Iran Interlink, Camp New Iraq (Formerly Ashraf), Iraq, December 29, 2010: ... Iraq is a sovereign country. Iraqi will not allow the Mojahedin Khalq to remain in the country to carry out the dirty work of their backers in the US, EU or Israel. According to the Interior Ministry source, while the Government of Iraq is committed to the human rights of every individual, including the MKO members in this camp, it is also committed to putting an end to this ridiculous situation of a camp where there is no school, no marriage, no work, no registry, no children, no visiting rights, and so on. This may have been accepted during the time of Saddam or during the Americans being in charge of the camp, but it is no longer acceptable in this new Iraq ... more...
Bahar Irani, December 29, 2010: ... The focal point here is that it is not the status of a terrorist group like MKO on a terrorist list that calls for its recognition but the amount of its perpetrated atrocities including the actual acts, the perpetrators of acts of terror themselves and their motives in the past, present and future. Though there are states that consider MKO a terrorist group and are decisive in their decision, but the existing problem is lack of a general consensus on the definition of terrorist behavior first and in the next step, arriving at a universal consensus that may boost the legitimacy and importance of all terrorist lists and defend them against any challenge ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, December 29 2010: ... All these killings have been under the direct order of MKO Cult's leader, Massoud Rajavi as he threatened several times that if he cannot go out of the current stalemate, and reaches the end of the line he will create "species of Ashura" for the members. That is to victimize all members of his cult by ordering the members to commit mass suicide or self immolations like as many cults like David Koresh in Texas and Jim Jones in Guyana did in the past. This is not far from MKO nature as it has at least once occurred in the group when in June 2003 the members were ordered and intrigued to set themselves on fire following the arrest of Maryam Rajavi by French Police ... more...
DZI- German Central Institute for Social Issues, December 28 2010: ... The "German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI),"in her report of December, 9 2010 again warns about donations to front organizations associated to National Council of Resistance political wing of Mujahedin Khalq terrorist organization. In a press release the DZI warns of donations to the institutes: - Association for People and Freedom (VMF) eV, Postfach 31 27, 53,831 Troisdorf - Association for the hope of the future (VHZ) eV, Leibniz Strasse 81, 10625 Berlin - Human Rights Association for Migrants eV, Krantz Strasse 8, 52070 Aachen. In addition, the DZI achieved many letters from parties which were visited for personal interviews in their homes and offices. They were requested to donate high, four-digit sums of money ... more...
Press TV, December 28, 2010: ... Siyadat had admitted to meeting Israeli intelligence agents in public places such as hotels in Turkey, Thailand and the Netherlands. He also acknowledged receiving 3,000-7,000 dollars for submitting information about the number of Iranian operational planes, daily training and operational flights from different bases, the number of air accidents and their causes, as well as system information on different aircraft and missiles belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). The executions came following a Sunday announcement by Tehran's Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi that the Islamic Revolution's Court had sentenced to death an individual convicted of spying for the Israeli regime ... more...
Fars News, December 27, 2010: ... "Not only was the group informed about the terrorist attack well in advance, but this action was planned and carried out with the logistical help of the Mojahedin-e Khalq operatives based in Paris," it said. After his capture last year, Jundollah leader Abdolmalek Rigi admitted to links with the MKO. A suicide attack near a mosque in the Southeastern city of Chabahar on Wednesday killed at least 39 and wounded 93 civilians in a mourning ceremony held to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Shiites' third Imam. The attack took place outside Imam Hossein Mosque in the port city of Chabahar, in Sistan and Balouchestan province, near the border with Pakistan ... more...
Iran Tribune, December 26, 2010: ... The Mojahedin claim that the advanced nature of her illness is as a result of the Iraqi Government placing limits on them. Even if you produce evidence and documents to support this claim, your history shows another story... When, in the time of Saddam, they gave the body of Hayedeh Hemmati to her family in Switzerland, the Swiss doctors emphasised that if Hayedeh had been brought for medical help a year sooner, she would have survived. But two months before the death of Hayedeh, in the year 2000, when the Ideological leader (Massoud Rajavi) was certain that she would not survive, he allowed her to be transferred to Switzerland where her family lived ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat bloggers, December 25 2010: This is not good news for the MKO who has about 3,000 resident members currently living in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. For these residents and their cult of personality leadership, none of whom are voting Iraqi citizens, and who have wild dreams of replacing the Iranian government with their own people, the re-election of al-Maliki is a total defeat. As far as Iraqi officials are concerned, the MKO’s presence in Iraq has been an issue of contention for a long time; Al-Maliki has been totally opposed, and according to polls, so is the majority of the population. [1] And for good reason—al-Maliki feels friendly relations with neighboring Iran is critical, and those friendly relations won’t include the MKO ... more...
Matt Duss, Think Progress, December 24, 2010: ... The group’s hatred of the Islamic Republic led it to ally with Saddam Hussein, and it fought on the Iraqi side of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Following the Gulf War, “the group reportedly assisted in the Iraqi Republican Guard’s bloody crackdown on Iraqi Shia and Kurds who rose up against Saddam Hussein’s regime; press reports cite MEK leader Maryam Rajavi encouraging MEK members to ‘take the Kurds under your tanks,’” according to the State Department. The group’s alliance with Saddam made it widely despised among the Iranian community at large, as it remains to this day ...more...
The Voice of Russia, December 23, 2010: ... So, why did a rally in support of a terrorist organization attract such attention from politicians who should know better? The only obvious reason is that the Americans attending the rally all belonged to the Grand Old Party, and therefore they took this opportunity to blame the present Obama Administration for its “soft” policy on Iran. The MEK group which originated as a militant leftist group dedicated to overthrowing the Shah’s regime by means of armed struggle in 1960s, later dedicated itself to overthrowing the present Islamic regime in Iran. Despite the common enemy embodied in the “regime of mullahs”, the US State Department designates it as a terrorist organization. At the same time, it does not prevent the US intelligence from ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, September 22 2010: ... Hopeful to visit their children in a free atmosphere without supervision of cults' leaders, all families have one common motto:"Free our children". It is worth to note that the presence of MKO members' families at Ashraf gates has become a motive for a lot of Ashraf residents to escape, according to two recently defected residents Mr. Einakian and Mr. BadanAra. They pointed out that families' maintenance near Ashraf has become a serious problem to the Camp Commandants. All members are talking about families despite their commandants warnings ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, December 23 2010: ... The revolution included the divorce of your ex-spouse and the ideological marriage with Massoud Rajavi (Women had to see themselves Massoud's wives). The members were not allowed to see women as women but they were supposed to see them as the leader's sanctuary. This way Rajavi could maintain his organization. The members were told that the objective of the revolution was freedom of men and women not the overthrow of Islamic Republic. Since 1990, the organizations haven't allowed dissident member to leave the group. Before the fall of Saddam Hussein, MKO leaders used to submit the defectors to Iraqi regime that then would send them to Abu Quraib prison ... more...
Mark Dankof, Mark Dankof’s America, December 22, 2010: ... Let us however, be permitted a collective look over the shoulders of Mr. Letter, Mr. Holder, and Mr. Obama, along with those of the members of the international and domestic machinery of the American/Israeli national security police state threatening Americans, Iranians, and the very survivability of the planet itself. Three concluding questions are begged. Are the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Kurdish PKK, and Jundallah considered as “terrorist organizations” by the American government? Is the Israeli government a “rogue state” and a leading erpetrator of State-Sponsored Terror? And thirdly, what should the personal and legal fate of Americans be ... more...
New View (Negahe- no), reporting from Stokholmian, December 21 2010: ... "Association for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran" the logo of which is consisted of a white dove in flight, even has a website. But one can find no name of any person having the responsibility of the website. The phone numbers inserted on the website are hidden. Erik Zachrison, from Council of funds raised by volunteer charity organization of Sweden (FRII) Frivilligorganisationernas Insamlingsråd has already told about the listed organizations:” ... I just know they are active all over Sweden and they do not own the account “ninety” and they have never asked to register a “ninety” account. They stop people in the streets by showing brochures or pictures and for example ask them ...more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, December 20 2010: ... In 2005, Human Rights Watch (HRW) interviewed five MKO members who were able to completely defect from the group. HRW reported in an article titled “No Exit” that the defectors’ “testimonies, together with testimonies collected from seven other former MKO members, paint a grim picture of how the organization treated its members." Furthermore, "the MKO former members reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinement, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members."[5] The US State Department has documented that ... more...
Edalat Society, Tehran, December 19, 2010: ... What happened in Chabahar city was the consequence of long-term support made for terrorist organizations by some governments due to temporary, political interests along with years of silence and passivity of international organizations before terrorist groups. Although such terrorist groups are well known all over the world, they continue their brutal antihuman acts without any obstacle and easily take the lives of innocent people in the most violent forms. There was a two-month-old baby among the victims of Chabahar terrorist attack; undoubtedly all of the governments or international organizations which support terrorist groups or keep silence against their terrorist measures are responsible in his murder ... more...
Iran-Interlink, December 19, 2010: ... A source close to the HQ of the National Council of Resistance (Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) in Paris told Iran-Interlink of the MKO’s ‘delight’ over the bombings in Chabahar, Iran last week.Accordingly, a close circle of MKO leaders in the HQ of terror group in Paris celebrated the massacre and praised Jondollah, which has claimed responsibility for the terrorist act. It is thought by the source, that not only was the group informed about the terrorist attack well in advance, but that this action was planned and carried out with the logistical help of the Mojahedin Khalq operatives based in Paris ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, December 18, 2010: ... The news of the families reaches the other family members of captives in Ashraf garrison. They now come from all over the world; from Lorestan to Norway, from Gilan to Canada. The facilities are very primitive but the drive of the families solves all the problems in a glance. We sincerely suggest that instead of watching the families with binoculars 24/7, and instead of taking pictures and films 24/7, try to understand what they are trying to say and why they have come here. Why don’t you try to convince them to join the cult with your loud speakers? You never know, it may work. Is this not a more sensible approach? ... more...
AFP, December 17, 2010: ... "We should take off the list of terrorist organizations the one group that is devoted to restoring freedom in Iran," Mukasey, who was attorney general under Bush, told an audience in a Washington hotel. Tom Ridge, the former Homeland Security director, said "let's delist the MEK" and show the world the United States is committed to its own values of freedom. He said "we're running out of time" because "terrorist" groups Iran supports -- like Hezbollah and Hamas -- are getting stronger and Iran's nuclear program is advancing. Townsend, who was Homeland Security advisor, said the PMOI should not only be delisted but the terrorism blacklist should be abolished completely because she claimed it is not compiled objectively ... more...
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, Press TV, December 17, 2010: ... When we are talking about terrorist organizations and America supports many in the region, you have to ask yourself who's feeding them and who's providing them with weapons and so forth. These are thousands of people... There are approximately 3 thousand MKO terrorists in Iraq being protected by the American military. Many American soldiers have died escorting these terrorists on shopping trips inside Iraq. I dare the American government to tell the parents and loved ones of these soldiers who were killed that they died escorting communist terrorists who are on the State Department's list of terrorism on shopping expeditions ... more...
RIA Novosti, Moscow, December 17, 2010: ... Moscow is ready to pool efforts with Tehran in countering the global terrorist threat, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. At least 38 people were killed and 50 others injured in a suicide attack in southeastern Iran on Wednesday. It said Russia "condemns this inhuman, bloody crime" committed by extremists and "is ready to closely cooperate with the Islamic Republic of Iran." The attack occurred in front of the Imam Hussein mosque in the city of Chabahar in the Sistan-Baluchestan province while people were gathering at a mosque for a mourning ceremony ... more...
Press TV, December 16, 2010: ... The US government condemns the recent terrorist attacks in southeastern Iran while it knew about such kinds of operations in advance and sponsored them, an analyst says. Jeff Steinberg form Executive Intelligence Review referred to the condemnation of the incident by US President Barack Obama saying “presidents publically lie and make statements that are diplomatically appropriate but knowing that they are protecting and covering covert operations.” The involvement of Iranian ethnic groups, especially Baluchis, in the acts of terrorism and sabotage have been officially on the US-Israel joint agenda since 2007, Steinberg said in his interview with Press TV on Wednesday ... more...
Press TV, Baghdad, December 15, 2010: ... Governor of Iraq's Diyala province has held the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) responsible for the recent surge in violence across the northeastern region. “Intelligence reports drawn by the security committee in Diyala prove that MKO hands are involved in a series of deadly terror attacks and explosions in the province,” Fars news agency cited Abdul Nasser al-Mahdawi as telling AK News on Tuesday. Mahdawi added that the terrorist organization has managed to train elements of other extremist groups and help them sneak into Diyala province to engage in terror activities ... more...
IRIB, December 15, 2010: ... About 38 Iranian mourners were martyred Wednesday and 55 others wounded in a terrorist blast in Chabahar, southeast of Iran The mourners were commemorating the memory of Ashura ... "A number of women and children are seen among the martyrs," Ayati added. Ali Abdollahi said that the perpetrators were two men that both died. "According to evidences and the equipments used in the blast, the terrorists belong to an extremist Wahabi grouplet supported by America and some spying services of regional countries," he added ... more...
Fars News, December 14, 2010: ... According to a report by Iraqi daily Motamar, also published by Edalat (Justice) Society web site - an organ of the families of the Iranian victims of terrorism - the Iraqi right group has sent serious warnings to civil society and human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi government about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the MKO's main training camp in Northern Iraq. The Sahar Family Foundation also said that the MKO's ringleaders are forcing the dissident members of the group to commit suicide, and if they refuse to do so, the leaders massacre defectors themselves. The right group called on the Iraqi judiciary system, international court of justice and all ... more...
Press TV, December 14, 2010: ... British Ambassador to Tehran Simon Gass claimed last Thursday that Iran violates the 'basic rights' of its citizens by pressuring lawyers. Iran dismissed any such remarks as Nasrin Sotoudeh, the lawyer to whom Gass was referring, was arrested for breaching the country's national security by having connections with the anti-Iranian terrorist group, the MKO. Gass made the remarks on the same day that the British police were put in the media spotlight by employing what critics described as 'heavy-handed techniques' against students, who were protesting the government's plans to triple university tuition fees, injuring at least 43 demonstrators ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, December 14, 2010: ... The Rajavi cult had set up strong horns and noise producing devices as well as parasite sending dishes to interrupt the supposedly interaction of the families with their relatives inside the garrison. Once the cult leaders learned that the reporters are going to be present in this gathering they decided to collect the instruments. The video record of the devices which were taken in the previous days was shown to the participants. One Iraqi participant said after watching the video that when Rajavi tries to cut the voice of the families in this way and do not let his followers to hear them; it is obvious that once he is in power in Iran what he would do to his opponents ... more...
Alsabah, December 13, 2010 : ... For his part, a member of the Security Committee in the governorate of Diyala, Dalir Hussain Fares Hassan Sayeh, accused MKO members of supporting terrorist groups in the province, and involvement in the bombings in Diyala. In a statement to Alsabah, he said that that the Security Committee of the Council has evidence of the involvement of members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization in the violence currently witnessed by Diyala, and also evidence of providing financial support for terrorist groups and trying to foment sectarian conflict. He called on the House of Representatives and the government to expel the organization from Iraqi territory ... more...
Edalat Society, Tehran, December 12, 2010: ... We, the members of Justice Supporters Association, comprising the families of terrorism victims of Iran, condemning this terrorist act, believe that the modern form of terrorism intends to destabilize the world and spread its roots in all of the countries. Accordingly, coordinated and widespread collaboration is needed to be able to uproot terrorism and provide security and peace for all nations. Members of our Association believe that the instrumental application of terrorism and terrorist groups by some governments would prevent the eradication of this disaster and therefore all states and nations must took a defined global approach for fighting against it ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, December 12, 2010: ... Why do western and European countries persist in supporting PMOI? Why is such a terrorist organization so important for foreign countries? Is it because of PMOI’s slogans, ‘democracy and freedom for Iranian people’ or is it because of their popularity among Iranian people? I am not a politician but as an Iranian and as a victim of this cult (Rajavi Cult ) it is my right to ask those politicians either European or American, why are you supporting an organization which is cursed and abject among Iranian people? Why have you closed your eyes and your ears to the facts revealed by many witnesses who had been members of this organization for many years? I am a live witness ... more...
Wisam al-Bayati, Press TV, Diyala, December 11, 2010: ... Key individuals turned out for the protest including tribal leaders, clerics and local government officials. Protesters have been shouting, "leave our country", and carried anti-MKO slogans to express their intolerance towards the presence of the organization that they say has caused so much pain in their lives. The tribal leaders stated that they attended the protest to call on the government to respond to public demands to evacuate the camp from the country. In response to the protest, the MKO members gathered behind the safety of barbwires, throwing insults to the protesters ... more...
Alsumaria News, Baghdad, December 11, 2010: ... Fadel Daami, emphasized the position of the Iraqi government toward the obvious need to remove the MKO from Iraq. Daami said to Alsumaria News, "The Iraqi government's position is clear and is not a secret that it wants to expel the members of the Organization from Iraq. He added, “there is pressure on the Iraqi government as in the case of the PKK (the Kurdish PKK in Turkey) as the existence of organized opposition cause embarrassment to the government among its neighbours." The Iraqi forces, comprising nearly a thousand members of the army and the police force, moved into Camp Ashraf earlier this year. But members of the MKO used batons and knives to prevent Iraqi security officers from discharging their duties, which ... more...
Fars news, December 11, 2010: ... A large number of Iranian and Iraqi families staged a massive protest outside the main training center of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq and called for the freedom of their relatives and children who are under various types of torture and pressure by their ringleaders inside the camp.The protestors demanded the Iraqi government and all human rights groups and organizations to provide the ground for the freedom of their children from the notorious Camp Ashraf, and urged closure of the terrorist hub. The MKO ringleaders are reported to be using torture and pressure on their own dissident members, barring the dissident members from leaving the organization and joining their families ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf), Iraq, December 10, 2010: ... Families of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) members trapped inside the camp by cult leaders have spent ten months trying to get access to their relatives. Through loud speakers they have appealed to the camp leaders and sent messages of hope and love for their relatives. In response, the MEK have used sophisticated US made parasite equipment to deflect the messages and create an impossible atmosphere for anyone outside the camp. The MEK were eventually forced to remove the illegal equipment when they realised that reporters were present at the camp ... more...
Iran Interlink, December 10, 2010: ... Mr Mehdi Fathi, a hostage of the Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorist group died in Camp Ashraf (CIA protected MKO HQ) in Iraq one year after the Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq) leaders refused to allow his return to France for medical treatment. According to the statements issued by the cult leaders, the deceased, Mehdi Fathi, had been suffering from cancer. He was admitted to Baquba hospital when it was too late for treatment. But the demand for his transfer to his home in France was denied by the leaders of Mojahedin Khalq (Who themselves live under protection of American and Israeli secret services in Paris) ... more...
Alsumaria News / Diyala, December 9, 2010 : ... In an interview with “Alsumaria News” the source said that “a medical team stationed inside the Camp Ashraf, 55 km north of Baquba received a communication from the camp about a case of suicide of one of the members of Mojahedin Khalq. The case is under investigation to verify whether the man has committed suicide by hanging himself inside his room”. The source also said that “another investigation is underway to determine the main reason that has prompted someone in the Iranian opposition to commit suicide in this way”. Camp Ashraf or what is known now as “Camp New Iraq” houses more than 3000 Iranian Mojahedin Khalq dissidents ... more...
Fars news reporting from Al Motamar, December 09, 2010: ... According to a report by Iraqi daily Motamar, also published by Edalat (Justice) Society web site - an organ of the families of the Iranian victims of terrorism - the Iraqi right group has sent serious warnings to civil society and human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi government about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the MKO's main training camp in Northern Iraq. The Sahar Family Foundation also said that the MKO's ringleaders are forcing the dissident members of the group to commit suicide and massacre defectors. The right group called on the Iraqi judiciary system, international court of justice and all international human rights bodies ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation announcement, Baghdad, December 09, 2010: ... the Committee in support of families of MKO hostages led by Dr. Nofe announced that the Committee is to organise a meeting next Saturday (11th December 2010) in front of the southern gates of the garrison which will be attended by the local tribe leaders as well as Iraqi political dignitaries and Iraqi and International reporters. The cult leaders have been installing parasite equipment with all sizes of dishes as well as very powerful loud speakers in order to stop the voices reaching people inside the camp. According to the doctors, the parasite signals used are harmful to the human nervous system and the powerful levels of radio frequencies used can seriously harm people ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, December 08, 2010: ... Reminding that questioning the western countries for their illogical attitudes and unjustified support for the terrorist groups and their silence on the assassination of Iran's nuclear scientist, Majid Shahriari, was among the major issues pursued by the Iranian delegation, Boroujerdi reiterated that the Iranian team defended Dr. Shahriari's rights and condemned the West during the talks. He described the Iranian nation as the greatest victim of terrorism, and noted, "Iran has so far lost 13,000 citizens in terrorist attacks conducted by MKO (anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization) that is supported by the West. The same trend is repeating again." ... more...
