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02-11-05
Yesterday in
parliament
Press Association
Iran
"Mr Straw ruled out a policy of regime change against Iran. He told MPs: "I
have to say to you that regime change in Iran is not part of the policy of
Her Majesty's government, nor do I think it would be wise."
A call for Britain to support the Iranian resistance movement following the
country's president's declaration that Israel should be "wiped off the map"
was rejected by the government. Although condemning president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's remarks, junior Foreign Office minister Lord Triesman told
Labour's Lord Corbett of Castle Vale that the MEK resistance group was
banned in the UK as a terrorist organisation."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,1606763,00.html
01-10-05
Saddam Hussein Trial
implicates MKO
www.mojahedin.ws
The Saudi Arabia paper, Al-Vatan, announced that Saddam Hussein is under
investigation for his crimes in the massacre of Iraqi people in an operation
called Anfal. In this operation carried out by Saddam,s commend many Iraqi
opponents were slaughtered by Baath forces and the investigations seem to
have revealed traces of Mojahedin Khalq in the killings. “Through the
investigation Saddam watched his own videotaped crimes”, the paper added. A
reliable international network had earlier made a documentary entitled
“Killing the Kurds” that depicted the killing of Iraqi innocent people with
the collaboration of the terrorist MKO. It seems that when Saddam officially
stands on trial for his crimes, new, shocking facts about MKO collaboration
with the ousted Iraqi dictator will emerge. That is why the organization has
stared a novel move of propaganda to deceive Iraqi people to legitimize its
stay in Iraq.
40
Mojahedin to go on trial in Iraq
Voice of Ashena Radio [Iran] in a news program quoted a US official
saying that 40 MKO members would go on trial on charges of collaboration in
killing Iraqi people. The 40 culprits are in Camp Ashraf at the present.
“These members will stand trial in Iraq for inhuman crimes against Iraqi
people in collaboration with Saddam”, the official said.
13 more defectors
returned home
Voice of Ashena Radio [Iran] in a news program on 26 Sep. announced that
13 more separated members of MKO returned to Iran. Referring to the MKO’s
camp conditions, the radio promised more separations and returning of
members to Iran. The 13 returnees were repatriated under the supervision of
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and they faced no
problem by the Iranian authorities to return to their families. It should be
noted that during the past two years a remarkable number of separated
members have returned to Iran and the returnees contact with their friends,
kept in the US controlled camps, has increased the number of returnees. To
stop the growing number of separators, the organization had rumored that the
Islamic Republic had tortured many returnees but their friends contact from
Iran assured them that MKO had deceived them once more.
14-08-05
BBC
Monitoring Quotes from Iranian Press 14 August 2005
Nuclear
issue
Jomhuri-ye Eslami [hard-line pro-Khamene'i newspaper]: "There are some
points in the Paris agreement that have been breached by the Europeans, eg.
the terrorist nature of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). However the
Europeans have decided to adopt a new policy in this regard and forget the
terrorist nature of the organization. This is blatant disgrace for the
Europeans On the basis of what has been witnessed so far, the ratified
resolution against Iran was in fact written by America, and the Europeans
only played the role of a postman for the IAEA Supporting terrorism while
pretending to combat terrorism is an obvious paradox in the behaviour and
stance of the West."
11-07-05
Newsweek
The breakthrough revelation about Iran's nuclear-enrichment program came in
August 2002 from the front organization for an Iranian exile group on the
State Department's list of terrorist organizations, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
At a press conference in Washington, it exposed the existence of the Natanz
uranium-enrichment facility. The group insisted that the tip came from its
own sources, but inspectors suspect that the MEK was given the intelligence
by an interested government. International Atomic Energy Agency
Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei is among those skeptical about the MEK.
"I'm sure this [group] is not the original source of the information," he
told NEWSWEEK.
09-04-05
Challenging the MKO Lobby
According to Mehr News Agency , Barbara Slavin, USA Today correspondent,
challenged Raymond Tanter about his support for terrorist organization
Mojahedin-e Khalq.
Raymond Tanter was speaking at a press conference for the Committee of
Policymaking on Iran in which some former senior officials of the US were
also present. This Committee supports Mojahedin in reviewing the US
alternatives for confronting Iran.
Slavin said that none of the MKO supporters have visited Iran after the
revolution. She referred to her recent observations in Iran and said: “None
of the Iranians support Mojahedin-e Khalq. So, if the US takes the policy of
supporting this group, Iranians will not accept this decision by
Washington.”
22-03-05
Iran Opposition
Group Wants Militia off UK Terror List
Dow Jones International
News
LONDON
(AP)--An Iranian opposition group on Tuesday called on the U.K. government
to remove the People's Mujahedeen militia from a list of terrorist
organizations.
The U.K.'s Foreign Office
on Tuesday denied that the status of the Mujahedeen was a negotiating chip
between the E.U.-3 and Tehran. A spokesman said that given the group's
violent campaign against the government in Tehran, there was nothing to
suggest the terrorist label should be lifted.
05-02-05
France
cancels MKO's demonstration in Paris
French authorities today cancelled a planned demonstration by the Mojahedin
which was to be held on February 10 in Paris. The authorities had agreed to
the demonstration in Place Trocadero three weeks ago.
The demonstration which the MKO advertised as "simultaneous
with the 26th anniversary of the clerical rule in Iran" had
been widely advertised. Some of those who were to attend had already been
brought to France and put up in hotels in the city.
