ashraf were introduced by Rajavi as the symbols of the new strategy. Considering that Rajavi was always seeking for manipulating the members’ minds, labeled all his acts as ideological; he claimed himself as ideological leader; his so called Liberation Army was also the ideological aspect of his strategy ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 02, 2009:... Rajavi believes that a woman works more obediently than a man. He thinks that when he orders a man to do a job, he may ask why, but a woman never asks questions about the demands, she would immediately execute the order ... more...
Nejat Association, August 31, 2009:... The ideological leader of MKO knows well that if their base is supervised by Iraqi officials, the release of captured members will be more likely. Therefore they try in any way to stop Iraqi supervision over the camp to prevent the decline of their forces ... more...
Robert Mccartney, Washington Post, 30 August 2009:... The embarrassment for Washington is that it made a show earlier in the decade of assuring Ashraf's residents that they would be safe in exchange for their formal agreement to disarm and repudiate violence. The United States did so even though it has listed the MEK as a terrorist organization since 1997, mostly because of attacks that the group staged decades ago ... more...
Reza Sadeghi, Paris, August 27, 2009:... As a former member, I have known this group since 1979. Because of them I spent five years of my youth in Iranian prisons; including two years in solitary confinement in Gohar Dasht in Karaj. I also spent the years from 1997 to 2006 as a prisoner of the MKO in Camp Ashraf, Iraq ... more...
Press TV, August 27, 2009:... A former member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) claims the US turned a blind eye to the terrorist nature of the 'Rajavi cult'... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, August 27, 2009:... Representative of Ayatollah Sistani then notified: We recently held a big celebration in the city of Khalis in which scholars and elders of this city demanded MKO to be expelled from Iraq ... more...
Nejat Society, August 26 2009:... A number of defectors of Mujahedin Khalq Organization who were assisted by the respectful authorities of ICRC to return home, declare their position on recent incidents in Camp Ashraf where a group of members have been victimized by MEK leaders ... more...
Reza Sadeghi, Paris, August 25, 2009:... The Rajavi cult has been the main reason behind the suppression and oppression in Iran. The hardliners could never have done what they did for the past three decades if it wasn't for the violent and destructive activities of the Rajavis ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 25, 2009:... Maryam accused us of having a reactionary mind that motivated us to feel a distance between Massoud and ourselves. Then she concluded that in order to remove this distance, we should marry him. She made us believe that we never had the right to have another husband. Then in the meeting Massoud asked us arrogantly: "Does anyone claim to have a husband other than me?" ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Association, August 24, 2009:... During the 1960’s , a few years after the peak of guerilla war around the world including Kuba, China, Mexico …, Mujahedin Khalq Organization began their armed struggle against the Shah of Iran. The MEK based their armed struggle on other groups’ experiences ... more...
Fars News, August 24, 2009:... An Iraqi group with records of cooperation with Iraq's former Baath regime announced that it supports presence of the anti-Iran terror group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) inside Iraq ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 23, 2009:... The more the time passed, the more he was obsessed with plans to become a magnet to draw devoted members and insisted to exactly, even if forcibly, accomplish the pattern he was holding onto ...more...
Tehran Times, Political Desk, August 23, 2009:... All documents and evidences against the MKO members will be examined and they will be prosecuted according to the international rules and regulations, he added ... more...
Newyork times, August 21, 2009:...Iraq’s government must formally charge those arrested, give them a fair trial and take steps to avoid a repeat of last month’s bloodshed. If Iraq is determined to close the camp, Washington, Baghdad and the United Nations should develop a process... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 21, 2009:... Rajavi intended to completely remove the doubts formed in the minds of the members of the Leadership Council that suicide was in no way an act of sin and even sacred and glorified if it was committed under the command of the leadership in any form ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, August 20, 2009:... Definitely the question that is posed here is that: what stops you (Maryam and Massoud) going to Ashraf? Why did you prefer to escape from the camp rather than staying with other residents after American invasion to Iraq? ... more...
ّFars News, August 19, 2009:... Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so. A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 19, 2009:... I don’t think that anyone in lower ranks know about the marriage agreement announced for women of the Leadership Council and Masud Rajavi. As a high ranking member who was responsible for meetings of lower ranks. I don’t ... more...
Fars News, August 18, 2009:... Reports from inside the camp said that the move by the MKO leaders is aimed at securing their stay inside Camp Ashraf (now known as the Camp of New Iraq) - the MKO's main training center and headquarters - by any means ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, August 18, 2009:... Once in a letter addressed to Christopher George of Human Rights Watch/Middle East entitled Human Rights Abuse in Rajavi’s cult, Nowrooz Ali Rezvani, a disaffected and former member of MKO, presented documented reports of many physical and psychological mistreatments of the members by the leaders within the organization ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, August 16, 2009:... “Those members are currently held in accordance with Article 431 for triggering acts of violence that took place between police forces and Camp Ashraf residents in late July,” a judicial source from Diala province told Aswat al-Iraq news agency ... more...
Fars News, August 17, 2009:... Two weeks after Iraqi security forces took control of the main training camp of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, 10 main Iraqi parties issued a statement to announce full support for the expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist group from the country ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, August 17, 2009:... It is evident that her statements on some aspects like the relation of Rajavi with the members of leadership cadre are so shocking for other detached members since as she asserts, even the ranks below the level of leadership cadre have not been aware of these affairs and Rajavi has insisted on secreting these information in the council of leadership ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 15, 2009:... Interestingly, if anybody failed to commit suicide, others had the responsibility to help him/her accomplish the job. Thus, the human tragedy in defense of Ashraf is a program that has to be possibly brought into actuality and there are a variety of approaches that will act to remove deterrents ... more...
Hamshahri, Tehran in Persian, 13 August 09:... It seems that one of the most important reasons for the attack was the hypocrites' collaboration with Saddam Hussein in attacks on areas including Khalisiya and killing of various innocent Iraqi Kurds and Shi'a... more...
IRNA, August 12, 2009:... The NGO further asked the prime minister to separate the ringleaders from members to give the residents of the camp the chance to make decisions for their own future ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, August 12, 2009:... A big demonstration has taken place in the al-Khalis suburb demanding to deport the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Iraq, the suburb’s Mayor, Uday al-Khadran, said on Monday. PMOI media spokesperson, Mahdi Aqbaee, accused the Diala province’s police commander of arranging the demonstration, but the commander denied these accusations...more...
Fars News, August 12, 2009:... "…the Iraqi government should know that its hostile measures against the residents of Camp Ashraf who are Iranian immigrants in this city are not and will not be in the interest of the Iraqi government," Jundullah said in statement...more...
Mojahedin.ws, August 8, 2009:... Facts revealed by former members indicate that a number of MKO members committed suicide because they were prevented from leaving the organization and that suicide was also claimed as the cause of death for recalcitrant members who had to be erased ...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 08, 2009:... Any woman who wants to enter the Leadership Council should obey the article B of the Ideological Revolution, which was actually related to “Joining the leader”. In this article the women are told to marry Masud Rajavi as soon as they are accepted in the Leadership Council ... more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, August 06, 2009:... He says not all of these people support the MKO, adding that "half of them are under the influence of the other half." He says: "For Iraq, this is neither a military nor a political problem. This is a terrorist organization and it is over politically. Militarily, the Iraqi army is capable of overcoming them." ... more...
Reuters, Baghdad, August 06, 2009:... "That is incorrect ... We do not block food or medical supplies, but we do block building supplies such as cement and metal," Dabbagh said. Swiss-based human rights activists, including senior U.N. expert Jean Ziegler, said on Wednesday Iraqi authorities were blocking food and water ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 06, 2009:... There was a female colleague who had refused to volunteer for self-immolation but the organization showed no antagonistic attitude towards her before others. It was not the end of the story and the organization commanded me ... more...
RAND, August 05, 2009:... An examination of MeK activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies. A series of coalition decisions served to facilitate the MeK leadership's control over its members. The government of Iraq wants to expel the group, but no country other than Iran will accept it ... more...
Jeremiah Goulka, Lydia Hansell, Elizabeth Wilke, Judith Larson, RAND, August 04, 2009:... Research suggests that most of the MeK rank-and-file are neither terrorists nor freedom fighters, but trapped and brainwashed people who would be willing to return to Iran if they were separated from the MeK leadership. Many members were lured to Iraq from other countries with false promises ... more...
The Iranian Pen Club, August 05, 2009:... We were disappointed to hear about Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s visit with many of members of Parliament in Rome, july 29, 2009 . As you are well aware, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi is the leader of a cult terrorist organization called Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO)... more...
Press TV, August 05, 2009:... The official was quoted by IRNA as saying that MKO heads Maryam and Masoud Rajavi have made a request, through the intelligence organization of an Arab country, to meet with Iraqi executives."The Iraqi government rejects any contact and dialogue with the MKO heads, considering the terrorist nature of the organization," the Iraqi official said on condition of anonymity ... more...
Press TV, July 04, 2009:... The revelations come amid reports that MKO leaders have sought political asylum in Pakistan and have reached out to Jundullah ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi for help. Pakistani officials, however, have dismissed the reports out of hand, asserting that they would never allow MKO terrorists station themselves in their country and threaten the interests of their neighboring states ... more...
Reuters, July 03, 2009:... "Their cases are being investigated now. They are being charged with inciting trouble," Mehdawi said. "We will deal with them according to Iraqi law; we won't send them back to Iran." ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Iran Peyvan, Paris, July 03, 2009:... After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the PMOI had to surrender itself to Coalition Forces led by the USA. They handed over all their military means and were disarmed by the US Army. Massoud Rajavi fled Iraq and disappeared because he was involved in killing so many Iraqis during Saddam Hussein’s reign ...more...
Press TV, July 03, 2009:... “We have been informed that a mass grave has been found in Camp Ashraf. Of course we knew there was a graveyard in the MKO headquarters, but we had thought that it was a place of burial for MKO members,” said Abdulhussein al-Shemri, a local police commander... more...
A documentary by Press TV, August 02, 2009:... Dr. al Rubaie explained, "This is an indoctrinated and tightly disciplined organization of extremist zealots who have employed terrorism and at times even self-immolation to secure their aims. In normal everyday language we can say that they have been "brainwashed"... more...
Al alam, Baghdad, August 02, 2009:... According to confirmed reports reflected in the Iraqi media, a mass grave containing victims of Saddam Hussein's regime during the war against Kuwait in 1991 was found in Ashraf garrison, the base of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, in the Diyala province in Iraq ... more...
Gulf News, July 31, 2009:... The Iraqi government should come forward with a clear statement on where it thinks these people should go, and make it their responsibility to bring this anomaly to an end ... more...
Press TV, July 02, 2009:... The MKO has been in Iraq's northern Diyala province since the 1980s when the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein dedicated Camp Ashraf - now called Camp of New Iraq -- to host the anti-Iran terrorist group ... more...
