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MKO and Iranian Chalabis

Spiegel Magazine has published an article, "The Second Iraq", in which discusses the issue of US’s support for Iranian opposition group, the MKO, to confront the Islamic Republic.

Rockefeller, the head of Senate’s Intelligence Committee, has recently expressed concern over the possibility of US’s action against Iran and the repetition of Iraqi story.

Pointing to Bush’s order to US forces in Iraq to shoot Iranian and Syrian agents in Iraq, Pentagon’s emphasis that Iranian agents were behind the deaths of 5 US forces in Karbala and the departure of second US aircraft carrier to the region, Spiegel writes that despite all these, the White House denies any effort to overthrow the rule of Mullahs.

Spiegel also points to Iran’s denial of interference in Iraq and that the US has delayed presentation of documents on Iranian involvement in Iraqis unrest, which were to be presented on last Thursday.

According to Spiegel, what’s more alarming here is the presence of a group of Iranian opposition in the State Department, the White House and Pentagon’s Iran office. This group claims to have documents on Iran’s nuclear activities in Arak.

Other claims of the group includes having documents on the role of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps in Najaf, secret documents from a group of physicists showing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s efforts to acquire nuclear bomb and …

The group also claims to have a list of 30000 Iraqi politicians, army and police working for Iran.

Iranian Chalabis are Coming!

Iranian Chalabis are a source of intelligence whose accuracy is not known. This group includes people like Amir Abbas Fakhravar. He introduces himself as a leader of Student’s Independent Movement who has been tortured in prison.

Spiegel refers to his visit to the US senate and his meeting with James Woosely, the former head of CIA, and a number of senior Pentagon officials.

Although Fakhravar doesn’t like to be compared to Chalabi, Spiegel says they have both a common friend: Richard Perle, well-known conservative and one of Iraq war planners.

Spiegel also writes about the budget the Bush administration has allocated to regime change in Iran. In Dubail, London and Frankfurt, US experts on Iran are looking for revolutionary people like Fakhravar.

"It seems that Bush administration has also another plan: that if it can’t stop the production of nuclear bomb by Tehran, it should be careful not to allow the Mullahs get it," Spiegel writes.

Prominent political figures like James Baker and Henry Kissinger have warned the Bush administration that it should stop such supports because working on people like Fakhravar prevents making deal with Iran.

"Meanwhile, who’s this smart guy (Fakhravar)?" Spiegel asks.

The rumors in Washington indicate that he was an ordinary wrongdoer who accidentally met the students in Evin prison. Mr. Vali Nasr, Professor of Political Sciences and a prominent Iranian expert, says comments of Fakhravar are "sheer lies" and that nobody knows him.

However, Fakhravar is not the only reservist of the US, Alireza Jafarzadeh is another one.

According to Spiegel, Jafarzadeh is busy holding interview with Fox News Channel and has recently published his book "the threat of Iran".

During a controversial press conference in August 2002, Jafarzadeh revealed the uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz.

On the issue of MKO to which Jafarzadeh belongs, Spiegel refers to thousands of its members living in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad after US invasion and that they are ready to help US forces.

Terrorist Allies in the War on Terror?

In response to this question, Jafarzadeh laughs and says they enjoy unimaginable level of support.

They have also provided many details about Iranian agents’ interferences in Iraq.

In a press conference, Jafarzadeh claimed that Revolutionary Guards Corps distributes millions of dollars among Shiite paramilitaries in the border region of Shalamcheh.

They have also claimed that Iran uses the trucks, carrying materials for reconstruction of holy cities of Iraq, to transfer weapons; however, this has not been confirmed by any other sources.

"US’s bitter experience in Iraq should prevent American people from being convinced of the necessity of another war. However, in this issue, the US is influenced by MKO," the Spiegel writes.

Also citing an article in Congressional Quarterly, Spiegel says that Pentagon uses MKO members in Camp Ashraf for setting air targets in Iran.

It’s been said that these people are given new identities so that Washington can claim easily that they have never been terrorists.

According to Spiegel, there’s big difference between current time and when Iraq was attacked: unlike the previous time during which the American media showed sympathy with occupying Iraq, this time there’s no agreement.

