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MKO; A Tool for Warmongers in Elections

Raymond Tanter, arms dealer and a supporter of contras who’s now trying to sell the MKO to the Israeli regime, has expressed amazing comments on Iran and the MKO; the comments that prove that Tanter is trying to sell the MKO to either the US or Israel. The issue is who pays the higher price.

For instance, he has said that "We believe that the moment the organization is able to operate from Iraq it will gain public favor in Iran".

It seems that Tanter thinks the MKO has arrived in Iraq just yesterday that it would gain public favor (in the case of being allowed to operate)! Or, he may think that the MKO has been doing nothing in Iraq for the past 25 years!

More interesting is that Tanter is going to take advantage of the MKO in his election campaigns in the favor of Neoconservatives and warmongers.

Although the MKO has tried to influence the elections in the US in the past (in the favor of potential supporters of MKO), this time they are going to serve the warmongers in all aspects.

Tanter, who earlier in an interview with Australia’s SBS TV channel announced his intentions to use the MKO for the purposes of warmongers, now tries to sell the MKO in the election campaigns.

Tanter tries to pretend that Iran’s pursuing nuclear weapons programs and that the US should attack Iran to stop the process. He says that only Neocons will be able to do this, so people should vote in favor of them. Meanwhile, the Americans have turned their backs to the warmongering policies of Bush and it’s predicted that there would be a big blow to republicans in the congress.

On the other hand, by betting on a dead horse, Tanter tries to get the highest price while stupidly talking about a civil war in Iran by the MKO! With this, he may be able to buy more votes for warmongers.

The problem with the comments of Mr. Tanter lies within the fact that he lags 25 years behind the current situation in Iran and that he speaks against the historical realities.

Irandidban – 2006/10/21

October 31, 2006 0 comment

Raymond Tanter

Tanter, A Mediator Between MKO and Israel

Professor Raymond Tanter of Georgetown U. and the head of the Iran Policy Committee, has concluded that supporting the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) is in America’s interest. Though this amounts to making a pact with the devil, he believes that the only way to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons is to replace the religious regime in Iran with a democratic one, and that only MEK can do that. But there are several problems with MEK. The U.S. declared it a terror organization, and most Iranians consider MEK members traitors, because they supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Here is Tanter’s viewpoint in a nutshell: "Israel does not have the military strength to attack Iran’s nuclear installations…Only the United States can do that…on condition that there isn’t a Democratic president in the White House. A Republican administration is more likely to attack in the absence of a political regime change policy, whether there are good military opportunities or not. But attacking will not provide a fundamental solution to the (nuclear) problem…only delay it. In order to bring about a halt to the nuclear program, there has to be a regime change (that) can take place…in less time than it takes the regime of the ayatollahs to obtain nuclear weapons."

How much time are we talking about?

Tanter believes that Iran will have nuclear weapons within one to three years. His ten-point plan has clear guidelines: The U.S. should remove MEK from the list of terror organizations and allow it to operate from Iraq against the regime in Iran. "We believe that the moment the organization is able to operate from Iraq it will gain public favor in Iran…They will shoot at demonstrators, a civil war will break out, and then…the army will intervene, stop the bloodshed, remove the ayatollahs and take over."

But even then there will be no guarantee that Iran will stop trying to obtain nuclear weapons.

"Mujahideen-e-Khalq have already declared that they are not interested in manufacturing nuclear weapons. But no one cares if a democratic Iran has nuclear weapons. Who cares if Israel or India has nuclear weapons?"

MEK was founded in the 1960s by Iranian students with Marxist views, who were opposed to the Shah’s pro-Western policy. They joined Ayatollah Khomeini in the Islamic Revolution, but in 1981 the group was expelled from Iran. Saddam Hussein then enabled them to operate from Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. This was seen as betrayal by most of the Iranians, even opponents of the regime. At the end of the war, MEK established headquarters in Paris, and since then they have guerrilla and terrorist activities to their "credit". When the U.S. invaded Iraq, it disarmed the organization.

Tanter believes that Israel can help legitimize Mujahideen-e-Khalq: "I’m not asking the Mossad to join them and cooperate with them…But Israel has supporters and a lobby in the U.S. and it can ask them to have MEK removed from the State Department’s list of terror organizations…MEK is the only game in town if we want to bring about regime change in Iran. To paraphrase Churchill: Mujahideen-e-Khalq is the worst option, except for all the other alternatives.

