Archive 2003
December 2003
Film of Rajavi accepting tanks, and money from Saddam's Secret Service
(Al Jazeera, December 30)
Rajavi and his gang - utmost efforts to exploit the Bam earthquake disaster
(Iran-Interlink, December 27)
Expelling the MKO is a test for Iraqi sovereignty
(Daily Star, December 23)
US Support for MKO
(Source Irandidban.com)
Mojahedin-e-Khalq: Saddam's Iranian Allies
(Terrorism Monitor, December 18)
Iraqi Governing Council votes unanimously to expel Mojahedin from Iraq :
- Washington Post
- Gulf News
- Reuters
- Associated Press
(December 10)
The Mysterious Disappearance
(To Vima interview, December 2003)
British Parliament says Mojahedin are international terrorists after visit to Iraqi camp
(Lords Hansard, December 3)
Interview with Dr Abol Hassan Banisadr 'For or Against Peace'
(Dunia Al Arab, December)
November 2003
Iran Ready to Offer Amnesty
for Low Ranking MKO Members: Talabani
(AFP, November 25)
Investigation - Necessity or Excuse?
(By Shahin Torabi)
Rice Clarifies Stand On Iranian Group
(Washington Post, November 13)
US under pressure to explain their procrastination over Mojahedin presence in Iraq
(AP, November 13)
Armitage: Officials questioning MKO members
(Washington Post November 10)
Germany Exposes Mojahedin Fraud
(DPA, November 6)
Mojahedin should leave Iraq
(Iraqi television, November 5)
October 2003
State Department Official slams Pentagon
(AP, October 29)
Al-Qaeda - Mojahedin swap on US, Iran agenda?
(Excerpt from AP, October 22)
Transformations may mark demise of Mujahideen
(Daily Star Lebanon, October 16)
Refugee claim linked to terror: judge
(National Post, October 14)
Fox News employed a Terrorist!
(Irandidban site, 14 October )
Shirin Ebadi won this year's Nobel peace prize
(BBC October 10)
US State Department Press Statement concerning Mojahedin
(October 2)
US renews terror tag
(News International, October 3)
Warning - Mojahedin cult actively recruiting in Europe
(October 1)
Who celebrated the terrorist act of Sep 11!?
(Al Arab, Sep/Oct 2003)
September 2003
Families again try for access to relatives in Mojahedin's Iraq bases
Families of MKO members protest in Iraq (Video, Irandidban)
Mojahedin - pawns in a power game?
Pentagon, Running Away from the Scandal Of Supporting Terrorists
(irandidban September 17)
Massoud Rajavi abandoned Mojahedin members in Iraq
(September 17)
A State Department official said in a recent interview that there is "what could almost be described as a rogue operation ... being run out of the Pentagon to keep [the MEK] a live and viable anti-Iranian group."
U.S. detains Iranian opposition fighters
(By Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post
12 September)
State Questions Military Tolerance of Iranian Dissidents
(Washington Post, September 11)
Mojahedin - old spies, new jobs?
(Spies who are coming out from the cold, Daily Star, September 6)
IRAQ'S MYSTERY TERRORISTS Are the Mujahideen-e-Khalq behind the Najaf massacre?
(antiwar.com September 3)
August 2003
Interview with Anne Singleton author of Saddam's Private Army (Dunia Al Arab)
What is the justification for helping terrorists in Iraq? (AFP, August 28)
State Department Amends Terrorist Designation of Mujahedin-e Khalq
(U.S. Department of State, August 15)
Washington 'must prove stand on terrorism' (Gulf Daily News, August 17)
Iranian exiles' offices shuttered (The Washington Times, August 15)
U.S. closes offices, freezes assets of Iranian opposition group (AP, August 15)
Proposed terrorist swap (irandidban, August 14)
Bush administration paralysed over Iran (Dawn International, August 10)
Mojahedin accused of fresh terrorist plans (Al-Hayat, August 9)
More conflict between Pentagon and State Department over fate of MKO (August 9)
Israel's Advocates Conspiring Against Iran (Al-Hayat, August 9)
MKO in western news (August 6)
Mojahedin use members' children to swell their numbers
U.S. May lose chance to negotiate with Iran (TheState.com, August 1)
July 2003
Maryam Rajavi in court. French judge questions Rajavi for 6 hours (AP, July 29)
News reports from Australia have implicated Mojahedin activists in an arson attack on a French school (July 29) More...
Anti-terror police raid Iranian group linked to Saddam (Financial Times, July 26)
Families abused in Ashraf Camp, Iraq (24 July)
Mixed messages on terrorism (AP, July 22)
Analysis - Changes in Iran will come about from within (Asia Times, July 22)
Mojahedin re-absorbed into Iraq's Intelligence Services (New York Times, July 21)
Quelling Iraqi Terror, Amir Taheri (New York Post, July 21)
BBC WORLD SERVICE James Menendez: 'Iran Mojahedin' (July 13)
Friends in High Places (The Guardian, July 15)
The Cult of Rajavi (New York Times Magazine, July 13)
Terror label aside, Iran exiles boast access (The Baltimore Sun, July 13)
MKO’s attacks on Kurds injured Lebanese family (Al-Hayat, July 13)
Crackdown Urged for Iranian Group on U.S. Terrorist List (Washington Post)
There is no bad terrorism!
