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Massoud Rajavi

Rajavi’s worldview of violence and death

Sometimes it is really a hard job to distinguish terrorists from others of their kind or how they perceive themselves since hardly any terrorist group openly admits to be a terrorist entity. They call themselves guerrillas, fighters, warriors, revolutionaries and many other names. It is generally their ideological views that permit them to use violence to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives. “The mindset of a terrorist group reflects the personality and ideology of its top leader and other circumstantial traits, such as typology (religious, social revolutionary, separatist, anarchist, and so forth), a particular ideology or religion, culture, and nationality, as well as group dynamics.” 1

Based on many significant evidences, there are points referred to by members and the leader of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI) that may lead to arrive at a deep understanding of the ideological-political indoctrinations of the terrorist cult. Furthermore, the analysis of the theoretical viewpoints of Masoud Rajavi may pave the way for depicting a clear profile of the true nature of his cultist-terrorist organization. Of the organization’s radical ideological principles is the theory of “transcending death”, disruption of the life-death equilibrium point where death is glorified and replaces strive for life. It has been manifested in various forms including suicide operations, bombing attacks (like the terror of prayer leaders in Iran), the remonstrant self-immolations (like the events of 17 June), forming human shields (like that of camp Ashraf in this year that led to the death of some members), or organizational hunger strikes that may lead to the death of some individuals (as Maryam Rajavi and MKO has warned the international bodies of a human disaster in camp Ashraf due to hunger strike), and other novel forms.

The statements of Mrs. Batool Soltani, the detached member of MKO leadership cadre, on suicide attacks contain striking points to start determining the roots of the pathological inclinations of Mojahedin. She states The aggressive approach of Mojahedin is not rooted in the will of an individual yet is more dependent on the Rajavi’s worldview on struggle, evolution and such fundamental concepts:

Being a product of Rajavi’s own mind-set than a methodological study, I think Rajavi has deduced that when man can so easily sacrifice his life, so he is capable of achieving distant, inaccessible goals. When it is politically and morally, from a certain ideological point of view, acceptable to use unconventional tactics such as violence and fear to achieve certain goals, then why should one waste time to stick to others that fail to be productive at all. 2

This assertion is seemingly the result of the practical approach of Rajavi and MKO toward the social phenomena yet in reviewing the ideological-political fundamentals of Mojahedin and the worldview of Masoud Rajavi in particular, such indoctrinations can be traced. The founders of the organization developed the theory of “transcending death” in the early years of the organization and Masoud Rajavi has extended with countless terrible results. The main challenge is that Rajavi generalizes ecological and general rules governing other phenomena to that of the society and social relations. His problem lies in the fact that he has a dogmatist viewpoint toward social and historical conditions, believing:

We accept evolution and revolution as a general principle either in the concrete world or in the nature or society. 3

According to his viewpoints, the concept of revolution or qualitative transformations in the world are not materialized but by turning the old into the new and resorting to eradication and violence. The generalization of this rule to social relations is a process pursued by Rajavi. He considers evolution not as a concrete concept but an inevitable tradition resulting from violence, aggression, victimization, torture, and struggle:

The tradition of creation is based on the principle that the “new” wins through conflict, victimization, and torture. The solution of these conflicts depends on victimization since evolution is always followed by mutation and revolution. 4

Rajavi claims that he has extracted this rule from the nature generalizing it to social and historical relations of human beings:

Our mother nature is itself revolutionary rather than reformist. It never moves step by step and never summits to such process. 5

In this way, Rajavi attributes any transition and evolution in the society and history on victimization, eradication and violence and denies the possibility of any rational, democratic and peaceful solution inside social relations due to its conflict with biological rules of the world. He refers to the principle of dissatisfaction and discontent of the existing conditions of the societies as the basis of the existing conflicts and violence in human societies and states:

The dynamisms of evolution are discontent and dissatisfaction. 6

Also, he equals any balance between an individual, group, organization with the surrounding world or any submission to the social and democratic norms to death and annihilation and a barrier for evolution and says:

Submitting to the existing conditions and failing to rise firmly and strongly against conditions as well as balance may lead to demise. 7

According to Rajavi, discontent (that can be taken as uncivil reaction) is the result of disequilibrium among the individual, group, or organization the surrounding area, i.e. society.

