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US Blocks Release of Iran Nuke Papers

U.S. officials have put up roadblocks to stop the International Atomic Energy Agency from sharing documents with Iran regarding its alleged nuclear weaponization, creating an obstacle to negotiations, writes Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service.

US Blocks Release of Iran Nuke Papers The Barack Obama administration has demanded that Iran resolve “past and present concerns” about the “possible military dimensions” of its nuclear program as a condition for signing a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Tehran.

Administration officials have suggested that Iran must satisfy the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the allegations in the agency’s report that it has had a covert nuclear weapons program in the past.

But the record of negotiations between Iran and the IAEA shows Tehran has been ready for the past two years to provide detailed responses to all the charges of an Iranian nuclear weapons work, and that the problem has been the refusal of the IAEA to share with Iran the documentary evidence on which those allegations have been based.

The real obstacle to providing those documents, however, has long been a U.S. policy of refusing to share the documents on the assumption that Iran must confess to having had a weaponization program.

The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, declared on Feb. 12, “The authenticity of each allegation should be proven first, then the person who submitted it to the agency should give us the genuine document. When we are assured of the authenticity, then we can talk to the agency.”

Neither the IAEA nor the Obama administration has responded publicly to Salehi’s statement. In response to a query from Inter Press Service (IPS), the spokesperson for the National Security Council, Bernadette Meehan, said the NSC officials would have no comment on the Iranian demand for access to the documents.

The spokesperson for IAEA Director Yukiya Amano did not answer a request from IPS on Thursday for the agency’s comment.

But a draft text of an agreement being negotiated between the IAEA and Iran dated Feb. 20, 2012, shows that the only difference between the two sides on resolving issues about allegations of Iranian nuclear weapons work was Iran’s demand to have the documents on which the allegations are based.

The draft text, which was later published on the website of the Arms Control Association, reflects Iran’s deletions and additions to the original IAEA proposal. It calls for Iran to provide a “conclusive technical assessment” of a set of six “topics”, which included 12 distinct charges in the report in a particular order that the IAEA desired.

Iran and the IAEA agreed that Iran would provide a “conclusive technical assessment” on a list of 10 issues in a particular order. The only topics that Iran proposed to delete from the list were “management structure” and “procurement activities,” which did not involve charges of specifically nuclear weapons work.

The two sides had agreed in the draft that the IAEA would provide a “detailed explanation of its concerns”. But they had failed to agree on provision of documents to Iran by the IAEA. The IAEA had proposed language that the agency would provide Iran with the relevant documents only “where appropriate.” Iran was insisting on deletion of that qualifying phrase from the draft.

The first priority on the list of topics to which both sides had agreed in the draft was “Parchin” – referring to the claim of intelligence from an unnamed state that Iran had installed a large cylinder at the Parchin military reservation.

A November 2011 IAEA report suggested the cylinder was intended for testing nuclear weapons designs and had been built with the assistance of a “foreign expert.” Iran also agreed to respond in detail on the issue of the “foreign expert,” who has been identified as Vyacheslav Danilenko, a Ukrainian specialist on nanodiamonds.

The evidence associated with that claim and others published in the 2011 report shows that they were based on intelligence reports and documents given to the IAEA by Israel in 2008-09. Former IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei referred to a series of documents provided by Israel in his 2012 memoirs.

Iran also agreed to respond in detail to allegations that Iran had sought to integrate a nuclear weapon into the reentry vehicle of the Shahab-3 missile, and that it had developed high explosives as a “detonator” for a nuclear weapon.

Both alleged activities had been depicted or described in documents reported in the U.S. news media in 2005-06 as having come from a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program. Those documents, about whose authenticity ElBaradei and other senior IAEA officials have publicly expressed serious doubts, have now been revealed as having given to Western intelligence by an anti-regime Iranian terrorist organization.

Former senior German foreign office official Karsten Voigt revealed in an interview last year for a newly-published book by this writer that senior officials of the German intelligence agency BND had told him in November 2004 that the BND had gotten the entire collection of documents from a member of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) who had been one of their sources, and that they did not consider the source to be reliable.

The MEK, considered by the United States and European states as a terrorist organization, had been used by Saddam Hussein’s regime to support the war against Iran and by Israel to issue intelligence and propaganda that Mossad did not want attributed to it.