Families of MKO members, Nejat society. Lorestan province, December 07, 2010: ... Although visiting prisoners is our known right, but Masoud and Maryam Rajavi deny it by violating the most basic human rights and the families’ rights regarding the prisoners. We expect you to adopt all possible means in order to let the mothers and fathers be able to visit their seized children in Ashraf after so many years to ensure their physical and mental health. We urge the UN, while condemning Massoud Rajavi the leader of MKO, to demand him to respect the global human rights charter and respect the rights of prisoners and their families. With many thanks and regards ... more...
IRIB, Geneva, December 06, 2010: ... "Last week on the same day terrorists targeted two Iranian scientists and one of them was martyred," Jalili said. "Iranian nation has been the biggest victim of terrorism," Jalili said. "Iran has lost 1,300 of its citizens because of the terrorist attacks of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who are supported by the west," he added. "Now the same trend is being repeated," the secretary of the SNSC said. Jalili and EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton opened the talks between Iran and the G5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, and America plus Germany -- in Geneva on Monday ... more...
Press TV, Tehran, December 06, 2010: ... Benjamin was then entrusted with different missions by the MKO. In his first move, Benjamin formed a secret network with post-election agitators to carry out MKO's missions. The MKO is headquartered in Iraq's Ashraf military base. French-backed MKO ringleader Maryam Rajavi lives in that country. The Baghdad government has vowed to evacuate the military base and expel the MKO members. This has not happened yet as the United States is opposed to the idea. The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence ... more...
Press TV, December 05, 2010: ... the top adviser to the leader of the Islamic Revolution added. “Today those [countries] that have gone to war to thwart terrorism, have risen against nations, killing women, men and innocent children in the name of their war on terrorism,” Larijani continued. “Their capitals have turned into safe havens for terrorists,” he said. Larijani was referring to the European Parliament playing host to the notorious leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), Maryam Rajavi, on the first day of December and only two days after the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Iran ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, December 05, 2010: ... After years of captivity, they are enjoying their freedom by taking a walk in the streets of Baghdad.Their faces are hardly recognisable compared with when they had just run away from the camp. Rajavi is saying that the camp is under siege by the Iraqi forces. If it was not for this ‘siege’, the Iraqi people would have brought the whole camp to dust and dirt. If it was not for this ‘siege’, the families would have ways to get to their loved ones. If it was not for this ‘siege’, the people inside he camp would have ways to get themselves free. Has any one seen or heard of a bigger liar than Rajavi? ... more...
Richard Silvestein, December 04, 2010: ... The National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), the political arm of the MEK, was generally credited by the news media with having revealed the existence of the Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz and Arak in an August 2002 press conference in Washington, DC. Later, however, IAEA, Israeli and Iranian dissident sources all said that the NCRI had gotten the intelligence on the sites from Mossad. An IAEA official told Seymour Hersh that the Israelis were behind the revelation of the sites and two journalists from Der Spiegel reported the same thing. So did an adviser to an Iranian monarchist group, speaking to a writer for The New Yorker. That episode was not isolated, but was part of a broader pattern of Israeli cooperation with the MEK in providing intelligence ... more...
IRIB, December 04, 2010: ... "No doubt, agents behind recent terrorist incident will be brought to book," said Hojjatoleslam Reissi here on Friday while delivering his pre-sermon address to large groups of Friday prayers worshipers. Hojjatoleslam Reissi said as far as assassination of Iranian professor Dr. Majid Shahriari is concerned, the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) was behind collection of information and identification of possible target for Israelis. To impede Iran’s movement forward in the nuclear domain, said Hojjatoleslam Khatami, the enemies resort to any tactic, including assassination of the country’s nuclear scientists ... more...
Tabnak News, Tehran, December 02, 2010: ... According to the Mojahedin Khalq website, “Alejo Vidal-Quadras, the Deputy Head of the European Parliament, Jim Higgins … etc. welcomed the Mojahedin Khalq gang leader Maryam Rajavi to their HQ buildings in Brussels”. According to AFP, Maryam Rajavi attended the European Parliament on December 1, to participate and give a speech to the parliamentarians. The recent provocations by the European Union took place only days after the allegations blaming the US, UK and Israeli secret services for orchestrating the assassination of Iranian scientists carried out by operatives of Mojahedin Khalq terrorists ... more...
Independant, December 02, 2010: ... Iran's chief suspect is Israel, whose Mossad spy agency has a long history of assassinating foes beyond its borders. In this case, Iran accuses Israel of enlisting agents of an Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, to carry out the hit, the defence minister said. There was also coordination with the CIA and MI6, he claimed. Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said yesterday that the assassination was a warning to Iran before the nuclear talks with world powers on 6-7 December. "The wicked people wanted to demonstrate their ugly side, which is the policy of carrot and stick, prior to the upcoming nuclear talks,". The two scientists were targeted by bombs that hit their cars in separate parts of the capital ... more...
Press TV, December 01, 2010: ... Iran has blamed Israel and Western powers for the terrorist attacks, hinting at the possible connection between the recent remarks of the head of the British intelligence agency (MI6) about Iran and the European Parliament's new stance regarding anti-Iran terrorist group. On October 28, John Sawers accused Iran of pursuing clandestine nuclear activities and said spying is crucial to stop Tehran's nuclear program. The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.The organization is also known to have cooperated with Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, Middle East Strategy Consultants, UK, December 01, 2010: ... some of the lobbyists in the European Parliament who have turned the EP into a playground for Saddamists and the likes, let me just say that some MEPs are now afraid of even talking aloud in their own offices as they are rightly fearful of the reaction of the “terrorist PMOI Mafia haunting the EP buildings” on a daily basis. I wonder if there are no procedures to look at the evidence available in this regard. I am sure you are now aware - as the Iranians have announced - after the assassination of the nuclear scientists in Tehran immediately following the written support of the EP for terrorism, that the first card laid on the negotiating table will by connected to this issue. But then, perhaps you have already accepted to surrender this first card as a loss at that table ... more...
Fars News, December 01, 2010: ... "This inauspicious act was sponsored by the Zionist regime and in coordination with the western intelligence agencies, the US and Britain in particular, and was carried out by MKO hirelings," Vahidi said in Iran's Northern city of Babol today. Vahidi strongly condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Tehran, and called on the international community and those who claim to be supporters of the human rights to react to the terrorist moves. He expressed confidence that Iran's security and intelligence bodies will succeed in defusing enemies' new plot as they did in the past ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 30, 2010: ... All former members can witness that since they left Ashraf Camp they are in a far better physical and psychological situation. Many of them managed to overcome their chronic illnesses and gain their health again after a while. More than one hundred individuals have lost their lives inside Ashraf during recent years in different ways. The MKO terrorist cult claimed that more than 50 people were killed due to the U.S. bombing of Iraq during the 2003 invasion of the country. Eye witnesses who have been able to escape from Ashraf Camp say that none of them were killed in that way and many of those named were killed long before or after the bombings ... more...
Press TV, November 30, 2010: ... Terrorists detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi at separate locations on Monday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. local time as they were headed to work at Shahid Beheshti University. Shahriari was martyred immediately, but professor Abbasi and his wife only sustained injuries and were transferred to a hospital. Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a motorcycle approached Shahriari's car and attached a bomb to the vehicle that exploded a few seconds later. In a separate incident, terrorists attached another bomb to Abbasi's car and escaped, he added ... more...
Fars News, November 29, 2010: ... Fars News, November 29, 2010: ... "The United States negotiates with the terrorists and it is a big lie that they intend to fight terrorism," Ali Larijani said, addressing the fifth annual meeting of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) in Damascus, Syria, on Monday. Mehman-Parast also reiterated that the US tried to cover up its own terrorist nature by raising claims against other countries and accusing them. The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran ... more...
Kuwait News Agency (Kuna), 27 November 2010: ... Iranian security personnel have thwarted today an attempt for hijacking an aircraft that was heading from Tehran to Damascus and was carried out by one of the elements of Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) ... MKO is engaged in a conflict with the Iranian government since the former was established in 1965 when it targeted first to topple Shah's regime, then aimed its sight at the Islamic governement which took the helm later, though the outfit was ousted from Iran at the beginning of 1980s, but the defunct regime of Saddam Hussein allowed it to stay in Iraq, provided support for it, and so its elements established a base in Ashraf camp near to Iraqi-Iranian borders ...more...
Fars News, Tehran, November 28, 2010: ... Larijani in his remarks had said that the EU and the US are misusing the human rights to attain their goals in Iran and the region, mentioning that while western statesmen object to the human rights conditions in Iran, their parliamentarians in Britain, France and Germany have regular meetings with the most devilish and notorious terrorists in the region, who have killed hundreds and thousands of innocent people in their numerous terrorist operations, specially against Iran. "How can the EU leaders label themselves as human rights supporters while they do not spare any effort to extend arms, financial and political backup and support to the most notorious anti-Iranian terrorists," ... more...
Press TV, November 27, 2010: ... Brigadier General Javani said that despite placing the MKO on its list of terrorist organizations Washington has not refrained from providing all out-support for the group over the past 30 years. "The group has conducted a terror campaign from the safe haven provided by the West, the US and the Zionists," he was quoted by Mehr News Agency as saying. "In order to escape from the glaring inconsistency between the words and actions of the US, Washington needs an excuse and justification such as the request made by the European Union," he added ... In 1991, Maryam Rajavi as then leader of the group's military forces directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish Iraqis in the north and the Shia population in the south ... more...
Press TV, November 27, 2010: ... The European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday, urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The European Union took the MKO off its blacklist in 2009. "The people of the world have been once again faced with Europe's double standards on terrorism and have realized the reality of the West's approach towards terrorism," member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Saturday. The MKO has no place among the Iranian people, who will never forget the terrorist group's cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ... more...
Reuters, Baghdad, November 27 2010: ... Asked whether Iraq wanted to extend a security pact with Washington which calls for the withdrawal of U.S. forces by the end of next year, Maliki said Iraq's police and army had proved they could control security. "The security pact with all its dates will remain valid, and I don't feel that there is a need for any other international force to help Iraqis in controlling the security situation," ... Maliki said the cross-sectarian Iraqiya would be a main partner in the new government, whether Allawi participated or not. The agreement gave Allawi, who wanted Maliki's job, the leadership of the National Council for Strategic Policies. "The non-participation of a person doesn't stop the cycle of forming the government,"... He reiterated his commitment to establishing Allawi's council but said it would be an advisory body ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 27, 2010 : ... They had now realised that the people kept inside the camp have no access to the outside world and have been cut off from the civilised world for decades. A lorry was stationed between the gates and the barracks. It carries a generator, carrying heavy loud speakers (to prevent the voices of the families from reaching the hostages), and a banner with the slogan ‘Mercenaries. Get lost!’ - which would be more suited to be directed at Rajavi himself as he sold his group to Saddam and has now put the victims for sale to the Israelis or whoever will pay for it ... more...
Alsumaria, November 26, 2010: ... The European Parliament urged Iraq on Thursday to drop a death sentence against Tareq Aziz, warning that killing him would “do little to improve the climate of violence.” The parliament adopted a resolution reiterating its opposition to the death penalty in all cases, including war crimes and genocide, and called it “the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.” The Parliament called on Iraqi authorities to deploy its utmost to protect minorities in the country ... more...
Press TV, November 25, 2010: ... The administration of former US president George W. Bush rejected the request in its final days in 2009, after examining material submitted by the group and US intelligence agencies, including classified information. The State Department said it would study the decision, but added that the US government continues to view the group as a terrorist organization. The Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials. The MKO is also known to have cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds ... more...
National Iranian American Council, November 23, 2010: ... The State Department describes the MEK as a “cult-like” terrorist organization that “uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives.” Human Rights Watch has reported that MEK leadership has engaged in human rights violations against its membership at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.But last Tuesday, six Members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging that the State Department remove the Marxist Islamist group from the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The letter highlights a House resolution, H.Res. 1431, calling for the group’s removal from the terrorist list, introduced by California Democratic Representative Bob Filner, one of the MEK’s staunchest supporters in Congress... more...
Fars News, November 23, 2010: ... the new measure came after protest remarkably increased inside the group, specially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members. In relevant development, a report revealed on Saturday that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp. The report said that the move by the MKO ringleaders came after they failed to brainwash their inferiors to convince them to distant themselves from their family members who have been residing and waiting outside the camp for the last 10 months demanding freedom of their relatives ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 22 2010: ... the Camp leaders do not permit the residents who suffer serious diseases to leave the camp in order that they are able to receive treatment in Baghdad hospitals. The leaders are especially crucial about those members who are considered as "problematic ". They fear the possibility of their escape in case of their departure from the isolated garrison of Ashraf. For instance the reports show that Iraqi doctors have insisted on transfer of Ms. Elham Fardipour to hospital but the leaders of the cult procrastinate to send her to hospital since her runaway as a member of Leadership Council might reveal confidential information of the group's internal relationships ...
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Fars News, November 21, 2010: ... Leaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) killed a dissident member of the group in a bid to suppress growing discontent among MKO members in its main training camp in Northern Iraq. Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, was killed inside the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf), about 60 km North of Baghdad ... The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets ... more...
Ben Birnbaum, The Washington Times, November 18, 2010: ... Many MEK sympathizers on the Hill credit the group with helping to reveal the Iranian nuclear program in 2002. "This isn't the same MEK that was assassinating people during the shah's regime and was committed to Marxism," Mr. Rohrabacher said. "What happened 30 or 40 years ago is less important than what's happening today." The MEK claims it forswore violence in 2001 and turned over all weapons to U.S. forces after the 2003 Iraq invasion. Kenneth Katzman, an Iran analyst for the Congressional Research Service, said that "in recent years, we don't have any information about armed attacks the group has committed" and argued that the 1997 designation was questionable from the beginning ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, November 20, 2010: ... Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in a statement in August that while the Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to its cooperation with the international community in anti-terrorism campaign, the western countries and the US in particular followed a double-standard policy towards the issue. He said the example of such a policy was the extensive activities of the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in these countries and their close relationship with the political figures there. He also pointed to the role of some western countries and their intelligence services, specially those belonging to the US, in supporting the terrorist organizations ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 20, 2010 : ... Don’t you think that as the political interests of some at this moment of time dictate, right now the interest of the invaders of the land of Iraq suggests that the west should support the terrorists in continuing their human rights abuse and using your children as gladiators and slaves in their terror campaign to serve their backers in the west? ... The leaders of the garrison have placed powerful loud speakers between the families and the inside of the camp. The speakers are facing towards the inside of the camp, clearly demonstrating that this action is intended to stop the voices of the families from reaching the hostages inside. It is interesting that while Rajavi is doing this, he is also claiming that Ahmad Razani (murdered in the camp a couple of days ago) has committed suicide under the pressure of the loudspeakers used by the families ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 19, 2010: ... The Iraqi doctor in the hospital, after preliminary checks has announced that the cause of death was not suicide and therefore he has refused to sign the papers allowing the body to be buried and has sent the body to Iraq for post mortem investigation... The Rajavi cult announced that Ahamad Razani committed suicide because of the ongoing noise from the loud speakers of the families picketing outside and the pressure these loud speakers have put on him!.. Apparently, in the case of the murder of Ahmand Razani, the leaders of the cult, after giving up about convincing him to cooperate, and after using every available brain washing technique resorted to physical elimination and murdered him ... more...
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Middle East Online, November 18 2010: .... Although Iraq’s war with Iran ended in 1988, other forms of US wars against Iran have continued to this day. These have included destabilizing “soft-power” operations in the name of democracy, covert operations through all kinds of NGOs and fifth-column groupings, promotion of and support for terrorist operations such as those carried out by Jundullah and Mojadeen Khalgh (MKO, or MEK), constant military threats, psychological warfare, and economic sanctions. Not surprisingly, the role and the influence of IRGC and other security forces in Iran have increased accordingly. Also unsurprisingly, as the political power of Iran’s armed forces has thus increased, so has their economic power ... more...
Edalat Society, November 17, 2010: ... MKO’s unhappiness from the death sentence issued for Tariq Aziz is not merely due to this man’s previous supports from Mojahedin-e Khalq. This is an alarm for people like Massoud Rajavi who are responsible for the death of tens of thousands of people and now are hiding in their shelters. Rajavi and other leaders of the MKO consider the fate of Tariq Aziz as their own coming destiny. Therefore they are frightened from being trapped by justice one day. The death sentence of Tariq Aziz, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq and a close advisor of Saddam Hussein, soon lost its importance due to his sickness. However the reactions revealed some realities around us ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 14, 2010: ... The truth is that the Iraqi authorities and the Iraqi forces have no objections for a nurse and an interpreter to accompany you to the hospital in Baghdad, but the cult demands one of its officials to escort you. This might be quite normal for those mind manipulated members of the cult that no one (even MKO members in Europe and America) is allowed to move to anywhere without being accompanied by a “minder”!, but this is not normal for those who are not living in a cult. The MKO leaders wish to send a minder along with you to make sure that you do not make any contact with the outside world ... more...
Press TV, November 13 2010:... Press TV reports on Western double-standards in the so-called 'war on terror' as the UK is known to host the leaders and members of several anti-Iran terrorist groups, such as MEK, Pejak and Jundullah. Massoud Khodabandeh criticised support for the MEK in particular, saying the group had by its own admission, killed 16,000 Iranians and 25,000 Iraqis. This is criminal behaviour and has nothing to do with politics. Instead of inviting MEK members into parliament. they should be prosecuted for these crimes ... more...
Rojnameh, November 13, 2010: ... Most parts of this film has been prodused on the basis of american goverment’s statement issued on mojahedin khalgh organization ... Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission” ... more...
CBC, November 12, 2010: ... In travel reports filed by the MPs, the sponsor appears mostly as the Iran Democratic Association. But Folco does not deny who paid for her ticket and makes no apologies either. "I was invited by MEK, the Mojahedin e Khalq," she said. Folco said she knows the group is on Canada's terrorism list. Bennett admitted that meeting with the group and accepting free travel from it carries risks. But she also said Canada needs to take a second look at the terrorism listing ... more...
BBC, Baghdad, November 12, 2010:... the al-Iraqiyya members had wanted parliament to pass a motion to remove the stigma of Baathism which had barred four of the coalition's key figures from taking political office. Although not opposed to Mr Talabani's re-election itself, they had wanted the motion to be passed before the election of the president. "We boycotted the session because we showed good intentions to others, but they stabbed us in the back," Saleh al-Mutlak, one of the barred lawmakers, told the AFP news agency. "We will not return without international guarantees," he added, but gave no further details. But despite the walk-out, the parliamentary session continued and MPs went on to re-elect Mr Talabani ... more...
Iran TV, November 10, 2010: ... Reflecting a little on the language used in the course of the talks by Sawers, one would notice that his literature has an unmistakable similarity to that of the Monafeqin [Mojahedin Khalq Organisation opposed to the Islamic Republic]. Of course, it will not be and is not surprising for you to know that Sawers has deep ties with the Monafeqin terrorist group for 10 years now. And, in the course of these 10 years he has rendered great services to this group by removing them from the blacklist of terrorist groups. In reality what Sawers says is not gaining intelligence but creating news in the style of Monafeqin. This is because the fabrication of news ... more...
Aswat Al-Iraq, November 9, 2010: ... Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held on Tuesday a meeting with a U.S. Congressional delegation, led by Senator John McCain, according to an official statement. “Al-Maliki discussed with a delegation of U.S. congress, led by Senator John McCain, the development of bilateral relations and the ongoing political process,” said the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The premier underlined the importance of boosting ties with Washington in all fields, and the signed strategic agreement,” it added ... more...
Mazda Parsi , Nejat Bloggers, Novermber 09 2010: ... The Mujahedin's reputation and status in Iraq is as complicated as Blackwater’s. Both have committed crimes against Iraqi civilians, and eventually both are hated by Iraqi government officials and civilians alike. A RAND report on the MKO outlines that “much of the Iraqi public believe that the MEK did commit violent acts on Saddam's behalf against Shias and Kurds." [2] As for Blackwater, the BBC News reported that, “Iraq has begun collecting signatures for a class action lawsuit on behalf of people killed or wounded in incidents involving the US security firm Blackwater ... more...
Nader Naderi, Paris, November 08, 2010:... This organization with such a terrorist identity had participated in many crimes against humanity in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s reign and they cooperated with Saddam Hussein by all means. This organization with such a terrorist content and essence while the catastrophic event of 9/11 occurred in USA by the terrorist Al Quaida organization, they began throwing parties and distributing cookies, candies, and pastries among their members in their garrisons and military bases in Iraq to celebrate this cowardly and shameful attack which caused the death of thousands American men and women in twin towers and other places on US soil ...more...