In this way, the individual is prepared for any uncivil and anti-social action. Rajavi tries to interpret this rule in simple words generalizing it into social- revolutionary relations:
For example, cold and hunger disrupt man’s sleep. When can you sleep? When you are to some extent full and warm to achieve balance. Then man can sleep. These trance balances –that are condemned by us- and these self-consents are the beginning of collapse and departing from the path of evolution. Since we are no more pursuing evolution and are static and motionless. Since our evolution (regardless of being an individual, group, or organization) has reached its end. 8

Rajavi attributes the mechanism of unity with the rules of evolution to the extent and quality of discontent or in other words the extent to which the individual, group, or organization are prepared to act against the social norms. He acknowledges openly that accepting torture and victimization are the focal points of this preparation and any attempt for replacing the old with the new should undergo such a process; otherwise, it may be futile:

The tradition of creation is that the “new” wins through conflict, victimization, and torture to confirm its qualification in fighting against contradictions. Therefore, it gains competency for survival, not a vain and illusionary qualification but a true and credible one. Otherwise, the torrent of selecting the competent may eradicate it. 9

In this regard, this preparation is manifested in various forms including exerting violence on others and oneself like torture, suicide attacks either for eradicating outside targets or making the society to submit by self-immolations as well as resisting civil regulations by means of all instruments and levers. Rajavi expounds on this preparation, stating:

Therefore we are open to resist harsh conditions when we face them; to find a solution for the problem of torture for example. Torture is a terrible and painful experience but cannot it be overcome? We have already talked about the Davidenkov experiment. What did it reveal? Which system was under the dominance of the other? As we said, the system of secondary signs not instincts governs in humans. The solution of the problem of torture is in the same cadre. A revolutionary under the torture can tolerate and bear it without saying even a single word. I want to note one point that our inner power is to be manifested and externalized. 10

The power referred to by Rajavi is that of preparation for “transcending death”. That is to say, the disrupted equilibrium between the life and death provokes the members to be ready for death under any condition when engaged in abnormally anarchistic deeds to disturb ruling social norms. Here death aims either at annihilating the enemies or making the society to submit to the will of the so-called revolutionary forces. From the very formation of MKO, the prerequisite for joining was accepting of death predilection to confront whoever the organization indicated as the adversaries. In Rajavi’s novel interpretation of “transcending death”, it is defined as absolute dedication, blind obedience and submission to leadership.

References:

1.The sociology and psychology of terrorism: who becomes a terrorist and why?; library of Congress, September 1999.2.Sahar family Foundation site, interviews of Mrs. Batool Soltani on suicide attacks, part 29. 3.Worldview, vol. 8, lectures of Masoud Rajavi in Tehran University, MKO publication, Tehran, 1980. 4.ibid.5.ibid, vol. 3.6.ibid, vol. 8.7.ibid.8.ibid.9.ibid.10.ibid.

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The MEK to launch Armed Struggle

The New Year and the new promise of MKO leader

The assertion by Iranian authorities to have arrested a number of MKO members during the Ashura riots in Tehran is an indication that the organization is so fickle in its pro-democratic claims concerning a democratic change in Iran. Regardless of what the Iranian regime’s authorities refer to as the engagement of foreign hands in the recent anti-government riots, for certain the agents that carried the operations have been those who have long announced war and armed struggle against the regime and have proved to be serious in their strategy and can never make any change to turn to peaceful and democratic ways.

It is a tactic to temporally renounce violence and terrorism to achieve certain organizational goals as MKO could easily dupe the Europeans, as it can also be regarded a bilateral cooperation and a mutually arrived agreement, to be removed from the terrorist list of the EU. The evidence mainly focused on was MKO’s claim that it had stopped its terrorist plots against the Iranian regime since 2001. At least in a number of post-election violent riots in Iran that left many casualties and deaths the organization has claimed to have played a role and the announced arrest of its members asserts their claim. Just following the bloody Ashura clashes, Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris that her followers were already cooperating with more recent protest movements on the streets of Tehran and called on opposition leaders to do the same.

