Defected Member:
MKO Collaborating with Iraqi Dissidents, Al-Qaeda to Topple Maliki Gov’t
A defected member of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the
"The MKO and its ringleaders have high hopes for toppling Maliki’s government and are using every possible method to achieve this goal," said Ali Hosseinnejad, a highly trusted veteran member of the MKO who accompanied MKO ringleader Maryam Rajavi as her personal interpreter in talks with Iraqi government officials during Saddam’s era.
"They (the MKO ringleaders) have so specially strong contacts and relations with one of Iraq’s political lists and also with certain political figures within the government that Rajavi has officially declared a 40-day deadline for the overthrow of Maliki’s government," added Hosseinnejad who has just very recently defected from the terrorist group and surrendered to the Iraqi forces.
Hosseinnejad revealed that the MKO has still ties with the remnants of Saddam regime as well as other terrorist groups, specially the al-Qaeda network in Iraq.
The defected member had also earlier this month revealed that the leaders of the MKO were acting in full subordination to Iraq’s security services during the era of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
Hosseinnejad unveiled that MKO ringleader Massoud Rajavi received direct orders from the chiefs of Saddam’s security services.
"The Istekhbarat (security) service of Iraq always considered the MKO as one of its subordinate units and a subdivision of Istekhbarat and was present in all high-level meetings of the MKO as the dominating side," Hosseinnejad said.
Despite the propaganda campaign by MKO ringleaders about the importance of the terrorist cult, Rajavi was unable to do a move before it was Okayed by Saddam’s security services, he reiterated.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is still in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.