03-02-05
US Unmasks MKO’s
Financial Tricks
US Department of State
U.S. Assistant
Treasury Secretary Juan Zarate, referring to the fact that terrorist
financing is an "evolving" threat, said that “MEK [Iranian terrorist group
Mujahideen-e-Khalq] hold fundraising events, where like-minded individuals
are invited to contribute funds ultimately meant for terrorist activities.”
“Terrorist financiers are constantly adapting to international anti-crime
efforts and finding new ways to bankroll their activities,” he added.
He declared that “the U.S. government is working to provide better
information to the global financial community in the campaign to eliminate
terrorist organizations' money supply.”
Zarate also added: “In this realm, we know that terrorist groups of all
stripes use a variety of mechanisms to raise and move money. Every day it
becomes more apparent that following dirty money and attacking its illicit
sources is an essential part of winning the financial war on terrorism. If
we scatter the terrorists, deny them cash, and smother their attempts to
funnel their ill-gotten gains through the international financial system, we
can make their lives all the more miserable, and their despicable efforts
all the more powerless.”
31-01-05
Election-day security hailed in Iraq
Despite hundreds of attacks, voters persevered
By Karl Vick, Washington Post
...the striking success of election security was the talk of Baghdad on
Monday.
...The emphasis this time, however, was on the Iraqi forces. About 100,000
recently trained Iraqi soldiers and police officers were on duty over the
weekend, supplementing the 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. And while the
Americans held the streets and stood primed to help, it was Iraqi forces who
stood guard at the nation's 5,000 polling sites.
...As a final touch, Iraq's new army rolled out its armor. On election day,
Soviet-era T-55 tanks and armored personnel carriers were stationed on
squares in Baghdad. Apparently the only bits of Iraqi armor not destroyed in
the invasion, a U.S. official said, were reclaimed from the Mujaheddin-e
Khalq, an Iranian opposition militia that Hussein had armed and used as a
surrogate force inside Iraq.
20-01-05
Dozens rejected at
U.S. borders, airports
Suspected links to terrorism
By JIM BRONSKILL
OTTAWA (CP) -
Dozens of people from Canada have been turned back at the American border or
prevented from boarding U.S.-bound airplanes in recent months because of
suspected links to terrorism, newly obtained memos show.
The cases include individuals on a U.S. "no-fly" list and others who showed
up on the State Department's Tipoff watch list, which contains the names of
more than 100,000 possible terrorists. The incidents are detailed in a
series of daily briefs published between September 2004 and this month by
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's operations centre.
Copies of the memos were posted on the Cryptome website, a New York-based
resource dedicated to shedding light on the workings of the security world.
Among the cases:
-U.S. officers at Alexandria Bay, N.Y., denied entry to 25 Canadians with
possible links to the terrorist group Mujahedin e-Khalq en route Nov. 19 to
a protest rally in Washington sponsored by the Council for Freedom and
Democracy in Iran.
Dozens
rejected at Canada-U.S. borders over terror links
Associated Press --
OTTAWA - Dozens of people from Canada have been turned back at the U.S.
border or prevented from boarding U.S.-bound airplanes in recent months
because of suspected links to terrorism, sensitive U.S. government documents
show.
The incidents are detailed in a series of daily briefs published between
September and this month by the Department of Homeland Security's operations
center. They contain no classified information but are generally intended to
remain secret.
The briefs reveal details of numerous individual cases and provide insight
into the close co-operation between Canadian authorities and the U.S.
security department...
...25 Canadians with possible links to Iran's opposition Mujahedin e-Khalq
military force were stopped November 19 while trying to attend a Washington
D.C. protest rally. The State Department has classified the group as a
terrorist organization.
13-01-05
Penitent members of terrorist MKO return home
Tehran, Jan 12, IRNA -- Some 13 penitent members of the terrorist (Mojahedin
Khalq Organization (MKO) returned home on Wednesday.
They arrived at Mehrabad International Airport under supervision of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Talking to IRNA reporter at the airport, the group, including a woman,
voiced delight with their return to Iran.
They will join their families after medical tests which may last five to
seven days, said a security official at Mehrabad International Airport.
Another 28 members of the terrorist MKO came home on December 25, 2004 under
the ICRC coordination.
12-01-05
12 More MKO to return to Iran
Twelve MKO members, who have been released
from the clutch of terrorist cult, will enter Tehran on Wednesday.
According to the political correspondent of Fars News agency, 28 other
members of MKO had returned to Iran in the previous weeks by the assistance
of Red Cross.
They were transferred from Iraq to Iran by Red Cross’s airplane.
According to Mehr News Agency, an official of Nejat Association said: “some
other separated members of MKO will return to Iran as soon as possible.”
“The exact number of them is not sill clear but one of them has called his
brother in Iran and has informed him,” he added.
He said: “by pursuing the case through official channels, we confirmed the
validity of this event and these MKO members are supposed to enter Iran
officially.”
After Iraq was occupied by US forces, a large number of MKO members asked to
leave the group. Some of them have returned to the country and their family
by the efforts of Iranian authorities.
12-01-05
IRNA - MKO Supporters must leave US
Four Iranian brothers, linked to the terrorist MKO, who have been in Jail in
the US for more than three years will probably be released and be deported
to a third-country.
