On June 17, 2007, there was a knifing incident in Paris, involving Iranians. Until the French police and court system sort through the conflicting evidence, both sides are posting evidence supporting their accounts.

Iran-Interlink’s Accounts

Cult leader Massoud Rajavi gives go-ahead to kill witnesses in European countries.
An open letter to the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith

Anne Singleton, July 09, 2007

A communiqué was issued on June 07, 2007 by the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO)'s cult leader Massoud Rajavi, who has been a fugitive since the fall of Saddam Hussein in .

In the communiqué, Rajavi names three people, including myself, who are witnesses in the on-going investigation against the cult by the French Judiciary, and specifically describes them as "the agents of the Iranian secret services". For those familiar with the MKO cult, this is clearly understood to be Rajavi's method of issuing a death sentence to be carried out by his followers.

On June 17, 2007 over 50 people associated with the MKO cult lay in wait to attack a public meeting in Paris at which the three persons mentioned above were among the invitees. It was later revealed that the attack had been orchestrated from the MKO cult HQ in Auvers-sur-Oise. According to French police, the assailants in this violent attack had been transferred to from other European countries. None had French documents, some had false documents. The attackers also filmed their activities at the scene. This was reminiscent of the series of orchestrated self-immolations following the arrest of the cult leader's wife Maryam Rajavi in June 2003, which were also filmed by the cult's activists.

There is evidence that at least some part of the military-style operation on June 17 had targeted the three individuals named in Massoud Rajavi's recent communiqué in an assassination attempt. The incident is currently being investigated by French police.

There is clear evidence that some of those involved in the violent attack were MKO militants trained by Saddam Hussein in who had been sent directly from Camp Ashraf to European countries in the past few months. Camp Ashraf is of course guarded by the American Army in . Following the capture of Camp Ashraf terrorist base in 2003, US officials – both military and civil - processed all the captured combatants, taking DNA and fingerprint evidence and issuing them with ID cards. Several of these people have been recently seen in the , , and participating in MKO activities in the EU.

It is clear that responsibility for the lives of people attacked by a terrorist organisation which is apparently favoured by some Israeli lobbies and neo-conservative circles to be used to carry out terrorist acts against Iranians, Iraqis and others, cannot be laid at the door of the cult itself, but must rest with the people who have been maintaining them as a terrorist force whether in Iraq or in Europe and North America. Those who have refused to dismantle the MKO's infrastructure and continue to support them financially as well as loosening their leashes in western countries will be held accountable for any harm which comes to those either directly named and threatened by Massoud Rajavi or to any others who are harmed by implication.

Yours Sincerely,
Anne Singleton.

cc
Mrs Michele Alliot-Marie, French Interior Minister
Dr Wolfgang Schauble, German Interior Minister
Ms Dr Guusje Ter Horst, Netherlands Interior Minister
Dr Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, USA

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Massoud Rajavi name in Mojahedin propaganda signals a cult spiralling toward disaster

Our brief in February 2007 mentioned that the Mojahedin Khalq's own analysis places blame for its current difficulties on its critics; in particular former members of the cult who continue to speak out on the cult's continued use of violence and its human rights abuses. One of those critics is Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani, a human rights activist who was mentioned in the May 2005 Human Rights Watch report 'No Exit'.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=797

In recent days the MKO has published, on YouTube and similar media, several videos depicting violence and fighting. The words introducing the video clips mention Mr Sobhani by name although none of them actually show him on film. In addition, hundreds of articles have been published without authorship on the tens of websites which have no discernible ownership other than being strongly linked with the MKO which also implicate Mr Sobhani in this violence.

What has happened to provoke this?

On June 17, 2007 Mr Sobhani was invited as a speaker to a meeting in Paris on 'Peace and Tolerance’. He has previously spoken on television and radio. He was invited to speak at the European Parliament on February 27, 2007.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=1863

(Mr. Sobhani in European Parliament. Feb. 2007)

During the Paris meeting Mr Sobhani, along with the other guests of the meeting, was attacked by over fifty people. It was later revealed that the attack had been organised by the Mojahedin Khalq from its headquarters in Auver-sur-Oise. Its purpose, to stop anybody criticising the cult.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2653

(Pictures taken fromMr. Sobhani in hospital after being attacked by MKO)

Over fifty attackers were arrested by police at the scene. From among the invited guests Mr Sobhani was arrested by mistake and was subsequently released. He has filed a complaint against Mohammad Hayati, a known MKO terrorist who had been transferred from (and back again) to act as 'military commander' at the scene.

The Mojahedin subsequently tried to exploit Mr Sobhani's brief arrest and his release along with some of the films they took themselves - which show the attackers’ own engagement with employees of the venue's security firm - in an effort to claim that Mr Sobhani attacked the MKO at the venue where he had been invited as a guest to speak. The MKO propaganda is clearly aimed at discrediting Mr Sobhani as a prominent critic of the group.

