Jafarzadeh needs first to bring evidence that the Mojahedin (aka National Council of Resistance of Iran or the resistance) does indeed have members and/or supporters inside the country and that such people are in position to gain greater access to information on Iran’s nuclear activities than the IAEA inspectors, before his claims can be taken seriously by Iran experts.
“Saddam’s regime allocated 50% of its budget to propaganda and had ties with many Arab and non-Arab terrorist groups; for instance, it had established close ties with the MKO (Mojahedin-e Khalq organization) and in return, took advantage of this group. There’s no doubt that Saddam’s propaganda had a huge impact on many countries including Arab nations, particularly those countries with higher rates of illiteracy and poverty (such as Mauritania, Yemen, and Somalia).”
Massoud Rajavi’s meeting with Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, on 9 January 1983 in France would develop into a strategic alliance entwining the destiny of both Mojahedi Khalq and Saddam together. The meeting opened a new chapter in Mojahedin’s history. The meeting was in fact the product of accepting defeat in urban guerrilla warfare favored by Mojahedin as an effective tactic. Although Mojahedin had anticipated that the meeting would bring about inevitable consequences,…
…in addition to the lack of popular support, they hoped the talks between Europe and Iran would fail and Zionist warmongers would emerge as winners.
Therefore, they resorted to propaganda against Iran’s nuclear programs and tried to convince the public opinion that it’s for military purposes; by this, they wanted to pave the way for sanctions against Iran…
..This leaves the Administration to work with only two groups, as well as some ambitious Iranians in exile who envision themselves as Iran’s future leaders. One is the Mojahedeen Khalgh Organization (supported by some neoconservatives and misguided members of the Congress). The MKO is universally despised by Iranians for acting as Saddam Hussein’s spies during the Iran-Iraq war, and as his agent for suppressing the Iraqi Kurds and Shi’ites…
The people of Iran should have supported the MKO and its requests (as they supported Imam Khomeini) if the group was right; but this never happened.
MKO resorted to assassination and murder, which came from their ideology and thinking. The ideology is the same one that exists in other mafia groups. The MKO conducted unprecedented terrorist operation: bombing the shrine of Imam Reza
The only hope for the MKO is that negotiations between Iran and the EU won’t be resumed, warmongers’ efforts will be fruitful and conditions for sanctions and attacks on Iran are provided!…
These groups don’t care what Khatami says; they don’t want him to be heard
Former President Mohammad Khatami’s visit to the US has aroused serious anger among the neocons, the congress hawks and the AIPAC likudniks. Joining the circus is that aging army of Iranian “freedom fighters,” using their over-hyped 1970’s “expertise” to help America “understand” Iran in 2006. And no, I’m not just talking about the MEK.
Iraqi officials have planned to return the properties, given by Saddam Hussein to the military and other security services, to the treasury. This plan includes returning houses, apartments, and lands given to armed forces by Saddam Hussein
Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) passes hard days in Iraq at the present following the reports of its forthcoming expulsion. It utilizes any legal and illegal lever to secure its stay in Iraq since the dispersion of its members in other countries, if any country consents to receive individuals labeled as terrorists, means a gamble on its survival…