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Iraq to expel remaining MKO terrorists in 45 days: Iran envoy

Iraq is set to expel the remaining members of the terrorist anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its soil in the near future, a senior Iranian diplomat says.

Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Danaeifar said on Thursday that the Iraqi government with the cooperation of the United Nations has so far expelled 65 percent of the MKO terrorists and the rest will be deported in 45 days.

“The Iraqi government has long sought to expel the MKO members, but this process has been delayed due to pressure from the US and some of its allies,” Danaeifar said.

The MKO terrorists “have the blood of not only Iranians but Iraqi people on their hands,” said the Iranian diplomat, adding that the terrorist outfit was “complicit” in the crimes committed by the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s.

The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to MKO’s acts of terror.

There is a deep-seated resentment toward the group in Iraq because of its criminal past. The MKO widely supported Saddam in his brutal crackdown on opponents.

In 1986, the MKO members fled Iran for Iraq, where they received support from Saddam and set up Camp Ashraf, now known as Camp New Iraq, near the Iranian border.

In December 2011, the UN and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base.

The last group of the MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government in September 2013 and relocated to Camp Hurriyet to await potential transfer to third countries.

Washington and the European Union 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.

August 6, 2016 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Great gathering of Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult critics in Paris

Former members of MKO Cult and the group leaders’ critics staged rally in Paris

Defectors and critics of Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult held the protest gathering in Paris Chatelet square on Saturday, July9th, Yaran-e Iran Website reported.

The protest gathering lasted from 11 AM to 4 PM. Defectors of the group who had lost many years of their lives within the cult affairs revealed the group’s true face.

Recounting their ordeals, ex-members exposed the deceptive, inhumane and cultic nature of the MKO. The action welcomed by French citizens as well as Iranians residing there.

Ms. Batoul Soltani, Ms. Homeira Mohammadnejad, Ms. Zahra Moeini and Mr. Issa Azadeh as first hand witnesses, shared their experiences within the cult with the spectators.

Besides, Human rights activists, defectors and critics of Mujahedin-e Khalq cult gathered together at evening of the same day in order to shed light on the true face of Rajavis’ Cult.

Mr. Mostafa Mohammadi whose daughter is held hostage by the MKO, Ms. Batoul Soltani, Ms. Homeria Mohammadnejad, MS. Zahra Moeini, Mr. Aliakbar Rastgou, Mr. Mohammadhussein Sobhani and Mr. Gholam husseinnejad addressed the audiences.

The event took place the same day the MKO Cult held its anniversary propaganda show.

July 14, 2016 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

MKO ex-members protest action in Cologne

Mujahedin-e Khalq former members hold protest action in support of the families of the group’s members in Cologne, Germany.

The protest gathering was held on May 14th, in front of Dame Church in down town, Cologne.

The human rights activists who participated the gathering appealed for the basic rights of MKO Cult members who are under the systematic manipulation practices of the Cult leaders.

Homeira Mohammadnejad, Zahra Moeini, Batoul Soltani, Ali Jahani, Nader Keshtkar, Davoud Baghervand Arshad, Amir Mowaseghi, Mehdi Khoshhal and Abdolkarim Mahmoudi participated the rally.

The protest action lasted for hours. Hundreds of brochures – in Germany and English – handed out to the citizens . The brochures illustrated the true nature of the organized Cult of MKO.

May 17, 2016 0 comment

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

I was lucky that I didn’t get back to the MKO!

Hanif Bali was only three years old when he was separated from his parents in Camp Ashraf and was sent to Sweden. The 29-year-old Hanif is now a member of parliament for Sweden’s Moderate Party.

“I was lucky that I didn’t get back to Iraq”, he said in a documentary that was filmed from a day of his life by Manoto TV. When in 1991, Massoud Rajavi ordered his rank and file to leave their children under the pretext of the Gulf War, Hanif and many other children were transferred to Europe where they were kept in the MKO’s team houses or by Swedish families or Iranian sympathizers of the MKO.

“I have had seven to eight mother,” Hanif said about his childhood as an immigrant. His biological mother was not allowed to call him except once a year on his birthday. “About my father I have very few memoires,” he said with a regretful look.