Mohsen, Mojtaba, Mohammed and Mostafa Mir Mehdi had
been once detained earlier for lying in their asylum applications but they
were released on bail in 1999. Once again, they were arrested in October
2001 for violating immigration laws and having links to the terrorist
organization of Mojahedin-e khalq.
Mojahedin terrorist organization has been on US terror list since 1997.
Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman of State Department, said in a press conference
that “the status of Mojahedin-e khalq has not changed and is still
considered a terrorist organization and we treat them as a foreign terrorist
organization.”
Los Angeles Times, in a detailed report on the status of these four Iranian
brothers, wrote: “Federal government considers these people (who are
opponents of Islamic Republic) as national threat and links them to
terrorism and is going to deport them.”
According to the Times, Homeland Security have ordered their deportation due
to their links to a terrorist organization and according to two articles of
nationalism law.
According to this report, a Judge has given the government February 20th to
release the brothers.
The paper writes: “the stance of government toward these people is important
since the group which brothers are linked to is Mojahedin-e khalq. MKO,
despite being on terrorist list of US State
Department, enjoys wide
support from some people in the Congress.”
Los Angeles Times says two judges had ruled that brothers are not entitled
to receive political asylum since they had lied.
“The only solution for the government is to find a third-country which will
accept them. But immigration experts believe that thanks to their links with
terrorists, no country will accept them.”
16-12-04
United States Department of Defence Briefings - December 16, 2004
Presenter: General George W. Casey, Jr., Commander, Multi-National Force
Iraq
Q: …And would you also address down in the south, it's my understand
you all are still holding some number of Mujahideen-e-khalq at a camp down
near Kuwait. What's their status? How many are there? And what's going to
finally happen to them? And when?
GEN. CASEY: Last part first. That's more up north. There are -- my
last recollection is that there was about 3,000 MEK folks still there at a
camp, that we are working their process with the Red Cross. I do not have a
timeline of when that process will be completed.
Q: So what will happen to them?
GEN. CASEY: Their ultimate disposition, where they --
Q: Where are they going to go?
GEN. CASEY: Almost every one of them has a different story, so it's
a variety of different places.
08-12-04
Violence not necessary for change in Iran
The Seatle Times reports that a new US campaign against Iran could bring
together Iranian dissidents, human-rights advocates and nongovernmental
organizations to put pressure on Iran. This approach would push aside the
terrorist MEK and promote the genuine democratic opposition bodies which
have been neglected in recent years by those who have advocated regime
change by violent means.
Extracts from The Seatle Times article:
"...Officials in the White House and the Defense Department are developing
plans to increase public criticism of Iran's human-rights record, offer
stronger backing to exiles and other opponents of Iran's repressive
theocratic government and collect better intelligence on Iran, according to
U.S. officials, congressional aides and others."
"...However, with the U.S. military now stretched thin by the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, the new campaign may be intended not to build support for
military action against Iran, but to pressure Iran to change its behavior so
military action isn't necessary."
"...The
administration was never able to agree on an Iran policy during Bush's first
term. The State Department favored engagement and international action,
while officials in the Defense Department and Vice President Dick Cheney's
office proposed backing the MEK and considering military action against
Iran's nuclear facilities."
[the Iraq-based Mojahedin Khalq (MEK), remains on the State Department's
list of foreign terrorist groups]
"...But while many
Iranians, particularly the young, are fed up with their rulers and even
pro-American, they're also deeply suspicious of foreign meddling in Iranian
politics."
"...The spending bill passed by Congress last month includes a provision,
sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for $3 million to promote democracy
in Iran.
Some of the money could be used to stage a U.S. conference of Iranian
dissidents, human-rights advocates and nongovernmental organizations."
Read the full article.
06-12-04
Mojahedin will be
Tried
Fars News Agency
(translated by Irandidban) -- Iraqi interior minister announced that
his country won’t let Mojahedin- which has committed crimes Iran and Iraq-
to use its soil as a base for acting against Iran.
Fallah Al-Naqib, interior minister of Iraqi interim government, in an
interview with Al-Alam news network said: “We said to our brothers in Iran
that no one will be allowed to act against Iran from Iraq.”
He added: “Mojahedin-e khalq is now being restricted and it does nothing
against iran.”
He noted that, regarding the issue of crime and criminal acts, MKO members
will be tried. “We believe that anyone who commits a crime should be tried.”
Al-Naqib expressed hope that Mojahedin will leave Iraq.
06-12-04
Iran-Egypt cooperation over terrorism - MKO
CAIRO (Reuters) -- Iran has secretly handed over to Egypt prominent militant
Mustafa Hamza, leader of the Gama'a al-Islamiya group that tried to
overthrow the Egyptian government in the 1990s, a London-based activist said
on Sunday.
Hani el-Sibai, who runs the Maqrizi Centre for Historical Studies, told
Reuters that Iran sent Hamza back to Egypt in October in exchange for
information about members of the Iranian opposition Mujahideen Khalq group
living in Egypt.
01-12-04
Cooperation between
Mossad and Mojahedin revealed in book
'Chain of Command' by Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize Winner
A high ranking official in the IAEA confirmed that the original source of
intelligence related to Iran's nuclear activities which the Mojahedin
revealed has been Israel's intelligence service.