ElBaradei, who retired from the IAEA in November 2009, had declared repeatedly that sharing the documents was necessary to ensure “due process” in resolving the issue, but the United States had prevented him from doing so. In his final statement to the Board of Governors on Sept. 7, 2009, he appealed to “those who provided the information related to the alleged weaponization studies to share with Iran as much information as possible.”

A former IAEA official, who asked not to be identified, told IPS that the United States had allowed only a very limited number of documents to be shown to Iran in the form of Power Point slides projected on a screen.

A May 2008 IAEA report described a number of documents purported to be from the Iranian weapons program but said that the IAEA “was not in possession of the documents and was therefore unfortunately unable to make them available to Iran.”

Around 100 pages of documents were given by the United States to the agency to share with Iran, the former official said, but none of the documents described in the report were among them.

The U.S. policy of denying Iranian access to the documents continued during the Obama administration, as shown by a U.S. diplomatic cable from Vienna dated April 29, 2009, and released by WikiLeaks. At a P5+1 technical meeting, both U.S. and IAEA officials were quoted as implying that the objective of the policy was to press Iran to confess to the activities portrayed in the papers.

U.S. officials said that a failure by Iran to “disclose any past weaponization-related work” would “suggest Iran wishes to hide and pursue its past work, perhaps to keep a future weapons option”.

IAEA Safeguards Chief Olli Heinonen made it clear that no copies of the relevant documents charging Iran with weaponization would be provided to Iran and complained that Iran had continued to claim that the documents were fabricated. In its report of Nov. 14, 2013, the IAEA said it had received more information – presumably from Israel – that “corroborates the analysis” in its 2011 report.

The past unwillingness of the Obama administration to entertain the possibility that the documents provided by the MEK were fabricated or to allow Iran the opportunity to prove that through close analysis of the documents, and the IAEA’s continued commitment to the weaponization information it has published suggest that the issue of past claims will be just as contentious as the technical issues to be negotiated, if not more so.

Consortiumnews.com

March 3, 2014 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Obama pushes Israel to stop assassinations of Iran nuclear scientists

President Barack Obama is pressuring Israel to stop carrying out assassinations of top nuclear scientists in Iran as the Islamic Republic continues its negotiations with world powers over its uranium enrichment program, according to a new book.

President Barack Obama is pressuring Israel to stop carrying out assassinations of top nuclear scientists in Iran Apart from pressure from Washington that Israel give up the assassination program, sources close to Israel’s intelligence agencies told CBS News’s Dan Raviv that Mossad itself viewed the campaign as too dangerous to continue. Raviv, who was updating a book he co-wrote about the history of Israel’s intelligence agencies, said the pressure form the Obama administration was “more than a hint.”

Mossad itself was apparently undergoing a sea change regarding the program. Fearing their ‘best combatants’ – Israel’s term for its most accomplished spies – could be captured and hanged, the agency is reportedly set to shift its focus to other activities. According to security sources, Netanyahu ordered the intelligence agency to focus its efforts on proving the Islamic Republic is cheating on a landmark preliminary agreement made with six world powers in November to curtail its uranium enrichment program in return for limited sanctions relief.

At least five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007, with men on motorcycles sticking magnetically attachable bombs to their victims’ cars. The head of the country’s ballistic missile program was also killed, while in October Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found shot dead. No Israeli national has ever been arrested in collusion with the targeted assassination program, which is reportedly intended to thwart advances in Iran’s nuclear program and dissuade Iran’s best and brightest from working in the sphere.

The killing of Ahmadi was widely viewed as an attempt to derail nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.

Israel has never publically claimed responsibility for the attacks.

In 2012, however, an NBC News report concluded that “deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service.”

The report cited two senior Obama administration officials as confirming that Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is behind the killings, though the officials denied the US played any role in the program.

Mohammad Javad Larijani, a senior aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, told NBC that Mossad worked through the MEK because “Israel does not have direct access to our society. [The MEK], being Iranian and being part of Iranian society, they have … a good number of places… to get into touch with people.”

The MEK has denied colluding with Israel, though Israeli officials have confirmed links between MEK and Israeli intelligence.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told defense officials on Saturday the country had given up its nuclear program because owning weapons of mass destruction is a sin.

“Even if there were no NPT (nuclear non-proliferation treaty) or other treaties, our belief, our faith, our religion and principles tell us not to seek weapons of mass destruction,” Rouhani said.

In November, Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium beyond 20 percent and to dilute its already enriched stockpiles in return for an estimated $7 billion in sanctions relief. That deal came into effect January 20.