A large number of children of the MKO members were then brought back to the MKO’s camp in Iraq, Camp Ashraf. Some of them were eventually killed. Hanif was determined not to get back to the unpleasant life of the group in Iraq although the group recruiters tried to convince him to join the group when he was eighteen. The recruiter showed him a film of his father. In the film, Hanif’s father tried to indoctrinate him to go to Iraq and to allegedly fight just like his childhood friends who had gone to Ashraf and had been killed for the group’s cause. “I was shocked by the film because it was the first time to see my father,” he stated. He was lucky that his aunt was with him in that recruitment meeting. ”We won’t discuss it now”, she said. So, Hanif who felt angry with his father went home. He was very angry with him that after long years of no call and no contact, his father was just asking him to join the group. “Today, when I think of that day, I still get angry”, he told Manoto.

“This was a hard decision for a young boy to take”, he asserted. ”If I had accepted to join the group at that day, I would have been in a camp in the midst of war, in the midst of misery.”

Hanif was grown up in a democracy far from the cult-like totalitarian system that brainwashed parents to leave their beloved children behind for their leaders’ ambitions. He defines the big gap between his life and that of his parents, “The big difference between me and my parents is that I don’t see the world as black and white”.

April 20, 2016 0 comment

Camp Liberty

Ashur Varshi escaped Camp Liberty and contact his family

Mr. Varshi defected the Mojahedin- e Khalq group and managed to run away the Cult after 27 years.

Ashur Varshi now resides in a hotel in Baghdad, Iraq. As soon as he stepped the free world, Ashur called his brother; Ghorban. He introduced himself and said that he was free, living in a hotel in Baghdad. His brother was shocked and couldn’t stop crying. The Varshi family were really happy they could hear Ashur’s voice after nearly three decades.

Ashur asked to talk to his parents. He said that he missed his mother a lot. Unfortunately his parents were dead while he was captive of MKO Cult.

Another camp liberty resident escaped along with Ashur. Mr. Mahmoud Ruhollahi is from Babolsar and now resides in the same hotel as Ashur.

January 24, 2016 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The Cult of Rajavi, a Proxy Force Kept for Rainy Day

For decades the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have been trying to take advantage of the chaotic situations created by civil wars. They did this by training and equipping proxy forces. The result of this catastrophic tactic has so far been huge casualties and loss of lives in the region.

One of the most instrumental proxy forces used against the Iranian Government is the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ the Cult of Rajavi). The group itself has made too much effort to gain the support of the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia although its hostility towards the Islamic Republic seems to be convincing enough for the Saudis and Zionists.

The MKO in its turn gives enough credit to its supporters for their warmongering agendas in the Middle East including Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.

For the time being, the US is fighting a complicated proxy war in Syria. According to the New York Times, “Insurgent commanders say that since Russia began air attacks in support of the Syrian government, they are receiving for the first time bountiful supplies of powerful American-made antitank missiles.” [1]

The propaganda media of the Cult of Rajavi publishes the news of US-Saudi backed forces of the ISIS and other insurgents in Syria and Yemen reporting their alleged progress, every day. The Cult of Rajavi cannot conceal its happiness of the recent visit between the US Secretary of State and his counterpart in Saudi Arabia because they might go on the same path to back the MKO against the Islamic Republic, some day.

The MKO’s propaganda accuses the Islamic republic of intervening in the internal affairs of the countries in the region while it is cheering the US and Saudi for their military and financial aid to fighting rebels and terrorists in the region.

Change will definitely come to nations in different ways but not by a destructive cult with a dark history of terror against civilians and violation of human rights against its own members. Furthermore, since this group is hated by Iranians due to its treason during the eight year war with Iraq and collaborating with Saddam, it does not have any place among people of Iran. [2]

An October 7, 2015 hearing before the US Senate Committee on Armed Forces (SASC) titled, “Iranian Influence in Iraq and the Case of Camp Liberty,” served as a reaffirmation of America’s war mongers’ commitment to back the terrorist MKO.