June 2003
Iranian Opposition Movement's Many Faces (The New York Times, June 29)
Iranian Group Fights for Survival (AP, June 28)
Sleeping forces stir in Iran (Asia Times, June 26)
Islamist, Marxist ... terrorist Amir Taheri (The Wall Street Journal, June 26)
MKO Supporters Rally in France (San Francisco Chronicle, June 26)
Iranian Rebel Group Had Attack Plans, French Report Says (New York Times, June 25)
Fire Protest woman dies (BBC News, June 24)
France Says Iran Sect are 'Fanatics' (The Observer, June 22)
Analysts Debate Reasons for Sudden French Crackdown on 'Mujahedeen Khalq' (VOA, June 22)
Fourth Person in Fire Protest (BBC News, June 20)
French Raid Throws Exiled Iranian Militants into Spotlight
(Eurasianet.org, June 18)
Maryam Rajavi, Mojahedin activists arrested in Paris in major police operation - large quantity of money and computer equipment seized (BBC News, June 17)
Uneasy calm in Tehran streets (BBC, June 14)
Militia attack Tehran protesters (BBC, June 14)
Iranians protest for second night (BBC, June 12)
Rajavi's New Message... (June 12)
MKO Lies about Tehran protests (Iran Didban)
US Department Of Defence: We view the MEK as a Terrorist Organization and we are treating them as such. June 4 (Source: US. State Department in Persian)
Iranians protest against clerics (BBC, June 11)
Iran is no cakewalk (Jang Group Article, June 10)
BBC Monitoring (June 2-8)
US Department of Defense latest on MEK (June 4)
Pentagon denies support for Mojahedin
Australian police arrest Mojahedin supporters (ABC Online, June 3)
May 2003
US rejects claims by NCRI
Rajavi seduced by new bed-fellow before decree absolute from Saddam
(News Roundup from May)
Prez woos 'terror' ally vs. Iran (New York Post, May 30)
FOR SALE: Terrorist Organization... Waiting for final bids
Pentagon out of step with governments on MKO (The Guardian, May 29)
'Iranian opera singer, Taghadossi, will take legal action against Mojahedin' May 29
Iran hints at deal for al-Qaeda chief (Sydney Morning Herald, May 28)
Next Stop Tehran? (The Guardian, May 27)
Bolstering the Culture of Combating Terrorism (The Jordan Times, May 26)
Mojahedin's Intelligence Sources Revealed
Rajavi's effrontery over family visits May 22
4th Infantry Division Update on Mojahedin-e Khalq
(May 22)
The Future Of The Mujahideen Khalq
(Mahan Abedin, Daily Star, May 20)
America's Dubious Ally (Institute for war and peace reporting, Roger Howard, May 19)
Iraq: Amnesty International urges Bush and Blair to intervene in relation to "disappeared" (See Press Release from Iran-Interlink)
Media denied access to MKO bases in Iraq (Al-Hayat, May 12)
Press Release from Iran-Interlink (May 7)
British government on MKO (IRNA, May 6)
April 2003
Europe's Position, April 30
American Views (April 30)
US has no better friend than Iran!: What to do with the MKO cult? (Payvand News, USA, April 29)
Anti-Mojahedin feeling in Iraq (www.irandidban.com)
Human Rights Alert (April 15)
Mojahedin leaders to flee Iraq - Jordan offers safe passage (April 9)
News Digest - June 2003
Iraqi Support for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) - US Department of State
Iraqi Shias and the MKO (Washington Post)
Pentagon sets sights on a new Tehran regime
Cult or Opposition? (article)
Nourizadeh Article
Banned Mojahedin still active in UK (The Financial Times, March 21)
MEP Emma Nicholson on the Mojahedin (March)
UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee
Lords Hansard (UK Parliament, March 27)
February 2003
Emma Nicholson Warns of Iraqi Terrorist Threat
(Press Release, February 2, 2003)
European Parliament Debate links MKO to terrorism and Iraq (February 12)
Who are the People's Mujahedin of Iran? (WSWS Article)
Mojahedin-e Khalq from 'Patterns of Global Terrorism'
Torricelli's Terrorist-List Friends
With Friends Like These
The Terror Lobby
Iran: Washington Says Iranian Opposition Helping With Iraqi Security Operations
Pending human rights disaster (July 2002)
Proscription of MKO as terrorist group justified, says UK minister (October 24 2002)
Asefi says Iran opposes US attack on Iraq
Mojahedin threat to kill dissident
Opposition 'claims' Tehran blast
Iraq: UN human rights expert wraps up visit, first after 10-year hiatus
Iraq invites human rights inspection 29/01/02 Iraqi leaders: Accused of brutal repression of opponents
Iran released 700 Iraqi POWs as a goodwill gesture
28/01/02 see also Report on Mojahedin dissidents in Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison - many transferred to Iran
Saddam's Deadly Secret
(Aaron Sands, Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 2001)
Mujahedeen Khalq - Baby Snatchers
(KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rebwar Fatah, February 23, 2000)