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A comment on the expulsion of Iranian Rebels

Nejat SocietyJanuary 5, 2009083 views

Listed as a terrorist organization, an US-led coalition disarmed these members of the People’s Mujahideen. Since 2004, they have been held in Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad ..On December 22, the Iraqi government announced their intent to expel the Iranian exile group. An expulsion, which has been long sought by the Shiite-led government, will become feasible once the U.N. mandate that regulates the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq and gave the Iranian opposition group protected status expires at the end of the year (2008).

Iraq Expels Anti-Iranian Group – MKO

Nejat SocietySeptember 14, 2008070 views

The Shiite-dominated Iraqi Interior Ministry announced September 1 that members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK) or the so called PMOI had six months to leave Camp Ashraf, the U.S. camp in Iraq where approximately 3,360 members of the group are currently being held. The Saudi daily al Riyadh reported September 3 that the United States and Iran had agreed to hand over members of the MeK (also known as the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran) to Iraqi authorities.

An Interview with MKO former members

Nejat SocietyMarch 18, 2008071 views

The reporter continued by asking a question on the nowadays role of the organization, to answer the question, a terrorism expert Guidio Olimpio says:” in the past, the organization was involved in violent activities in terrorist forms but they have mainly dedicated their activities to the opposition since a few years ago and they are now definitly more active, although they don’t have the previous supporters

GOVERNMENT- IRANIAN GROUP SHOULD STAY BANNED

Nejat SocietyFebruary 24, 2008063 views

But Home Office counsel Jonathan Swift told the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, today that the Government feared the PMOI’s professed cessation of terrorist activities was temporary and”for pragmatic reasons”. Lord Phillips, sitting with Lord Justice Laws and Lady Justice Arden, heard that the pro-democracy PMOI was formed 40 years ago with the aim of replacing the then-government of the Shah of Iran

MEK Terrorists in search of identity

Nejat SocietyFebruary 4, 20080122 views

THEY are Iraq’s forgotten terrorists, more than 3,000 fighters of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) languishing at one of their former military camps some 100km north of Baghdad. ‘They are definitely in a legal limbo. No one wants them,’ said Mr Said Boumedouha, a researcher at Amnesty International in London

Saker interview with Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Nejat SocietyDecember 16, 20070141 views

This was not the first time I had read Soraya’s very interesting and insightful articles about Iran and this latest piece prompted me to contact Soraya and ask her for an interview. Soraya kindly agreed to my request and it is my real pleasure today to resume my”Saker interviews”series with a (virtual) conversation with her.

Terrorism Awareness Indeed

Nejat SocietyOctober 21, 2007083 views

The purpose of this ballyhoolooza, we are told, is to confront the “Big Lies” of the Left regarding terrorism and militant Islam. Worthy subjects, to be sure. Indeed I would like to help the sponsors of the “wake-up call” promote awareness of them. Toward this end, let’s consider the American Right’s “special relationship” with one group of terrorists called PMOI/MKO.

THE ROVING EYE

Nejat SocietyOctober 16, 2007079 views

Petraeus’s dubious sources also include the ragtag Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), a micro-terrorist group that used to be harbored by Saddam Hussein inside Iraq and now is protected by the Americans in Diyala province. So from Saddam’s terrorists the MEK are now elevated to the status of”our”terrorists.

EXCLUSIVE US TRIP PAID FOR BY IRANIAN ORGANISATION

Nejat SocietySeptember 1, 2007070 views

But now a group closely linked to Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) – the People’s Mujaheddin of Iran – is being represented by a Midland MP. Brian Binley went on a six-day trip to Washington as a lobbyist for the National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI). The group is described as the political wing of MeK, and paid for the MP’s visit. …

America, Saudis and Terrorism

Nejat SocietyAugust 25, 2007064 views

…it has killed far more Iraqis than al-Qaeda in Iraq and killed far more people worldwide than Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. It kidnaps children, sexually abuses, tortures and murderers it’s victims, carries out suicide attacks (mainly on Iraqi Shia population) and was a key part of Saddam oppressive regime…