During the hearing, former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, former US Marine Corps Commander and former Supreme Allied Commander Europe General James Jones, USMC (Ret.), and Colonel Wesley Martin, US Army (Ret.) provided testimony to back the MKO terrorists. [3]

The Bangkok based American journalist Tony Cartalucci writes, “All three witnesses made passionate pleas before a room full of nodding senators for America to continue backing not only MEK terrorists currently harbored on a former US military base in Iraq, but to back groups like MEK inside of Iran itself to threaten the very survival of the government in Tehran.” [4]

Cartalucci lists the MKO’s violent attacks:

”Admissions to the deaths of the Rockwell International employees can be found within a report written by former US State Department and Department of Defense official Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. on behalf of the lobbying firm Akin Gump in an attempt to dismiss concerns over MEK’s violent past and how it connects to its current campaign of armed terror – a testament to the depths of depravity from which Washington and London lobbyists operate.

“To this day MEK terrorists have been carrying out attacks inside of Iran killing political opponents, attacking civilian targets, as well as carrying out the US-Israeli program of targeting and assassinating Iranian scientists. MEK terrorists are also suspected of handling patsies in recent false flag operations carried out in India, Georgia, and Thailand, which have been ham-handedly blamed on the Iranian government.” [5]

He also confirms the MKO’s cult-like attitude referring to Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh who described the group a “cult-like organization” with “totalitarian tendencies.” [6]

Cartalucci criticizes the speakers of the hearing, “Not once is any of this backstory mentioned in the testimony of any of the witnesses before the senate hearing, defiling the memories of those who have been murdered and otherwise victimized by this terrorist organization. The de-listing of MEK in 2012 as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department is another indictment of the utter lack of principles the US clearly hides behind rather than in any way upholds as a matter of executing foreign policy.”[7]

Once more, Cartalucci warns about the notorious policy paper “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran” that eagerly discussed the potential of the MKO as a proxy force against Iran, in 2009. [8]

Belen Fernandez of Al Jazeera criticizes the double standards of the West on terrorism. She announces the Islamic Republic as victim of terror. “While Iran is portrayed in Western and Israeli circles as a relentless supporter of terrorism worldwide, the conference focused on a less politically convenient reality: that of Iran as a victim of terror,” she states. As an enlightened journalist who has interviewed victims of the MKO terror attacks in Tehran, Fernandez condemns the US’s hypocrisy on the issue of terrorism. ”Indeed, when it comes to terrorizing people, the “land of the free” beats the Islamic Republic, hands down. But the victory goes largely unreported in mainstream circles because double standards have become standard operating procedure.” [9]

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] BARNARD, ANNE& SHOUMALIOCT, KARAM, U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia, The New York Times, October 12, 2015[2] Cartalucci, Tony, The Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK): The US Prepares to Back a New Terrorist Army in Iran, Prelude to a Wider War?, Land Destroyer, October 10, 2015

[3] ibid

[4] ibid

[5] ibid

[6] ibid

[8] ibid

[9] Fernandez, Belen, When it comes to terrorising people, the US beats the Islamic Republic, hands down, Aljazeera.com, September 08, 2015

November 2, 2015 0 comment

Massoud Rajavi

Massoud Rajavi dead or alive? Who cares?

While members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) are undergoing unstable days of striving in a declining cult-like dissident group, US senators, paid by the MKO lobbies, wonder where the leader of the cult, Massoud Rajavi is.

In an October7th, hearing before the US Senate committee on Armed Forces titled” Iranian Influence in Iraq and the case of Camp Liberty”, senator Joseph Manchin (D-W) asked of Massoud Rajavi’s whereabouts. Prominent MKO lobbyist, retired Colonel Wesley Martin pretended to be informed about the proper answer. He claimed that Rajavi was wounded in an attack and he’s in France now.

It seems that Colonel Martin as the MKO lobbyist and his partner in the hearing Senator Manchin are reading the dialogue of a script written by the MKO propaganda. True or not, should it be important to know about Rajavi’s whereabouts in order to aid Liberty residents taking refuge in the United States?

At the end of this dialogue, Colonel Martin concludes that Maryam Rajavi is the leader now, the front “person that is with all the activities, all the events.”