Infoisrael quoting Haaretz/ Yossi Melman – 2006/10/21

October 31, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

NCRI Did Not Discover Natanz

The debate about whether Iran has constructed a clandestine centrifuge program drives me nuts.

You mean other than the one we already found?

And by we, I mean the United States—or at least its intelligence community. As I understand the sequence of events, the United States—knowing full well that Iran had a clandestine centrifuge program—watched Iran dig two MASSIVE HOLES near Natanz (see the big picture), then ratted the Iranians out to the IAEA. About the same time, someone leaked that information to an Iranian dissident group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which then released the second-hand dope in a press conference where they got the details wrong.

This is something that has come up in the comments, so I think I should take the time to walk a timeline using what information we have. (Your grandkids will know for sure, when this stuff gets declassified.)

The whole public debate did begin in August 2002, when NCRI identified Natanz as an undeclared nuclear facility (correct!) responsible for the production of “nuclear fuel production” (not so much).

In December 2002, however, Mark Hibbs reported (no online copy) that the United States had briefed the IAEA on the purpose and location of Natanz before the NCRI allegations, at the optimal time to buy maximally incriminating satellite photographs:

For about a year, analysts at U.S. intelligence agencies and national laboratories, in part based on high-resolution reconnaissance imagery, and supported by procurement information, have been hardening suspicions that Iran was building a clandestine uranium enrichment plant in Natanz and a heavy water production facility in Arak, Western officials told NuclearFuel.

About six months ago, sources said, a limited amount of crucial information from the U.S. findings, including the precise geographical coordinates of the sites, was provided to the IAEA. Officials there said the agency then tasked a handful of Vienna personnel to examine the data using commercial satellite photos of the two locations.

Mark Hibbs, “U.S. Briefed Suppliers Group in October on Suspected Iranian Enrichment Plant,” Nuclear Fuel 27:26, December 23, 2002, p. 1.

(ElBaradei confirmed the six month bit to AP’s Ali Akbar Dareini in December, as well.)

In December 2002, ISIS released those satellite photographs of Natanz, explaining that “it is unlikely that the site contains a fuel fabrication facility, but it possibly has a uranium enrichment plant … most likely … a gas centrifuge facility.” ISIS’s Corey Hinderstein, speaking on CNN, was the first person to publicly identify Natanz as a gas centrifuge facility.

Hibbs’ account and the correct identification by ISIS, however, didn’t seem to dislodge the conventional wisdom that NCRI had discoverd the sites, rather than merely passing along second hand information.

In February 2004, former DCI George Tenet tried a more direct approach, claiming it was “flat wrong” that the IC was surprised. In May 2005, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball cited “current and former senior U.S. national-security officials” claiming athat “all the major revelations MEK publicly claims … were reported in classified form—and from other sources—to U.S. policymakers before MEK made them public.”

Part of the problem is that US intelligence sources didn’t want to say how they knew—and, thus, how much we knew—so the story that NCRI ratted out the Iranians persisted. This summer, though, I think the last piece of the puzzle appeared.

In The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind confirmed that US intelligence had flipped Urs Tinner —a member of the Khan network—in the 1990s and had allowed him to remain in place to identify Khan’s customers.

This also helps explain why the Clinton Administration was so persistent in its (successful) efforts to cut off foreign assistance to Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Esfahan, as well as as series of pre-August 2002 721 reports stating that “Iran has continued to attempt using its civilian nuclear energy program to justify its efforts to establish domestically or otherwise acquire assorted nuclear fuel-cycle capabilities … well suited to support fissile material production for a weapons program …”

Armscontrolwonk, October 28, 2006

http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/1274/ncri-did-not-discover-natanz

October 31, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

MKO’s Media-based Tension Escalation

Coincidental with the aggravation of Iraq’s internal disorders and religious-based conflicts mainly fomented by the remnants of the Baath Party, the role of MKO in fanning the flame of public disturbance should never be overlooked. Mojahedin are well aware of the fact that with the withdrawal of the coalition forces from Iraq, they would lose their greatest protector in Iraq and that none of their claimed collected signatures of supports from the Iraqi people, factions, and Sheikhs of tribes would work to be productive to secure their stay in Iraq.

Mojahedin main attempt at the present is focused on the escalation of the internal tension which might compel the Iraqi authorities to relay on the presence of the American forces to overcome the social disorder and to secure social stability. Although unspoken, Mojahedin try to have it understood that the existing tension is the outcome of the current Iraqi government’s incapacity to control the situation and the US feels impelled to utilize its lever of power to replace the current government with a new “national salvation government” to ease the tension.