The Israeli spies have close relations with the MKO and through this gave
their intelligence to the National Council of Resistance. An official of
IAEA told me (Seymour Hersh) that the agency is aware that the information
given out about Iran's nuclear activities has been fed to the NCRI by
Israel. He didn't explain how the IAEA knew about this.
An Israeli diplomat in Washington talking about these revelations has
referred to this Council as a 'Mickey Mouse'.
21-11-04
Draft statement for Sharm Al-Sheikh
conference ready
Emine Kart, The Turkish Daily News, November 21, 2004
...Terrorist threats directed at Iraq's neighbouring countries from Iraqi
land, such as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Mujahedin-e
Khalq, are to be mentioned in a final statement of an international
conference on Iraq that is to take place in Egypt next week.
..."The threats directed at neighbouring countries from Iraqi land -- such
as the PKK and the Mujahedin-e Khalq -- must be halted," says the draft
final statement.
The fact that these terrorist threats would be articulated on an
international platform is very important, an official said.
01-11-04
Mohammed Delbah/Al-Wasat
newspaper
Washington: a US official reported the possibility of trying 40 members
of Mojahedin-e khalq in the US.
Ashraf camp, located in north of Baghdad, hosts 3800 MKO members. These
members are concerned about their future.
This newspaper quotes the US official, speaking on the condition of
anonymity, as saying: "it seems that the trial for these members would be
held in Iraq. Some of its members will be tried for committing crimes
against humanity and assisting Saddam Hussein in suppressing the Kurds and
Shiites in 1991."
He also added that 4-6 of them will be taken to the US to be tried there for
the terrorist actions they have done.
Meanwhile, some conservatives in the US, as well as the officials of the
State Department, argue that arresting the members of this group and
disarming them in Iraq is not enough and that the US should look at them as
bargaining chips. They believe the US should return them to Iranian
officials according to a deal with this country.
31-10-04
IRNA - The
European Union will continue efforts to try and establish fruitful relations
with Iran, according to European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy.
Speaking at a debate on Iran in the European Parliament in Strasbourg
Thursday evening, Lamy said, "It is crucial, and I am convinced that many
members here will agree with me on this, to continue to try and establish
fruitful and normal relations between the EU and Iran."
In reply to a call by the Portugese MEP, Paulo Casaca, to remove the MKO
grouplet from the EU terrorist list, Lamy said the list has been drawn up by
the EU Council of Ministers and the commission has no say in the matter.
25-10-04
Seven more MKO
welcomed back in Iran
Frances Harrison, BBC World News reported from a hotel in Tehran where seven
MKO members were reunited with their families. The seven had recently
escaped from an American base in Iraq where they were being held with around
500 others who had also expressed their wish to separate from the MKO and
return home to Iran.
One of the returnees said the US army was hand in hand with the MKO. He
complained of mistreatment at the hands of US forces in this context.
17-10-04
Three
MKO escaped back to Iran
A Baztab correspondent
reported that 3 Iranian youths who had been deceived by Mojahedin-e khalq,
have succeeded in escaping from MKO's camp in Iraq.
According to the report, three Iranians (one aged at 30 and two others under
30) had been deceived by Mojahedin's agents in Iran and were recruited by
this terrorist group after the Persian Gulf War.
Baztab's correspondent adds that "these three men, who had escaped from Camp
Ashraf, were living in the American's camp near Baghdad."
They had visited Iran's embassy in Baghdad and had asked to be returned to
their country.
Eventually, they were returned and they're now with their families.
30-09-04
Irandidban - Mohammed
Seyed al-Mohaddessin, an MKO member in France, announced that the French
Judiciary has arrested an MKO agent in connection with the case of June 17th
and the illegal financial activities of this organization.
The person arrested is allegedly the "MKO's Cashier".
Currently the French Judiciary is investigating several MKO-linked cases in
France.
Lawyers of this group, while accepting the allegations, try to stop the
prosecution by resorting to a law which means that the French government
can't investigate a person who has committed a crime outside the country.
But illegal financial acts (such as money laundering) have been conducted by
this group inside France and the Judiciary can pursue them. It seems that
the detention of this man is in line with this investigation.
30-07-04
TEHRAN, July 30: During a
landmark two-day visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Turkey and Iran signed a security agreement here on Thursday pledging to
jointly combat Turkish Kurd rebels and anti- Iranian fighters, but failed to
resolve a series of bitter trade disputes.
"Both Iran and Turkey have decided to brand the PKK and MKO as terrorist
groups, and what was signed today stated that even if they continue to
operate under different names, they will continue to be dealt with as
terrorist groups," said Iran's Combined dispatches and staff reports.
ty interior minister for
security affairs, Ali Asghar Ahmadi. (AFP)
28-07-04
IRAN
Protected status for guerrillas faulted
The Washington
Times, Combined dispatches and staff reports.
TEHRAN — Iran responded angrily yesterday to the U.S. decision to grant
protected status to the Iraq-based People's Mojahedin, the main Iranian
armed opposition group, saying it proved Washington's war on terrorism is a
sham.
"The United States is using its fight against terrorism as a tool, and
we knew from the beginning that this fight is void and they are not
serious," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Foreign Ministry
spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying.
"Using the Geneva Convention to protect this terrorist group is naive
and unacceptable," he said. The United States confirmed Monday it had
granted protected status to nearly 4,000 members of the People's Mojahedin,
now confined to a military-run camp in western Iraq.
