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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned certain Western countries against the consequences of their supports for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), saying the West will be plagued with the groups’ terrorist acts in future.
“The group (MKO) has the darkest record of terrorist acts in the world but the Westerners support the sinister group,” Larijani said in a speech in the central province of Qom on Monday.
The Westerners should be aware that they will be plagued with the terrorist group in the future, he noted.
The parliament speaker also pointed to the MKO’s terrorist activities against the Iranian nation, saying that the group has spared no efforts to harm the Islamic Establishment, but their plots have been foiled.
On July 9, the MKO terrorists held a meeting in the French capital of Paris, with diplomats from some Arab states, including Saudis, making hostile remarks against Iran in the gathering.
The MKO – listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community – fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq and was given a camp by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
They fought on the side of Saddam during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88). They were also involved in the bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq in 1991 and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
The notorious group is also responsible for killing thousands of Iranian civilians and officials after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
More than 17,000 Iranians, many of them civilians, have been killed at the hands of the MKO in different acts of terrorism including bombings in public places, and targeted killings.
Open letter of Ali Akbar Rastgoo to the Australian Ambassador in Germany: Keep Mojahedin Khalq on terrorist List
Australian Embassy
Wallstraße 76-79
10179 Berlin
Dear Ambassador David James RitchieAO,
On November the 25th the listing of the Iranian “Mojahedin-e Khalq” organization (MKO/MEK), aka “People´s Mojahedin Organization of Iran” (PMOI) with its political wing, the “National Council of Resistance of Iran” (NCRI) and its military wing, the “National Liberation Army” (NLA) on the Consolidated List has to be extended.
Since years, the MKO tries to appear as a democratic exile-opposition, calling themselves “the Iranian resistance”. They spent a lot of money to acquire support from international former political and military officials and launched a huge public-relations-campaign to present themselves as the “only alternative to the Iranian regime”.
But behind the wall, the MKO is a cultish organization with no support among the most Iranians (exiles as well as those living in Iran). The majority of the Iranians despise the MKO for their alliance with Saddam Hussein in the 80s and for their position against the nuclear program (by most of the Iranian population the program is seen as a legitimate right). At least there is the occult and even messianic image, which has been arranged to Maryam Rajavi “President-elect” and “Sun of the Revolution” and the cultish structure of the organization, which raises questions of democracy within the organization itself because Maryam Rajavi remained the President of the organization since her “election” in 1993 without any sign of political pluralism.
Daniel Benjamin, the former U.S. State Department’s counterterror coordinator, told the FP-Website 2015: “Being delisted as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — a decision I took part in — doesn’t mean that this group … has suddenly … become trustworthy or worthy of engagement.”[2], beat up critical demonstrators in Saint-Michel in 2012[4].
With cyber-attacks they crashed several homepages from former members and critics.
They denounce former members and critics as “agents of the Iranian intelligence” in general.
A lot of MKO-members took part in a large number of hunger strikes in the last years (also in Australia) and so revealed servile obedience to their leader, Maryam Rajavi. You may not forget the self-illumination-protest by MKO-members after the French police raid the MKO headquarter in Paris in 2003.
A speaker of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs told in June 27th 2014:
“France has no contact with the “People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran” which is known for its use of violence. It has no legal existence in France as an organization. Its violent and undemocratic Ideology has been exposed by several human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International who have reported on the organization’s cultic practices and its refusal to formally renounce violence. We also warn about the intense campaign of disinformation and influence it leads”.[2], includes armed attacks and assassinations against Iranian Government personnel and property, murdering of US military and civilians and the simultaneous attacks on Iranian embassies worldwide, including Australia. With regard to this and in the light of the MKO-activities in the last years, the MKO seems not to have renounced violence seriously.
As an organization of MKO-dropouts we are well connected to the latest dropouts coming directly from Camp Liberty.
We would like to meet you or the responsible official in the embassy in Berlin or in the consulate general in Frankfurt to inform you about the latest new from inside the MKO, especially about the ties between the MKO and ISIS.
This could be interesting regarding the Listing of the MKO and the upcoming decision to extend the MKO-listing, or not.
We would be very happy to be invited to share our information.
Yours sincerely,
AAWA Association e.V.
Dipl. Ing. Ali Akbar Rastgou (Chairman)
[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/27/former-state-official-helped-delist-the-mek-as-a-terror-threat-that-doesnt-mean-he-wants-to-testify-with-them/.
[2] http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=2809.
[3] http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=12755.
[4] http://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=6319.
[5] http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/iran/http-publication-diplomatie-gouv-fr-fr-dossiers-pays-iran-evenements/article/iran-organisation-des.
