The Uses of Political Violence
(Ex: Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)
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... MEK has attacked US military and diplomatic personnel, and has been described by former members as a cult: ideologically, the MEK started out as a far leftist group, but like the neocons who have taken up its cause, has traveled to the other end of the political spectrum, offering itself up to the US ... MEK’s American supporters want to use it as a battering ram against the Iranian regime, what support they had inside Iran evaporated when they fled to Iraq and took up with Saddam Hussein, whose government succored and armed them. MEK fought in the Iran-Iraq war – on the Iraqi side. That hasn’t stopped American neocons from riding this particular hobbyhorse ...
(Rajavi from Saddam to AIPAC)
Justin Raimondo, Anti war, January 10, 2011
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/01/09/the-uses-of-political-violence/
Rep. Peter King (R-New York) is the kind of in-your-face demagogue that only the state of New York could have elevated to high office. From his perch in the 3rd congressional district, in Long Island, King holds forth like a cruder version of Rudolph Giuliani, if you can imagine it. Yet we don’t have to imagine it, because it will be on full display when Rep. King, in his capacity as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, presides over hearings on “the radicalization of the Muslim-American community.”
Those hearings portend a circus, in the course of which we’ll be subjected to a very public airing of the malignant views of people like Robert Spencer, Pamela “the shrieking harpy” Geller, and Frank Gaffney, a rogues gallery of anti-Muslimologist “experts” whose hate-filled rantings will further poison the atmosphere of an America itching for a lynching.
Although the neoconservatives were generally discredited in the wake of the Iraq war, when the complete failure of their policies – and prophecies – became all too apparent even to many of them, the dead-enders among them have sought to make a comeback by transferring their war on Muslims from the Middle East to the home front. The Ft. Hood massacre was a godsend to them, and they took full advantage of the opportunity. The “ground zero” mosque controversy was another shot in the arm for this movement, and Rep. King did not disappoint on that front: When it comes to crude bigotry and religion-based divisiveness, we can always rely on King to sink to the occasion, far lower than practically anyone else.
So the hearings will be a farce, a show trial of the Muslim community in which the mere act of putting up a defense gives the prosecution a legitimacy it could never achieve on the merits of the case. Because there is no organized pro-al Qaeda, pro-terrorist tendency in American Islam to speak of, at least so far. Which is why the FBI has had to resort to entrapment in prosecuting alleged homegrown “terrorists.” The last one was a confused Somali teenager, lured by the FBI into planning a bombing that never came off: the Ft. Hood shooter, although supposedly “inspired” by the American-born radical Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki, was a lone gunman, and not part of a terrorist cell or a larger network. The Obama administration made strenuous efforts to link the Times Square bomber to the Afghan Taliban, but since Faisal Shahzad pled guilty, that aspect of the case – which never held together very well – didn’t have its day in court. Indeed, all the domestic “terrorist” events since 9/11 have been committed by the prototypical lone gunman, and linked to psychological rather than political issues in the killer’s mind.
Yet there were and are those who have a direct interest in establishing all sorts of links where none exist: the Obama administration to further its foreign policy goals and justify a war, ambitious prosecutors who want to score points and make a name for themselves, and cretins like Rep. King, who have an ideological agenda they want to pursue to the very end, which is the prospect of us treating American Muslims much like Franklin Delano Roosevelt treated the Japanese-American community during World War II. Indeed, one particularly vicious neocon wrote an entire book justifying the Japanese internment camps in order to set up American Muslims for a similar scenario.
I’m not the only one who has pointed out Rep. King’s own flirtations with political violence – such as his open support for the Irish Republican Army and its front group, Noraid – but I hasten to add that such hypocrisy is merely a reflection of a more general double-standard when it comes to political violence.
We have the example of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge, former White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend and former attorney general Michael Mukasey traveling to Paris to endorse the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK – Peoples’ Mujahideen), an organization characterized as a terrorist group by the US State Department. MEK has attacked US military and diplomatic personnel, and has been described by former members as a cult: ideologically, the MEK started out as a far leftist group, but like the neocons who have taken up its cause, has traveled to the other end of the political spectrum, offering itself up to the US government in much the same way as Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress (INC) became the instrument of US war plans in Iraq.
MEK’s American supporters want to use it as a battering ram against the Iranian regime, and yet this exile group has even less credibility than the Chalabi organization did: what support they had inside Iran evaporated when they fled to Iraq and took up with Saddam Hussein, whose government succored and armed them. MEK fought in the Iran-Iraq war – on the Iraqi side. That hasn’t stopped American neocons from riding this particular hobbyhorse: “For your organization to be described as a terrorist organization is just really a disgrace,” bloviated Giuliani at the Paris confab – although the families of those Americans murdered in cold blood by MEK might disagree. That a former US Attorney General would endorse a group with American blood on its hands is what ‘s really disgraceful, but Mukasey shamelessly declared that the US ought to provide “all possible technical and covert support to those fighting to end oppression in Iran,” i.e. put the MEK on the CIA payroll. Townsend, too, made no bones about her support for the group and its terroristic mission: “If the United States truly wants to put pressure on the Iranian regime, it takes more than talk and it takes more than sanctions,” she said to the assembled terrorists.
