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Informed source in IRI Embassy in Paris rejects Reuters’ claim

Paris– An informed source in Embassy of Iran in France here on Friday strongly rejected as ‘false and baseless’ a claim made by the Reuters on Iran’s nuclear and missile cooperation with North Korea.

Terming the news in question as ‘politically motivate news fabrication’, the informed Iranian Embassy source said that the false news is based only on biased information provide for the Reuters by the ill-famed terrorist group Mojahedine-e Khalq Organization (MKO – also known as the People’s Mojahedin of Iran – PMO), which is comprised of a bunch of mercenaries of the aliens.

He said that such false news’ broadcasting by the Reuters is highly questionable and suspicious in this particular period of time.

‘It was quite predictable in advance that with approaching deadline for signing of an Iran-Sextet final nuclear agreement and increased chances for cracking a win-win deal with the West on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program the broadcasting of such false and baseless news, too, will accelerate,’ he added.

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Iran

Pardoned members of Mojahedin Khalq to be back home soon

Scores of former members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) will return to Iran following the complete collapse of the terrorist group in Iraq and after being pardoned by the Islamic establishment.

 Legal procedures are underway for the return of the breakaway members of the terrorist group while a large number of others are in line to be forgiven by the Islamic Republic.

 The list of the penitent members of the MKO was handed over to the special envoy of the UN Secretary General and they will be back to Iran in a near future.

Following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq (2003) which ended military and spying cooperation between MKO and Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, waves of the dissident members of the terrorist group felt deep remorse and fled its main camp in northern Iraq especially after repeated demands of their Iran-based families during the past 12 years. The trend has eventually led to the complete collapse of the anti-Iran group.

 MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s. In 2009, Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km north of Baghdad – and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

 MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, 12,000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.

MKO has no public support among Iranians also because of its role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Italian professor: MKO has no place in Iran

A professor in Rome University and Chairman of World Study Institute Nicola Pedde, who has written a book about the activities of MKO terrorist group, says the group will never have a place in Iran.

The Italian author in his book ‘MEK’ has, in details, underlined the terrorist nature of MKO and has written about their historical background and development of the group since 1965.

Pedde believes that seditious role of the MKO against Iran during the 8 years of imposed war is totally evident for Iranian society.

Because of their hostile acts against Iran’s officials and innocent people, there is a feeling of hatred among people of Iran at the group, says the author.

He has also made interviews with a number of ex-members of the group, who once had key roles in the organization, and has revealed criminal acts of the group as well as developments inside the group.

Professor Pedde says he has tried to make Italian politicians understand that before signing any document in support of any group or society, they should have some information about their activities.

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Iran

Americans can’t accuse us while supporting Mojahedin terrorists

Accusing Iran of supporting terrorism is distortion of truth and fully based on double standards, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said here on Thursday.

Rejecting the US State Department’s annual global report on terrorism published Wednesday, she reiterated that Iran, itself, has been a victim of terrorism in the past three decades and the baseless claims regarding Iran’s support for terrorism is politically motivated.

Presence and free activities of terrorists in the United States who assassinated over 15,000 Iranian civilians including senior officials as well as use of drones in massacring innocent regional people and Washington’s inaction towards Zionists crimes against defenseless Palestinians pose serious questions about the US claims of campaign against terrorism.

Such a move threatens international peace and security, she reiterated.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO hiring New York beggars to hold demonstrations

A handful of members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who were protesting against the Iraqi officials in front of the United Nations headquarters here paid New York beggars to persuade them to join their tiny gathering.

 Simultaneous with the United Nations Security Council meeting on Iraq which partly focused on the situation of the terrorist group today, the tiny group of the MKO members who used to be less than a handful in previous days paid money to about 30 beggars and elderly people from different nationalities to allure them join their gathering.

They made big sounds calling for returning to Camp Ashraf.

A UN staff member who had worked in Tehran for several years and is quite familiar with the demographic and national structure of the Iranian society was quite bewildered to see people with colored skins among the terrorist MKO gathering.

Talking to IRNA correspondent, an elderly lady who was participating in the MKO gathering said that she was from South Africa and was a professional beggar.

On reasons for her presence in the gathering, she said two persons had asked her to come in front of the UN headquarters and wave the MKO flag in return for 20 dollars and a meal.