Press TV, August 01, 2009:... According to senior Iraqi security officials, the death toll of MKO members killed in the incident stood at eleven, while around 300 others were wounded. Washington has promised to negotiate with Baghdad to ensure the security of the Iranians detained in the camp ... more...
Quil Lawrence, National Public Radio (NPR), Baghdad, July 30, 2009:... They fought against their own countrymen in Iran as well as putting down some internal resistance inside Iraq. So there's very little love for these people in Iran and their native Iran and there's very little love for them here in Iraq. They've helped the United States with information about Iran's nuclear program, but the United States considers them a terrorist organization ...more...
Middle East Online, July 31, 2009:... they must respect Iraqi law and the sovereignty of the state, which is in sole charge of security," he said. "We call on the leaders of the Mujahedeen not to incite its people to violence and confrontation with Iraqi government forces... more...
Patrick Cockburn, Independent, July 31, 2009:... Iraqi sources claim that the CIA did not have direct contact with the MEK, which the US State Department lists as a "terrorist" organisation, but dealt with the group through independent contractors, who are retired intelligence officers that still had their previous security clearance ... more...
Press TV, July 30, 2009:... Considering the fact that the EU has lifted the MKO from its terror list, there is also a chance for the terrorist group to be stationed in a European country," he added ... more...
Al Iraqiyah TV, July 29, 2009:... Diyala Governor Abd-al-Nasir Mahmud has stated that the central government has the right to take over security in Camp Ashraf." Mahmud is shown saying: "Under no circumstances will we accept the violation of the human rights of any citizen in Diyala. Mojahedin-e Khalq organization is recognized in international agreements, then it must be dealt with in accordance with the law...more...
Associated Press, July 30, 2009:... He denied excessive force was used, but added the investigation also was looking at what led to the clashes. He said two of the dead were shot in the back, raising the possibility they were killed by their own side...more...
New York Times, July 30, 2009:... Mr. Dabbagh said that two of those killed had been shot but that they may have been killed by other members of the People’s Mujahedeen or while trying to flee security forces ... more...
The Washington Post, July 30, 2009:... In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described the raid as a legitimate act by a sovereign nation. "Although the U.S. government remains engaged and concerned about this issue, it is a matter for the government of Iraq to resolve in accordance with its laws," she said ... more...
Eli Lake, Washington Times, July 29, 2009:... At a press conference in Iraq Tuesday, Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq, said he had not been apprised of the decision to launch the raid. He did, however, say that Iraqis used "non-lethal force."...more...
Aswat al-Iraq, July 28, 2009:... After more than 20 years of living in Camp Ashraf in the Iraqi province of Diala, near the borders with Iran, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced that it is ready to depart Iraq, setting five conditions they said the Iranian government has to fulfill ... more...
AFP, Iraq, July 28, 2009:... Iraqi soldiers and riot police stormed a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition on Tuesday, triggering violent clashes that left at least 260 people wounded... The offensive followed a declaration by the People's Mujahedeen, which is regarded as a terrorist outfit by Washington, that it was ready to return to Iran if ... more...
Nejat Society,July 27 2009:... For MKO this isolated corner of the world includes camp Ashraf in Iraq and Camp Maryam in France. As Saddam Hussein and his Baath regime was the only sponsor of MKO, the existence of Camp Ashraf in Iraq seems more tolerable regarding the existence of Camp Maryam in France ... more...
Fars News Agency reporting from PBS TV, July 26, 2009:... Mr. Armitage added:” this organization was supposed to be removed from Iraq and be transferred to other countries after the end of Iraq War but up to now the US has been the main obstacle toward the actualization of this plan ... more...
Nejat Society, July 25 2009:... On the occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of Eternal Light (Forough Javidan) Operation that caused the death of about 2700 members of Mujahedin Khalq Organization, Nejat Society held a meeting at Khuzestan Office where 15 defectors attended ... more...
Al-Hurra, July 23, 2009:... Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in Washington Thursday the Iraqi government found it shocking that representatives of "the Iraqi resistance movement" met at least one US official last spring. Zebari told Al-Hurra, the official Arabic-language US television station, that the insurgent groups adopt violence and terrorism ... more...
BBC Monitoring, July 22, 2009:... During the recent unrests, some of the leading anti-revolutionary groups such as some individuals related to the Monafeqin movement [hypocrites, reference to Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization] have been arrested ... more...
Fars News Agency, July 23, 2009:... The following is a part of Hadi Shabani’s interview with FNA. He was the advisor of Mozhgan Parsaiee (the chief commandant of MKO at the time) during the operation Eternal Light (Forough-e-Javidan). He spent twenty years of his fifty year-old life in the group until he could escape out of MKO camp in 2005 ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 21, 2009:... In the department I was, Mojgan Parsai was the first who broached the subject and she was also the first volunteer. Her first sentence to begin was ‘It is worthwhile to set on fire whatever we have in Camp Ashraf for Maryam’s freedom’. Of course, what she said was another interpretation of Massoud Rajavi’s message stating that ... more...
Press TV, July 20, 2009:... Sixty members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) had entered Afghanistan with the help of intelligence forces from the United Arab Emirates with the aim of carrying out raids in Iran, Pouya News reported on Sunday. The group, which was faced with strong resistance from the Iranian troops stationed on the border attempted to withdraw when it came under heavy Taliban fire from the Afghan side ... more...
Press TV, July 19, 2009:... According to the report, the would-be assassins were from the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and had entered the country from the southwestern province of Khuzestan, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. They were reported to have received training at the MKO-run Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The main intention of the operation was to attribute the assassination of Mousavi and Karroubi to the Iranian government, the report added... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 19, 2009:... As I described in previous parts of my memoirs, I felt that Rajavi liked the women to be around him and he couldn’t bear the presence of even one man in his surroundings. But there were apparently other factors to select these women for the leadership council ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 15, 2009:... Once, I remember, they distributed cyanides among the members of the Leadership Council after they had collected them all. No clear reason was presented but soon we came to know the cause. One of the members who had left for the American-run camps had informed that the organization had built secret jails ... more...
Press TV, July 17, 2009:... "The Zionist regime had met with the MKO on the sidelines of the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting in Egypt and in Paris to assassinate Mr. Ahmadinejad," Mohseni-Ejeie was quoted as saying on Friday. The terrorist group had, however, set conditions for carrying out the assassination, he added. "They had asked that the US and the West remove their name from their blacklists." ... more...
Charles Davis, Cult Watch, July 17, 2009:... Rabbi Daniel Zucker, an adjunct professor at Long Island University and long-time apologist for the anti-Iran terrorist organization known as the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK), has a lenghty and hilarious denunciation of me as such because I had the temerity -- and naivete, apparently -- to point out in a recent piece for AntiWar.com that his beloved MEK is widely considered a terrorist cult ... more...
Time, Andrew Lee Butters, Beirut, July 16, 2009:... Jundullah isn't the only case cited by those who accuse the U.S. of backing Iranian extremist groups. After the U.S. occupied Iraq in 2003, the U.S. military ostensibly disarmed Saddam-backed Iranian militant group the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) — then, as now, on the State Department's terror list ... more...
Reza Sadeghi, Paris, July 15, 2009:... I thought that for the past 28 years you were boycotting the elections in Iran and asking the Iranian people to do so as well. You yourself called for a boycott just before the 2009 presidential election and said that ‘as usual only 5 percent will take part’. So what happened? Whose votes are you counting, those 5 percent or those who never ever listen to you? ... more...
RTP TV, Portugal, July 15, 2009: ... The decision of the court of Ponta Delgada recognizes that Casaca felt enxovalhado, killed and humiliated by the news. The Express newspaper said in its title: "Mr Portuguese friend of terrorists", "Casaca hired as his assistant a member of the political wing of the Mojahedin. According to the Judge the title is purely metaphorical, appealing, with some sensational nature, but it is not defamatory or libelous ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 15, 2009:... He claimed that one of the ideas of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) and Imam Ali was that all political and administrative systems be based on women but they couldn’t actualize it. And now he is fulfilling their wish ... more...
All Voices, July 14, 2009:... Earlier on Saturday, MKO leader Maryam Rajavi had supported the recent wave of street violence in Iran during a Saturday address to supporters in Paris. Rajavi had reportedly described the MKO terrorists as the real winners of the Iranian election ... more...
Press TV, July 14, 2009:... The idea of attacking Iran's oil industry is not a new concept in US politics as many leading analysts and politicians have already explored its feasibility and effectiveness, but outward talk of support for a group that is listed as a terrorist organization in the United States is a rare move ... more...
UK Parliament, July 09, 2009:... I disagree with the hon. Member for Thurrock and my hon. Friend Mr. Binley about the Mujahidin-e-Khalq or PMOI. None of the millions who protested in the streets was protesting for the restoration of the MEK, and no one wanted the PMOI to be allowed a role in Iranian politics ... more...
Press TV, July 11, 2009:... Soon after the attack, Abdulmalik Rigi admitted during an interview with a US-based satellite TV station that his group collaborated with another anti-Iranian terrorist group, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, July 11, 2009:... Abdulmalik Rigi, the leader of the terrorist group of Jundullah in an interview with Rangarang TV has acknowledged his relations with MKO and the fact that he had received information from Rajavi before launching terrorist attacks in Zahedan (an Iranian city) ending in 25 dead and tens of injured ...more...
Anne Singleton, July 08, 2009:... What the MKO’s western backers might want to consider is the cost effectiveness of continued support for a group which has nothing but self-promoting propaganda to show for itself after thirty years ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 08, 2009:... When Rajavi plotted assassination of people like Lajevardi or the army commander Sayad Shirazi, he knew well that killing was an inseparable part of a planned operation which could never be fulfilled unless through homicide. Then, it is absolutely absurd if he maneuvers and insists on vocalized principles ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 7, 2009:... The hostile position taken by Rajavi in Iraq despite his illegal settlement therein has been a warning for other countries not to let him and his organization in. Rajavi is well aware that at the time being no country consents to give refugee to Mojahedin ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 05, 2009:... information can be divided in two. The first are those we carried when going from a place to another which mostly happened in Iraq. There were times when we drove from a base like Camp Ashraf to a second destination to meet leadership. We had also trips to France and other European countries from Iraq ... more...
By Massoud Khodabandeh, July 04, 2009:... as Lewis was walking from his home to a street corner to be picked up by his driver, two terrorists riding a motorcycle fired at point-blank range and fired two or three shots killing Lewis instantly. Lewis was survived by his wife Annette; three sons ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 04, 2009:... They had always a guard accompanying them who had the responsibility of finishing the job if he/she refrained to commit suicide or possibly thought of a mischief or escape. A member of Leadership Council had to have a ready scheme of suicide being it with cyanide, gun or any other way. But the priority was ... more...
Charles Davis, Anti War, July 03, 2009:... The lawmakers’ call for greater U.S. support for self-styled resistance groups opposed to Iran’s government comes as the Islamic regime has accused groups protesting the recent disputed presidential election of receiving Western backing, an allegation that has been used to justify a harsh crackdown on dissent ... more...