This attempt has been going on for the past three weeks but appears not to be working. Even the Mojahedin's own supporters and members cannot explain to themselves why fifty people were sent to violently attack five speakers at the Paris venue.

In an unprecedented move the Mojahedin have issued a lengthy document introduced as a statement by Massoud Rajavi – the MKO's leader who has been in hiding since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein.

In the statement, which purports to be in his name, Massoud Rajavi targets this specific issue and states as a matter of fact that fifty MKO activists were attacked by Mr Sobhani at the venue.

This is the first time that Massoud Rajavi's name has been used in this way. He has never issued any similar statement in all the time he has acted as leader of the cult. The significance of this can be gleaned from exposing Maryam Rajavi's repeated instruction to the Mojahedin's membership that the first, second and third aim of the cult is to protect Massoud Rajavi and his name. But now we see that she herself is spending his name as an expendable asset of the MKO.

In Mojahedin terms this announcement - purportedly by Massoud Rajavi – is intended to act as an injection of ‘ideological’ drug into the Mojahedin cult body. The effect of using Massoud Rajavi’s name should be to convince the members to somehow accept the blatant contradictions inherent in the lie. Not only has Rajavi’s statement not convinced them, but during the past few days we have received numerous reports from inside the Mojahedin that the supporters and some members are struggling with the idea that ‘if Massoud Rajavi’s name can be used as cover for a ridiculous lie like this, then how can we trust him not to have been lying all the time from 1979 until now’. The problem for the ideological members is to try to revere Massoud Rajavi as their Ideological Leader even though his name has now become an expendable asset. They must try not to doubt him, but they can't avoid the inevitability of this which has been imposed on them by this propaganda move.

Observers of the Mojahedin cult are seeing clear signs of desperation. This use of Massoud Rajavi’s name in this recent propaganda campaign more than anything signals that the cult is spiralling out of control. It is becoming more and more isolated and extreme in its behaviour. There should be a warning in this to security officials in European countries.
Iran-Interlink
July 13, 2007

http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2789

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YouTube Videos
Agents of Iranian regime attack Iranian dissidents in Paris
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yx6gY4sqykof
This 9 minute, 22 second video shows the knifing incident. The producer of this video blames agents of the Iranian regime for attacking Iranian dissidents. This video lists the names of some of the agents of the Iranian regime attending the June 17th event in Paris .

Agents of Iranian regime attack dissidents in Paris PART 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJIaHoBVbXU
This 9 minute, 57 second video shows an interview with a man who needed 20 stitches in the stomach region and treatment for a broken finger. This video shows clearly a man carrying a knife. The hospitalized man and some witnesses blamed the attacks on agents of the Iranian regime.

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Remaining Mysteries

1. Both sides have posted evidence of injuries. Iran-Interlink has posted photographs of an injured Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani. While the YouTube videos list the names of many persons who oppose the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran), the producer of the YouTube videos was not as generous with the names and political affiliations of the producers of the videos, the hospitalized man, and of the witnesses. Hopefully, viewers of these videos will recognize some of the Iranians involved in the incident.

2. The Rajavi Cult has a history of attempting to disrupt any public meeting held by opponents. While Rajavi cultists claim to support democracy, their actions at meetings of political opponents reveal their true totalitarian nature. The common knowledge of this cult behavior about disrupting meetings could mean that some Iranians might want to stop the disruptions. By contrast, Rajavi cultists like to hold many of their meetings in secret (without inviting the public to attend).

3. The YouTube videos show three persons arrested by the French police, including Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani. According to Iran-Interlink, the French police have released Sobhani after realizing that he was a victim in the incident. Any future court documents will help to sort who the French police regarded as attackers and as victims.

4. The YouTube videos show that the French police were not present at the start of the knifing incident. Years ago in California , I attended a public meeting including large numbers of MEK supporters and opponents. There were probably 50 to 75 riot police present at the meeting because the meeting included both large numbers of MEK members and the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations. Police officials everywhere need to be aware of the risks of any meetings attended by the MEK.

5. Both Iran-Interlink and the producer of the YouTube videos appear very confident that the French police and courts will support their accounts of the events of June 17. This is probably only the beginning of a large number of postings of documents, articles, and of videos on this subject. If you have any links to future evidence on this incident, please email the links to me for posting.

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Iranian Knifing Mystery in

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Paul Sheldon Foote, July 15, 2007http://360.yahoo.com/paulsheldonfoote

July 15, 2007

Iran-Interlink’s Accounts

Remaining Mysteries

Paul Sheldon Foote, July 15, 2007
http://360.yahoo.com/paulsheldonfoote