Last Thursday, NY Times wrote that Bush can go to another war if he’s not careful and that he could bring a disaster to his country if the Congress doesn’t stop him.

Radio Farda – 2007/02/07

February 8, 2007 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Terrorism Isn’t Freedom Of Speech

Captain Ed tips us off to a story that ran in the LA Times today, and we should have known it was just a matter of time before terrorists and their supporters tried this route in the courts:

The Supreme Court refused Monday to block the trial of seven Los Angeles residents charged with raising money for an Iranian opposition group that was designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the U.S. government.

Lawyers for the seven had argued the charges were unconstitutional because they had a free-speech right to raise money for a political group. That claim was rejected by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which noted the Iranian opposition group — Mujahedin Khalq, also known as the MEK — had a record of supporting assassinations and bombings.

"Sometimes money serves as a proxy for speech, and sometimes it buys goods and services that are not speech. Guns and bombs are not speech," said Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld for the appeals court.

In their appeal, the lawyers said the accused deserved the right to challenge the group’s designation as a "foreign terrorist organization" as part of their defense.

Although the justices turned down the appeal without comment, they could take up the issue later if the seven are convicted of the charges.

"We are very disappointed the court decided not to hear this case. We believe the decision poses a threat to the civil liberties of any person who wants to contribute to a political organization in this country," said Stacey M. Leyton, a lawyer in San Francisco.

Excuse me, but I have to agree with Judge Kleinfeld. Weapons of war bought with money supposedly given as charity hardly rates as free speech. And it’s not like their attorneys can claim stupidity regarding the organization. Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, has been on State’s watchlist since 2001. So I’d better not here a schmoozy lawyer claiming that they didn’t know this group was on our radar when it came to terrorism. Additionally, Captain Ed points out that MEK was one of Saddam’s favorite terrorist groups:

The fall of Saddam Hussein‘s regime affected the circumstances of the designated foreign terrorist organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The MEK was allied with the Iraqi regime and received most of its support from it. The MEK assisted the Hussein regime in suppressing opposition within Iraq, and performed internal security for the Iraqi regime. The National Liberation Army was the military wing of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Point being, the "freedom of speech" argument doesn’t fly. These guys are going to have their criminal trial, and hopefully be found guilty of conspiring with a known terrorist organization. We’re not fans of the 9th "Circuits" Court, but when they get things right, it’s right to give them some level of praise.

February 7, 2007 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO Shows Its Inferiority Complexes

Remnants of Rajavi’s cult, along with a number of Iraqi Sunni representatives, held a press conference in Brussels to attribute the unrest in Iraq again to Iran.

This comes while Khalf Al-Ayan and Adnan Al-Dulaimi, who accompanied terrorist MKO member Mohammed Mohaddessin in the conference, are themselves involved in the unrest in Iraq and in creating ethnic clashes. While ago, a number of cars prepared with bombs were found in Dulaimi’s house but the results of investigations were not made public because Americans didn’t want to!

Khalf Al-Ayan is known as "Instigator Sheikh". These two men want the situation back to that of Saddam era.

What’s important about these two men is that they have no political influence even among the Sunnis, and no credit is given to them in Sunni communities because of their extremist positions. It’s clear, therefore, why they support a foreign terrorist group like the MKO: because the MKO gives false credit to discredited people.

A reference was made to the Sunnis but it must be clarified that, as Mr. Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim said, what’s being done in Iraq under the name of Sunnis is the interference of some Arab states who are concerned about losing the fate of their countries to people. Wanting to get the past advantages, they boast about the dangers of Shiite power and allow themselves to interfere under the name of Sunnis.

Terrorist group of Mojahedin, with its pro-Saddam supporters, tried to stage its new scenario by revealing so-called list of Iranian agents in Iran. According to Mohaddessin, they revealed the names of 31960 members of Badr Organization!

It’s clear that the MKO intelligence agents have failed to get the names of 120000 members of Badr and SCIRI and they have sufficed to only 32000, who have asked for the expulsion of MKO from Iraq or have writing about dangers of MKO in the past four years.