British Parliament, House of Lords, July 01, 2009:... Lord Brett (Government Whip ): My Lords, the answer is already in the noble Lord's question. Iraq is a democratic and independent sovereign state. The United Kingdom, and even the United States, which handed over control of the camp from 1 January, have to recognise that fact...more...
Press TV, July 02, 2009:... A senior member of the Jundullah terrorist group says that the group has been trained and financed by "the US and Zionists". Abdolhamid Rigi, the brother of Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi made the remarks in a court session ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 01, 2009:... We had also preplanned arrangements for committing suicide by Cyanide and spilling petrol or ethanol over bodies. We were told to kill or set ourselves on fire if the US forces ventured to enter the camp to start a house by house inspection. Even later and in course of the US’s deployment of forces in the region, we were routinely checked to make sure we were in the state of readiness ... more...
Ali Gharib, IPS, June 30, 2009:... Likely due to both the infeasibility of the MEK as a popular force for change in Iran and the ‘terrorist’ stigma attached to it, Rajavi and her group have gotten less mainstream media attention in the U.S. But commentators, most prominently U.S. neoconservatives, have published endorsements of the MEK in smaller and foreign publications ... more...
Al Hayat (Arabic), London, June 30, 2009:... He added that “Our intelligence confirms the presence of very small groups, few in number, including elements of the Mojahedin organization in opposition to the regime, which infiltrated demonstrations in protest against the results of the presidential election, which escalated the protests and demonstrations into riots”... more...
Jane Arraf, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, June 25, 2009:... The stakes are so high, say Western officials, because Camp Ashraf, which before the war had its own tanks and mortars, has been central to the wider organization.
"Camp Ashraf is the last place they have," says one Western official. "You have to ask – what is the MEK without it?"... more...
IRIB, June 30, 2009:... Speaking to reporters in a press conference Atta said, "We have deployed our forces in different provinces." "All of the American forces' garrisons have been dismantled altogether or turned over to Iraqi security forces," he added ... more...
Press TV, Jun 28 2009:... Rasoul Emami, Iranian Ambassador to Sweden, said members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) were found to be among the assailants. According to Emami, the terrorists have been caught on camera smashing the windows, breaking through the building, attacking embassy staff and tearing down the fence ...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin ws, June 29, 2009:... The June 17th dossier of MKO is already 6 years old. Despite the emphasis of French officials on the significance of this legal case on terrorism, it has not been given a verdict yet. However, this is not the end of the story. Mojahedin consider this delay as a subterfuge for ... more...
David Sahiatmadari, Gardian, June 26, 2009:... They've been described by British politicians as "brave patriots" and "the main democratic Iranian opposition group". Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Christopher Booker said the organisation they set up, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was "real opposition to the dictatorship" and "the best hope of transforming Iran into a secular, democratic, non-terrorist country"... more...
Jacob Laksin, FrontPageMagazine.com, June 25, 2009:... the MEK’s appearance on the list is no mistake, and a change of U.S. policy to support the group would constitute not only a strategic error but also a betrayal of the very values that the free world wishes to triumph in Iran. Everything that can be said of the Iranian regime – its support for terrorism, its abuse of human rights ...
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Dr. Ali Ettefagh, Post Global, June 26, 2009:... The MKO-MEK can be best described as the Persian speaking wing of the degenerated Iraqi Baath Party and an earlier species of Al Qaeda back in early 1970s-- a contemporary of the Red Brigades and the Baadermeinhof terror organizations in Europe. For decades, it has been designated as a terrorist group by most countries. They murdered American military advisers in ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, June 26, 2009:... The methodology and worldview of MKO as well as the picture Rajavi depicts of the world is fundamentally in conflict with the principles of civility and its components like reason, rationale, interaction, forum and relativism in thought. In fact, he considers the truth as an absolute concept monopolized in the ideology of his organization ... more...
Fars News Agency, Baghdad, June 25 2009:... "The great powers, the US in particular, are seeking to reach many of their goals through terrorists, specially the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization," Haddad said in a meeting with Secretary-General of Habilian Association Seyed Javad Hasheminejad...more...
IRIB News Agency, Baghdad, June 25, 2009:... Batul Soltani, 42, from Isfahan province said," I was a member of MKO grouplet and then became a member of the leadership council of the grouplet. I escaped from Ashraf Camp and exited Iraq in January 2008 because of the devil and inhumane behaviors of the grouplet leaders." ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, June 23, 2009:... A total commitment is required to reach some state such as "enlightenment." The form of that commitment will vary from group to group: more courses, more meditation, more quotas, more cult-related activities, more donations. Cults are known to dictate what members wear and eat and ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June 23, 2009:... When I got to knew it for the first time, it was long after my involvement with MKO; I asked myself why they avoided talking about it while they discussed a lot of other unimportant cases for a long time. Deep in my mind, I guessed that it was to cover Rajavi’s sensuality. They had nothing to say about that marriage ... more...
Press tv, june 23, 2009:... Iranian security officials reported Saturday that they have identified and arrested a large number of MKO members who were involved in recent riots in Iran's capital. According to the security officials, the arrested members had confessed that they were extensively trained in Iraq's camp Ashraf to create post-election mayhem in the country. They had also revealed that they have been given directions by the MKO command post in Britain ... more...
By Bruce Crumley / Paris Monday, Jun. 22, 2009: ... the NCRI is largely an irrelevancy these days. "Tehran uses it as a scarecrow with its own change-hungry public, while Western nations use it as a way of rewarding or punishing Iran," Roy says. "More or less consideration given to [NCRI] can act as punishment or reward for Iranian action. Meanwhile, the group itself does little beyond grow weaker with time." ... more...
Press TV, June 21, 2009:... According to the security officials, the arrested members had confessed that they were extensively trained in Iraq's camp Ashraf to create post-election mayhem in the country. They had also revealed that they have been given directions by the MKO command post in Britain ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June 21, 2009:... In a message he stated that if anybody set himself on fire in Camp Ashraf, it would be a cost paid to minimize the limitations imposed on the camp by the US forces. I mean the suicide case by Yaser Askari who was said to have committed suicide because of the imposed pressures on Camp Ashraf. The act is ... more...
Press TV, News in Breif, June 21, 2009:... The terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has reportedly played a major role in intensifying the recent wave of street violence in Iran. Iranian security officials reported Saturday that they have identified and arrested a large number of MKO members who were involved in recent riots in Iran's capital ... more...
Press TV, June 21, 2009:... Iranian security officials reported Saturday that they have identified and arrested a large number of MKO members who were involved in recent riots in Iran's capital.
According to the security officials, the arrested members had confessed that they were extensively trained in Iraq's camp Ashraf to create post-election mayhem in the country ... more...
IRNA, June 21, 2009:... Iranian television broadcast their confesses and their telephone conversations with a number of leaders of that group in which they ordered them for sabotage like setting fire on buses, gas stations, attacking the Bassiji barracks and demolishing public properties. The commanding headquarter of the group which supports and finances terrorist actions in Iran and Iraq is located in the outskirt of Paris, France... more...
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, USA, June 20, 2009:... During Shepard Smith’s segment, Smith showed a video of the MEK rally in Paris, France and identified them as the PMOI. The only negative reference to the MEK occurred when Amy Kellogg speculated that the MEK might be responsible for a possible suicide bombing at Ayatollah Khomeini’s shrine in Tehran. Shepard Smith neither responded nor indicated that PMOI and MEK are two names for the same communist terrorist organization ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June 19, 2009:... Of the troubles and challenges the contemporary armed movements encounter with irreparable costs is a commitment to suicide operations. Of course, as you know, the phenomenon is not a working means adhered to by the Iranian guerrillas but imported into our country as the idea of the guerrilla warfare itself ... more...
By Massoud Khodabandeh, June 18, 2009:... The peaceful demonstrations and debates and insistence on achieving demands is clearly on going and while no one doubts that this political struggle will continue even after the Friday prayers led by Ayatollah Khamenei, it is now clear that the advocates of violence and so called revolution or ‘regime change’ have been left out in the cold ... more...
mojahedin.ws, 17 June 2009:... The decline of MKO began with the US-led invasion in 2003 of Iraq, where it had been exploited as Saddam’s mercenaries who had provided the MKO with sanctuary. Wearing a pro-democratic mask after her husband preferred to live in hideout, Maryam Rajavi reorganized the group’s headquarters in Auvers-Sur-Oise, north of Paris, to give the organization a new go ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June18, 2009:... Once an individual is recruited by MKO, all his abilities and qualifications are acknowledged and categorized mentally and psychologically. They even matter the quality of his motivations, emotions and interests. They have a slogan saying ... more...
Iran Interlink, June 16, 2009:... This pull-out includes the 25 US soldiers based at Camp Ashraf for the protection of Massoud Rajavi. The MKO is staging a carnival-rally in Paris on June 20 as a last ditch attempt to force American support for the cult. It is unlikely that PM al-Maliki will change his position based on such a rally ... more...
Anne Singleton, June 13, 2009:...In previous elections it has been customary for her to issue an imperious edict for Iranian people to boycott their elections. And every election time, totally oblivious to the existence of Madame Rajavi let alone her message, Iranians turn up to cast their vote and make their will known – no matter how little it is heeded by the country’s political elite.more...
Habilian Association, June 11, 2009:... Dulaimi is one of the most prominent defenders of the MKO terrorist cult and has defended it several times in his press and media.
In 2007 the People's Mojahedin Organization arranged a meeting between Adnan al-Dulaimi, and a number of members of the Accord Front with the Israeli officials in Brussels. more...
Habilian Association, June 11, 2009: ...Pointing to the intelligence cooperation of MKO and Jundollah recently confirmed by Jundollah gang leader, the Iraqi press activist also said: of course terrorism breeds terrorism and bad work begets bad work and the existence of one terrorist group would result in the formation and promotion of other terrorist groups.
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Middle East Online, June 10, 2009:... Nor has the US, as the MKO custodian, put an end to its terrorist activities against Iran. That’s why it is safe to argue that the US is playing a crucial (though largely submerged) role in the terrorist collaboration between Jundallah and MKO against Iran.more...
Press TV, June 10, 2009:... “The international society's anti-terrorism claims have become a tool in the hands of certain countries to achieve their goals,” said Press TV production manager Mehdi Homayounfar.more...
Al-Arabiya TV, Dubai, June 9, 2009:... How can the noose be tightened when the camp has specific outlets and when more than one party - not just the Interior Ministry - are overseeing the camp? One of these outlets is located near a Multinational Forces position and these forces can see what is happening."more...