The Iranian people have known the violent nature of MKO from the long past and know that it has a direct, or claim to have, role in aggressive and violent anti-government moves and unrests; it is either engaged in or glorifies terrorism. For sure, the world is watching and hearing. The Rajavis statements only make it much more difficult for them to be accepted by any country, none yet, as the Iraqi Government is decisive to expel them. Some believe the organization has started a new round of suicide attempt as it did in the Operation Eternal Light and attacked Iranian borders to try its chance to overthrow the regime. Of course, at the time it had the abundant military and logistical backing of Saddam when it received the heaviest military strike.

Now, again, Mrs. Rajavi has predicted that the government of Iran would fall within 12 months if foreign powers remain neutral. And of course they never intend to act directly but through all media and propaganda potentialities that foils any sense of impartiality. And the New Year has just started. Does it mean that the advocates, members and sympathizers, most in their mid and old ages, have to wait another year, as they have in the past thirty years? And of course, most of them know nothing will come out since the organization has not changed its policy of devotion to use of violence that is instead pushing the organization further onto the eagle of a precipice. Besides, the Iraqi Government does not seem to have any intention of setting another 12 months deadline to reprieve relocation of Ashraf.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO misuse a religious occasion

Every year on the tenth of Muharram, the first month of the lunar calendar known as Ashura, millions of Muslim Shiits throughout the world commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Hussein in 680 AD. Traditionally, the mourners gather at shrines and mosques and fill the streets and chant religiously related slogans.
 
That is what happens every year in Muslim and non-Muslim countries and Iran, with a majority of shiits, is not an exception and you can see millions of people in black marching in ritual processions and crowded sessions here and there on the day.

Taking advantage of the occasion as usual, MKO hijacked the Shia Muslims Ashura event and a number of the group’s provoked and paid thugs tried to disturb the streets in Tehran by chanting anti-regime slogans that resulted in casualties including four deaths.

The move was the outcome of a plot to initiate a vast propaganda to demonstrate the current ten-day lasting religious ceremonies in Iran as scenes of nationwide uprising against the regime that reached its climax on its last day. In a message following the sporadic disturbances, Maryam Rajavi, leading the terrorist cult of Mojahedin in the absence of her husband, described ‘the outburst of millions of Iranians on Ashura on streets across the country as a clear signal of the inevitable and imminent downfall of the regime’.
 
The organization has made its attempts to wage violence and social disturbance as a protest against the Iranian regime that the post-election protests ensued.

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The cult of Rajavi

The significance of regular inquisition within MKO cult – Part1

Generally programmed to be fervent adherents of a cult’s ideology and its defender against the outsiders, the members of a cult are under constant supervision and regular instructions and also to discover any change that might endanger the integrity of the community. Even a temporal detachment from the group can possibly deprogram them effectively and open their minds and eyes to a real world totally devoid of the lies and propagandas that had been methodically instilled into them through the brainwashing techniques.

A constant, regular monitoring technique within the cult of Mojahedin to have the mind and behavioral changes of the insiders under control is weekly confessions sessions (Jari sessions), better to call inquisition, through which members have to confess before others of their thoughts and intentions and are in fact forced to pledge allegiance to the leadership. Following critical situations and sensitive cases, it is before the leader himself rather than other subordinates that certain members have to prove their allegiance. Although people living in free, democratic world may laugh at such seemingly droll things in the modern world it is strictly practiced in most of cult particularly in the cult of Mojahedin.

Soon after the freedom of 36 MKO on the part of the Iraqi government and their settlement in camp Ashraf, the so-called Jari sessions were held for them via a telephone conference under the responsibility of Masoud Rajavi, a program aired by Mojahedin TV. There are some significant points to be noted in this regard. The behavior of the organization regarding these members was against humanity to force them take part in long sessions and interrogations despite their adverse physical conditions and the fact that some were under interrogation while lying in bed receiving medical treatment.

The fact is that bearing the conditions of these sessions is impossible even for the healthy members let alone those being one step far from death; as Maryam Rajavi said they would have died in 12 hours if they had not been released. Her claim may imply that the basic and fundamental pillars of the ideological-political survival of the organization are their organizational bastion, camp Ashraf, as well as inquisition sessions in particular to the point that they are not to be stopped under any conditions. Even those under treatment have to explain where they were, what they did, and how sincere they had been to operating Jari sessions by firm proof and evidence in the first hours of their arrival to the organization.