If terrorists can be utilized as an instrument of US foreign policy, then they become “freedom-fighters,” as Ronald Reagan dubbed the Afghan forebears of the Taliban during the 1980s, when they were fighting the Soviets with American help. This attitude is shared by the Obama administration, which has not only stood by while prominent Americans have rallied to MEK’s cause, but has also failed to distance Washington from other US-linked groups engaged in terrorist activities against Iran, such as Jundallah, a Sunni extremist sect carrying out attacks in Iranian Baluchistan.
More than that, Obama’s Justice Department has been actively going after Americans who travel abroad in support of left-wing “terrorist” groups, such as FARC and the Palestinian resistance. In October of last year the Justice Department raided the offices of the Antiwar Committee in Minneapolis, and also the homes and offices of left-wing activists in Chicago and North Carolina, and subpoenaed 19 people to appear before a grand jury fishing expedition.
Their crime? They had traveled abroad to engage in solidarity work with FARC and Palestinian resistance groups, which are on the State Department’s list of “foreign terrorist organizations” alongside the MEK. Unlike Giuliani, Townsend, Mukasey, and Ridge, the left-wing activists rounded up by Eric Holder don’t have top level connections in Congress and the Washington think-tanks, they don’t have editorial support from the Murdoch media empire, nor do they have the financial resources required to fight an all-out assault by the Justice Department. So they are harassed and prosecuted, while those with powerful connections and political pull go free – although both groups have engaged in exactly the same sort of activities.
Which just goes to prove, once again, that there are two sets of laws in latter-day America: one set for the powerful, and another for the powerless. Political violence is something that the US empire encourages when it is in its interests to do so, and condemns when its interests are threatened by unauthorized free-lancers. In every case, our rulers seek to use this kind of violence as their instrument, and this operating principle is underscored by the reaction, in some quarters, to the assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
The dead bodies were still on the ground in the parking lot of that Safeway store in Tucson when the left wing of the blogosphere was howling for “tea party” blood, blaming everyone from Sarah Palin to Ron Paul for the heinous crime. “Hate speech” had “incited” the assassin, one Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old nutbag who lived not far from the murder scene. The local sheriff used his fifteen minutes of fame to opine that none of this would’ve happened if not for certain people “on the radio.” The Huffington Post was ablaze with commentary linking Loughner to the “tea party” – because, after all, both Loughner and the tea partiers are “anti-government”! Having just been walloped, big-time, in a national election, the “progressives” were quick to call for “right-wing” blood. A Democratic official told Politico on Sunday that “they need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers … just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
At a time when free speech is under assault on every front, “liberal” groups and politicians are eager to make the case for laws against “hate speech,” hopeful that this will put out of business right-wing talk radio and other manifestations of political incorrectness, or at least have a chilling effect. After all, they opine, just as we are the “only” Western country that doesn’t have socialized medicine, so we are practically alone among our European cousins in not having “hate speech” laws.
The attempt to characterize Loughner as a tea partier has absolutely nothing to do with anything he said or wrote: indeed, quite the opposite is the case. If we look at his YouTube videos, they are simply incoherent, ranting about how Loughner is into “conscience dreaming,” and railing about government “brainwashing” – typical paranoid ravings without any real political content, either right or left. A series of tweets by a former friend, one Caitie Parker, show that when she knew him, in 2007, he was a radical leftist – and his YouTube video featuring a flag-burning (hardly a tea party-ish type of activity) is certainly suggestive of that, although I wouldn’t draw any firm conclusions one way or the other.
Because what we are talking about here is not ideology, but psychopathology – although I’ll be the first to admit that the two often intersect. In this case, however, there is absolutely no indication – so far – that politics had anything to do with it. A mentally unstable individual, who disrupted classes at Pima Community College, where he was a student, with sudden outbursts, simply fixated on a public figure, and acted on his delusions. Yet the swiftness with which the “progressive” crowd glommed on to Loughner as a symbol of everything they think is wrong with this country indicates just how ready we are for a real honest to goodness witch hunt: how we are itching for a lynching, if only someone with all the requisite characteristics of a lynch-worthy victim would turn up.
To a ruling class pining for a “crisis” – one that will put them in the drivers’ seat and allow them to get away with smearing their enemies and repressing the opposition – the Tucson massacre is a golden opportunity, and you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll take full advantage of it.
For the ruling class, the uses of political violence are many and various – even if the violence isn’t being committed (this time) by our overseas allies or our own CIA. We hear a lot of babbling about how this means we have to tamp down the supposedly appalling “polarization” of our society, tamp down the “rhetoric,” and learn to love the middle ground. “Extremism” is the enemy of the day, and anyone who wanders off the straight and narrow is a dangerous potential “terrorist.”