It should be noted that the membership of 120000 in Badr and SCIRI- as one of Shiite anti-Saddam groups- from the total population of Iraq (29000000) is amazing in itself. By revealing the names of 32000 people, the MKO only shows how small it is- with 3500- while claiming to be the biggest resistance and alternative force for Iran (with 75000000 population)!

Apart from this, MKO has shown in the past that its stupid behavior in the past 27 years has not been incidental, but it all came from the stupid mind of its leader, Massoud Rajavi.

For instance, with this given issue, while the US wants to start a broad-based psychological war against Iran in Iraq, the MKO suddenly comes to the scene with intelligence gestures to reveal the names of 32000 Iranian agents as if the Americans don’t know where the SCIRI and Badr were founded and which country supported them! As if they are unaware of friendly ties between Iran and Shiites that the stupid propaganda system of MKO wants to expose Shiite members of Iraqi parliament as Iranian agents for the US?!

Now anyone in the place of Americans (even Neocons who are seeking a war with Iran) would find out that the MKO is only a puppet stimulated by the psychological war of Americans that comes to the scene to reveal the intelligence (again formed by the psychological war), and this means political prostitution and ….

There may be people who get higher interpretations from these gestures by MKO (for instance, they may think that this is an effort for survival or in the best form, it’s a tactic to get closer to the US), but what’s clear is that no one takes these gestures seriously.

Earlier also, when the MKO were acting on the nuclear issue to satisfy their American masters and volunteered to devote themselves for American spies, after a while they complained that why the IAEA and European powers didn’t pay attention to their so-called intelligence! Thy will experienced the same situation about Iraq.

The conclusion is that in a political analysis, such MKO moves only proves this group’s inability to influence Iran’s political scene and shows their isolation and their need to show their inherent inferiority complexes.

Irandidban – 2007/02/01

February 5, 2007 0 comment

Europe

Europe Slaps MKO in the Face

After two months of futile noises by the gang of Rajavi on a ruling by Europe’s Court of First Instance, eventually the Economic and Financial Affairs Council announced its decision, that it holds the decision of 2006 of the EU to freeze the properties and assets of terrorist MKO.

This Council announced on January 31 that according to the ruling of the court it would provide the MKO with reasons of freezing its assets.

The Council also stated that it would give a month to the MKO to present documents to defend itself before the Council announces the final decision.*

By this weak ruling, for which the group had spend 4 years and thousands of dollars, the stupid propaganda system of MKO wanted to boost the morale of its desparate members. However, it has been seriously challenged by being asked to present documents. Without referring to its terrorist history, the group was from the beginning trying to present unreal political reasons and accuse the EU and Clinton Administration in order to save itself.

Following the publication of recent statement by the ECOFIN Council, the MKO was confused and called it a puzzle. The group is now facing a wave of desperation among members, who had been influenced by the psychological situation on the ruling of the Court of First Instance.

Bringing Rajavi to the scene and continuous congratulations from Auver to Ashraf and from Ashraf to Auver was part of psychological war (of MKO’s Gestapo) against the captive members in Camp Ashraf.

Now, for a thousandth time, it has been proved that the noises made by the cult of Rajavi were all void and were meaningful only in the framework of their psychological war.

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* http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/newsWord/en/ecofin/92591.doc

Irandidban – 2007/02/03

February 5, 2007 0 comment

USA

US Using Iran’s Opposition Group in Iraq

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Camp Ashraf which is occupied by the Iraq-based Iranian opposition group the Mujahedine Khalq Organization (MKO) is sited more than 260km north of Baghdad.

This group resettled in Iraq in 1987 during the rule of Saddam Hussain. After Saddam was ousted in 2003, the US army gave protection to this camp which remains today.

The Iraqi coalition government headed by Shiite Ebrahim Al Jaafari and Nouri Al Maliki decided to expel MKO members from Iraq and close Camp Ashraf. However, none of these decisions have been implemented.

In this camp and in other Iraqi cities, there are between 4,000 and 5,000 MKO members and their families, with identities issued by the United Nations and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to facilitate their mobility inside Iraq.

