Baghdad, Oct. 31, IRNA – Elsewhere in his remarks, Mottaki said no matter under what pretext terrorist groups such as Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) or the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) act, what is important is their actions which disturb security in the region, he added.
Meanwhile, Zebari told the press conference that presence and activities of such terrorist groups as MKO, PJAK or PKK are contrary to the interests of regional states.
Speaker: Palestinian issue not to be forgotten by Muslims
Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said here Friday that Palestine issue will never be put into oblivion by the world’s Muslim nations.
“All Muslim nations support the oppressed Palestinian nation,”Haddad-Adel told IRNA on the sidelines of the International Qods Day rallies.
He said Iranians’ high turnout in today’s demonstrations sends an important message to global arrogance and the usurper Zionist regime that Muslim nations are fully aware of the ongoing conditions worldwide.
Pointing to his decision to scrap his visit to France, Haddad-Adel said he did not consider it worthwhile of the Iranian nation to be represented in a forum to which terrorists were also invited.
“Some factions of the parliamentary associations of European Council have invited the terrorist MKO leader to attend the forum,”said Haddad-Adel while referring to an invitation extended to head of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization Maryam Rajavi to attend the meeting.
He said certain people, provoked by MKO, started to raise questions about Iran and Palestine at the European Council parliamentary gathering but fortunately the Indonesian speaker gave due response to them.
He added that in fact, the atmosphere they had wished to create in Strasbourg ended in Iran’s favor.
In protest against western support for proscribed terrorists in EU Majlis speaker cancels speech at European Parliament
Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel has canceled an scheduled visit to Strasbourg, France, where he was to address the European Parliament on Thursday. The decision was made in protest to”the dual behavior”of EP officials.
The speaker’s decision was made after it was reported that a number of EP officials have recently met with the leader of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO).
Haddad-Adel’s visit was due to take place upon an invitation extended by head of European Parliament Council.
He was to address the Council of Europe Parliament as rotating chairman of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA).
The speaker was to talk about Asia’s specific status at the international community and the significant efforts which are underway to promote the continent’s role in international
developments.
Haddad-Adel called on the APA president to voice the speaker’s strong protests to EP officials for their”dual behavior in their alleged fight against terrorism.”
The MKO is enlisted by the EU as a terrorist group and its leader is under prosecution by the INTERPOL for the crimes committed by the MKO members in Iraq and Iran.
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Majlis speaker to address IPU confab in Switzerland
Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, heading a high-ranking delegation, will visit Switzerland next Monday to address the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting.
According to the Press Bureau of Majlis, Haddad-Adel will take part in a three-day conference in Geneva at an invitation by the IPU head. Speakers from 120 countries will also participate in the event.
This is the first time that the IPU invites a high-ranking delegation from Iran to attend its meeting.
Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, Seyed Abdullah Hosseini, Javad Jahangirzadeh, Kazem Jalali, Fatima Alia and Nafisseh Fayyaz-Bakhsh will accompany the Majlis speaker during the three-day visit to Switzerland.
Haddad-Adel will hold talks with heads of Swiss Federal Council and Parliament during the visit.
The IPU Geneva-based non-governmental organization, comprising 148 member states, was established 110 years earlier.
The Iranian speaker will pay a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina at an official invitation by their parliament speaker.
French Charge D’Affaires in Tehran Jean Grebling was summoned to Foreign Ministry on Wednesday morning.
According to Foreign Ministry Media Department report, following provocative and unreasonable statements by French political officials, especially the radical and continuous statements by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, head of second office of Western Europe in Foreign Ministry summoned the French charge d’affaires in Tehran, in the absence of the ambassador, and submitted Iran’s official protest against recent statements of Mr. Kouchner.
In the meeting, the Iranian diplomat also expressed Iran’s dissatisfaction with Paris recent stances and intensified negative tone concerning Iran’s constructive agreement with International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA).
Referring to French officials stances in recent weeks concerning Iran’s nuclear dossier, the foreign ministry diplomat condemned and strongly protested against ‘French efforts in forming the UN Security Council resolution against Iran, persuading European countries to impose extra sanctions outside UNSC framework on Iran and recommending European companies to stop new economic cooperation with Iran’.
While 5+1 group in its latest meeting agreed to postpone discussion on Iran’s nuclear dossier until November when IAEA presents its report, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in an unrealistic and irresponsible statement has accused Iran of trying to access atomic bomb.
Kouchner, in an interview with French Channel One Radio on Tuesday, claimed that existing situation in Iran is dangerous and Islamic Republic of Iran will only take the West seriously just by intensifying sanctions against it.
Two weeks ago, Kouchner in another irresponsible statement, said that the world should be prepared for a war against Iran as the worst choice in dealing with its nuclear issue.
