IRNA

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO not welcome in Switzerland despite US pressure

Pointing to MKO’s expulsion from Iraq before December 31, 2011 the French-language Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes wrote, "Despite US pressures, Federal Office for Migration in Switzerlandrejected the resettlement of 11 members of the MKO organization."

"These individuals pose a great threat to our national security," Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland explained that why they did not accept MKO members, IRNA quoted the newspaper as reporting.

"According to experts, members of this organization are really acting like groups of mafia, and they have committed numerous terrorist attacks in the past," the newspaper added.

Secretary-General of Swiss relief organizations also considered MKO as an aggressive and violent organization.

The newspaper asked the Swiss Middle East analyst Erich Gysling that whether the members of this organization use Switzerland as a base for terrorism? He said, "Yes, and the Swiss Federal Government is considering all these threats."

December 22, 2011 0 comment

Iran

Iran Judiciary to open file against USG for using MKO and other Terrorists

Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani on Wednesday ordered to open a file on crimes perpetrated by the US Administration against Iranian and Muslim nations.

Speaking in a session with senior officials of Judiciary, Ayatollah Larijani commissioned Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the prosecutor general and Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of the Judiciary’s Human Rights Commssion to pursue the case.

“The American administration crimes against Occupy Wall Street movement activists, its support for crimes committed by US puppet regimes in the Muslim countries including Egypt and in the meantime advocating the crimes against Iranian nation committed by terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization as well as Washington’s crimes against Iranian revolutionaries before 1979 Islamic Revolution should be pursued and indicted,” Ayatollah Larijani said.

Iran has been the victim of terrorism and US has always supported terrorist operations by MKO and other terrorist groups against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Judiciary chief added.

“US scenario about Iran’s plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador to Washington is an illogical story that has been rejected and derided even by most American analysts. Muslim nations have trust in Iran Islamic ideals and assassination has no place in Islamic teachings; accusing other nations of terrorism and human right violations will not hide US criminal actions in Iraq and Afghanistan which account for crimes against humanity, causing divide the Shia and Sunni Muslims, undermining their united front against arrogant powers and their regional puppet regimes,” Larijani said.

US officials claimed last Tuesday 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 have 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.

Referring to increasing US pressure against Islamic Republic of Iran, he noted that Iranian politicians and officials from different factions have a united front against any foreign pressure.

“Recent report by UN Special rapporteur is an illegal and incredible report which is full of lies and reflects hostile views of Iranian opposition in exile and nothing more,” the Judiciary chief stated.

He underscored that the politicized goal of ‘UN Human Rights’ Council for designation of a rapporteur on Iran to accuse Islamic Republic of human rights violation was quite clear from the beginning and this was the reason Tehran refused visa to Ahmed Shaheed.

He made it clear that Iranian judiciary system works based on Islamic values and not western values.

October 20, 2011 0 comment

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO Camp inhabitants seek refugee status from Europe

Chief of Iraqi foreign policy commission Sheikh Humam Hammudi in a meeting on Monday with the Secretariat of Habilian institute said inhabitants of Ashraf camp sought refugee status from Europe and Australia.

He told Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad (Head of Habilian Association in Iran) that inhabitants of the camp have embarked on high profile interaction with European and Australian ambassadors to Baghdad seeking refugee status from them.

Hammudi reiterated that Iraqi state and nation unanimously want to expel MKO members from Iraq or at least to remove them from Iran-Iraq border line.

He said they also are getting in touch with some prominent clan leaders of Iraq to stay more in Iraq.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has offered the Ashraf camp inhabitants to come home without any conditions.

Habilian institute is a Tehran-based Non-Government Organization offering safe living conditions for members of Mujahedeen Khalq Organization who opted to come home.

Iran granted amnesty for MKO members except for those who committed terror operations and have criminal charges in the court of justice.
IRNA, October 17 2011
http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30616702&SRCH=1

October 18, 2011 0 comment

MEK Camp Ashraf

Dissolving camp Ashraf will save 3400 terror victims

Any action to dissolve Camp Ashraf will save 3,400 terror victims, Advocacy Group for Victims of Terrorism in the Middle East said on Sunday.

Advocacy Group: Dissolving camp Ashraf will save 3400 terror victims

In a letter to the EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, the advocacy group said that ‘the international community has a duty to help members of terrorist organizations around the world including members of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) to be liberated and find their human dignity.’

‘The appointment of Ambassador De Ruyt and continued violation of human rights in Camp Ashraf is the reason for sending the letter,’ it said.

The letter underlined that although since 2003 and subsequent MKO disarmament, MKO tries to show its peaceful face defying the fact that it has assassinated 12,000 Iranian citizens, 7 US citizens and thousands of Iraqi citizens over past three decades.

Referring to the continuation of military structure of Camp Ashraf and military discipline there, in addition to trainings given to MKO members for conducting terrorist operations similar to those carried out by MKO members in June 2003 self-immolation acts in various European countries, this NGO letter to Ashton emphasized that MKO leaders are still willing to provoke terrorist operations.