Jalal Al Din Al Sagheer, a prominent figure in the Shiite coalition, has accused MKO members of supporting terrorist groups affiliated to the former regime.

He told Gulf News, "There is an Iraqi constitution which prohibits using the Iraqi territory to launch a series of cross-border attacks against neighboring countries and we are committed to this position."

Leaders of Camp Ashraf move with heavy US forces’ protection inside Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. During visits of Iraqi officials to Tehran and their Iranian counterparts to Baghdad, the MKO group file was at the top of bilateral talks. It was said that Iran wants a settlement with Iraqis to end the MKO file.

Lubaid Abbawi, the undersecretary of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, "The MKO file must move fully to the responsibility of the Iraqi government and must not be a political agenda used by different politicians or parties."

In the light of American-Iranian conflict in Iraq and in the region it is unlikely that the American forces will submit Camp Ashraf to Al Maliki.

According to some leaks from Baghdad, Americans have begun to form special groups comprising MKO members to assist them to track Iranians in Iraqi cities, as well as to provide the US intelligence with a huge amount of information from inside Iran, especially with the escalation of the Iranian nuclear file. These measures came just after the launch of the new US strategy set by President George W Bush, which included reducing the Iranian influence in Iraq.

Hadi Al Ameri, leader of the Badr Organization of the Shiite Supreme Council, has accused the MKO of training terrorist elements and working to destabilize Iraq. Al Ameri affirmed the coming period will witness the exile of this Iranian opposition group from Iraqi territories.

The MKO group in Iraq has established political relations with prominent Shiite religious leaders who oppose the political process, the Mahmoud Al Hasani group in Karbala and the Jawad Al Khalisi group in Kadhimiya city, Baghdad.

February 5, 2007 0 comment

Ann Singleton Former members of the MEK

‘How I was brainwashed by the Tank Girls’

Anne Singleton said ordinary British Muslims were increasingly vulnerable to recruitment by extremists

A white British woman who was sucked into an extremist Muslim terror group warned yesterday of the dangers of”brainwashing”by radical groups operating in the .

Anne Singleton said ordinary British Muslims were increasingly vulnerable to recruitment by extremists, who use psychological tricks to turn them into unquestioning followers prepared to carry out atrocities for their cause.

The 48-year-old mother of one, who lives in Leeds, became involved with fanatics while studying at Manchester University in the 1970s.

Her boyfriend at the time, an Iranian called Ali, was interested in a radical group known as the People’s Mujahideen of Iran, or MKO, which was formed a decade earlier and aimed to free from “capitalism, imperialism, reactionary Islamic forces and despotism.

Today Miss Singleton recalls with horror how the group, which is based in Iraq and wants to overthrow Iran’s current regime, was able to convince her to give up her life in the UK and travel abroad with them as a brainwashed slave.

Her indoctrination, conversion and submission to the MKO happened gradually over a period of ten years.

She now regards the group “ known as the”tank girls”because there are so many women in its ranks “ as a dangerous cult which uses psychological manipulation.

“I thought I was a saviour of the world and would have done anything for the Mujahideen. I worshipped those people. I thought they were of a higher order.”

In 1992, Miss Singleton was asked to go to for military training.

“I loved the camp and it felt liberating to obey orders, because you lose all responsibility for yourself,”she said.

But a year later she began to have doubts.

At this point she met her husband Massoud, another disillusioned MKO member, and in 1996 they made the decision to leave. It took them a further three years to break free.

Miss Singleton and her husband are involved in the campaign group Iran Interlink highlighting the dangers of groups such as the MKO.

She works as a computer programmer while raising her six-year-old son.

Yesterday, she warned that many British Muslims are at risk of suffering the same brainwashing as she did.

“Look at the young men in West Yorkshire who are being targeted by the terrorist organisations.

“Psychological manipulation can happen to anyone, any time. If you’re lucky you end up with a timeshare. If you’re unlucky you end up blowing up yourself and innocent people on the Tube.”

February 5, 2007 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Illegality, Fundamental Crisis for Rajavi’s Gang

After Saddam, no government is going to accept the MKO. As it seems, there’s a consensus against this group. This is the reality of this group’s political position which puts it on the top of discredited political groups.