Bullshit. Of course our rulers – who are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, both financial and political – don’t want any polarization. Instead, they want us to calmly accept our fate under their system, and go down quietly. They don’t want WikiLeaks exposing their overseas criminality, they don’t want anyone questioning their own criminal activities on the home front, and if you rock the boat you’re an “extremist” with “terrorist” inclinations, a candidate for the no-fly list and an investigation by Homeland Security.
This is the world they’re working to create: an America where speech is regulated, where the internet is controlled by the government, and the only political violence allowed is that engaged in by the US military on a massive scale, and practiced on nonwhites, preferably overseas. Are you ready to live in that world? I’m not, but then again, I may not have much choice in the matter.
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Also
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9216
Wondering at those Americans who stand under the flag of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen
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... 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.” ...
(Rajavi from Saddam to AIPAC)
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
Iran Interlink, January 03, 2011
http://www.iran-interlink.org
A documentary about Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq terrorists
Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult terrorism in Iran and Iraq link to download the video file
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Also read:
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7264
Silent Cry
Press TV, November 23, 2009
www.presstv.com
This documentary takes us beneath the surface of acts of terror against Iran and shows how Iranians have been targeted by various terrorist groups, some of which enjoying the support of human right organizations.
(part one)
(part two)
----------- link to one of the Mojahedin Khalq songs advocating killing Americans (In Persian) Lets create another Vietnam for America(pdf). Letter to Imam (Khomeini) (pdf). Some questions unanswered regarding the US military invasion of Iran (pdf). ------------ ----------- also Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) began their terror campain by killing Americans ... 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.” ... Iran Interlink, November 06, 2010 * Some ot the Mojahedin Khalq documents from their own publications: link to one of the Mojahedin Khalq songs advocating killing Americans (In Persian) Mojahedin began their terrorist operations against American citizens and American offices located in Iran in 1971 which are as follows: * Some ot the Mojahedin Khalq documents from their own publications: link to one of the Mojahedin Khalq songs advocating killing Americans (In Persian)
Captain Lewis Lee Hawkins
(Photograph courtesy Annette Hawkins)
(Mojahedin English language paper April 1980)
(Mojahedin English Language paper April 1980)
(Mojahedin English Language paper June 1980)
(Rajavi from Saddam to AIPAC)
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
(Izzat Ebrahim and Massoud Rajavi still at large)
(Washington backed Maryam Rajavi in terrorist cult's HQ in Paris)
(British Lord!! Corbett promoting terrorism under the Logo of MKO for the past 25 years)
(In the streets of London with Lord Corbett!!)
(MKO members in European Countries 2003)
(massacre of Kurdish people) 
(Abdolmalek Rigi on Voice of America, presented as a democratic alternative)
(Mojahedin's Maryam Rajavi and Jondollah's Abdolmalek Rigi)
Jafarzadeh on Fox News 
Jafarzadeh representing terrorist organisation NCRI
(Picture form MKO/ NCRI clandestine television) 
(Daniel Zucker, Maryam Rajavi and ALi Safavi)
(Ali Safavi as the commander of Saddam's Private Army in Iraq)
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=8950
(Rajavi from Saddam to AIPAC)
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
http://iran-iterlink.org
Lets create another Vietnam for America(pdf).
(Mojahedin English language paper April 1980)
Letter to Imam (Khomeini) (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper April 1980)
Some questions unanswered regarding the US military invasion of Iran (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper June 1980)
- June 22, 1972- U.S. Air Force Brigadier General HAROLD PRICE, chief of the Air Force Section of U.S. Military Advisory Group in Iran.
- January 1973 – bombing the office of Shell Oil Company.
- A few days later bombing the office of Pan American airlines
- 3 June 1973 – assassination of U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Hawkins, U.S. military mission.
- 25 May 1974 bombing of Jewish American establishments like General and British establishments like Yorkshire Bank and Tichno Co. HQs
- January 27 1975, in response to the visit of Henry Kissinger to Iran the explosion of the office of TT International and Joan Doer Company.
- 11 May 1975 – assassination of Colonel Paul Schaeffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Turner, U.S. Air Force officers in the mission.
- 4th July 1975, PMOI’s terrorists stopped the motorcade of the American Ambassador in Tehran and opened fired on his car, but because of the darkness inside of the car, an Iranian official who was working for American Embassy in Tehran and was the PMOI’s infiltration agent was killed by mistake.
- In July 1975, two bombs were exploded in two places, first in the USA and Iran Committee building and the second one in the English Consul in the city of Mashad.
- 28 August 1976 – 3 civilian employees of Rockwell International, Donald J Smith, Robert R Grangrad and William C. Catrel, advisor to the Iranian military were subject to bombing and kidnapping.
1. In December of 1970 carried out an abortive attempt to kidnap U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur.
2. President Richard M. Nixon’s trip was marred by a series of bombings, including one explosion at the tomb of the Shah’s father shortly before the President and his hosts were scheduled to arrive.