By Sattar Organgi, June 10, 2009:... His so-called ideological marriage with Maryam Azodanlu, considered to be a turning point in the history of the organization, was an evident example of misusing religion for his selfish, egocentric ends. Although Rajavi made justifications for this revolutionary move with a focus on religious values, nobody doubted that Rajavi was heretically misusing off course.more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June09, 2009:...Therefore, even in the Leadership Council there was an irony calling the Council being shallow or formal. Some people were just tricked by Rajavi. They only attended weekly meetings to discuss the challenges in the leadership Council. He assigned Maryam Rajavi to solve the problems but she didn’t succeed. Then Faeze Mohabatkar was assumed as the official to provide hospitality and comfort for members of the council ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, June 09 2009:... Today MKO collaboration with many other terrorist groups is absolutely certain for the Iraqi government and the Iraqi people know it very well that the presence of this band inside the country is the basis of insecurity and unrest in Iraq ... more...
Nejat Association reporting from Pakistan Daily, June 07 2009:... Jundullah is one of the several armed insurgent groups inside Iran being supported by the United States as Andrew Cockburn reported last year. In an adopted policy by the Bush Administration, he signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope."... more...
Link TV, June 07 2009:... According to the Council on Foreign Relations, ‘The U.S. State Department lists the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq as a terrorist organization for its association with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime until the dictator’s ouster by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.’ It also states that ‘the MEK was blamed for Western targets in the 1970s and for supporting the 1979 American embassy takeover in Tehran ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June06, 2009:... Rajavi’s goals and wishes are the only things which matter to the MKO cultic relations. Imagine Rajavi as a spider that everything in the organization forms around him, just like a spider’s web ... more...
By Gareth Porter, Asia Times, June 5, 2009:... The NCRI publicly revealed the existence of the Natanz uranium-enrichment facility in August 2002. However, that and other intelligence apparently came from Israeli intelligence.more...
By: Nejat Bloggers, June 3, 2009:...The move by Iraqi police which indicates the declining process of MKO presence in Iraqi territory ,has terrified the cult leaders who have always prevented the Ashraf residents from free access to outside world and visiting their families. more...
Press TV, June 3, 2009:..."We have treaties of friendship with all groups who act against Iran, and, among these, the MKO can do some things for us and we too can transit their members. But, I guess that they have certain limitations and are in countries where they cannot carry out their intended actions the way they want."more...
Mojahedin.ws, Omid Pouya, June 1, 2009:..The American court accuses MKO sympathizers up to 20 years of imprisonment for giving financial aid to Mojahedin while the head and body of the organization are settled in Iraq under the support of the US disregarding their apparent interference in internal affairs of Iraq...
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Al Motammar, Baghdad, May 31 2009:... The MKO tries to pretend that it has denounced terrorism and represents a peaceful struggle because they claim to have abandoned violence for years. But, the investigations by the State Department’s experts did not include its recent acts but the terrorist nature of MKO of which its ideology and strategy completely originates and will never get separated ... more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, Baghdad,1700 gmt 23 May 23, 2009:... Batul Sultani, former leader of the terrorist [Mojahedin-e] Khalq Organization, has divulged serious confessions about the nature of actions carried out by the organization. Al-Sultani has recently defected from the Ashraf Camp in protest against the policies implemented there ... more...
Iran- Peyvand Association, Paris, May 28 2009:... the existence of this cult is very dangerous not only for its own members who have been trapped for decades in the notorious Ashraf-garrison in Iraq, but it is also very hazardous and perilous for western and European countries ... more...
Economist.com, May 21, 2009:... There is ample evidence that the MKO harmed the Iraqi people when the Iraqi army refused to carry out the killings that Hussein required. Many families of the victims in Iraq cannot forget this ... more...
Former members in Baghdad, May 25, 2009:... The aim of the leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), which Mr Vidal-Quadras is pursuing in the European Parliament very determinedly, is to keep the people in Ashraf cult garrison isolated from the outside world since only in this case could they be trained to execute sabotage activities inside Iraq ... more...
Iranian Pen Club, May 24, 2009:... Has Mr. Vidal Quadrass ever asked Mojahedin Khalgh Terrorist Cult to explain about the forced separation of families and spouses? Has Mr. Vidal Quadrass ever asked for an explanation about the role of Masoud Rajavi and maryam Rajavi as the ideological leaders who have never made a mistake and never will? ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, Baghdad, May23, 2009:... Soltani said she has heard from MEK chief Massoud Rajavi after the fall of the former regime in 2003 that the handover of their weapons to the U.S. side was a “tactical plan,” adding “MEK boasts a very strong intelligence system”... more...
Iraqi Embassy, London, May 23, 2009:... The Iraqi Embassy also pointed out that Ashraf Camp residents are not “political or humanitarian refugees” but terrorists whose activities are in contradiction to the commitment of the Iraqi government vis-a-vis its neighbours... more...
IRNA, Berlin, May 19, 2009:... The German secret service which continues to monitor the MKO, stressed the Paris-based terror group was "responsible for scores of attacks" inside Iran over the past three decades ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, May 21, 2009:... The mutual services Rajavi and Saddam offered to each other led to a lot of benefit for both sides. With the large funds granted by Saddam Hussein, MKO could develop its bases in some European countries. It is obvious that spending a lot of money will solve many problems. The organization could use Saddam’s money to gain the support of a lot of people to reach its goals. more...
By Anne Singleton, May 21, 2009:... In this ‘game’ it must be understood clearly that the MKO is not a problem for Iran. Instead it is a very real problem for Iraq. MKO promoters have already shown a remarkable unwarranted animosity and arrogance toward the Government of Iraq in challenging its decision to close Camp Ashraf and remove MKO members from the country ... more...
Al- Alam, May 21 2009:... the Iraqi government will not accept the presence of terrorists on its territory and has taken on the evacuation of Camp Ashraf. We will not accept the presence of any armed groups on our soil to attack the interests of neighboring countries ... more...
Iran Ghalam, May 19, 2009:... Like all cults, this organisation needs a remote site to be able to isolate the members from the outside world. The residents of Ashraf Camp in Iraq and Auvers-Sur-Oise Camp in France have no contact with the real world, not even with their relatives ... more...
Press TV, May 19, 2009:... One of the Israeli Defense Ministry's most senior advisors, Lubrani spearheaded a torrent of conspiracies in Iran. He has vocally and actively pursued a regime change in Iran, calling for investment in Iranian terrorist groups such as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO)...more...
Fars News Agency, May 18, 2009:... "Despite pressures exerted by certain bodies to prevent expulsion of MKO, the Iraqi parliament is following the case seriously," Iman al-Asadi, a member of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) - the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 83 out of a total 275 seats...more...
UPI, May 16, 2009:... Though largely targeting Iranian government officials, PMOI's killing of American contractors in Tehran in the 1970s, participation alongside Saddam Hussein's forces in suppressing Kurdish and Shiite rebellions in Iraq in 1991 and later attacks on Iranian embassies in 1992 earned it a spot on the terrorist lists of several nations ... more...
Iran Payvand, Paris, May 16, 2009:... We are all surprised that MR. VIDAL QUADRASS is helping and backing up such a cruel and bloodthirsty cult which has committed numerous crimes not only against its own members but also against the people of Iraq. Before MR. VIDAL QUADRASS, MR. CASACA, a politician from Portugal, was doing the same job ... more...
Fanny Dassie, Fogcity journal , May 14, 2009: ... According to Aslan, the former Bush administration’s self-proclaimed “War on Terror” was never about terrorism. If it were, Aslan argues, the war would have included terrorist groups like ETA (Basque separatists), or the Iranian group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, for example. Instead, the US war on terror is specifically targeting Islam and Muslims, in areas of the world where the US has oil and gas reserve interests... more...
Aawa Association, May 16 2009:... Show the inhabitants of Camp Ashraf that they do not need to be scared about their future outside the Camp and that leaving the camp and the MKO is a good decision ... more...
Al-Qabas, Kwait, May 2009... And those who shed tears for such a terrorist group which is rejected by the whole world must be aware that terrorists who have sold their souls to the devil would be prepared to do anything to complete the transaction even if they need to backstab their hosts... for those who are not still convinced, the alternative solution is that they «host» MKO in their own countries away from Iraq ...more...
Nejat Association, Ahwaz, May 14, 2009:... A group of family members of Camp Ashraf residents, at Nejat Society office in Ahwaz, attended a gathering held by NejatNGO on Friday May 8th,2009. They issued a statement addressing Mr. Nouri Al Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, May 12, 2009:... It is almost two and half a decade that MKO has turned problematic for the west as an armed, ideological, cultic and radical opposition group. The recent regional transitions as well as invasion of Iraq by coalition forces followed by the fall of Saddam ... more...
Batul Sultani, Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, May 12, 2009:... They even recruited unemployed and addicted young people promising them to find jobs for them out of Iran. Somehow, we all were the victims of MKO tricks, because we had some social problems. The deceitful recruitment techniques of MKO were completely opposite to what is called voluntarily acceptance ... more...
Anne Singleton, Iran-Interlink, May 11, 2009:... Unfortunately, those who know the MKO best, particularly its victims in Iraq, when they see the orchestrated and vigorous insistence on lies and deception cannot be blamed for believing in the corruptibility of parliament and that these MPs must be being paid for their activities ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, May 11, 2009:... The support by the US and Europe for the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), would damage their standing both in Iran and the world, an Iranian analyst said on Sunday ... more...
Press TV, May 10, 2009:... A senior member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Javad Jahangirzadeh said the EU move to exempt the MKO from the killings of thousands of Iranians was a political disgrace, Fars News Agency reported Sunday ... more...
Two different news from USA, May 10, 2009:... Hossein Kalani Afshari, 52, of Mission Viejo and his six co- defendants each face up to 20 years in federal prison for helping raise money for Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, a militia largely based in Iraq ... more...
Habilian association, May 09, 2009:... Dr. Abdalzahra Mohye: many and Iraqi families have suffered from crimes committed by MKO. As the private army of Saddam Hussein, this little group assisted former regime to massacre Iraqi Kurds and suppress Shiites Intifada.I saw it with my own eyes how they killed innocent people in a mosque in Baghdad's Sadr district...more...
By: Charles Kent, Writers views.com, May 09 2009:... In 1975, U.S. State Department concluded that 4 American citizens were murdered by MKO to pressure the U.S. to stop its support for the Shah of Iran and leave the country ... more...
Press TV, May 07, 2009:... The group is especially notorious for the help it extended to former dictator Saddam Hussein during the war Iraq imposed on Iran (1980-1988) and helped him in the massacre of thousands of innocent Iraqis ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, May 7, 2009:... If Senator Kerry or Nicholas Burns or any other ‘we have changed now it’s your turn’ pundits in the US have any doubt about the veracity of these activities or if they believe they are not perceived – particularly by Iraqis – as a continuation of ‘regime change policy’, then please feel free to contact me and I can appraise them further to this information ... more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, May06, 2009:... The members of this delegation asserted the cult-like nature of MKO declaring that the European authorities are well aware of the disgusted image of the group all over the world ... more...