Following the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Vienna on February 20, Iran and the P5+1 agreed to a framework on which to strike a final agreement within the coming months. Both sides have agreed to hold an additional round of talks in Vienna later this month.

March 3, 2014 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

The fake Women’s Day of Maryam Rajavi’s male dominated shop front

from faking history to insulting Iranian women

International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from a general celebration of The fake Women’s Day of Maryam Rajavi’s male dominated shop front respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration of women’s economic, political, and social achievements (Wikipedia).

For a woman who claims to carry the flag of “Revolutionary, Progressive, Moslem Women” in France, the falsification of history would not bother her; she is used to it. What is important for her is a few days of glory in front of a paid audience and that is it. The Mojahedin Khalq (aka Rajavi cult), with no relevance to the cause of women, has yet again chosen to misuse the occasion of 1st March. It may suit the participants and the organisers but what about Iranian women? What do they get out of this and what do they think?

Contrary to what you would expect the shop front of the so-called conference is dominated by the male members of the cult. They are the same ones who were brought out a couple of weeks ago under the label of “Convention of Iranian associations”, the same bunch of people who are, and have for a long time been, under the social and financial umbrella of Massoud Rajavi. The same people who have followed him and Saddam for years in an unjust war against the people of Iran and have carried out armed terrorist activities from Iraq against ordinary men and women in Iran. And the same people who murdered the Iranian scientists in cold blood, and the same people who are plotting for more murder and destruction in training and supporting joint operations alongside the terrorist groups in Syria or the likes of Jaish al Adl, Rigi and others.

What made this gathering even more bizarre and unusual is that in the front row of the audience there were a few big rough men with arms folded over their chests and moustaches and posing as bodyguards! And a few European and Arab women who are known to get paid by Rajavi to attend such meetings and shows in order to applaud her; the ones who turn up each time and never change.

Ironically the title of the meeting is “International Conference on the occasion of Women’s Day – Women in the forefront of the struggle against fundamentalism”. But everything indicates that the meeting is a private gathering. And more than that, it is very clear that there are no independent Iranian (ie non Mojahedin member) women there. Is it not ironic that from the many Iranians living outside Iran not even one of them wanted to participate?

The Mojahedin Khalq’s various websites have claimed: “On Saturday March the first, the participants in an international conference on the occasion of Women’s Day warned about the role of the Iranian regime in spreading Islamic fundamentalism across the region and all over the world. This conference was in the presence of Madame Maryam Rajavi the president elect of the Iranian Resistance and with the participation of a high number of political, social personalities, artists and human rights activists as well as women’s rights activists from 5 continents, also delegations from tens of Iranian organisations and women’s organisations from all over Europe and America”.

From this paragraph it is clear that the “International Conference” as claimed by Mojahedin Khalq has had nothing to do with women but rather is another ill-presented advertisement stunt to whitewash the reputation of a woman who has commanded a terrorist organisation, and ordered both men and women to carry out many operations in Iran and Iraq resulting in thousands of deaths.

Maryam Rajavi, in just this one particular gathering, has gone into overdrive to lie and falsify the social structure of Iranian society and to portray a gloomy face for Iranian women to the extent of claiming that Iranian women are uneducated. This is while according to UN statistics and the international news agencies, Iran has one of the youngest and most educated women populations in the region. Iranian families are generally full of girls and women who have graduated from Iran’s various universities. And every statistic shows that the level of Iranian women’s education and fulfilment of management posts is by far higher than any other country in the region. It is also a well known statistical fact that the number of Iranian female students in Iranian universities is greater than the number of men.

Maryam Rajavi ridiculously goes on to describe the trapped women hostages in Camp Liberty in Iraq “samples and examples of progressive women”, and carries on, “women who have been irreplaceable in the struggle against fundamentalism in the last two decades”, and because of the presence of these women, “Iran on the back of its history and culture of struggle and on the back of 5 decades of Mojahedin Khalq resistance is now the centre of the struggle for justice and women’s rights”.

In this carefully selected meeting, Maryam Rajavi uses vague phrases like, “examples of progressive women”, but never explains who these women are. She does not come clean and say that she means the women in Camp Liberty in Iraq. The same women who have lost their homes and families because of her and her fugitive husband. The same women who have been banned from marriage, having children and barred from contacting their parents or siblings, and the same women who have to stand in front of the pre-staged cameras of the Mojahedin Khalq cult and shout slogans against their own families and reject them with swearing. The same women who have been deprived from their simple needs and forced to wear military uniforms simply because there is no other clothing available to them.