Rejecting its appeal in the US, the decision of Iraqi government to expel the group from the country and finally the recent decision by ECOFIN Council to keep the MKO on the list of groups whose assets have been frozen is part of this consensus.

This consensus is not because of MKO’s political importance (which totally lacks), but it’s because of group’s efforts to impose itself on a country.

Western governments, particularly the US and Western Europe, have concluded that the gang of Rajavi is a criminal cult whose claims of democracy are all meaningless and that it’s an anti-democratic movement. Therefore, they try to avoid supporting such a cult. They also repeat their positions occasionally to warn the supporters and agents of the group about their positions.

With a brief review of MKO’s efforts during past 20 years, it could be easily understood that the diplomacy of MKO is self-deceptive.

By collecting the signatures of Parliamentarians and those unaware of group’s status and by boasting about these signatures, the MKO has practically proved that its claims and behaviors are all unreal.

For instance, on the issue of Iraqi government’s decision to expel the terrorist cult from the country, the MKO tries to put the US army in front of Iraqi government in order to pretend that the American army is responsible for their case while the position of Iraqi government is in full coordination with the Coalition.

It’s natural that the issue that is decisively expressed by the Iraqi government has been discussed multilaterally and that American officials have assigned the Iraqi government with solving the issue. They are, in fact, approving such decision by remaining silent on the issue.

On the other hand, Rajavi’s remnants try to resist the order of Iraqi govnerment by continuing to collect signatures. However, this method has also proved to be useless for taking the group out of terror list.

Resorting to such methods shows that the MKO is discredited around the world and that no one wants to help them.

Only deals with warmongers and Zionist lobby has helped them survive, which in current situation, seems to be ineffective for the group.

Irandidban – 2007/02/04

February 5, 2007 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

People’s Mujahedin;Another Iranian Fanatism

After the Islamic revolution of Ayatollah Khomeiny Mujahedin Khalq Organization fled to Iraq. On the pretext of fighting for Democracy, they made a bizarre world controlled by the hatred for Islamic Republic. A narrative by the defectors of MKO.

While his arrest, Babak Amin couldn’t swallow his cyanide capsule. The Iranian police surprised him by catching his neck from behind so that he couldn’t swallow the capsule and a hand went into his mouth to get out the deadly poison while he was walking around Vanak Square in Tehran. The unit is specially trained for this kind of operation: catching the MKO members. However a medical team, who accompanied the police in such an operation, owns the necessary antitoxin. Therefore four of his comrades who succeeded to swallow the cyanide were also rescued.

Babak Amin was arrested in January 2001. He had arrived from Iraq and had operated some mortar attacks against security centers which were the last attempts of MKO, present all over the Europe, in Iran.

Horror and Science “Fiction

While his attempts, Babak Amin didn’t succeed to kill anyone which caused him be safe from death penalty. He was sentenced to a ten-year imprisonment of which he has passed five years and now he is enjoying the conditional freedom. This 40-year old defector who is studying Informatics at Tehran University narrates his 20-year experience of living in MKO as a commandant. A terrifying story which mixes horror and science fiction. Therefore one find a world, governed by an insane Utopia that, with hatred to Islamic Republic, inverse the values. An example of this inversion can be seen in their military branch (National Liberation Army) by the domination of women over men. The male fighters with some exceptions include the sub-officers or simple soldiers who have to wash the dished or do the laundry.

Al this doesn’t prevent the strict isolation which manages the Iraqi headquarters of MKO extremely. Definitely the restaurants are separated. There are distinctive gas stations for the men and women do not encounter – "if one has to talk to his female commandant ,four or five other people must also be present " Babak Says " only the men are allowed to swim in the pool but on the condition that they are totally dressed.

Babak entered the MKO in 1983 while living in Vienne. The Organization was formed in 1965 and played an active role in fighting against Shah who executed all the historical leader of MKO except Masud Rajavi. Professing an Islam without ayatollahs mixed with Marxism, MKO refused to submit to regime which cost them to be evaluated as apostate and insurgent by Imam Khomeini. Regarding the Western "Useful Idiots" MKO has a rusty message in which the promise of establishing democracy in Iran is included.