The U.S. State Department stressed, however, that the move had no effect
on the "foreign terrorist organization" designation of the group, also known
as the Mojahedin-e-Khalq.
21-05-04
Although the world media
focus on Iraq shows a place in which killings, torture and civil unrest are
order of the day, the Mojahedin have apparently decided it is the safest
place in the world for them. The Iraq Governing Council voted to expel the
Mojahedin because of "the black history of this terrorist organization and
for the crimes it had committed against our people and our neighbours."
According to the Associated Press the organization claims its members would
face "torture and execution if they were extradited to Iran". Some MKO
members have citizenship or residency rights in other countries, but as yet
none has been able to leave Iraq for safety.
As the need to resolve the Mojahedin's status before the June 30 transfer of
sovereignty arrives, Britain's Foreign Office said "people at the camp were
being screened and identified". Of course it is important to weed out those
who are culpable for crimes against humanity such as Massoud Rajavi and his
henchmen.
Yet UK MP Win Griffiths says he is worried the coalition would "wash their
hands of the matter" following the handover. This is a very real concern
since many people in Iraq might take the law into their own hands and
massacre the MKO in revenge for their crimes committed on behalf of Saddam
Hussein.
12-05-04
After a period of
absolute silence, the Mojahedin have again ventured into English language
broadcasts. This time it comes from Washington, DC in the USA.
The National Coalition of Pro-Democracy Advocates is a front name for the
Mojahedin. The website is clearly trying to disguise this fact. This
confirms that efforts are being made to re-invent themselves and evade
accountability for their past.
23-04-04
Mahan Abedin (Lebanese
Daily Star, 'Iran and Moqtada al-Sadr: the limits of cooperation')
wrote: "Sadr, for his part, made Iran a dizzying offer of security-related
cooperation. In particular he proposed a daring and audacious plan to attack
the remnants of the Iranian opposition Mujahideen Khalq's (MKO) quarantined
forces at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. This amateurish plan was rejected outright,
not least because Iranian intelligence was keen to protect its own assets in
Ashraf.
"Despite their misgivings with Sadr, the Iranians treated him and his
entourage to a tour of the regional headquarters of the Quds Brigades in
Ahvaz. The complex has served as a coordination center for all covert
activities in Iraq since March 1991. Furthermore, and despite objections
from the highest Iranian echelons, a limited form of covert cooperation was
initiated with the Sadrists. This essentially revolved around the
assassination of ex-Iraqi Baathists, particularly those who had handled
liaison with the MKO and had been involved in covert operations against
Iran. The Sadrists' nascent security apparatus was also tasked with keeping
MKO members under surveillance - for despite its disarmament by American
forces, the MKO continues to enjoy freedom of movement in Iraq.
"This limited form of cooperation was brought to an abrupt halt in November
2003, after a Sadrist security unit ambushed a car carrying four
Europe-based MKO cadres traveling from the Jordanian border to Camp Ashraf
as part of a morale-boosting trip. The four occupants of the car were killed
outright. Reportedly, one of them was an Iranian intelligence asset who had
been infiltrated into the Netherlands station of the MKO. The Iranians were
incensed by the unauthorized ambush and immediately terminated the
intelligence relationship with Sadr."
Comment: For twenty years the MKO has suffered infiltration in their bases
in Iraq, European countries and the US. This infiltration has sometimes
reached the media because of interference by police in some countries.
Before Gulf War II the MKO had stopped sending terrorist teams over the
border into Iran because every single one was being detained just over the
border by Iran. The MKO never commented about these infiltrations but it is
common knowledge that the main cause of it was the organisation's conversion
into a cult which anyone and everyone could infiltrate by pretending to be a
devoted follower of Rajavi and his wife. It is ironic that although the MKO
has accused over 700 people who have been openly critical of them, including
over seventy well-known personalities, of working for the intelligence
ministry of Iran, Rajavi has never commented about the endemic infiltration
inside his own organisation.
The
exponential growth of infiltration of the MKO from every possible source
begs the question: Massoud Rajavi, is anyone still working for YOU anymore?
20-04-04
MKO
Will Be Expelled From Iraq by June: Iraqi Immigration Minister
BAGHDAD (Mehr News Agency) –- Speaking at a mourning observance for the
assassinated Iranian diplomat, Khalil Na’imi, at the Iranian embassy, the
Iraqi Immigration Minister, Mohamed Jasim Khazir said on Monday that members
of the Mojahedin-Khalq Organization will be expelled from Iraq by June 30.
Khazir stated that although pressure has been
put on the Iraqi interim administration by some international organizations
not to expel MKO members, the expulsions will be carried out by June 30, the
Central News Bureau reported.
The MKO, known as Monafeqin in Iran, have committed many terrorist acts in
this country. The organization has been branded as a terrorist organization
by both the U.S. and the European Union.
Khazir said terrorists kill sincere figures with the aim of creating anarchy
in Iraq.
Unknown assailants killed Na’imi, the first secretary of Iranian Embassy in
Baghdad, last Thursday outside the embassy.
18-04-04
MKO Banned from Human
Rights Commission
On April 7, The United
Nations Human Rights Commission banned Mojahedin-e Khalq members from
entering its session which was being held in Geneva and announced that the
reason is that the Mojahedin is a terrorist organization.
