Payvand association in a statement today said that two MKO members have attacked Mr. Behzad Alishahi in Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere in Paris on September 24, 2007 around 9:30 am. According to the statement, the attackers were forced to leave the scene when faced by resistance from Mr. Alishahi and people in the street who came to help him. The attackers failed to snatch Mr. Alishahi’s briefcase but vowed to take come back shouting, "we will be back and we will teach you a lesson".
Link to the statement (Persian) http://www.irane-ayandeh.com/?p=840
Mr. Alishahi had been a high ranking official of the MKO for two decades. He survived the cult after raising concerns about the violations of human rights inside the MKO. He currently resides in Europe and is an active human rights advocate and critic of Mr. and Mrs. Rajavi, the self-appointed life-time leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization.
This news comes after a series of attacks carried out by the MKO in European cities including the planned semi-military operation carried out by MKO members in Paris in June 2007, which ended in the serious injury of speakers and invitees of a peace conference in FIAP building.
Cult leader Massoud Rajavi gives go-ahead to kill witnesses in European countries. An open letter to the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith (Anne Singleton, July 2007)
While the Mojahedin Khalq Organization is desperately trying to use deception and propaganda to fight back against the inclusion of the group in the list of terrorist entities in the USA, UK, European Union and Canada, it is widely believed that the escalation of violence seen in the last couple of months is the direct result of the order issued by the cult leader in a statement in which he tells his followers to "eliminate" any voice of criticism against the Mojahedin Khalq Organization.
Cult leader Massoud Rajavi gives go-ahead to kill witnesses in European countries. An open letter to the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith (Anne Singleton, July 2007)
Latest article by Mr. Alishahi. Days before the assassination attempt against him:
The highest pitch of stupidity! (Mojahedin Khalq have not given up violence and terror)
Iran Interlink, September 24, 2007