By Anne Singleton, May 5, 2009:... The Government of Iraq’s basic analysis of the group is that it acts outside the law, it acts against its own members and it acts against the interests of the host country. This of course is true not only in Iraq but in any country the group is located ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Iran Peyvan, Paris, May 05, 2009:... Our lives are in danger. PMOI’s officials do not want us to go to a court of law and open a file against the crimes that they perpetrated. They have threatened, beaten up and labeled separated people in European countries many times. Few weeks ago the henchmen of PMOI assaulted and threatened Mr. Mohammad Hussein Sobhani (the former member of PMOI) in city of Cologne / Germany ... more...
ISNA, Tehran, May 05, 2009:... Also regarding US State Department recent report that has called Iran one of the main sponsors of terrorism, he said Iran has always been one of the “main victims of terrorism” and has lost 16,000 of its nationals in Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO) terror acts ... more...
Batul Sultani, Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, May 04, 2009:... Finally, the organization was outlawed by the Islamic Republic because of its armed struggle against the regime, the state and the authorities. Some of its members were arrested. Masud Rajavi fled Iran along with Banisadr and survived, although his wife Ashraf was killed in Iran. Masud had no pity for his wife and never tried to get her out of Iran ... more...
Rania Negargar, Mojahedin.ws, May 2. 2009:... It was only on the morning of 17 June 2003 when French SWAT teams went over the walls and broke into its headquarters for the first time to discover what was going on therein. It was only a few months after Nicolas Sarkozy became Interior minister that the French authorities began to suspect cult practices and terrorist activities within the highly guarded headquarters ... more...
UPI, May 01, 2009:... "It boggles the mind that these seven refugees would be charged with providing material support for a so-called terrorist organization, when the U.S. government has supported the same organization for years," said Ahilan Arulanantham with the ACLU ... more...
Al Sharq Al Aawsat, May 01, 2009:... Maliki added: I clearly emphasise to the members of this group that although we will not hand them over to Iran, they should not for a moment think that Iraq can be a base for them ... more...
Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2009:... We cannot allow any terrorist organization to fundraise on our shores or to steal money from our own citizens so that they can finance their own terrorism operations. Terrorism anywhere poses a significant security risk to the United States ... more...
Alforat TV, reported by Tehran Times, April 29, 2009:... “It is impossible that a terror group can continue its operation in a country unless it gets logistical and financial support from abroad,” the security official noted after a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, April 29, 2009:... France made some other mistakes too and the third one was letting Maryam Rajavi to reside in Auver-sur-Oise after the fall of Saddam. It suffices to point out that Maryam Rajavi returned to France along with 400 members of the so-called leadership council of Rajavi ... more...
Habilian Association, April 28, 2009:... not only it didn't happen but also America changed into major support fro terrorists in Iraq making obstacles on the way of their expulsion from Iraq ... more...
Thai News Service, April 27, 2009:... He underlined success of the Iraqi security forces in restoring securing in the country, and added, "The occupiers' interest is in keeping Iraq in a security crisis and their support for the al-Qaeda agents and the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is aimed at striking Iraq's security and progress."... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, April 25, 2009:... The significance of the second abodes of Mojahedin located in Iraq, however, lies in the fact that there has been a heavily constructed bridge between them and those in the Val d'Oise district in France. Mojahedin never broke it when they relocated to Iraq but rather have reinforced it ... more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, April 27 2009:... In Camp Ashraf and camp Maryam all the walls have ears. As a member of MKO cult one can never talk to a colleague. Every working group includes a superior member and a minor one because the latter should be supervised by the former ... more...
UK Parliament, April 20-21 2009:.. We are aware that such allegations have surfaced in the Iraqi media. We have discussed these allegations with the US, who retain a presence inside Camp Ashraf, and with the Iraqi government. We have seen no evidence to support the allegations... more...
Press TV, April 24, 2009:... In last-minute efforts to shield MKO members from expulsion, the EU urged Iraq to drop a parliamentary bid which requires the grouplet to leave their bases at Camp Ashraf -- a military training headquarters north of Baghdad... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, April 24, 2009:... The Government of Iraq is not only fulfilling the articles of the resolution but has without a doubt exceeded expectations in its humane treatment of the residents of Camp Ashraf ... more...
Bahar Irani, April 23, 2009:... There is no doubt that Auver-sur-Oise has captured MKO members by means of cultic mechanisms and brainwashing techniques. However, the presence or absence of these dungeons has hardly ever been mentioned in our articles since it is an irrelevant issue ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, April 23, 2009:... In the case of occupied territory, the Convention continues to apply for a year after the general close of military operations, and partially thereafter if the occupying power continues to exercise the functions of government. The occupation of Iraq formally ended on 30 June 2004 ... more...
Bahar Irani, April 21, 2009:... We believe that if we can separate individuals from the all-encompassing domination by their leaders, we can allow them to begin to exercise their rights as individuals and make appropriate choices. That is, we hope to remove them from the toxic effects of their indoctrination and leaders ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, April 22, 2009:... I was asking myself why did they assault him? As far as I know he had spent many years of his life in that notorious cult, called PMOI. Long time ago ,He decided to separate from that cult and start over his normal life in Germany as a free man ... more...
A. Kavehpur, Mojahedin.ws, April 20, 2009:... Once only a domestic trouble that had jeopardized the Iranian internal, public security and had turned its own people’s daily life into nightmare, MKO is now a recognized global problem, a malignant tumor that has to be dealt with and removed ... more...
Batul Sultani, Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, April 20, 2009:... I am ready to meet anyone interested, anywhere and at any time to discuss what is going on inside this notorious cultic base called Ashraf in Iraq. I also urge all parliamentarians to take into consideration the issue of human rights for the captive members of the MKO in Iraq and also the just stances of the Iraqi government in this regard ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, April 18, 2009:... The next point is that Ashraf authorities have no problem in transferring their patients to Iraqi hospitals. However, they refrain to do so. If they are truthful in their claims, the conscience necessitates it to transfer their patients to Iraqi hospitals as soon as possible and put their responsibility on the shoulder of human rights organs and Red Cross ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, April 17, 2009:... I urge European and international governments as well as humanitarian agencies to cooperate fully with the Iraqi authorities to help restore basic human rights to the people trapped in Camp Ashraf...more...
Press TV, Baghdad, April 16, 2009:... Some dissident MKO members aim to return to Iran as the terrorist organization has denied its members the right to choose an alternative place to stay. The dissidents have held a press conference in Baghdad where they complained of their "tough situation" in Camp Ashraf -- the MKO's military training headquarters in the Iraqi province of Diyala ... more...
Hamid Siah Mansouri, Iran Peyvan, April 15, 2009:... the recent terrorist assault on Mr. Mohammad Sobhani, prove that the Mojahedin cult’s leadership claims regarding new changes so that this cult has abandoned the violence, is quite false and vain ... more...
Middle East Times reporting from UPI, April 15, 2009:... The reports said the CIA has brought PMOI members to Dubai from their Camp Ashraf enclave in Iraq's Diyala province ... more...
Associated Press, April 15, 2009:... "Remaining in Iraq is not an option," said national security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie. "They have existed in Iraq solely to overthrow the government of a neighbor, Iran. That past permissiveness is over." ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran Interlink, April 15, 2009:... Setting up a temporary camp for those who voluntarily leave the MEK will provide a place where the detoxification process, which is a vital step for cult members to recover from the cult’s brainwashing processes, can begin. Such a facility would also offer temporary refuge for those who escape the MEK ... more...
Mohammad Hossein Sobhani, Iran Ghalam, Cologne, April 14, 2009:... The word with you and your husband as the joint commanders of the terrorist cult of Mojahedin Khalq and the ones who are desperately bringing the violent, trained terrorists of Saddam's private army to the streets of European countries is this ... more...
Fars News, April 14, 2009:... Iraqi Minister of Displacement and Migration Abd al-Samad Sultan said Baghdad would most likely start practical measures for the expulsion of thousands of anti-Iranian terrorists from the country within the next few weeks ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Iran Payvand, Paris, April 13, 2009:... This is the cultic ideology which, in complicity with the dictator of Iraq, massacred Iraqi people during the popular uprising of Iraqi people, and suppressed and oppressed the cult’s dissidents inside of the cult as well ... more...
Nahrain Net, Baghdad, April 13 2009:... According to the sources, these elements came from Iraq, Jordan and Europe. The information circulating in diplomatic circles in Abu Dhabi indicates that the MKO members’ presence in UAE has been coordinated by the cooperation of the UAE security forces and American forces... more...
Time Magazine, April 12, 2009:... The misunderstandings don't stop there. An inter-agency task force including the CIA, FBI and other U.S bodies screened the residents of Ashraf in 2004 to determine if any were prosecutable under U.S law for alleged terrorist activities. The MEK insists that its members were all cleared. "The U.S. does not officially consider Ashraf residents as terrorists," says Madani ... more...
Press TV, April 12, 2009:... “In his addresses to international circles, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) leader, Masoud Rajavi has spoken of a looming humanitarian crisis in case Baghdad pushes further for the expulsion of the terror group,” Hasheminejad said ... more...
Omid Puya, Mojahedin.ws, 12 April 2009:... According to evidences acquired after Saddam’s fall, within his meeting with Rajavi in mid-2001, Taher Habush, then in charge of Iraqi Intelligence, strongly admitted he had ordered Sayyad Shirazi’s assassination. He explicitly backed such terrorist activities inside Iran and confirmed their internal political-social impact ... more...
Anne Singleton, April 09, 2009... Daily it is becoming clearer that the ordinary members of the MKO are being denied that freedom of choice and freedom of thought only because American soldiers have been tasked to protect Massoud Rajavi. The MKO leaders are threatening a ‘humanitarian disaster’ - which cult experts translate as acts of mass suicide. If President Obama’s promise of change is to have meaning beyond simply being words on the page, the standoff at Camp Ashraf is an ideal place to start putting words into action...more...
The Economist print edition, April 08, 2009:... For the past six years, the Americans have protected the camp, whose raison d’être is generally opposed by the surrounding Iraqi communities and by most Iranians, whether or not they are for or against the clerical regime in Tehran. But as American troops prepare to go home ... more...
The Christian Science Monitor, April 07, 2009:... "They have to understand that the party is over for them," Mr. Rubaie told journalists recently, after refuting allegations from the MEK that their members were being mistreated. "They need to understand that they have to leave. This is not [the era of] Saddam Hussein using them against Iran. We will never use them against Iran." ... more...
Jomhuri Eslami, Tehran,translated by BBC Monitoring Middle East, April 09, 2009:... The animosities of the last 30 years, which manifested in instigating domestic Revolution-opposing elements, supporting the Monafeqin terrorists [the opposition group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, MKO], instigating Saddam [Hussein] to launch a military attack against Iran, imposing all-embracing sanctions against Iran, playing political games with the issue of Iran's nuclear activities and engaging in various forms of interferences with our country's internal affairs showed ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, April 8, 2009:... Reported by Niqash on 1 April 20 09, in an interview held with Saleh Mutlaq, leader of the Sunni oppositional list, to inquire about the front’s political position and the accusations posed against it. Mutlaq is alleged to have played a role as a mediator between the Iraqi government and the dissolved Baath party ... more...