MKO members, in an
interview with a Swedish newspaper, said that they have complained to the UN
Chief in New York and Geneva about not being allowed to participate in the
meeting session of the Human Rights Commission.
The United Nations is well
aware that the Mojahedin, using false information, tries to affect the works
of the Human Rights Commission.
14-04-04
Iraq moves to remove Mojahedin
Following the agreement with Turkey to return
13,000 Turkish refugees, Iraqi Minister of Immigration Mohammad Jassim
Khudhair is in talks with the Iranian government to reach a similar
agreement that allows the return of the Iranian refugees from the
Mojahedin-e Khalq.
He emphasized that if the Iranian government refused to
give guarantees other than the pardon it issued, Iraq would submit the case
to the United Nations to take necessary actions.
Source: Xinhua
13-04-04
Sweden targeted as site
for Massoud Rajavi's cult HQ
The Swedish government is reportedly happy to accept back into the country
several hundred MKO members with previous ties to Sweden who are currently
being held in Iraq as terrorists.
The Mojahedin has persuaded some Iranian refugees in Scandinavia to falsely
claim that MKO members in Iraq are their relatives. Many forged documents
have already been circulated and these people are being rehearsed for
interviews with immigration officials.
05-04-04
Family members denied
visits
After the Mojahedin accused Nejat Association of ties with the Iranian
regime, several families traveled independently from Iran to visit their
relatives in Ashraf camp in Iraq. In spite of this they were denied access
to visit their family members in the camp. After protests, one family was
granted an interview with their relative. The meeting was terminated after
only ten minutes by Mojahedin officials who were supervising the meeting
when the member began to ask for help from his family. There is now concern
for the welfare of this member.
03-03-04
MKO-Israel Intelligence
ties
In an article about nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan, Seymour M. Hersh
wrote:
"The most recent revelations about the nuclear black market were triggered
by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a now defunct opposition
group that has served as the political wing of the People’s Mujahideen
Khalq, a group that has been on the State Department’s list of terrorist
organizations since 1997. The National Council lobbied in Washington for
decades, and offered information—not always accurate—about Iran…
… On a trip to the Middle East last month, I was told that a number of years
ago the Israeli signals-intelligence agency, known as Unit 8200, broke a
sophisticated Iranian code and began monitoring communications that included
talk between Iran and Pakistan about Iran’s burgeoning nuclear-weapons
program. The Israeli intelligence community has many covert contacts inside
Iran, stemming from the strong ties it had there before the overthrow of the
Shah, in 1979; some of these ties still exist. Israeli intelligence also
maintained close contact with many Iranian opposition groups, such as the
National Council. A connection was made—directly or indirectly—and the
Israeli intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program reached the National
Council. A senior I.A.E.A. official subsequently told me that he knew that
the Council’s information had originated with Israeli intelligence, but he
refused to say where he had learned that fact. (An Israeli diplomat in
Washington, asked to comment, said, “Why would we work with a Mickey Mouse
outlet like the Council?”)"
Intelligence Review
The first of
the leading neo-con manipulators of the Bush Presidency is out, with the
forced resignation of Richard Perle—sometime "Prince of Darkness," now under
a very bright light of exposure and investigation—from the Pentagon's
Defense Policy Board which he headed until last year.
Let's not diminish the significance of Perle himself, and bringing him to
justice. How is this neo-con power broker of Washington and Tel Aviv
corrupt? Let us count the ways. For 25 years, Richard Perle has seemed to
survive against impossible odds, whenever he was caught in shady business
dealings, and webs of intrigue and espionage. Only the most recent:
Perle consorted with State Department-listed
terrorists, the Mujahideen E-Khalq (MEK) organization, at a Jan. 24
fundraising event. Perle would not say how much he was paid, and said that
he didn't know the sponsor was really the MEK—although he's a self-described
terrorism expert; and although Rep. Bob Ney (R-Oh.) had publically asked the
Justice Department to shut down the Jan. 24 event. The Washington Post
reported on Jan. 29, "FBI agents attended [the rally] and as part of a
continuing investigation, the Treasury Dept. on Monday froze the assets of
the event's prime organizer."
25-02-04
Conservatives want to use the MKO
The San
Francisco Chronicle reported a push by conservatives to harden US policy
toward Iran by supporting the terrorist MKO. The report said: 'There is
even pressure to support the Mujahedeen Khalq, an anti-Tehran guerrilla
group that has had off-again-on-again relations with the United States over
many years and now is on the State Department's list of terrorist
organizations.'
Efforts to remove the MKO from the list of terrorist entities are led by
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a member of the House International Relations
Committee. He told
the Chronicle: "There should be
aggressive support for opposition parties inside Iran and dissident groups
outside Iran." He cited the MKO as the leading example.
Shireen Hunter, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington put forward a different view.
"Frankly, there's not much that the United States is going to do," she
told the Chronicle. "I think there will be a cooling-off period, but the
United States will be willing to continue dialogue," probably using the
Europeans as proxies, she said. "There is no reason to expect a big
revolt by the Iranian people in the near future."
23-02-04
Iraq's Oil Company is
finalizing its review of the finance and other rewards that Saddam gave to
various groups and personalities.