[6] http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/FlagPost/2012/December/Delisting_the_MujahideeneKhalq_MeK
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AAWA association,
The Islamic Republic of Iran is marking the anniversary of the assassination of former President Mohammad Ali Rajaei and then-Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, who lost their lives in a bombing in the capital,
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| Late Iranian President Mohammad Ali Rajaei (L) and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar (file photo) |
Tehran, 35 years ago.
On August 30, 1981, President Rajaei, Prime Minister Bahonar and several other Iranian officials had convened at the Tehran office of the Iranian prime minister in a meeting of Iran’s Supreme Defense Council when a bomb explosion ripped through the building.
Survivors said an aide, identified as Massoud Kashmiri, had brought a briefcase into the conference room, placed it near the two high-ranking Iranian political figures and then left.
The explosion occurred when one of the victims opened the briefcase. The blast killed Rajaei, Bahonar and three other members of the Islamic Republican Party.
Subsequent investigations later revealed that Kashmiri was an operative of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq
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| This file photo shows the aftermath of the bomb blast at the office of Iran’s then-prime minister in Tehran, August 30, 1981. |
Organization (MKO), who had infiltrated the then-prime minister’s office disguised as a state security official.
Every year on August 23, Iran marks the Government Week to commemorate the memory of the late President Rajaei and Prime Minister Bahonar.
In 1986, the MKO members fled Iran to Iraq, where they received support from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf, now known as Camp New Iraq, near the Iranian border. They were subsequently relocated to another camp, and are awaiting potential transfer to third countries.
The United States and the European Union (EU) have removed the MKO from their lists of terrorist organizations. The anti-Iran terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe, and even hold meetings with American and EU officials.
A number of Mujahedin-e Khalq former members, as well as the group’s hostages’ families and victims of the group’s terror acts met Ms. Royal on Sunday August 29, 2016.
The French Environment Minister listened by great interest to the representatives of the MKO victims’ delegation: Ms. Narges Beheshti and Mr. Khodabandeh.
Ms. Segolene Royal welcomed and appreciated the documentations’ on the MKO Cult as well as the group’s hostages’ families’ pleas offered to her by the MKO victims’ representatives.
The French minister is on a three-day visit to Iran with senior business figures from French environmental and renewable energy firms.
Segolene Royal met in Tehran with the head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organisation, Massoumeh Ebtekar, and a group of ministers, agreeing to work together on the water shortage, energy efficiency and pollution problems facing Iran. She criticized the refusal of her country’s banks to work with the Islamic republic.
It’s worth mentioning that Ms. Royal received a campaign endorsement from Mujahedin-e Khalq group in 2007 as a French presidential candidate and opponent to the right-wing Nicholas Sarkozy.
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| AFP: Photographs released by the group appeared to show a crowd of thousands in a hangar-like hall, and a panel of women behind a banner reading "Women of Iraq, Iran and France: with Segolene, for peace, against fundamentalism." |
Congratulating Ms. Segolene Royal on her victory as the Socialist Party’s candidate for the 2007 French presidential elections Maryam Rajavi said:”
"The Iranian Resistance for liberty and democracy and I share the joy and happiness that you expressed when your victory in the internal elections of the Socialist Party was announced".
The group also held a rally in support of Segolene Royal. PMOI spokesman Shahria Kia said the rally was attended by his group and by Iranian and Iraqi opposition groups who feel Royal would be a better ally than previous French presidents in their battle with the Tehran regime, AFP reported at the time.
At least 155 MKO terrorists flee Iraq to Albania: Reports
At least 155 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), including a number of the group’s senior leaders, have reportedly fled Iraq to Albania.
A US passenger plane transferred the MKO terrorists, who had been holed up in Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, early on Thursday, Didehban Strategic Institute reported.
Several high-ranking officials of the MKO terrorist group, possibly its ringleader Massoud Rajavi, were reportedly on board the US plane.
An arrest warrant had been issued for the terrorists by the Iraqi government and they fled the country with fake identities and passports.
Didehban also quoted informed sources in Iraq as saying that the US plane had had no other passenger but the MKO terrorists.
There is still no word if any MKO member remains in Camp Liberty but the terrorists’ departure has been reportedly facilitated by the United States, the United Nations and with the cooperation of Saudi Arabia.
There is a deep-seated resentment toward MKO in Iraq because of its criminal past. The group widely supported former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his brutal crackdown on opponents.
The terror group also sided with Saddam during his 1980-1988 war on Iran.
Iraqi leaders have long urged MKO remnants to leave the Arab country but a complete eviction of the terrorists has been hampered by the US and European support for the group.
The terrorist group had to flee Iran shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 after carrying out a spate of assassinations and bombings which took the lives of many top officials and civilians.
In December 2011, the UN and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Liberty, which is a former US military base.
The last group of the MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government in September 2013 and relocated to the camp to await potential relocation to third countries.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.