Press TV, April 07, 2009:... According to the report, the human rights team was trying to get in contact with the members of the terrorist group to ask their opinion on an alternative place to go to as the Iraqi government has decided to shut down their headquarters in the near future ... more...
Reuters, April 06, 2009:... Asked what can the UK , European and other western governments do to help resettle the MEK, Dr. al Rubaie replied, "These governments can agree to allow their citizens and others who have status in their country to return."... more...
Anne Singleton, Iran Interlink, April 05, 2009:...Dr. Mowaffak al RUbaie: We will not initiate acts of violence against them. We do expect them to cooperate in our efforts to exercise our sovereignty according to the rule of law. Should they choose extremist acts such as self-immolation, it will be their decision which we would regret ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, April 5, 2009:... Is actually anything going against the international conventions or are people dispossessed of any right? Just a country is determined to clean its soil of unwanted particles that are jeopardizing the security of the country in particular and the region in general ... more...
Press TV, April 04, 2009:... According to al-Seraj, Iraqi courts have already convicted 450 senior MKO members on charges of killing and acts of sabotage, most of whom have escaped from their headquarters and training site at Camp Ashraf -- located in Iraq's Diyala Province ... more...
Sahar Family foundation, Baghdad, April 04, 2009:... Every year, on New Year's Day they give some gifts to the Leadership Council members to affect them emotionally. The gifts include sister Maryam’s watches or necklaces ... or gold medallions with Masud’s portrait on them... more...
Houston Chronicle, March 31, 2009:...A spokesman for the group, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said residents of Ashraf "will never leave their home" and warned that al-Rubaie's plan is "setting the stage for a human catastrophe."...more...
State Department Press Releases And Documents, March 30, 2009:... The desired outcome is one that fully fits within Iraq's laws and their international commitments to the residents of this camp ... more...
IRNA, Baghdad, March 30, 2009:... 'Al-Sabah' in its Monday issue quoted a judicial source in Iraqi Diyala province as saying that 12 of the terrorist MKO members are accused of being involved in 'illegal' operations, including kidnapping ... more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, Baghdad, in Arabic, translated by BBC, March 29, 2009:... He says about 1,000 of them have US and European passports and resident permits or political asylum status in the United States and in Europe and they can go there, noting that "900 women are in the camp," and adding that they can return them to Iran ... more...
Press TV, March 28, 2009:... The official on Friday did not identify where the group would be moved to but the al-Bayyina al-Jadida daily reported that Iraq was in talks with Australia to find an alternative place for the group.... more...
Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post, March 28, 2009:... Iraq's national security adviser said Friday that the government intends to move an Iranian opposition group from its sanctuary near the Iranian border to a location where leaders and "brainwashed cult members" will be separated and the latter "detoxified."... more...
Reuters,Mar 25, 2009:... Iraq has appealed to other foreign countries to accept residents when it closes Camp Ashraf at the end of this month ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 25, 2009:... The western advocates of Rajavi should take necessary precautions not to pave the way for turning MKO into another al-Qaeda or Taliban as a terrible nightmare for the US and its allies. Masoud Rajavi, the cultic leader of MKO, in the conclusion of his message refers to those politicians ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, March 23, 2009:... The way organization dealt with those three and Reza in particular was very ungenerous. The organization even claimed that he has never been a fighter and that he had been studying in the Europe in years before the victory of the revolution while Reza Raisi Toosi was one of the early founders of MKO ... more...
Press TV, Baghdad, March 23, 2009:... Although the European Union has recently outraged the victims of MKO violence by removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations, the group is still blacklisted in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the United States ... more...
Fars News, March 22, 2009:... "From a legal perspective, these briberies have reached a stage where they can be considered criminal activity," Rubaie told reporters following a Saturday meeting with top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, press tv reported.... more...
Reuters, March 21, 2009:... Iraq has appealed to foreign countries to accept members of an Iranian opposition group, which has been based in Iraq for about two decades but which Baghdad sees as a terrorist group and a diplomatic liability ...more...
Press TV, March 18, 2009:... The group, comprised of 64 senior members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, were transferred from Jordan to an unknown European state by two military planes, the Tabnak website reported ... more...
Fars News, March 18, 2009:... Confessions by two members of the anti-Iran terror group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization, about torturing and mistreatment of members by MKO officials and commanders led to a siege of the group's headquarters, Camp Ashraf, by Iraqi forces...more...
Ashargh Alawsat, March 17, 2009:... Iraqi national security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie branded the allegations "totally baseless." He said People's Mujahedeen members had taken over a building belonging to the Iraqi army and were preventing soldiers from entering it... more...
Mojahedin.ws, March 16, 2009:... But of the most noticeable part of the statement is its threatening tone stating “the Iranian Resistance warns that such actions prepare the grounds for a human tragedy ... more...
Press TV, March 16, 2009:... "Iraqi soldiers [have taken] positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the MKO [terrorists] refused to evacuate a building inside their camp," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity on Monday... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, March 14 2009:... The statement noted that "such acts are illegal and hinders the Iraqi government from providing Ashraf Refugee Camp inhabitants with humanitarian assistance and facilities and discourages the Iraqi government from humanitarian dealing with the camp . Such actions are a clear proof of the Camp Ashraf Leadership adherence to terrorism and hostilities against Iraq and its people.”... more...
Islam Abad-Ahmad Farahani, IRNA, March 11 2009:... However, the West does take no position against Israelis who massacre civilians in Gaza, the EU removes MKO from the black list. The file of various crimes committed by MKO against Iranians is achieved on the so-called human rights’ table of the West...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 12, 2009:... Rajavi quotes Mojgan Parsaee of the possibility of the occurrence of a cultic and human disaster, that is, a general “hunger strike to death”. In fact, it is a warning to Iraqi officials of an imminent war. He also refers to the decision of the EU and tries to use it as a proof on the legitimacy of MKO’s settlement in Iraq. Furthermore, he claims that the name of Mojahedin has never been in the terrorist list of the Security Council. It seems that he has forgotten ... more...
Edalat Association (families of victims of Mojahedin Khalq Terrorism), March 11 2009:... Now that you have decided that the Mojahedin-e Khalq "random mortar launchers" are not a terrorist group, please would the European Council put me and my family on their terrorism list so that the system will be completed... more...
Sahar Family foundation, Baghdad, March 10 2009:... To extend their organizational control, they have inspired the members that the Leadership Council is very sacred. It is so saintly that no one can doubt its foundation or criticize it. Anything ordered by the Council must be obeyed ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, Bahar Irani, March 5, 2009:... according to common sense, if Mojahedin are to force a country to provide them with asylum it should be one of the members of the EU that dared to remove MKO’s terrorist label whereas Rajavi refrains to express the least inclination to do so and ever-increasingly insists on keeping Mojahedin in Iraq. The reason is clear. Rajavi has two major factors in Iraq without which the survival of MKO is unlikely...more...
By: Nejat Bloggers, March 05, 2009:... In case of MEK’s expulsion from Iraq and the shut down of Camp Ashraf their new safe heaven could be Israel since no third country has accepted to grant refuge to the MKO terrorists. However, the serious violation of human rights in Camp Ashraf and the cult-like manipulation practices of MEK leaders would surely end with the defection of a large number of members.more...
Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, March 02, 2009:...Returns have almost stopped in the past year, as Iran now wants Iraq to first screen potential returnees. "For those who wish to come back to Iran, we hope the Iranian government would give again this green light," says Peter Stocker, the head of the ICRC delegation in Tehran. Concerns in Camp Ashraf that returnees could be mistreated in Iran have not proved true in cases the ICRC has handled. "It is important to know that if anything happened to them, I don't think it could remain hidden," says Mr. Stocker. more...
hudsonny.org - By Andrea Loquenzi - Italian Journalist and Research Fellow, The Magna Charta Foundation, March 02, 2009:... It sounds like a power struggle between the EU and the IRP (of course there's also a war going on between Teheran and the MEK itself). And it seems as if the MEK is being used as a leverage tool here. But this is just a superficial analysis. The truth is far from being exposed, and this could easily be a question of money...
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IRNA, March 02, 2009, Prosecutor-General: EU should revise approach to MKO:... The so-called advocates of human rights have closed their eyes on assassination of thousands of innocent people by the group and therefore they should be accountable to their families of victims and millions of Iranian citizens, Dorri Najafabadi said.
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Iran Payvand, February 28, 2009:... we would like to notify all the human rights’ organizations as well as the governments and politicians about the dangers of this inhumane cult(RAJAVI’S CULT) and its representatives and operatives who are propagandizing and plotting in the favor of their terrorist cult and its destructive cultic ideology ... more...
Hansard, Written Answers, February 23, 2009:...The US received assurances from the Iraqi authorities making clear their commitment to the humane treatment and continued wellbeing of the camp residents. We understand the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights also visited the camp and delivered these assurances to a representative body of the residents.more...
ُSahar foundation, Baghdad, February 23 2009:... family visits should also be taken place in the presence of a third person. In other words a companion should escort you in your visit with your family, allegedly to help you be more comfortable! Generally the organization doesn’t like the families to come to Camp Ashraf. They do not welcome the families ... more...
By DANIEL GRAEBER, UPI Correspondent, February 20, 2009:... The PMOI, and its representatives in the NCRI, claim to hold valuable intelligence on Iranian operations, including Iran's controversial nuclear program. The group often touts its unveiling of the nuclear program at the Natanz weapons facility in Iran, though several analysts note developments at Natanz were all but flaunted by the Iranian regime ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, February 21, 2009:... The settlement of Mojahedin in Iraqi soil and recently the recent statements made by Nouri Al-Maliki claiming that the Iraqi government refrains to deliver organization members to the Iranian government and seeks their transfer to a third country is another issue ... more...
Wiener Zeitungat, February 22 2009:... He fell in love with a young Iranian girl who convinced him, to join “mujahedin khaq" (the word means "holy warriors"),and then become a militant for Iraqi ex-dictator Saddam Hussein who supported the group ... more...
Fars News, February 21, 2009:... Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Urdan Popov Wednesday called the anti-Iran group, Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization, a terrorist group despite European Union's recent decision to strike the MKO off its terror list ... more...
IRNA, London, February 19, 2009:... Barry Marston added there is no dispute about the group’s terrorist activities and that the “British government is not satisfied the MKO has done enough to distance itself from its past”... more...
Almotamar, Baghdad, (Translated by Nejat Association) February 19, 2009:... Therefore from a technical viewpoint – if one doesn’t want to work on political interests and benefits – the investigation on the nature of a group is prior to its short-term functions. If we don’t evaluate the nature correctly ... more...
Hamid Siah Mansouri, Paris, Feb 16, 2009:... the West states must be on the highest alert and feel moral and political responsibility to prevent more disastrous incidents in Ashraf garrison which can terrorize then jeopardize the local peace and security ...more...