Dr. Ibrahim Bahr Al-Oloom, Iraq's Oil Minister said this is very important
issue for the IGC and that the Ministry is now managing the final lists and
information. He added: after the information is gathered, the Ministry will
hand it to the IGC so that it can make decisions based on it. We are very
sharp in reviewing the relation of Saddam with these groups and
personalities and companies.
The Mojahedin is a group which received a lot of money from Saddam via its
bank accounts in the UK.
He said the Oil Ministry will give its evidence to the IGC to prove its
claims. The Council will then decide on the issue.
17-02-04
Berlin,
IRNA, 17 Feb -- German Federal Border Police intercepted 11 MKO terrorists
at Frankfurt`s Rhein-Main Airport as they tried to enter the country
following their flight from Amman, Jordan, the daily Die Tageszeitung said
Tuesday.
Police also confiscated the passports of the MKO terrorists and the group is
reportedly facing immediate deportation proceedings. Some of the 11 MKO
terrorists who are allegedly recognized asylum-seekers in Germany, might
also have their asylum status
repealed by German authorities.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by Germany`s domestic secret
service, Verfassungsschutz.
The German media reported earlier that hundreds of MKO terrorists who are
still trapped in Iraq, have been trying to sneak back into Europe via
Jordan.
2051/AH/210
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11-02-04
George Tenet, head of the
CIA, referred in speeches made in George Town University, Washington, to US
intelligence which rendered void the Israel-MKO joint game about Iran's
nuclear activities.
He said: It is flat wrong to say that we were surprised by reports from the
Iranian opposition last year!
The MKO used satellite pictures which they got from Israel to introduce
Natanz as a nuclear site. The IAEA denied this.
The discredited intelligence was revealed by the Mojahedin's US spokesman,
Alireza Jafarzadeh, who is currently trying to evade deportation from the
US.
08-02-04
Following articles published by Justin Raimondo on the Antiwar.com website
about the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq, members of the group began running a
campaign of violent insults against him …
Pay
attention to the following example:
"To us Iranians who are waiting to liberate our country from your masters,
terrorist mullahs, you are a sick terrorist collaborator and a sorry excuse
for a human being. You should be charged by the international criminal court
of justice for your blatant collaboration with the terrorist regime in Iran.
And I, as an Iranian promise you when your terrorist friends in Iran are
toppled, I will make it my life mission to do everything possible to make
sure you are prosecuted along with your terrorist friends for crimes against
Iranian people.
I am sure you know, and if you don't you can search in history books, what
happened to those reporters or writers that collaborated with Hitler and
Nazis.
Their fate should be a lesson to you and other brain dead writers like you.
You are nothing but a cheap puppet in the hands of terrorist mullahs in Iran
and I am sure when they have no more use for you, they will throw you to the
garbage can, where you belong.
I am appalled that Antiwar.com allows you to misuse its site by writing
garbage articles." ~ Mahmoud Tab
Justin Raimondo replies:
That sounds like a threat to me. But
it wasn't for nothing that the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, which you support, was put
on the US government's official list of terrorist organizations.
"I
think you owe the Iranian people an apology. Please read the following
article and tell me who you are supporting: 'British politicians against
expulsion of Iran's Mujahedeen from Iraq.'" ~ Moe Mehdi
[Refer to Iran-Interlink's Brief 14 for more information.]
Justin
Raimondo replies:
I have gotten about a dozen of the same zombie-like letters, all reiterating
the same garbage: if you don't support the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, then you must
support the mullahs.
No way, Jose – it doesn't work that way. And you and your comrades don't do
your cause any good by writing letters that sound so alike in their robotic
sameness. Ease up on the Kool-Aid.
29-01-04
Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), in a
letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft, identified Alireza Jafarzadeh as
the head of an Iranian exile group that the U.S. government lists as a
terrorist organization, the Mojahedin-e Khalq. Jafarzadeh is now working as
a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs for Fox News.
"I watch Fox News, I like Fox News, but I was shocked to see him on there,"
the congressman told The Washington Post. Ney has demanded that the network
inform viewers about Jafarzadeh's background. He told The Washington Post,
"I don't think they're fair and balanced on this issue."
In August, officials from Justice, Treasury and State shut Jafarzadeh's
Washington office, where he worked as the U.S. representative for the
National Council of Resistance of Iran. According to State Department
officials, that group is an alias for MEK.
The Justice Department is reviewing Ney's letter.
See: Terrorist employed in US media
22-01-04
Attempts to rescue cult victims in Iraq
A number of former Mojahedin members, who have separated from the group,
visited the MKO headquarters in the Andalus district in Baghdad. The camp,
known as "Andalus Camp", had been the meeting place for the MKO's leader
with his henchmen.
The ten member Committee which entered Iraq officially wants to pave the way
for the freedom of other MKO members.
A number of members, who were deceived by the cult, couldn't leave due to
the Mojahedin's internal regulations.
The Committee met with a number of tribesmen, media and social-political
activists in Iraq.
MKO's Fraudulent Fundraising Event
Exposed
The Mojahedin (MEK, MKO), listing its own pseudo-organizations as sponsors
alongside other legitimate organizations, has begun its predicted
exploitation of Bam's earthquake and its
victims by announcing a 'fundraising' event.
According to 'The Hill' publication: "Of the 23 organizations listed as
sponsors for the event, 17 are known MEK front groups or linked to prominent
MEK members and activists. None appears to be registered with the Internal
Revenue Service or state agencies as legitimate businesses or charities."
