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If the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization
is proven guilty of having committed atrocities against the people of Iraq,
the MKO leader Massoud Rajavi can also be prosecuted alongside former Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein, Iranian professor Sadegh Zibakalam said on
Saturday.
Saddam’s charges specifically include the use of
chemical weapons against civilians in Halabja in 1988 and the massacre of
Shia villagers in Dujail in 1982, Zibakalam said.
If the MKO is found guilty of committing genocide and crimes against
humanity, as defined by international organizations, in Iraq, the issue can
be pursued through legal means, he explained.
MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh of the Majlis National Security and Foreign
Policy Committee also said on Saturday that there is sufficient evidence to
prove that Rajavi is guilty of committing genocide against the Iraqi and
Iranian people alongside Saddam Hussein.
“The Iranian government must pursue the case,” he told the Mehr News Agency,
adding, “Iraqi Kurds can charge him with genocide based on indisputable
evidence. “The MKO’s role in suppressing the 1991 Iraqi Intifada and
massacring Iraqi Kurds is undeniable. Even the Europeans and the United
States refer to them as terrorists.”
Falahatpisheh condemned Saddam’s crimes against the Iraqi and Iranian
nations, saying that the many abhorrent and unprecedented aspects of his
crimes should not be buried with him after his death.
Political analyst Javad Mansuri also said on Saturday that the special
tribunal trying Saddam could legally subpoena and try Rajavi if survivors of
the 1991 attack against Iraqi Kurds file charges against him.
“The request to extradite Rajavi is completely legal and practicable and the
diplomatic and judiciary bodies should both make efforts to do this,” he
asserted.
International relations expert Hossein Sabbah Zanganeh affirmed on Saturday
that the special tribunal trying Saddam is legally responsible for trying
other people of any nationality who have committed crimes against the Iraqi
nation.
The MKO and Rajavi himself have committed numerous war crimes and crimes
against humanity both on Iranian and Iraqi soil, Zanganeh told the Mehr News
Agency.
According to the UN Security Council resolution on terrorism, Iran can
present its request to extradite Rajavi and other key MKO members to the UN,
he added.
Meanwhile, an Iranian Judiciary official told MNA on Saturday that Rajavi,
as an Iranian national, should be tried in Iran.
He expressed the view that the special tribunal investigating crimes against
humanity in Iraq, which has been formed to try Saddam, is only qualified to
deal with the crimes of Iraqi nationals.
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