According to the statements made by Mrs. Soltani on suicide attacks, even two-manned teams entering Iran for accomplishing terrorist activities had to hold regular Jari sessions. In confirming her statements, it has to be pointed out that these 36 members insisted that they would hold Jari sessions among themseles under any conditions all through the course of their detention.

In no better way could the organization warn the adversaries. The airing of these inquisition sessions by Mojahedin’s TV may be considered a threat and warning particularly against the Iraqi government and officials. The organization is vigilant to observe the reaction of Iraqi officials to these programs to organize its future actions and policies. Iraqi officials are to pursue these sessions watchfully and analyze them carefully to find out the true cultic identity of Mojahedin.

Beside the paradoxical statements of these 36 individuals regarding the conditions of their imprisonment and the behavior of Iraqi government, what is apparent is the full influence of organization on these individuals. The only solution for queering this influence is separation of high rankings from the rank and files without which neither can the freedom of captive members be materialized nor can Mojahedin be expelled from Iraqi soil.

The shared point of the statements of all these 36 persons is pleasing the person in charge of Jari sessions, Masoud Rajavi. These statements focus on some points like confessing to their full dependence upon Masoud to whom they feel indebted under any conditions. The other point is their insistence on proving their loyalty to the leader and organization that guarantees their survival.

Externalizing these relations in one of the most critical periods of the organization when it is trying to attract the attention of the West has paradoxical dimensions. Although those familiar with the nature of the organization have fathomed its cultic and terrorist threat, there are still those who need to observe these aired footages and think of a way for minimizing or eliminating the threat of the organization as an unknown cult. The internal structure of the organization may imply its policy in dealing with the outside world too. It has out-and-out focus on submission and obedience toward one person as the leader at any price. The fact that all these 36 members and the audience state clearly that they are ready to die, kill, and bear hunger and thirst since their leader carries the main burden of the adverse conditions and pains may have many lessons for the outside world.

The publication of Rajavi’s own presence in the management of these sessions is of very significance and may raise some speculations. It may mean the termination of his organizational-cultic hide-out to stop the disintegration of the organization, a warning for the outsiders, or his presence in camp Ashraf and justifying the attempts of MKO members in defending Camp Ashraf and resisting to leave it. If it is so, a great part of the incidents happening inside and outside camp Ashraf may be attributed to his presence in camp Ashraf. According to RAND report, the Americans have evaded to inspect many Mojahedin facilities and it is very likely that Masoud Rajavi is settled somewhere inside Camp Ashraf.

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The cult of Rajavi

Predictable cultic-terrorist reaction of MKO

The most demonstrative and horrifying about a dangerous terrorist cult is the unexpected. As it never feels any responsibility, respects no regulation and adheres to no ethics concerning its insiders and outsiders it can be an instant blast of catastrophe. The July arrest of 36 MKO members by the Iraqi police that faced it with violent and threatening reactions of the organization has been the latest psychological-media project of Mojahedin in latest few months. The consequent general showy hunger strike of sympathizers and members as well as some advocators in the European cities and camp Ashraf are an indication of uncivil and aggressive actions of MKO to engage in to counteract the constraints imposed on the organization.

The world never forgets the horrible cultic self-immolations in June 003 following the arrest of Maryam Azdanlu by the French police . The main question put to the organization is that how long is the organization to solve its legal and political problems by is means of cultic and uncivil solutions and procedures.

Referring to the Iraqi President’s latest remarks concerning the relocation of the organization to a camp near Baghdad, the organization made no hesitation to state that “Maliki’s repeated fallacious claims against the residents of Asharaf are merely a justification for further criminal actions against them”. Was really the release of those arrested culprits who had violated the rules of their host country a criminal act? Or requiring them peacefully and under the auspices of the world’s protective organizations and media presence a justification for further criminal actions against the group?

Based on any country’s laws and regulations, it has the right to counteract any threats to ensure the security of its nationals especially when a country like Iraq is facing a rife internal chaos. The same incidents and violations may happen in any country and the rules of that particular country are the criteria for convicting wrongdoers. However, Mojahedin insist to turn the same case into a major crisis since they are not hew to any civil law and regulation but their own cultic and reactionary doctrine. According to the history of the organization, Mojahedin have never submitted to any law in such occasions and rather they have broken national and international rules using uncivil and aggressive procedures. Furthermore, it always attempts to accuses its opponents and put the blame on them.