Critics of the Cult of Rajavi including former members, suggest that this is a new tactic of the MKO’s lobby to launch a propaganda in the US Congress in order to whitewash the whereabout of Massoud Rajavi. The MKO’s propaganda might be seeking to maintain the sacred figure they have always portrayed for Massoud Rajavi, according to critics, because after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the coincident disappearance of Massoud Rajavi, many criticized him for leaving his members in danger and escaping to save his own life.

Moreover, whether Massoud Rajavi is dead or alive is definitely critical to two main groups not to the lobbyist or lawmakers.

The first group who absolutely want to know about Rajavi’s whereabouts are victims of the terrorist acts of the MKO. Thousands of Iranian families are victims of the MKO’s blind mortar attacks, bombings and assassinations, as well as Iraqi Shiites and Kurds whose uprising was suppressed by the MKO – as Saddam’s Private Army – in 1991.

The second group includes members of the Cult of Rajavi who lost years of their lives, isolated from the free world, under the manipulative cult-like system of the group or who are still taken as hostages in the cult. Families of the MKO hostages also suffer the cruelty of the MKO leaders, particularly Massoud Rajavi who first created the system of abusive and torturing of its members in the cult.

Victims of Massoud Rajavi await his “appearance” because he should be brought to justice for the atrocities he committed against his own followers, and civilians in Iran and Iraq.

There have been numerous accounts about Massoud Rajavi’s destiny. But what is very significant about him is that he disappeared just in the most critical situation. He disappeared after the US invasion but the most iconic event at that time was the arrest of Maryam Rajavi by French Police and the fall of Saddam Hussein as the main financial and military supporter of the group. The Survival of the MKO has been crucially based on its propaganda. Question and answer about Massoud Rajavi’s destiny seems to be part of the propaganda of a collapsed organization.

Mazda Parsi

October 29, 2015 0 comment

Massoud Rajavi

Lobbyist Wesley Martin: Massoud Rajavi injured 2003, now in France

Transcript:

(…)

Senator Manchin: What has happened to the leader of MEK? I know Maryam Radjavi is the leader now. What happened to her husband, Massoud? We haven’t heard from him since 2003. Does anybody know what happened to him?

Colonel Martin: Sir, he was wounded in an attack.

Senator Manchin: Is he alive? Is he still alive?

Colonel Martin: The information I have, yes, sir.

Senator Manchin: Is he in the camp? CampLiberty?

Colonel Martin: No, sir, he is not.

Senator Manchin: In the United States?

Colonel Martin: No, sir.

Senator Manchin: He’s somewhere.

Colonel Martin: He’s in — the information I’ve been provided, he’s in France.

Senator Manchin: He’s not consider the leader anymore?

Colonel Martin: He is still the co-leader with Maryam Radjavi.

Senator Manchin: But, she’s the front person.

Colonel Martin: She is the person that is with all the activities, all the events, yes, sir. She is the leader…

(…)

Senate, Armed Forces Hearing,

Link to the video (From 1:12:20)

http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/15-10-07-iranian-influence-in-iraq-and-the-case-of-camp-liberty

October 19, 2015 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

The MKO, Fan club of Saudi Arabia

While the Islamic republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia are at a high level of tensions that may end to a war, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) cannot conceal its pleasure of a disturbed relationship between Iran and its neighbors.

Once, the MKO leader Massoud Rajavi took a lot of advantages from the war between Iran and Iraq although he lost his least support among the Iranian public due to siding with their aggressive enemy. However, the MKO leaders have no way out except resorting to the old tool which is siding with the enemy of Iranian nation.

Having been disappointed with the nuclear deal, and therefore, a normalized Iran-West relationship, they were lying in ambush for another troubled Iranian relations with foreign countries. The disaster of Mina gave them the opportunity.

The group’s propaganda media garner their headlines with sponsorship for Saudi Arabia. In case of the heartbreaking tragedy of this year’s pilgrimage, the MKO leader and propaganda predictably disregarded the loss of a large number of their country-men, instead they played the part of attorney of the Saudis. Maryam Rajavi usually sends message of condolences for the least earthquake that shakes Iran –even if there is no death casualty—and always put the fault of casualties of the quake on the Iranian Government’s mismanagement but she never offers sympathy to the large number of survivors of the Mina disaster that was the direct result of mismanagement of the government of Saudi Arabia that is supposed to manage the most important annual event of the world of Islam.

