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Brief 14 |
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Mojahedin claim to political support is bogus – List of 305 parliamentary supporters does not exist |
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Following the Iraqi Governing Council’s decision, on 9th December 2003, to expel the Saddam Hussein linked terrorist organisation the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) from Iraq, the MKO leaders have made desperate attempts to avoid the disintegration of their cult. As part of this effort, on January 15th in the UK, a Press Release written by the MKO was issued on Lord Corbett of Castle Vale’s personal House of Lords headed paper, stating that 220 Members of Parliament and 85 Members of the House of Lords had supported a statement that this Iranian terrorist group the Mojahedin in Iraq should not be expelled because their presence there would “halt the advance of fundamentalism in Iraq”. Although the false premise of this claim itself needs to be exposed, what is of concern is that no-one who received the Press Release has had sight of the list of names (signatures) that accompany this statement. Presuming that the signatures were collected in order to petition the UK government or any other body to intervene to protect the Mojahedin in Iraq, we should assume that the signatures would be an integral part of that petition and would have been sent alongside the Press Release, or with a formal letter of request. However, since the Press Release was issued, Iran-Interlink has received information from a source inside the Mojahedin’s ‘diplomacy’ section who said that a list of names had been concocted comprising some previously collected signatures – not relating to this issue – and some which have been actually forged by members of the Mojahedin. This list was then passed to Lord Corbett who was persuaded to issue the Mojahedin’s own Press Release on his headed paper. In spite of this information, we expect that Lord Corbett will be able to produce, on request, a bona fide document showing the 305 parliamentary signatures collected since the IGC decision in December 2003, in support of the Mojahedin. Finally, we would remind you that the leader of the Mojahedin, Massoud Rajavi, will do anything to preserve his cult organisation intact inside Iraq, but that while Mojahedin members in Iraq remain under the command of the cult’s leadership and are subjected to the inhumane strictures of that organisation, they are being denied any opportunity to decide their own individual fate at this decisive moment in their lives. Iran-Interlink 30 January 2004
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