3. The offices of El Al Airlines, Shell Petroleum, British Petroleum, British Overseas Airways, a Jewish Emigration office in Tehran, and numerous other U.S. facilities and properties were bombed and victimized.
4. In 1979, they supported the American Embassy occupation in Tehran and participated in the occupation of the Embassy by their agents who were student leaders.
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.
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.”
After the downfall of Saddam Hussein, all the PMOI members underwent various interviews for recognition of their identification by the US State Department’s agents, the CIA, FBI, and specifically US Military Information section MI. They gained a huge amount of very valuable information from the PMOI members – all of which documents and information substantiate and prove that the ideology and the strategy of the PMOI are all anti-western, and particularly anti USA.
After the downfall of Saddam Hussein, the PMOI rapidly mobilized all its organization for three weeks to destroy all books, CD’s, tapes, newspapers, archives, and even the members’ personal memorandums which were produced in various of Rajavi’s sessions and gatherings. Whatever could be interpreted as anti-USA were pulled out of their library, archives, offices, storage rooms and etc, and were all burned to ashes under the direct supervision of the PMOI’s commanders. Right now if you go to the PMOI’s main garrison Camp Ashraf, you won’t find even a single piece of paper which is anti-USA. They performed the same exercise with their computers as well.
The US State Department has justly listed the PMOI and its political wing the National Council of Resistance (NCRI) as a terrorist organization in its terrorist list. While the State Department listed them as a terrorist organization, it did not have the valuable information which it now has now. In a report that was published in 2005 by the US State Department regarding the terrorist organization list, it mentioned justly that the PMOI is a potential threat and is a very dangerous terrorist organization. In that report it was mentioned that the PMOI has the potential to become a dangerous organization in any period of time because of their special terrorist training and cohesive organizational structure. For instance, on 17th of June 2003 when Maryam Rajavi was arrested by French Police, PMOI leaders ordered their members to set themselves on fire in public streets. If there was no complaint and protest from the international bodies and humanitarian organizations against this kind of brutality and savagery, it was still going to become one of the biggest of human catastrophes.
Tthe US State Department has justly listed the PMOI as a terrorist organization in the terrorist list and has justly mentioned in the US State Department report that the PMOI has signs of being a cult. we must stress that even though the State Department reports of 2005 and 2006 are not complete, that the report shows that this organization is a religious cult.
Lets create another Vietnam for America(pdf).
(Mojahedin English language paper April 1980)
Letter to Imam (Khomeini) (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper April 1980)
Some questions unanswered regarding the US military invasion of Iran (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper June 1980)
(Maryam Rajavi in terrorist cult's HQ in Paris)
(massacre of Kurdish people)
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Also Did Giuliani And Co. Provide ‘Material Support’ To Terrorist Group? (Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) . ... 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 ... Matt Duss, Think Progress, December 24, 2010 The four “demanded that Obama instead take the controversial Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) opposition group off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations and incorporate it into efforts to overturn the mullah-led government in Tehran”: “Appeasement of dictators leads to war, destruction and the loss of human lives,” Giuliani declared. “For your organization to be described as a terrorist organization is just really a disgrace.” The four GOP figures appeared at a rally organized by the French Committee for a Democratic Iran, a pressure group formed to support MEK. It should be obvious that describing Obama’s Iran policy — which includes a new set of both multilateral and unilateral sanctions — as “appeasement” indicates either a misunderstanding of the policy, or a misunderstanding of what constitutes “appeasement.” (Though, to be fair, conservatives tend to use “appeasement” loosely as a general term for “foreign policy I don’t like.”) As for the MEK, after the GOP’s victory in November I predicted that we’d be seeing more efforts by pro-war conservatives to set the group up as an Iranian version of Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. Very much like the INC, the MEK has no genuine base of support in their own country — its real base is found among American neoconservatives. Daniel Luban profiled the MEK last November: Founded as a militant group with an ideology combining aspects of Islam and Marxism, the group is frequently described today as “cult-like,” built around a personality cult centered on leader Maryam Rajavi. [...] 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 Luban notes that the MEK’s “militant anti-Iranian stance has made it a favorite of hawks in Washington”: The MEK’s neoconservative supporters continue to push for it to be taken off the State Department terror list, which it has been on since 1997. One of the many ironies about the MEK is that, for all the groundless allegations that hawks made about Saddam Hussein’s connections to terrorist groups during the runup to the Iraq war, the terrorist group with perhaps the closest links to Saddam was one that the hawks themselves supported. Human Rights Watch also released a report in 2005 detailing the group’s record of subjecting dissident members to torture and solitary confinement. Leaving aside the spectacle of prominent conservatives going abroad to criticize the administration’s foreign policy on behalf of an Iranian exile group largely despised by Iranians, there’s actually a real question here of whether Giuliani, Townsend, Ridge, and Mukasey have violated U.S. law in regard to “material support” for terrorism. In June, the Supreme Court ruled in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project that “the First Amendment does not protect humanitarian groups or others who advise foreign terrorist organizations, even if the support is aimed at legal activities or peaceful settlement of dispute”: In a case that weighed free speech against national security, the court voted 6 to 3 to uphold a federal law banning “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations. That ban holds, the court said, even when the offerings are not money or weapons but things such as “expert advice or assistance” or “training” intended to instruct in international law or appeals to the United Nations. Over to you, Attorney General Holder. -------- Also Americans attending rallies in support of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorists in Paris belong to the Grand Old Party . ... 