‘Brain washing, forced separation of female and males including forcing divorce upon married couples, forcing members to cut their relations with family and relatives and the whole society and in the meantime, imposing the organization rough rules to all members are just part of the inhumane actions done in Camp Ashraf against international rules and regulations,’ the letter expressed.

It also underlined that reports published by independent institutions such as Nuclear watchdog in 2005, RAND report in 2009, the report released by German Federal Government security apparatus in 2007 and recent US Secretary of State and the separated MKO members reports and interviews proves anti-humane and racial structure of the Camp Ashraf.

MKO today is misusing human rights and the related international organizations to prevent the dissolution of this terrorist organization by the complete transfer of Camp Ashraf somewhere out of Iraq, possibly a European country, the Advocacy Group of Victims of Terrorism in the Middle East stated in its open letter.

‘The complete move of the Camp Ashraf contradicts the civil liberties of Camp residents; If members of MKO have the right to decide about their future life, they will choose freedom and become separated from this terrorist organization.’

Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs recently appointed De Ruyt to advise the European Union’s response to Camp Ashraf.

Ambassador De Ruyt has served as Belgium’s Permanent Representative to the European Union.

In April, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Baghdad is determined to shut down Camp Ashraf, where members of the terrorist Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO) live and disband the group.

Members of the MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where they enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border in Diyala.

The group has carried out numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The terror organization is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the north.

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

October 17, 2011 0 comment

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraqi ambassador: Iraq to expel terrorist Mojahedin Khalq soon

Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh said on Wednesday that terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization refugees stationed in Iraq camp will be expelled by the end of this year.

In a meeting with Managing Director of the Islamic Republic News Agency Ali Akbar Javanfekr at Iran Press and Cultural Instititue, the ambassador said that the Iraqi government has acknowledged its decision to expel the refugees to the international organizations responsible for settlement of the refugees.

The ambassador said that the Iraqi government has also raised the issue with the European Union.

Al-Sheikh said that the terrorist MKO refugees were given a camp under the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when they were serving under the then Iraqi army command to crack down Iraqi opposition in southern Iraq. ‘So, the new Iraqi government set a deadline for them to leave Iraq.

“The Iraqi leaders have consulted with EU over the MKO refugees and maintained that Iraq can not tolerate presence of the terrorists in the Iraqi territory,” the ambassador said.

“We also discussed the subject with Iran and the Red Crescent Society to help get rid of the terrorists who have been involved in violent crackdown of the opposition in 1990s under Saddam Hussein. So, the Iraqi government can not control its citizens’ revenge for collaboration with the former dictator in killing the Iraqi people,” he said.

The Iraqi ambassador added that Iraqi government and nation will not allow any terrorist group such as MKO or terrorist PEJAK group to use Iraqi soil to attack the neighboring and friendly country as Islamic Republic of Iran.

July 14, 2011 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Austrian FM: Austria opposes all sorts of terrorism

Austrian Foreign Minister and Deputy Chancellor Michael Spindelegger told a joint press conference on Tuesday with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi in Vienna that his country opposes all sorts of terrorism.

Answering a question about the European bid to drop terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the list of terrorist groups, Spindelegger said that Austria is opposing all terrorist activities.

He described his closed- door meeting with Iranian foreign minister as fruitful and said: ‘We discussed openly and transparently different issues such as Iran’s nuclear program, human rights, the Middle East developments and other concerns about mutual relations.

Spindelegger gave a proposal to proceed with nuclear talks on 3+3 formula and said that all parties must come to the negotiating table.

Salehi started his European tour from Slovenia Monday and arrived in Vienna on Tuesday at the invitation of Austrian foreign minister.

In the meantime, Salehi conferred with Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano Tuesday.

A number of Iranian officials are accompanying Salehi.

July 13, 2011 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

On the anniversary of terrorist attack against the Iranian civilian airliner

The statement of the families of terror victims on the anniversary of terrorist attack against the Iranian civilian airliner by the American cruiser Vincennes

Justice supporters Association (families of terror martyrs of Iran) condemning the terrorist attack against the Iranian civilian jet airliner by the American cruiser Vincennes, considers this criminal act a sign of western countries’, especially US leaders’ negligence of the lives of innocent people.

In this statement we read: on 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian jet airliner, shot down by U.S. missiles over the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser Vincennes, killed all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children, 53 women and 46 nationals of the United Arab Emirates, India, Pakistan, Yugoslavia and Italy.

The statement adds: the US government, as the agent of this inhuman act, should claim the responsibility of various terrorist acts against civilians throughout the world. US headmen must know that there are many questions regarding with the sincere support of this country from terrorist groups.