While the Iraqi authorities point to Mojahedin as elements of interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki approves availability of proven evidences, Mojahedin, unable to deny the said truth, indirectly diffuse incapacity of al-Maliki’s government to control the dominant disorder and, through some American officials, threatens his dismissal. For instance, Mojahedin website selectively published excerpts from Senator John Warner’s statement wherein he stated:

I assure you, in two or three months, if this thing hasn’t come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it’s a responsibility of our government internally to determine: Is there a change of course that we should take?

was said to have sated that if Iraq’s current situation failed to improve in the next two or three months and violence continued as a result of Iraqi government’s inefficiency to control it, then, the US took it as a responsibility to decide whether take a direct step to make a change or not.

Depicting an inauspicious future for Iraq if the US forces left, Mojahedin quote Warner saying that untimely departure of the US from Iraq would turn the country’s reservoir into a treasure in the hands of the global terrorism.

Once enjoying the granted oil quota by Saddam, Mojahedin are in absolute agreement with the Americans that the Iraq’s rich reservoir might help reconstruct what they all despise as Islamic Fundamentalism and, of course, al-Maliki’s legal government makes a never-tolerable obstacle. Acting as the mouthpiece of al-Maliki’s critics, Mojahedin distort the news reports and add their own comments to help debilitate al-Maliki’s government and advertise its incompetency especially in controlling the armed insurgents. It can be well noted in news reports released by Mojahedin’s site stressing “analyses indicate that Nuri al-Maliki fails to disarm militia”.

Mojahedin, always a collaborating hand to intensify religious disputes to escalate political tension, in Hambastegi site quoted the US Secretary of State saying “religious violence in Iraq is a strategic threat”. Commenting on her speech after her meeting with Iraqi officials, the site states “Rice in her meetings with Iraqi political leaders tacitly mentioned the national salvation government which means a directly made note for the formation of a new such government”. Rice had earlier made an unannounced visit to Iraq to consult with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki about his efforts to achieve national reconciliation between the country’s various ethnic and sectarian groups.

Mojahedin-run propaganda machine in the West is already busy taking hostile and threatening positions against the legally-elected Iraqi government through circulating statements made by Mojahedin supporters. Al-Maliki is believed to have a deep understanding of Mojahedin’s threatening tone in their propaganda strategy which indicates their interference in Iraq’s internal affairs.

Earlier last week, Mojahedin quoted Jalal Tlebani, the Iraqi President, claiming he had threatened to utilize MKO to influence Iran’s internal security and affairs. The next day, Talebani in an officially made speech repudiated the claim and emphasized on his recognition of MKO as a terrorist group and its expulsion from Iraq. Although a broadly known opportunist taking advantage of circumstances, Mojahedin have to be dealt with prudence in some respects to frustrate attempts made to accomplish certain political ends.

Bahar Irani – Mojahedin.ws – October 21, 2006

October 31, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Camp Ashraf dwellers in need to support their rights

According reports by Mojahedin’s NCRI website, some two hundred Iranians gathered in support of the organization in October 14 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The rally organized under Parviz Khaza’I, MKO’s representative in Nordic countries, was a joint work of three MKO’s aliases, the Iranian Youth Association, Association of Iranian Women in Gothenburg and Association of Iranian Academics.

The scant number of the participants, two hundred is MKO’s own exaggerated number, might indicate that the sympathizers residing in the Western countries cannot be easily deceived by Mojahedin’s advertised demands that only serves to further the organizational objectives rather than being concerned about the plights of members held in Camp Ashraf.

While the leaders voice for reaffirmation of the members’ political refugee status in Iraq and call on the UNHCR and the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene and guarantee the rights of the members in Ashraf as protected persons, a question is formed that why they never ask the mentioned international bodies to guarantee the rights of these members as free human beings who are deprived of the right to decide for themselves. They do not need rallies to support their rights; if permitted, the free presence an unconditioned intervention of these international bodies ends all these members’ plights.

mojahedin.ws – 21/10/2006

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Rajavi’s Visit to Belgium Unimportant

A former member of terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq said the visit of Maryam Rajavi, one of the leaders of the group, to the senate of Belgium lacked political importance and that it proved Europe’s desperation in its nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Massoud Khodabandeh, former senior member of MKO who now runs "Iran-Interlink" in the UK, said to IRNA on Thursday:

"Some Belgian politicians use isolated elements to press Iran and to get what the West wants from Iran."