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 ... The Voice of Russia, December 23, 2010 Is the U.S. Administration “too soft” on Iran? On Wednesday, a rally took place in Paris in support of an Iranian exile organization Mujaheddin-e Khalq (People's Mojahedin of Iran, MEK). The rally itself would called hardly be worth mentioning – Europe with its principles of “freedom of speech” is famous for supporting all kinds of dissident and insurgent groups from all over the world. But two factors make the event rather significant. -------- Also: The Joint Demand of Ex-Members, Iranian families and Iraqi People (Camp Ashraf, Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)
. ... The greatest concern says the Open Letter is for current victims inside Camp Ashraf because "MEK leader Massoud Rajavi is denying seriously ill members from accessing life-saving medical treatment because he benefits from the publicity surrounding their deaths..." Former MEK members say there is "urgent need for independent human rights investigators to be given free and unfettered access ...". The letter concludes, "it is only fair to ask Europe and America, where we have witnessed extensive favours toward the group, to take and house the remaining aging people trapped in this camp." ... Reuters, January 08 2011 Former Mojahedin-e Khalq Members Back Iraqi Citizens and GOI Demand to Oust MEK (MKO, NCRI) in Camp Ashraf from Iraq (Press release) LONDON, Jan. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire In a letter by Massoud Khodabandeh (Iran-Interlink.org), to the Government of Iraq, former members of Iranian terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq backed "a large and peaceful gathering of citizens, Council representatives from the Diyala Province and NGOs from all over Iraq, calling for the removal of foreign terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq from their country." ----------- Also An open letter in solidarity with the Iraqi and Iranian victims of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO,MEK,NCRI,Rajavi cult) . ... We are now increasingly aware that MEK leader Massoud Rajavi is denying seriously ill members from accessing life-saving medical treatment because he benefits from the publicity surrounding their deaths ... As the people of Iran and Iraq are the most affected by the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Massoud Rajavi and his wife and lieutenant Maryam Rajavi, it is very difficult to see how they can be pardoned in these countries (considering the social problems which come with bloodshed). Therefore it is only fair to ask Europe and America, where we have witnessed extensive favours toward the group, to take and house the remaining aging people trapped in this camp ... Massoud Khodabandeh, January 08, 2011 Link to the news: On Friday 7 January 2010, a large and peaceful gathering of citizens, Council representatives from the Diyala Province and NGOs from all over Iraq, calling for the removal of foreign terrorist group Mojahedin- Khalq from their country, came under attack by leading members of the group who used bottles, stones and other implements to try to deter the demonstrators. This did not surprise anyone as the MKO had been issuing threats in its western based media in the days running up to the gathering. Demonstrators, domestic and foreign reporters and Iraqi security personnel at the gates of Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) were all among those who suffered injuries, with some taken by ambulance to hospitals in Baquba and Baghdad. The MEK’s typically violent response to the demonstrators further exposes the group’s weakness and lack of legitimacy. Several members of the group exhibited self-inflicted head wounds as they followed orders to pretend that Iraqi security forces had attacked them. Over the past year, the group has come under increasing pressure to allow Iranian families of MEK members who have been encamped outside the MEK’s garrison for eleven months, to meet with their loved ones who, they claim, are being held hostage by the group’s leaders. These families have also suffered attacks and abuse by the MEK leaders. It is clear that many inside the camp are disaffected and have been touched by the presence of their families and want out. There is clear congruence between the aims of the Iranian families of the hostages and all those Iraqis who have lost loved ones, possessions and land at the hands of the MEK during the regime of Saddam Hussein who supported them. The Iranian families have joined the demonstrators as they see their only hope to see their loved ones is through the dismantlement of the camp and opening the gates of a place in which no marriage or childbirth has taken place for two decades and from which there is no means of contact with the outside world. A major aim of the demonstrators was to alert international public opinion to the views of ordinary Iraqis toward the continued illegal presence of this foreign terrorist group in their country, and in particular in their Province. They describe the MEK presence as a cancer or a nightmare for their society, and fully support your government’s stance on the MEK. It is important for them that the international community hear their voices. Unfortunately, many in the West, particularly lawmakers, have relied almost exclusively on the MEK’s duplicitous propaganda campaigns as a source of information about the events at Camp Ashraf. As such, we believe that it would be helpful for your new government to invite independent observers from Western countries to visit the camp in order to see for themselves what is happening there. But our greatest concern is for the ordinary members who remain trapped inside the camp. As you are no doubt aware, over five hundred former members of the