Baratha news, Baghdad, Feb 17, 2009:... According to Iraqi sources, MKO leaders have won the consent of Egyptian officials to set up a camp in Egypt for its members as Iraq is determined to expel the terrorist group, Iraq’s Buratha news agency reported ... more...
Mehr News, Baghdad, Feb 16, 2009:... The foreign minister also dismissed reports that Iraq is showing leniency in expelling Mojahedin Khalgh Organization (MKO), saying the Iraqi government has taken its decision on the group and the expulsion will be strictly monitored by a “special committee”... more...
Tehran Times Political Desk, February 16, 2009:... BAGHDAD – Those Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) leaders who masterminded terror operations inside Iran must be extradited to the country to stand trial, Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi has said... more...
Nejat Society, February 15, 2009:... The leaders of MKO cult, as well as ,all other cult leaders try to convince the members that their organization’s belief is the best of the world and eventually they are superior to the other people because they are saved by their leaders ... more...
Hassan piransar, Paris, February 15, 2009:... The leaders and operatives of this cult had participated and co- operated fully with the SADDAM’s suppressive forces in annihilation and destruction of any Iraqi people’s just-struggle during Iraq national and popular uprising ... more...
Mehr News, Baghdad, February 14, 2009:... There are reports that 1,031 MKO members have so far decided to leave Iraq either by acquiring citizenship or by obtaining passport and so they will leave the country ... more...
Iraq Updates, February 14, 2009:... “The Iraqi government received the families and facilitated their arrival and they were taken to the reception halls but the leaders at the camp refused to let the relatives see their families,” National security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said...more...
Parliament, UK, February 10, 2009:... we remain mindful of the MeK’s history as an organisation responsible for a number of serious terrorist attacks—it claimed responsibility for large numbers of violent attacks inside Iran for a number of years, including 96 in a three-month period in early 2001. We do not agree with its claim that it represents a credible democratic opposition in exile... more...
IRNA, Moscow, February 14, 2009:... She believed the west treated such issues as terrorism and human rights in a biased and fanatical manner based on the double-standard policies inspired by its political interests ... more...
Iran Interlink, February 13, 2009:... The Mojahedin was the main force behind execution of officials of the Shah's regime and tried their best to have the American hostages executed (like the 3 Americans they killed in cold blood during a terrorist operation in Tehran) but failed to do so ... more...
Press TV, February 12, 2009:... In a Press TV program aired on Tuesday, Iraq's National security Advisor, Muwaffaq al-Rubaie said the members of the MKO who had committed crimes against Iraqi civilians had to stand trial in Iraqi courts... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, February 12, 2009:... No country has yet accepted to receive Ashraf residents although the group is delisted from the UK and the EU terrorist lists. It is only a matter of legal enforcement and the very same countries are well aware of the group’s terrorist nature and thus, they will actually avoid letting it roam in the streets of their countries ... more...
Mazdak Parsi, Nejat Association, Tehran, February 12, 2009:... The People Mujahedin of Iran has a long history of treason and shifting in its belief so the settlement of MKO forces in Israel soil is not an unexpected option. There are many reasons for such a move ... more...
Iran Peyvand, Paris, February 11, 2009:... This unlimited hunger strike will lead to disaster for these people. The PMOI’s leaders and operatives will exert a great deal of psychological pressure upon the desperate residents and push them to go on unlimited hunger strike to death ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, February 11, 2009:... Totalitarianism, as an ideological system, has various external manifestations in the world like totalitarian governments or cultic relations under the influence of totalistic ambitions of cult leaders ... more...
Al-Sharq website, Doha, in Arabic, February 10, 2009:... He adds that this "terrorist gang" participated with Saddam in his war against its own people and in the war against the Sunnah and Shi'i in Kurdistan and the southern Iraqi cities ... more...
IRNA, Madrid, Feb 10, 2009:... Iranian Islamic Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said here Monday deleting (Iranian terrorist grouplet) MKO from EU’s terrorist organizations list is a sign of EU’s double standards in dealing with terrorism ... more...
Iranpeyvand, Paris, February 10, 2009:... We are very glad and vivacious to inform you that the English version of our site , IRAN BASTAN - AYANDEH DARAKHSHAN is at your service from now on. Please visit our site to receive the latest articles and important events in English language ... more...
Press TV, February 09, 2009:... "According to Iraq's constitution MKO is considered as a terrorist group due to the crimes it committed against the Iraqi people in 1991, no matter how hard the European countries or other states try to strike the organization off the list of terrorist groups," the Iraqi official maintained ... more...
Geostratos, February 09 2009:... Despite these links, and connivance, it is rare that a terrorist group and its political wing are as mixed as are the People's Mojahedin of Iran (known in French OMPI) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (the NCRI in French CNRI ). So much so that in this case, one can hardly speak of a single organization ... more...
IRNA, Berlin, February 08, 2009:... Miliband's latest comments on the MKO came in the wake of earlier statements by Larijani who in his address to the Munich security confab on Friday voiced outrage over the West's harboring of known terrorist groups ... more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, Baghdad, in Arabic, 6 February 2009:... Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim has said that the file of detainees in Iraq will be closed within the next six months. She said that joint committees have been formed to receive the detainees from the Multinational Force to close this file ... more...
IRNA, Baghdad, February 06, 2009:... The MKO is a terrorist group and a cancerous tumor in Iraq; The crimes and sins the group has committed are evident and well-documented. Several thousand Iraqi citizens have fallen victims of the terrorist organization and we have provable evidence, that we will submit them to Iraqi courts ... more...
Press TV and Fars News, February 05, 2009:... Safari went on to warn about the consequences of giving in to the terrorist group's demands, adding that the EU countries involved in making this decision would be responsible for its outcome ... more...
Mazdak Parsi, Nejat Association, February 05 2009:... Ibrahim Khodabande, a former member of the cult, writes:’’ the cult like activities and creation of gods, and the creation of a relationship of total submission and the use of mind control tactics which eventually results in insane and unbelievable actions like self immolations” ... more...
Agnezia Radicale, February 04 2009:... We have received confirmation and documentation of what we are saying by the Kurdish Democratic Party and by independent Tolerancy International, based in Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan) and headed by a former minister of the autonomous Kurdish government, Hussein Sinjari...more...
Al-Arabiya TV, Dubai, in Arabic, February 01, 2009:... I can tell you that the leadership of this group committed big mistakes in the past. It cooperated with the dictatorial regime in the fight against the Kurds and the Shi'is in the central and southern regions. Therefore, they were involved in the bloody Iraqi conflict ... more...
Jonathan Spollen, The National, UAE, February 02, 2009:... “We have documented serious human rights abuses that the MKO was inflicting on its own members in their camp in Iraq,” said Tom Porteous, the London director of Human Rights Watch. “The organisation … has shown that criticism of leadership is certainly not tolerated.” ...more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Translated by Nejat Association, February 02 2009:... There is another internal phenomenon called “Current Operation” (another jargon). This has been practiced in MKO cult since 1994. At the beginning it was oral. I mean that the members moved forward and spoke; but later it became written ... more...
Mohammad Hossein Sobhani , Iran Pen Association, Germany, February 02, 2009:... In your opinion, does a terrorist group which has been disarmed after the fall of Saddam Hussein by the US army and exists in quarantine within a limited geographic boundary inside Iraq, have any opportunity to perform terrorist activities?... more...
Paris, January 30, 2009:... Reza Sadeghi: EU should take the next step by helping the victims of Rajavi cult in Camp Ashraf. Interview with the latest arrival from Camp Ashraf ... more...
Mark Kukis, Time.com, Baghdad Friday, Jan. 30, 2009:... "What people side with the enemy and kill their own people in a war?" said demonstrator Sina Zamanian, 17, referring to the MEK's alliance with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, which led them to settle in Iraq. "They are the worst kind of opportunistic terrorists and should be forever marked as such." ... more...
Fars News, January 31, 2009:... Khodabandeh said if Europeans do really want to extend their help to these people trapped by the MKO, they should welcome them to Europe--a move he said his organisation will favour... more...
Send by Mahin Tajimalek, Mojahedin.ws, February 1, 2009:... It is best recommended that they draw the fangs out of the adders to let them free; for sure it will make the world more secure. Some believe that the howl of a toothless wolf has the magic of lullaby causing a calm, deep sleep ... more...
By Hassan Piransar, January 30, 2009:... MR. ABRISHAMCHI had a significant and important role in suppressing and killing Iraqi people especially KURDS during the uprising of Iraqi people against SADDAM HUSSEIN. He as a mediator was receiving orders from SADDAM HUSSEIN’s military generals to give to NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY (NLA) to destroy and demolish any resistance from Iraqi people. MR. ABRISHAMCHI is currently living in FRANCE.more...
ArabicNews.com, January 28, 2009:...An Iraqi politician said the recent decision of the European Union to remove the terrorist Mojahedeen Khalq Organization from the list of terrorist groups benefits only European countries and as such did not concern Iraq.
In an exclusive interview with the Iranian news agency IRNA, Spokesman for Iraqi National Congress Mohammad Hassan al-Mousawi said both the Iraqi nation and government strictly considered the group as terrorists and were opposed their presence on their soil. more...
PressTV, January 28, 2009:...Western countries claim that the lives of MKO members will be threatened if they return to Iran. Tehran, however, has promised to welcome the return of any member who has not taken part in any serious anti-Iran activity and is ready to leave the group.
"During the past few years, various MKO members have requested permission to return. Of course, if serious cases have not been filed against them, they can return to the country by handing themselves over," Iranian security official Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Thursday. more...
By Peter Graff, Reuters News, January 27, 2009:... Iraq's national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie met diplomats from 12 Western countries on Tuesday to plead for them to take in hundreds of rebels from the camp north of Baghdad. ..."You have helped us a great deal in liberating Iraq. Now we need to clear up some of what we have unwillingly inherited from the previous regime," he said.more...
ISNA, January 27, 2009:... The MKO is a terrorist organization under the UN and Security Council resolutions before and after the 11 September attacks and according to Iraq’s constitutions support for terrorism is prohibited and illegal, he added.
The members of MKO are neither war captives nor refugees thus have no legal position in Iraq, he explained. more...
Radio Free Europe, January 26, 2009:... Massoud Khodabandeh, a former MKO member who currently works as an analyst with the French Center for the Study of Terrorism and an adviser to Iraq's government, describes the MKO as a personality cult obsessed with celibacy ... more...
Press TV, January 26, 2009:... According to the lawmaker, the trials would be held either in the Islamic Republic or outside the country. The MKO members who have not participated in the organization's terrorist activities are allowed to return home, he added ... more...
Agence France Presse, January 26, 2009:... Based at Auvers-sur-Oise, the organisation was led from 1989 by Maryam Rajavi, who was referred to as the "Sun of the Revolution." The organisation has often been compared to a sect, with the leading couple its gurus ... more...