Khodabandeh said the visit of MKO’s self-claimed president to Belgium Senate by the informal invitation of some minor politicians in that country was a propagandistic effort from unimportant groups in that country that are seeking fame.

Iran-Interlink official said this old method (using propagandistic meetings of MKO officials with European politicians) is unimportant and inefficient, adding: "Iran’s strong response to this meeting and summoning Belgian and Finnish ambassadors to the Iranian Foreign Ministry was due to the terrorist and murderous history of this terrorist cult and it didn’t meant that Iran is afraid of this group or the group is important at all.

"There are still some people who want to frighten Iran by using the remnants of MKO, but the fact is that the MKO should have been dismantled long time ago if it wasn’t for the US’s policies," Khodabandeh said.

"If the MKO was able to change the regime in Iran, it could have done that when it possessed tanks and weapons backed by Saddam Hussein and not now, when it’s wandering in Iraq’s desert without any clear future," he added.

According to this Iran-Interlink official, "immediately after the fall of Baathist regime in Iraq, Americans wanted to keep Camp Ashraf for a rainy day and to put pressure on Iran, but now they keep it to have the exclusive honor of dismantling it on the right time".

Khodabandeh believes that despite the past when there were restrictions for the residents of MKO’s terrorist camp in Iraq, now Americans support the group and in the case of cutting this support and opening the doors of the camp no one will stay in MKO’s prison.

He then rejected MKO’s propaganda that Maryam Rajavi’s charges have been dropped and said that her case in French judiciary is still open and the time will soon come for her to stand for trial.

He stressed that lifting bans on Rajavi’s movement is only because the investigations have finished and it doesn’t mean that she has been cleared of charges.

Also, on former members’ efforts to bring to justice Massoud Rajavi, the main leader of the group, for terrorist activities and his cooperation with Saddam Hussein, Khodabandeh said that Massoud Rajavi is now under the custody of coalition forces and a big case has been prepared against him.

He said copies of the case have been sent to American, European and Iraqi officials but he stressed that the main issue in trial of Massoud Rajavi is finding the country where he should be tried.

European Union and the US have officially designated the MKO as a terrorist organization, banning its activities.

However, the cover organization for this group (NCRI) is allowed to act in some countries and a number of European and American officials are in touch with the group’s leader under this cover.

Iran-Interlink in the UK is comprised of a number of former MKO members who try to save other members of this terrorist cult.

IRNA, October 27, 2006

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

News Censored by Rajavi’s Gang

Censorship has always been a controlling tool for the leaders in the gang of Rajavi.

Immediately after the Islamic revolution (in 1979), MKO leaders pretended to be boycotting governmental press in order to block their members’ and supporters’ access to free media. This kind of censorship was expanded in the following years and took a different shape when the MKO members were restricted to Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

In this kind of censorship, even two people were banned from talking to each other in private and members were prevented from calling their families.

This situation continues today despite all efforts by humanitarian activists. MKO leaders use censorship to feed the members with selected news and to deceive them with sectarian analyses.

Censorship is so much important for MKO’s Gestapo that they even censor the news reaching MKO supporters and members in Europe in order not to become informed of the news of the outside world.

For instance, in recent weeks, 90 percent of the news directly related to the situation of the group has been censored by the MKO desperately to prevent demoralization of members and their defections.

While the MKO boasts about the false reports on Jalal Talabani’s position against Iran and Syria, his denial (with direct hints to the MKO) and that Iraqi will expel the MKO from Iraq have been censored (Talabani talked about the MKO as the M.M organization, meaning the organization of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi).

Each time the Iraqi officials take stance against the MKO, Remnants of Rajavi hide behind the coalition forces and claim that their fate should be determined by the coalition military, but the censor the comments of Lord Triesman saying that Iraqi government is responsible for deciding about the MKO.

Another example of MKO censorship is about the comments of Raymond Tanter- main MKO supporter whose comments on the group receive great attention in MKO’s media. This time, the MKO censored reports on his interview with the Australian TV channel SBS because Tanter revealed that he supported the group because he wanted the group to be tool for warmongers. He said he didn’t believe in the MKO as an alternative for Iran. His comments showed how discredited the group is.

The stupid propaganda machine of the MKO exaggerates the comments of British Foreign Minister on Iran’s records of human rights while it censors her comments on the group itself!