The Hill went on to report: "At least one group that is not affiliated
with the MEK – Loyola University of Chicago — says it was fraudulently
listed as a sponsor."
Tim Mehdi Ghaemi, a spokesman for one of the Mojahedin's front organizations
told The Denver Post "the fundraiser
is to support 'regime change' in Iran as well as quake victims, but MEK is
not the beneficiary".
Observers who have studied the MKO's tactics for years say that this is
shorthand for 'fundraising for the MKO' and state that not a dime will find
its way to the earthquake victims in Iran.
19-01-04
Damning evidence of Rajavi's co-operation with
Saddam regime
December 31, 2003 Al Jazeera network broadcast
a secretly filmed meeting between Rajavi's Mojahedin and the Iraqi
Intelligence Service.
According to the former head of Iraq's Intelligence Service, the Iraqi
regime gave tens of millions of dollars to the Rajavi's Mojahedin over a
period of time. The film, taken by the hidden camera of Estekhbarat, shows
Rajavi's group getting money from the Intelligence Service and discussion
about Rajavi's activities with them.
Another film shows a meeting between former Head of Iraq's Intelligence
Service, General Taher Jalil Haboosh, and Massoud Rajavi. In this film, he
delivers documents gifting 25 Chieftain Tanks to Rajavi's Liberation Army.
As well as Rajavi, Mehdi Abrishamchi (currently in Europe), Mehdi Barayee
and Ahmad Afshar participated in accepting money and weapons from the former
Iraqi regime.
9-01-04
Austria Refuses MKO
The Press Section of Austria's
Foreign Ministry, in an interview with Mehr News Agency, announced that
Mojahedin-e Khalq members will not be given asylum in Austria.
According to Mehr, in response to the report of some news on the transfer of
MKO activities to Austria, it also told Mehr: after the necessary talks and
discussions with experts and officials, Austria's Foreign Ministry will
announce formally that this group is a terrorist one all over Europe.
MKO cult reaction
MKO lawyer Warren Creates in Canada is
seeking the protection of 17 MKO members with Canadian citizenship under the
Geneva conventions as 'civilian noncombatants' even though they were members
of the National Liberation Army of Iran; funded, uniformed and armed by
Saddam Hussein.
Creates said: "I am told by my clients that the Canadians will not leave
Iraq until they are given credible assurances that their compatriots from
Iran who have no status in third countries receive the kind of international
protection they deserve and are entitled to."
Which means that the world community is expected to wed itself to 'the
organisation, the whole organisation and nothing but the organisation 'till
death do us part!'
Iran-Interlink warns that the MKO will inevitably threaten mass suicide once
they face dissolution of the organisation.
No Refuge for MKO in France
TEHRAN (Mehr
News Agency) — “France will under no circumstances allow members of the
Mujahedin Khalq Organization to enter the country,” the French ambassador to
Iran, Francois Nicoullaud, said here on Wednesday.
The French ambassador strongly rejected reports that France would grant
asylum to members of the terrorist MKO and said that his country has not and
would never offer members of the group asylum.
Francois Nicoullaud stressed that only MKO members who are French citizens
would be allowed to enter France since it would not be possible to bar its
own nationals.
4-01-2004
News continues to emerge that hundreds of disaffected members have been beaten up in Ashraf camp,
which remains intact as the military base of the MKO under American protection.
Many are said to be under threat of continuous torture. US forces are
obeying orders not to interfere in the internal problems of the camp. Inevitably
this has resulted in the mistreatment and even death of many who have expressed
a
desire to leave the MKO. Reports state that even where people have managed to
run away, they have been captured and returned to the MKO leaders. Just as
the facts have emerged about Rajavi's prisoners in Iraq's notorious Abu
Ghraib political prison, it has not been possible to suppress this latest
news. In this case it appears the Americans, not the Iraqi's, will be
directly responsible for any mistreatment or deaths. US forces are clearly
following instructions to preserve the framework and the leaders of the MKO which
the US State Department have designated as terrorists.
Ali Reza Jafarzadeh
Mr Ali Reza Jafarzadeh, former Mojahedin spokesman in the USA, has publicly
renounced his past and has left the Mojahedin and National Council of
Resistance of Iran. Mr Jafarzadeh, who worked for the Mojahedin for over
twenty years, has been aided by the FOX NEWS television company which has
employed him as their analyst on Iran issues.
150 MKO defect from the group
A leading Arabic newspaper reports the defection of many MKO members in
Iraq. One hundred and fifty of these members have been separated from Ashraf
camp, which is under US control, and are now being assessed as individuals.
The former members have complained of severe beatings and mistreatment
because of their commitment to leave the MKO group.
IGC expulsion decision confirmed
The MKO have been given an extended deadline to leave Iraq by the Iraqi
Governing Council. The move came after the Americans announced security
issues in processing all 3,800 captives in time for the 31 December
deadline. This has now been extended by 20 days by which time the MKO must
have been removed completely from Iraqi land. The MKO captives will be
transferred to third countries. No news is currently available as to their
possible destinations.
Families of MKO members again denied access
Families of MKO captives in Ashraf camp have travelled to Baghdad to meet
their relatives. Following a previous attempt to arrange visits, the MKO
leadership again denied the families free access to meet their relatives,
and scuffled with some of the visitors who protested this move. |
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