In this regard they resort to some levers and instruments as was seen in the process of arrest and freedom of 36 MKO members. In the events of June 2003 and arrest of Maryam Azdanlu, the victims of self-immolations were the levers of organization. Likewise, in recent events the hunger strikers in camp Ashraf and European countries have formed the main lever of the organization in facing the challenges. It seems that it is not significant how many members are to be victimized this time since it is willed by the organization leadership, this process may lead to the death of some members. What is of importance is that Iraqi officials are recommended not to submit to illegal demands of Mojahedin as did Americans and other human rights organizations and are to find a political solution inside Iraqi soil that is undoubtedly time-consuming.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO angry backlash against transfer

Simultaneous with Iraqi Prime Minister’s remarks concerning “Transfer of Camp Ashraf residents to Nuqrat al-Salman”, MKO has started a vast propaganda blitz to show its strong opposition to the decision and blatantly tries tolerate the decision to a pressure from the Iranian regime on the Iraqi Government as it is the group’s typical.

As evidence, the group refers to an excerpt of the Prime Minister’s remarks first published on his website saying: “The decision is to expel them (PMOI members) from Iraq. We would not let these people to remain in Iraq and when there is no alternative and no opportunity, we will implement the necessary measures and moving them to Nuqrat al-Salman is a step towards expelling them (from Iraq). Their presence at Ashraf is a major risk because of the historical ties with some groups and political powers in that area, especially the remains of the former regime and al-Qaeda… therefore the decision on their displacement is a stage and there is no need for a decision by Muthanna’s provincial council because the province is a part of Iraq and all the provinces must assume a responsibility towards any challenges.”

But there are some facts in MKO’s published statement that demonstrate an open threatening tone and the possibility of a humanitarian catastrophe in Ashraf. To show how capable it is to create a bloody tragedy, the statement alludes to what it calls terrorist and criminal allegations, for which there are proven evidences, against them: “Mr. Maliki’s repeated fallacious claims against the residents of Asharaf, are merely a justification for further criminal actions against them. The ridiculous false allegation that the PMOI is associating with Al-Qaeda is yet another version of absurd claims originating from mullahs’ intelligence apparatus. Claims such as that Neda Aqa-Sultan, the martyr of the uprising of Iranian people, was killed by the PMOI and elements of the United States and Britain and also claims that the orchestrator of the killing of pilgrims in Mecca in 1987 and the bombing of Imam Reza shrine in 1994 and also the killing of Christian leaders in Iran was the PMOI.”

Decisive to expel the group from the country, the Iraqi Government has to be cautious about angry backlashes of the group that may impose heavy costs on the government and the nation.

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Mojahedin Khalq, terrorists or political opponents

There are points to contemplate concerning the European Parliament Resolution of 24 April 2009 issued on behalf of Camp Ashraf residents onto which Rajavi holds to impose demands on the Iraqi Government. The contents explicitly helps to demonstrate the open irresponsibility of the EP towards its global responsibility to combat against terrorism by backing a globally proscribed terrorist group that occupied a place on the EU’s own terrorist list for a few years. Removing MKO from its terrorist list, and so far failed to present justifiable evidences to convince France and England, the EP now urges the Iraqi Government to treat the group in the way the union charges.

Of course, the Iraqi Government feels under no obligation to undertake full implementation of the resolution but it has reiterated that it would treat the residents in accordance with humanitarian obligations. And while it holds the opinion that a more serious and complete engagement of the European states, in collaboration with the globally adopted conventions, would lead to finding feasible solution to the issue of MKO, the only presented alternative is calls and urges to compromise between the government and a threatening terrorist group.