The MKO’s propaganda covers the clashes in Yemen as if Islamic Republic is bombing civilians rather than Saudi Arabia! Yemen has turned into a humanitarian disaster, where thousands of bombs are being dropped, 1.5 million people are displaced and more than 90% of the population is in need of assistance, according to the Guardian. The Guardian views Yemen’s crisis as “the forgotten war”. But why the Western media forget it because “the US is one of the primary causes of the problem”. This reason is exactly true for the MKO media because Saudi Arabia is one of their military and financial sponsors as well as the US and Israel.

The West is actively assisting the Saudi monarchy while the country indiscriminately kills thousands of civilians in Yemen in what amounts to war crimes by almost anyone’s definition. To obey its western masters and to flatter its main sponsor in the region the MKO turns blind eye to the most horrific atrocities against humanity. However, it claims to advocate human rights and democracy for the Iranian people.

What counts for the MKO to make allies, is only money. As far as the group is financially supported by Saudis, the MKO media serves as their “fan Club”. This is one of many accounts of the Saudi’s sponsorship for the MKO that Press TV reported:

“A Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization defector says the terrorist group receives funding from Saudi Arabia and Israel, emphasizing MKO’s role in the suppression and massacre of Iraqis under the former Baath regime. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ashraf News website in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, Maryam Sanjabi said there is evidence about the relations and cooperation between the MKO and the Saudi kingdom. She added that the group has used the tactic of establishing relations with Jordanian lawmakers in order to expand their activities in Jordan with the help of Riyadh. She also called on the remaining MKO members in camp Liberty in Iraq to think rationally and take advantage of the Iraqi government and UN decisions about their re-settlement in another country. MKO members have now a better chance of escaping in the wake of their transfer from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, situated about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, to the Camp Liberty, the former MKO leadership council member said. The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border. The organization is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The group has also carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.”

By Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] The Guardian, The Yemen crisis is partly our fault. We can no longer facilitate this war, 5 October 2015

[2] Press TV, ‘S Arabia, Israel fund MKO terrorists’, May 13 2012

October 12, 2015 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Facebook account for liberty residents! An outrageous lie

Families of the residents of Camp Liberty who had picketed behind the gate of the Camp probing the visit of their loved, did not succeed to meet them during the due time that they were allowed to picket by the UN officials. The leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) claim that all Liberty residents have Facebook accounts with real IDs !! through which they can contact their families. They labeled the families at Liberty gate as agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and Quds force!

Elderly parents and siblings of the MKO hostages at Camp Liberty suffered the hot and dusty weather and dangerous situation of Iraq in the hope of visiting their loves ones but Liberty authorities did not allow any visit and even threatened that they would stop the relocation of the residents to Albania.

On one hand, leaders of the Cult of Rajavi (the MKO) claim that the entire Camp residents themselves abstain from meeting their families, on the other hand they allege that all residents have Facebook accounts to contact their families. As a matter of fact, making fake personal Facebook accounts with the identity information and photos of liberty residents is a simple tactic for the MKO propaganda to deceive the UN officials.

According to several international reports such as “No Exit” of the Human Rights Watch and the testimonies of a large number of defectors who fled the MKO, members of the group have no free access to the free media. They are allowed to watch the MKO’s satellite channel and a few recorded news reports filtered by the authorities of the camp .They assess the presence of families at the gates of Camp Ashraf as a serious motive to push them to escape the cult, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi fear families as a powerful lever that might influence many other members of the cult of Rajavi to liberate themselves.

The claims and threats made by the MKO authorities indicate that the MKO is definitely a destructive mind control cult that takes its members as hostages under a horrific manipulative system. Social networks including Facebook is an unknown phenomenon for a lot of the Camp residents. Given that they have access to social networks, it sounds weird that they prefer it to a face to face visit with their families who are just a hundred meters away from them.

September 16, 2015 0 comment

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