"The Al Khalifa regime is trying to support the terrorist MKO to suppress public protests in Bahrain and use the group in line with its objectives,” Mohammad-Saleh Jokar, a member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Saturday.
The Bahraini uprising against the Al Khalifa rule in the Persian Gulf island nation began in February 2011. The regime promptly launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring states.
Jokar, however, said that neither the MKO, nor any other force can confront Bahraini people’s rightful protests.
An informed source at the UN office in Baghdad, Iraq, said earlier that Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al Khalifa had handed a message from King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa to US Ambassador to Manama Thomas Krajeski, announcing Bahrain’s willingness to host the group.
The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it received the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up its headquarters, Camp Ashraf, near the Iranian border.
Following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the members of the group, in several stages, were relocated to Camp Liberty near the Baghdad airport, which was a former US military site.
The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
West holds double standards on terrorism: Iranian envoy
Iran’s ambassador to Madrid says Spain’s move to invite a leader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the European country is another example of the West’s double standards in fighting terrorism.
Morteza Saffari made the remarks in an interview with Spain’s Efe news agency on Tuesday, stressing that such acts by western countries will seriously harm the fight against terrorism.
The Iranian diplomat noted that fighting terrorism is a global issue and all countries should be strongly committed to performing their duties in this regard.
A number of Spanish parliamentarians and senators invited the MKO leader, Maryam Rajavi, to their country in December 2012.
Saffari went on to say that the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) is the political wing of the MKO and that the people of Iran consider the MKO the most despicable terrorist cell.
He stated that the MKO receives financial support from Western espionage networks and pays low-level American and European politicians who support it and take part in its events.
The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it received the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, almost 12000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.
The group also sided with Saddam during Iraq’s eight-year imposed war against the Islamic Republic.
On December 20, 2012, the Canadian government removed the MKO from its official list of terrorist organizations.
The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations on September 28. The European Union had taken the MKO off its black list in 2009.
Analysts have found that the UK uses various controversial strategies to support MKO terrorists.
The Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist group, whose members are stray across Europe and the U.S., receives all-out support from the UK government through 
various controversial strategies, according to detached members.
In December 2012, it was revealed that an unnamed British company has bought the movable property of Ashraf Camp, located in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala near the Iranian border, worth $25 million. It also offered the Iraqi government $500 million for the camp, media reports said.
The unnamed company then declared that 60 percent of the proceeds of the transaction will be given to MKO terrorists.
The terrorist group was uprooted from Iraqi soil as stipulated in the country’s law.
The MKO, which is responsible for the deaths of 17,000 Iranians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, fled to neighboring Iraq in the 1980s. The group received military training from former Iraqi dictator Saddam and set up its camp near the Iranian border in order to be able to carry out terror acts inside Iran.
The group also cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.
Later in December 2012, a former MKO member, Massoud Khodabandeh was interviewed on Press TV’s political program The Monarchy where he pointed out that the anti-Iranian terrorist group would not survive without support from Britain and other Western states.
“I don’t see any terrorist organization capable of continuing, unless somebody wants it. Somebody has got to want this terrorist organization [MKO], somebody has got to finance it and somebody has got to arm it,” Khodabandeh said.
“One of the reasons that I am saying they have support is; not facing them directly to stop their violent activities in the West and to stop their money laundering in the West. When I say money laundering, I have been in it, I have seen it. This is not an unknown concept for the British government”, he added.
In a documentary called Cult of the Chameleon, aired on Al Jazeera back in 2007, Khodabandeh’s wife Anne Singleton, also a former MKO member from Leeds, UK, explained how she was manipulated and taken into the cult by active MKO terrorist group members, while she attended Leeds University in the 1970s.
“When I became a full-time cult [MKO] member, I gave up everything that I had. I gave up my home and all the possessions in it,” Singleton said on the documentary.
Singleton eventually ended up in the Ashraf garrison for further manipulation and military training. Later on, she managed to escape the prison-like garrison, but with difficulty.
Apart from Iraq and Iran, the European Union (EU), Canada and even the United States had listed the MKO as an active terrorist organization. So how was the cult allowed to freely manipulate, promote and recruit members for itself in a prominent British University?
Moreover, a website called UK Committee in Support of Ashraf (UKCSA) is a London-based organization which openly supports the MKO. The organization has published articles and interviews and proposed the idea of removing the MKO from the US State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
The UKCSA presents the Ashraf camp with pictures of greenery, flowers and natures, making it look like an attractive location for visiting.
The UK-based website also makes out that it is a legal campaign helping people in the Ashraf garrison who are allegedly sick and that donations are needed to support ill patients in the camp.
More UK support for the MKO came as in April 2012; the American Free Press website reported that Britain takes part in hidden operations in the Middle East to train MKO terrorists to target Iranian scientists and officials.
“MEK fighters have also been trained at secret Middle East sites by special forces teams from Britain, the U.S. and Israel and have been supplied at U.S. taxpayer expense with state-of-the-art weaponry and surveillance gear”, the report said.
The MKO is behind a number of assassinations and bombings inside Iran. A number of EU parliamentarians previously condemned a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list.
An Iraqi official says several mass graves have been unearthed in Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, in Iraq’s Diyala Province, which was the headquarters of the terrorist 
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).
Sadeq al-Husseini, the deputy chairman of Diyala’s provincial council said that the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights was in charge of determining the identities of the bodies and whether they were Kurds, the residents of southern provinces or from the town of Khalis in Diyala Province.
He said that the bodies were being examined in medical laboratories in Arbil Province, adding that human rights violations in the camp did not seem improbable.