She does not say that these “samples of progressive women in Liberty” under the pretext of the “Ideological Revolution” have been forced to divorce their spouses and leave their children never to contact them again. And if anyone dares to refuse to give in to the “Ideological Revolution”, prison, torture and in some cases death is waiting for them. She does not say that that the women who were forcefully divorced from their husbands have immediately and in some cases collectively been married to her husband Massoud Rajavi and forced to be groomed by her and dance naked for Massoud Rajavi. (In the cult jargon of the Ideological Revolution of the Mojahedin Khalq this is called the “Freedom Dance” – refer to the testimonies of many women survivors of the cult.)

Maryam Rajavi is referring to the women who, throughout their lives have not learned anything but bloodshed, arms, murder and so on. Women who have been working like machines for 18 hours a day without pay; becoming tank commanders under Saddam’s army to attack and destroy Iranian and or Iraqi cities and villages. Women who have soon lost their femininity, lost their children, have no right to love or to be loved, and have to kill and kill till the day they themselves are killed.

The “examples of progressive women” which Maryam Rajavi refers to in Paris, and claims that the rest of the women in the world should accept them as examples, are the women who have seen nothing during the last 30 years except the barbed wire and trenches of the military garrisons given to the Mojahedin Khalq by Saddam Hussein. For the last 30 years they have had no contact with any education whether scientific or otherwise and therefore fall into the category of the most uneducated female population in the world.

Mojahedin Khalq women have never had telephone, Internet, or other contact with the outside world. Their personal transport and cars have been armoured vehicles and tanks from the era of Saddam Hussein. They have never been allowed to leave the perimeter of their garrison and have never had a day off to enjoy themselves. The whole of their belongings in this world is a backpack in which are all their personal belongings and is their only home.

Maryam Rajavi does not say that these “examples of progressive women” have no right to choose anything, even personal issues. They don’t even have the right to meet with their brothers and sisters, even though they are in the same camp or garrison. She does not say that women will end up in prison for even a simple criticism, that they can be subjected to severe torture and in some cases eliminated altogether without even marking their graves. Women who under the 50 degrees heat of Iraqi deserts are force to wear rough and thick military uniforms and boots, wear scarves and obey strict prayer and fasting regimes and take part in religious ceremonies even if they don’t believe in any of it. She did not say in her gathering that the women she refers to have certainly no right to leave her cult and the organisation she and her husband have created.

It is natural for Maryam Rajavi to talk in her male dominated shop front about some unknown women in some unknown place under the sun; a fantasy land covered in mysterious clouds and unfathomable fairy tales.

Surely if just one single independent woman who had some knowledge about the Mojahedin Khalq had been present in this meeting and had had the opportunity to expose the real lives of women in the Mojahedin Khalq cult to Maryam Rajavi’s paid audience, the roof of that building would have fallen in with the shock and amazement of it, and crushed the disgraced liar and murderous woman on the stage.

Amir Hussein Panahi,Translated by Iran Interlink

March 3, 2014 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MKO and Struan Stevenson: Another propaganda stunt, another failure

Officials in Iraq have spoken out critically following a Conference held in the European Parliament, on 19th February, organised and chaired by Struan Stevenson MEP, President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq.

Members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee have, on previous occasions, called for a boycott and non-cooperation with the Commission of the European Union and head of the Iraq Delegation Struan Stevenson because of the determinedly anti-Iraqi government agenda. Struan Stevenson and Alejo Vidal Quadras are known to Iraqis as MEPs who have been tasked to interfere with and push a particular agenda in Iraq. Stevenson is alleged to have been receiving funds and guidance from the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist organisation (MEK) to use his parliamentary position to attack the government of Iraq by falsifying facts and events, and inciting sectarian conflict.

The Secretary-General of the Knights of the Law’s Supporters (Farsan Ansar al-Ghanoon), Hassan al-Alwani, said that the Mojahedin Khalq represents Israeli interests in Iraq, and that there is a clear trace of the organisation’s history of involvement in the insurgency that has gripped Iraq.