The EP’s Resolution contains points that well demonstrate its tendentious attitude on behalf of terrorist MKO and which completely disregards the group’s terrorist background in an attempt to please the demands of the group and its advocates for certain political reasons. Noteworthy, it criticizes the statements made by the government concerning MKO members’ expulsion, extradition and their forcible displacement inside Iraq. But, there are more to consider. Take, for example, the article two of the resolution:

2. Respecting the individual wishes of anyone living in Camp Ashraf as regards his or her future, considers that those living in Camp Ashraf and other Iranian nationals who currently reside in Iraq having left Iran for political reasons could be at risk of serious human rights violations if they were to be returned involuntarily to Iran, and insists that no person should be returned, either directly or via a third country, to a situation where he or she would be at risk of torture or other serious human rights abuses;

There can be seen some distorted points in this item of the resolution. It asserts that those living in Camp Ashraf have left Iran for “political reasons”. It is really amazing to see the EP so politically naïve about MKO’s background. Everybody knows that it is nearly thirty years since the group announced and waged armed struggle against the Iranian regime. The group did not left Iran for political reasons; it left only when its many perpetrated terrorist operations proved unproductive and Rajavi ordered the forces to exit to reorganize them abroad. Settled in France, it instituted its military headquarters there, according to the reports of French Government, to mastermind armed operations against Iran. Then, considering MKO a political opposition is out of question unless the EP insists to legitimize a terrorist group by referring to it as so.

Even when they left, or escaped from, Iran, it was not for political reasons but because they were alleged terrorists indicted by jurisdictions in Iran for many terrorist crimes. Despite the granted general amnesty from criminal prosecution against the members of the group, the Iranian regime insists prosecution of the perpetrators of criminal and terrorist acts from among the members. If the EP means the latter group, yes, they are right. Even such assertion that calls them political figures contradicts the earlier judgment of the EU that removed the organization from its terrorist list since the judgment was based on the finding that MKO had ceased its terrorist activities since 2001. Then, does not it mean that the EU would recognize the members of the organization as terrorists rather than political campaigners? MKO is the only opponent, armed group, once heavily supported by Saddam, residing in Iraq; all other opposition groups are active either inside Iran or European countries.

Granting that the Ashraf residents are a number of political activists seeking refuge in Iraq for some political reasons under some globally adopted conventions, then, why none of the country members of the EU accepts them on its soil as political refugees and even some of them are expelled or awaiting trial on terrorist charges? Furthermore, did not the EU know about the terrorist or political nature of the organization when it registered it on its terrorist list? The Iraqi Government has openly announced that unless volunteered, it will not repatriate the members, but it has made it clear that it will never withdraw from its decision to expel the group. It is really unfair to deprive a country of its rights by imposing a group of terrorist on it merely through some conventions that totally exclude the perpetrators of terrorist crimes.

The points mentioned does not necessarily mean partiality for Iran or Iraq. The significance lays in the fact that the EP has knowingly or unknowingly violated the boundary demarcating between political opposition and terrorism. At the present, many Iranian opposition are granted political asylum and favor the protection of global conventions and are freely living in many European and non-European countries with no problem. Some of them even take the opportunity of coming and leaving Iran freely. To know the truth, the EP is repeating the very same words of Rajavi who has been using them for many years to conduct his terrorist plans under the disguise of political opposition and refugees. Why the EP insists to recognize a terrorist entity that can never be condoned is a question it is obliged to answer.

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MEK Camp Ashraf

Quitting Iraq, a matter of reasoning or retreat for MKO

What Rajavi reiterated after the fall of Saddam as Mojahedin’s main patron in the region is the resistance of Camp Ashraf and he has repetitively stated that the resistance of Ashraf means a global resistance. He has, however, realized that, according to the existing agreements, he has to sooner or later evacuate Ashraf to move to another country. The retreat to submit to the legal demands, although there were threats of some human tragedy to some extent, indicates that Rajavi has at last come to be logical and reasonable although hard to believe.
 Quitting Iraq, a matter of reasoning or retreat for MKO
Regardless of all merits, there are inevitable consequences but one thing is for certain that one can be optimistic about the political, ideological and strategic outcomes of departure from Ashraf. Rajavi’s consent denotes that nothing will change in the world whether Ashraf residents resist or leave and that, he has to submit to Iraqi Government’s determination to carry out its decision; a complete negation of his chanted slogans calling Ashraf the ideological bulwark of the organization. Our concern here is not the negative consequences but how a promising prospect can it be for Rajavi if he yields to the opportunity.