MEK have been active for many years in Western countries in exposing the MEK’s abuses of their own members. In particular many former members have given first hand testimony of their brutal treatment at the hands of the MKO leaders. As well as daily, systematic violations of human rights, punishments and beatings, some were, in the past, even incarcerated by the MEK in the infamous Abu Ghraib, the political prison of Saddam Hussein. We are now increasingly aware that MEK leader Massoud Rajavi is denying seriously ill members from accessing life-saving medical treatment because he benefits from the publicity surrounding their deaths which – using lies and misinformation in his western media outlets - he seeks to blame on your government. With this past record, and with the fresh testimony of recent escapees, we are sure you would agree that there is now urgent need for independent human rights investigators to be given free and unfettered access to check on the situation of every person resident in the camp – that is with no interference by MEK leaders - accompanied by security personnel to ensure their protection. We applaud the wisdom of the Iraqi people and those leaders who brought the coalition government into existence - despite a great deal of interference by the outside world. We thank you for the humanitarian approach and patience that the Government of Iraq has shown in dealing with this unwelcome issue. While it was incumbent on the occupying American forces to resolve this problem many years ago, they unfortunately neglected this duty and it has been left on your hands. As the people of Iran and Iraq are the most affected by the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Massoud Rajavi and his wife and lieutenant Maryam Rajavi, it is very difficult to see how they can be pardoned in these countries (considering the social problems which come with bloodshed). Therefore it is only fair to ask Europe and America, where we have witnessed extensive favours toward the group, to take and house the remaining aging people trapped in this camp. Yours sincerely, ------------ Also Zebari: Iraq's constitution does not allow Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorist organization in the country . ... saying that "the Iraqi Constitution does not allow the existence of any armed organization on our land to exercise acts against another country. Zebari said that "the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization is like many other armed terrorist organizations," adding that "the government is determined to impose its sovereignty and not allow any party to impose its policy orientations." The civil society organizations from different provinces of Iraq, had organized a demonstration on 11 December last, in front of Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3400 members of the PMOI in Diyala, demanding the Iraqi government to develop mechanisms to remove members of the organization from Iraq ... link to the original report (Arabic) At a press conference with his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad, attended by "Alsumaria News", Hoshyar Zebari said, "The issue of MEK was discussed by the Prime Minister more than once, and we suffered more than any other party from the evils of armed organizations on our territory," saying that "the Iraqi Constitution does not allow the existence of any armed organization on our land to exercise acts against another country." Zebari said that "the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization is like many other armed terrorist organizations," adding that "the government is determined to impose its sovereignty and not allow any party to impose its policy orientations." The civil society organizations from different provinces of Iraq, had organized a demonstration on 11 December last, in front of Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3400 members of the PMOI in Diyala, demanding the Iraqi government to develop mechanisms to remove members of the organization from Iraq. The Iraqi forces composed of nearly a thousand members from the army and police force moved into Camp Ashraf earlier this year, but elements of the PMOI used batons and knives to prevent security officers from discharging their functions, which led to the outbreak of fighting and injuring about two hundred and sixty people from both sides and the arrest of fifty members of the organization… زيباري: الدستور العراقي لا يسمح بوجود أي منظمة إرهابية في البلد ومنها منظمة خلق المحرر السومرية نيوز/ بغداد أكد وزير الخارجية العراقي، الأربعاء، أن الدستور العراقي لا يسمح بوجود أي منظمة "إرهابية" على الأراضي العراقية، ومنها منظمة مجاهدي خلق، مشددا على أن الحكومة العراقية عازمة على فرض سيادتها في البلد وعدم السماح بفرض أي سياسات أخرى ---------- Also read: I. Summary II. Background III. Rise of Dissent inside the MKO IV. Human Rights Abuses in the MKO Camps V. Testimonies May 2005 --------- Also read: New document on Mojahedin Khalq released by RAND (The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq, A Policy Conundrum) RAND, August 05, 2009 A new document (133pages) was released today by RAND * * * Link to the document (pdf file) ... A RAND study examined the evolution of this controversial decision, which has left the United States open to charges of hypocrisy in the war on terrorism. An examination of MeK activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies. A series of coalition decisions served to facilitate the MeK leadership's control over its members. The government of Iraq wants to expel the group, but no country other than Iran will accept it. Thus, the RAND study concludes that the best course of action would be ... ------- Also read: U.S. Handling of Mujahedin-E-Khalq Since U.S. Invasion of Iraq Is Examined (The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq , A Policy Conundrum) . . Jeremiah Goulka, Lydia Hansell, Elizabeth Wilke, Judith Larson, RAND, August 04, 2009 At the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Coalition forces classified the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a militant organization from Iran with cult-like elements that advocates the overthrow of Iran's current government, as an enemy force. The MeK had provided security services to Saddam Hussein from camps established in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War to fight Iran in collaboration with Saddam's forces and resources. A new study from the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, looks at how coalition forces handled this group following the