In the foreign ministry meeting, dual and discriminatory behavior of the French government in facing with the issue of terrorism was criticized and it was said that the freedom of the terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in France is in contradiction with international resolutions and obligations on fight against terrorism.
The French diplomat answered he would promptly inform his government on Iran’s viewpoints.
Concerning MKO activities, the French diplomat said, "French government stance on the group has not changed and they are still under control of France judiciary system and there is no sympathy with them."
Tehran, Oct 3, IRNA
US-backed terrorists martyred a clergyman in Khash, in this southeastern province Tuesday night.
The clergyman, Mehdi Tavakoli, was delivering sermons at a mosque when he was martyred by unknown terrorists.
The White House which has been defeated by the resolve of the Iranian nation, has put support for terrorists on its agenda in order to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation and kill innocent people.
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A military commander said here Wednesday that the Tuesday night assassination of a Shia clergyman in Khash was aimed at sowing discord among Shia and Sunni Muslims.
The clergyman, Mehdi Tavakoli, was delivering sermons at a mosque at Eftekharabad village of Khash when he was martyred by an unknown”US-backed terrorist”.
Commander of Fatah Base, General Mohammad Ghafari, further said that the martyrdom of the clergyman was surely a pre-orchestrated plan aimed at sowing discord among various sects and ethnic groups in the province.
“US-backed terrorists are retaliating Washington’s failures at political and international scenes through blind assassination in Iran,”he said.
The White House which has been defeated by the resolve of the Iranian nation, has put support for terrorists on its agenda in order to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation and kill innocent people.
Chancellors of six Iranian universities and academic centers: Why does the US administration support the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq(MKO)
…Why does the US administration support the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) despite that fact that it has carried out terrorist operations in Iran since 1981? …
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Iranian academics ask 10 questions from Columbia University president
Chancellors of six Iranian universities and academic centers on Tuesday expressed indignation at aggressive tone and degrading behavior of head of Columbia University Lee Bollinger in hosting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
They forwarded a protest letter to Bollinger to voice outrage at his ignorance of the principle of hosting the president of Iran, a country of great civilization and a 7,000-year history.
“It is a shame for an academic center that such hateful and impolite words are uttered by its president. It is regretful that the media owners easily elicit what they want the president of a reputable university to say in his lecture,”they said in the letter.
“Your statement about Iran was full of undocumented charges brought by the media and some of which were the outcome of misunderstanding which needs dialogue and closer study,”it said.
The Iranian academics posed 10 questions to Bollinger in return for the 10 questions he asked from President Ahmadinejad.
1. Why did the US media exert pressure on you to cancel President Ahmadinejad’s lecture at University of Columbia and why did the US TV networks broadcast programs for several days against the Iranian president and did not allow him to respond to the allegations? Does this not run counter to freedom of expression?
2. Why did the US come to the help of Iranian dictator (deposed Shah) in 1953 and launched military coup against then prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq?
3. Why did the US back Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to invade Iran in 1980 and supplied him with chemical weapons to attack both Iraqi people and Iranian soldiers?
4. Why doesn’t the US administration recognize the democratically elected government of Palestine in Gaza and why does it oppose Iranian proposal to hold referendum in Palestine to end the 60-year old occupation.
5. Why did the US Army with its advanced weapons not capture Ben Ladan. How do you respond to the longstanding family friendship of President George W. Bush and Ben Laden and the oil deals with Bush and sabotaging process of inquiry into September 11 by the US president.
6. Why does the US administration support the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) despite that fact that it has carried out terrorist operations in Iran since 1981.
7. Was there an international consensus when the US invaded Iraq in 2003? What is the aim of killing several thousand Iraqis and where are the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) for which the US unleashed the war?
8. Why does the US Administration always support the
non-democratic and military governments?
9. Why did the US administration give negative vote to resolution of IAEA general conference calling for making the Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction?
10. Why is the US administration dissatisfied with Iran-IAEA agreement to resolve the outstanding issues about Iranian nuclear program?
They extended an invitation to Bollinger to visit Iran and talk with intellectuals and ordinary people to see for himself the realities.
Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani revealed some details of MKO-Pentagon negotiations in a press conference.
In response to a question on the explosion of oil and gas pipelines in western parts of the country, he said: “The explosions were not in our country but there were some small activities in the west.”
“They are wasting their time and act foolishly. We control everything within our borders, particularly in the western borders.
Referring to the meetings of some Pentagon officials and MKO elements with purposes against Iran, he said: “They had a meeting between the two and Pentagon has asked for a plan against Iran.”
“Mojahedin-e khalq has offered a detailed plan for a year and half! However, Pentagon officials didn’t like it.”
Lartijani stressed that their level of understanding is limited to such bombings and explosions, adding: Planning to explode 3 to 4 oil pipelines is not good for a country claiming to be a superpower.