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraqi government issues deadline to evacuate Ashraf

Iraqi government issued deadline to evacuate Ashraf camp from elements of terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization after repetitive refusal by MKO.
Iraqi government issues deadline to evacuate Ashraf
According to Habilian Foundation website, based on final agreement between Iraqi government and the United Nations, about 1,200 remaining elements of terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization were scheduled to leave the camp for a temporary transit camp before the holy month of Ramadan, but, they refused to do so.

Having faced defiance of the MKO to peacefully leave the camp, Iraqi government is now trying to use other legal ways to totally evacuate Camp Ashraf.

Habilian Foundation is a Human Rights NGO comprising of a group of families who have lost their loved ones in terrorist operations after victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in early years of 1980s.

Meanwhile. member of Iraq’s State of Law Coalition Adnan al-Siraj told al-Alam on Sunday that Iraqi government has issued warning to the MKO to get prepared to be transferred to a new camp close to Baghdad Airport and from there to outside Iraq.

He said majority of countries have refused to receive the terrorist MKO members due to their black record of crimes and fearing their criminal measures.

Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Iraq, says no county wants to accept the MKO members and it seems the reason is the group’s background.

The MKO members have conducted terrorist measures against Iranian nation, cooperated with former Iraqi dictatorial regime and conducted many crimes against Iraqi nation too.

Meanwhile, an Iranian lawmaker said the US and certain political factions in Iraq seek to keep the MKO members near the country’s eastern borders with Iran.

“The US and certain Iraqi political factions are trying to keep the MKO near Iraq’s eastern borders in order to use them to pursue their own interests,” said Mohammad Saleh Jowkar.

The US plans to use this group against the Iraqi nation and Iran, he added.

“The Baghdad government must firmly stand against the US and insist on the demand of the Iraqi nation for the MKO to leave the country,” the Iranian lawmaker said.

The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of the country’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.

The group – listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community – is notorious for carrying out numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, involvement in the bloody repression of Shia Muslims in southern Iraq in 1991, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north under Saddam.

In December 2011, the United Nations and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, in Diyala province to Camp Liberty – a former US military base near Baghdad International Airport.

Tehran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the terrorist group, but the US has been blocking the expulsion by pressuring the Iraqi government.

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Iraq

Iraq seeks help from UNSC to expel MKO

Iraqi government asked the United Nations Security Council to help it to expel all members of Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq. Iraq seeks help from UNSC to expel MKO

Iraqi Ambassador to the UN Hamid al-Bayati told the UN Security Council session on Tuesday that with the help of UN Cooperation Delegation for Iraq and efforts of the UN Secretary General Special representative Martin Kobler, 1200 MKO members can be transferred from Ashraf Camp to a transit one.

He added that Iraq government asks the UN Security Council to help transfer and settlement of all members of the group in other countries.

The ambassador underlined that upon Iraqi Constitution, the government cannot allow the group to stay inside the Iraq territory.

On the crisis in Iraq’s western neighbor, Syria, al-Bayati said that since the beginning of the crisis, Iraq has always declared its unwillingness to use military to confront with people’s demands for freedom and democracy.

He added that Iraq called Syrian government and opposition groups to avoid using military operations, because such measures will lead to spresd of conflicts and push the country into civil war.

The ambassador said our historical and moral duty requires to put pressure on both sides to stop violation.

He concluded that negotiation will be the best solution to Syrian crisis and Iraq strongly supports the UN and Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.

IRNA – http://www.irna.ir/News/Politic/Iraq-seeks-help-from-UNSC-to-expel–MKO/80071805

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Iran

Iran condemns western support for Israel and MEK Terrorism

Terror scenarios in India and Georgia and claims by Zionist regime about Iran’s role in the terrorist operations is another phase of psychological war against Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said here Monday.Iran condemns western support for Israel and MEK Terrorism

He added that the Zionist regime has bombed its embassies in New Delhi and Tbilisi to tarnish Iran’s friendly ties with the host countries.

Mehmanparast brushed aside Zionist regime’s accusation on Iranian involvement in the bombing and said that Israel perpetrated the terrorist actions to launch a new psychological war against Iran.

He said that such terrorist actions reflected the innate nature of Tel Aviv regime.

