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Saudi envoy plot suspect is MKO man

Interpol has gained information about the second suspect in the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States indicating that he is a key member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI…Shakouri has travelled to numerous countries with many fake identity documents, including forged Iranian passports, and he was last seen in Washington and at Camp Ashraf, where MKO members are based…

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EU is tasked to provide platform for MKO

EU and the US supported the MKO/MEK/PMOI to help the group carry out acts of terror in Iran, and argued that the terrorist organization has turned into a “political tool” for the West. The fact that the EU has repeatedly listed and delisted the MKO as a terrorist organization throws doubt on Brussels’ position on the MKO, the legislator pointed out. Members of the MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where they enjoyed the support of executed Iraqi dictator ..

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Iraq will move forward in line with its goals

Senior Iraqi lawmaker Sheikh Humam Hammoudi says Baghdad is determined to expel Iranian terrorist group Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI from the country despite pressures by the West to impede the move. Senior Iraqi lawmaker Sheikh Humam Hammoudi.“According to Iraqi law, the MKO is a terrorist group that has killed a large number of Iraqi people. ..

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MKO leaders must be tried for crimes

Iraq’s Finance Minister Baqir al-Zubaidi says the ‘criminal leaders’ of the Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) terrorist group must be put on trial before being expelled from the country.Iraqi people would never forget “the bitter memory of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, especially a large number of Kurds from north, during the 1991 uprising (Intifada),” al-Zubaidi said on Tuesday.

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IVTC to introduce Iran MKO as terrorist

In a sign of how even the world’s conservative governments increasingly refuse to support the People’s Muhajeddin Organization of Iran (MKO), an international conference sponsored by France’s Nicolas Sarkozy included Iranian victims of what many say is nothing but a terrorist “cult.”

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Families of MKO targets at Int’l Victims of Terrorism Conference

The International Victims of Terrorism Conference in Paris is largely a forum for nations to make others aware of terrorist efforts to subvert their state. This year family members of people killed by the People’s Mojaheddin Organization of Iran, known as the MKO, were invited to testify about the suffering wrought by a group that aims to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Americans excuse for invasion of Iraq was to fight MKO

Considering that fighting terrorism was the excuse for the US invasion of Iraq, it was expected that terrorist elements, including MKO aka MEK/PMOI forces, would be confronted. But not only was there no confrontation, but they were also supported, and even now that the Iraqi government is determined to expel the MKO from the country, the US and Western countries are trying to hinder the move,” Hejazi added.

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Washington backed assassinations and terrorism always futile

… the enemies of the Islamic Republic, particularly the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), are backed by the colonialist powers.The MKO carried out several terrorist acts in Iran with the goal of crippling the Islamic Revolution, but their efforts have always been futile, and “they will take their ambitions to the grave,” he stated. The MKO assassinated Iranian President Mohammad Ali Rajaee and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar in 1981. ..

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Baghdad conference discusses legality of MKO presence

During the conference the organizers and the attendees stated that they have sent a request to Iraqi government to expel the MKO saying that they launched a campaign to collect one million signatures to be attached to the request.They also reminded the Iraqi policy makers of what they called the crimes committed by MKO/MEK/PMOI against the Iraqi citizens under Saddam regime.

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US puts pressure on Iraqis to keep the MEK terrorist group

.. a number of Iraqi officials and ordinary people came together in capital Baghdad to talk about the MKO presence in Iraq . he attendees stated that the brutality of the MKO members against the Iraqis in the 1991remind them of the bloody era of the dictator Saddam which lasted more than thirty five years. The organizers said that the Iraqi government has decided to give the MKO members six months time to leave the country. Many others showed frustration toward the intervention of the US …

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