According to several Iraqi officials, who have given interviews and made statements to Iraqi media, Stevenson was supporting Saddam and the MEK during the war. After the fall of Saddam, he and others became active in supporting the Saddamists (loyal remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime) and the MEK in Iraq. Stevenson subsequently made several visits to Jordan and London to connect Saddam’s daughter and the Saddamists with the Israeli lobby in London; acting as a go-between and using the MEK and Saddamists’ networks in Iraq and Europe. After being re-elected to the 2009 session of the European Parliament, Stevenson transferred from the Iran Delegation to the Iraq Delegation of which he was made Chair. His colleague Alejo Vidal Quadras, also an advocate of the MEK, made the same transition. Now that Stevenson has announced that he will not be standing for the next European Parliament elections in May, it is timely to remember the fate of another MEP who supported the MEK, Paulo Casaca, who was exposed in his Portuguese constituency as a supporter of the MEK terrorist group and deselected.

Stevenson has persistently backed the Mojahedin Khalq’s determined efforts to remain in Iraq in spite of the fact the group is a designated terrorist group in that country, and in defiance of the government of Iraq and the Judiciary’s demands for the group’s removal under the terms of the country’s constitution. Although the MEK’s 3,000+ foreign presence in Iraq is tiny in relation to the massive numbers of Iraqi civilians being killed and is irrelevant to the complex social, civil, economic and security issues of the burgeoning democracy, the MEK has enjoyed extraordinarily disproportionate attention in the European Parliament because of the Israeli backing for the group.

The MEK’s continued presence in Iraq and the false narrative of their security is something Stevenson has used to disguise a determinedly anti-Maliki agenda. The European Parliament made every effort, using the MEK and Saddamists and Israeli influence, to prevent al Maliki’s re-election. Iraqi officials have pointed to the consequent increase in acts of terrorism and what amounted to an attempted coup d’etat at that time. These efforts failed, however, and ended in the arrest and prosecution of key players, such as al Hashemi. Although some individuals were arrested, others became fugitives in other countries. Over the next few years, Stevenson and the MEK brought some of these fugitives to speak in Brussels against the current government in order to influence events in Iraq. Since this apparently didn’t have the desired effect, this cohort have now embarked on buying people in Iraq who are well known to have connections with al Qaida and Daesh (SIRI). The European Parliament, and in particular the Iraq Delegation, has been used again to push an anti-Iraqi government agenda.

The European Parliament Conference on February 19th was said to include “some of the most prominent political and religious leaders in Iraq”, and was to focus on the issue of human rights. And certainly the participants are known to the people of Iraq. According to Habilian Association in Baghdad, the Iraqi Baath Party posted a statement on its official website announcing that it had invited the European Parliament to host the Conference. The statement continues with slogans against Iranians and Iraqis, but then praises the participants, especially those who support armed struggle in the al Anbar province, including the MEK who, it says, responded to the invitation and participated in the Conference [in spite of not actually representing anyone in Iraq themselves because they are a foreign terrorist group]. In a statement issued last week, Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry condemned the Conference, announcing that it had been orchestrated by terrorists and saying that in this way it acts directly against the human rights of the people of Iraq.

Among the most heinous effects of Stevenson’s anti-Maliki agenda is the terrible exploitation and suffering of the individuals being held hostage in the MEK’s camp in Iraq. UNAMI, which has been responsible for removing the MEK from Iraq since 2009, has made several clear and public statements about its concerns that not only are the MEK leaders obstructing any and every attempt to remove the individuals from the camp and transfer them to the safety of third countries, but the MEK leaders are also committing human rights abuses inside the camps against the residents. But more sinister than even this is the cynical programme to deliberately place the residents of Camps Ashraf and Liberty in the path of danger.

In the hopes of attracting the attention of Iraqis seeking revenge on the terrorist MEK, the MEK itself has hinted that their leader Massoud Rajavi is still in Iraq. The motive behind this is to provoke another attack on Camp Liberty by people who have been hurt by the MEK. The attack on Camp Ashraf on September 1st was an example of such a manufactured attack; although it is still unclear who was behind the killings, the hundred MEK had been spuriously left there by Rajavi in an extremely vulnerable situation. The MEK are so hated by many Iraqis who have been harmed by the group that it was almost inevitable they would come under attack at some time.

To counter this, Iraqi officials have announced that this is not true; they are unequivocal in stating that Massoud Rajavi is no longer in Iraq, and this rumour has been put out by the MEK and its lobbyists to create tension and to provoke a violent reaction. This is, says one ex member, another example of how Rajavi and his backers are living off the blood of the MEK’s hostages in Iraq.