Fars news, November 07 2010:... Dear Mr. Quadras, supporting such an organization is just standing against thousands of victims of this organization in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, US and some European countries. Taking side of this organization equals with supporting the ominous phenomenon of the third millennium. Can you guarantee that no one else would be victimized by this terrorist cult? We, the families of terror victims hope that you could understand the real nature of this organization and help the victims' families in administering justice. The members of this organization have committed murders after going through brainwashing techniques and turning to some robots ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, Nobember 07, 2010:... As a veteran and former member of this organization and according to my own knowledge of their internal relations and their thoughts and ideology , this is my humane duty to warn you that do not trust them by no means and do not be deceived by their beautiful slogans which are totally hollow and meaningless for them. This organization is not just “suspect of terrorism”, it is a terrorist organization itself which has come on the political stage equipped with glamorous and deceitful slogans and ... more...
The Iranian Pen Club, November 06 2010:...An hour later Mr. Rajavi came to my room and told that Mr. Tariq Aziz had asked to visit him […] I told him:" Now that you accepted to visit him, you should treat him the way our Iranian Emperor Shahpour the first treated the Roman Valerian. Our Emperor humiliated the invader to our country. He [Tariq Aziz] should understand that he had invaded a country which has national pride. You should notify that and you shouldn’t let the visit last more than half an hour." […] He said "Ok, I will" but instead of behaving like what he was supposed to … more...
Iran Interlink, November 06, 2010:... Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission”. Then he (Massoud Rajavi) with a smile on his face continued his war cry and said, ”What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power, then this paper tiger (the USA) will be destroyed as a whole.” ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, November 03, 2010:... During the past year, that is since the Iraqi police force managed to establish posts inside the entrances of the Ashraf cult garrison, a substantial number of members attempted to escape from the camp. These members, some of whom have been held captive inside the garrison for more than a quarter of a century, have had a bitter experience. They have no idea about modern science and technology and do not know anything about the outside world. Worse than all, they were in a critical mental situation after so many years of brainwashing and mind manipulation. They were afraid of anyone outside the cult and ... more...
Fars News, November 02, 2010:... The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States. Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe. Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France ... more...
Sot alIraq, Baghdad, November 01 2010: ... The exhibition comprises 100 large colour photographs (100 × 70) cm. It is worth mentioning that the exhibition held in Diyala Province on September 2010 and was attended by several members of the House of Representatives, local government officials of Diyala province along with Senate members, academic figures, the media and managers of departments in the district of Khalis as well as Tribes leaders ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 23 2010:... During the past year, that is since the Iraqi police force managed to establish posts inside the entrances of the Ashraf cult garrison, a substantial number of members attempted to escape from the camp. These members, some of whom have been held captive inside the garrison for more than a quarter of a century, have had a bitter experience. They have no idea about modern science and technology and do not know anything about the outside world. Worse than all, they were in a critical mental situation after so many years of brainwashing and mind manipulation. They were afraid of anyone outside the cult and ... more...
Mahmoud Dashtestani, Nejat Society, October 28 2010:... It was just like an enzyme called family that affects all political, strategic and organizational lines in MKO. Eight years past that time, the leaders of cult are still incapable of controlling those minds that are seeking family and future. Today the families who are on strike at Ashraf gates are not allowed to visit their children but their presence is like an encouragement for Ashraf captives who see them near to themselves. They see a number of people thinking of them. They find out that family and love are not dead, although Rajavi wants to kill them... more...
Anne Singleton, Middle East Strategy Consultants Ltd., October 26, 2010:... Lord Corbett knows better than anyone the position of the Government of Iraq toward the MEK. He knows that they are slowly but surely dismantling this dangerous destructive cult in ways that preserve and protect the lives of the residents. He knows that Rajavi has threatened a Jonestown-style mass suicide if anyone tries to challenge his control of the group. Witnesses to the self-immolations of June 2003 in London and Paris can be in no doubt about the veracity of this threat. It is therefore incumbent on western politicians to acknowledge their ignorance and to dispel the clouds of misinformation disseminated by the cult’s known advocates and discover the real horrors at Camp Ashraf ... more...
Cibloggers, October 25, 2010:... You are a mother yourself and I am sure you understand the feeling of this young girl (Maryam) and her old grandfather to meet the father of this young girl. Why MKO leaders panic to allow a father that after 22 years still have not seen her daughter, reunite even for an hour with his family? The truth is that, Rajavi and MKO leader trying to keep absolute control over their members by separating them from their family; Consequently, getting undivided loyalty and attention. At the same time, in Europe, Maryam Rajavi, is trying to claim a humanitarian face for her MKO cult while denying a young girl to meet her father. Why they are so scare of meeting a young girl with her father? ... more...
Reproduced by Iran Interlink, October 23, 2010:... Congressman John McCain:. We cannot afford to allow such groups to raise funds in the United States without the Congress and the American people knowing their true nature. We have strong rules designed to deal with this situation by requiring Americans who lobby for foreign countries to register with the U.S. Government. At the same time, we lack a mechanism that requires the State Department and FBI to maintain a list of groups with suspect ties to foreign governments, movements with a history of attacking United States ... more...
Iran Pen Association, October 19, 2010:... As a result of the terrorist operation which happened in 9/11 in the USA, every country became astonished and confused at such brutal and barbaric acts, which targeted thousands innocent people in the twin towers, and all these countries and their governments condemned such brutality and savagery. But, surprisingly the PMOI’s operatives and leaders threw a very big party in Bagherzadeh Garrison in Iraq and celebrated that incident and showed their admiration for that terrorist act by dancing, shouting and congratulating one another in front of their leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi ... more...
Iran Didban, October 18, 2010 (translated by Iran Interlink):... Following the direct order of Massoud Rajavi to start attacking the Iraqi police and increase insurgency in the country, the remaining forces of the cult of Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq attacked the police force in order to stop them carrying out their duties, including the establishment of a new security post inside Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf). The communiqué issued by the terrorist cult admits that it was the Mojahedin Khalq (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) who instigated the attack on the Iraqi police force, and the police force have been forced to defend themselves ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Translated by Nejat Society, October 18 2010:... In fact my main disagreement with MKO was "forced divorce". I had no deep, internal faith in it. I wondered how a man (Rajavi) had absolute power over others. I couldn't tolerate the officials humiliating and insulting me anymore. They verbally abused members in their meetings but all facilities are in their hands. The low-ranking members ought to labor very hard. The internet was only used by high-ranking female members because Rajavi didn’t trust male members. I know it's too late to compensate but I try to convince myself that I have time to live ...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 17, 2010:... News also indicate that the cult leaders intend to open clashes with Iraqi forces in order to let a number of their members being killed and injured in this way and then Rajavi can temporarily overcome controversial problems inside his cult and stop the internal protests taking place. Rajavi also has threatened that if he cannot go out of the current impasse, on the end of the term he would create "species of Ashura" for the members. This means that like many cults in the past such as Jim Jones cult in Guyana and the cult of David Koresh in Texas, Rajavi would destroy all members of his cult. Sahar Family Foundation once again warns about a humanitarian catastrophe ... more...
Ali Ghashghavi, Iran Green Association, Germany, October 16, 2010:... It is good to see that the State Department has included the name of National Council of Resistance (NCRI) in the list of terrorists as a another name for Mojahedin Khalq but we believe that there should be less tolerance of this organisation and certainly more help to free the ones who do not wish to continue working for this terrorist organisation. The families of the victims of this terrorist cult, some of them have not seen their loved ones for the last two decades, are now picketing in front of the camp for the last few months demanding visiting rights to their loved ones. But the Mojahedin cult not only deny any proper response to their demands ...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Translated by Nejat Society, October 16 2010:...There are some general programs to plan the members' daily schedule so there is so little time left for members' personal affairs. On Thursday afternoon, they usually hold a weekly brainwashing meeting in which members of the same rank should attend. Every individual should read his sexual moments [moments of sexual thoughts]for his peers and make a conclusion. I usually tried not to listen to the others' facts after reading my own ones because while listening to their sexual thoughts I myself would have sexual thoughts too ... more...
Mohammad Razaghi, Paris, October 16, 2010:... The tough security measures have been carried out inside Ashraf garrison by the direct order of pmoi leadership based in France specially after the escape of 6 members from Ashraf garrison. Two of those escapes have occurred recently , but two other escape attempts were failed and they got arrested and beaten up by the operatives of pmoi.The people who succeeded to escape mentioned that the leadership of pmoi has intimidated all the members of being tortured and killed by those elderly families and Iraqi police if they try to escape from Ashraf garrison ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 12, 2010:... Two years ago the Nejat Society in Iran contacted my grandfather and informed him that they have learned from the ex-members returning from Iran that his son (my father) is still alive and living in the Ashraf garrison the base of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq. That day when my grandfather came home I noticed that his eyes are full of tears. I asked instantly: “Oh grandfather! For God sake, please tell me what has happened”. He hugged me and then said: “My dear daughter, your father is alive”... more...
House of Parliament, U.K. September 27, 2010:... Our ambassador in Baghdad met with the Iraqi Human Rights Minister on 20 May 2010 and underlined the need for the Iraqi authorities to deal with the residents in a way that meets international humanitarian standards. The Iraqi authorities have told the residents that they can no longer stay at Camp Ashraf but have given assurances that no residents will be forcibly transferred to a country where they have reason to fear persecution or where substantial grounds exist to believe they would be tortured. We have not received any information about the Government of Iraq denying visas to relatives and friends of the residents ... more...
Habilian Association,Translated by Nejat Society, October 10 2010:... The weekly brainwashing meetings are obligatory. You must confess a sin -a sexual one. It will be even worse if you do not confess anything. They take you to a place called Bengali where they talk to you for several days, putting you under too much pressure. They say that you definitely have some sexual thoughts that you are concealing.Their arguments and sometimes quarrels in the meetings were justified as "human science"! What a human science! They call it monotheist "Anthropology" in which they use peer pressure as weapon. They say peer pressure is just like the leader ... more...
Fars News, October 11, 2010:... The ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have appealed to the US and Israeli security firms to help them bar defectors from escaping MKO's main camp in northern Iraq, a report said on Saturday. Following several successful escape plans, the MKO leaders inked an agreement with the US Black Water security firm to block defectors' escape and tighten control over the camp, the report added. Those MKO members who have succeeded in fleeing the notorious camp have disclosed that the terrorist group's ringleaders have created a gruesome atmosphere in the camp, specially for women, and have even threatened the female members with rape and other forms of tortures ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, October 11 2010:... The MKO has already committed treason against the nation of Iran and with the nuclear smear campaign they bear the responsibility of fear mongering in their effort to destabilize Iran’s credibility as a way to substantiate their own. In his so-called revealing report on the Iranian secret nuclear site, Jafarzadeh claims that “the disclosure of the site will irreparably undermine the regime's international standing and would have unimaginable repercussions."[11] The West’s reaction to the MKO’s report was a disappointment for the cult’s pitiful leaders because their cheap shot means aid is no longer a possibility ... more...
Press TV, October 07, 2010:... He underlined the 9/11 dispute has so far targeted three Muslim nations, namely Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. "How many more Muslim nations are to become the targets of this incident (9/11) and fall prey to military, political and propaganda moves across the world?" Mottaki further dismissed the rallies held by the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) during President Ahmadinejad's stay in New York as 'puppet shows.' ... more...
Habilian Association (translated by Nejat Society), October 07 2010:... I am Mahmoud Dashtestani. I was born in 1965. I was captivated as a civilian when I was commuting from Abadan to Mahshahr in 1979. I was then imprisoned in Iraqi Camps for about ten years. In the late years of my imprisonment when Iran and Iraq had both admitted a ceasefire, too much propaganda was launched by MKO in POW camps. They persuaded the prisoners to join their organization. Anyway, under too much pressure and due to lack of information on the group I was deceived by MKO and then I joined Camp Ashraf. I was hopeful to return to Iran by the possibilities that MKO would provide for me ... more...
Iran interlink, Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) October 06 2010:... Mr. Mehrdad amiri, 35, and Mr. Hojat Rafiee, 42 were captured in Camp Ashraf of MKO for more than ten years. They told the families that they decided to runaway although they were seriously terrified by MKO leaders of being arrested by Iraqi forces or Iranian Intelligence." the situation created by the Camp leaders is terribly chocking so members are under too much mental pressure. The women in the group are frightened of being raped so they fear to escape more than their male comrades," they said ... more...
Milad Ariyaee, Iranian Pen association, Germany, October 05, 2010:... The Mojahedin Khalq leaders, when they see themselves under pressure by the public and the media, have prepared a formal list which includes names of some members of this cult whom has forcibly declared that they do not want to see their relatives and families by no means. Obviously no common sense believe such a thing. Or Pmoi’s operatives have forced and coerced some of their members to participate the cult’s TV program so called ,Simayeh Azadi, to insult those families despite of their will. I request and am expecting you as a person of an International institution to intervene with Ashraf’s situation and ...more...
Iran Interlink, October 04, 2010:... The families said that it is more than 8 months that they are present in front of Ashraf garrison and all they want is to see their loved ones for even a short time, but the leaders of the MKO reject this which is an obvious example of violating basic human rights. They said to the reporters that the Rajavi terrorist cult has banned any sort of contact with the families for its members, they have basically have banned all contacts with the outside world, they have banned marriages and forming families, even thinking and dreaming has been banned ... more...
Fars News, October 04, 2010:... The popular debaathification movement in Iraq disclosed that Egypt's intelligence service and the former Baath party in the Saddam-ruled Iraq ran clandestine cooperation to equip the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) with advanced weapons to perform terrorist attacks against Iran. During the meeting they decided that Matlak took the commanding responsibility of the Baathi forces in Egypt, and that both sides should make efforts to consolidate the relations between the MKO and the Baath party and create a joint operation room for controlling MKO activities ... more...
Iranian Pen Club, Germany, October 04, 2010:... Rajavi, using the opportunity provided by the fallen dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, has used the past two decades to create an atmosphere inside camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) in which any marriage, friendship, writing letters, exchanging photos, using telephone, meeting and chatting or any relation between parents and children or between siblings or other relatives has been forbidden and even thinking about it would have resulted in severe, violent punishment and suppression. Seven years ago, Saddam Hussein and his government was toppled , but even after the downfall of Saddam Hussein ,PMOI still act like before and there has not been any breakthrough in pmoi's policy regarding separation of their members ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, October 04, 2010:... Mr. Mehrdad amiri, 35, and Mr. Hojat Rabiee, 42 were captured in Camp Ashraf of MKO for more than ten years. They told the families that they decided to runaway although they were seriously terrified by MKO leaders of being arrested by Iraqi forces or Iranian Intelligence." the situation created by the Camp leaders is terribly chocking so members are under too much mental pressure. The women in the group are frightened of being raped so they fear to escape more than their male comrades," they said. ... more...
Ancient Iran Association, Paris, October 03, 2010: ... Pmoi’s operatives based in Ashraf garrison who are receiving their orders to suppress those families directly from the cult’s headquarter in France have forced and coerced some of their members to participate the cult’s TV program so called ,Simayeh Azadi, to insult those families despite of their will . Those members have been intimidated that if they meet with those families , they will be arrested and tortured by Iraqi police and will be extradited to Iran to be executed, or will be killed and tortured by those families!! ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp New Iraq (Formerly Ashraf), Iraq, October 02, 2010:... On this occasion, an 18th vehicle was refused entry for legal reasons, after it was searched by Iraqi soldiers. An Iraqi official at the camp rejected the Mojahedin’s allegation as lies and said the Government of Iraq is doing all it can to assist the people inside the camp and has offered extra help which has been refused (MEK leaders have refused to allow some members who are seriously ill to be transferred to specialist hospital facilities in Baghdad). He also explained that vehicles are searched to prevent illegal items, such as arms, being taken into the camp ... more...
Habilian, Mashad, October 01, 2010:... In an interview with Al-Musawwar in 1981, Massoud Rajavi, the MKO leader, admitted the MKO had killed “6000 hirelings of [Imam] Khomeini”, not 100 people of whom were government officials; they were labelled as reactionaries and doomed to be killed by the MKO just because they were not with the cult. Why was Martyr Hasheminejad assassinated while he was merely a cultural figure and not a government official? In the above-mentioned interview, quoted by the MKO’s Mojahed weekly no. 184, Massoud Rajavi boasted that the MKO “could put seven Ayatollahs to death by suicide attacks, all of whom being representatives of [Imam] Khomeini in main provinces”...more...
Aawa Association, October 01, 2010:... The Mayor of Khalis, Alkhaddran said that the Mojahedin Organization had plundered the country and the province, taking over 6000 acres of land in Khalis district. He said they took 80% of the citizens’ plots of land, and pointed out the economic gains for the Judiciary by returning the investment in Camp Ashraf taken by the organization for more than three decades. The Vice-Chairman of the Board of Diyala who emphasised again the demand of the people of Iraq to expel the Mojahedin, said ... more...
Edalat Society, September 29, 2010:... Undoubtedly you would acknowledge that issuing permission for holding rally to the National Council of Resistance which is included in your FTO list, is the violation of international laws as well as US domestic laws. This is while your country has been the forerunner in the global fight against terrorism. The occurrence of such events in the United State’s governing system and giving permission by your Department to a terrorist organization which has murdered more than 12000 Iranians and thousands of foreign civilians including seven American military councilors to hold gatherings, can not be justifiable and defendable ... more...
Fars News, September 28, 2010:... The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States. Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe. Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in Europe ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 27, 2010:... The families said that it is more than 8 months that they are present in front of Ashraf garrison and all they want is to see their loved ones for even a short time, but the leaders of the MKO reject this which is an obvious example of violating basic human rights. They said to the reporters that the Rajavi terrorist cult has banned any sort of contact with the families for its members, they have basically have banned all contacts with the outside world, they have banned marriages and forming families, even thinking and dreaming has been banned ...more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, September 25 2010:... Why is John Bolton so interested in a Marxist-Islamist cult? The answer is in his simplistic and radical view that Maryam Rajavi shares. They see society, religion, and other abstract notions as black and white. And the you-are-with-us-or-you-are-against-us rhetoric is embedded in their shared rigid outlook. Maryam Rajavi has convictions that Massoud Rajavi is the absolute Truth and his opponents are the absolute Evil—the MKO remains a cult whose leader’s views feed Bolton’s certainty about his personal vision for Iran. According to Richard H. Curtiss ... more...
Scott Horton, Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 2010:... lobbyists, and propagandists have spent nearly two decades pushing the lie that Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and Israel. After a brief respite in the intensity of the wolf cries over the past two years, the neoconservative movement has decided to relaunch the “Must Bomb Iran” brand... John Bolton implicitly urged Israel to attack Iran’s new light-water reactor at Bushehr before it began “functioning,” the implication being that the reactor represented some sort of dire threat...If the smokescreen wasn’t thick enough, late last week a group of Marxist holy warrior exiles called the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq, working with the very same neoconservatives ... more...
Ali Gharib, Lobelog, September 09, 2010:... As for the Iran Policy Committee, the group has long called for U.S.-sponsored regime change in Iran, but with the caveat that such an effort be led by Iranians, specifically the MEK. Raymond Tanter, who founded and co-chairs the IPC, is a former fellow of the Hudson Institute and a current adjunct scholar at the AIPAC-formed Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Tanter has, for years, lobbied power-centers in Washington — with some success on Capitol Hill – to remove the MEK from U.S. terror lists and use them to conduct a cross-border insurgency against Iran from Iraq, where the MEK has been based ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, September 22 2010:... Most of these families who are members of Nejat Society have not seen their beloved ones-captured in Camp Ashraf for about twenty years. Hopeful to visit their children in a free atmosphere without supervision of cults' leaders, all families have one common motto:"Free our children". It is worth to note that the presence of MKO members' families at Ashraf gates has become a motive for a lot of Ashraf residents to escape, according to two recently defected residents Mr. Einakian and Mr. BadanAra ... more...
Press TV, September 21, 2010:... This program sheds light on MKO treacherous activities during Iraq-Iran War and their engagement in various acts of espionage against their own country. The program focuses on the use of the MKO by Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program. The program talks with experts including Scott Ritter, Abolhasan Bani Sadr and Massoud Khodabandeh... more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East, September 21, 2010:... She pointed to the plans for the sexual exploitation of the women in this cult and added: "To enable Mas'ud Rajavi to achieve his desired objective, we were directed to a lounge called the 'X saloon.' The floor was covered by white sheets that were attached to the carpet. The entire saloon was white. Two white armchairs were also placed in the middle of the room. A table was placed in front of these chairs and on it there was a Koran, a mirror, and some lighted candles. A box was also placed on the table that I later learned contained some gold necklaces ... more...
Edalat Association, Geneva, September 21, 2010:... Presenting the films about MKO crimes and reading a statement from Iran’s Association of families of terrorism victims were some programs of the association at the UN Human Rights Council. Describing the MKO crimes was so strange for the audiences and they wondered about the violations of human rights’ laws by the terrorist group. The report stipulates that MKO in Geneva attempted to buy politicians and NGOs participating in this conference by paying enormous amounts of money... more...