The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it received the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
Out of nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, 12,000 of them have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.
The group also sided with Saddam during Iraq’s eight-year imposed war against the Islamic Republic.
West uses delisted MKO terrorists to achieve certain objectives: Iranian MP West uses delisted MKO terrorists to achieve certain objectives: Iranian MP
An Iranian lawmaker says the US and Canada move to take the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) off the list of terrorist organizations is in line with the West’s policy to use the group in order to achieve certain objectives in the region.
“The move by the Canadian and the US governments to remove the MKO from the list of terrorist organizations is in line with Western countries’ support of this group in order to use its remaining members for achieving their meddlesome and aggressive political and economic objectives in the region,” Mohammad-Hassan Asafari, a member of Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said Friday.
He said that the group was nurtured by Washington and added the US government’s terrorist nature in the region requires that it financially and militarily support terrorist groups like MKO, Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Asafari said that Iran will reconsider its political, economic and cultural relations with any country that would shelter the group, adding that MKO members must be extradited to the Islamic Republic.
On December 20, the Canadian government removed the MKO from its official list of terrorist organizations. Ottawa’s move followed similar measures by the US and EU.
The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations on September 28. The European Union had taken the MKO off its black list in 2009.
The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it received the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, almost 12000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.
The group also sided with Saddam during Iraq’s eight-year imposed war against the Islamic Republic. It is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
Iran: Mojahedin Khalq terrorists under training in US military bases in Afghanistan
The United States is training the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) operatives in its
military bases in Afghanistan, a senior Iranian MP says.
“Currently, a limited number of MKO forces are receiving training in the US military bases in Afghanistan to carry out terrorist operations,” Baqer Hosseini, member of Majlis Presiding Board, noted on Tuesday.
The lawmaker referred to the US and Canada’s delisting of MKO, saying, “The move by the US and Canada [to delist the MKO] and the support provided to the MKO grouplet by the European Union (EU) are aimed at protecting the remnants of this cell in order to take advantage of them for their own interests.”
Hosseini stated that the MKO terrorists know no other way but to serve as mercenaries, and they are now mercenaries serving the US, Canada and the EU.
The Canadian government removed the MKO from its official list of terrorist organizations on Thursday, December 20, 2012.
Ottawa’s move followed similar moves by the United States and the European Union.
The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials as well.
An Iranian academic says delisting the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the list of US terror organizations by Washington is an obvious example of redefining terrorism by Washington. 
“Truly known to be one of the most misinterpreted and misused words, terrorism is defined and refined by the West according to the context where it proves deleterious or beneficial to those who define the term,” Ismail Salami wrote in an article published by Press TV.
The MKO was taken off the State Department’s blacklist on September 28.
The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
Out of the 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, 12,000 of them have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.
Salami added that the US State Department cited the group’s lack of involvement in terrorist acts for a decade while solid evidence suggests that they have been complicit in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in the last few years in Iran.
Referring to the establishment of al-Qaeda by the US and CIA in the seventies in an attempt to counter the influence of the former Soviet Union, Salami said the terrorist group is “sowing seeds of blind extremism and religious sectarianism in the world.”
“This CIA-created Frankenstein’s monster has not changed for the better but has grown up monstrously,” the Iranian academic said.
Salami stated that dichotomization of ‘terrorists’ into good and bad is far uglier than any form of apartheid, though “a comparatively similar story is being repeated in Syria.”
The analyst noted that while supporting most terrorist groups in Syria, Washington has branded the Qatar-funded Al-Nusra Front as a terrorist organization because the group to a large extent flies in the face of Washington’s policies in Syria.
“Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy,” Salami concluded.
NO EXIT An investigative documentary, showing how the Mujahedin Khalgh Organization (MKO,MEK, Rajavi cult) treated its members
… An investigative documentary, showing how the Mujahedin Khalgh Organization (MEK) treated 
its members and the efforts made by the members to escape … Research suggests that most of the MeK rank-and-file are neither terrorists nor freedom fighters, but trapped and brainwashed people who would be willing to return to Iran if they were separated from the MeK leadership. Many members were lured to Iraq from other countries with false promises, only to have their passports confiscated by the MeK leadership, which uses physical abuse, imprisonment, and other methods to keep them from leaving …
A group of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members have reportedly defected from the terrorist group as internal dissensions intensify within the MKO. 
At least 17 MKO members have fled Camp Liberty near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad so far in December.
They have requested UN officials in Baghdad to help them leave Iraq and seek asylum in a European country.
A former MKO member, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he managed to escape from the former US military base near Baghdad International Airport on December 5, despite strict measures and tight controls on the movements of all MKO terrorists.
The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.
Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT) in Middle East has condemned Canada’s decision to remove the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terrorist 
groups.
"The MKO cult has a long record in terrorist activities, including the assassination of 12,000 Iranian citizens, seven American citizens, and tens of thousands of Iraqi nationals," the association wrote in a letter to the Canadian government on Saturday.
The letter stressed that the MKO continues to use sabotage and terrorism to achieve its objectives.
Planning attacks on Iranian embassies in 13 European countries in 2003, self-immolation of ten MKO members in protest to the arrest of their cult leader Maryam Rajavi by French police on money laundering charges, and plotting terrorist attacks also in 2003, all attest to the terrorist nature of the MKO, the letter continued.
“This cult, considering its communist and extremist approach, can pose a serious threat to Western citizens, particularly Canadians.”
The Canadian government removed MKO from its official list of terrorist organizations on Thursday. Ottawa’s move to delist the MKO terrorist group followed similar moves by the United States and the European Union.
The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.
The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.