But what made Babak to step inside the Organization, he explains with a voice without passion;" were the photos of political prisoners tortured by Islamic regime shown to him”

With five other people, Babak set out for Iraq where MKO who was allied with Saddam Hussein fighting against Iran, had settled its bases.

Babak and 300 Iranian students who had come from all over the world received an intensive military training at Camp Jalil in Iraqi Kurdistan. The objective is to form the groups made of two or three fighters who then had to infiltrate into Iran border; then it was the time for a long time residency in Camp Ashraf, the central headquarter located at 60 kilometers from Baqdad. Ashraf itself is another world, a world outside the world that Babak found out. "A society completely closed in itself. Receiving letters or phone calls are forbidden, you don’t have the right to leave the base except for medical reasons or sometimes shopping."

The absolute control of thoughts

1989,the imprisonment became harder since the previous year was the final year of Iran-Iraq war and in the aftermath of the cease-fire MKO defeated in its vast invasion to Iran through Iraqi borders. The invasion was named "Eternal Light"; Mujahedin succeeded to enter Iran borders but they were forced to retreat with heavy damages and the promise made by Masud Rajavi and his wife Maryam ( who lives in Ouver-Sur-d’Oise, Paris) based on the uprising of the Iranian people, failed to occur.

"They told us: you didn’t fight hard, so you defeated"

The absolute control of thoughts started; marriage became forbidden and divorce obligatory even if the spouse lived in Iran. The rings should have gotten out of fingers. In your mind, you must forget the existence of women. Everyday, there were meetings in which we had to explain to our commandant, anything passed in our minds beginning with sexual things. All this was noted in a report which was used against you in case of necessity especially when you were willing to leave the MKO. This caused you to think that everyone is a sensualist. You weren’t anything anymore, even deep in your mind." The rare amusement included watching films of war." They were censured, of course, but after watching them, you also had to say anything you felt."

Behrouz Soltani, also aged 40 years, says the same thing and adds: "so as, when I arrived Iran, I had strange sexual thoughts even about my sister." He became a member of MKO due to Iran- Iraq war. He was old member of Basij who was captured by Iraqi forces in Basra in 1982. He was only 15. "In POW camp, they asked me if I want to be liberated I said yes, then they took me to Camp Ashraf. There they proposed to me to join Rajavi or spend eight years at Abu Qoraib prison (the terrifying prison of Saddam Hussein).In spring 2001, among Mujahedin Behrouz became a supply soldier of Iraqi Army especially against Kurds. Soltani is not pleased for what he did in Iran borders:" we killed a lot of Kurds, the officials told us that they were Iranians but because of their clothes, we could see that they were definitely lying".

I witnessed that our tanks passed over the dead bodies just for fun. We arrested the Kurdish families who with white flags came to Iraq and delivered them, men women and children, to Iraqi Intelligence Service." he continues:"It is normal to kill the armed combatant but not the innocent civilians. We just couldn’t say anything. To understand it, you should go interior the organization. Any individual, even in the prison, owns an identify but we were nothing, the Iraqis called us " Rajavi’s men". Personally, I hoped they would kill me so that I shouldn’t be obliged to attend the nightly inquiry meetings. In that condition there was no pity for no one. They don’t let you love anyone."

Hura Shalchi, 35, joined MKO when she was 24.Mujahedin forced her to divorce and separated her from her four”year old daughter. Hura succeeded in her first mission but while the second mission when she had to commit a mortar attack against a revolution guard’s base in Tehran, she was arrested." While returning to Iraq, the person who was supposed to guide her through the border handed her to police." He did this under the order of MKO leaders. I found out that they don’t want the ones who go for mission get back any more since they fear that anything is told about Iran’s today condition because there were no similarity between what we had seen and what they had told us." Hura who was sentenced to life imprisonment, only spent one and a half years in the prison and now she is free under the juridical control.

"When she was arrested, one of her comrades recalls, our chiefs made us believe that she has been killed and all Ashraf Campers celebrated her martyrdom." They prefer viewing her as a martyr because they can also exploit her blood." Behrouz Soltani adds.

