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Rigi; terror partner of Mojahedin arrested

… Abdulhamid told Press TV.”After the [1979] Revolution in Iran, he left the country via Pakistan and sought asylum in the United States.”Abdulhamid said the Americans had asked Amanollah-Khan to forge a link between the US and Jundallah.”The Americans asked him [Amanollah-Khan] to introduce them to [Abdolmalek] Rigi in Pakistan and that’s how link was established.”…

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MKO confirms arrest of members in Tehran

The anti-Iran terrorist group MKO has confirmed that five people arrested after last month’s riots in Tehran are members of the organization. The Mojahedin Khalq Organization/MEK/PMOI has told Amnesty International that the five were detained in the Iranian capital after the Ashura day riots on December 27. The group says they had come from their one remaining base in Iraq.

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UK blamed for provoking violence in Iran

… Head of the Middle East Strategy Consultants in the UK, Massoud Khodabandeh, called on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop the MKO from fomenting violence by sending supportive messages to Iran’s opposition movement.”We would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist [MKO] from inside the UK,”Khodabandeh, a former MKO member, wrote in a letter to Brown …

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No one can harm Iran, Iraq relations

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, after a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart, stressed that Tehran’s relations with Baghdad is cordial and based on mutual respect… Regarding the Iraq-based terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), Zebari said Baghdad has no tolerance for any armed group using Iraqi soil to attack Iraq’s neighbors. He added that Baghdad has taken a series of measures to promote its sovereignty over Camp Ashraf, where the terrorists are based.

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Washington Backed MKO Terrorist group rallies in Paris

The rally took place a day after the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday’s violent anti-government protests in Iran. MKO followers cooperated with the demonstrators and coordinated the protests, the organization’s leader Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris on Tuesday…The organization is also notorious for using cult-like tactics against its own members, tactics which include torture and murder of defectors.

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MKO admits involvement in Iran’s protests

The Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday’s violent anti-government protests in Iran. MKO followers cooperated with the demonstrators and coordinated the protests, the organization’s leader Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris on Tuesday..Her comments came after protests in Iran during Sunday’s Shia Muslim ceremonies of Ashura — the anniversary of the martyrdom of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Imam Hussein (PBUH)..

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Iraq: Geneva Conventions ‘not applicable’ to Mojahedin Khalq

… The MKO aka MEK/PMOI, which has been residing in a camp to the northeast of Baghdad for two decades, was exiled from Iran and resettled in Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and US-led forces after the invasion of the country in March 2003 … Salim said that the Iraqi government has taken the very first step to relocate the members of the group from their headquarters, Camp Ashraf, to a camp inside Baghdad under the supervision of the United Nations..

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MKO refuses to comply with Iraqi order to leave

After Iraq moved to transfer the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) from their camp in the country, members of the group defied the Iraqi government’s orders to leave.. According to a plan ordered by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the group should first be moved to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and later to a 1950s detention camp in southern Iraq.”Any attempt to expel us forcibly will lead to the same clashes and confrontations as those of July 28 and 29,”MKO representative said, referring to a July incident during which Iraqi forces raided the camp in a melee leaving 11 people dead.

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