Considering the escalation of the conflict between Iran and Israel, the stance of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) during probable conflicts can be analyzed and predicted. Regardless of the relations between the government of Iran and other governments of the world, including the Zionist regime, the behavior of the MEK during past military conflicts has been recorded in the collective memory of the Iranian nation.
According to the existing testimonies and evidence, the MEK have always stood on the opposite side from the Iranian nation during tensions and military conflicts. Wherever enemies have shown hostilities against the Iranian nation, the MEK have struggled to have a share in these conflicts. So much so that they served Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and were the spying and operational arm of the Iraqi Baath regime.
An immediate alliance with Saddam Hussein
Massoud Rajavi’s complicity with Saddam Hussein at the time of the imposed war was relatively immediate, so that shortly after Masoud Rajavi fled to France, he was expelled from the country, and it did not take long for him to quickly leave France for Iraq at the invitation of General Habbush, the then Iraqi chief of Intelligence service. Consequently, Saddam Hussein o0ffered them Camp Ashraf and provided Rajavi with many military equipment and other facilities.
As a result of this sinister alliance, a huge share of Iraq’s oil dollars was poured into the pockets of Rajavi’s organization, so that even today, when people are asked about the financial resources of the MEK, the main answer goes back to the large investments that the organization made with the dollars donated by Saddam Hussein.
Regarding the relations of the MEK with Israel, it should be noted that the fields of cooperation between the two sides have been laid out years ago. Despite the fact that the early Mujahedin received military training from Palestinian militant groups, and that Yasir Arafat was apparently one of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi’s favorite characters and even had meetings with him, the cooperation of the MEK with the Israeli intelligence agencies has been going on for decades. It has already started.
The extent of the MEK services to Israel
The first operational steps of this cooperation took place in 2002, when the MEK published the documents obtained by Israeli intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. Gareth Porter, an American investigative journalist, has published his research on the role of the MEK as a media arm of the Mossad to expose Iran’s nuclear program. The crisis that caused Iran to be in conflict with the western world over its peaceful nuclear program. Porter calls it a “Manufactured Crisis.” In 2014, he wrote a book with the very title about Mossad’s role in creating documents against Iran’s nuclear program and delivering it to MEK.
In his book, Porter explains how George Bush and Israel succeeded in bringing Iran into crisis by claiming that Iran’s nuclear program is not peaceful. In this book, Porter explains in detail that the source of the American and Israeli claims about Iran’s nuclear program is doubtful.
The services of the MEK to Israel expanded in the following years. The MEK became Israel’s operational arm to assassinate Iran’s nuclear scientists. Ronen Bergman writes in the book “Get Up and Kill Him First” that after Ariel appointed Sharon Dagan as head of the Mossad, he put him in charge of disrupting Iran’s nuclear program, because they both saw Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to Israel. Dagan used various tricks to accomplish this. According to Dagan, the most difficult and of course the most effective was to identify key scientists in Iran’s missile and nuclear industry and then assassinate them. Mossad identified fifteen of these people and eliminated six of them.
The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists was often carried out in the morning, on the way to work, with magnetic detonation bombs that a motorcyclist attached to their car. These operations and many others initiated by the Mossad, sometimes with the cooperation of the United States, were all successful. The operational forces for committing these assassinations were the MEK agents.
In 2012, NBC discussed about the assassination of 4 Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007 and quoted two American officials, without revealing their identities, and wrote that the attacks against Iranian scientists were carried out by members of the MEK with financial, training and logistic support of the Israeli intelligence service. The mentioned American officials told NBC that the American government was aware of the terror operation but had no role in it.
Investigative columnist Seymour Hersh stated in a report in the same year that Washington is involved in the training of the MEK agents. He said that the forces of the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) started training them in 2005. Although Hersh was unable to contact the JSOC-trained members of the MEK who carried out the Israeli assassination operations, a senior former intelligence official told Hersh that the assassination operations received intelligence support from the US intelligence community. This security official said that the assassinations were basically carried out by the MEK, who are in contact with Israel, but America was the source of the information.
In a report that Al Jazeera published last year about the relations between Iran and Israel, it is also stated that over the past years, Israel has supported various groups that are violently in opposition to the Islamic Republic, and one of these groups is the People’s Mujahideen (MEK/ PMOI).
The most recent case regarding the terrorist cooperation of the MEK with Israel was the assassination of Kermani citizens during the fourth anniversary of General Soleimani. In a report, the Guardian published at the time, it noted the role of the MEK and Israel in this operation, although it acknowledged that American and British officials argued that the pattern of attacks on Kermani civilians was different from the pattern of assassination of nuclear scientists.
A strategic alliance
However, there are many evidence of operational and intelligence relations between the MEK and Israel, which are definitely more than two decades old. If the tensions between Iran and Israel increases, this time the MEK will act much more skillfully than during the time of Saddam Hussein, especially those who have received advanced espionage and military trainings from the Mossad and the US Army over the years. This time, the Cult of Rajavi will commit bigger betrayals with more destructive dimensions.
Cooperating with the enemy at war with the homeland is an unforgivable crime in all countries of the world. Treason is universally defined as engaging in war against one’s home country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, diplomats, or secret services for a hostile foreign power, or attempting to assassinate that country’s head of state. A person who commits treason – the MEK has a history in it- is considered as a traitor according to the law, and the punishment is severe according to international laws in all countries of the world. This means that in most countries the punishment for treason is life imprisonment, and in some countries where the death penalty is still customary, the punishment for betraying your own country is death.
Massoud Rajavi never stood on the right side of history by the side of his countrymen. In recent years, there have been news about Maryam Rajavi’s trip to Tel Aviv, her meeting with Netanyahu, or the Israeli ambassador in Albania, and similar news. Although the news could not be confirmed, what is certain is that the meeting with the Mossad agents has taken place at different levels of the MEK organization and the grounds for cooperation between the two sides have been provided from years ago. In case of a military conflict, the MEK is ready to provide services to Israel.
Mazda Parsi