Under American Protection

Today, Camp Ashraf incorporates 3000 men and women who are under the control of Mojgan Parsaiee. The difference from Saddam Hussein’s era is that now the camp is under the protection of Americans who have disarmed the group and defend it against the Shiite pro-Iranian groups. However the Department of State has listed MKO as a FTO, Pentagon is applying a flexible policy toward the organization, and making profit of their information on Iran doesn’t hesitate to use them against Islamic Regime. However, the Americans haven’t prevented the individuals coming out of the camp and going to Iran what Naser,49,did recently. He was a member of MKO for twenty years." Due to my political activities, he says, I passed four years in Iranian prison. When I came out, there was no place for me in the society. Therefore I joined them. With them, I wanted to liberate my people."

Once he was out of Ashraf, he passed three months at American Camp Tiff." The Americans knew everything about us. In that camp we were like refugees, but they treated us brutally. They don’t respect you except if you serve them. If we protested, they would beat us." He affirms.

For a long time, only membership of MKO could make you be executed, and thousand of fighters paid the price by their lives. Today, Regime has completely changed its policy and if a crime hasn’t been committed, they are welcomed by regime. They are even allowed to have a small association where they employ themselves in order to extract those who are still in Iraq. Today they learned about the suicide of Yasser Akbari Nasab, one of their friends at Camp Ashraf. The Organization is not any more the phantom that was in 1989’s for Iran. "If the Mujahedin leave Iraq, they will be finished for ever." says Babak. Waiting for that time, the organization stays rich and influential in Europe. It has also received an important victory in front of European justice that annulled the freezing of MKO’s funds estimated to be several million Euros, which were blocked since 2002. The defectors, who victimized their youth in MKO, didn’t join the Islamic regime though. Since then we detest any politic." says Hura Shalchi.

Liberation-France – Jean-Pierre Perrin – January 3rd, 2007

February 3, 2007 0 comment

Iraq

MKO’s Role in Saddam Massacres Should be Exposed

The court of former Iraqi regime’s crimes, now being held without the presence of Saddam Hussein, exposes important issues one of which is the decision of former Iraqi dictator to exterminate the Kurds with all possible means.

In the court, it was revealed that the order for massacring the Kurds by chemical weapons was issued personally by Saddam Hussein and suggested by Ali Hassan Al-Majid and consequently criminal officials of former regime committed the crimes in Halabja.

Meanwhile, what are very important are Chemical Ali’s comments on using the MKO for pursuing and targeting the Kurds (even inside Iran).

Earlier also, with the exposure of Rajavi’s secret talks with then the head of Iraqi Intelligence Service lieutenant general Taher, in which MKO forces’ participation in killing the Kurds was praised on behalf of Saddam, the role of the group in massacring the Kurds had been revealed.

In addition to the issue of MKO’s role in killing the Kurds- which has been proved with a lot of documents- what’s new in Chemical Ali’s comments and reveals new facts on MKO-Saddam ties, is the reality that this group acted as a private army for Saddam Hussein and that Iraqi officials considered the roles of the MKO when planning.

In this regard, Chemical Ali clarifies that MKO forces were tasked with pursuing and targeting the Kurds inside Iran.

The new government of Iraq and those in charge of holding the court should expose more of documents on cooperation between the MKO and Saddam Hussein in order to illuminate the public opinion and prevent distortion of historical facts by the leaders of the group.

By clarifying the dimensions of such crimes the efforts of MKO leaders to seek refuge in Iraq will fail and the main reasons of their presence in the country will be determined.

February 3, 2007 0 comment

Ali Reza Jafarzade

“Building a Case for War”with Iran: Jafarzadeh and the Downing Street Dossier Redux

Is it possible we are stupid enough to fall for it again?

"US officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence ‘dossier’ this week detailing evidence of Iran’s alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street’s dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war," reports the Guardian.