Iraq Beituna Agency, September 19, 2010:... The Mayor of Khalis, Alkhaddran said that the Mojahedin Organization had plundered the country and the province, taking over 6000 acres of land in Khalis district. He said they took 80% of the citizens’ plots of land, and pointed out the economic gains for the Judiciary by returning the investment in Camp Ashraf taken by the organization for more than three decades. The Vice-Chairman of the Board of Diyala who emphasised again the demand of the people of Iraq to expel the Mojahedin, said this organisation is logistically and financially behind all the security problems in the province... more...
Press TV, Diala provance, Iraq, September 17, 2010:... Arguments on who will lead the government is an internal affair and the Iraqi parties will determine who will become the new premier. The Iraqi government considers the presence of the Iranian rebel group Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) on its territories as illegal,” he said. MKO, an Iranian opposition group, stationed in Ashraf camp in Diala since 1980’s when the former regime of Saddam Hussein was fighting the Iranian government from 1980 until 1988 ...more...
Fars news and Press TV, September 17, 2010:... Iran on Friday categorically denied a claim by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) about a clandestine underground atomic site near Tehran. "We don't have such a facility, if they have any details they should inform us so that we can thank them," Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday. The remarks by the Iranian officials came after MKO on Thursday had claimed that it had evidence of a new secret underground atomic site in the country ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat blogger, September 16, 2010:... I was shocked to see some high-ranking women of leadership Council took off their clothes and went to Massoud. Massoud was saying "yes take off your clothes of heresy and ignorance and dive in the pool to unite yourself with me in order to be resistant enough in every moment of your struggle." […] Maryam also said, "Get close to Massoud and unite with him."I noticed that Maryam and some other high ranking members were monitoring us and trying to convince those of us who hesitated to remove their underwear.[…] Maryam said that we were no more jealous to each other so we could fight together.[…]she tried to persuade us to look at the others having sex with Massoud Rajavi ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 15 2010:... Mr. Alireza Einakian who spent 25 years in Rajavi's cult could manage to escape Camp Ashraf at 1:00 a.m. on September 7th 2010. He then submitted himself to Iraqi forces. According to what Mr. Einakian reported about the situation inside Camp Ashraf, the members have to travel in the camp in groups of about fifteen in which several high-ranking members are supposed to supervise others. Most of cleaning works of the Camp's surroundings are done by the commandants and high officials because they are more reliable. Those who are in doubt of escaping from the camp are seriously controlled. If they cast doubt ... more...
Haaretz, September 12, 2010:... The United States took a surprising stance on Friday supporting Iranian claims that it was not building a new secret uranium enrichment facility, after an Iranian opposition group exposed satellite imagery on Thursday allegedly proving the existence of a secret nuclear site some 120 kilometers from Tehran. Washington, which along with its European allies accuses Iran of trying to build nuclear bombs, said it had known about the facility for years and had no reason to believe it was nuclear... more...
Federal News Service, FEDNWS, Septermber 10, 2010:... Q With the -- with the Iranian nuclear site -- MR. TONER: I believe they've made claims in the past, yes... Q They have asked that the secretary of State remove the blacklisting of Iran's main opposition, the People's Mujaheddin Organization of Iran. Any plans to do that?.. MR. TONER: The so-called MEK? I believe they're still deemed a foreign terrorist organization. No plans that I'm aware of to change that ... more...
Mehr News, Tehran, September 10, 2010:... “In Iran there is no nuclear facility with its own specific definition which has not been declared to the agency (the International Atomic energy Agency),” Ali Akbar Salehi told the Mehr News Agency. Mocking the MKO for such naïve reports, he said, “If they have news of such a thing they can inform.” The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran dismissed a claim by the Mojahedin Khalq Organization that Iran is building a new nuclear enrichment facility ... more...
Press TV, September 10, 2010:... The Public Prosecutor of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Jaafar al-Mousawi, stated in mid-August that investigations have also incriminated MKO members in playing a leading role in the killings of Iraqi civilians. Mousawi further commented that the terrorist group had supported Saddam Hussein's Baath regime, aiding in the suppression of the Iraqi people's uprising in 1991 and the torture and massacre of innocent people in the northern and southern regions of the country ... more...
Radio Free Europe, September 10, 2010:... Alireza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the dissidents, told a press conference on September 9 in Washington that the site was intended as a facility to enrich uranium and was located underground in mountains about 120 kilometers west of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Jafarzadeh described the facility as part a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program. News agencies quoted a U.S. official as saying the U.S. had known about the facility for years and had no reason at the current time to believe it was being used for nuclear purposes ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, September 8, 2010:... Arguments on who will lead the government is an internal affair and the Iraqi parties will determine who will become the new premier. The Iraqi government considers the presence of the Iranian rebel group Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) on its territories as illegal,” he said. MKO, an Iranian opposition group, stationed in Ashraf camp in Diala since 1980’s when the former regime of Saddam Hussein was fighting the Iranian government from 1980 until 1988 ...more...
Aljazeera TV, (repeat Sep 2010):... Before leaving for operations in Iran, I had training in camp Ashraf on how to hold cyanide capsules under my tongue. We had to use the capsules in case we got arrested by the Iranian regime. We had to break the glass, scratch our tongues with it, and within a few seconds commit suicide, so we couldn't reveal any organisational secrets to our captors. In order to practice, we put two small date pits under our tongues. I hope I can remember how to do it - good - I still remember. We had to hold the pits for days under our tongues to practice, and the pits are really hard. I am sorry, can I throw these out? ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, September 06 2010:... Mr. Marzdashti was recruited by MKO agents in 2002 in Turkey where he was hopeful to find a job. He was taken to Iraq by MKO recruiters who had duped him using their deceitful recruitment tactics. The recently defected Ashraf member reveals that leaving the camp is a really difficult challenge for the residents. They are seriously supervised by MKO leaders who try to terrify them from the consequences of submitting to Iraqi forces ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 05, 2010:... The reports issued by the US Department of State since 1994 up to the present time (2010) and their contents as well as the 2009 report issued by the RAND institute about the MKO in Iraq and the 2005 report of Human Rights Watch about the violation of human rights inside the cult and the comments given by the Prime Minister and the President of Iraq on several occasions as well as the Iraq security authorities’ comments and the continuous confession of the MKO leaders about violation of human rights are enough to condemn the leaders even without trial. If not, at least these should be basis enough for the UN to instigate an investigations into the human rights violations ... more...
AFP, Tehran, September 04 2010:... Nazar-Ahari, jailed since December 2009, had also been charged with ties with the exiled opposition People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI). "In the court, she expressed repulsion at this organisation (PMOI), denied any links with them and dismissed the accusation as completely baseless," Nazar-Ahari was first arrested shortly after Iran's controversial June 2009 presidential election and released on bail after three months. She was re-arrested in December while ... more...
Edalat Association, September 02, 2010:... Happiness and rejoice of the Mojahedin-e Khlaq members did not last for a long time and the laughter transfixed on their lips soon. After that the US federal court issued an order to the Department of State for reviewing the terrorist designation of the MKO, Leaders of this organization intended to pretend that they had nothing to do with arms and terrorism. Now following the Department of state’s report for keeping the name of this organization in the terrorist list of US, they are completely stupefied ... more...
Press TV, September 01, 2010:... The top Iranian envoy further said the case is still open on the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). He expressed hope more MKO members will defect to Iran and return to the bosoms of their families. "Both sides are working on the (MKO) case, and we will be witnessing positive developments in that regard," said Danaifard. "Five years on since the election results were announced, the premiership question in the country remains unsolved, which affects a whole lot of domestic and social issues as well," he said ... more...
Mehr News, September 01, 2010:... A top Interior Ministry official has dismissed reports that Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members have been stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. “Iraqi officials do not allow such transfer,” Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Ali Abdollahi stated on Monday. Elsewhere in his remarks, Abdollahi refuted the news that Abdolmalek Rigi’s spouse has entered Iran. Rigi, the leader of the terrorist Jundallah group, was arrested in last February and hanged in June ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, August 29 2010:... The most recent news on MKO's servitude towards Israel and its interest for bloodshed was its fanfare on the opening of Bushehr Power Plant in Iran, citing from John Bolton, American controversial figure that it would be dangerous and military invasion to Iran would be necessary and hence the sanctions against Iran should be intensified. Following the news of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, the positions taken by Israeli authorities and American John Bolton are very similar to that of MKO. Their interests are ... more...
Iran Interlink, Baghdad, August 28, 2010:... Mojahedin Khalq organisation have given out false statements distributed widely by western propaganda outlets that the Iraqi army has been carrying out operations against their members confined in Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf). The Iraqi army has not engaged in such operations and the false allegation is intended to disturb the state of alert given out against al Qaeda and Saddamists in the wake of news that they are to carry out a large terror campaign against civilian targets across Iraq ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 28, 2010:... The SFF is not a political organization or party. As it could be seen from its name it is a foundation to aid the families who desire to see their relatives. Naturally our counterpart in this manner is the MKO and in particular its authoritarian leader. The members of SFF overwhelmingly believe that the MKO is a destructive cult which in the first instance threatens the lives and morals of its own followers. We have no political argument with this cult and we did never give any remarks about its political conducts. Our argument is totally on humanitarian bases ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, August 26, 2010:... Then Massoud read the wedding sermon for all women one by one.[…] then they took the table and spread a large white meters on the floor. I was shocked to see some high-ranking women of leadership Council took off their clothes and went to Massoud. Massoud was saying "yes take off your clothes of heresy and ignorance and dive in the pool to unite yourself with me in order to be resistant enough in every moment of your struggle." […] Maryam also said, "Get close to Massoud and unite with him." ... more...
Fars News, August 26, 2010:... The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, has been in the country's Diyala province since the 1980s. Six years after toppling Saddam Hussein's government in 2003, the country's security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf - about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad and changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 24, 2010:... We also remember that following the revelations of Ms. Nasrin Ebrahimi for the first time in the European Parliament regarding abdominal hysterectomy (removing the uterus) inside the Rajavi cult, Ms. Soltani confirmed it and said that she had the intention of revealing the fact when she goes to Europe and Ms. Ebrahimi was supposed to do so when she gets there as she did. Both Soltani and Ebrahimi did not see any need to reveal the names of the victims, but they said that many women went into that process ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 23, 2010:... Publishing the monthly publication of Sahar Family Foundation in Arabic had been stopped for over one year. This month the first issue of the second volume of the publication was widely distributed in Iraq. We do hope that we would publish it regularly in order to feed those who are eager to know more about our cause and in this respect we try to serve the suffering families as much as we can ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 18, 2010:... The families learned about Ms. Batul Soltani being attacked by Rajavi’s thugs in Europe and showed their hatred towards this action and condemned it on their loudspeakers. The news of MKO (Rajavi cult) being designated once again as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department was also announces by the loudspeakers for the captured followers inside Ashraf garrison... more...
Press TV, August 16, 2010:... Discontent members of the terror group, which colluded with Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein in his eight-year aggression against Iran, have been complaining of poor conditions in the camp and their lack of access to outside and family members, ISNA reports Sunday, quoting a website operated by families of Iranian terror victims. They have recently been subjected to tight control and increased pressure by the camp's leaders for any signs of revolt or discontent ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, August 14, 2010:... Regardless of John Bolton’s—or any other official’s ambition for Iran, and regardless of the MKOs position or non-position on the FTO list, the MKO simply can not and should not be a trusted device. Following the 2005 report of Human Rights Watch on MKO atrocities against its own members titled "No Exit," various cases of human rights violations by the MKO was revealed through testimonies made by the group's former members ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, August 12, 2010:... These PMOI Muslim women, after passing through many years under religious-cultic indoctrination, entered into the final test to show that they were ready to carry out anything desired by their leaders, even by trampling their Islamic regulations. Their nude dancing in front of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi was the final phase of their brainwashing to become committed, loyal and devoted to their gurus, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. It showed their allegiance ... more...
Habilian reporting from declassified Court documents, August 12, 2010:... “the MEK trained females at Camp Ashraf in Iraq to perform suicide attacks in Karbala”; “the MEK solicits money under the false pretext of humanitarian aid to the Iranian population”; “an August 2008 U.S. Intelligence Community Terrorist Threat Assessment, clearly states that the MEK retains a limited capability to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism”; “[t]he MEK publicly renounced violence in 2001, but ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 11, 2010: ... hundreds of family members of the victims seized inside Rajavi cult (Mojahedin-e Kahlq Organization – MKO) in Iraq have been picketing outside Ashraf garrison the base of this cult in Iraq for about six months and demanding visiting their relatives, but the MKO is still refusing to fulfill their demands. The physical and psychological pressure on these families caused by long time demonstration has led to Ms. Abdullahi and some others to be hospitalized in Baghdad ...more...
Fars News, August 10, 2010:... Mehman-Parast blasted the double-standard policy adopted by certain western countries, specially the US, on terrorism, and said while these states accuse others of sponsoring terrorism, they provide support for the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and the terrorist Jundollah group. The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 10, 2010:... Massoud Rajavi must know that these disgusting television shows and forcing individuals to insult and accuse their own families would never solve any problem for him. When the families see these filthy tricks they become more certain that their relatives are victims of a cult and they become more assured that their loved ones must be saved. The truth is that the Rajavi cult in Iraq is stuck in a deadly trouble and ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, August 08 2010:... MKO's secret ties with Israel do not begin or end with Iranian nuclear documents. They also unabashedly attend AIPAC functions. In fact, the MKO has intensive and very direct cooperation with the Iran Policy Committee, a spinoff of AIPAC. Mahan Abedin, a journalist for the Asia Times, reports that there are regular media reports which allude to direct Israel-MKO ties. [9] In an article that Abedin wrote in which he interviewed a former MKO member, Massoud Bani Sadr, BaniSadr disclosed that "the [MKO] is exclusively motivated by the interests of the cult, and ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 07, 2010:... Rajavi is standing against the families and would not yield to their demands, since he thinks if he let his followers go outside the Ashraf garrison and visit their families they would learn about the outside world and the consequence would be that they no longer obey him and his cult would collapse. Once Rajavi’s slogan was “death to America” and he was proud of it. Then his main enemy became the Islamic Republic of Iraq and now the front line of his battle is the families ... more...
Habilian reporting from State Department, August 07, 2010:... Despite all the vast propaganda campaign and pulling any lobbying string, while leaving no stone unturned, for taking the name of MEK out of the US State Department terror list, once again this terrorist group was designated as a foreign terrorist organization. In a new report by the US Department of State office of the coordination for counterterrorism which was released on August 5, 2010, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization was referred to as a terrorist organization ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, August 06, 2010:... How can a criminal organization like the PMOI, with a bloody record and hands smeared with blood, claim to be a legitimate opposition group? They are criminals and they should be tried in courts of law for their bloody past. They do not have any popularity among Iranian people at all and Iranian people in their recent protests throughout Iran, especially after Iran’s presidential election, showed that not only do they not support the PMOI as an opposition group, but rather ... more...
Mohammad Karami, Paris, August 05, 2010:... Massoud Rajavi in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission”. Then he (Massoud Rajavi) with a smile on his face continued his war cry and said, ”What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power ... more...
Katori13.worldpress, July 2010:... Hopefully in the future, politicians will be a little more wise before they decide to embrace individuals who invoke terminology that is seductive to western ears. The MeK has a history which should ring some alarm bells: their former allegiance to Saddam Hussein; their Marxist/Islamist roots and militant training are at odds with the EU’s own principles and more importantly, at odds with legions of educated and secular-oriented Iranians ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, August 03, 2010:... The slogan written by the MKO elements on the entrance of Ashraf garrison was wiped off today. Some legal steps forward has been taken to push back the advocates of Rajavi cult in Iraq which we would inform you later of the outcomes. At the present circumstances it is most necessary that the human rights activists in Europe and America strive for the cause of the families. Their voice must be heard everywhere ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 31, 2010:... As is seen in the above mentioned part of the article, for the first time a semi-official source in the west is seeking the trial of the leaders of the MKO, and for the first time the international demand is heard that the cult leader Rajavi and his wife must face justice in international courts. Although it is late, it is still positive to find that with the arrest warrant issued by the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court, the resistance of the Camp Ashraf Families is eventually giving its fruit and the International call for freeing the victims of the cult and trying the leaders ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, July 31, 2010:... I remember that one of the Leadership Council, Mrs Soosan Taleghani, told us that Massoud Rajavi is Imam Hussein and Maryam is Hazrateh Zeynab. In this organization Massoud’s character was as a man without any sin and guilt and he was an innocent and sinless leader and all mistakes and sins and guilt pertained to everyone except him and his wife. Once, Mehdi Abrichamchi (Maryam Rajavi’s first husband) said in one particular organizational gathering that, “Massoud is not responsible to anyone except God for his actions and ... more...
Iran Human Rights, New York, July 30, 2010:... Many Shiite scholars believe that a mohareb is an individual who takes up arms. This was not the case for my client. He merely participated in the post-election gatherings.. Jafar Kazemi is accused of moharebeh, through his alleged support for the Mojahedin-E Khalgh Organization (MEK), even though he has not accepted these charges ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 29, 2010:... Consequently, what MKO is trumpeting as a ruling of being removed from the terrorist list is nothing but an urge by the court requiring the State Department to grant MKO an opportunity to defend itself against unclassified information, an opportunity already granted. The court has judicial responsibilities to fulfill, as it will be also held accountable for the consequences of unleashing a terrorist organization ... more...
Habilian Association, July 29, 2010:... London Kayhan, an opposition News paper in London in an article from a reader wrote; I watched the BBC news, I am so angry, my message is this that we should not keep quiet in dealing with traitors like MKOs, and MKO in collaboration with Iraqis invaded our country. We are sitting and watching ... more...
Mark Dankof’s America, Texas, July 28, 2010:... Tancredo advocates U.S. support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a cult-like group that is cultivating a broad base of support among Iranian expatriates around the world. Mujahedin e-Khalq means ‘people’s freedom fighters.’ MEK affiliates are the Iraq-based National Liberation Army of Iran and the National Council of Resistance in Iran ...“Although identified as a terrorist organization by the State Department and accused of a pattern of human rights abuses, Tancredo ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, July 28 2010:... Presently the MKO’s existence depends on the West’s support. Without the West’s support they have no place to call home. Currently their headquarters is located in Paris. They own “safe houses” all over Europe and the US, and as long as they have this support, they can maintain their now secret and subversive violent exploits against Iran. As one anonymous ex-member, who fears retribution for using his name, puts it, “The MKO doesn’t offer democracy, and ... more...
Rachel Schneller, Chatham House, August 2010:... MEK also participated in the 1979 take-over of the US Embassy in Tehran and so its members, as designated terrorists, are not eligible for resettlement in the US. Camp Ashraf, however, postpones the inevitable and risks becoming another Guantanamo Bay. MEK members who took part in acts of terror should face justice, possibly through an ad hoc United Nations tribunal that would ensure a fair trial. Those exonerated should then qualify for resettlement ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 27, 2010:... In spite of MKO’s widespread terrorist operations of bombing and assassination inside Iran and its later out-of-the-border organized hit and run operations perpetrated in the last three decades as well as its broadly launched military operation like that of the Eternal Light, it seems that the organization has never been considered a serious threat for the Iranian regime ...more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, July 25, 2010:... VOA in its programs,broadcasted in Persian, has always insisted that its doors are open to all organizations and legal entities as well as ... But the right is followed with a proviso that none of the terrorist groups and entities are permitted to avail themselves of such right as it might lead to an act of propaganda in their favor. Despite such a claim, so reasonable and sound decision as it seems, VOA is itself the first to violate the set standard and the rule, as an organization that presents the US government ... more...
Sahar Family Foundtion, Baghdad, July 25, 2010:... This is of course the heritage of Saddam Hussein for the Iraqi people, created by the Europeans. And American Forces, according to the RAND report, protected their base and kept it exactly as the MKO leaders desired. If the Americans are worried about their human rights why don’t they take them to their own country? The truth is that the Americans are not prepared to issue even one single visa for MKO members to enter their country while they force the Iraqis to ... more...
Baqi Barzani, Kurdishaspect.com, July 25, 2010:...the role that MKO played and the horrendous crimes it committed against Kurdish citizens of South Kurdistan, especially their collaboration with Saddam in massacres and genocides, hold us ethically liable to disallow them any access to our Kurdish mountains. Kurdish Regional Government should press charges on moral grounds against MKO for joining Saddam's army during the Iraqi-Iran war (1980-1988) and helping the dictator in suppressing Kurdish 1991 uprisings and massacre of Iraqi Kurds.MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror, violence, assassination ...more...