In response to whether he thought other groups were also seeking to hit Iranian interests in western parts of the country, Larijani said: Yes, other small groups, instigated by superpowers, wanted to hit Iran but they received irreparable damages from Iran.
In response to questions on military threats by the US against Iran, he said: “If they do that, the answer will be painful and the whole region will be damaged.
IRNA – 2007/09/15
Visiting Belgian Foreign Minister Karl De Gusht said here Saturday evening that Belgium has allocated half a million euros to finance the UN anti-drug campaign and fight against organized crimes project in Iran.
In a ceremony to receive released Belgian hostage here, De Gusht said, "The donation is as a sign of appreciation to Iran and campaign against drug-trafficking."
He added, "In this case, we learn how to work together and this issue will have a very good effect on future relations between the two countries."
"I would like to convey Belgian government’s appreciation to Iran’s extraordinary and tireless efforts to release Stefaan Boeve." The Belgian foreign minister underlined that freedom of Belgian hostages brought us an opportunity to discuss deepening ties with Iran in matters like international and regional problems, nuclear issues, human rights and also receiving a court order for an Iranian father to meet with his child in Belgium and other issues.
Answering a question concerning terrorism and presence of MKO members in Belgium, De Gusht said, "Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) is in terrorist list of the EU and I criticized Senate for holding a meeting between ringleader Maryam Rajavi and the former Senate speaker and I called it "unacceptable".
The Belgian foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Saturday evening to hold talks with Iranian officials on ways to upgrade Tehran-Brussels economic cooperation and the Iranian nuclear program.
Tehran, Sept 16, IRNA
MKO terrorism never be purged by new acronyms, UK weekly told
The Iranian Embassy in London has condemned attempts by some British newspapers and MPs to deproscribe the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MKO or PMOI) as an international terrorist organization.
"Surely use of different, new acronyms such as PMOI, NCRI, etc. can never purge the organisation’s long record of criminal activities," the embassy said.
No re-labeling can "put a shine on a body recognized internationally as a terrorist organisation, or in any way justify their terrorist cause," it said in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph.
The letter referred to an article in the weekly’s previous addition on July 29, in which it said that the writer, Christopher Booker, had one clear obligation "to whitewash the background of a cult whose cruelty and hypocrisy are evident to concerned authorities and international bodies."
"It is not a baffling scandal of contemporary politics as the writer says, to categorize PMOI in the UK terror list, the irony is rather the way some former officials as well as MPs are trying to appease Saddam Hussein’s ex-accomplices," the letter also received by IRNA read.
The embassy reminded the paper that the terrorist group "actively took part in slaughtering Iraqi civilians in order to receive the support of the Iraq doomed dictator."
"The bewilderment becomes even greater to see efforts by some lawmakers to help a cult which is proscribed even by some western governments for their atrocities towards Iranians, Kurds and Arabs," it said.
Last year, the embassy castigated the paper for reporting unsubstantiated allegations orchestrated by the MKO to distract attention from the catastrophic situation in Iraq.
In 2005, its sister paper, the Daily Telegraph went as far as calling in its editorial for support for the MKO terrorist group based in Iraq to overthrow Iran’s elected government.
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Notes:
Mr. Booker’s article has been translated in to Farsi and posted in Mojahedin Khalq Organisation web sites (on the list of Terrorist organisation in USA, EU, Canada and United Kingdam!!) shortly before the publication of this article in Telegraph!! (Iran Interlink)
Link to: State Department’s Report on Mojahedin Khalq Orgainsation, Rajavi cult headed by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi (2007)
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2309
Link to Mr. Booker article in Telegraph.co.uk.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/29/nbook129.xml
Related material:
http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2892
Response to Christopher Booker
(Farsi translation of Mr. Booker’s article was posted in Terrorist websites before coming out in Telegraph!!)
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Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, July 29, 2007
Your Sunday Telegraph article of July 29 titled “EU flouts its own highest court…†has some serious flaws that deserve your attention. I have known MEK (PMOI, NCRI, MKO, …) for more than 25 years up-close and personal. I have also studied the group in my role as a researcher. Therefore, I see myself qualified to comment about it. Quite frankly, your article is just an echo of the PMOI’s own propaganda filled with false and misleading information.