155 Mujahedn-e Khalq members residing in Camp Liberty, Iraq moved to Albania, Tirana, Neday-e Haghighat website reported.
The members transferred in two groups of 35 and 120 individuals.
These two groups included several high-ranking members of the group who are notoriously known for their inhuman attitude against low-ranking members taken as hostages in the cult. These folks have been under the arrest warrant issued by Iraqi government so they fled Iraqi territory by fake identity and passport.
Based on the reports during August, 831 residents of Camp Liberty (TTL) transferred to Albania.
Some 600 rank and file members of the MKO group who are taken as hostages by the Cult leaders are still in the Camp liberty.
Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad said on Thursday August 5, that the remaining members of MKO will be deported in 45 days.
The names are as follows:
The second group:
Saudi Arabia is often accused of supporting jihadist groups. Now, the monarchy is helping Berlin’s security authorities in the fight against terror. What appears to be a contradiction is not.
A jihadi inspired rampage in a regional train near Würzburg; and a bomb attack – designed to kill a large number of people but gone awry – in Ansbach: Both attacks were supposedly orchestrated by men in Saudi Arabia that gave the attackers instructions from afar, via chat.
That is the story the German magazine “Spiegel” is reporting in connection to chat protocols in the possession of federal agencies. The magazine also refers to information provided by a high-ranking government official in the Saudi capital Riyadh. According to the official, several telephone numbers show that the two young men were in close contact with the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS) in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government has now announced comprehensive cooperation with Germany in investigating the recent attacks in Bavaria.
For years, Saudi Arabia has been the source of what has appeared to be contradictory information. First, the country is accused of exporting an extremely conservative strain of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, which also happens to be the kingdom’s state religion. Shortly after the outbreak of war in Syria, accusations that the monarchy was financing jihadi groups that were not only seeking to topple the Assad government but also create a new “caliphate” under the control of the terror organization “Islamic State” (IS), grew louder. And finally, for years the West has considered Saudi Arabia to be an important partner in the fight against jihadist terror.
Dubious commitment
Sebastian Sons, Middle East expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), tells DW that the news is not as contradictory as it initially seems. “The Saudi government has been involved in the fight against terror since the attacks on America in September 2001. That was partially a reaction to US pressure. But it was also because institutions in the kingdom were increasingly the target of jihadist attacks as well, first by al-Qaeda and later ‘IS.’”
At the same time there are a number of religious foundations in the country, and some of these, as well as a number of wealthy individuals, have great sympathy for the aims of “IS” and provide the organization with financing. “Such money transactions are now being very closely monitored.” Yet, there is no way to exert total control over them. “Firstly, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the capacity to do so. And secondly, one has to say that there is serious doubt about whether they have the political will to do so.”
Nevertheless, even if the royal house had the will, it would be able to do little about it. Because the House of Saud, which has controlled the country since it was founded in the eighteenth century, is totally dependent upon the conservative Wahhabis. It is the religious movement that lends the Sauds the ideological legitimacy upon which their rule is based.
Alliance between religion and politics
The moral foundation for the rule of the Sauds was established by a religious scholar hailing from an area near what is now the capital Riyadh. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, as the scholar was known, was born in 1703, the son of a judge.
Ibn Wahhab developed an entirely new criteria with which to judge the legitimacy of regional rulers. This legitimacy, he said, only existed as long as rulers abided by the tenets of religious faith. Political leaders, according to Wahhab, must comply to the will of god in all that they do. Should they fail to do so, they forfeit their legitimacy.
Thus, subjects were given a clear criteria with which to judge their rulers: Do their actions express the will of god, or not? It was a radically emancipating idea, yet it carried the seed of later abuses in it from the start: For who determines what god’s will is?
Ibn Wahhab came up with a unique solution to the problem: He directly tied religious power to political power. And he did so by seeking out an alliance with the most powerful partner of his day: Prince Saud l., ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Saud, the conquerer of the Emirate of Diriyah, the first Saudi state. The prince secured the theological power of his religious partner with his own military might. And in return, the legitimacy of his political rule received the scholar’s religious blessing.
The alliance between these two families, the ruling Sauds and the descendants of ibn-Wahhab responsible for answering all religious questions in the kingdom, has continued to hold until this day.
Unresolved dilemma
This alliance, by necessity, also determines the royal family’s current reaction to terror. “The royal family sees terrorism as an extreme security threat, but it still has to align itself with the Wahhabi scholars in terms of ideology,” says Sebastian Sons. This means that the monarchy is constantly forced to tolerate its – at times radical – world view. They rarely have the luxury of refusing to give their support. “The structure of the Saudi state is based upon the alliance between Wahhabi scholarship and the House of Saud. That is a unsolvable dilemma for the royal family, even today.”