Anton Chaitkin, LaRouchePac, July 24, 2010:... From 2005 to 2008 DLA Piper was paid $910,000 to lobby for the MEK. Armey said in a 2007 article in {The Hill}, "Supporting the democratic opposition holds great promise for promoting the cause of freedom and democracy in Iran, particularly the group feared most by the regime (MEK)." Armey's hostilities with Iran continued until the summer of 2009, when he resigned from the firm, his attempt to manipulate the rising Tea Party conflicting with public exposure of his dirty role with DLA Piper... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, July 22, 2010:... On re-designation of MKO as a FTO, the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism in itsApril 30, 2009 report once more asserted MKO’s terrorist activities done against America: “The group's worldwide campaign against the Iranian government uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives and has been supported by reprehensible regimes, including that of Saddam Hussein. During the 1970s, the MEK assassinated several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians ... more...
Fars News, Jully 21, 2010:... "The government of the (Iraqi) Kurdistan region and the central government in Baghdad will in no way agree with such a measure," Spokesman of Pishmarga Ministry of the Iraqi Kurdistan region Jabbar Yavar told FNA. An official of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who asked to remain anonymous, told FNA on Tuesday that the White House had in a message called on his group to harbor the members of the MKO in the Qandil Mountains at the Iranian borders ... more...
Press TV, July 21, 2010:... Washington has called on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants to allow members of the anti-Iran terrorist group access to the Qandil mountain rage along Iran's northwestern border, Fars quoted an informed source close to PKK Leadership Council on Tuesday. The remarks came hours after an explosion damaged a gas pipeline near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit, close to the Iranian border. Regarding the July 15 terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan ... more...
Fars News, July 20, 2010:... Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and, despite the ban, enjoyed full freedom in Europe. Some other members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France ... more...
Press TV, July 20, 2010:... what about reports that US military forces in Iraq are training 150 members of the MKO terrorist organization? The trainings are taking place at Camp Taji, a base located near the central town of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province apparently. Kamel Wazni: That's very obvious and they have been giving protection to a lot of these terrorists who have been known to commit crimes against women and children. They have been terrorizing and planting bombs and the US is clearly taking an interest in training and giving protection for these terrorists ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 20 2010:... The response well indicates that the State Department has never changed its views about the inclusion of the notorious MKO terrorists and has ever insisted that the group’s designation complied with the governing statute and all constitutional requirements. We have to wait to see how sincere and determined America is in its war against terrorism when it designates a group as a FTO on sound evidences ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 20, 2010:... As Ervand Abrahamian, a history professor at Baruch College in New York asserts about MKO, "They have a lot of money. They have spokesmen who know how to deal with congressmen and the press. But people who sign their petitions don't know anything about the mujahedeen. […] It's hypocritical. If we are running a war against terrorism and one day we define a group as terrorists and the next day they cease to be terrorists, that undermines U.S. credibility." ... more...
Iran Interlink, July 19, 2010:... Political sources said that the Pakistan-based Jundollah terrorist group, directly sponsored and supported by Washington, has claimed responsibility for the attacks ... An arrest warrant has been issued against 39 leaders and members of the organisation including the PMOI's head Massoud Rajavi, due to evidence that confirms they committed crimes against humanity ...more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, July 19 2010:... The MKO evolved from radical beginnings in 1963 to a full blown cult by 1987. By 2006 in order to boost its image and divert the public from its affinity as a cult, (on behalf of the Israeli government) provided dubious information to U.S. officials regarding Iran’s nuclear program. [4] Currently they are focusing on hard lobbying and a massive propaganda campaign which aims to wipe out its cult-image and ugly terrorist activities ... more...
Mark Dankof’s America, Texas, July 18, 2010:... The 3 judge panel has apparently not been let in on the history of the MEK/MKO/PMOI in killing Americans working in Pahlavi Iran a generation ago. The preferred method of assassination was to block off an unsuspecting American defense contractor or Embassy official in Tehran vehicular traffic, and then to spray the car with automatic weapons fire. What were the “due process protections” accorded people like American Air Force Colonel Jack Turner of Dayton, Ohio, just one of the victims of the MEK/MKO/PMOI?... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, July 17, 2010:... As cults have developed their own principles and rules, their reactions to the outside world are based on some certain criteria different from that of other political and social organizations that have to exercise the discipline of their own in order to achieve certain objectives; however, rarely they make use of any process to forge identities. At the present, cults are largely in need of obedient and ... more...
Press TV, July 17, 2010:... The Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials. The MKO is also known to have cooperated with Iraq's notorious dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds ... more...
Rianovosti News, Moscow, July 16, 2010:... In early July, Hassan Ali had issued the order for the arrest of Massoud Rajavi the gang leader of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation and about 40 other members. He had asked Interpol to place Rajavi on the international list of wanted criminals. Hossein Ali, a member of Iraqi parliament and expert in terrorist organisations operating in the region said the murder of the Judge of the Supreme Criminal Court was carried out only a week after he issued the arrest warrants against the leaders of this group. The organisation should be investigated and some of the individuals have to be interrogated ... more...
Press TV, July 14, 2010:... The Iranian official also noted that confessions made by Abdolmalek Rigi, the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group's ringleader, before his execution last month, unveiled widespread US support for waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic. "Rigi's confessions prove that the US, Zionists and some European countries are directly linked with the Zahedan blasts, because he had confessed that the US wants bomb attacks to be carried out across Iran," he said ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 14, 2010:... “I wished Mr. Bolton could remember the advice of his Neo Cons friends to President Reagan in arming Taliban and Terrorists of Bin Laden against the Soviet Union, and could understand how unwise it is to use terrorists and cults against those who one might consider as enemies. Maryam Rajavi is the cult leader of MEK labeled as Terrorists in US and till recently in EU ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, July 14 2010:... “The organization had adopted its own dress code and physical appearance. It had begun to see the world as divided into two contradictory forces: on one side was the Mojahedin, the vanguard of the select, and those willing to accept its leadership; on the other was Khomeini, the forces of darkness and anyone refusing to accept Mojahedin leadership. “Essentially the “Mojahedin became increasingly a world unto itself.” ... more...
Reuters, July 11, 2010:... "An arrest warrant has been issued against 39 leaders and members of the organisation including the PMOI's head Massoud Rajavi, due to evidence that confirms they committed crimes against humanity," said Judge Mohammed Abdul-Sahib, a spokesman of the Iraqi High Tribunal. Rajavi's wife Maryam, leader of the French-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the PMOI's political wing, was also included in the warrant, Abdul Sahib added ...more...
Alsumaria News, Baghdad, July 11, 2010: ... The source said, in an interview with Alsumaria News, that the Mojahedin is accused of killing thousands of Iraqi citizens in coordination with the Iraqi security forces to suppress the uprising of March 1991, indicating that the investigations carried out proved the participation of members of the MKO in quelling the rebelling southern provinces and the north. " ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 08, 2010:... The echo of the statements made by Ms. Batool Soltani disclosing facts about the sexual abuse and relations of Massoud Rajavi, the leader of Mojahedin Khalq cult, with the female members had the shocking impact of a bomb explosion among the public. She made the testimony in a meeting held in support of the victims of Rajavi’s castle, Camp Ashraf. Although she did not go into very details ... more...
Press TV, July 08, 2010:... longtime members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), has been moved from their base in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad to a US base in central Iraq. The trainings are taking place at Camp Taji, a military installation used by the coalition forces. The Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and aside from conducting numerous acts of terror in Iran, is also known for its full-fledged support for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 Shia uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds ...more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, July 08, 2010:... May we remind your good self that after the escape of several members who managed to get themselves out in the recent months, the Mojahedin have been increasing their security by increasing the barbed wire fencing, and in addition have installed CCTV to monitor the movements of all their members. They have also banned any presence of ordinary members in the streets ... more...
LBC television, Camp Ashraf, July 2010:... Iman Yeganeh, who escaped the camp in April 2010 after 22 years of captivity, described the situation for people inside the MKO as despairing. He said, "People are being told the Iraqis will kill them if they leave. Knowing about Saddam's security services, when I left I believed I would be killed. Even then I had to plan carefully how to finally get out." In Iraq, victims and their families are helped by Sahar Family Foundation ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp New Iraq (Formerly Ashraf), July 07, 2010: ... She confirmed she has not seen her only son for five years, and says her only son left after the death of his father and she came here to expose the organization because of the actions exercised by them on the population living within the walls, amounting to torture. She refers to the strict prohibition on marriage by the organisation, a law enacted by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi. She said she will remain until she meets with her son ... more...
Fars News, July 07, 2010:... Arrest warrants have been issued by the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court for the ringleaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist group, Massoud Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi, Amir Kazemi and 35 other MKO members, Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, quoted an Iraqi daily as saying. "Based on article 12 of the law of Iraq's supreme criminal court, the Iraqi interior ministry and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) are now tasked with arresting and handing the wanted individuals over to the court," Habilian said quoting the Iraqi Motamar daily ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 7, 2010:... It seems that the best useful thing Rajavi can do is to at least eliminate the self-made history of the June 20 and destroy it totally. Just like the anti-American campaign resources that it impudently deleted from the history of the organization, this is a stigma that it has to remove from its calendar and resources. Maybe he was under the illusion that the Iranian people, especially the new generation whom he mainly was addressing in the course of his serial messages, had forgotten about and had no notion of the terrorist crimes ... more...
Al Mutamar, Baghdad, July 04, 2010:... The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Massoud Rajavi, head of the Mojahedin Khalq, an Iranian opposition, Arrest warrants Have also been issued against 37 others, including his wife, Maryam Rajavi, and his lieutenant Kazemi, according to (s /1/149) of 13/6/2010, Article (12) in place of Article (15) of the Code of Court No. 10 of 2005, which means that the Iraqi Interior Ministry and Interpol are notified to bring them to court ... more...
Reporters network, Baghdad, July 04, 2010:... Sheikh Mohammed Jassim Abdul, one of Diyala province tribal leaders, said said the elders and tribes of Diyala are demanding that the government and parliament work on removing this organization as soon as possible for several reasons, including its past cooperation with the former regime of Saddam Hussein against the Iraqi people. He considered that the MEK leaders’ rejection of families coming from Iran to see their children who were inside the camp is a violation and breach of human rights law and acts contrary to moral values ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 4, 2010:... The bomb Massoud and Maryam had promised to explode in the month of June to change everything, and specifically from June 10 to 20, was turned into the purple balloons that were exploded at Taverney’s gatherings; the created sound was hardly audible to the participants at the rally, let alone to the world and the Iranian people. However, the end of this gathering is the beginning of a rather longstanding planned propaganda ... more...
ISNA, July 03, 2010:... The statement highlighted the terrorist measures of the group killing 12,000 Iranians including women and children after victory of Islamic Revolution and its help to army of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hossein and Baath regime security services. "We as representatives and children of 16,000 families of terror victims that 12,000 thousands of them have been murdered by the terrorist group's attacks call for you not to let the group carry out any activity based on European and international rules." "We are ready to provide you with evidence of crimes of the group." The Iraq-based MKO is listed as a terrorist group by many international organizations and some countries ... more...
Press TV, July 03, 2010:... In an interview with Radio Courtoisie of France, Iran's Ambassador to Paris Mehdi Mir-Aboutalebi questioned the French government's claim of support for human rights. "While it claims to be an advocate of human rights, France supports MKO members who have appalling criminal records," IRIB qouted Mir-Aboutalebi as saying in the interview on Friday. The Iranian ambassador called on France to provide an explanation as to why it allowed members of the MKO to celebrate on the 29th anniversary of a bombing attack in Iran, in which over 70 people were killed ... more...
Fars News, July 03, 2010:... the Iraqi official said that a group of local authorities and tribal sheikhs have recently visited Camp Ashraf - now called as the Camp of New Iraq - to prepare the ground for a meeting between MKO members and their families but the delegation's efforts yielded no result due to the strong opposition shown by the terrorist group's commanders. Khudri said that the group rejected the Iraqi side's request for mediations for three times, saying that the group opposed the meeting in an effort to prevent defection and ... more...
Press TV, Iran Today documentary program, June 30, 2010:... Bolton and Aznar were there to represent a transatlantic coalition of neoconservative pro-Israeli interests who seem to wish to promote the PMOI as the legitimate opposition to Iran's clerical regime. Bolton’s credentials need no rehearsal here, but let’s not forget that Aznar has recently signed on as a founding member of a European Friends of Israel, in the face of the disastrous repercussions of the Gaza Freedom floatilla raid. The reason for this is fairly clear: on the issues of Israel and on Iran's nuclear program the Green Movement is dedicated to ... more...
Ghalam Association, June 30, 2010:... It has been nearly five months that elderly parents with broken hearts and tearful eyes are looking forward to meet with their children in front of Camp Ashraf have been on sitting that the MKO leaders allow them access to their children inside the camp. While we support the families in front of the gates of camp Ashraf and the efforts of your Excellency, demand a stronger involvement of your Gaverment in the human rights violations insaide Camp Ashraf and ... more...
Iran Interlink reporting from Iraqi TV stations, June 30, 2010:... Iman Yeganeh, who escaped the camp in April 2010 after 22 years of captivity, described the situation for people inside the MKO as despairing. He said, "People are being told the Iraqis will kill them if they leave. Knowing about Saddam's security services, when I left I believed I would be killed. Even then I had to plan carefully how to finally get out." In Iraq, victims and their families are helped by Sahar Family Foundation ... more...
Kamran, Mondoweiss.net, June 28, 2010:... Bolton and Aznar were there to represent a transatlantic coalition of neoconservative pro-Israeli interests who seem to wish to promote the PMOI as the legitimate opposition to Iran's clerical regime. Bolton’s credentials need no rehearsal here, but let’s not forget that Aznar has recently signed on as a founding member of a European Friends of Israel, in the face of the disastrous repercussions of the Gaza Freedom floatilla raid. The reason for this is fairly clear: on the issues of Israel and on Iran's nuclear program the Green Movement is dedicated to ... more...
Press TV, June 29, 2010:... "The leaders of the MKO terrorist group held a costly protest in Paris and used huge propaganda, asking some (infamous) politicians, who have no place among their own people, to join the crowd as their supporters, in order to declare that they want to continue their presence inside Iraq," Hassan Kazemi Qomi told Fars News Agency on Monday. "MKO's recent vain efforts indicated that the group does not hold out much hope," the Iranian envoy noted ...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, June 29, 2010:... In the same vein and in another part of the article he refers to the intentional usurp of the movements’ leadership by the opportunist reds: “The Reds regard the Green movement as an excuse and opportunity. Therefore, they try to define different policies, objectives and even a distinct leadership for it”. And finally it concludes how to direct the movement towards the desired destination: "It does not matter that the people in the scene wear green wrist or head bands. What is important is to chant red slogans ... more...
AKnews, Diyala Provance, Iraq, June 29, 2010:... Al-Khaddran attributed Ashraf leaders refusal to let the Iranian families in to "fears" of the leaders of revealing their practices with the deluded people who wish to return home, on the one hand, and to prevent the world from knowing the secrets and mysteries of collaboration with, and the support of the organization, for militant terrorist groups, on the other hand. government of Iraq tried to take measures that would remove the organization from the country, but the organization was protected by the United States ... more...
Ghalam Association, June 28, 2010: ... ... We urge you to provide an opportunity for those families awaiting behind closed gates to meet their loved ones whom they have not seen them for 20 years in some cases. The leadership of this cult (PMOI) have deprived those victims of having any communication with their loved ones by labeling those desperate families as Iranian intelligence service agent whereas this leadership lyingly pretend that they are supporting human rights and Iranian people's rights, but ... more...
Voltairenet, June 28, 2010:... speeches by former Spanish Prime Minister José-Maria Aznar and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton - who recently joined forces to found the Friends of Israel Initiative- calling on the State Department to stop considering the People’s Mujahedin as a terrorist organisation and on the European Union to unilaterally reinforce the sanctions against Iran ... more...
Press TV, June 28, 2010:... The decision by Paris to allow the MKO to hold the gathering comes while the Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Founded in the 1960s, the MKO has masterminded a slew of terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq, killing thousands of people and wounding many more. The group is particularly notorious for taking sides with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...more...
Fars News, June 27, 2010:... Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf earlier this year. The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq. Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so. A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations ... more...
Press TV, June 27, 2010:... The decision by Paris to allow the MKO to hold the gathering comes while the Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Founded in the 1960s, the MKO has masterminded a slew of terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq, killing thousands of people and wounding many more. The group is especially notorious for taking sides with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 war Iraqi-imposed on Iran ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June 24, 2010:... The families and the former members who realize the situation of the people inside Ashraf garrison who have continuously been subject to mind manipulation and psychological indoctrination for many years and find Massoud Rajavi the only sole responsible for all the hardships and troubles they are facing with, kept their calm and tried to tell them sincerely and kindly that ... more...
Iran Ghalam, June 26, 2010:... Taking into account the self immolations, carried out on the streets of France on 17 June 2003 by members of the PMOI in order to intimidate the French judiciary after the arrest of Maryam Rajavi, and collaboration of the cult with Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq who left the trace of several crimes in Iraq and Iran and, the terrorist operations admitted by the PMOI inside Iran and the long wait of the families of the Camp Ashraf residents for several months behind the closed doors of the camp, and ... more...
BBC Monitoring, reporting from Al-Manar TV, June 26, 2010:... These families live in difficult humanitarian conditions as their elderly men were scorched in the heat of the sun and the mothers were shedding tears for longing to meet their children. Other families carried photos of their sons and banners that condemn the repressive practices of the MKO leaderships, and they called on the international community to help their children out of what they described as MKO's hell ... more...
Ghalam Association, June 25, 2010:... Your Excellency we , the families and friends and separated members urge you to step forward and put pressure on PMOI to allow the victim's family to meet their loved ones and also we would like you to help Iraqi government to facilitate the families'meeting with their loved ones. Preventing any meeting between families and their loved ones is a serious breach and violation of human rights.We urge and entreat you to help us in this just and humanitarian matter ... more...
Kenneth R. Timmerman, Washington times, June 24, 2010:... More recently, MEK operatives inside Iran have carried out hit-and-run terrorist attacks on regime officials and have planted bombs in urban areas that have randomly killed civilians. The MEK and its supporters call these attacks acts of "resistance" against the regime. U.S. lawmakers would be wiser to demand that the Treasury Department drop its restrictions on PJAK, rather than to waste time on the MEK, a Marxist Islamist organization that not only uses terrorism as a political tactic but is widely discredited among ordinary Iranians because of its support for Saddam Hussein ... more...
Press TV, June 24, 2010:... The US Army hands over an American military base near a compound housing an Iranian opposition group known as Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) to the Iraqi security forces. the step was taken as the US says it is preparing to withrow its troops from Iraq by 2011 ... more...
Ghalam Association, June 23, 2010: ... Rajavi, has used the past two decades to create an atmosphere inside camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) in which any marriage, friendship, writing letters, exchanging photos, using telephone, meeting and chatting or any relation between parents and children or between siblings or other relatives has been forbidden and even thinking about it would have resulted in severe, violent punishment and suppression. We call on all international bodies as well as all relevant governments. We ask specifically from your good self to intervene ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 23, 2010:... The evidence is a multitude of published reports by state-run research organizations and institutes that recognize MKO responsible for sporadic bombings, assassinations, violence, unrest and anarchy after the 1979 revolution in Iran. Although at the present enjoying the support of the Hawks, the official positions of the US officials and particularly the Congress and the State Department do not confirm that of a supporter and still recognizes MKO as a terrorist group ... more...
Press TV, June 23, 2010:... struan Stevenson who is a Scotish politician and ... is a hard core supporter of Iranian terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq of Iran. The terrorist group is a cult like organisation which has been proscribed ... more...
Daraddustour, June 21, 2010:... The organisers of this picket say that there are a large number of their children inside the camp but the leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation do not let them meet their families. The families emphasised that they have no choice except to sit in front of the gates of the camp until they are given access to their loved ones ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, June 22, 2010:.. When the chiefs and officials directly learned about the rules and regulations inside Rajavi cult told by the freed members, they were astonished and described them totally in contradiction with Islamic codes and social norms. They invited the families to travel to the centre of province (city of Baquba) and speak in the gathering of officials and chiefs of the province and also they announced that they are prepared to set an exhibition ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, June 22 2010:... In Rajavi’s analysis of the year-long armed struggle, you come across issues focusing on the inevitability and necessity of armed struggle and violent acts. Rajavi is in no way sceptical about the adopted strategy of armed struggle and is critical of anybody who may oppose the strategy ...more...
IRNA, London, June 17, 2010:... “The British Government has no form of contact with this organization, as a point of principle,” Foreign Office spokesman Barry Marston said. “The MKO was responsible for a number of horrible acts of terrorism against ordinary Iranians and have never unambiguously renounced violence,” Marston told IRNA. Marston said Britain “condemned acts of terrorism in Iran by criminal groups like Jondallah & the MKO, particularly horrific attacks against Mosques, security forces & innocent people.” ... more...
CNBC, June 21, 2010:...The conference, attended by people from Europe and North America, produced a statement stressing that more must be done to challenge the stalemate at the camp where 3400 people are imprisoned by cult leaders. The statement also forms the basis of a cooperative working document for the next year between the Camp Ashraf families and the conference delegates ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, June 20 2010:... Simultaneously, families in front of Ashraf garrison in Iraq made a gathering which many Iraqi officials and personalities and the representatives of various media as well as Iraqi citizens and the chief of tribes of Diyala province and international and humanitarian activists participated. A number of families in this gathering including Mr. Iman Yeganeh made a direct contact with the meeting in Paris and ...more...
Fars News, June 20, 2010:... "The terrorist teams aimed to plant bombs in a number of squares in Tehran," Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said at the time, adding the security forces arrested them in a surprise attack before any the terrorists could make a move. An Iranian official had also announced on Sunday that several members of the MKO ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 20, 2010:... And I was here, I don’t know how many years later, when they informed me of my mother’s death written on a piece of paper, attached by a simple condolence note, without a precise date. I am still looking at the mass of mothers far before me. And behind them, my eyes fix on the mirage formed at end of an asphalt road....more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, 19 June 2010:... During this period, the office of SFF in Kazemein was subject to a terrorist attack. We decided to keep silent in this regard and all we did was just to move our office to a new place. Of course we continued with our job even more seriously. The site too was attacked by hackers. Our friends in Europe managed to turn it back to normal after sometimes using a lot of efforts. These subversive activities however did not stop us from fulfilling our duties and responsibilities ... more...
Al Alam, June 17, 2010:... "… We are opposed to their presence in Iraqi soil and, as you already know, Iraqi officials have several times called for their exit from the country," he said. "They are still in Iraq because no other country is ready to accept them, however, we do not let them carry out any operations or training against the Islamic republic…," he added ... more...
Press TV, June 16, 2010:... Following the recent arrest of two members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), revelations showed that the British government and a number of other Western countries secretly aided and abetted terrorist operations in Iran.This prompted the Iranian Foreign Ministry to summon British Ambassador to Tehran Simon Gass to provide an explanation with regards to the allegations ... more...
reports by Press TV and Reuters (London) on June 16 2010 suggests:... to continue enjoying Western protection after being removed from European terrorism lists, video evidence shows that a terrorist team arrested in Tehran were instructed from London and Paris headquarters to deny their affiliation if arrested. The Rajavi cult has publicly disowned its captured operatives... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, June 16 2010:... it was devotion to Mrs. Rajavi, who is about 50 years old, that led several of her supporters throughout Europe to set themselves on fire to protest her arrest. Although Mrs. Rajavi sent a message from jail asking her supporters to stop, former Mujahedin members said that in training camps in Iraq, self-immolation was praised as a fitting response to the possible persecution of the Rajavis ... more...
Reuters, June 15, 2010:... The report said members of the Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO) were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry before they could detonate bombs in "a few squares in Tehran". "By using some ... people trained in Iraq ... and the support of Britain, Sweden and France, the leaders of this criminal group wanted to detonate bombs in sensitive places in Tehran," Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi was quoted as saying ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, June 15, 2010:... But how can they be called humans and protectors of the human rights and freedom those who see these scenes and are deaf to the purest humane demands. The organization’s advocates have raised concern about the US departure from the area and the camp and that, it might lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. Looking at it from the angle that the organization is a terrorist cult capable of ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, June 15, 2010:... "Based on the information received (thus far), a number of MKO members are among the individuals who were arrested by the people (civilians) yesterday," Governor-General of Tehran Morteza Tammadon said on Sunday. The official declined to provide any further details, including the exact number of the MKO members arrested yesterday... more...
Kazem Sami Farag, Al Mutamar Newspaper, Baghdad, June 07, 2010:... The United States of America… asked for American citizens to visit their children who were arrested inside Iran on charges of illegal entry, and Iran allowed them to do so. The U.S. is called upon today to take a humanistic counterpart to the situation of Iran and to get the Mojahedin organization to lift the injustice against those who are detained inside the garrison and let their families and meet with them. But, how far is the one situation from the other? ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, June 12, 2010:... The families’ persistence appears to have had its effects on the residents as well. What the organization and its advocates call a Psychological warfare employed against MKO sounds to have acted as a waking bell that has already frustrated the overriding cult influences that has developed a family-phobia in members. The increased number of escapes since the settlement of the families indicates ... more...
Associated Press Newswire, June 11 2010:... Iraqi officials could not immediately be reached for comment. In the past, the government has said the exiles will not be forcibly returned to Iran, where the Islamic leadership considers the People's Mujahedeen, or MEK, an enemy of the state... more...
Iran Interlink, June 10, 2010:... Mohammad Karimi has been made to sit before a camera without his military uniform, he is seated somewhere like a gymnasium inside the garrison. His speech is marked by MKO-speak and cult jargon as he swears at and insults his own sister and the Prime Minister of Iraq. Karimi claims that he is at war with Iran and that Iran’s leader (Ayatollah Khamenei) and the Prime Minister of Iraq (Nouri Al Maliki) have been defeated simply by him sitting inside the camp and refusing to see his sister ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, June 09, 2010:... As a globally known terrorist cult that respects no ethics in its political and social demeanor, MKO has a repute of having problem with conventional values and whatever secures the coherence of human relations and hardly one can encounter and hear terms like family, father, mother, wife, husband, son and daughter in its lexicon as they are all dangerous threats to its integrity ... more...
Al Sumaria News, Baghdad, June 07, 2010:... The National Security Adviser said that the organization "has, in the recent parliamentary elections, provided a European Member of Parliament with misrepresentations on the issue of fraud in the elections in Iraq, and after we looked at the source of the news, we know it came from [the PMOI]." Al-Sheik said, "The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization working in Iraq under the guise of a number of organizations is deceptive, used as a front to play a negative role ... more...
Nejat Bloggers, June 08, 2010:... Mr. Barzegar was welcomed by his family who had been awaiting his return since he had gone on compulsory military service twenty years ago when he was captured by MKO. During those twenty years, he was under psychological manipulation by Rajavi's destructive cult and deprived from enjoying a normal life ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp Ashraf, June 06, 2010:... Shahob Husseini son of Mohammad Hussein born in Tehran, escaped from Camp Ashraf. Shahob Husseini had been with the Mojahedin-e Khalq for twenty four years. Since the Government of Iraq took responsibility for the camp in 2009, a steady stream of MKO members have successfully managed to overcome the immense difficulties imposed on them by the cult leaders and have managed to leave ... more...
Habilian, June 06, 2010:... and added: “We believe in our security forces in achieving the designed security goals”. To be reminded of the terrorist MKO base duplication in the city 20 km north of the city of Baquba 35 km pure conflict Dyaly Province is located. It is worth mentioning that MKO terrorist group’s garrison is located 20 km north of Ba’aquba which is the major city of the in-crisis province of Diyala ... more...
Press TV, June 04 2010:... Larijani then hit out at the European Union's approach toward the MKO terrorist grouping. "Is the removal of a notorious international terror group from the list of terrorist organizations by certain European countries respect for human rights?" asked Larijani. Elsewhere in his remarks, Iran's Parliament speaker highlighted the need to further enhance already flourishing ties between Tehran and Rome ... more...
AKnews, Kiekuk, Junw 03 2010:... this is not the first time the organization releases such declarations. Any attempt by this organization to thaw relations with Kurds will be overlooked for they do not enjoy the blessing of Kurds”, Asasard argued, explaining “Because in suppressing the Kurdish uprising, this organization supported the fallen Baathists regime. This statement cannot wash away their stained vision in the memory of the Kurdish people” ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, June 03 2010:... In fact, in February 2010 it was published in the UK House of Lords' website, that "the view of UK Government is that with the formal end of hostilities and the transfer of responsibilities for the Camp to the Iraqi authorities; any claim to protected persons status by the camp's residents under the fourth Geneva Convention has ceased to apply. That view is shared by the United Nations. The camp leadership has been given that information." ... more...
Iran Interlink, June 02, 2010:... In a new development, Struan Stevenson and Vidal Qadras have stopped their support for the Rajavis, leaders of the Mojahedin-e Khalq cult.The former advocates of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) moved to the Iraq Delegation to make best use of the cult when the MKO issue became defunct in relation to Iran and became a more useful tool in support of the Saddamists in Iraq ... more...
Al adala, Baghdad, May 29, 2010:... Iranian families who have been picketing in front of the military base Ashraf - home to the Mojahedin Khalq organisation in Diyala province - for the last 4 months, asked Christopher Hill, the US ambassador in Baghdad, for his help in negotiating with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (aka Rajavi cult, MEK, MKO, PMOI, NCRI) to give visiting rights to the detainees in Camp Ashraf … more...
Families picketing in front of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, May30, 2010:... Do you know that many of these captives are POWs from the time of Iran-Iraq war who have been literally sold by Saddam to this organisation? Do you know that many of these captives have been deceived and brought against their will to this Dark Ages garrison? Do you know what has happened to the innocent children in this organisation when they forced them to leave their parents and have been brought up in other countries and now have been transferred back to the camp? Do you know ... more...
Iran-Interlink, Camp Ashraf, Iraq, May 30, 2010: ... The families are cheerful and optimistic. They are being encouraged and facilitated by the Iraqi authorities, who also want the Mojahedin to comply with demands of the Iraqi Government. The Mojahedin have accused these families of being ‘agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry’ who have come to kill them. Rajavi has indoctrinated his followers with fear and loathing of their own mothers and fathers ... more...
Iraq Beituna Agency, May 27, 2010:... Iranian families, who travelled from Iran and other countries four months ago to sit in front of the headquarters of the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq in Diyala province (Camp Ashraf), called on the United States Ambassador in Iraq, Christopher Hill, to intervene and put pressure on the organization's leaders to end their suffering and allow them to meet with their children, who have been detained within the camp since the 1980s ... more...
Al-Mutamar, Baghdad, May 26, 2010:… Iranian families who have been picketing in front of the military base Ashraf - home to the Mojahedin Khalq organisation in Diyala province - for the last 4 months, asked Christopher Hill, the US ambassador in Baghdad, for his help in negotiating with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (aka Rajavi cult, MEK, MKO, PMOI, NCRI) to give visiting rights to the detainees in Camp Ashraf … more...
Nejat Society, May 26 2010:... The decline of cult-like thinking in MKO caused its leaders to perform these TV shows. They resort to these tactics since they realize how terribly they are discarded by public opinion which will end in their final cul-de-sac in future. It is clear that the defection of experienced members following the presence of families at Ashraf gates, signifies the decline of the terrorist destructive cult of Rajavi ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, May 26, 2010:... Although the dispute over the acceptance of Islam or Marxism as the ideological infrastructure of the organization caused a schism in the organization with the consequent murder of Sharif-Vaqefi and emergence of the Marxist wing, it will be naïve to put all the blames just on Taqi Shahram and Bahram Aram as the opportunists that betrayed their comrades. If it was so, the martyrdom of Sharif Vaqefi had to be the last ring of an opportunistic chain in MKO ... more...
Press TV, May 24, 2010:... The way Mojahedin denounce the detention of Rigi at the time being may imply that they are likely to support Bin Laden and Al-Qaede in the future if they were put behind bars by means of the justifications made in support of Rigi and his terrorist fellows and may accuse the US and England for arresting a notorious terrorist as well. The western and even the European parliamentarians and advocators of MKO avoid supporting Rigi. It means ... more...
SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer, 23 May 2010:... The Green Movement emerged after the opposition accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of winning the election by fraud. But by linking it to the MKO, the regime can depict it as a violent rebellion. In the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Mujahedeen carried out a number of bombings and other attacks in a campaign to topple the clerical regime. Its presence in Iran was all but wiped out by a bloody purge in the late 1980s ... more...
United Nations, Security Council, May 14, 2010:... UNAMI, while reiterating the right of the Government of Iraq to exercise its authority over Camp Ashraf and the obligation of the camp’s residents to fully respect the law and the authority of the Government of Iraq, has continued to advocate for the residents’ unhindered access to goods and services of a humanitarian nature ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, May 22 2010:... Further in the article, Rajavi compares himself with Noah and Camp Ashraf with Noah's ark. , He interprets the Quran’s verses regarding Noah's story and clearly sees himself superior to Noah by his criticism of the prophet. Noah who allegedly hesitated to deny his son, but Massoud Rajavi is determined to deny all families' of Ashraf residents. These allegations are parts of Rajavi's hard job to persuade Ashraf residents ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, May 21, 2010:... Now Rajavi is getting mired in a dilemma to clarify, now that he has started a review of his irreconcilable contrarieties with a revolution, who the perpetrators of terrorist deeds were and what he hoped to gain by these atrocities premeditated against noncombatant and civilian targets. He intentionally evades reviewing the events of the 20 June onward when Mojahedin ... more...
UPI, May 20, 2010:... The PMOI family members say their relatives are held captive in Camp Ashraf, adding if Washington can broker an agreement with Iran, similar arrangements are possible with the PMOI. "If America can negotiate this with Iran, we certainly expect that you can negotiate with this small terrorist group so that its members can meet freely with their families," the families said ... more...
Human rights today, May 18, 2010:... Urging Mr. Hill to intervene on their behalf with the leaders of the MEK the families said, "Your government successfully arranged for the mothers of U.S. detainees in Iran to visit their children on compassionate grounds But, if America can negotiate this with Iran, we certainly expect that you can negotiate with this small terrorist group so that its members can meet freely with their families" ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 18, 201:... MKO’s new psychological war has aimed at the families heart and emotions referring to them as step father and mothers rather than the real parents of the members. In the newly staged show, a number of the ranking members are acting a scenario before the TV cameras as interviewees by claiming that those calling themselves their parents before the Ashraf gate are none but their step father and mothers provoked by the Iranian regime ...more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, May 16 2010:... BBC report starts with a sight of a big lock on the gate of Ashraf and the starting point of the text is “No one is to open the doors; all cries are uttered in vain”. Then the father of an Ashraf resident tells the reporter “It is for 22 years that I’ve received no letter of my son”. Some MKO members managing to escape from Ashraf are quoted as saying Mojahedin high rankings prevent members to leave camp ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, May 15, 2010:... Unfortunately, Western governments, because of their reluctance to take any action to curtail the activities of this terrorist cult in their own countries, are placing their citizens’ lives and their own reputations under threat. The following statement issued by the MKO (aka NCRI) is indicative of this diversion from the real issue of having family members sitting outside the camp gates for over 100 days asking to meet with their children...more...
Payam Rahaee, Translated by Nejat Society, May 15, 2010:... Nourink explains that thinking and asking is exclusive concession for a few high ranking members of the organization. Following the ideological revolution in the organization, the members were forced to divorce their spouses and then they were unwillingly separated from their children since Rajavi does not tolerate any obstacle between himself and his devotees ... more...
Ancient Iran Association, Paris, May 15, 2010:... instead of meeting their loved ones , they have been insulted and slandered by the cult’s operatives since their arrival .These families despite of bad weather and the lack of accommodation , are persisting to see their relatives . Despite of their age and bad weather , they are very determined to find a solution to see their loved ones ... more...
Payame Rahai, Netherlands, May 14, 2010:... The leaders of the Mujahedin-sect have always forbidden every form of contact between members and family. Their members are kept in total isolation and it’s not allowed to have any contact outside the camp. Members who want to leave this sect are withhold by the leaders. Up to now it has never been possible for their families to come near the camp of the armed Mujahedin. But after the fall of Saddam Hoessein the situation of Ahsraf changed ... more...
Ancient Iran Association, Paris, May 11, 2010:... Honorable officials of ICRC , we are urging and entreating you to step forward and intervene to help those families to find a way to meet their loved ones. Meeting loved ones in any prison throughout the world is considered as a right. We believe the cult’s leaders and operatives will retreat because of intervention of ICRC and all humanitarian organizations ... more...
Meeting of 17, March 2010, European Parliament:... HE Ambassador Mohammed Jawad Al-Doreky underlined that accepting allegations from people nonidentifiable or writing articles on that matter will not help solving the problem but could bring a lot of damage to the Iraqi - EU relation. In context, he stressed that in Iraq the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) is considered a terrorist organization. For clarifying the position of the Members of the Delegation, he asked for a statement to be issued in which to be specified that the Delegation is not taking sides and is waiting for the results of the elections and for the report of EU monitors ...more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, May 10, 2010:... The main point is the indirect presence of Rajavi in the sessions. Though his physical absence may have some negative consequences, even his indirect presence may double the mental and psychological upshots therein. Another point is how Rajavi develops his relationship with MKO members ... more...
Families of victims of Mojahedin Khalq picketing in front of Camp Ashraf, May 07, 2010:... The Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) has increased its suppression of the captives by increasing the number of patrols, increasing the thickness of barbed-wire fences and many other desperate measures. The last part of this scenario has of course been the forced TV interviews, clearly made under severe threat and physical and psychological pressure ... more...
Fars News, May 06, 2010:... Turkey has seriously confronted the MKO terrorists during the last few years and does not allow them to make any move, and it also condemns their crimes which should be viewed as crimes against humanity," Turkish Deputy Foreign Minster Hakki Akil said in a meeting with the members of the Iranian Edalat (Justice) Society (families of the victims of terrorism) ... more...
Asharq al-Awsat, May 04 2010:... these dissidents have entered a phase allegedly called "Organizational Stability". Do they still want to continue their presence in the Camp; although most of Iraqi authorities oppose their presence in Iraqi territory? Is there any Arabic country willing to accept them? Such as Egypt which has cut the ties with Iran for thirty years now. Will Iranian authorities forgive them or ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, May 4, 2010:... There are interesting points focusing on Rajavi’s narcissism by his own words. In his message, he attempts to promote himself to the highest possible point where he makes a relation of any kind between himself and the contemporary historical events of Iran. Surprisingly enough, he makes an astonishing claim ... more...
Ali Jahani, Iran Pen Association, May 04 2010:... I urge you to provide an opportunity for those families awaiting behind closed gates to meet their loved ones whom they have not seen them for 20 years in some cases. The leadership of this cult (PMOI) have deprived those victims of having any communication with their loved ones ... more...
Families picketing in front of Camp Ashraf, May 02, 2010:... We the families of Mojahedin Khalq hostages, who are picketing outside Camp Ashraf, are worried and concerned about the physical wellbeing of our children. We are especially worried about the list of 53 of these captives which has been announced by the Mojahedin Khalq leaders with the claim that they have signed a letter refusing to meet their families and parents! No-one has seen or heard from these 53 captives. How do we know these are genuine? ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp Ashraf, May 02, 2010:... Mr. Shaygan broke free from the cult after managing to reach the front gates of the Camp where a small group of families have established a picket for over three months. Mr. Shaygan joined the families, who welcomed him as one of their own children ... more...
Iranian Pen Club, May 01, 2010:... It has been nearly three months that elderly parents with broken hearts and tearful eyes are looking forward to meet with their children in front of Camp Ashraf have been on sitting that the MKO leaders allow them access to their children inside the camp. Leader of MKO said in their announcement that UNAMI is inside Camp Ashraf. If so, why UNAMI has not come ti the gate of CampAshraf to see these families who are waiting to meet with their children, what is going? ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, May 01, 2010:... the position of Rajavi in the Iranian history is like a stigma evident and it is not clear how he can justify his notorious past record of perfidious deeds, besides his fruitless lobbying with the EU, USA, and France as the opponents of the independence of Iran, that made other associate oppositions ashamed of their alliance with MKO ... more...
Iran Ghalam, 30 April 2010:... During the past three months the families of the captured members in the New Camp Iraq (ex-Ashraf) have arrived from different countries to meet their children after years of ignorance and have gathered in front the door of this camp. This organization has prevented the reunion to take place and they have cleared conditions that if such entry takes place their commander must be presence during this meeting ... more...
Ashraf camp, April 30, 2010:... What danger could the old men and women, who only want to see their children, pose to anyone. What the cult leaders really mean is the danger they pose to the very existence of the cult’s rules and regulations which they are imposing on our children. Rajavi is clearly shaking with the thought of our presence in this place which is cutting through his darkness like a ray of light ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, April 30 2010:... Ashraf residents have long been kept in an isolated place, deprived from any love or affection. The cult-like relationships under too much police-like pressure have left them in a condition where they feel wondering in a fatal life without any reliable, kind shelter. Their natural need for family love is not dead but it is like a flame ready to set a big fire ... more...
Camp Ashraf, April 29, 2010:... Why is it that whenever the existence of the leaders of Mojahedin Khalq is under threat, some unfortunate people have to burn themselves on their command to save the skin of these leaders? Is it not the case that the lives of the people inside this camp are only valuable in that whenever Massoud Rajavi feels the need, he can send some of them to their deaths? ... more...
D. Amir al-Khalidi, Almutamar Newspaper, Baghdad, April 29, 2010:... what is the benefit for the organization to stay in Iraq now, without the presence of the former regime which protected them? The numerous statements made by the leaders and officials of the Mojahedin Organization directed across the world are a show of power and capability of the Organization in defiance of the Government of Iraq in particular, and the international community in general ... more...
Alsharq Al-Awsat article, April 28, 2010:... The paper said that about three thousand men live at Camp Ashraf, called Camp New Iraq by the Iraqi authorities, and over 70% of them are over fifty years old. It is not clear what can be done with them. Asharq Al-Awsat spoke to people who have recently escaped from the camp. They spoke of the terrible conditions there, and said that anyone wanting to leave was severely punished, even tortured ... more...
A Mmutamar, Baghdad, April 27, 2010 (Arabic):... Al Mutamar Newspaper today reported on a meeting between the families of MKO vicitms in Camp Ashraf and the Political and Human Rights Director of UNAMI in Iraq. The report can be found at the following link ...more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, April 27 2010:... The other opposition groups who were members of NCR also defected from the council since they saw the principal axis they had based their coalition on was being violated by MKO whose leader, Massoud Rajavi was taking the most undemocratic steps against his own nation by cooperating with Iraqi Baath regime. On the other hand, a more important factor of NCR's decline was ... more...
Iran Interlink, April 27 2010:... Mr. Alamdar Shaygan who had been forced to spend 22 years of his life behind the bars of Rajavis' cult managed to break away from this notorious cult by reaching himself to the main gate of Ashraf Garrison and joined the families behind the Ashraf gates ... more...
Alsumaria TV, April 26, 2010:... Iraqi security forces’ crackdown in a number of Iraqi provinces mainly in Hamrin Mountains uncovered weapons caches of Al Naqshbandi movement linked to former Vice President Izzat Ibrahim Al Douri in addition to the cave that he was occupying in a remote village close to al Qaeda headquarters. The hideouts have proved links between former regime armed groups and Al Qaeda ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, April 25, 2010:... However, the psychological analysis of Rajavi at the time being reveals that he is similar to the child who fails repeatedly yet his perverse insistence and stubbornness give solace neither to him nor to his followers and advocates. He never learns lessons of his past nor does he investigate the basis of his failures in himself ... more...
Alsumaria TV, Baghdad, April 23, 2010:... Iraqi officials said the bodies are those of people killed during Saddam Hussein's regime back at the time of 1991 rebellion. Gravediggers from the Human Rights Ministry, supervised by Hilla provincial council officials, began an excavation in a rural area in Hilla ... more...
Aswat Al Iraq, April 17, 2010:... The PMOI, also known by the abbreviations MKO and MEK, is a militant socialist organization that advocates the overthrow of Iran’s current government. Founded in 1965, the PMOI was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, capitalism and Western imperialism. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein dedicated Camp Ashraf in Diala province, northeast of Baghdad, to host the PMOI members ... more...
FECRIS Conference, London, April 2010:... This year’s FECRIS annual Conference was hosted in London by The Family Survival Trust (UK) on 16 April 2010. Dr. Massoud Bani Sadr, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq cult, was a speaker at the meeting. He talked about the links between terrorism and destructive cults such as the MEK ... more...
State Department, USA, March 2010:... There were allegations during the year that some of the 3,400 members of the MEK terrorist organization located at Ashraf were denied the right to leave under threat of reprisal from MEK leaders. These allegations were corroborated by several former Ashraf residents who had fled the camp. Individuals claimed to have been subjected to psychological and physical abuse ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, April 21 2010:... Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead responded the question by insisting that "any claim to protected persons status by Camp Ashraf residents under the Fourth Geneva Convention has ceased to apply. That view is shared by the United Nations. The Camp leadership have been given that information. However, MKO still tries to deceive public opinion by the fakeclaim that Ashraf residents are ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, April 20, 2010:... Perhaps, they can never imagine that behind the laughing and friendly visage of Maryam Rajavi as well as her popular slogans on the women rights, there is a monster who looks at human, and women in particular, as crones for misleading others. They may never believe that Rajavi regards woman as an obsession ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, April 21, 2010:... The way Mojahedin denounce the detention of Rigi at the time being may imply that they are likely to support Bin Laden and Al-Qaede in the future if they were put behind bars by means of the justifications made in support of Rigi and his terrorist fellows and may accuse the US and England for arresting a notorious terrorist as well. The western and even the European parliamentarians and advocators of MKO avoid supporting Rigi. It means ... more...
Habilian Association, Iran, April 19, 2010:... Revealing Mujahedins’ long history of violence and terror the exhibition also indicates their treasonous role during Iraq-Iran war and their alliance with Saddam Hussein while fighting against their own people. It also concerns with the cult-like lives of MKO members, their internal relations, complicated brainwashing and ... more...
Iran-Interlink, at the gates of camp Ashraf, Iraq, April 2010:... Film showing the violent reaction of Mojahedin-e Khalq to the families trying to visit their children who are being held captive inside the camp by the Rajavis ... more...
Iran Interlink, at the gates of camp New Iraq (Ashraf), April 17, 2010:... Iran-Interlink did, however, record some film that day, which will be broadcast in due course. This film will first be presented to the UN office, the Iraqi Judiciary and relevant human rights organisations.The knife wielding Mojahed woman has been identified and the families concerned are already in the process of submitting a law suit against her ...more...
Nejat Society, April 17 2010:... A security source in the Iraqi army reported that elements of MKO terrorist organization clashed around midnight thursday,16th April with the Iraqi security force responsible for guarding the Camp Ashraf, which is mainly located in the province of Diyala ...more...
Edalat Society, April 14, 2010:... Last week one of the well-known American news websites (Huffington Post) aiming to put more pressure on Iranians published an article written by one of the MKO so-called Parliament members, Ali Safavi. The writer of this text has tried his best in order to distort the realities and to acquit Mojahedin-e Khalq from its terrorist background ... more...
Edalat, April 14, 2010:... The 55-year-old Mahmoud Alami and 51-year-old Hossein Amini-Qolipour who are the members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) were summoned to face charges of encouraging a woman to commit suicide. The MKO staged a protest in June 2003 against the French police raid on the MKO Headquarters in Paris... more...
Welmer, The spearhead, Feb 2010:... The National Committee of Women for a Democratic Iran, a front group for MEK (compare the crest on the NCWDI’s website with the one on NCRI’s) that was active in the US around the time of the 911 attacks, sponsored a rally by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) along with the Feminist Majority Foundation. RAWA, for its part, supports resistance against American forces in Afghanistan ... more...
Fars News, April 13, 2010:... The terrorist group joined Saddam's army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran. Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, April 11, 2010:... In his effort to portrait his notorious organization as an important figure in Iran-West relations, Safavi calls his group “the biggest enemy” of Islamic Republic. He fails to consider that MEK’s deliberately targeted and planned sabotage operations against civilians and its bad fame due to collaboration with Saddam Hussein during the eight years of Iran-Iraq war ... more...
Edalat Society, Tehran, April 11, 2010:... After Maryam Rajavi's visit of Finland, families of terrorism victims of Iran wrote a letter to the Finland Ambassador in Tehran in order to express their objection to accepting this international terrorist by Finnish government ...more...
Arash Rezaiee, Nejat Bloggers, April 10 2010:... Maryam Rajavi calls the world to impose more sanctions against Iran … . The self-assigned president of NCR encourages Western powers to stop seeking diplomatic solutions and negotiations with Iran, instead she persuades them to impose more punishments against Iran ... more...
The Voice of Russia, April 08, 2010:... On Sunday Interpol issued a warrant for the arrest of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s daughter Raghad Saddam Hussein on charges of financing terrorist acts. Raghad Hussein lives in the Jordanian capital, Amman ... more...
Nejat Society,April 08 2010:... Another group of MKO members’ families who were mobilized by Nejat Society Khuzestan branch traveled to Iraq where they are hopeful to visit their beloved ones captured by Rajavi’s destructive cult ... more...
Nejat Association reporting from AFP, April 07 2010:... The court held that there was "no doubt" the fact that both defendant had "directly and personally delivered the victim the gas can she was sent to death with.The prosecution, which called for a two-year suspended sentence against the two men, had appealed. Friday at the hearing, the Crown has tightened his submissions, asking the court to impose sentences of three years' imprisonment ... more...
Habilian Association, April 07, 2010:... Immediate trial of this organization or its instant dismissal from Iraq is the least we could do in return for the blood of those who have been martyred by this terrorist cult ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf), Iraq, April 04, 2010:... like all the families at the gates of the camp, she says she will not return home until she sees her son. "My first wish is to see him once more and my next wish is to release him from the clutches of Rajavi and his henchmen", she said ... more...
Iran-interlink, outside camp New Iraq (Ashraf), February 2010:... Iraqi media and local dignitaries visit families outside Camp New Iraq (Ashraf) where Washington-backed terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq are holding 3500 people hostage. Human Rights groups say Rajavi refuses to allow family visits in the camp. The video shows Hoorieh Mohammadi from Canada asking Americans and the MKO for compassion... more...
Arash Rezaiee, Nejat Bloggers, March 31 2010:... MEK speaks of Ashraf a garnished city but there are no children or teenagers in their so-called city. The residents of Ashraf do not have any idea of the notion “Family” because about two decades ago the ideological leader of MEK forced the couples in the cult to divorce and separated their children from their parents. They ... more...
By Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, March 29 2010: ... In contrast to what Ali Safavi propagandizes on the separation of religion and state, MEK principally believes in an ideological system rooted in the religion. That’s the huge contradiction in Safavi and his comrades’ claims. He claims to be a member of a Muslim organization; he quotes Masud Rajavi as ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 28, 2010:... Rajavi is well aware that he is talking nonsense for a critic cannot possibly take sides with the Iranian regime as well as Mojahedin at the same time. Besides, he has never welcomed the opponents of the regime who have also taken a different side with his organization ... more...
Press TV, Iraq, March 25, 2010:... The MKO was allowed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to build a camp in eastern Iraq near the Iranian border in 1986 in order wage war and terror on Iran. Iraqis say that the MKO also helped Saddam in killing and spying against his opponents. The group remained under the protection of US-led forces after the invasion of the country in March 2003 ... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, March 23, 2010:... Whatever the result of these negotiations, the emerging government will be a cooperative government whose first priority would be to get rid of insurgency, the remains of the Saddam era terrorists and to stabilise a country torn apart by foreign interference and occupation. The new government (as all the top officials have already emphasised) will not tolerate a terrorist camp ... more...
Hassan Piransar, Paris, March 23, 2010:... Maryam Rajavi has no ability to deal with these problems and merely resorts to matters of appearance, showing off and empty gestures – donning expensive dresses and throwing glamorous banquets and feasts where she preaches about democracy. She has succeeded in bewitching some European politicians, and ... more...
Beau Hodai, inthesetimes.com, March 22, 2010:... MEK’s initial purpose was realized in 1979 when the group, along with followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, successfully staged the Islamic revolution, seizing the Tehran U.S. Embassy and sending the Shah into exile. Following the revolution, MEK was sent into exile by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Over the following two decades MEK allied itself with Saddam Hussein ... more...
Alsabah, Baghdad, March 18, 2010:... For decades the MKO have been in this camp and have not been regarded as refugees. Now neither the UNHCR nor the International Organization for Migration deal with them on that basis. The Ministry has addressed these organisations formally more than once in order to lend a helping hand to them, but they always affirm in their responses that that the MKO is a military organization and has not demilitarized ... more...
Al-bayyana Al-Jadida, Baghdad, March 17, 2010:... The refusal of the MKO to allow family interviews between those who came from Iran to Iraq to meet with their children is a violation of divine laws and international laws recognized all over the world.Iraq’s Senate confirmed that the MKO organization is not welcome in Iraq, especially because terrorist acts ...more...
House of Commons, British Parliament, March 16, 2010:... We believe it is in the interests of the residents to respect and accept the decision made by the Government of Iraq, and to cooperate peacefully with the Iraqi authorities ... more...
AKnews, Hahabja, March 17, 2010:... "Through remembrance of the victims of the Halabja attack, we are continuing the process of healing from decades of atrocities committed against the Kurdish people," KRG representative to the United States Qubad Talabani said on Tuesday ... more...
Press TV, March 16, 2010:... Another major project of the campaign, it said, was a network called "Human Rights Activists," which was led by Keyvan Rafiei, Jamal Hosseini and Ahmad Batebi. The network was tasked with recruiting people and sending them to an MKO camp in Iraq and other countries, where they would receive training, the statement said ... more...
Iran Interlink, Camp New Iraq (Formerly Ashraf), March 15, 2010:... For the families, it makes no difference now who will meet their loved ones first. Now the families, which are growing in number by the day, are in the sixth week of their picket in front of the camp. They have taken a collective oath not to leave the gate until they release all the children and all the hostages from Rajavi cult’s garrison ... more...
Press TV, March 13, 2010:... The network was tasked with recruiting people and sending them to an MKO camp in Iraq and other countries, where they would receive training, the statement said. The network was also in close cooperation with "Lawyers Committee" and "Harana News service," it said ... more...
Iran-Interlink, March12, 2010:... ... Struan Stevenson is a strong advocate of the Washington/Zionist backed foreign terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq(MKO) which continues with its illegal presence in Iraq. The Government of Iraq had charged that the MKO have been actively interfering in Iraqi affairs over the past six years. The MKO base Camp Ashraf (now Camp New Iraq) was used as a covert meeting place for Saddamists ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 12, 2010:... He tries to infuse the idea that in spite of the existing rumors against him, he is highly democratic and ready for accountability contrary to the Iranian regime. Interestingly enough, Rajavi denies all the charges posed on him and attributes his 30-year policy to the Iranian regime ... more...
Rohi blog, March 10, 2010 :... Maryam Rajavi accompanied by paid agents of the terrorist cult has booked a room from Finlandia Hall (booked under the name of Soraya Stern). It is widely believed that these clandestine trips to remote countries like Finland serve as cover for meetings between Rajavi and the CIA ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, March 10 2010:... The illusions of Masud Rajavi have led him to a phase where he views himself as an important figure among Iranian politic men. But it is clear that Iranian’s political memory never recalls Massoud Rajavi as a notable political person but as a traitor and criminal ... more...
Habilian Association, March 09, 2010:... Perhaps, ending her fifth decade of life, there is a relapse in Maryam’s Alzheimer's that she has forgotten Al-Mutlaq had been disqualified from running in Iraq’s general election for his Baathist ties! Or she might want to decrease her depression and Mutlaq’s, as initial results said PM Maliki was leading vote! ... more...
PressTV, March 09, 2010:... "Europe has been a safe haven for terrorists" and continues "to support terrorism despite chanting slogans in defense of human rights.We saw the same pattern about Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO). We also saw another instance in Abdolmalek Rigi's case where the footprints of foreign intelligence services were seen in supporting his group (Jundallah)." ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 07, 2010:... It seems that Rajavi has been persuaded that his tricks are of no use and new methods are required to divert the attention of Ashraf residents from realities. The new assertion of Rajavi in his message of January 20th can be evaluated in this regard ... more...
Habilian Association, March 06, 2010:... “Despite the fact that Iraqi Transitional Council and Parliament insisted on expelling the terrorist cult, it has been able to keep its presence only thanks to the pressures of the US-led occupiers,” director of Iraq’s Centre for Developmental Studies commented ... more...
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Race for Iran, March 04, 2010:... Obama Administration continues to push the Iraqi government not to consider a longstanding Iranian request that MEK cadres in Iraq be deported to Iran. Why is the Obama Administration trying to protect members of a U.S. government-designated terrorist group? ... more...
Alarabia TV, March 02, 2010:... Ayad Jamal Al-Din: If it were up to me, I would enable Mojahedin‑e Khalq to become an active opposition to the Iranian regime. Interviewer: "Even if it is accused of criminal acts, like in the case of MEK?". Ayad Jamal Al-Din: "Even so. I don't want to grant them Iraqi citizenship. I want to fend off Iranian interference in Iraqi affairs. No more, no less. If words do not deter them – just like they train militias, we can mobilize the Mojahedin-e Khalq against Iran... more...
Al Dustour, Baghdad, March 02, 2010 (Translated by Iran Interlin):... Diyala has seen a significant improvement in security after the Camp of New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) came under the control of the Iraqi government, which has in turn offered Mojahedin Khalq(MEK,MKO, Rajavi cult) members that they may return to Iran or to any other country. They do not come under the rules which apply to refuges or ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 04, 2010:... he never trouble himself to answer these questions and doubts and also accuses his critics as infiltrators and agents of the Iranian regime. However, since his desired audience is outside the cultic circle of his organization and unfamiliar with his past history, Rajavi’s democratic and self-righteous gesture may ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Bloggers, March 03 2010:... Maryam Rajavi claims that women are suppressed for their appearance and for the manner they walk or talk. She might have forgotten that her cult members are not allowed to talk to their peers let alone talking to their opposite-sex comerades. In Camp Ashraf, even the time women can use eating place, gas station … are different from those of male members ... more...
Iran-Interlink, March 2, 2010:... The Americans were accompanied by three MKO personnel who acted as translators and who hid their faces so they would not be recognised. Iraqi officers at the camp said they will not take action now but the role of the Americans in this situation has been noted. The Iraqi’s have assured the families that if the intimidation becomes more invasive, they will certainly step in to protect them ... more...
Press TV, March 02, 2010:... The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, March 02, 2010:... Evidently, Rajavi is to misuse recent disturbances in Iran. His unstable situation in Iraq, intra organizational crises and many other unsolvable challenges resulting from his lack of support and political legitimacy in Iran have made him to get rid of his present challenges by various levers including propaganda blitz and fabrication ... more...
Press TV, Baghdad, March 01, 2010:... We have prepared that their families come to see them. We have arranged to go all the humanitarian aid to them, whatever is food or healthcare or medicines. It is the normal life they have… But at the end, we tell them Iraq is not… your choice. Look for a third country ... more...
Ancient Iran, Paris, March 01, 2010:... The Ancient Iran , Glorious Future Association based on its humane task urge and entreat of all humanitarian organizations and Iranian freedom lovers as well as the critics and separated members of this cult for their solidarity with those sad families who have been in sit- in for days behind the closed gates of Ashraf Garrison ... more...
Almotamar, Diyala, Iraq 28 February 2010 (translated by Iran Interlink):... The Iraqi government continued throughout the last month to convince them of the need to deal with this situation in a humane and approved way to allow meeting between Iranian families and their children, and not to accept false statements and counterfeit, which accuses the Iraqi government of violating human rights laws. The failed negotiations have resulted in the ... more...
Anciant Iran Association, Paris, March 01, 2010:... France is among the countries which in war against terrorism is in the front line, so according to this fact how can it tolerate and bear such a terrorist and bloodthirsty organization on its soil? The organization which perpetrated the assassination of American Colonels and Generals ... more...
February 28, 2010:... The reaction shows the extent to which the Rajavis understand that the existential threat to the MKO comes from its denial of basic freedoms to its members. Rajavi has forbidden members to meet with their relatives who are waiting outside the camp gates ... more...
Families of some of the captives in Camp Ashraf, Outside the gate, February 2010:... We urge your good self, while condemning the anti-humane actions of Massoud Rajavi, to order the facilitation of free meetings between ourselves and our children ... more...
Iran Interlink, Baghdad, February 27, 2010:... According to media reports from Baghdad two members of the Mojahedin were able to break away from the Rajavi cult and join the families in their picket outside the camp. Mr. Seyed Yousef Jafari from Ahwaz and Mr. Abdolghader Ostadi from Iranshahr spoke to reporters about their own ordeal as long-term captives inside the camp ... more...
Russia today, February 27, 2010:... “I think it’s quite obvious that the United States is being very hypocritical,” Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi says. “They are not only supporting this terrorist organization but they were also supporting the MEK for a number of years, they have carried out many terrorists attacks in Iran over the last three decades.”... more...
February 25, 2010:... As Abdolmalik Rigi expands on his mercenary relations with CIA, another Washingon backed terrorist organisation (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) goes on over dirve to condemn the arrest of their partner in terror ... more...
Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf), Iraq, February 25, 2010:... The MKO’s advocates in Britain and America also joined the fray and demanded of their respective governments to intervene. But, in all these cries for help, no mention was made that it was the MKO leaders who were not allowing the members to leave the camp and visit with their families outside the camp ... more...
Jean-Michel Vernochet, Alterinfo.net, Translated by Nejat Society, February 23 2010:... Just like in Washington where remarkably organized and active lobbyists as the NCRI, the National Council of Resistance, serves as a showcase honorable organization for campaigns launched against the Islamic Republic. Their unofficial spokesman occupies an important place on the air Voice of America, whose broadcasts to Iran manage to escape, apparently, the classical interference ... more...
Press TV, February 23, 2010:... Abdulhamid told Press TV. "After the [1979] Revolution in Iran, he left the country via Pakistan and sought asylum in the United States." Abdulhamid said the Americans had asked Amanollah-Khan to forge a link between the US and Jundallah. "The Americans asked him [Amanollah-Khan] to introduce them to [Abdolmalek] Rigi in Pakistan and that's how link was established." ... more...
Iran-Interlink, Baghdad, February 21, 2010:... The MKO’s advocates in Britain and America also joined the fray and demanded of their respective governments to intervene. But, in all these cries for help, no mention was made that it was the MKO leaders who were not allowing the members to leave the camp and visit with their families outside the camp ... more...
Mazda Parsi,Nejat Bloggers, February 20 2010:... After decades of accusing Pahlavi of treasons and crimes and struggling against them, Rajavi makes a U-turn and begs the remnant of Pahlavi Dynasty for support. Although Reza Pahlavi does not enjoy a significant role among Iranian opposition leaders, Massoud Rajavi seeks his impact in the US government. That’s why he directly asks Reza Pahlavi ... more...
FNA, February 18, 2010:... The terrorist group joined Saddam's army and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.The MKO was put on the US terror list in 1997 by the then President, Bill Clinton, but since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group has been strongly backed by the Washington Neocons, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list ... more...
Al- Alam, February 18 2010:... While preventing the Iranian families visit their relatives incarcerated in Ashraf Camp in Iraq’s Diyala Province, MKO elements attacked the Iranian families and the Iraqi security forces accompanied them. Iranian families asked the Iraqi government to take urgent measures ... more...
Adustour, Baghdad, February 16, 2010:... Alkhaddran added that "al-Mutlaq is a strategic ally of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, who are terrorists, and is supportive of all armed organizations that are working to kill Iraqis. He demanded that the central government speed up the removal of the Organization beyond the borders of the country as a popular demand of the people of the province ... more...
Tabnak, Februaruy 16, 2010:... In this meeting, [head of the Rigi group] Abdolmalek Rigi has met with a number of the operatives and commanders of the Hypocrites grouplet and has held talks with them. He announced that he would be ready to have any sort of cooperation [with MKO] in line with making a terrorist group under the name of the Armed Forces Organization of Mojahedin ... more...
Iran Interlink, Paris, February 14, 2010:... Mr. Yves Bonnet, former Member of French National Assembly and Director of the French Counterterrorism Agency (DST), has been fined and was ordered to pay compensation in a libel case on February 11, 2010. Mr. Christohpher Barge of Timaeus publishing company was also ordered to publicise the court’s decision in relation to the book ... more...
Alsumaria TV, Baghdad, February 13, 2010:... the panel allowed the participation of 28 candidates, spokesman for Justice and Accountability Commission Ali Mahmoud told AFP. MPs Saleh Al Motlaq and Zafer Al Ani are not allowed in elections, Mahmoud added ... more...
Iran-Interlink, Baghdad, February 11, 2010:... Thirty seven arrest warrants have been issued against individual members for their involvement in suppressing the 1991 Shabani uprising in Kurdistan. International arrest warrants have been issued for some individuals. Civil law suits for murder have also been brought against members of the MKO in Tuz Khormato pertaining to the same period ... more...
Al-Hayat website, London, February 09, 2010:... Likewise, Iraq should not be turned into a springboard for hurting any neighbouring country and that terrorist organizations such as the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq or the Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party should not be given refuge." ... more...
Dr. Habib Siddiqui, Asiantribune, U.S., February 09, 2010:... As we have already seen with Iraq, Mossad agents are active inside Iran in killing Iranian scientists that are affiliated with the state-run nuclear research facilities. Not to be left behind, some Iranian traitors, affiliated with the terrorist group MKO ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, February 8, 2010:... Rajavi’s organizational worldview compels him to see the silhouette of an imaginary enemy just in attacking position. Although it originates from an ill mind, however, it is a working excuse to escape from reality ... more...
Habilian Association, February 07, 2010:... “The presence of terrorists, including the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), in Iraq is sadly hurting the peace and stability in the country and will make matters worse,” Hasheminejad said. He also appreciated the Iraqi nation’s stance and the government’s efforts to expel the terrorist group... more...
Iran Interlink, February 07, 2010:... As newspapers reported the arrest of seven CIA operatives in Iran accused of planning to incite unrest and violence on a march scheduled for February 11, a cross-party group in the European Parliament held a meeting on Wednesday 4 February which clarified their own position toward the Iranian government and Iran’s peaceful opposition movement ... more...
Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, February 07, 2010:... Sahar Family Foundation in Baghdad is urging the international community, human rights organisations as well as the authorities in the Iraqi Government and Western governments to look at the situation of Ashraf Garrison and stop the dangers posed by the leaders of the group against the people residing there ... more...
Sebastien Malo, Daily Star staff, Saturday, February 06, 2010:... Most PMOI members have exiled to Iraq where they have been living in camp Ashraf some 60 kilometers north of Baghdad. The group moved its headquarters there some 20 years ago after it sided with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1986, then fighting a war against Iran ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, February 05, 2010:... Just a few days after Haiti disaster Swedish government published a list of institutes that had been considered as fraudulent because they lack the special account number the government had allocated to charity organizations. The government of Sweden warned people about the deceitful nature of such organizations including a front organization linked to Mujahedin-e-Khalq ... more...
Iran-Interlink, Baghdad, February 03, 2010:... The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq camp in Diyala province (which was protected by American forces until December 2008) has been host to insurgent groups and Saddamists over several years before coming under control of Iraqi security in August 2009 ... more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, February 3, 2010:... The province authorities have underlined that the camp has the potentiality of becoming an economic center that facilitates and develops trading between Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan. However, Abdoljabbar al-abidi, administrator of Azim district, informed of decisions by council of Khalis to return the camp to Azim district ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, February 1, 2010:... The disclosure that reveals only some aspects of MKO’s harsh defensive reaction against lawful measures to evacuate Ashraf has frustrated the group since it is recently engaged in a vast propaganda blitz to influence the public opinion and to show how it has been oppressed and victimized. No doubt, Ashraf is a crisis and ... more...
Habilian Association, February 02, 2010:... Saleh Al-Mutlaq, the pro-MKO MP, is so much hated by the Iraqi people that is cursed and condemned whenever he appears on Iraqi TVs,” Sheikh Jabr said ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, Tehran, February 01, 2010:... Following the news, MEK publish an article ironically titled “Kenedy becomes a supporter of Islam!!” in their official journal “Mojahed”, attacking the American politician by the sub title :”behind the curtains of all conspiracies against Iran, the hands of huge imperialist capitalists, Kartels, trackers and corporations are covered.” ... more...
FNA, Tehran, January 31, 2010:... Several members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) detained during Tehran's recent unrests on December 27 (Ashoura Day) confessed that they had received special trainings in Europe to stage unrests in Iran ...more...
Jam-e Jam, Tehran, January 30, 2010:... Meanwhile, there were reports from Pakistan that some Iraq-expelled MKO elements by contacting the absconding, bandits and anti-system groups in Pakistani regions, particularly in Karachi and Islamabad, are in pursuit of attracting forces [manpower] to form a new armed organization that may likely lead to the creation of this organization ... more...
Reuters News, January 30, 2010:... ISNA quoted the deputy Tehran prosecutor as saying that of the 16, one was a member of the outlawed Baha'i faith, one was a communist and some belonged to the "counterrevolutionary" Mojahedin Khalq Organization ... more...
Press TV, January 28, 2010:... Thirteen candidates were members of the Ba'ath party, and a further 182 belonged to Saddam's Fedayeen (Men of Sacrifice), a notorious military unit, and the former regime's intelligence service. Amid the election row, US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad last week to talk with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki about the disqualification the candidates ... more...
Press TV, January 28, 2010:... Iran said Thursday it was studying the appeals of nine people who have been handed the death penalty over their involvements in plots. The nine, who were rounded up following the unrest that erupted after the election, will be executed if the Court of Appeal upholds the sentences ... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, January 28, 2010:... On January 21, 2010, Habilian reported that the official website of the Voice of Palestinewould remove all news regardingterrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization. The report also quoted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as saying “no MKO news should be reported by Palestinian media”...more...
Stockholmian, translated by Nejat society, January 27 2010:... I just know they are active all over Sweden and they do not own the account “ninety” and they have never asked to register a “ninety” account. They stop people in the streets by showing brochures or pictures and for example ask them if they know Amnesty International and then ask for financial help ... more...
Sawt al-Iraq, (Translated and reported by Habilian Association) January 25, 2010:... Mutlaq receives 10 million dollars from the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) every year to provide them with their needs including food. However, he has not met many of his obligations though he has received 70 million dollars in the last seven years ... more...
Aljazeera TV, January 24, 2010:... Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Shia-led government, also drew a clear line on outside views over Iraq's efforts to identify and weed out suspected supporters of the outlawed Baath party, headed by Saddam. "It is an internal affair that should be discussed by Iraqi political entities,'' he said...more...
Aftab-e Yazd, Tehran, January 22, 2010:... Part of the indictment stated: One of the research institutes affiliated with America's intelligence bodies (Brookings Institution) presented that country's intelligence and security agencies, a few months before the tenth presidential elections, with a report entitled "American approaches to the tenth presidential elections." ... more...
Nejat Society, January 20, 2010:... Mr. Dashtestani became prisoner of war in 1980 during Iran- Iraq War. In 1989 Mujahedin deceived Mr. Dasahtestani into recruiting him and sent him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He had been a member of the so called National Liberation Army for about 20 years ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, January 19, 2010:... According to existing evidences, MKO received millions of dollars in Oil-for-Food program subsidies from Saddam from 1999 through 2003. In fact, the money that had to help Iraqi people survive was spent to guarantee the survival of a terrorist group to boost and support planning and executing further terrorist operations ... more...
Mohammed Javad Al-Doreki, Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Belgium and the European Union, Asharq Al Awsat, January 2010:... And we are surprised that some, who speak of international law and standards, accept ignoring Iraq’s sovereignty by those who have come there [illegally] by insisting he wants to live where and when he wants to! Not to mention committing crimes against the population of his own country whenever he wishes to ... more...
FNA, Tehran, January 18, 2010:... The MKO has confirmed its role in Tehran's recent unrests after it declared to the amnesty International that Iranian security forces arrested five members of the group after the frenzy on Ashoura day on December 27. The terrorist group also announced that the five arrestees had come from their camp in Iraq ... more...
Fars news, January 18, 2010:... "In the documents found at Iraq's intelligence ministry and other security offices after the toppling of Saddam, the leaders of the terrorist organization have announced that they slaughtered 25,000 Iraqi people on different occasions and over various issues," ... more...
Iran Interlink, January 17, 2010:... A source inside the Mojahedin organisation’s headquarters in the affluent Paris suburb has reported that the earthquake in Haiti has been tagged as a fundraising opportunity. In an Open Letter to British PM Gordon Brown, Massoud Khodabandeh of Leeds based MESC Ltd, warned that the MKO’s ... more...
BBC. Januray 17, 2010:... He was sentenced to hang in June 2007 for his role in a military campaign against ethnic Kurds. In December 2008 he received a death sentence for his role in crushing a Shia revolt. In March 2009 he was sentenced to death for the 1999 killings ... more...
Sot al-Iraq, January 14, 2010:... but he defends what he calls the "oppressed" members of the Ba'ath party, and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, whose members residing in Camp Ashraf are waiting to be relocated to a desolated camp as decided by the Iraqi Government ... more...
Congressional Research Service, Reported by Mojahedin.ws, January 17, 2010:... The U.S.-led security mandate in Iraq was replaced on January 1, 2009, by a bilateral U.S.-Iraq agreement that limits U.S. flexibility in Iraq. The group fears that, now that Iraqi forces have taken control of the camp, Iraq will expel the group to Iran. The Iraqi government tried to ... more...
Alsumaria TV, Najaf, January 15, 2010:... Head of Najaf Provincial council Fahd Al Shumari blamed bombings indirectly on Baathists and advised them to leave the city. Following a provincial council meeting, Al Shumari affirmed that intensified measures will be taken against Baathists especially in Najaf and advised them to leave the city overnight ... more...
UPI, January 15, 2010:... The Americans, with whom Saddam was allied until 1990, reportedly want to create a special anti-jihadist unit. They no longer trust Saleh's Political Security Organization, which they say has been heavily penetrated by al-Qaida. During the 1990-91 Gulf crisis triggered by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, Saleh was one of the few Arab leaders to support Iraq ...more...
House of Lords, London , January 13, 2010:... Camp Ashraf is part of a sovereign and democratic Iraq and the situation there is a matter for the Government of Iraq. We regularly discuss Camp Ashraf with the Iraqi Government, including with the Iraqi Prime Minister and Ministers for Human Rights, Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs. There is no link between the two issues ...more...
Yossi Melman, Haaretz, January 14, 2010:... Therefore, it is more likely that the assassination was carried out by those seeking to damage and delay Iran's nuclear program. That, of course, means Western governments, especially the United States and Israel. These governments use their espionage agencies to gather information about the Iranian nuclear program. There are reports about ... more...
Fars News, Tehran, January 13, 2010:... The anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), confirmed its role in Tehran's recent unrests after it declared to the amnesty International that Iranian security forces arrested five members of the group after frenzy in Ashoura day on December 27. The terrorist group also announced that the five arrestees had come from their camp in Iraq's Diyala province near Baghdad where they have resided since the 1980s ... more...
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, January 14, 2010:... This is not the first time and certainly not the last time either, that Maryam Rajavi as well as her fugitive husband Massoud Rajavi promise the overthrow of the Iranian regime in a particular period of time. As a matter of fact it has always been a special policy in MKO history to determine a time for the fall of IRI ... more...
Ancient Iran association, Paris, January 13, 2010:.. according to decades of captivity of those victims and stranded people in this garrison and the rest and the lack of communication with the free world and in our expression ,life in cave, there is fear and disappointment among the residents of this garrison which if they decide to separate and defect the cult , where should they go ? ... more...
Dana Milbank,The Associated Press, January 12, 2010:... "We've got eight years, I believe, of a clean record," he pleaded, citing such "powerful evidence" as the "disbanding of the National Liberation Army." Maybe so, but it will probably take more than a lawsuit to solve their image problem. In the hours before Tuesday's hearing in Washington, a bomb went off in Tehran, killing a nuclear scientist. Iranian authorities, naturally, blamed the United States, Israel-and the People's Mujaheddin ...more...
Press TV, January 13, 2010:... The anti-Iran terrorist group MKO has confirmed that five people arrested after last month's riots in Tehran are members of the organization.The Mojahedin Khalq Organization has told Amnesty International that the five were detained in the Iranian capital after the Ashura day riots on December 27 ...more...
Justice Supporters (Edalat) Association, Karbala, January 13, 2010:... visiting Karbala city, “Sadegh Al-Hosseini told the reporter of Iraqi website “Al-Nun”: the MKO members have resorted to a new kind of dangerous weapon in order to remain in Ashraf Camp. This new weapon is hunger strike, hitting each other by knife or having poison. He continued: the time of their move is so close and thus they make use of these strategies to prevent it ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, January 12, 2010:... No one can deny the impact of MKO’s appalling reaction against the arrest of its leader, Maryam Rajavi, by the French police in June 2003. The widespread premeditated self-immolations just in the middle of the streets before the public eyes indeed shocked and paralyzed the French police and ... more...
Edalat Association, January 12, 2010:... According to Al-Hosseni Iraqi government intends to transfer the Mojahedin members to a region within Al-Khazra area in Baghdad. The decision made since none of the Iraqi provinces accepted the residence of the cult members in their territory... more...
Mehr News, Jaun 08, 2010:... Zebari said Baghdad will never allow any armed group to use Iraqi territory as a base to attack its neighbors. He added that Baghdad has taken a series of measures to establish its sovereignty over Camp Ashraf, where the terrorists are currently being held ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 10, 2010:... The tradition of creation is based on the principle that the “new” wins through conflict, victimization, and torture. The solution of these conflicts depends on victimization since evolution is always followed by mutation and revolution. Rajavi claims that he has extracted this rule from the nature generalizing it to social and historical relations of human beings ... more...
Arash Rezaiee, Nejat Society, January 09 2010:... It seems that Maryam Rajavi would rather think about the tragic situation of her declining organization than the overthrow of Islamic Republic of Iran. She forgot that her terrorist cult is now in a terrible cul-de-sac after three decades of committing terrorist acts, killing thousands ... more...
Press TV, January 08, 2010:... "The five accused whose files have been sent to the Revolution Court under the charge of 'moharebeh' (being an enemy of God) are members of the MKO terrorist group," the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi as saying. He said the indictments had been based on police reports, investigations and the explicit testimonies of the defendants ... more...
The Daily Star, Editorial, January 06, 2010:... People in this region mentally note that the West, in some way or form, enables the efforts and activities of the Mojahedin-e Khalq while demanding action on terror. Today, Hillary Clinton is warning us about Yemen; can we be absolutely sure that such shadowy foreign policy tools aren’t being used there too? ... more...
Aswat al-Iraq, Baghdad, January 07,2010:... Accountability and Justice Committee in Iraq has decided to exclude 14 entities, including Saleh al-Motlak’s, from the election racing for Baath affiliation, a parliamentary source said on Thursday. “The list of Nihro Abdilkareem al-Kasanzani was excluded as well,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq ... more...
Ancient Iran association, Paris, January 08, 2010:... The leaders of this notorious and horrifying cult also has ordered the incursion and assault to the critics and protesters of the cult’s fascist and criminal policies in their peaceful and enlightening gatherings which is directly controlled and supervised by the cult’s leaders in Auvers-sur-Oise ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, January 7, 2010:... No better option could they find than to seek and find refuge in the strongholds and areas under the control of the advocates of Saddam and dissidents to the newly established Iraqi Government. The remnants of the loyalists to Saddam and Baath Party could better than anybody protect and shelter them, trusting them as Saddam had before ... more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East reporting from IRINN, January 07, 2010:... "I should tell the people of Iran and Iraq that the two countries have very amicable ties... and no one can undermine those ties," he said. Hoshyar Zebari also said that the presence of Iranian armed opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and Kurdish PKK could not continue in the country based on the Iraqi law. The news conference ended at 0816 gmt...more...
Press TV, January 06, 2010:... Head of the Middle East Strategy Consultants in the UK, Massoud Khodabandeh, called on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop the MKO from fomenting violence by sending supportive messages to Iran's opposition movement. "We would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist [MKO] from inside the UK," Khodabandeh, a former MKO member, wrote in a letter to Brown ... more...
Daily Star, January 06, 2010:... Khodabandeh said the Mojahedin-e Khalq is broadcasting incitement to violence from London through its satellite program Sima-ye Azadi. The group is also known to be financed through British-based banks. “Britain, following Washington’s lead, has put herself in a position where she is seen to support terrorism. This is not in our interests,” said Khodabandeh ... more...
Mojahedin.ws, January 6, 2010:... Now, again, Mrs. Rajavi has predicted that the government of Iran would fall within 12 months if foreign powers remain neutral. And of course they never intend to act directly but through all media and propaganda potentialities that foils any sense of impartiality. And the New Year has just started. Does it mean that the advocates ... more...
CNBC, January 04, 2010:... Massoud Khodabandeh told the British Prime Minister, “we would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq from inside the U.K. In doing so you would remove from Iranian hardliners their main excuse for crushing the people’s legitimate protests to bring about change in their own country.”... more...
FNA, Tehran, January 03, 2009:..."After close reviews it was revealed that he has been assassinated by a rare and special gun," Iran's interior minister said in remarks that seem to be an indirect reference to Ali Mousavi, the nephew of the defeated presidential election candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi ... more...
Fars News, January 03, 2009:... "A number of Iraqi citizens have filed lawsuits against the MKO at the local courts in the city of Khalis demanding reparation for the usurpation and occupation of 1500 hectares of their farming lands by the grouplet during the recent years," Deputy Governor-General of Diyala Odai al-Khadran said ... more...
Press TV, January 03, 2010:... "The rioters are encouraged and supported by Britain, the US and the Zionist regime [Israel]," Mohammad-Najjar told reporters. "The involvement of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), enemies and those who seek to take revenge on the Islamic establishment during the past 30 years is quite clear." ... more...
Gareth Porter, IPS, December 28, 2009:... Sanger and Broad were so convinced that the Polonium-210 experiments proved Iran's interest in a neutron initiator that they referred in their story ... What Sanger and Broad failed to report, however, is that the IAEA has acknowledged that it was mistaken in its earlier assessment that the Polonium-210 ...more...
Omid Pouya, January 2, 2010:... So far, the failure of the Muthana relocation attempt means that the issue of the MKO remains stuck in a stalemate. That is much because nobody is still convinced that the group’s terrorist potentialities are diminished and its link with insurgent groups gut off; it is a risk to have them around. The new proposal for solving the problem ... more...
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