The enlistment of the group in the EU’s terror list is based on the group’s own behavior which is nothing short of a personality cult revolving around its leader, Massoud Rajavi, with a history of violence and a philosophy based on hatred. The group has also been enlisted by the US Government as an FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) which was later upheld in court. In concurring with the Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia, Judge Harry T. Edwards notes: “…the public, unclassified administrative record, including petitioner’s own submission to the Secretary, contains more than enough evidence to support the determination that petitioner (PMOI) engages in terrorist activity.†(1)
The December ruling by the EU Court you have referred in your article did not favor de-listing the group. To the contrary, it clearly dismissed the action sought by the PMOI to annul the EU Common Position 2005/936/CFSP- the updated terror list that included the PMOI. It did however order to unfreeze the group’s assets due to lack of proper procedure for such freezing. Therefore, your assertion that the British Government is flouting its own court is not accurate. This ruling is readily available in 16 different languages on the Court’s own official web site. (2) PMOI and its paid politician supporters have misled many about this, relying on that most would not read the actual ruling. I challenged the PMOI to translate the entire ruling (not just the select parts) in Farsi (Persian), and to post the translation on the Internet. They have refused to do so, and will continue such. More than 7 months after the ruling, only the favorable part of the ruling has been published on the group’s Internet site.
Your article also refers to NCRI as a coalition of which PMOI is a member. This is simply not true. Not only people familiar with the group know that NCRI is just a decoy for PMOI; the United States Court of Appeals in Washington DC ruled the following:
After an extensive investigation of MEK and NCRI, the FBI reported to the State Department that “it is the unanimous view of the FBI personnel who are involved in and familiar with the FBI’s investigation of the [MEK]that NCRI is not a separate organization, but is instead, and has been, an integral part of the MEK at all relevant times. Contrary to NCRI’s portrayal of itself as an umbrella organization, of which the MEK was just one member, the FBI concluded that is NCRI that is “the political branch” of the MEK.”(3)
While I truly sympathise with the victims of the brutal Mullah ruling my country, Iran, I caution you not to drift into the PMOI’s propaganda traps by echoing their statistics about the number of people attendant their gatherings, people executed in Iran, and the number of supporters of the group in Iran.
Regards
Ahmad Baaraan
Paris
ABaaraan@yahoo.fr
(1) http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/327F3d1238.html
(2) http://curia.europa.eu (case number T-228/02)
(3) 362 U.S. App. D.C. 143; 373 F.3d 152; 2004
A plan for establishing an illegal Sunni Arab forces in Baghdad, which will act as a disciplined army against Iraqi armed forces, was revealed on Tuesday.
Some Sunni Arab figures and groups, as well as members of former Baath party and Iraqi Estekhbarat, are trying to establish this force in Iraq with the assistance of the U.S. and some Arab countries.
Al-Nahrain Net quoted European diplomatic sources saying that this plan is aimed at taking the control of Baghdad and its security.
"That’s why the Accord Front announced last week that it would leave the government, in order to pave the way for the execution of this plan," sources added.
The sources, not named by this news agency, also said that the plan had been prepared long time ago by countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and UAE with the assistance of the U.S.
"This Sunni force would act like a second army in Baghdad and some Iraqi provinces and its establishment has been scheduled," the news agency added.
"After the establishment of this pseudo-army, Baath and Sunni Arabs would be allowed, according to an American plan, to take the control of security in Western Baghdad, known as Karkh area. According to this paln, the control of some Sunni areas, including Al-Dowrah, Al-Aamel, Al-Baya’, Al-Sayedeh, and Al-Mekanik, in western, southern and eastern Baghdad, would be given to terrorist organization of al-Qaeda, mostly comprised of Baathist elements."
A number of European countries have warned London over the risks of executing this plan and asked British officials to put pressure on Washington to stop it.
European sources also added that U.S.’s decision to give the security of Al-Dowrah and Al-Sayedah … to Sunni Arabs and Baathsis is aimed at blocking southern parts of Baghdad on Iraq’s central and southern provinces.
Al-Nahrain Net has said that a number of elements from former Baath party, based in Amman, have recently promised each other that they are going to reclaim their lost power by the help of U.S.’s military forces and the wealth of Saudis.
"An Arab country has recently contacted Saudi officials, asking them to stop this plan because it would deteriorate the security in Iraq and particularly Baghdad," Al-Nahrain has said. The name of the Arab country has not been revealed.
The news agency says it has the names of some former Baath Party commanders involved in this plan.
Most of the commanders, according to the news agency, are the leaders of armed groups like Islamic Army, the Army of Mohammed, Ansar Al-Sunnah, The Army of Omar and The Army of Mojahedin in Iraq.
Most of these commanders have been trained by Saudi and Jordanian officers in Amman.
The report adds that Khalaf El-Elyan, the head of Sunni Dialog Council and former officer of Iraqi Army, as well as "Zafer Al-Aani", formerly a member of Baath party, and Saleh Mutlaq, supporter of terrorist MEK, and Mohammed al-Dayeni, another member of former Baath party, are of MPs whose names have been reveled in the report.
Accord Front’s decision to leave the government and then launching media war on the government and later threats by Khalaf Elyan and Zafer al-Aani to carry weapons have all been along the plan, coordinated by Amman, Riyadh and the U.S.
Al-Nahrain Net has added that U.S.’s embassy in Baghdad had been informed of Accord Front’s decision 12 hours before it was announced by the party.