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Middle East Strategy Consultants

March 2, 2014 0 comment

Iraq

Iraq ready to extradite Mojahedin Khalq criminals to Iran

Iraqi Justice Minister has said Iraq is required to repatriate Mujahedin-e Khalq criminals to Iran due to the memorandum of understanding signed to facilitate the extradition of criminals.

“If Iran wants to take these individuals, we will extradite the most wanted MKO members to Tehran in coordination with the Iraq Judiciary system,” Hassan al-Shimari told Habilian’s correspondent in Baghdad.

Asked about the lawsuits filed against the terrorist MKO group, al-Shimari said, “The case of MKO belongs to the National Security Council not to the Justice Ministry.”

MKO is a terrorist group, which according to the US State Department Report on the group, run its organization autocratically, suppressing dissent and eschewing tolerance of differing viewpoints.

MKO carried out numerous attacks against Iranians, the most spectacular of which was an attack occurred June 28, 1981, when two bombs ripped apart the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party killing some 70 high ranking members, including the IRP’s leader, Ayatollah Beheshti.

February 27, 2014 0 comment

European Union

EU won’t move Mojahedin-e Khalq

Various news reports in Tehran have spoken of the EU giving as much as $500 million to the UN to help the EU won’t move Mojahedin Mojahedin-e Khalq leave the country. EU spokesman Michael Mann told the Iran Times the EU has, over several years, given various UN agencies 14 million euros (about $19 million today) to help them interview and register the Mojahedin members, but has not yet given any money to support the group’s relocation since that is an issue for individual member states. So far, Germany has offered to accept 125 Mojahedin members and Albania 220.

February 22, 2014 0 comment

Iraq

Zebari: Iraq has fulfilled its obligations to the UN over MKO removal

Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari , said the United Nations needs to speed up the resettlement of the residents of Camp Liberty (formerly Ashraf ) out of Iraq, saying that the Iraqi government has fulfilled all its Zebari: Iraq has fulfilled its obligations to the UN over MKO removal obligations in this respect.

A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry said that “Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari today received Jane Holl Lute, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to resettle the residents of Camp Liberty outside Iraq, who was accompanied by Georgi Euston, Deputy Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations ( UNAMI ), in Baghdad. The statement noted that “during the meeting, the two sides reviewed the UN’s efforts through UNAMI to speed up the resettlement of the residents of Camp Liberty outside Iraq.”

In the statement Zebari emphasized “Iraq’s support for all efforts in this area and the Iraqi government’s provision of all humanitarian facilities”, emphasizing also the importance of “speeding up the resolution of this issue and putting an end to their presence through their resettlement in other host states, and the importance of continuing with communication and consultation with all parties until the issue is resolved.”

Zebari noted that “the government has fulfilled all its obligations towards the UN and recently made a financial contribution of half a million dollars to a trust fund proposed by the UN Secretary-General to cover costs relating to the transfer of the residents of the camp to third countries; a material declaration of the government’s position on the issue of removing all the camp residents from the country ” .

Alsumaria News, Translated by Iran Interlink

February 20, 2014 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Diplomacy is underway; Domino of MKO failures has no end

“Give Diplomacy a Chance” was the title of a call circulated on Capitol Hill to sign a Letter to Barack Obama. The letter opposing new Iran sanctions legislation while talks underway was drafted by U.S. Diplomacy is underway; Domino of MKO failures has no end Reps. Lloyd Doggett and David Price have garnered the bipartisan support of over 100 members of House of Representatives. [1]

“At present, however, we believe that Congress must give diplomacy a chance. A bill or resolution that risks fracturing our international coalition or, worse yet, undermining our credibility in future negotiations and jeopardizing hard-won progress toward a verifiable final agreement, must be avoided.” said the letter sent to President Obama on Wednesday February12. [2]

The letter is bad news for the Mujahedin Khalq Organization who spent substantial sums of cash to rent paid advocates to organize a pressure campaign aimed at waging war against Iran and curtailing U.S. diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute.

The pro-diplomacy campaign came out when the White House criticized the sanctions supporters and promised to veto any bills calling for new sanctions since they clearly violate the interim P5+1 agreement.