Irandidban – 2006/10/17

October 19, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

A Shameful Support of pro-Saddam Faction

Michael Carmichael, a British professional public affairs consultant, author and broadcaster, in a recently published article World War W, discusses the ridiculous decisions flowing from the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice administration to design, launch and wage World War W. The article further discusses that as the repercussions of a US attack on Iran could well be dire, they are trying a well-financed fifth column of support in Iran, the pro-Saddam faction of Mujaheddin-e-Khalq.

With a budget estimated in published accounts of circa eighty-five million dollars ($85,000,000) per year, the US State Department funds a covert pro-democracy movement inside Ahmadinejad’s Iran. This US-Iran project has been roundly criticized in the US and in the international media for its financial support of the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK)–an independent militia that has been labeled a terrorist organization for the past twelve years because of its overt links to Saddam Hussein. That dubious distinction does not prevent the MEK from finding warm support in the Republican-dominated Congress. While the right-wing extremists, Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) are the most vocal supporters of the MEK, at least four more members of Congress have also voiced their support for the terrorist militia. Astonishingly and shamefully, three of them are Democrats. These Republican-leaning Democrats are: Edolphus Towns (D-NY); Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). In addition to these Republicrats, the rabid Republican right-winger Lincoln Diaz Balart of Florida is known to be a supporter of the pro-Saddam faction in Iran.

“The bureaucrat in charge of the vast budget for support of the MEK and other insurgents in Iran”, as he states, “is none other than Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth Cheney”.

mojahedin.ws – A. Afshar – October 12, 2006

October 16, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq 's Terrorism

Revenge of the Jedi Bag Lady

Communists are long out of vogue, welfare moms are so 1995, and Osama has taken the reclusive shtick a little too far for our short attention spans. My fellow Americans, we obviously-desperately-need a new super-villain to fear, a new reason to circle the wagons, surrender our rights, and embrace a lifetime of Code Orange. Well, hold on to your yellow ribbons, put down your cell phones, and take a good look what the Federal Bureau of Investigation has just dropped on our collective doorstep: a 95-pound, 51-year-old homeless Iranian widow with severe digestive problems (from Queens, no less). Armed only with a tattered coffee cup, a shopping cart overflowing with newspapers, and a name that will make Hollywood drool, say hello to our latest national nightmare: Zeinab Taleb-Jedi.

Don’t let those dirt-infested shopping bags fool you. Pay no mind to her swollen feet or malodorous haze. Two informers have sworn that our homeless Jedi was indeed a member of the leadership council of the Iranian resistance group People’s Mujahedeen, described by the Associated Press as a "heavily armed, Iraq-based terrorist organization." Our queasy Jedi, the informers say, was "responsible for making leadership decisions for the organizations, including approving specific acts of terrorism." No word yet on how an infirm homeless woman no bigger than a sixth grader managed to handle such demonic duties but we should never underestimate the craftiness of a terrorist named Jedi.

Besides, I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking "summer blockbuster" here. Someone get Bruce Willis’ agent on the phone because this might be his most formidable opponent yet: a pint sized femme fatale with acid stomach…and, of course, The Force on her side.

The New York Times reported that Ms. Taleb-Jedi is an American citizen who "came to the United States in 1978 to work on her master’s degree in political science in Atlanta." (Note to screenwriters: possible CNN/Ted Turner angle here). Taleb-Jedi eventually lived for a short time in Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Park Avenue Women’s Shelter in Manhattan, a facility designed to house older women with mental health disorders. However, beneath that ingenious façade of fragility, all the while she was seeking "the violent overthrow of the Iranian government."

Meanwhile, Taleb-Jedi’s unpatriotic lawyer, Justine Harris, says her client is merely "a middle-age woman with absolutely no record." Nice try, Justine. Tell it to Al-Jazeera. The next you know, she’ll be saying Saddam didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. Some folks just can’t stop blaming America first and it’s people like her that force our poor democracy-loving leaders to use torture.

If Jedi’s lawyer wants to know why a frail middle-age homeless widow would resort to a life of terror, she need only recall the words of President George W. Bush who, in 2002, spoke eloquently about "a group of killers, people who hate." The Commander-in-Chief went to explain that this group of killers really hates "the idea that somebody can go buy a home."

As they say in South Florida: Bingo.

The next time you step over a homeless person or switch subway cars to avoid having to smell one, stay vigilant. You don’t want to fall victim to the Revenge of the Jedi Bag Lady.