Not to worry, declares Nicholas Burns, the senior diplomat in charge of Iran policy and, hardly coincidentally, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Order of St. John, the latter run by the ruling houses of Europe, headed until his death by the former SS official, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

The neocons are "not looking for a fight" with Iran (indeed, they don’t want to fight the Iranians, simply shock and awe them into submission) and instead are eager to "push back," never mind there is no defensible reason to do so. "Primarily that means Tehran’s perceived meddling in Iraq, where its influence with the Shia-led government and Shia majority population appears to be increasing as Washington’s weakens," the Guardian would have us believe.

Once again, we are subjected to the discredited accusation "Iranians are smuggling into Iraq sophisticated explosive devices, mortars, and detailed plans to wipe out Sunni Arab neighborhoods," never mind that Pentagon has done a mighty fine job of accomplishing the latter without the help of Iran.

"But as was also the case in the days before Saddam Hussein fell, powerful external forces, ranging from exiled Iranian opposition groups to leading Israeli politicians, appear intent on stoking the fire”and winding up the White House," an unabashedly fair assessment, although it would help if the Guardian told us the rest of the story, namely the so-called "case" against Saddam Hussein consisted of a transparent passel of lies, fabrications, and fairy tales.

"The al-Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards is stepping up terrorism and encouraging sectarian violence in Iraq," Alireza Jafarzadeh”a US-based Iranian dissident who is linked to the Marxist cult Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK), officially listed by the State Department as a terrorist group”told the Moonie, er Washington Times earlier this month. In essence, Jafarzadeh is but another Ahmed Chalabi, pedaling lies and exaggerations, the vile stuff of neocon pretext.

In the not too distant past, Jafarzadeh was happy to proffer scary stories about ayatollahs with nukes. Now, however, as a neocon team player, he has adopted the Iran meddling in Iraq theme, apparently the emerging rationale conjured up as a flimsy excuse to be used in the upcoming effort to shock and awe Iranian school children and grandmothers.

"There is a sharp surge in Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and sectarian violence in the past few months," Jafarzadeh told a conference organized by the Iran Policy Committee, an organization connected at the hip to the American Enterprise Institute, a criminal operation where Bush’s get his psychopathic "minds."

According to Right Web, the "two leading figures at IPC are Raymond Tanter, who cofounded the organization in January 2006, and Clare Lopez, IPC’s executive director. IPC members have close ties with the U.S. military, intelligence community, and high-tech military contractors," death merchants who stand to profit handsomely from any attack launched against Iran. It is hardly a surprise that Clare Lopez, an operations officer with the CIA for two decades, is an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the AIPAC and Zionist created think tank.

"Israel is also pushing the intelligence case while upping the ante, claiming to have knowledge that Tehran is within a year or two of acquiring basic nuclear weapons-making capability," explains the Guardian, trotting out what should by now be a threadbare and thoroughly discredited lie. "In a BBC interview last week former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu compared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime to Hitler’s Nazis. Speaking in Davos the deputy prime minister, Shimon Peres, demanded immediate regime change or failing that, military intervention."

Finally, the New York Times, responsible for eagerly disseminating war propaganda in the lead-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, tells us "Bush and his aides [read: criminal neocons] calibrate how directly to confront Iran, they are discovering that both their words and their strategy are haunted by the echoes of four years ago”when their warnings of terrorist activity and nuclear ambitions were clearly a prelude to war. To many in Washington, especially Mr. Bush’s Democratic critics, the new approach to Iran has all the hallmarks of an administration once again spoiling for a fight."

Of course, there will be no "fight," at least not in a traditional military sense, but rather a cowardly air bombardment, designed not only to take out Iran’s fictional nuclear weapons labs but also decimate the country’s civilian infrastructure, producing in essence a repeat of the situation in Iraq.

Although the perfidious neocons and their Fox News apologists and enablers tell us repeatedly they look forward to taking out Iran’s supposed nuke capability”and, in the process, deposing the ayattollahs for the sake of the poor besieged Iranian people”last year Seymour Hersh revealed the "U.S. Air Force proposals for an air attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity [include] the option of intense bombing of civilian infrastructure targets inside Iran," as should be expected, as the attack Iran plan is simply another step in the Zionist and neocon agenda engineered to decimate Muslim and Arab society and culture.

by Kurt Nimmo – Global Research – January 30, 2007

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