"If certain members of Congress want the United States to take military action, they should be up front with the American public and say so," Bernadette Meehan, National Security Council spokeswoman, said in a statement.[3]

The MKO warmongering apparatus which is after violent regime change in Iran and works hard to push war against Iran got disappointed once more as AIPAC which for months had been lobbying lawmakers hard to push the Iran sanctions bill reversed course on the issue and retreated in the face of resistance from the White House and key Democratic Lawmakers.

Nonetheless serving as puppet of the Israeli regime and becoming tool of Israel and American Neo-Conservatives in launching acts of espionage and violence directed at Iran and unabashedly betraying their own nation — along with their deep pockets- brought nothing good for the group.

Nuclear talks between Iran and world powers move to the next level Tuesday with negotiators due to begin work on transforming an interim deal into an ambitious lasting accord.

MKO lost their old strategic Camp Ashraf. Nobody took serious their show of hunger strike – which the Cult leaders forced members to hold under the pretext of saving 7 allegedly missing Camp Ashraf residents after the September Camp Ashraf clashes – and the Cult leaders pressed to order its end allegedly because of a Spanish court’s ruling against the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Advisor. Iraq is serious in expelling them from the country. No country is willing to let in 3000+ former terrorists. The West prefers not to derail diplomacy with Iran engaging with a trivial terrorist Cult. Neither paid advocates, nor offering themselves as mercenaries of the Iranian nation enemies work anymore.

The MEK has no way to win or better to say to survive. The domino of MEK failures is continuing and the countdown for the group’s complete collapse has started.

By: A.Sepinoud

References:

[1]Algemeiner, Closed-Door Deals May Undermine Iran Sanctions Effort, February 12, 2014

[2] Win Without War, Over 100 Members of Congress Call for Diplomacy with Iran, February12, 2014

[3] Brown, Hayes, White House Challenges Congress: ‘Be Up Front With The American Public’ On War With Iran, Think Progress, January10, 2014

February 18, 2014 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families demanding, relocate the bodies to Iran

Mojahedin Monitor has learned that there are negotiation going on, on behalf of the families of late MEK and the Iraqi government. The goal of the negotiation is to return the bodies and remaining of dead MEK Families demanding, relocate the bodies to Iran members from Camp New Iraq formerly known as Ashraf military base of MEK.

Sources close to the families of foot MEK say that they are demanding the return of bodies and remaining of the group members into Iran .Ex Mek members believe that some 100 bodies are left Inside the camp in its graveyard and elsewhere.

This is the first time that MEK family members who have lost a loved one in Iraq are demanding the return of the body. One family member who lives in Iraq has told us, we were not there when he was injured and died. Now we want our son`s body back and that is our legal right. We are going to pay for any expenses.

In recent years families of many MEK members have traveled to Iraq and demanded visit with their children who are still in kept by MEK. Although according to the rules of MEK any family visit is taboo and is prohibited. MEK leaders not only didn’t allow their members to visit their families but also had some of their high rankings to throw stones to these families and call them spy.

Another family member of a late MEK from North America has told Mojahedin Monitor, We don’t know how our lovely brother was killed. We never received any official documents or truth about it. An MEK Official called us and just told us that he was killed during the bombings of Iraq. Now we don’t want his remaining body to be in Iraq where before was camp Ashraf. We want his body to be returned to Iran and to be close to our family where we can visit him. I don’t think that he rests in peace in Iraq.

According to ex members of the group some members of MEK are killed under torture or disappeared because they were not agreed with the policies of the leaders of the cult like group. Whereabouts of their graves and more information about their cause of death demands cooperation of Iraqi government with the families.

February 17, 2014 0 comment

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Parliament asks government to expedite the MKO expulsion

Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee asks government to expedite the expulsion of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) – blames UN for the delay

Iraq’s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee asked the government to expedite the expulsion of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran and to finally close the file on them, and indicated that the United Nations has been responsible for the delay until now.

Committee member Imad Yohana said, “The decision to deport the MEK from Iraq should also be examined by the government and parliament, because in the situation that they are deported without a place to go, this will affect the international reputation of Iraq.”

He explained that “the existence of the organization on Iraqi soil until now is the United Nations’ fault; because they cannot find alternative solutions to house them in other places as they have promised.”

The government evacuated Camp Ashraf in Diyala province in the summer of 2013 and has transferred more than 3,000 troops to Camp Liberty in the west of Baghdad.

The government took the decision to finally terminate the existence of this organization on Iraqi territory in the past year as it is a terrorist organization.

Iraqi Media Network , Translated by Iran Interlink

February 15, 2014 0 comment

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