That means that the rest of the world will have to live with the reality of more attacks being orchestrated from Saudi Arabia. As long as ideological extremism cannot be overcome, security measures can only help to a point.
++ A year ago, Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad (the father of Zeinab Hossein Nejad) and Mostafa Mohammadi (the father of Somayeh Mohammadi) visited the MEK HQ in Auvers-sur-Oise to picket and bring attention to the plight of their loved ones. They were attacked and badly beaten in the street by MEK operatives. This week the MEK gaffed by publishing a video which attempts to expose and thereby intimidate people (families and formers) who have approached their base in France. Instead, the video achieved high circulation because it shows the MEK operatives beating up Hossein Nejad and the faces of some of the perpetrators are recognisable. The film also shows that when local citizens arrived these MEK agents ran away. Payvand Rahai site carries the film with an explanation of who is who and what is happening. It is titled – ‘Rajavi is proud of torturing people in the streets of France’.
++ The mass transfers of the radicalised residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq to a closed base in Albania is continuing. But among the transfers was a charter flight carrying 115 of Rajavi’s close associates who are wanted people. Several sources in Iraq have said that although this flight is registered as a UN flight, it is Saudi Arabia along with the American military who have escorted these people safely out of the country. This has led to speculation that Massoud Rajavi may be among them, if he is still alive. In Tirana the 115 persons have been taken to a separate facility. Iran’s Tasnim News reports that it is an American base. The names of the 115 persons have been made public.
++ Man-o To TV, which is an anti-Iran Farsi channel broadcast from London, reported that the Saudi King has invited Maryam Rajavi to go visit Saudi for Haj. This prompted strong reactions among Farsi commentators. Mostly from human rights advocates and women’s rights campaigners who place this alongside the situation of women’s rights in the KSA.
++ An Iranian film ‘Emkan-e Mina’ (Mina’s Option) which has been screened for the last few weeks has prompted a strong negative reaction by the MEK in their sites. Ironically there is nothing in this film which the MEK has not previously accepted about itself. The film is set at the start of the 1979 revolution and shows the beginnings of the MEK’s armed operations and team houses etc. The film has its own story but more importantly it revives memories among the Iranian public of what the MEK did at that time.
In English:
++ The problem of hosting radicalised terrorists on Albanian soil is hugely controversial in the country. Albanian newspaper Gazeta Impakt translated and published the Huffington Post article by Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh titled ‘Grand Controversy as MEK can’t prove leader Massoud Rajavi is dead or alive’. The question of Rajavi’s death continues to be an issue inside the MEK. A short film was also broadcast by Iran-Interlink showing Maryam Rajavi’s reaction when Prince Turki al-Faisal twice and very deliberately refers to ‘the late Massoud Rajavi’.
++ Iranian officials announced that four separate terrorist units had been detected and ‘destroyed’. Major General Mohammad Marani, Commander of the IRGC’s Quds base said that Iran’s borders are under ‘vigilant protection because Arab intelligence services, especially from Saudi Arabia, are trying to create insecurity on Iran’s eastern borders’. On a separate occasion, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi used his first press conference to urge Saudi officials to “take rational and wise measures since stability and security of the region would also benefit the Arab kingdom”. This was in response to news of the upcoming visit of Maryam Rajavi, anti-Iran terrorist leader, to the kingdom.
++ An interesting analysis of ‘Saudi Arabia’s ambivalent relationship to terrorism’ in Deutsche Welle says: “The royal family sees terrorism as an extreme security threat, but it still has to align itself with the Wahhabi scholars in terms of ideology,” says Sebastian Sons. This means that the monarchy is constantly forced to tolerate its – at times radical – world view. They rarely have the luxury of refusing to give their support. “The structure of the Saudi state is based upon the alliance between Wahhabi scholarship and the House of Saud. That is an unsolvable dilemma for the royal family…”
August 26, 2016
The Mujahedin-e Khalq ( MEK/MKO) criminal heads are running away from Camp Liberty, Iraq using false passports. These are the elements who have been involved in terrorizing, torturing and killing operations and are mostly wanted by Interpol.
They are mostly escaping to Albania and then to European countries.
Information and photographs of several of these fugitive elements has been exposed by former members of the MKO destructive cult.
For several years she was the Director of Finance and money laundering system of Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group.
She also ran the so called Control Section of the group.
Safaei imposed her dictatorship on rank and file through torture and harassment.
The Control section of the MKO destructive cult have had required the commanders to constantly monitor members and prepare reports over the members’ all personal, mental and physical state.
In addition members are required to participate the daily, weekly and monthly mandatory brainwashing sessions in which they have to confess all their acts as well as all their private thoughts and dreams. The members are harshly punished even for their dreams.