Evacuation of Ashraf is tantamount to an end to the adopted strategy of the liberation war to overthrow the regime. To put it in a nutshell, Rajavi insisted to preserve Camp Ashraf as he believed it was the main concentration of the forces ready for the ripe time to overthrow the regime. He put his theory into practice through a number of military operations, namely Chelcheragh (Blazing Light), Aftab (the Sun) and Forugh Javidan (the Eternal Light). Although none of them brought the least success for him, this was the main reason that made him move and settle in Iraq close enough to the borders for the purpose. Consequently, relinquishing the possession of Ashraf implies that the organization has reached the end of a 24 year-long propagation attempt of legitimizing the strategy of the liberation army. And the paid price has been the life of at least half of the members for no gain. How will Rajavi accept his errs and sit to a self-criticism is a matter of future but of course nobody expects him to feel under any obligation to reveal truths and facts.

Thus, the armed strategy of liberation hitting its end, since the organization must abandon its concentration camp, what will Rajavi’s alternative will be? Relocation of Ashraf to any other land necessarily means that an alternative is crucial to the survival of the organization. Can it be a thorough negation and renouncement of the ideologically inwoven armed strategy to replace it with a purely political one identical to other active opposition in abroad? An irrevocable decision as it may seem, it is far more logical for Rajavi to concede rather than to engage himself in any violent backlash to counteract the crises before him.

He must adapt himself to the situation willingly or unwillingly though not entirely unexpected. No doubt, he cannot establish a similar military camp anywhere and no land will admit his companions unless Rajavi has absolutely renounced armed strategy and violent struggle and completely disarmed. He has to make it clear about his alternative method of struggle now that he has decided to abolish the ideologically militarist centre.
 
It is the prerequisite of settlement in the US or any other European or non-European country since no land permits the seeds of violence and discord sown on its soil unless it is itself an advocate of violence and a danger to the global peace. Even if an adopted tactic, the consequent impact on the organization will not be something of trifle; the minimum of this will be an avalanche-like separation and desert of the insiders or possible inter-organizational schisms.

The last point, Rajavi’s decision should not receive remonstrant and scornful responses since any wise and logical decision deserves encouragement be it from Rajavi’s part or else. The least one can expect is a remarkable decrease in possible, consequent costs of such relocation.

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MKO and continuation of a wrong approach

Reported by Times, a group of ailing hunger strikers from Barnet ended their 72-day fast today after achieving what they called a "huge victory for humanity". A dozen fasters from across Barnet have refused food for more than ten weeks in an attempt to convince international forces to help 36 fellow Iranians in the custody of the Iraqi Government. The detainees were freed and returned to Camp Ashraf from a military base in Baghdad, where they were being held. Many of the arrested were also on a hunger strike and are said to be seriously ill and have been taken to Ashraf medical center for treatment.

Noteworthy in this entire story is application of pressure prompted by the hunger strikers to enforce an organizational will. No doubt, a government like Iraq has to take precautionary measures to guarantee its people’s security at a time when the country is facing violent challenges from a variety of dissident factions and remnants of the ousted dictator and his collaborators. Of course none of these dissidents are willing to abide by the new constitution and rules that restricts their activity in the country, including the terrorists hosted and patronized by Saddam.

Although removed from the EU list of terrorist organizations, MKO is still a recognized terrorist group with the full practice of a cult. The marriage and merger of terrorism and cultism has transformed MKO to a dangerous organization that never abides by any constitution and organizational law to achieve its illegal demands. Look, for example, at its appalling, anti-human and cultic immolations of June 17, 2003 to protest the arrest of its leader, Maryam Rajavi. It did not take long to force French Government to release her only to extinguish human torches and to stop cultic practices that were leading the country into a real social crisis. Then, Mojahedin sang and danced to celebrate the victory.

It is the victory that is important for MKO regardless of the lives it may cost. The story is repeated again. The organization claims to have achieved another victory and nothing but the words stated by the sympathizers and members can describe the truth under the words: "Everyone here is crying, dancing, singing. Celebrations will continue late into the night. It is a truly wonderful moment. "We know we will have health problems later, but that is nothing compared to what we have achieved." The jubilant is natural because the cult believes it has succeeded to win over the law and order through pressure and cultic practices. But the sad part is that it is claimed to be a victory for right demands and democracy. What will really happen if democracy, unless they have a different definition for democracy, is to be achieved through pressure, violence and anti-human practices?

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