‘Tehran condemns terrorism in strongest term as Iran has been a victim of terrorism.’

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said ‘The Zionist regime itself is based on state terrorism and occupation’ in reference to Israeli occupation of the Palestinians’ lands.

Referring to the removal of some well-known terrorist groups including the armed terrorist group of MKO from the blacklists of some western countries, Mehmanparast added that those countries which support the Zionist regime state’s terrorism as well as terrorist groups in Iran and the region should be held responsible for their advocacy on behalf of the terrorist groups.

“The Zionist regime has a high record of criminal actions against humanity and it is the first suspect of any terrorist operation in the world,” he continued.

The foreign ministry spokesperson underlined that eliminating the roots of terrorism in the world needs an international commitment.

Iran’s ambassador to India has categorically denied Iran’s any type of involvement in the attack on the New Delhi embassy, whatsoever.

‘Any terrorist attack is condemned (by Iran) and we strongly reject the untrue and irresponsible comments by an Israeli official,’ Mehdi Nabizadeh was quoted as saying. ‘These accusations are untrue and sheer lies, like the previous times.’

Speaking to some members of his rightwing Likud party, Zionist regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly blamed Iran for the attacks that wounded at least two people, one of them an Israeli woman.

A hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnetic bomb on an Israeli embassy car in the Indian capital on Monday, police said.

Separately, the Georgian interior ministry confirmed that police in the capital Tbilisi had defused an explosive device found in the car of an Israeli embassy employee.

In the Georgian capital Tbilisi, 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) to the west, an embassy employee found a suspicious device in his car and contacted police who were able to defuse the bomb before it went off.

The embassy car exploded in a ball of flames in central New Delhi, injuring a 42-year-old female embassy employee and her Indian driver who was pulled from the wreckage by bystanders, police and witnesses said.

Witnesses described hearing an explosion in the middle of the afternoon around 3:30 pm (01:00 GMT) and then seeing the car on fire.

The blast was of relatively low intensity. The charred remains of the car surrounded by debris stood in the street until the early evening, with the roof still intact but the back door missing.

‘We heard a huge explosion and then me and my workers ran to the site where we found the car on fire,’ petrol pump supervisor Ravi Singh told reporters.

‘I think there was a woman and a driver in the car and I think (other) people pulled her out. And then the fire tenders (trucks) arrived at the site,’ he said.

A Jewish center run by the ltra-Orthodox Lubavitch movement was among the targets in the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai blamed on the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba in which 10 gunmen killed at least 166 people.

The last militant strike in New Delhi was last September when a bomb outside the High Court killed 14 people — the latest in a series of blasts that has shaken public confidence in the Indian government’s counter-terror capabilities.

This new round of anti-Iranian scenarios follows another scenario in which US officials claimed that Iran has tried a plot including an assassination attempt against the Saudi Ambassador to the United States Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to US officials.

Iranian officials had strongly dismissed the US allegations as a fabricated scenario which is totally unfounded and described it as worn-out approaches which are based on the old hostile American-Zionist attempt to sow discord among Muslims.

While Iran is allegedly accused of terrorism, western states are real supporters of world terrorism. The EU removed the MKO terrorist group from its terrorism list in 2009, but it is still considered a terrorist organization by some countries, including the United States and Iran.

The MKO is designated as a terrorist organization under the United States law, and has been described by State Department officials as a repressive cult. The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator, Saddam Hussein. The MKO is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The group has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

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The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraqi tribes support Iraqi PM’s move to expell MKO

The Iraq National Tribal Leaders Conference on Tuesday supported recent decision of Iraqi Iraqi tribal elders support Iraqi PM's move to expell MKOPrime Minister to sue criminals and saboteurs, calling for closure of the garrison of the outlawed and terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO).

Habilian Website on Tuesday quoted participants in the meeting, arranged by the Secretariat of Iraqi Islamic Tribal Council, as supporting recent move of the Iraqi prime minister to prosecute the criminals and those acting against the country’s national security and hand them over to Iraqi judiciary.

The participants also praised the Iraqi government’s efforts to fight terrorism, close the MKO garrison and expell MKO members from Iraqi territory. They called on all Iraqi citizens to maintain unity and contribute to promotion of security and democracy in Iraq.

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