Press TV, January 26, 2009:... This is a documentary about the terrorist organization, MKO, told through the eyes of former MKO agents who have turned away from their former terror activities. An insight into this organization which has caused terror and is recognized as a terror organization worldwide ... more...
January 26, 2009:... ... While Iraq plans to extradite heads of Rajavi cult who have "Iranian blood on their hands", European council is to announce today if they are terrorist no more!! read related news and analysis ... more...
Hamid Siah Mansouri, Paris, January 25, 2009:... Never accept Iranian Ben Ladan in the European parliament to batter the popular legitimacy of the European nation’s House. Undoubtedly, Maryam Rajavi (Iranian Ben Lad an) the leader of the People Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) is more dangerous and vicious than Afghan Ben Lad an ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, January 25, 2009:... The EU's decision to remove, if the EU foreign ministers reach the conclusion, the terrorist cult of Mojahedin Khalq from its terrorist blacklist will not change the group’s terrorist nature at all ...more...
Fars news, Tehran, January 25, 2009:... Referring to Saddam's support for the terrorist group, the top legislator said, "They (the MKO) want to continue their crimes with resorting to some western countries."... more...
Fars News, Janury 25, 2009:... The European Union is expected to strike the main Iranian armed opposition group in exile off its list of terrorist organizations on Monday, according to EU officials. The EU decision will come as a so-called "A point" at Monday's meeting ... more...
Press TV, January 23, 2009:... France says it has filed an appeal to an EU court to keep the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) on a list of banned terrorist groups. "Our appeal was filed the day before yesterday," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Frederic Desagneaux Friday...more...
Press TV, January 23, 2009:... MKO Leader Maryam Rajavi's calls for her groupto be removed from blacklists have fallen on deaf ears in Canada and in the United States. The EU, however, has long sought to legitimize the anti-Iran activities of the MKO ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, January 22 2009:... 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...
Pers et Avenir association, Paris, January 22, 2009:... We as victims of this notorious cult ,are very surprised and insulted that the leader of this brutal cult ( MRS.MARYAM RAJAVI) whose hands are smeared with blood is allowed to participate in your parliament and even make speech in front of distinguished members of parliament which is going to happen in 26th of January ,2009 in Brussels . The conference will be implemented by the committee of sanitation and social affaires ... more...
Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post, January 21, 2009:...The Iraqi government this week accused an Iranian opposition group of planning a suicide attack against Iraqi troops, a possible prelude to decisive government action to close the group's camp in Iraq and expel its members ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, January 22, 2009:... A few days ago I saw an interview which was made by VOA (VOICE OF AMERICA) a few months ago with MR. ALIREZA JAFARZADEH who is a high ranking officer of the PMOI (Peoples Mojahedin Organization of IRAN) which is listed as a terrorist organization in the USA/ CANADA/ and EU countries ... more...
Anne Singleton, January 20, 2009:... We are only half way through January and the EU terrorism list (from which the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation has been removed) has still not been announced but the MKO (aka the Rajavi cult, MEK, NCRI, NLA) has been unable to refrain from showing its true nature... more...
Buratha News in Baghdad, January 19, 2009:... The security forces of Iraq have arrested a member of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (aka: MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi cult) after he failed to carry out his suicide mission inside an Iraqi security base ... more...
Åse brand vold, Klasse kampen, January 20, 2009:... Thirteen years later, when the United States had occupied Iraq and taken control of the Ashraf base, Noshin’s father Alireza Bashiri travelled to Iraq to meet the woman he is still married to under Iranian law, but the MEK would not let him meet her. The year after, father and daughter travelled together. Alireza still cannot meet her, but Noshin got a foot in the camp. After fifteen years of separation the mother and daughter were together for five days ... more...
Mehr News, Tehran, January 19, 2009:... “The Iraqi government has made a serious decision to expel the residents of Camp Ashraf and has informed them that they have only two options: they can either return to Iran or go to another country,” he told reporters at Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran ... more...
German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Nov 2008:... The 23-page bulletin includes in particular the illegal activities of the group in the current situation in Iraq. It also presents the totalitarian characteristic of MEK that has not denounced violence in its political struggle even after the disarmament of its military arm ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 17, 2009:... The Washington Times’ Special Section has published nothing but a piece of advertisement for the money it has been paid. If the terrorist MKO think it works to be a highly valued purchase of legitimacy, so let them enjoy they illusion! ... more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, January 17, 2009:... Now that Fox News has too much evidence on the terrorist activities of MKO agents at least in Iraq. There is a question: why does Fox News hire AliReza Jaafarzade, the official member of MKO, as the foreign affair analyst? ... more...
Thai News Service, January 16, 2009:... 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...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, January 15, 2009:... It is almost two years that Mojahedin.ws has suggested the necessity of reviewing the content of Masoud Rajavi’s so-called ideological revolution making its best to obtain its fulfillment which has been accelerated by means of communicating with the organization’s ex-members ... more...
By Massoud Khodabandeh, January 13, 2009:... There is no doubt that for many observers the removal of the MKO from the European list will clarify the European position toward terrorism. Public opinion in the Middle East has never regarded western terrorism lists as about terrorism per se but as lists of enemies of western interests ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, January 13, 2009:... The non-Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), since the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, is seeking another alternative in the west. The MKO strove under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to become the Iraqi MKO and now is striving to become the Israeli MKO...more...
Pers et Avenir, Paris, January 14, 2009:... the elimination of this sect from the terrorist groups’ list will result in the emancipation and freedom of the incarcerated victims of this cult in the Ashraf Garrison in Iraq... the locked gate of Ashraf Garrison can be breached and opened for the locked up victims so that the innocent victims can have the right and opportunity to leave Ashraf Garrison and settle down in the European states ... more...
Press TV, January 13, 2009:... The US announcement comes amid Iraqi government efforts to expel members of the terrorist group. Baghdad assumed control of the security of Camp Ashraf, the main MKO military base in Iraq's Diyala province, on January 1, 2009 ... more...
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, January 12, 2009:... Therefore, I hereby determine that the designation of the aforementioned organization as a foreign terrorist organization, pursuant to Section 219 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), shall be maintained ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 10, 2009:... How can the group expect to be delisted from the terrorist lists when it still glorifies terrorism as an appropriate method to fight the opponent party? The Western advocates of the group who believe that MKO has denounced terrorism and violence are recommended to read between the lines of the reports delivered by MKO.
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SAMEER N. YACOUB, AP, Baghdad, January 10, 2009:... Iraqis have promised to respect the human rights of the group's members. "We've discussed this issue intensively with the Iraqi government," he told the U.S.-funded Alhurra television station. "They have provided assurances that none of these individuals will be forcibly sent to a third country where they have reason to fear for their safety or well-being, and we know those assurances will be
respected." ... more...
Nejat Association, January 10 2009:... The heroic image that MKO shows to the members to provoke their praise and admiration have turned the group from an armed guerrilla opposition into a terrorist destructive cult which is much more dangerous ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 8, 2009:... The report evidently states that MKO is “the main Iranian armed opposition group, took part in the 1979 Islamic revolution but then took up arms against the Islamic republic”... more...
By: VSD.fr, January 08 2009:... In my opinion, People’s Mujahedin enjoys a very small support. They are very weak inside Iran. Instead, France should reinforce its relations with Iranian civil society and the Iranian government in order to achieve the public liberty. It’s not the regime change that we should look for ... more...
Esme E. Deprez, Huffington Post, January 02, 2009:... Massoud Khodabandeh, consultant for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Human Rights, explained that the Iraqi government is talking with some Scandinavian countries that may be willing to accept PMOI members. But for that to happen, he said, "the camp would need to be dismantled. They would have to take their uniforms off and be treated as individuals."... more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East, January 06, 2009:... E'temad website, Tehran, in Persian 03 Jan 09... The Iraqi government has issued an ultimatum to the residents of Ashraf camp [that houses the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation] to leave that country as soon as possible, either to return to Iran or to rake refuge in another country ... more...
Thai News Service, January 06 2009:... The terrorist members of the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization are deployed in a camp in Diyala, and some observers believe that the attack might have been designed or backed up by the MKO terrorists ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, January 6, 2009:... In Iran’s contemporary history, Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO,MEK, PMOI, NCRI, NLA) is the exact illustration of a political movement that strongly advocated a strategy of armed struggle that has proved defeated and unproductive ... more...
Nejat association, January 05 2009:... Nowadays the MKO lacks public support ,weapon and also border but their only last resort includes Camp Ashraf that itself is supposed to be handed over to Iraqi Government and eventually to be shut down ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, January 04, 2009:... Maliki said Iraq "will not let any terrorist party harm its relations with neighboring governments" and named the MKO, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that wants a homeland in southeast Turkey and PKK offshoot, the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), that stages terrorist operations in Iran's western border areas and often clashes with Iranian forces ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, January 3, 2009:... In a nutshell, Maryam is to be considered the most miserable woman in MKO due to her internal conflicts and tensions. Also, she is one of the most piteous women of the world since she has met a destiny similar to that of other ill-famed women in the history who played a key role in the historical events and crises and ... more...
Press TV, January 03, 2009:... In this camp there are organization members, of course I don't acknowledge them nor approach them as members of an organization, but anyway there are people living in the camp whose stay in Iraq is illegal and are therefore not permitted to reside in our country ... more...
Namo Abdulla, Dec 30 2008:... Source: Kurdish-language newspaper Rudaw... While the US government is involving in the war on terror, one may ask how could it support the MeK as a group even classified by its own country as a terrorist? Ms. Neurink, who is author of a book about the MeK called Misled Martyrs, says that “some Americans say: OK. These people are terrorists, but they are our terrorists.”...more...
Juan Cole, Juan Cole.com, January 02, 2009:... MEK have probably been triple agents, sharing information with and pushing disinformation on Saddam, Israel and the US through various channels. They also served Saddam as an SS, repressing Iraqi dissidents. When the US took Iraq in 2003, the Neoconservatives at the Pentagon wanted to adopt the terrorist group for covert operations against Iran and against the Shiite fundamentalist parties in Iraq that had been hosted in exile by Tehran ... more...
Jonathan Steele,The Guardian, Friday 2 January 2009:... Independent visitors to Camp Ashraf report that the inmates live in segregated barracks-style rooms. The International Committee for the Red Cross says several hundred former MEK members have left Camp Ashraf since 2003. The ICRC has helped more than 250 cross the border to Iran after conducting private interviews with each to ensure they are going voluntarily... more...
Agence France Presse, January 01, 2009:... Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday that he would expel an Iranian armed opposition group from the country after taking over their base from US forces. "Based on taking over everything and in accordance with our constitution and our policies of opening up to our neighbours... our forces are going to take full control of the camp where the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) live," Maliki said...more...
Pers et Evener Association, Paris, January 01, 2009:... We, the separated members and the victims of this in humane cult who have lost our pride of life under the captivity and detention of the cult operatives and conductors. So that, we had been under the worst psychological and physical tortures. Therefore, we urge the international organizations including U. N. and all Human Rights Organizations ... more...
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