In this statement, the enormous terrorist acts of Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization and murder of 12000 Iranians and also the crimes of Jundullah against Iranian people were reminded. According to the Jundullah ringleader’s confessions and the MKO-related documents, US has supported these terrorist groups; now the question is that what is the relation between fighting against terrorism and at the same time, taking the side of terrorist groups? How can the US leaders respond the families who have lost their dearest ones by these terrorist groups?
Commemorating all the martyrs of terrorism and especially the victims of Iran Air Flight 655 who were victimized by the brutality of the US leaders, we condemn any double political approach by western countries towards terrorism phenomenon and believe that it is an important element in the expansion of terrorism.

At the end, we read: we, the families of more than 17000 victims of terrorism in Iran believe that global fight against terrorism demands an international determination, under whose light we can attain the slogan of “A World without Terrorism”. Western countries should abandon their support from terrorist groups and provide the required ground for trying the leaders of terrorist groups and cults.

July 4, 2011 0 comment

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

EU lawmakers urge MKO trial for crimes against humanity in Iraq

Members of the European Parliament called for legal action against dozens of MKO terrorists for committing crimes against humanity in Iraq.

In a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the legislators of five factions in the European Parliament stressed the need for a ‘fair trial for the approximately 50 persons in the camp (Ashraf) wanted by the Iraqi authorities for alleged crimes against humanity.’
The MEPs warned European countries against supporting ‘the criminal activities’ of the MKO terrorist group.

They reiterated that the MKO was a ‘repressive sect’ whose leaders were involved in massive breaches of human rights.

‘The human rights violations the leaders are committing against the group’s members
are amply documented, stating with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and many witness reports of ex-members who were able to flee (including testimonies in the European
Parliaments),’ the lawmakers said.

The European parliamentary deputies cautioned also fellow MEPs against falling prey to MKO propaganda.

‘We urge all members (MEPs) to seriously consider the history, actions and behaviour
of the PMOI (MKO) before signing any declarations or letters of support in favour of this group in future.’

The legislators pointed to MKO’s track record over the past 30 years which included
backing the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in its eight-year war with
Iran and collaborating with the ex-Iraqi strongman to crush a Kurdish and Shiite
rebellion in the 1990s.

The MKO has also been involved in wide-scale terrorist activities in Iran, killing thousands of civilians over the past three decades.

May 18, 2011 0 comment

UK government denies any contact with MKO terrorists

The British Foreign Office Thursday denied any links with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist organisation despite removing the anti-Iran group from its proscribed list two years ago.

“The British Government has no form of contact with this organization, as a point of principle,” Foreign Office spokesman Barry Marston said.

“The MKO was responsible for a number of horrible acts of terrorism against ordinary Iranians and have never unambiguously renounced violence,” Marston told IRNA.

“Neither do we believe this group enjoys any kind of popular support inside Iran,” he said after British Ambassador Simon Gass was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Tehran following accusations of UK involvement in terrorist plots.

The MKO were among the first terrorist groups to be outlawed in the UK in 2001, but also became the first to be deproscribed two years ago, leading to suggestions that the move was politically motivated coming at a time of deterioration in relations.

The UK government has always accepted that the anti-Iran group have never categorically given up terrorism but insisted that it was forced to remove it from their banned list after losing a court ruling that was supported by many MPs in 2008.

Marston said Britain “condemned acts of terrorism in Iran by criminal groups like Jondallah & the MKO, particularly horrific attacks against Mosques, security forces & innocent people.”

“Accusations that Britain has had any involvement in supporting such groups is ridiculous and untrue,” he said, adding that the UK government takes “terrorism extremely seriously, so in principle we’d be ready to cooperate with the Iranian authorities relating to credible evidence of genuine acts of terrorism.”

June 19, 2010 0 comment

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi envoy calls for expulsion of MKO members from Iraq

Iraqi Ambassador to Iran on Monday called for expulsion of members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) group from this country.

Abu Haidar al-Sheikh made the remark during his visit to the Islamic Republic News Agency Headquarters in Tehran.

The visit of the Iraqi ambassador coincided with the National Day of Iraq.

Al-Sheikh underlined the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities, adding the program is intended for peaceful purposes such as generation of electricity.

The Iraqi envoy expressed hope that mutual ties would further broaden in all arenas.

He also voiced his respective government’s support for talks with the 5+1 (US, Russia, China, France, the UK + Germany) held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, stating that such negotiations would produce fruitful results for the region and world.

Referring to establishment of an axis by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey as proposed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he noted that Iraqi government fully supports bilateral and multilateral cooperation in this respect.

The Iraqi envoy further expressed hope that Iran and US could negotiate without the presence of third party in near future.

He rejected Iran’s alleged interference in Iraq’s internal affairs.
Al-Sheikh said that Iran never supported terrorist groups in Iraq.

He noted that Iran’s exports to Iraq is increasing year by year, anticipating that the value of Iran’s exports to that country would reach dlrs 4 billion by the end of current Iranian year (started March 21).

The Iraqi envoy put the value of Iran’s exports to Iraq at dlrs 2.3 billion in 2007.

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