invasion. Although the MeK is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States, coalition forces never had a clear mission on how to deal with it. After a ceasefire was signed between Coalition forces and the MeK, the U.S. Secretary of Defense designated this group's members as civilian "protected persons" rather than combatant prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. The coalition's treatment of the MeK leaves it – and the United States in particular – open to charges of hypocrisy, offering security to a terrorist group rather than breaking it up. Research suggests that most of the MeK rank-and-file are neither terrorists nor freedom fighters, but trapped and brainwashed people who would be willing to return to Iran if they were separated from the MeK leadership. Many members were lured to Iraq from other countries with false promises, only to have their passports confiscated by the MeK leadership, which uses physical abuse, imprisonment, and other methods to keep them from leaving. Iraq wants to expel the group, but no country other than Iran will accept it. The RAND study suggests the best course of action would have been to repatriate MeK rank-and-file members back to Iran, where they have been granted amnesty since 2003. To date, Iran appears to have upheld its commitment to MeK members in Iran. The study also concludes better guidelines be established for the possible detention of members of designated terrorist organizations. The study, "The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum," can be found here. For more information, or to arrange an interview with the authors, contact Lisa Sodders in the RAND Office of Media Relations at (310) 393-0411, ext. 7139, or lsodders@rand.org. Learn More iconFull Document (http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871/) iconNational Security Research Area (http://www.rand.org/research_areas/national_security/) iconE-mail sign up (http://www.rand.org/publications/email.html)
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(Rajavi from Saddam to AIPAC)
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/12/23/
did-giuliani-and-co-provide-material-support-to-terrorist-group/The Washington Post reports that four prominent Republicans — former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani, former Bush administration homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, former homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey — told “a forum of cheering Iranian exiles” in Paris “that President Obama’s policy toward Iran amounts to futile appeasement that will never persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear projects.”
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9160
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/23/37579034.html
One is the fact that the MEK group is listed by the US State Department as a foreign terrorist organization.
The other is that the rally in Paris was attended by several prominent American public figures belonging to the Republican Party, most of whom in the past, in this or that capacity were associated with homeland security. Among them, New York mayor at the time of 9/11 attack Rudolph Giuliani, former secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge, former White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend and former attorney general Michael Mukasey.
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 receiving classified information about the inside processes in Iran and the Iranian nuclear program in particular, supplied by members of MEK.
The European Union also had MEK on the terrorist list until January 2009, when it was removed from the list.
Addressing the rally in Paris, former New York mayor Giuliani said, “Appeasement of dictators leads to war, destruction and the loss of human lives. For your organization to be described as a terrorist organization is just really a disgrace.” Needless to say these words were greeted with cheers.
Anyway the main target of all American speeches at the rally was in fact not the Iranian regime, but the US Administration. “If the United States truly wants to put pressure on the Iranian regime, it takes more than talk and it takes more than sanctions,” said former White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, without specifying what should be done.
It hardly makes sense to blame Obama for “too soft” a policy on Iran. In fact, the present Administration tries hard (and, for the most part, unsuccessfully) to cope with the two wars started by the previous Republican Administration – one in Iraq, the other one in Afghanistan. Saying that dealing with the Iranian regime “takes more than sanctions” is a direct reference to a possible third war in the region which Obama is trying hard to avoid.
More so, it would be baseless to blame Obama for not using such internationally acknowledged means of dealing with regimes violating the rules of behavior like the Iranians do. Just a couple of days ago the US introduced new sanctions against two Iranian banks, two financial corporations and a shipping company supposed to provide illegal assistance to Hezbollah.
But what seems to be even more important, is the fact that the stricter are the measures taken by the West against Iran, the stronger is the resistance.
It is quite clear that a war against Iran (“more than sanctions” in the Republican terminology) would be suicidal for whoever starts it.
But even imposing more sanctions gives a result opposite from the desired one and can eventually lead to a situation when the peaceful Iranian nuclear program (at the moment there is no substantial evidence to prove it is not peaceful) will turn into a military one.
At present, Iran is already recruiting nuclear scientists from North Korea, Palestine, African countries and elsewhere, to work on its nuclear program.
A recent killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist was blamed by Iranian officials and media on foreign intelligence. Now, a wave of indignation over the alleged role of the British intelligence service MI6 in supporting terrorism inside Iran is rising, with hardliners calling for a recall of British ambassador and threatening to overrun the British embassy in Tehran.
It is very much unlikely that public support for an organization regarded as terrorist not only in Iran but even in the US will serve the cause of appeasement in the region. Well, if the US hardliners would like to have a new phase of open confrontation, they should go on. But the outcome is really unpredictable.