By Mickey Z.

opednews.com

October 3, 2006

October 10, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

Semiology of another defeat

Mojahedin Khalq-run TV station in its regular “direct contact” program on the first October rotated around Iran’s nuclear program as it has been during the past few years. Unlike the previous programs analyzing the nuclear subject talking from a firm position, this latest show revealed the organization’s desperate position. Yazdan Haj-Hamzeh, a senior member of the National Council of Resistance, tried to unveil a further comprehension of the talks taking place between Javier Solana and Ali Larijani and to warn the West that the current negotiations would solve none of the West and the US’s problems in respect to the threat of Iran’s nuclear weapons that could put the security in the region and the world in jeopardy. But the potential threat he was referring to had nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear activities; the threat was the existence of the Islamic Republic itself and an unconditional overthrow of the regime was the sole solution to thwart the threat.

During the past few years Mojahedin have employed all their political might to magnify Iran’s nuclear threat to lead on their power struggle to be entrusted the legitimacy of an alternative. As political bankrupts, Mojahedin even lost their last residue of political legitimacy among other opposition who believed in them as ultimate hope. Mojahedin’s propaganda blitz to infuse that Iran did not have any peaceful intentions with its nuclear program was regarded to be a hanging halter tightening around Iran choking off the current rule. At the present, Iran’s talk with the West to find a peaceful solution to Iran’s nuclear program is so promising that Mojahedin took a new turn to annex a new dilemma; instability in the rejoin led by Iran. Haj-Hamzeh’s comments concerning this subject can be analyzed as follows.

1. Unlike before that Mojahedin showed aggressive position on the lead of any peaceful solution to Iran’s nuclear program, they show to be more lenient with the emphasis that a diplomatic solution would consequently jeopardize the stability and peace in the rejoin that would, of course, be threatening to the West and the US’s interests exclusively. Haj-Hamzeh suggests that the West has to be decisive if they intend to safeguard their interests and markets in the rejoin. He pays not the least attention to Iran’s nuclear threat and addressing the EU states:

In my opinion, the greatest interest for them [the EU] is that the Middle-East and, above all Iran, has to reach a relatively political stability that the regime [Iran] has troubled; otherwise they can do nothing in the current situation.

2. Haj-Hamzeh maybe for the first time in this TV program ties the issue of the nuclear activities and the West position to the destiny of Mojahedin emphasizing that any resolution can be decisive for Mojahedin:

We are entering serious phase. It is not a mere conflict between the foreigners and the regime. Our issue is also decided in this conflict.

Such a direct statement indicates Mojahedin’s serious condition, something they had never pointed before.

3. Being in a desperate situation, Mojahedin through Haj-Hamzeh announced their satisfaction over the sanction threats made by the EU and the UN Security Council against Iran. They suggest that the West be decisive at least on what they proposed as deterrent means:

At least, by imposing sanctions, prevent Iran’s procuring means to continue nuclear activities. We do not intend to go beyond our expectations to see them suffer loses in their interests. We hope they are observant of what they have signed.

4. Somewhere else, Haj-Hamzeh suggests Mojahedin’s cooperation with the West if they intended sanctions on Iran. In fact, Mojahedin are offering to take side with the West in their deal with Iran in the same way they acted in disclosing Iran’s secret nuclear activities:

A comprehensive sanction has its own plans to fulfill and we can, if they will, give more details on the issue.

5. Haj-Hamzeh at the closing minutes of the TV program and talking about the possible pressure that Iranian people might sustain following the imposition of sanctions said people had to inevitably pay the price if Mojahedin were possibly assume the power:

Ultimately, we intend to step into a big fight to settle it with the state that is nearing the side and naturally we have to pay for it.

The current process of negotiation between Iran and the European sides is rational and promising and Mojahedin never sit silent to watch it proceed smoothly. Manssour Qadr-Khah’s letter to President George Bush demanding to fulfill his threatening promises against Iran is only one of the many attempts. Out of the three plotted projects against Iran (terrorism, human rights and the nuclear file) to create serious international crises, the nuclear issue, having the top priority, has badly disappointed them. They have to find new solutions to prevent any failure in this project. Besides, all Mojahedin sympathizers, especially those situated in Iraq, are waiting to see the miracle the organization has promised to come out of the crisis of the nuclear file. How Mojahedin are to convince the reminder of the forces to wait longer to see the miracle happen is a trick of their own and the inter-organizational reactions play so serious a role in jeopardizing the group’s survival in future.

Mojahedin.ws – Bahar Irani – October 8, 2006

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