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9248
(Iraqis Demonstrating in front at the gates of the camp)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS30874+08-Jan-2011+PRN20110108
As expected, due to "threats in its western based media in the days running up to the gathering", MEK members attacked demonstrators, reporters and Iraqi security personnel, and even "exhibited self-inflicted head wounds as they followed orders to pretend that Iraqi security forces had attacked them." Iraqi citizens from Diyala Province where the MEK military garrison Camp Ashraf has remained since 1986, described the MEK presence as a "cancer or a nightmare for their society." They were joined by Iranian families of MEK members who have remained at the camp gates for eleven months trying to find relatives who they say are held hostage by Massoud Rajavi inside the camp – "a place where no marriage or childbirth has taken place for two decades and from which there is no means of contact with the outside world."
The letter points to the "clear congruence between the aims of the Iranian families of the hostages and all those Iraqis who have lost loved ones, possessions and land at the hands of the MKO..." and asks the GOI to "invite independent observers from Western countries to visit the camp in order to see for themselves what is happening there".
The greatest concern says the Open Letter is for current victims inside Camp Ashraf because "MEK leader Massoud Rajavi is denying seriously ill members from accessing life-saving medical treatment because he benefits from the publicity surrounding their deaths which – using lies and misinformation in his western media outlets - he seeks to blame on your government."
Former MEK members say there is "urgent need for independent human rights investigators to be given free and unfettered access to check on the situation of every person resident in the camp – that is with no interference by MEK leaders...".
The letter concludes, "it is only fair to ask Europe and America, where we have witnessed extensive favours toward the group, to take and house the remaining aging people trapped in this camp."
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9245
(Saddam used Rajavi in the massacar of Iraqi Kurds)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS30874+08-Jan-2011+PRN20110108
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http://classic.cnbc.com/id/40976558
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http://www.centredaily.com/2011/01/08/2441538/former-mojahedin-e-khalq-members.htmlOpen Letter to President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and Hoshyar Zebari, Foreign Minister of Iraq on the situation of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI) at Camp Ashraf
Massoud Khodabandeh
Iran Interlink
U.K.
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9229
Alsumaria News, Baghdad, 05 January 2011
Translated by Iran Interlink
http://alsumarianews.com/ar/2/15598/news-details-.html 
The Foreign Minister of Iraq said Wednesday that the Iraqi constitution does not allow the existence of any "terrorist" organization on Iraqi territory, including the People's Mojahedin Organization, stressing that the Iraqi government is determined to impose its sovereignty in the country and no other policies will be allowed to be imposed.
http://alsumarianews.com/ar/2/15598/news-details-.html
وقال هوشيار زيباري في مؤتمر صحافي عقده مع نظيره الإيراني ببغداد وحضرته "السومرية نيوز"، إن "موضوع مجاهدي خلق ناقشه السيد رئيس الوزراء أكثر من مرة، ونحن عانينا أكثر من أي طرف آخر من شرور المنظمات المسلحة على أراضينا"، معتبرا أن "الدستور العراقي لا يسمح بوجود أي منظمة مسلحة على أراضنا تمارس أعمالا ضد بلد آخر"
واعتبر زيباري أن"خلق منظمة إرهابية هي كغيرها من المنظمات الإرهابية المسلحة الأخرى"، مشيرا إلى أن "الحكومة عازمة على فرض سيادتها وعدم السماح لأي جهة أو طرف بفرض سياسته أو توجهاته
وكانت منظمات مجتمع مدني من مختلف محافظات العراق، قد نظمت تظاهرة في 11 من كانون أول الماضي، أمام معسكر اشرف الذي يأوي أكثر من 3400 من عناصر منظمة مجاهدي خلق الإيرانية في ديالى، مطالبين الحكومة العراقية بوضع آليات لإخراج عناصر المنظمة من العراق
وكانت قوات عراقية مؤلفة من عناصر في الجيش والشرطة قوامها نحو ألف عنصر قد اقتحمت معسكر اشرف بداية العام الحالي، لكن عناصر مجاهدي خلق استخدموا الهراوات والمدي والسكاكين لمنع رجال الأمن من تنفيذ مهامهم، ما أدى إلى اندلاع مواجهات وإصابة نحو مائتين وستين شخصا من الجانبين واعتقال خمسين من عناصر المنظمة
يذكر أن منظمة مجاهدي خلق( الشعب) تأسست في 1965 بهدف الإطاحة نظام شاه إيران، وبعد الثورة الإسلامية في 1979 عارضت النظام الإسلامي. والتجأ كثير من عناصر المنظمة إلى العراق في الثمانينات خلال الحرب بين إيران والعراق 1980- 1988. والمنظمة هي الجناح المسلح للمجلس الوطني للمقاومة في إيران، ومقره فرنسا، إلا أنها أعلنت تخليها عن العنف في حزيران 2001
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=797http://hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/
No Exit
Human Rights Abuses Inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps 
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=6789
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871/
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=6775
http://www.rand.org/news/press/2009/08/04/?ref=homepage&key=t_iraqi_mek_flags
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf